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SUMMARY:Jeremy Dibbell on The Libraries of Early America: Bringing Historical Libraries to Life
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \n \nTell the truth. When you get a look at someone’s library\, you do more than consider the shelving units and bookends. You take a careful look at the books themselves. Just what does this person read? Collect? Display? \nNow our guest\, Jeremy Dibbell is going to nudge H.G. Wells aside\, commandeer The Time Machine and take us into a fascinating journey through the American past to consider the libraries of the early colonial period through 1800. \nWhat was on Myles Standish’s shelf? Ben Franklin’s? Phyllis Wheatley Peters’? John Adams’? And more? \nHe’ll be drawing on the latest from The Libraries of Early America project (LibraryThing.com) to introduce us to the tastes and collections of the famous and the obscure. Who shelved guilty pleasures? How-To manuals? Theological works? Scientific treatises? \nJeremy Dibbell serves as Special Collections Librarian at Binghamton University. A member of the American Antiquarian Society\, he has been director of communications and outreach at Rare Book School\, a reference librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society\, and has been librarian for social media and rare books at LibraryThing. \nTo register: https://caxtonclub.org/event-6465196/Registration \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jeremy-dibbell-on-the-libraries-of-early-america-bringing-historical-libraries-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T180000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Origins and Legacy of an Antislavery Text
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nProfessor Emerita Dee E. Andrews and Assistant Professor Christopher S. Parmenter will discuss two elements of their new book manuscript\, Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Making of an Abolitionist Author in the Age of Revolution. Based on the first translation of Clarkson’s “An Liceat Invitos in Servitutem Dare” since 1786\, their work explores in depth the composition\, publication\, distribution\, response\, and reprinting\, not least of all in Revolutionary France\, of a central text in the first abolition movement. Our speakers will introduce the subject of the Latin Essay itself\, the significance its translation\, and how Clarkson reverses the formerly conventional argument regarding slavery in the classical tradition. There will be examples of unusual reader response to “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species” (1786) — the Latin Essay (greatly expanded) in print — and the essay’s endurance as an abolitionist symbol. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/thomas-clarksons-latin-essay-the-origins-and-legacy-of-an-antislavery-text/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJanuary 12: FABS Handpress Era Group. This month our guest speaker is Dr. David Wolf\, who will speak on 16th century medical books in English including the 1541 edition of Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Castel of Helth. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: The Pathfinder Papers. Exploring the History of the Fontaine-Maurys\, a Founding Family
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nRussell Hooper will discuss his collecting journey\, how he became interested in the Fontaine–Maury family\, and his vision for telling a story drawn from the history preserved in the papers. He will also highlight notable individuals represented in the collection\, including: Matthew Fontaine Maury\, “The Pathfinder of the Seas” and the “Father of Oceanography”; Presidents James Madison and James Garfield; Admiral Samuel DuPont; Ellen Mordecai\, author of History of a Heart and member of the influential Mordecai family; James Gore King\, often called “The Almighty of Wall Street”; John Cropper\, a world-renowned abolitionist known as “The Most Generous Man in Liverpool; William H. Galvani\, namesake of the William H. Galvani Rare Maps Collection at Oregon State University; Phillip Evans\, son of Jupiter Evans\, Thomas Jefferson’s personal enslaved servant; and Anthony Fiala\, National Geographic’s first Explorer-Cinematographer \nDate: Monday\, January 12\, 8PM EST\nGuest Presenter: Russell Hooper\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore \nRegister here: https://manuscript.org/2026/01/manuscript-mondays-the-pathfinder-papers-exploring-the-history-of-the-fontaine-maurys-a-founding-family-1-12-26/\nPresenter\nRussell Hooper is a history enthusiast and collector who\, over the past 15 years\, has amassed the largest known collection of Fontaine-Maury family papers\, which he calls “The Pathfinder Papers.” He lives in Spring Hill\, Tennessee\, where he has served on the Boards of The Battle of Franklin Trust and the Maury County Historical Society. In 2018\, Hooper received a 2018-2019 SCRC Research Travel Grant from the College of William & Mary.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-the-pathfinder-papers-exploring-the-history-of-the-fontaine-maurys-a-founding-family/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nConvivial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Hosted by Bill Bryson. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T120000
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SUMMARY:Princeton's Influential Bollingen Series
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Brigitta van Rheinberg\n\n\n\nThis talk will explore how Princeton University Press’s Bollingen Series\, founded in 1940 and now being rereleased\, published hundreds of works by the likes of Coleridge\, Jung\, and Nabokov and shaped American intellectual thought and cultural life. \nThe Bollingen series\, founded by Paul and Mary Mellon in 1940\, is one of the most distinguished and unique ventures in the history of American publishing. While the original aim was to make available in translation The Collected Works of C.G. Jung\, over the years the Bollingen series published the collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Paul Valéry\, as well as Wilhelm Baynes’s translation of The I Ching or Book of Changes; Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin; and works by D. T. Suzuki\, Erich Neumann\, Mircea Eliade\, Joseph Campbell\, Isaiah Berlin\, Gershom Scholem\, E. H. Gombrich and Kenneth Clark\, among other luminaries. Collectively\, these 275 books have had an enormous impact on American intellectual thought and cultural life and continue to resonate across many disciplines. In many ways\, the countercultural movement of the 60s is unthinkable without the Bollingen series. This talk by Brigitta van Rheinberg\, Associate Director\, Princeton University Press\, will cover the origins\, evolution\, scope\, history and enduring legacy of the Bollingen series. Princeton University Press is now republishing the volumes in a unified format\, making the entire series available for a new generation of readers. The lecture will also explore the challenges of working with literary estates and executors. It will be moderated by collector\, writer\, and Grolier Club member Dennis Schaefer. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-princeton-university-presss-influential-bollingen-series-tickets-1979743498096?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nBrigitta van Rheinberg is the Associate Director and Director of Global Development of Princeton University Press. She has been at the Press for over 30 years in various roles\, including sales\, special sales\, international rights\, and editorial. She was the Press’s History Publisher for over 25 years\, publishing major books in American\, European\, and World History\, and from 2006-2016 she led the Press’s Editorial Program as Editor-in-Chief. Brigitta holds a PhD in History from Tübingen University in Germany. Dennis Schaefer is a Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University and a past fellow with the Weimar Klassik Foundation and the Prussian Heritage Foundation.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/princetons-influential-bollingen-series/
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SUMMARY:The Rendell Lecture: Meaning and Magic in Handwritten Material
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Grolier Club \nWith Glen Miranker \nIn this lecture\, Glen Miranker will discuss both the intangible values and the tangible insights that are inherent in some of the holograph manuscripts\, letters\, notebooks\, and marginalia from his collection of Sherlock Holmes material. \n“When authors put pen to paper\, their handwritten text—plus insertions\, strike-throughs\, and other scribbles—reveal both a special aura and provide valuable clues for devoted readers\, bibliographers\, historians\, and biographers alike\,” Miranker said. “The up-close exploration of manuscripts can bring unparalleled understanding of its life and times and the community—agents\, reviewers\, illustrators\, bookbinders\, editors\, printers\, publishers\, booksellers\, collectors—with whom authors interact.” \nGlen Miranker is one of the foremost collectors of Sherlockian books and has served as a bibliophilic consultant and lecturer for numerous institutions\, including the Toronto Reference Library\, the Harry Ransom Center\, and the Newberry Library. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-annual-rendell-lecture-meaning-magic-in-handwritten-material-tickets-1975644939196?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-rendell-lecture-meaning-and-magic-in-handwritten-material/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T143000
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SUMMARY:Incunabula of the Second Printing Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy Norman will lecture on the complex parameters defining incunabula of the second printing revolution\, a period marked by the adopted of mechanized technologies in book production. A series of overlapping innovations in steam power\, papermaking\, typesetting\, and bookbinding throughout the nineteenth century transformed the rate and quality of book production\, leading to an explosion of reading material in continental Europe and the United States. Jeremy will discuss the difficulties of identifying the earliest examples of these new technologies in print. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-lecture-incunabula-of-the-second-printing-revolution-tickets-1975645870983?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club. \n\n\n\n\n\nShow less
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/incunabula-of-the-second-printing-revolution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T183000
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SUMMARY:James P. Keenan on Bookplates: The Art of This Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nOur speaker will briefly discuss antique bookplates\, but his emphasis will be on the contemporary art form and the fact that bookplates are in use worldwide today! Bookplates are used to mark pride in book ownership and to facilitate exchange to build collections and global friendships. \nJames P. Keenan has collected bookplates for nearly fifty years and has been involved in the graphic arts field since the late 1970s. He has authored several books on ex libris\, including American Artists of the Bookplate (Cambridge Bookplate\, 1990 & 1996) and The Art of the Bookplate (Barnes & Noble\, 2003). He is currently updating Bookplates: The Art of This Century (Cambridge Bookplate) as an illustrated directory of the world’s top book artists and printmakers making ex libris prints today. \nFor twenty-five years\, Keenan has led the American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers (ASBC&D)\, founded in 1922. His role as publisher of the Society’s quarterly journal and Year Book underscores his influence and active engagement in the community. Through Cambridge Bookplate and ASBC&D\, Keenan has organized over thirty exhibitions at prominent libraries and museums nationwide\, showcasing the importance of his work and the Society’s collections to collectors and scholars alike. \nThis is a Zoom only program. To egister and reserve your seat today\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/james-p-keenan-on-bookplates-the-art-of-this-century/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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SUMMARY:The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy: John R. Freeman and San Francisco’s Yosemite Water Supply
DESCRIPTION:The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters\, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman\, one of the most important\, influential\, and politically adroit engineers of the Progressive Era. In The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy\, Donald C. Jackson focuses on Freeman to offer a nuanced account of how the City of San Francisco won the right to transform the bucolic valley into a municipal water supply reservoir that\, a century later\, continues to serve millions of Bay Area residents. \nCentral to Freeman’s work for San Francisco from 1910 to 1913 was his design of a high-pressure aqueduct projected to deliver 400 million gallons of water per day to the Bay Area and generate more than 150\,000 horsepower of electricity. Beyond crafting an extensively illustrated 421-page report detailing his design\, he also worked—and succeeded—as a political advocate lobbying for congressional approval of the project. Jackson draws on a wealth of correspondence\, reports\, and other documents\, including congressional records\, to highlight Freeman’s contention that the Hetch Hetchy project would not just provide copious quantities of water and power\, but would also enhance the Sierra Nevada environment and increase tourist access to the northern reaches of the national park. His self-avowed goal was not to tear down or destroy Hetch Hetchy but to utilize the valley for the greater public good and to create a system that would serve the city for decades if not centuries to come. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-man-who-dammed-hetch-hetchy-john-r-freeman-and-san-franciscos-yosemite-water-supply/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin the FABS Bindings group for presentations and discussion about the art and craft of bindings. For info contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T190000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group: Money and Provenance
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. This month’s topics: (1) What role does money play in book collecting? (2) Do we collect provenance? Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/3055/
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