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#Remarkable+Cherished now has the 2nd known copy of 1852 #book "Trip to Reunion" aka "Rough notes of a trip to Réunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon; with remarks on the eligibility as sanitaria for Indian invalids."
https://remarkablepluscherished.com/products/rough-notes-of-a-trip-to-reunion-1852 #antiquarian #rarebook #history

The Books of Blood Vol. 2 by Clive Barker. Edition. Rare Vintage. Published by Berkley Books in 1986. Good vintage condition with minor signs of wear to be expected from a paperback book of this age.

#clivebarker #booksofblood #rarebook #vintagebook #horror

Trying to sell my treasured copy of the rare Derren’s Brown book, Absolute Magic. I had it signed by Derren, in person, because I knew he wouldn’t like me having that older book. I then took it to Penn and Teller and got them to sign it, because I thought it would be funny.

Derren’s didn’t like me having the book, andPenn and Teller did not think it was funny, but they signed it like good sports, all the same.

Pleas boost to see if there are any fellow travellers out there in need of rare knowledge.

#derrenbrown #pennandteller #magic #mentalism #oop #rarebook

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326456995756?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2EuCDsFCR_C&sssrc=2524149&ssuid=2EuCDsFCR_C&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

🔴 📖 🎥 **A Complex Rare Book From 1500s**

🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/rgqoOqEunms

#Video #Shorts #Book #Books #RareBook #RareBooks #Bookstodon #Science #Astronomy @bookstodon

🔴 📖 🎥 1481 Book That Was Heavily Read

#Video length: fifty nine seconds.

🔗 https://youtu.be/OCbx7mTZlXQ

#Read #Reading #RareBook #RareBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

The Complicated Ethics of #RareBook #Collecting: Literary treasures are too often hidden away from the public—but the world of private collecting isn’t all bad. - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/05/rare-book-private-collection-ethics/678254/?utm_campaign=books-briefing&utm_content=20240503&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Books+Briefing

Not sure it's as complicated as all that 😀 (especially compared with other fields), the more so as it's from a collector and in effect answers its own question (attached). But good to put the issues out there. Also nice that features local collector Lisa Baskin

#books #BookHistory #RareBooks

For Lecky, the ethical question we should be asking isnt whether institutions should acquire rare books #nstead of collectors, but what happens when “a private owner owns something that no one knows that they have.” Lecky, like many others in the trade, works to dispel myths about how private collections work. Private collections tend to be temporary and books often jump between hands, but for the time that a collector owns a book, in my view, they should make efforts to share it. “Most collectors don’t think of it as possession but caretaking,” Lecky said. “They’re a piece of the chain in the provenance, not the end of it.”

Historically, private collectors have formed the foundations of institutions. “There are entire libraries and museums that were created by collectors,” Barbara Heritage, the director of collections, exhibitions, and scholarly initiatives at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, told me—the Morgan Library & Museum; the Getty Research Institute; the Folger Shakespeare Library; and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, to name a few.

Many rare books, manuscripts, and items in the collections at these institutions are donated by or purchased from private collectors. In other cases, a donor supplies the funds for an institution to make general or specific acquisitions. If you've visited the permanent “Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures,” you might have seen one-of- a-kind items on rotation, such as an early manuscript draft of Oscar Wilde’s 7he Importance of Being Earnest, a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair, and a page from the manuscript of an unpublished chapter of 7he Autobiography of Malcolm X. These pieces were “acquired through the generosity of” a donor or were donated by a collector.

Collectors tend to donate or sell their collections to institutions if they don’t put them back into the marketplace via auction houses or rare-book sellers. “Collecting isn't mere shopping,” Heritage said. “The best collecting requires vision, passion, knowledge, and creativity—and, above all, persistence.” Collecting, for Heritage, has the capacity to be a form of advocacy through the creation of knowledge and the ability to tie together strands of knowledge that otherwise couldn’t be done unless one has a lifelong devotion to a particular subject. Some collectors have honed niche collections that have since been deposited in libraries (either wholly or partially). Walter O. Evans collected Black artwork and literature that now constitute mainstay collections—such as the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers and the Walter O. Evans collection of James Baldwin—at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Douglass papers in Evans’s collection have been digitized so that scholars, students, and the public can access them.

ONLY 548 TICKETS NOW LEFT and still up for grabs for the amazing edition of @neilhimself 🌟🌟STARDUST🌟🌟 with the addition illustrations by both Neil and Charles Vess and of course bound by Lyra’s Books.

Why not buy yourself a ticket for Christmas!

#GaimanFansRock #RareBook #STARDUST #NeilGaiman

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

A recently discovered #LangstonHughes #poem in #Yale's #Beinecke #RareBook #Library within "An #Anthology of Revolutionary #Poetry."

The #Black #speaker views the world as a #confined, #fenced #space and strives to #obliterate its #cruel #boundaries.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Poetry #Reading #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/magazine/poem-i-look-at-the-world.html

I think it’s time for a proper search with hashtags 🥰 looking for kind souls who are:  #bibliophiles #art lovers  #booknerds  #Indigenous allies  #bookish decorators  #cat /pet lovers #JaneAusten fans
#etymologists  #linguists  #bookworms #historians  #moodreaders  #archeologists #rarebook lovers  #cozy decorators #book collectors  #meditators  #culturaldiversity lovers #yogis  - book lovers  - beginner #bakers  - easy #sewing enthusiasts  #audiobook lovers #alzheimerscaregivers  🥰

The best part of my job in the #SpecialCollections is the rabbit holes I fall into. While looking through our #RareBook collection, I found a #Book on #Texas #WildFlowers by Ellen D. Schultz who was the director of the #WitteMuseum in #SanAntonio. And despite all if her accomplishments her publishers, the Laidlaw Brothers of #Chicago, only watered Ellen down to just her husband's wife.

#AcademicLibrary #LibraryLife

By Ellen D. Schultz, M. S. (Mrs. Roy W. Quillin) Director, Witte Museum and Supervisor, Nature Study and Science San Antonio, Texas

Come to papa! + 💯

Every time I teach about books or take students to a rare book room, I have to explain this

For #RareBook #Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. When handling rare #books, experts say that bare, just-cleaned hands are best. Why won’t the public believe them? New York Times

1) The arrogance of ignorance
2) As #library colleagues tell me, tv reinforces stupid ideas, puts pressure on tv presenters to use gloves, in order to avoid inane criticism

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/arts/rare-books-white-gloves.html?campaign_id=61&emc=edit_ts_20230309&instance_id=87236&nl=the-great-read&regi_id=10184009&segment_id=127307&te=1&user_id=f496eccf27e473bef8d28351750886d4

This Rare Robert Burns Book Was Discovered in a Barber Shop, Where It Was Used to Clean Razors - Smithsonian Magazine https://apple.news/AGwWkC-0jSxm-ZF-omkuQdw #rarebook #robertburns

Got an awesome new addition to my #BrandonSanderson #RareBook collection yesterday! A pristine #AdvanceReaderCopy of "Elantris", with the original publisher introduction letter tucked inside!

An Advanced Reading Copy of "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson. To its right is a letter from the book's editor, introducing the book (and Brandon) to book sellers.

Visiting #Fellowships and Travel #Grants | Lewis Walpole #Library

Deadline for applications: January 9, 2023.

4-week visiting fellowships, 2-week travel grants: for research in the collections of materials from the #British long #EighteenthCentury

Recipients also have access to Sterling Memorial Library, Beinecke #RareBook & #Manuscript Library, Yale Center for British #Art.
https://walpole.library.yale.edufellowships/visiting-fellowships-and-travel-grants

#Histodons #BookHistodons

Sometimes you buy something just because it radiates greatness…and are rewarded to discover it does… #rarebook #ephemera

♲ @babel56@twitter.com:

@GallicaBnF Encore:
#Philidor1749 #RareBook
First edition.
Copy from the #chess book collection of #LotharSchmid (1928-2013) with an #Exlibris (handwritten dated "1884").
#FrançoisAndréDanicanPhilidor #Philidor #ChessLiterature
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♲ @babel56@twitter.com:

#ChessLiterature #RareBook #ChessAutographs

#Philidor1779 👇
Copy from the #chess collection of #LotharSchmid.
With frontispiece #portrait of #FrançoisAndréDanicanPhilidor.

#ChessHistory #ExLibris #bookplate #PaulHorlbog #EfimBogoljubow #JensEnevoldsen #ChessInVisualArts
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The book doesn’t have anything on it that would indicate it being from a library or school so my best guess right now is that it was sold via mail order #books #rarebook #godzilla #kaiju

♲ @babel56@twitter.com:

#ChessLiterature
#chess #RareBook #ChessInVisualArts #BookDesign #BookArt #CoverArt

Some nice examples:
#DamianoAfter1524 £12,000
#Selenus1616 £7500
#Greco1689 £900
#Ponziani1782 £1850
#Lewis1835 £225
#Forbes1860 £400
#Vida1921 £150

📷 @Quaritch
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So, at the #RareBook Fair in #Boston today, I spotted something that can help us through the decline in other investments. Maybe a side hustle.

#RareBook

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