May 6, 2013

theartofgooglebooks:

Color glitch. Found by Stefan Majewski.

Throughout Historica et Memorabilia: Merckwürdige Sachen und Geschichte (1707).Original from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Digitized July 28, 2011. 

(via theartofgooglebooks)

1:40pm
(Notes: 43)
  
Filed under: book nerd 
April 27, 2013

menshevixen:

So J came back from the mailbox with a surprise: the Folio Society edition of my favorite book (shown here with my old paperback holy-object copy).

3:20pm
(Notes: 19)
  
Filed under: book nerd hearrrrrt folio society 
September 18, 2012
theartofgooglebooks: Much-circulated, with bruises. From the back matter of The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother by George Henry Napheys (1890). Original from Princeton University. Digitized November 20, 2008.

theartofgooglebooks:

Much-circulated, with bruises.

From the back matter of The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother by George Henry Napheys (1890). Original from Princeton University. Digitized November 20, 2008.

12:46pm
(Notes: 90)
  
Filed under: book nerd gyneocracy 
August 17, 2012

theartofgooglebooks:

Deer and optical illusions in front yard endpapers.

From Patty’s Motor Car by Carolyn Wells (1911). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized March 4, 2009.

4:07pm
(Notes: 32)
  
Filed under: book nerd bookplate 
July 23, 2012

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2:29pm
(Notes: 141)
  
Filed under: aleister crowley cool guy book nerd 
July 14, 2012
theshipthatflew: mudwerks:a man died here (by unexpectedtales)

theshipthatflew:

mudwerks:a man died here (by unexpectedtales)

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2:18pm
(Notes: 258)
  
Filed under: book nerd maptoucher 
July 10, 2012

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1:36pm
(Notes: 6,496)
  
Filed under: flora future plans book nerd 
July 4, 2012
theartofgooglebooks: Memento mori with neon moiré. The frontispiece to A System of Human Anatomy: General and Special by Sir Erasmus Wilson and Paul Beck Goddard (1813). Original from the University of California. Digitized April 27, 2009.

theartofgooglebooks:

Memento mori with neon moiré.

The frontispiece to A System of Human Anatomy: General and Special by Sir Erasmus Wilson and Paul Beck Goddard (1813). Original from the University of California. Digitized April 27, 2009.

1:38pm
(Notes: 67)
  
Filed under: skeleton dance party book nerd 
June 17, 2012
nypl: Looks like summer reading from the 1930s! jyhslibrary: The Vacation Reading Club - vintage join the library poster

nypl:

Looks like summer reading from the 1930s!

jyhslibrary:

The Vacation Reading Club - vintage join the library poster

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1:32pm
(Notes: 126)
  
Filed under: book nerd 
May 7, 2012

mythologyofblue:

Aurora Borealis and Aurora Borealis [Obscured]- Seen at Paris, May 13, 1869 as found digitized in The atmosphere by Camille Flammariôn and James Glaisher, 1873

[a study of light]

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2:28pm
(Notes: 93)
  
Filed under: book nerd 
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