Feb 14, 2023 Book of the Week — Apologie du Silence en Amour

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Silence, then, becomes the companion of lovers...

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Oct 26, 2021 Book of the Week — The True Story of the Exorcism of Denise de la Caille

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“No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous. Every crusader is apt to go mad. He is haunted by the wickedness which he...

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Dec 21, 2020 Books of the Week — Elements d’Astronomie and Tables astronomique du Soleil, de la lune, des…

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"We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter, if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not, and that the Universe extends so in infinitum." -- Cyrano de Bergerac  Elements d'astronomieJacques...

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Nov 05, 2020 A Poem for the Week — Paul Celan

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You with the Darkness - Slingshot, you with the stone: It is over evening, I throw light behind myself. Fetch me down, take us Seriously. Four Poems Paul Celan (1920-1970) New York: Granary Books, 1999 PT2605 E4 S313 1999 Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania to German-speaking Jewish parents. His surname was later...

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Nov 08, 2019 The Meeting*

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“…King Montecuma accompanied with his Nobles, and those of the most distinguished Rank in his Court, entertain’d the Spaniards with all sorts of Divertisements, to testify how mightily they were pleased with their Arrival. The King’s Brother came to meet ’em with a splendid Retinue;...

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Oct 14, 2019 Book of the Week — De solaribus horologiis…

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Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...

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Sep 23, 2019 Banned! — Premiere [-seconde] parite du Directoire des contemplatifz

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Jul 24, 2019 An Excerpt from A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States

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"Wheat, oats, and barley, yield abundantly in the great valley. Melons and all the vines grow in perfection, as also do vegetables; while hopeful efforts are making to raise the olive, orange, lemon, pineapple, tea, coffee, &c." A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United...

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Jul 19, 2019 Today, Rare Books. Tomorrow, the Moon!

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“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...

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Jul 01, 2019 Book of the Week — American Encyclopedia of Printing

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"[Benjamin Franklin] holds deserved preeminence in the long line of distinguished American printers. The leading features of his useful and brilliant career as a statesman and philosopher are so well known that it is unnecessary to dwell upon them here. But it is worthy of...

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