Colleague Mike Buehler of Boston Rare Maps just sent me a link to a fascinating article on modern uses and readings of nineteenth century ship’s logs– (dig the YouTube videos of whale ship passages over time!) by a very cool guy named Ben Schmidt at Northeastern University. As near as I can make out, the […] More >>
Archives for March 2015
What could be more fun than spending two days pouring over old magazines, pamphlets, prints, letters, diaries, photos, advertising, account books, political fliers and broadsides, trade cards, baseball cards, posters, menus, valentines, historical documents, song sheets and songsters, alphabets, juveniles and primers, post cards, labels, stock certificates, passports and old newspapers – to name only […] More >>
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Carried Away
Clipper Ship ***** People tend to get carried away by the romance of old books and paper, and it’s easy to see why. The thrill of the hunt, the joys discovery, and the marvelous stories locked up in dusty old letters, journals, and books provide a perfect escape – an antidote to the stresses of […] More >>
Frozen
Key Bridge and Frozen Potomac Along with robins and daylight savings time, the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair is the harbinger of spring. In the old days, I’d drive down to the house of my friends who run Bartleby’s Books, park my car in their driveway, and take a long, pleasant, shirtsleeved walk down Wisconsin Avenue […] More >>