‘Unparalleled treasure trove’ of 16th-century texts worth $25m up for auction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/16th-century-texts-worth-25m-dollars-up-for-auction-t-kimball-brooker-sothebys #bibliophilia

four weird books:
No Gods, No Monsters
Lost Places
A History of Fear
The Writing Retreat
#books #reading #bibliophilia

https://www.nerdandahalf.com/post/well-that-was-weird-a-short-book-list

Selfie

#Art #AndyPaciorekArt
#Books #Tsundoku #Bibliophilia

@bookstodon

@adamgreattweet The night that I met my now husband, and we went back to his place, I had to wait in the living room for a bit, and occupied myself by looking at his bookcases: “I’ve read that book… Ooh, I want to read that… I own that series too…” ❤️ #bibliophilia #love

Ik veroorloof mij om even aandacht te vragen voor dit schone boekje en de speurtocht die dit opleverde: https://www.libri.nl/wordpress/2023/01/11/een-vorstelijk-cadeautje/

#bibliofilie #bibliophilia #Maastricht #Clavareau #Koningshuis

Een vreemde professor uit Oxford
schreef boeken waarop men verzot wordt.
Hoe hij ons verstrooit
dat lukt mij echt nooit,
ik denk dat ik ´t schrijven maar opschort.

(op 3 januari 1892, vandaag precies 131 jaar geleden, werd J.R.R. Tolkien geboren, de schrijver van o.a. "The Hobbit" en "The Lord of the Rings")

#rijmpje #Tolkien #Bibliophilia

Mijn enige eindejaarslijstje. De 5 beste boeken die ik las in 2022:

Stijn De Paepe - De Mooiste Dagverzen (2022)
Henry Gee - A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (2021)
Ed Yong - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022)
Geert Mak - In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw (2004)
Steve Brusatte - The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (2022)

#Bibliophilia #Eindejaarslijstje #Boeken #2022

Mijn enige eindejaarslijstje. De 5 beste boeken die ik las in 2022:

Stijn De Paepe - De Mooiste Dagverzen (2022)
Henry Gee - A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (2021)
Ed Yong -
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022)
Geert Mak - In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw (2004)
Steve Brusatte - The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (2022)

#Bibliophilia #Eindejaarslijstje #Boeken #2022

We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/12/19/used-books-stores-donation-fran-lebowitz/

#Bibliophilia #books

The value of literature... of the cost of rare books...
#antiquarianbook #rarebooks #RareBookTrade
#Cervantes #Quijote #Novelasejemplares #bibliophilia #canon #firstedition
#arewecrazy?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/14/once-in-a-lifetime-copy-of-don-quixote-fetches-500000-at-auction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The woman who went to the library and read every book on the shelf https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/16/phyllis-rose-the-shelf-library-book?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#books
#bibliophilia
#literature

The woman who went to the library and read every book on the shelf https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/16/phyllis-rose-the-shelf-library-book?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#books
#bibliophilia
#literature

An Exhibition Exalts the Book as a Bedrock of Cultural Memory - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/rare-book-school-grolier-exhibition.html

#bibliophilia #rarebooks

Secret library of giant books, or nifty photo trickery? Probably trickery, but what a wonderful image.

A few details here: https://libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/lost-ancient-art-of-librarian-miniaturization/
#library #books #GiantBooks #apocrypha #reading #bibliophilia #OpticalIllusion

Vandaag precies 163 jaar geleden, op 24 november 1859, publiceerde Charles Darwin On The Origin Of Species. Dankzij dit boek keken we voorgoed met andere ogen naar de levende natuur... en naar onszelf.

"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

#Bibliophilia #Darwin #Natuur

Accessioned for the to-read pile: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61256457-fifty-forgotten-books

#Bookstodon #bibliophilia #ToRead

I have such soft spot for Walter Crane and his lush colours.

And yes, this is exactly what leaving the house with four children looks like… 😬

From Walter Crane’s New Toy Book (1873)

#KidLitArt #KidLit #ChildrensIllustration #ChildrensBooks #Bookstodon #Bibliophilia

I added an English introduction to my blog website about #Books and #Bibliophilia.

https://www.libri.nl/wordpress/about/