#Rare Book

[upennmanuscripts]

It's not a manuscript, but this tunnel book depicting a promenade on the Champs-Élysées is still pretty cool (Rare Book Collection GV1525 .T86 1836). The place and publisher aren't known, and it was made no earlier than 1836. The video is by Chris Lippa, Digital Imaging Specialist at Penn Libraries.

This book is featured in the video loop for THE MOVEMENT OF BOOKS, an exhibit about all the ways that books move. You can watch the whole loop on YouTube, and if you're in Philadelphia before December 13 you can see the exhibit in person.

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[mewnette]

I found this beautiful small book by Japanese artist Zenji Funabashi, created while he was living in Toronto for a stretch in the 1970s. Only 200 were printed, I feel so lucky to have found this gem. 

I scanned the entirety and you can read through it on my account at archive.org

Zenji Funabashi b. 1942, Kawasaki, Japan. 

He is an artist, with works on paper and wood. 

I'm so happy to have accidentally discovered such a wonderful artist. Hope you enjoy too!

[othmeralia]

Italian Dyer's Notebook

Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.

Check it out on our digital collections site.

[mtlibrary]

This handsome fellow, drawn in red ink, is an example of a ‘drôlerie’, and is found in the Library’s copy Biblia Latina, printed in Venice in 1489. This was originally a four volume Bible, but our copy only includes this, the fourth volume. The book has a large number of red ink doodles (see below), as well as contemporary marginal notes. Drolleries such as this are commonly found in medieval manuscripts, and incunabula, books printed in the 15th century. They are often grotesque and bizarre figures.

Renae Satterley

Librarian

[torpedobob]

Russian scifi book cover

[junkologistsgoods]

Vintage The GooseBumps Book & Light #2 Unopened and NEW Green book Extremely Rare 10 Spooky Stories with Flashlight

[beautynthebook]

[drsonnet]

When I was a boy in Palestine by Mousa J. Kaleel | Open Library

An edition of When I was a boy in Palestine (1914)

When I was a boy in Palestine

by Mousa J. Kaleel

When I was a boy in Palestine : Kaleel, Mousa J., 1892- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[introspect-la]

ANIMAL FARM 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY RALPH STEADMAN (1996)

[charlesreeza]

Illuminated Book of Prayers, 15th century, unknown Flemish artist

Museo Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily

Photo by Charles Reeza

[dustcoveredpages]

Wild Flowers from Palestine (1899)

Harvey Bartlett Greene

"Seventeen specimens of pressed flowers from Palestine, [mounted], with description and Scripture reference. This book catalogs a variety of plants that grow naturally in and around sites sacred to Christianity. Introduction by Hon. Selah Merrill, D.D., LL.D, U.S. Consul at Jerusalem. Inscribed “Mamma Smith Oct 23, 1899." Rose of Sharon is missing from this copy." (x)

[upennmanuscripts]

"If your rabbit is sniffing or bumping its nose, he might be showing or asking for your affection."

An affectionate bunny sniffs about in the bottom margin of f. 140r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible written in France #drollerydonnerstag

Online:

[fashionbooksmilano]

Missoni Donna Estate 2014 - Missoni Mare Estate 2014

Missoni Donna 42 pagine , Missoni Accessories 41 pagine, Missoni Mare 24 pagine 13,5 x 20 cm

euro 40,00

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Firmata da Angela Missoni basata sui quattro elementi naturali, aria, fuoco, terra e acqua

Ricami in rilievo, intarsi in pizzo traforato, pailettes, bande di frange spiccano sulle silhouette fluide e lineari; orli, tagli asimmetrici e nuovi volumi per le maniche sorprendono e si mescolano tra loro a creare l’immagine di una donna cosmopolita. Legata alle tradizioni, ma in continua evoluzione. E’ in quest’ottica, che tra le stampe, un disegno d’archivio rielaborato in chiave grafica, presenta il logo della griffe che campeggia su t-shirt, gonne e top come su una serie coordinata di sofisticati accessori.

Abiti monospalla, drappeggi, severe gonne dritte a coprire le ginocchia svelano alti spacchi con sfondo piega in seta, pantaloni morbidi fermati sulle caviglie. Giacchine e camicie che toccano il punto vita affiancano t-shirt oversize e spolverini chiusi da nodi metallici. Una palette di colori decisi, intensi. Bianco e nero, arancio, viola, turchese, bluette, sottolineano le stampe, regalandogli un sapore Pop.

24/05/23

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[othmeralia]

This beautiful set is Dictionnaire de chymie (1779).

[rhianna]

Manuel synthétique & pratique du tarot Found In: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manuel synthétique & pratique du tarot  Le Bateleaur

Le Bateleur

[hellhoundclown]

so glad to be fixated on this show again. 2017 me going craaazy