Textile bookbinding
The Netherlands, 1615-1620. Contents: Biblia. Leyden, Udrich Cornelijs, voor Jan Everss Cloppenburch en Isack Ianss Canin, 1615; Arthurus Dentus. Voet-pat der eenvoudigher menschen. Utrecht, Abraham van Herwijck, voor Hendrick Laurensz tot Amsterdam, 1614.(via yama-bato)
“The scan of the front endsheet and the rear endsheet reflects a beautiful multicolor pattern that reminds of glass marbles, and also of taffy candy during the pulling process — an apropos bestowment considering the tempestuous interplay of politics and military engagement.”
Submitted by Lorenzo Tumminello, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From Discours Politiques et Militaires sur Corneille Tacite by Scipione Ammirato (1633). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized January 26, 2010.
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Cover of Henry H. Smith’s Anatomical Atlas of the Human Body, 1859
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Egads! Saving photo for when The Mrs. cries “You have too many books!”
The personal library of Professor Robert A. Macksey (Johns Hopkins University) contains more than 70,000 volumes and is valued at over $4 million.
See more in Libraries of the Rich and Famous, Part 2
Was this book owned by Shakespeare?
(via Spectral Imaging of Shakespeare’s “Seventh Signature” | The Collation)
![L. Bouquet (?) - Paris by rsbrandt510 on Flickr.Via Flickr:
Handwritten book label of L. Bouquet [?], rue de Clichy, Paris. 55 x 26 mm (Found in: Marchand de Beaumont, F.M. Le nouveau conducteur de l’etranger a Paris en 1838 … Paris, 1838).](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1k5ledq2u1qc96cio1_500.jpg)
L. Bouquet (?) - Paris by rsbrandt510 on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Handwritten book label of L. Bouquet [?], rue de Clichy, Paris. 55 x 26 mm (Found in: Marchand de Beaumont, F.M. Le nouveau conducteur de l’etranger a Paris en 1838 … Paris, 1838).
![I’m giving my Adventures in Book Collecting talk at the Great Falls [Montana] Public Library this Saturday. Come out and learn more about books, preservation, and other exciting topics.
(by GreatFallsLib)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0xyeuNT7V1qc96cio1_400.jpg)
I’m giving my Adventures in Book Collecting talk at the Great Falls [Montana] Public Library this Saturday. Come out and learn more about books, preservation, and other exciting topics.
(by GreatFallsLib)
Yes, please; yes, please; yes, please!
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Bookcase Trunk (1923) / Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks
Illustrated with 600 images taken from the Louis Vuitton archives in France and new, specially-commissioned photographs. From trains and ocean liners to the earliest automobiles and even hot air balloons, on journeys to all corners of the globe, the Vuitton trunk has crossed time and borders and remains an icon of the golden age of travel, epitomizing the glamour and elegant decadence of an era when journeying to a foreign land involved adventure, romance and style.
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![book-aesthete:
Twentieth Century Magic and Construction of Modern Magical Apparatus… Hopkins, Nevil Monroe. George Routledge & Sons, New York, 1898.
[2], vi, 160 pp. Illustrations in text. (8vo) original brown cloth stamped in black and white, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
With chapters on Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical magic, including; The Design and Equipment of a Magical Stage, The Flight of the Timepieces, The Miniature Inferno, Spirit Chirography, and The Demon Candlesticks.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qwel17H71qabm59o1_500.jpg)
Twentieth Century Magic and Construction of Modern Magical Apparatus…
Hopkins, Nevil Monroe. George Routledge & Sons, New York, 1898.[2], vi, 160 pp. Illustrations in text. (8vo) original brown cloth stamped in black and white, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
With chapters on Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical magic, including; The Design and Equipment of a Magical Stage, The Flight of the Timepieces, The Miniature Inferno, Spirit Chirography, and The Demon Candlesticks.
