That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft”

#bookhistory #bookstodon #histodons #hitosteyerl

Here is part 3 of my blog series about the #NorwegianExlibris. Read it at https://www.annikarockenberger.com/2025-11-12/norwegian-exlibris-3/.

Guaranteed free of #genAI, but full of typos & too long sentences. I will fix the typos & edit the text at my earliest convenience (not tonight).

This time, I dug up a 1940 newspaper article and two special prints of it published in 1941 & 1942, both skilfully manufactured in O. Christiansens boktrykkeri.

#NorskTut #allheimen #bookplate #Norway #Oslo #Morgenposten #bookhistory

Greetings! I was sad when the historians.social instance had to close last month.

Because I was unsure where I would end up, I was not able to post an updated address from that account. Back on my original one again now, looking forward to reconnecting.

#Europe, C18-20; #German #literature & #BookHistory, #WWII, #historic #preservation

periodically taught summer field courses in #Czech Republic & #Poland.

@histodons@a.gup.pe @histodons @bookhistodons

Note d'un bibliothécaire des Pères de la Doctrine chrétienne sur un recueil d'épigrammes composées au 16e s. par le poète italien Lancino Curti :

"Il y a dans ces presents livres des endroits sales et mauvais qu'il faudrait remarquer et coller du papier blanc dessus."

L'ouvrage avait auparavant appartenu au poète Philippe Desportes.

#BnFArsenal Fol-BL-705 #Provenance #Ex-libris #Censure #BookHistory #BookHistodon

Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick

https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/nicolas-mugaveros-eight-million-copies-of-moby-dick-or-the-whale/

#HackerNews #MobyDick #EightMillionCopies #Literature #BookHistory #WhaleStories