A poor little bible, spine gone, bindings broken, fire damage to the quires.

This poor little bible has been through a lot, but now it has found its forever home in Antwerp, where it was printed in 1555. #NewAcq

Map of the world from 1598 with Columbus, Vespucci and a bunch of allegorical animals.

Pseudo Dürer Rhino after the 1515 woodcut!

Wonders of the World?

What's that in the top right corner, a Dürersaurus? 🦏
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social #NewAcq #rhino #Holzheimer

May 28 1970 issue of the Plain Dealer (a Philadelphia underground newspaper) having a huge cover illustration of Nazi tribunal Rizzo. “JOIN RIZZO’S TEAM // THE COURTS ALREADY HAVE”

I can’t believe @dhm.bsky.social died before I got this #newacq in the mail. Sending out Nazi Frank Rizzo in his honor

Playing card with top half peeled down to reveal a map.

Portrait of a woman sitting.

King of hearts.

Cards FOR Humanity!

My colleagues added a card to the collection that may have saved lives in WWII! Underneath the Queen Consort is part of a map of Southern Germany, which British and Canadian seamen may have used to escape a POW camp!
#NewberryLibrary #newacq
December 24 (24/24)
#AdventCalendar

Red white and blue booklet: american travelers guide to negro monuments AMERICAN OIL COMPANY

Two page spread: We have published this booklet for several reasons. FIRST, it is a guide to historical sites that many Americans know little about and that are usually not mentioned in conventional guide books. As such, it supplements- it does not replace-those books that call attention to more familiar tourist attractions. SECOND, it is intended to supply brief sketches of major events and figures in American history not often included in ordinary textbooks; in many cases the information has been available only to scholars. THIRD, it is American Oil Company's contribution to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. As far as we can determine, this is the first time that the information here has been brought together in a single volume. At that, it is far from complete. Other monu- ments and institutions related to Negro Americana are scattered throughout the country. We have done no more than select some of those that seemed most important or to have a unique pertinence to the proud story of the Negro in this nation. We hope that the booklet will add much to your enjoyment as you travel through the United States and will deepen your appreciation of an important but too often neglected part of American history. And if ever you need help in finding your way to these or any other sites you want to visit, we hope that you will stop at one of our many service stations where our sign invites you: "As You Travel, Ask Us." AMERICAN OIL COMPANY 1963

Angled shot of a photo of a statue in WC Handy Park

Really psyched about this #NewAcq for the Winterthur Library – imagine an oil
company doing something like this today

A closed jar of pickled gherkins, with a white printed label showing the title and author of the poem. The gherkins look like they're past their due date.

#NewAcq: the #poem 'Jeroentje 9 voor, 9 na' by Jan Vanhaelen (1972). The text, on little sheets of paper, has been added to a jar of pickled gherkins. 🫙 🥒🥒🥒

Don't say: a nightmare for our preservation department.

Do say: an creative literary experiment!

EHC Antwerp 910872 📚💙 📖 📜

Title page of Seneca's tragedies, edited by Lipsius, printed in Antwerp in 1601.

#NewAcq

A little book in brown leather with green silk ribbons. The binding has a panel stamp embossed on it.

A pencil rubbing of the panel stamp, showing the design: a lady with a lion at her feet sitting in a fenced garden, a city with towers in the background.

Another fabulous book from the recent #NewAcq: a spectacular #earlymodern Flemish panel stamped #binding! This is a monochrome embossed image, so difficult to photograph, but trust me! 📚💙 📜

Prayer book, closed.

Pile of prayer cards in the book.

Hand holding the prayer book in Hungarian open, surrounded by 13 lacy and die cut cards, most in German, three also in Hungarian.

What's For Lunch? This Delicious German-Hungarian Medley!

It's chock-full of Prayer and First Communion Cards from Munich, some inscribed by owners in Lippa (Hungary) in 1916 and one printed in Esztergom! The book itself is from Budapest. #NewAcq #NewberryLibrary
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A brown leather binding on an octavo book (about 14 by 22 cm). The binding is stamped with two reliefs. The one of the left shows the archangel St Michael wielding his sword to defeat a devil at his feet. The one on the right shows St. Roch, wearing a pilgrim's hat, purse and staff and accompanied by a small dog. Below is the text, in gothic letters, 'Sancte Roche O." with an abbreviation mark, signifying 'Ora pro nobis' (Saint Roch, pray for us).

This beautiful panel-stamped binding from Brussels is a recent #NewAcq (permanent loan). It shows St Michael to the left and St Roch to the right. We now have 85 similar panel-stamped bindings in our collection.

Title page of the book, with a woodcut of a monk in a hood showing a guy in a fancy hat that death (a grinning skeleton with a scyte) is already in his house. Details of the black-and-white woodcut are coloured in with red.

The woodcut printer's mark of Gerard Leeu, showing a fantasy representation of the City of Antwerp. Details of the black-and-white image are coloured in red and yellow.

Another #NewAcq incunable (permanent loan) 📚💙 📜

Morticellarium aureum ('The golden undertaker'), a manual to contemplate a Christian death, printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1488. EHC 913035.

Not sure the guy in the fancy hat is ready to contemplate anything.

Mounted title page, showing the text 'Epistola de miseria curatorum' and two library stamps of the Royal Library in The Hague, one indicating the sale of duplicates.

Printer's mark of Govaert Back, a woodcut with a large bird cage against a black background. Inside the cage is the capital letter 'M', the initial of Back's father-in-law, Matthias van der Goes.

New incunable acquisition: 👍👍👍

Provenance marks indicating that it's a sold duplicate from the Royal Library in The Hague: 👍👍👍👍👍

This #NewAcq is a permanent loan, from small but exquisite collection. Expect more to come! 📚💙 📜

Epistola de miseria curatorum. [Antwerp : Back, 1493-1495], EHC 913027

Madonna of Loreto broadside with seal, black contact relic veil, and the Christ child in her arms, dated Oct 6 1780.

Madonna shrouded in the veil that touched her miraculous house, among other things.

Veil lifted, showing woodcut.

Detail of the date.

To Your Health!

This Madonna of Loreto broadside and its contact-relic veil bore medical benefits... The hand-dated certificate from today, Oct. 6, (1780) notes that this precious cloth touched Mary's miraculous house, sculpture, and scapular, and could help heal all ills! #NewAcq #NewberryLibrary

Title page, printed in black & red, of the book "A compendious history of the Goths, Swedes, & Vandals"

A handwritten note, on paper of the Century Hotel in Antwerp, saying "Hommage à Camille Huysmans! 26 mai 1946" and signed "Winifred Bennett" and "John S Bennett".

Using heritage objects for diplomatic gifts has a long history. Here, a 1658 edition of Olaus Magnus' History of the Northern People (ESTC R12262) donated by British diplomat John S Bennett and his wife Winifred to Belgian socialist politician Camille Huysmans, mayor of Antwerp, in 1946. #NewAcq

Handcolored scene of slightly naughty looking gods and goddesses.

Mentally, I'd like to be here
#NewAcq #NewberryLibrary

A scroll: a large piece of paper attached to two wooden beams used as rollers. On the paper, two colums of handwritten text.

Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic.

We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!

📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)

Titlepage of the book, printed in 1676 in Ghent

#NewAcq: "Antidote to a great pestilence of Christianity, that is the vanity, indecency and excess of women's clothing and jewelry."

Father Franciscus Cauwe must have been popular with the ladies.

Haive ioū énnẙ roŭmze réd-dẙ fŏrr-nǐchte?

No, it’s not an extinct Breton dialect – this is how V.J. Peyton tried to explain English pronunciation to French-speaking buyers of his ‘The Elements of the English Language’.

#NewAcq Antwerp, EHC 910500, from a donation. #BookHistory 📚💙

#NewAcq: this Nurnberg edition of #Luther s Hausspostille looks a bit tattered, but VD16 lists only 1 other copy. It's beautifully illustrated and richly annotated to boot.

Now EHC Antwerp, 910396 (VD16 L 4847 = USTC 661770) 📚💙 📜

Engraved frontispiece, showing the Virgin Mary surrounded by baby angels carrying paintings, holding a large sheet of paper that has the title of Leonard Lessius' new works. In the left corner, the author himself points out that they are published 'Posthumae', i.e. after his death, while chubby babies take notes of his lecture.

Close-up of the face of the Virgin Mary, eager to read Lessius' new publication.

- Could you do an author's portrait for this edition?
- Sure, send him around to my studio.
- He's dead.
- Perfect! Also, I know someone who can add a testimonial.

Leonard Lessius (1554-1623) and Our Lady discussing L.'s latest publication. #NewAcq, Antwerp EHC, 910190

The cover of the book, a rich dark blue crossed with wiggly white lines.

Title page of the book, showing an extensive title in a rococco vignette with a seashell-like border. Around it, people are engaged in various ship-building activities.

Opening on the map showing the region between Ghent and Antwerp, including the estuary of the West Scheldt and the fortified town of Hulst.

The previous map, zoomed in on Antwerp and its fortifications and limits (including the Kiel area to the South).

#NewAcq, in a beautiful (modern) paste-paper binding: an atlas of the Southern Low Countries, published in Augsburg in 1758. It could be used as a portable atlas, or cut out and assembled into a large wall map. Antwerp, EHC 910059.

Engraved title page of a little book (about 14 cm high and 8 cm wide) coloured by hand in vivid colours.

Colourful little #NewAcq! (Antwerp, EHC 909939)

Terence, Comoediae sex (J. Min-Elli edt.). Rotterdam, Leers, 1702 - STCN 224251260

Title page of Biblia sacra, Antwerp, Plantin, 1574, with copious annotations.

A close-up of the middle of the title page, showing Plantin's printer's mark (delicately coloured in red and yellow) and various handwritten annotations and provenance marks.

#NewAcq EHC 909852, a Bible by Plantin (1574), with lots of annotations throughout. The provenance mark on the title page seems to read "ex libris Abrahami Pohloi(?) Grimensis Annno 1617" - possibly the Swiss town of Grimentz.

Voet 686, USTC 406050, referenceworks.brill.com/display/entr...

Printed title page of "Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex antiquissimis undecim lib. m.s. et schedis aliquot emendatus"

Blank flyleaf with manuscript annotation in elongated script: "Orrery, Nov.br 12. 1750. Leicester Fields. £ 2"

A #NewAcq to start the day: This edition of Horace, printed by Christophe #Plantin in 1578 was once owned by the Anglo-Irish author John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery (1707-1762). He bought it for £2 on November 2nd, 1750 in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square, London)

(now Antwerp, EHC 909809)

Close-up of a provenance inscription, reading "Emptus 18 st. a° 1591 25 Maij, Ex libris Antonij [unreadable]"

Renaissance binding in brown leather, with rolled stamps and two metal clasps.

First page of the book, showing text in two columns. On top, the letter A painted in blue on a gold background, with green and red borders.

A note with annotations in 16th century handwriting, bound in before the first page of the book.

Does anyone recognize the Anthony ... who bought this gorgeously bound incunable in 1591?

#NewAcq, Antwerp EHC 909762: Angelus de Clavasio: Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Nuremberg, Koberger, 1492 (istc ia00722000).

A tiny strip of paper (10 x 65 mm) with two lines of printed text: "Merkuur maakt slechts dat ons gelaat // Nu norsch en dan weêr vrolijk staat."

Look 🔍 at this 🔍 tiny #NewAcq!

"Mercury only makes our countenance | now sullen 😠 then happy 😀 again."

An #EarlyModern fortune cookie? Perhaps part of a game?

How do I catalogue this? How do I label it? How do we keep this from getting lost? 🤷‍♂️

📚💙 📜 #BookHistory #PrintedEphemera

Opening of a book, showing the title page and a coloured illustration of a tall man wearing white robes. He is holding up his hands, showing a string from his necklace. He is barefoot, his chest is also bare. He is standing on a river bank.

Close-up of a coloured engraving showing an indian man wearing a pink turban and robe. He has distinctive scars on his naked torso, and a delicate moustache.

#NewAcq: The Costume of Indostan, by Balthasar Solvyns (London, Orme, c. 1830?), EHC 907849. A pirate edition based on the 1st edition (Calcutta, 1799). We now have the three editions of the work of Antwerp painter Solvyns (1760-1824), based on his stay in India.

Title page of a book with a large woodcut printer’s device of Jehan Petit showing a coat of arms supported by a lion and a leopard set among trees (DUL SB 2552).

A page from a book with handwritten notes between the lines of printed text (DUL SB 2552).

A pastedown in a book with handwritten doodles (DUL SB 2552) 

Handwritten index at the beginning of the book (DUL SB 2552)

To support a @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and Uppsala research project on marginalia and machine-learning we acquired some annotated early printed books. There is a LOT going on with this history poem. (DUL SB 2552) #newacq #speccolls #marginalia #rarebooks

A small, slightly damaged and not very clean devotional book.

This unassuming devotional book from the 17th century hides a small treasure. #NewAcq 1/3 📚 📜

A hand holding a small book in a dark brown leather binding. The book snugly fits in the palm of a hand, and is about 10 cm high and 5 cm wide.

The first book I catalogue in 2025 is *so* SMOL 😭
#NewAcq 🧵