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  1. Are we enthousiastic about current events in book history, or what?
  2. Lecture at Antwerp, Wedn 2 Dec. 2009: Maurice Whitehead on English and Welsh Jesuit book culture 1660-1794. www.consciencebibliotheek.be.
  3. Fantastic exhibit at Brussels (2): Theodoricus Martinus typographus until 6. Dec. at Erasmushouse.museum. Super liitle catalogue for 10€
  4. Fantastic exhibition at Brussels (1): Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom. www.wittockiana.org.
  5. Jean-François Gilmont lectures on the printed book Nov. 24, 2009 at 4 p.m. at the Palais provincial de Namur. entrance is free.
  6. Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixtieenth-Century Europe (ISBN 978052185276-0) received Roland H. Bainton Book Prize
  7. Upcoming at Leuven: Jesuitica Conference, Dec 3-5, 2009. Details and program here: http://www.jesuitica.be, see also boekgeschiedenis.be
  8. What is there to do @ Antwerp in re rare books? Visit Plantin-Moretus Museum: printing shop & house from the 17th C. Unesco World Heritage.
  9. What is there to do @ Brussels this summer in re books? Visit Belgium's National Library at Kunstberg 1000 Brussels. World's Top 5.
  10. What is there to do @ Brussels this summer in re books? visit Bibliotheca Wittockiana in 1150 Brussels museum for rare books and bindings.
  11. isbn 9789033474187 is by authors Werner Thomas & Eddy Stols. Curating book show "In Columbus' Wake" @ Plantin-Moretus Museum until 7/19.
  12. read Een wereld op papier.Zuid-Nederlandse boeken, prenten en kaarten in het Spaanse en Portugese wereldrijk 16de-18de E.isbn 9789033474187
  13. Cultura Fonds was already blogging, too! http://www.culturafondslibr...
  14. Serge Gruzinski currently curating at Quai de Branly Planète Métisse is guest lecturing @ Antwerp, Plantin Moretus Museum, Friday 3 July.
  15. The presence is castable, with Endirols and Flip Minos. KB The Hague offers Robin Kinross's KB 2009 lecture via podcast. At last.
  16. Joseph II and Europe: Exhibition @ Brussels'Royal Library kbr.be until 10 October 2009. Talk by Hervé Hasquin June 25. Inquiries pr@kbr.be.
  17. A pocket-atlas from 1583 by Ortelius in facsimile is yours for 70 euro. Inquire Vereniging van Antwerpse Bibliofielen +32 3 221 14 71.
  18. Lecture 24 June 2009: M-C Felton: 2 Publish and Perish: Misadventures of self-publishing authors in 18th C Paris. See Boekgeschiedenis.be.
  19. Old day of bibliographical research. KB The Hague has updated its website. Quiet, light design. But do find STCN...
  20. Twitter is nothing but sententiae or monosticha revisited. See monosticha on Belgian rulers 15-16th C in Historia belgica S.Feyerabend 1583