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Friday, February 18, 2011

The Comic (and True!) Misadventures of a Man Maladjusted to a Horse

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by Stephen J. Gertz "Shivering the timbers" The Reins of Terror: The Count can't cantor, leaps to contusions, falls to t...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Confessions of a Vintage Shoe Fetishist

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by Stephen J. Gertz Keep your Manola Blaniks, Giuseppi Zanottis, your Dolce & Gabbanas. When I need to snuggle up and spoon I go for v...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Most Amazing Woman You've Never Heard Of

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by Stephen J. Gertz With one exception, all first-person accounts of famous seafaring voyages have been written by men. The exceptional wom...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Rare (Dirty) Books For Valentine's Day

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By Nancy Mattoon The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyches. Translated from the Latin of Apuleius by Will...
Friday, February 11, 2011

The Bard Or Not the Bard? That Is The Question.

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By Nancy Mattoon Cobbe Portrait. Claimed to be a portrait of William Shakespeare done while he was alive, ca 1610. (Images Courtesy of Mo...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Rarest, Most Beautiful Atlas of Obstetrics

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by Stephen J. Gertz One of six plates from: Uteri praegnantis & ad partum maturi demonstrationes London:  1757. A copy of the ...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Posters on Parade at Bloomsbury

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by Stephen J. Gertz Strictly speaking, the parade has passed us by: These posters were offered at Bloomsbury - London last month. Through ...
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