From: Seward Trunk and Bag Company, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.A. : catalog L, 1908-1909.
TS2301.L8 S4 1908
cherry valley forever
Keni
Show & Tell
Monterey Bay Aquarium
occasionally subtle
Acquired Stardust
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

Andulka
Peter Solarz

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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Claire Keane
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
AnasAbdin
taylor price
trying on a metaphor

Janaina Medeiros

shark vs the universe
hello vonnie

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From: Seward Trunk and Bag Company, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.A. : catalog L, 1908-1909.
TS2301.L8 S4 1908
Some lovely marbled pages, including some hidden marbling on the fore edge.
From: Equiano, Olaudah, Charles Stalker, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African. Sixth edition, enlarged. London: Printed for, and sold by the author & G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and by Charles Stalker, Stationers-Court, Ludgate-Street, London, 1793.
HT869.E6 A3 1793
One more for spooky season, from a spooky Virginian.
From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Gustave Doré, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. The Raven. New York: Harper, 1884.
PS2609 .A1 1884a
Anatomy studies are perfect for spooky season.
From: Cutter, Eunice P, and Edmund Flagg. Human and Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene. School edition. New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith, 1854.
QM27 .C88 1854
Scientific study of sea monsters?
From: Bushnan, J. Stevenson. The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; [etc.], 1840.
QL45 .J12 v.35
Spooky friends to start spooky season.
From: MacGillivray, William. British Quadrupeds. London: H.G. Bohn, 1866. The Naturalist's Library, v. 17.
QL45 .J12 v.17
This is pretty neat- a study of hieroglyphs from before the Rosetta stone was found.
From: Pownall, T., & Dodsley, J. (1782). A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research : also marking and explaining some of the desiderata : with an appendix : No. I. On the elements of speach : No. II. On the origin of written language, picture, hieroglyphic, and elementary-writing : No. III. On the ships of the ancients : No. IV. On the chariots of the ancients. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall.
D55 .P88 1782
Delightful miniature portraits.
From: Foster, J. J. Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century. London: Dickinsons, 1914.
ND1337.G7 F5 1914
Lovely garden images. The first two are the same picture, and the fence flips up!
From: Repton, Humphry, and J. C Loudon. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton; Being His Entire Works on These Subjects. New ed., by J.C. Loudon. London: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman, 1840.
SB471 .R426 1840
Audubon's illustrations of some of our favorite chaotic critters.
From: Audubon, John James, John Bachman, and John Woodhouse Audubon. The Quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854.
While we don't love damage to books, you can find some surprises hiding in the bindings.
Some pretty bindings today.
From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and George Edward Woodberry. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe : Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir, Critical Introductions, and Notes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894
PS2601 .S72 1894
Can someone make this for my dog?
From: Godey’s Lady’s Book (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1840). Philadelphia, Pa: L.A. Godey, v. 86, no. 515, May 1873.
AP2 .G56 v. 86 May 1873
Taking a trip to Versailles.
From: Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar. Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles et de Marly : contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures, tableaux, statues, vases & ornemens qui s’y voient : leurs dimensions : & les noms des peintres, des sculpteurs & des graveurs qui les ont faits ... Cinquieme édition. A Paris: Chez la veuve de Florentin Delaulne, rue Saint-Jacques, à l’Empereur, 1724.
DC801.V56 P5 1724
Heraldry for London professions in the 1600's
From: R. B. Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster : Shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates, Towers ... : With an Account of the Most Remarkable Accidents ... Which Have Happened Therein for above Nine Hundred Years Past ... : Illustrated with Pictures of the Most Considerable Matters Curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates, with the Arms of the Sixty Six Companies of London, and the Time of Their Incorporating. London: Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.
DA678 .C76 1681
Here's some suggestions for your next feast.
From: Lamb, Patrick. Royal Cookery; : Or, The Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in All the Particular Branches of Cookery, Now in Use in the Queen’s Palaces of St. James’s, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. London: A. Roper, 1710.
TX705 .L3
Today, we have a few pressed flowers found in a bound volume of The Casket : Flowers of Literature, Wit & Sentiment from 1830.