Month: August 2012
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Cataloging Conundrum: Unidentified Coat of Arms
We haven’t been able to identify the coat of arms in this bookplate. It is found in our copy of Bernardino Campelli’s Delle historie di Spoleti : sopplimento di quelle del regno d’Italia nella parte, che tocca al ducato Spoletino, à principi di esso, & alla città, che ne fù capo (Spoleto: Giovanni Domenico Ricci,…
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The Bedchamber is Not As Safe as You Thought: “A Startling Apparition in Edinburgh–The Fall of a Sweep Comfortably Broken”
Days’ Doings, Volume 2, Number 31, Page 80, February 25, 1871
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Incunable Week (cross-post from Pennrare)
Editor’s Note: Today’s post by Regan Kladstrup is cross-posted here and at the Penn Rare Books Cataloging blog. Regan and her team do an amazing job with our unique items and I’d encourage everyone to check out their ongoing provenance identification project here. One week a month is devoted to cataloging incunables, the first books…
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Incunable Week
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is cross-posted here and at the Unique at Penn blog. One week a month is devoted to cataloging incunables, the first books printed after the invention of movable type in the second half of the 15th century. Incunables are a joy to catalog. There is so much to describe: rubrication and…
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Both Unique and Recent
When we think of an item or a book being ‘unique’ we tend to immediately associate this with age – indeed, every item featured so far on this blog has been at least 80 years old. To change pace a bit I wanted to feature something from the last 5 years in today’s post. The…
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Watery Grave of the Week: “Breaking the Ice After a Wedding–A Bridal Party in the Ice”
Days’ Doings, Volume II, Number 31, Page 76, February 25, 1871.