“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Case for Spirit Photography Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) New York, NY: George H. Doran, 1923 First American Edition BF1381 D68 While many readers may recognize the name ‘Arthur Conan Doyle’ as the...

31 October, 2022 /

“In the beginning was the Word…” John 1:1 Postilla Matej Vaclav Steyer Prague, 1691 xBS2348 C8 S74 The word postil or postilla is an abbreviated term for a marginal note or Biblical commentary. Derived from the Medieval Latin phrase,“post illa verba textus” (after these words), postils were intended to provide clarification...

05 August, 2019 /

"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...

03 May, 2019 /

“The Queene of Scotland is your prisoner, let her be honorably entreated, but yet surely guarded.” – William Parry A true and plaine declaration of the horrible… At London by C. Barker Cum priuilegio, 1585 First edition, second issue A contemporary report of William Parry’s plot to assassinate Queen...

08 February, 2019 /

"That Catesby, Winter, Fawlks with many other Traitours lately attainted of high treason, would blowe vp with Gun-powder in the Parliament house, the King, the Prince, the Lls. Spirituall and Temporall, the Iudges of the realme, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and many other subjects...

05 November, 2018 /

You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever” – Psalm 104, NKJV “[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.” ― John Smith (1580-1631) Geographiae et hydrographi reformat… Giovanni...

21 March, 2018 /