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...
Thieving paratextual #bookhistory as it happens.
The nerve of the VP and his publishers.
ANNALS of SCOTTISH PRINTING 1507-17thC LTD ED Signed 1890 DICKSON & EDMOND
#books #antiquarian #Scotland #printing #history #Scottish #printhistory #bookhistory #Edinburgh #Glasgow #16thcentury #17thcentury #bookauction
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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 💙📚📜
Fascinating explorations in an area of #bookhistory quite new to me
That was supposed to be #bookhistory obvs.!
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 💙📚📜
This one is for #MathSky and #bookhistory. Enjoy.
Ellen is doing incredibly cool, practical *and* critical research! #BookHistory
Imprint: "gedruckt mit Buchstaben in der topographischen Buchdruckerey im Calenderjahre 1700. und so weiter". Source: VD17 12:622113V
"gedruckt mit Buchstaben in der topographischen Buchdruckerey im Calenderjahre 1700. und so weiter"
"printed with letters in the typographical print shop in the year 1700. and so forth".
This is an example of an imprint, I still want to see today. #bookhistory
Wonderful early modern marginalia, including a woman riding a horse astride. #bookhistory @emwjournal.bsky.social
Fabulous #bookhistory 🧵
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
NEW FEATURES ARTICLE
Leah Tether, "In Defence of Publishing before Print."
Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Manuscript #Publishing #Medieval
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 💙📚📜
A scanned page of an old book. You see three fingers in plastic gloves on the left corner. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb10016793
A scanned page of an old book. And a pixelized part of a once to be seen scanning finger. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb10016793
And another example. Same book, same scanning process, only a few pages away from each other:
unnoticed 3 fingers in gloves (left)
noticed 1 finger and pixelized it badly (right).
Same software. Same bad scan. #bookhistory
A fascinating little book from my collection with an interesting list of clothing received by a Franciscan monk called William in the 18th century. What is the difference in this case between a “tunic” and a “habit”?
#bookhistory
Hey #bookhistory and #dresshistory peeps: who has written about clothing (linens, recycling) and papermaking together in a way that would be accessible to an educated general audience (my paper-obsessed mature students)?
I know almost nothing about printing in England, but I would be interested in finding out how the printer's mark of Chrestien Wechel (active in Paris ca. 1526-1554), and then his heir's (active in Paris and Frankfurt, until 1581), migrated to London ... #bookhistory #skystorians
A very wrong schematic mixing the DIN paper size ratios with bibliographic formats.
Oh dear... #BookHistory 📚💙
Siân Echard's talk from a couple of weeks ago, "Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color," is now online! #medievalsky #bookhistory #iwishsianwasonbluesky
youtu.be/UOAut7G3eus?...
Eugene Matanky, "The Fate of Moses Codovero's #Autograph #Manuscripts: From Sixteenth-Century Safed to Twentieth-Century #Jerusalem" via Yeshiva University Libraries youtu.be/C_Ju-F-9J2w?... #JewishBooks #JewishManuscripts #BookHistory #Kabbalah
Good bloople of bluesky, join me in Duluth! With more in the shout out vein to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Will Slauter. #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica
How did rare books become valuable? Emma Smith talked to us about the rare books market, Shakespeare's first folio, and their ties to sugar plantations and slave labor in the Caribbean. Learn more from Professor Smith for free at throughlines.org #Shakespeare #BookHistory
(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)...
