OLD FRIEND Molly Hardy, formerly of AAS, now bound for Washington, DC and the NEH, has volunteered to write a Guest Blog this week. Her essay will serve as “a reminder that the digital can at times conceal as much as it reveals.” It’s about “Ghost Books” – which, I think you’ll agree, is a […] More >>
Archives for October 2019
This Week’s Special
Manuscript. Log of the Whalingship William, 1838. Atlantic Ocean. Elisha Cudworth, Master. Folio, unpaginated. (38 pp.) This is a pretty specimen. It is the complete log of this 107 ton brig, which went on an Atlantic whaling voyage between June and December 1838 and returned 400 barrels of sperm oil. She departed Fall River, Mass. […] More >>
The Best Little Book Fair Ever
Downtown Seattle from the roof deck of the Mediterranean Hotel Okay, let’s get this out of the way right at the top… The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is the best provincial book show in America. Brooklyn comes in second, but it doesn’t have the legacy, or the depth of collectors, bibliophiles, and institutional librarians that […] More >>
Earth Not a Globe!
About ready to leave for the left coast. Here are a couple of lovelies from the forthcoming Maritime List 277 that will not be accompanying me to Seattle. “Parallax”. Zetetic Astronomy – Earth Not a Globe! An Experimental Inquiry into the True Figure of the Earth: Proving it a Plane, Without Axial or Orbital Motion; […] More >>