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Monday, October 25, 2010

Dancing With Death: A Scottish Doctor's Macabre Obsession

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By Nancy Mattoon Frontispiece From: COMBE, William. The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illu...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Petrified By Pests? Rare Books To Fuel Your Phobias

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By Nancy Mattoon HERBST, Johann Friedrich Willhelm Kurze Einleitung zur Kenntniss der Insekten für Ungeubte und Anfänger. Berlin : G...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Lost Dr. Seuss Manuscript Sells For $34,004

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by Stephen J. Gertz The heretofore lost and unpublished Dr. Seuss book in manuscript , whose existence Booktryst heralded last week, sol...

Presenting the WrestleMania Reading Challenge Smackdown!

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by Stephen J. Gertz Madison Square Garden. Within a locked steel cage, two men, two books. Jay "The Great" Gatsby and Rowdy Rodd...

Rare Book World's "Cabbages" Get Some Respect

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By Nancy Mattoon RUSS, Karl. The speaking parrots : a scientific manual. (London : L. Upcott Gill, 1884) (All Images Courtesy of Monash Un...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

In Virgin Virginia, 1590 (Not Queen Elizabeth I)

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by Stephen J. Gertz De Bry, Theodor. Wunderbarliche, doch Warhafftige Erklärung von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

"Men Are Wicked But Their Books Are Good"

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By Cokie Anderson The magnum opus of the Ashendene Press, Dante's Tutte le Opere The three great English private presses are consi...