Suzanne Karr Schmidt · @DrKarrSchmidt
576 followers · 331 posts · Server mindly.social

Back to Black

This exceptionally rare 17th c. death notice is printed in white on black paper with a deep bite. Just ... stunning.

@hab_wf

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt · @DrKarrSchmidt
568 followers · 325 posts · Server mindly.social

Alvin and the Chipmarks? 🫣

? @NewberryLibrary

#chipmunk #bookmark #thingsinbooks #newacq

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Jay Moschella · @jaymoschella
63 followers · 16 posts · Server glammr.us

This little volume of Terence's plays, copied by a known Florentine scribe in the late 1460s, joins a modest but growing collection of Italian humanist manuscripts of classical authors in our collection. BPL MS q Med.295 tinyurl.com/yx58ayf3

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John Overholt · @overholt
3546 followers · 1683 posts · Server glammr.us

A rare pamphlet on the great comet of 1556, taken by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as a portent so dire he abdicated his throne.

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John Overholt · @overholt
3514 followers · 1627 posts · Server glammr.us

Only the second known copy (BNE) of a 1664 essay by a Spanish noblewoman, Maria de Guevara, Countess of Escalante, advising the infant Charles II of Spain on how to restore the nation to a leading role in European affairs, and arguing for an equal role for women in political matters.

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John Overholt · @overholt
3310 followers · 1509 posts · Server glammr.us

14 issues from 1785 of a very rare newspaper printed in Montego Bay, Jamaica, providing a wealth of information about everyday life in the colony, including the trade in enslaved people. While newspaper holdings aren't as throughly documented, none of these issues is known to exist elsewhere.

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John Overholt · @overholt
3268 followers · 1466 posts · Server glammr.us

I am over the moon (sorry) about this 2' tall 18th century infographic about a 1737 solar eclipse.

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John Overholt · @overholt
3253 followers · 1450 posts · Server glammr.us

Rare pamphlet by the biracial Haitian planter and revolutionary Julien Raimond on the rights of people of color in the French republic.
Acquisition

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Thomas Schmid · @th_schmid
180 followers · 157 posts · Server openbiblio.social

demnächst in der zugänglich :)

#Burgerbibliothek #bern #newacq #Neuzugang

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John Overholt · @overholt
3077 followers · 1368 posts · Server glammr.us

Stop me if this sounds familiar--a 1787 speech warning German parents against their children reading dangerous literature from the "surging tide of books which, from [book] fair to [book] fair, inundate our country like the Flood."

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John Overholt · @overholt
3075 followers · 1364 posts · Server glammr.us

An 18th century study of the history of beards--obviously an important subject to me, but what convinced me to buy it was that it contains a section on bearded women, shedding light on the construction of gender in the period.

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jasonwdean · @jasonwdean
2 followers · 1 posts · Server glammr.us

Alright it’s time for my first thread for Linda Hall: Mario Guiducci/Galileo Galilei’s “Discorso Delle Comete” of 1619, in a WILD binding and on what I think is thick/fine paper…

#newacq #histstm #rarebooks

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John Overholt · @overholt
2991 followers · 1282 posts · Server glammr.us

A 1778 royal decree from Louis XVI forbidding interracial marriage in France.

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Dan Burzo · @db
77 followers · 488 posts · Server typo.social

Early Communist-era type specimen from the (freshly nationalized) Universul state-owned enterprise. Notably, type samples are combined with propaganda imagery and short snippets explaining type terminology and processes.

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John Overholt · @overholt
2937 followers · 1263 posts · Server glammr.us

A pocket (10 cm) German almanac for 1786, which distinguished itself from other almanacs with annual bonus content about foreign lands. This year features India and has a few hand-colored plates and a foldout map.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt · @DrKarrSchmidt
539 followers · 276 posts · Server mindly.social

Diptych Dial!

18th c. German, with a gazetteer including the latitude for Washington!

@NewberryLibrary

i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgrou

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John Overholt · @overholt
2862 followers · 1122 posts · Server glammr.us

Last post of the fiscal year--the first grammar of the Malay language, accompanied by a bibliography of books and manuscripts in Malay.

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John Overholt · @overholt
2806 followers · 1066 posts · Server glammr.us

1555 divorce petition in Mexico city by Doña Beatriz de Herrera against her husband Doctor Juan Álvarez de Castañeda, describing his physical and emotional abuse of her.

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· @sehovde
114 followers · 177 posts · Server glammr.us

Cataloging a bunch of artists' books is not a half bad way to spend a Friday.

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John Overholt · @overholt
2766 followers · 981 posts · Server glammr.us

A big exciting as we’re approaching the end of the fiscal year—196 French Gothic novels (many translated from English) in wonderful condition. Shared with the Modern department as the collection straddles our 1800 dividing line.

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