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Friday, December 9, 2011

Modern Books Are Not Edible: A Farewell To Bookworms

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by Stephen J. Gertz The Bodleian Library. "Great is bookishness and the love of books." So declares Augustine Birrell (185...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tycho Brahe's Sculpture Garden of Scientific Instruments

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by Stephen J. Gertz Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), a Danish nobleman and gentleman scientist,  made the most precise astronomical and planetar...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Gavarni's Paris Mornings and Mailbox (1839)

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by Stephen J. Gertz Two incredibly scarce  albums from 1839 by Paul Gavarni , bound together, and with a total of forty-three marvelous h...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Regency Home Library Bookcase, 1808

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by Stephen J. Gertz One of 158 hand-colored aquatint plates from: SMITH, George. A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and I...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Deck the Halls With Fore Edge Paintings

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by Stephen J. Gertz SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works... 1867: London: Macmillan, 1867. 1075pp. 170x120mm. Full binding in grained goatski...
Friday, December 2, 2011

TIme For Vintage Book Clocks This Christmas

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by Stephen J. Gertz The good folks at Vintage Book Clocks have created a series of timepieces fashioned from old books, from pulp fictio...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

When Field and Stream Magazine Reviewed Lady Chatterley's Lover

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by Stephen J. Gertz Coming in November: • Secrets of an English Gamekeeper, or The Lady Bags a Stag. It isn't often that magazines...