Books/Livres

[houghtonlib]

One of our most frequently asked questions (sometimes asked with varying levels of politeness online) is "Should you be wearing gloves?" We made a video to discuss why for most things, the answer is no. You can see the full video, and some more examples of when we do and don't use gloves to handle our collections on YouTube.

Also a shoutout to our @upennmanuscripts colleagues and their excellent educational work on this subject.

[upennmanuscripts]

another addition to the #NoGloves genre of posts from special collections libraries!

[blogearthbound]

this comes up a lot! keep fighting the good fight :)

[californiastatelibrary]

[thebeautifulbook]

FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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[blogearthbound]

After treatment - beautiful ledger from 1821. I repaired every signature, resewed it, replaced the leather spine and decided to put on a hollow tube, to help support the fragile pages as well as reinforce the cover/board reattachments. 121 hours of treatment

[blogearthbound]

Before treatment photos - a beautiful ledger from 1821. Poor condition, needs to be stabilized for handling and digitization.

[blogearthbound]

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[thecollectibles]

Art by Lily Seika Jones

[thecollectibles]

The Collectibles: Best of 2023

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

skullheck_383

[nostalgia-eh52]

Vintage Nova Scotia 1954

RCMP dogs in training

📷 Abbass Studios

[jaubaius]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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[radijs-dalfo]

[mostlyghostie]

Working on a themed commission- she’s so great!

[publicdomainreview]

Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlas-des-champignons

[everythingstarstuff]

https://www.instagram.com/jasonlimon/

[othmeralia]

Oh, Mr. Wilman!

I guess this young chemist's experiment took on the look of someone she new (maybe her teacher?). It's a delightful sunny spot and she identifies it in pencil as Example of lead chromate (Pb.Cr.O4). Lead chromate is indeed used in yellow pigments. On the other side of the page she wrote something like: "A pretty good one I think". The book's front end paper is signed by Adelaide K. Burton, Fall of 1895. There is also a partially covered bookplate that identifies Adelaide and her future husband Robert Sayles. Adelaide grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Brown University. Her husband was prosperous in the textile industry. Adelaide served as treasurer of the Children's Museum of Boston and published a book on the museum's history.

The young chemist : a book of laboratory work for beginners / by John Howard Appleton, 1895.

[bibliolectors]

Bookface (fotomontajes de Alexander Sviridov)

[macrolit]

[macrolit]

Spotlight on Agatha Christie (b. 15 September 1890)

[blogearthbound]

read my first Agatha Christie this summer! It was awesome!!