From Müteferrika Press - The first Ottoman Turkish Publisher.
[Concerning Naval Expeditions] Istanbul: Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1141 [1729]. The first Turkish illustrated printed book coming up for auction at Christie’s.
For more see From Pen to Printing Press: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts at Indiana University Collections.
Caterpillars in the margins. Thomas Moffat’s completion of Conrad Gesner’s Theatre of Insects (1634) online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Baron Corvo Letter “…My Borgiada will boom Borgia. The fool publick will have, through it, Borgia before its eyes…” (coming up for auction at Bonhams 19th June)
Titivillus, the patron demon of scribes (and printers).
Print going up for sale at the Romantic Agony 14 June.
T-shirt…here.
Albert Einstein’s handprint, among a collection of about 1500 other actors, politicians, and luminaries kept by Germany’s renowned palm reader Marianne Raschig.
Coming up for auction at Sotheby’s 5-6 June.
Music for dancing the tarantula’s deadly venom out of yr system.
Michael Bernhard Valentini’s Museum Museorum (Frankfurt, 1714), via the Internet Archive.
Unicorn Versus Narwhal
Michael Bernhard Valentini’s Museum Museorum (Frankfurt, 1714), via the Internet Archive.
Procession of Monstrous Figures at the Met. Wendel Dietterlin the Younger (c. 1614-69)
Candidate for top useless Google book: Joseph Furttenbach’s Meschanische Reissladen (Augsburg, 1644) about the use, storage, and care of drafting instruments, all of the illustrations of which are on folding plates that remain folded. Below you can just look at what you’re missing! (Yes there are some books you read primarily for the pictures.)
