#rare books

[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday

A guide to the ball room : being a complete compendium of the etiquette of dancing : with the figures of all the quadrilles, gallopades, mazourkas, polonaises, etc., etc., beautifully embellished / by a man of fashion.

A guide to the ball room is a stunning little book dated all the way back to 1884. Detailing many etiquette and dancing rules, along with instructions, this book is a perfect guide to learning the ins and outs of the ball room.

The back of the book also features a glossary of French terms often used in the ball room. So grab a partner, read this book, and get to dancing--just like those from the 1800s!

--Adair J.

#libraries #uiowa #special collections #miniaturemonday #rare books #dancing #ballroom #miniature books #etiquette #gif

[hdslibrary]

Happy World Book Day!

Throwback pic of our stacks before everything got enclosures.

Boxes are good! They keep our books clean and safe! But we miss seeing the rows of spines in these beautiful, well-loved and well-used collections!

#world book day #world book day 2024 #shelfie #rare books #dark acadamia aesthetic #pretty books

[thebeautifulbook]

Embroidered book covers

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #rare books #embroidered #embroidery #book design #book binding

[upennmanuscripts]

I'd like to introduce you to LJS 57, a compendium of Astronomical text in Hebrew, written in Spain around 1391. It's an interesting combination of astronomy and astrology, and illustrates how the division between "science" and "not science" was not nearly so clear in the past as it is today. It has some fantastic illustrations of constellations!

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#medieval #manuscript #medieval manuscript #14th century #hebrew #astronomy #astrology #stars #constellations #illustrations #illuminations #diagrams #history of science #book history #rare books

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

The periodically controversial signs which sometimes adorns the bookshop door

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[book-historia]

Little Isaac Bawden was quite the calligrapher! 🖌️ This 1763 arithmetic book shows off his flourishing skills. The later 1880s Golden Gems of Penmanship, published during the calligraphy revival of the 19th century, allows us to see how Isaac learned this art! Isaac’s book has been digitized, and you can find it here 📖

(Doc. 743 at the Winterthur Library)

#book history #books #library #manuscript #calligraphy #rare books

[linda-from-the-bird-site]

Drum roll please… we have a winner for the super unique copy of @neil-gaiman 🌟STARDUST🌟

#winner #neil gaiman #rare books #stardust #charity #thank you #charles vess #tumblr milestone #unique #rare

[noelcollection]

The marbling pattern on the boards and endpapers of our late nineteenth-century multi-volume set of John Morley's English Men of Letters is marked by colorful spirals. I wonder if there's a metaphor here: enter the irresistible whirlpools of knowledge and lose yourself in all the information contained within!

Images from: Morley, John, ed. English Men of Letters. New York: Harper & Bros., ca. late nineteenth century. Catalog record: http://bit.ly/40F5jaR

#rare books #marbling #bookbinding

[littlealienproducts]

Marshmallow, Signed by Author Clare Turlay Newberry 1st Edition Vintage Children's Book in Dust Jacket. by StompingGroundsBooks

#StompingGroundsBooks #vintage book #vintage childrens book #vintage #book #books #rare books #vintage rare book #rabbit #cute #cat

[riesenfeldcenter]

A mixed bag of letters and animals (featuring a couple of dragons!) from a beautiful 1525 book of Canon law. Someone please make these decorated initials into Bananagrams tiles.

#riesenfeld center #umn #university of minnesota law #university of minnesota law library #rare books #umn law #special collections #archives #law #canon law #dragons #initials #bananagrams

[othmeralia]

Italian Dyer's Notebook

Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.

Check it out on our digital collections site.

#colors #colors in textiles #colorfastness #dyes #dyes and dyeing #textiles #wool #italian manuscripts #manuscripts #rare books #old books #rare book #dye samples #19th century #othmeralia

[muspeccoll]

640-year-old fly, anyone?

We're not sure how long this fly has been in this 14th-century notary's notebook, but it was a favorite among the students who spotted it in class a few weeks ago.

La Turade, Bernard de. [Notarial Registry]. 1383-1393. VAULT DC95.A2 N6 1383

#manuscript monday #medieval manuscript #bookhistory #fly #mizzou #special collections #libraries #university of missouri #rare books #history #books #things found in books

[hdslibrary]

Framed

We found a glittering surprise when we opened this volume from 1501/02. The book contains the Latin text of the biblical book of Ezekiel, along with commentary by the 13th century Dominican priest, Hugh of St. Cher.

The decorated letter here (the only one found in this volume) has a frame border which itself echoes the framing of the biblical text by its commentary.

Biblia latina cum postillis Hugonis de s. Charo. [Basel : Johann Amerbach for Anton Koberger, 1498-1502]. (v.5)

#rare books #illuminated initial #16th century #latin #bibles #pretty books #bookhistory #gold

[thebeautifulbook]

HORAE SUCCESSIVAE by Henshaw (1632)

Beautiful book cover of white satin with a floral design edged in gold cord, featured in Cyril Davenport’s English Embroidered Book-bindings (1899).

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #antique books #rare books #book binding #book design #embroidered #embroidery

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 64 is a book of diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian Georg von Peurbach, who is considered one of the first modern astronomers. He was particularly interested in simplifying the Ptolemic system (which places the Earth in the center of the solar system). The diagrams in the book demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion.

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LJS 64 was recently featured in #CoffeeWithACodex, you can watch the complete 30 minute video here:

#medieval #renaissance #manuscript #volvelles #diagram #diagrams #illustrations #astronomy #astrological #science #history of science #book history #rare books #16th century

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Time flies when you’re having fun

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #michael moon's bookshop #antiquarian #book covers #antique books #michaelmoonsbookshop #Moonsbookshop #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #rare books #whitehaven