#beautifulbindings

[curiouscatalog]

Cover from: Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915. The history of freemasonry. London : Caxton Publishing Company, 1880s?

HS403 .G82

[gwuscrc]

Today’s Google doodle, which celebrates the 287th birthday of Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz, reminds us we hold this 1785 edition of his Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique. Dedicated to Ingenhousz’s friend and colleague Benjamin Franklin, the volume is a staff favorite because of its brightly marbled edges and endpages, elegant gilt spine, and engraved fold-out plates. Among the images above are an engraving depicting an apparatus for breathing “dephlogisticated air” (oxygen gas) and a description of pocket-sized electrical machine for shooting a pistol through “inflammable air” (hydrogen). 

Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799), Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique (Paris: Chez P. Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1785).  

[pittrarebooks]

These images are from the Clover Club bound edition of the magazine Seen and Heard, consisting of eight volumes published in 1901 and 1902. The column, “Seen and Heard in Many Places,” appeared every weekday on the editorial page of the Philadelphia Times, from 1885-1900. That was until the writer of the column, Louis N. Megargee, decided to publish his own weekly “miniature magazine.” Megargee was the sole owner, contributor and editor of Seen and Heard.

-Jennifer Needham

[curiouscatalog]

From: Jenkins, John S. (John Stilwell), 1818-1852. History of the war between the United States and Mexico. Philadelphia : John E. Potter and Company, 1880s?

E404 .J52 1880

[cynthelonelybookjunkie-blog]

Good Morning Book Junkies... Well I start another day of plugins away the new inventory. This beauty slowed me down I had to read a few pages. She will available for viewing soon. #thelonelybookjunkie #antiquebooks #vintagebooks #poetry #beautifulbindings

[swanngalleries]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

1988