Curious Catalog

From: Seward Trunk and Bag Company, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.A. : catalog L, 1908-1909.

Some lovely marbled pages, including some hidden marbling on the fore edge.

From: Equiano, Olaudah, Charles Stalker, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African. Sixth edition, enlarged. London: Printed for, and sold by the author & G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and by Charles Stalker, Stationers-Court, Ludgate-Street, London, 1793. 

One more for spooky season, from a spooky Virginian.

From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Gustave Doré, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. The Raven. New York: Harper, 1884.

Anatomy studies are perfect for spooky season.

From: Cutter, Eunice P, and Edmund Flagg. Human and Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene. School edition. New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith, 1854.

Scientific study of sea monsters?

From: Bushnan, J. Stevenson. The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; [etc.], 1840.

Spooky friends to start spooky season.

From: MacGillivray, William. British Quadrupeds. London: H.G. Bohn, 1866. The Naturalist's Library, v. 17.

This is pretty neat- a study of hieroglyphs from before the Rosetta stone was found.

From: Pownall, T., & Dodsley, J. (1782). A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research : also marking and explaining some of the desiderata : with an appendix : No. I. On the elements of speach : No. II. On the origin of written language, picture, hieroglyphic, and elementary-writing : No. III. On the ships of the ancients : No. IV. On the chariots of the ancients. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall.

Delightful miniature portraits.

From: Foster, J. J. Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century. London: Dickinsons, 1914.

Lovely garden images. The first two are the same picture, and the fence flips up!

From: Repton, Humphry, and J. C Loudon. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton; Being His Entire Works on These Subjects. New ed., by J.C. Loudon. London: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman, 1840.

Audubon's illustrations of some of our favorite chaotic critters.

Some pretty bindings today.

From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and George Edward Woodberry. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe : Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir, Critical Introductions, and Notes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894

Can someone make this for my dog?

From: Godey’s Lady’s Book (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1840). Philadelphia, Pa: L.A. Godey, v. 86, no. 515, May 1873.

Taking a trip to Versailles.

From: Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar. Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles et de Marly : contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures, tableaux, statues, vases & ornemens qui s’y voient : leurs dimensions : & les noms des peintres, des sculpteurs & des graveurs qui les ont faits ... Cinquieme édition. A Paris: Chez la veuve de Florentin Delaulne, rue Saint-Jacques, à l’Empereur, 1724.

Heraldry for London professions in the 1600's

From: R. B. Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster : Shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates, Towers ... : With an Account of the Most Remarkable Accidents ... Which Have Happened Therein for above Nine Hundred Years Past ... : Illustrated with Pictures of the Most Considerable Matters Curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates, with the Arms of the Sixty Six Companies of London, and the Time of Their Incorporating. London: Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.

Here's some suggestions for your next feast.

From: Lamb, Patrick. Royal Cookery; : Or, The Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in All the Particular Branches of Cookery, Now in Use in the Queen’s Palaces of St. James’s, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. London: A. Roper, 1710.