Alexandre Terrat2d ago

НЭБ — Национальная электронная библиотека — Johann Gutenberg, [1454/1455-non post Aug. 1456]. - 324 л. : ил.; 2°.Российская государственная библиотека.

#JohannGutenberg #ЭлектроннаяБиблиотека #ЦифроваяБиблиотека #КнижноеНаследие #ИсторияПечати #ИсторияКниги #ПечатноеИскусство #DigitalLibrary #BookHeritage #PrintingHistory #RareBooks #Gutenberg #PrintingPress

Show threadOliver Ammann4d ago

Das Digitalisat der #ethbibliothek zeigt die kolorierte Abbildung eines #Weidenprachtkäfer aus "The Natural History of British #Insects" (London 1794–1795)

https://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/zoom/4201864

#insekten #AnthaxiaSalicis #BuprestisSalicis #Käfer #bug #altedrucke #rarebooks

CBC World5d ago
Armed with paintbrushes, volunteers try to preserve rare books at Gaza City's Omari library
A group of volunteers had begun sifting through the damage at the Omari library in Gaza City and trying to save whatever books they can find. They say the work is not just about the books, it's about protecting the culture and heritage of the Gaza Strip.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-library-war-9.7163599?cmp=rss
CBC Top Stories5d ago
Armed with paintbrushes, volunteers try to preserve rare books at Gaza City's Omari library
A group of volunteers had begun sifting through the damage at the Omari library in Gaza City and trying to save whatever books they can find. They say the work is not just about the books, it's about protecting the culture and heritage of the Gaza Strip.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-library-war-9.7163599?cmp=rss
LongreadsApr 1

"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton Subastas."

Geoffrey Gray for Alta Journal: https://www.altaonline.com/books/a70453082/joaquin-murieta-yellow-bird-zamorano-80/

#Longreads #California #Books #RareBooks #Collecting #History #Libraries #Mexico #Reading

The California Novel No One Can Find

Collectors hunt the 1854 novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, a Zamorano 80 rarity by John Rollin Ridge.

Alta Online
Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨Mar 29
The catalog from James Cummins of the books from my late husband David Hartwell's collection has just come out. Check it out! Buy 3 of everything! My kids need shoes! #booksky #sciencefiction #books #rarebooks www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/searchResult...
Lux Mentis, BooksellersMar 23
Kate Holland binding on Peter Koch's, Fragments of Parmenides. Photograph inside depicts refugees making the same crossing from Turkey to Greece nearly 2500 years later that Parmenides’s family made. #nyabaa26 #booktok #rarebooks #finepress #designbinding #artistbooks #bookarts
Yvonne PerkinsMar 22
92 year old Professor Wallace Kirsop has spent a life time studying old, rare books. He is passionate about the importance of retaining the physical object as a recent discovery in a 1497 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy at the University of Sydney Library demonstrates.
#Melbourne #Sydney #Histodons #libraries #books #RareBooks
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/22/melbourne-rare-books-expert-wallace-kirsop
The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’

Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond the page

The Guardian
Lux Mentis, BooksellersMar 4
Xtian nationalism has been an anathema for a long while. Ran across this while sorting things heading to auction.
Patti Smith could be my daughter?!?! That’s a feature, not a bug. #rarebooks #nowhitewashinghistory
Lux Mentis, BooksellersFeb 26
Reduction woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec: This is a set of progressive proofs from Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. Will be in the booth at the NYC ABAA fair. #nyabaa26 #woodcuts #finepress #artistbook #bookarts #rarebooks #booktok