Cropped image from a book showing a colour illustration of a beaver in side profile, standing on grass next to a body of water. It has a stocky body, a brown glossy coat, short legs with webbed toes, and a flat hairless tail.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the beavers, for today is their special day!

To celebrate International Beaver Day, here's an illustration from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

📷 Reserve 590 BUF

#InternationalBeaverDay #BeaverDay #RareBooks

Paris is calling - find #RareBooks
and #NewFriends at one of the most charming #BookEvents in #Europe
#SalonDeBibliophilie #SaintSulpice
#Rarebooks
#ConnectWithPeople
#JoinUs

Looking forward to this year’s @arlis-uk.bsky.social conference ‘Challenging Collections’ in Leeds in July arlis.net/conferences/...
I will be contributing a paper:

‘Cultural Riches and Historical Redress: the property, ownership and use of #rarebooks’

An issue the world of books must discuss.

Here's a reminder of all the great Summer School courses you can use that bursary funding for.

Book here for LIPS: buff.ly/qnE9Kim and here for LRBS: buff.ly/dBXo2UY

#palaeography #paleography #rarebooks #LIPS26 #LRBS26

⏰️ Just one day left to get your application in for our Summer School bursaries! ⏰️

Find out more and apply for our bursaries below:
Palaeography courses: buff.ly/JmC7deN
Rare Books courses: buff.ly/9TcNZpL

#LIPS26 #LRBS26 #palaeography #paleography #rarebooks

#Paris (Saint-Sulpice) - the place to go - meet you there end of may for one of the most charming #BookEvents in Europe
#BookLove #CityOfLove #fun #fashion #lifestyle #RareBooks #Art #Photography #trending

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is Visualising Likeness and Difference: Genus, Gender and Race in London Collections and Archives, led by Dr Pragya Dhital.

🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY

💸 Bursaries are available - deadline is 7th April!

#rarebooks #LRBS26

IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
In partnership with Collins Rare Books, KCMS is offering a limited selection of volumes dating from the 1600s through the early 1900s. info@kcmsociety.org
https://ow.ly/xKun50YkrY4
#RareBooks #MedicalHistory #AntiquarianBooks #CollectorsEdition #LiteraryHeritage

Save the date and #joinus end of May in #Paris (Saint-Sulpice) - we all will be there
#salondulivres #rarebooks #bookevent #booklove #fun #Parislove #MeetNewPeople

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is An Introduction to Book Collecting and Book Cultures, led by Dr Laura Cleaver.

🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY

💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April

#rarebooks #LRBS26

Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #finebinding #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

Flyleaves in an early modern bookbinding with law French in it

Flyleaves in an early modern bookbinding with law French in it

Flyleaves in an early modern bookbinding with law French in it

Flyleaves in an early modern bookbinding with law French in it

Me again, now with a query: might these binder’s waste flyleaves in our new acquisition (Dodoens, A new herball, Bollifant: 1595) be from an edition of the De termino Hillarii. Anno regni regis Henrici septimi?

Anyone with EEBO access able to check? #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

New, antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm

#antiquarian #history #books #maps #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #maps #religion #philosophy #maps #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

Close up of the gutter and revealing open leather spine, you see a handwritten script, thread used to bind in a knot, but hanging loose

Close up of a manuscript on parchment on the discoloring right below an inscription

Close up of remnants of adhesive used to use this manuscript fragment in a book binding

Close up of the wrinkling of parchment with written text on it

It’s the textures for me.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Willy the Kid 1976 Book By Leo Baxendale Seller: sharong2147 (100.0% positive feedback) Location: GB Condition: Very Good Price: 26.42 GBP Shipping cost: 2.94 GBP Buy It Now

Ad: For Sale - Willy the Kid 1976 Book By Leo Baxendale #WillyTheKid #LeoBaxendale #RareBooks

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is The Book Historian's Digital Toolkit, led by Dr Christopher Ohge.

🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY

💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April

#rarebooks #LRBS26

Shelves of books in the Chris Brooks Collection. The books in this photograph were written for children and young adults in the 19th and early 20th century, and many of them have colourful and illustrated bindings.

Our collections include the library of cultural historian Prof. Chris Brooks, comprising approx. 10,000 books. Many of these are books for children published 19th to early 20th century.

This is our most colourful book collection! 😍

#InternationalChildrensBookDay #RareBooks #Victorian #Edwardian

Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books – SHARP News

NEW FEATURES ARTICLE

Anastasia Armendariz, "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books."

Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#RareBooks #SpecialCollections #Affect #ArtistsBooks #Collecting #BookArts #BookHistory

Mythical creatures from Konrad von Megenberg’s ‘Buch der natur.’ Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, second ed, 1478.

I saw this book at McGill Library.

#Buchdernatur #naturalhistory #incunabula #historyofbooks #rarebooks

Title page of the book, reading 'Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae domini Frisiae'

Sketch of a woman in early modern attire carrying a child

Sketch of a woman carrying stuff on her head, on the right a person on a horse.

Sketch of a man with his arms crossed looking a woman who has her back to the viewer.

Blank pages invite use.

In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures.

#bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜

Burgundy coloured cover of the Daisy Chain Birthday Book derived from the books of Charlotte M. Yonge.

Title-page of The Daisy Chain Birthday Book derived from the books of Charlotte M. Yonge by Eadgyth.

Entry for 1st April from 1884 The Daisy Chain Birthday Book derived from the books of Charlotte M. Yonge by Eadgyth.

Happy 1st April everyone and here is CMY quotations from the rare and delightful 1884 Daisy Chain Birthday Book derived from the books of Charlotte M. Yonge by the intriguing Eadgyth.. #rarebooks #Hampshire #Winchester #Eastleigh #CharlotteMYonge

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is The New Trade in Old Books, led by antiquarian booksellers Angus O'Neill and Leo Cadogan.

🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY

💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April

#rarebooks #LRBS26

Illustration of five brilliantly colored tragopan heads, with backswept horns and elaborate wattles. The birds are mostly dark orange, with black, blue, and green accents.

And they say the dinosaurs went extinct... tragopan wattles, from A Monograph of the Pheasants by William Beebe, 1918. #birds #oldbooks #rarebooks #naturalhistory

🌟 Attention, Oz enthusiasts! Check out our latest blog post on #Vault217, where we feature a gem from our collection: "Ozma of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (PS3503.A92 O9). Follow the link to learn more: vault217.gmu.edu?p=11850

#archives #specialcollections #rarebooks #archivesblog

⏰️ One week to go until our bursary deadline! ⏰️

Get help with covering the costs of attending our Summer School courses by applying for one of our bursaries.

Deadline 7th April 2026

#LIPS26 bursaries: buff.ly/JmC7deN
#LRBS26 bursaries: buff.ly/9TcNZpL

#palaeography #paleography #rarebooks

Kathryn Cramer

The catalog from James Cummins of the books from my late husband David Hartwell's collection has just come out.

Check it out! Buy 3 of everything! My kids need shoes! #booksky #sciencefiction #books #RareBooks

www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/searchResult....

(How do we feel about this multi format collation, 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks ?)
12mo: pi² A-2A⁶ 2B⁴ (pi and 2B in 16mo format, C2 mis-signed B2); [$1-3(-2B3) signed], 150 leaves; pp. [1-4], ²[1] 2-158 15 160-203 [204-207] 208-288 [289] 290-292, ³[1] 2-4 (159 misnumbered as 15)...

Melbourne is calling - see you in July/August at Wilson Hall we will be offering a special selection of charming picture books
#bookfair #australia #rarebooks #downunder #childrensbooks #abc #alphabets #avantgarde

🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is The Book in the Renaissance, led by Dr Paolo Sachet.

🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY

💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April

#rarebooks #LRBS26