A reminder that you get this free four times a year if you join @bibsoc.bsky.social - student membership is just £30. #BookHistory #NewAcademicYear
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@laurajcleaver.bsky.socialA reminder that you get this free four times a year if you join @bibsoc.bsky.social - student membership is just £30. #BookHistory #NewAcademicYear
@laurajcleaver.bsky.socialThe latest issue of The Library looks great. #BookHistory.
@dbellingradt.bsky.socialWie immer mit großzügigem Rezensionsteil, der open access publiziert wird. #bookhistory #mediahistory #skystorians
@bibliowingate.bsky.social#BookHistory / #Bibliography wins of the day. My mom grabbed some books at our local library sale, and she genuinely asked me over the phone this morning how a book could be a 1st edition, 4th impression.
It felt like the "calling for a doctor on a plane & they need a PhD and not an MD" meme 😂
@sarahpyke.bsky.social#bookhistory & publishing studies help! If a book's colophon doesn't give a year of publication (??), then does the ISBN tell you which year it was published? When I look it up it says '1975' but could it be a later edition with the same ISBN? Please explain how to read the little book code, tysm!
@jwshoemaker.bsky.socialThis week the Slow Burn Through History book club is currently taking book recommendations of biographies, and memoirs. I will have the links to the book club below. We are on Fable and Discord. Chose whichever one you are most comfortable using
@henninghansen.bsky.socialMy latest publication is a study of Olaus Magnus's Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) and Johannes Schefferus’s Lapponia (1673), two early modern bestsellers that helped define the image of the North for generations of readers. Full article here: doi.org/10.1163/9789... #bookhistory
@bibliowingate.bsky.socialAlso, I figured out today that we *DO* have the cool 1570 Euclid’s Elements with the pop-up polygons. And we have the 1847 Euclid with all the primary colors! Books are so cool!
#BookHistory
@svanimpe.bsky.socialReminder: one more week to apply for the Nottebohm fellowship for #BookHistory research in Antwerp!
For an idea of some of the research conducted using this travel fund, check out the recording of last week's Nottebohm Talks on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA2L...
@zannavanloon.bsky.socialOh nothing fancy... Just an 18th-century binding with a crimson velvet spine and engraved silver-gilt plaques on both boards...
@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialSome of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
@evavasi.bsky.social📍Coffee with a Codex: Greek Herbal
Curator Dot Porter examines a 15th-c. manuscript on medicinal plants, closely tied to Dioscorides' De materia medica.
🗓️ Oct 8 at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT
Free virtual event
Registration:
🔗 libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/17673140
#BookHistory #Manuscript #ArtHistory
@jwshoemaker.bsky.socialI am focusing on three books this week in my reading update.
What are you reading this week?
@scottsandage.bsky.socialBefore the common usage of the possessive apostrophe and the decline and fall of penmanship:
“Jacob Eshleman his Colombian Orator
anno Domoni 1817”
17th Ed., Boston, Sept. 1814
@scottsandage.bsky.socialVariant flyleaf warnings to thieves
“Steal not this
Book for fear of Shame
For yours a Curse is the
owners name”
(Israel Ohriger, 9th ed., 1809)
“Steal Not This Book my
Honest Friend for Fear
The gallows will be your End”
(William H. Rogers, 17th ed., Sept. 1814)
#FrederickDouglass #BookHistory
@scottsandage.bsky.socialIn 1810, the one, the only, the fabulous LYDIA daydreamed her first name, her initials LHS, and some multiplication (7x16 = 112) on the front endpaper of this 6th edition, printed in Boston in Nov 1804. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass #FuckAI
@scottsandage.bsky.socialPrinted in Boston in 1817, this stereotype edition belonged to Augustus C. Curtis of Plymouth, Connecticut. A pressed violet (I think?) abides between pp. 154-155, at Napoleon’s speech to his soldiers in Milan, April 1796 #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass #FlyYourFreakFlag
@scottsandage.bsky.socialPrinted in Philadelphia in 1809, this copy belonged to Silvanus Orhinger, Greene County, Tennessee. A coil of dark brown hair nests between pp 136-137, at James Hervey’s 1746 “Reflections Over the Grave of a Young Man.” Silvanus, we hardly knew ye. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass
@scottsandage.bsky.socialOn or about September 1814, “John S. Rappee” (S. for “snuff” … “John Snuff Rappee” … “used but not abused”) turned to the back of his Colombian Orator and doodled his horse faced schoolmaster. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass
