Sponsored by The Book Club of California Feb 12, 6:00pm Pacific Time An in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_759LIhnbSYGbxvT3eh4DjQ Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California Jan 17, 6:00pm Pacific Time The newly discovered notebook of Isaac Newton An in-person and virtual presentation by Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Perne and Ward Librarian, at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the editorial director […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California An in-person and virtual presentation by Paul Chrzanowski, book collector Book collector Paul Chrzanowski donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The collection includes copies of the second and fourth folio editions of […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, November 6, 2023 Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores ** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West ** 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, October 30, 2023 The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Program The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and Litquake 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday Sept. 18, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific In-person and virtual presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program The Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California 94108 Historian, writer, and collector Hubert Howe […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday Sept. 11, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific In-person and virtual presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Diane Power Zimmerman will share highlights from her book Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design, Food, and […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. Like many Mexican […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Kim Bancroft will discuss the legacy of her great-great-grandparents, H.H. Bancroft, historian of the West and founder of The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, and his second wife, Matilda Bancroft, a writer and historian in her own right. After marrying H.H. in 1859, […]