October issue update.

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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the raccoons, for today is their special day!

This woodcut of a raccoon was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.

📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio

#InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay #RareBooks

Today's find of Animal Farm by George Orwell — $225 at Second Story Books, 74% under comparable copies (median $863).

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#RareBooks #BookSky

4/ then we have Eve Wolynes on an amazing #rarebooks outreach event @universityofkansas.bsky.social in “A Many-Headed Hydra: Early Modern Monstrosities & Demonstrations in Rare Books & Special Collections Outreach”!
Yes, there are pictures of bookish #monsters. Thank you for asking! #earlymodernsky

Today's find of An Outcast Of The Islands by Joseph Conrad — $400 at Second Story Books, 30% under comparable copies (median $575).

https://rarebooks.sector-intel.com/listing.html?id=6675956&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily

#RareBooks #BookSky

www.ebay.com/itm/27841999... If you haven't read. The Maigret books, I envy you. I wish I could still go back and read them again. They're a real treat. Highly recommended.
#InspectorMaigret #Simenon #Maigret #RareBooks #VintageBooks #BookCollector #MysteryFiction #DetectiveNovel

Title page of the book ‘Der monathlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’ by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. Published in Nuremberg, 1746-1761.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #insectart #bookhistory #rarebooks

Find out more about his life in our deluxe copy of a beautiful print series by Isidore-Stanislas Helman, bound with a series on the lives of the Chinese emperors:
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Today's find of Omoo A Narrative Of Adventures In The South Seas by Herman Melville — $250 at Second Story Books, 38% under comparable copies (median $400).

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Interesting find at my local #library. I wonder if it's worth anything. #books #rarebooks #LindberghKidnapping #NotableTrialsLibrary

IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)

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IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions
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IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions
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Ad: For Sale - Dobbs Regnault Ameur Jesse James. Wild Bill Hicock (Vol. 2) (Paperback) #ComicBooks #Collectibles #RareBooks

Ad: For Sale - Erre Push Filippo Taglieri Carlo Di Bella Elena Gerebizz Faula birdi (Paperback) #BookSale #Paperback #RareBooks

Today's find of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame — £500 at Jonkers Rare Books, 38% under comparable copies (median £800).

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Rare first printing of the Statement of Patrick Sellar, one of most reviled figures in Scottish history, for his brutal role in the highland clearances.

#rarebooks #antiquarian #19thcentury #history #Scotland #Highlands #clearances #bookauction ohixkp.s.gy/2LUxjB

Rare PATRICK SELLAR STATEMENT 1826 HIGHLAND CLEARANCES Defence CRUELTY Sutherland

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Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)

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Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto. You don't have to be a U of T student to visit or request to see materials. #UofT #Toronto #Library #RareBooks #Canada #Bibliophile #Homer #Apuleius #ThomasFisher