A rare account, printed on the island, of a devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 1770. #newacquisition #newacq
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A rare account, printed on the island, of a devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 1770. #newacquisition #newacq -
Now *that's * how you write a catalog headline. https://www.asherbooks.com/item/_famin_cesar__mus_eacute_e_royal_de_naples_peintures_bronzes_et_statues_eacute_rotiques.html?link_list=+1034827&Now *that's * how you write a catalog headline. https://www.asherbooks.com/item/_famin_cesar__mus_eacute_e_royal_de_naples_peintures_bronzes_et_statues_eacute_rotiques.html?link_list=+1034827&
There's a copy on HathiTrust if you want to do the kind of perving that was previously only the province of kings, but be advaised that it gets weird right away. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t73t9hj0q
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I insist that all my packages be addressed to me in the proper manner. The post office knows what.to do from from there.I insist that all my packages be addressed to me in the proper manner. The post office knows what.to do from from there.
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It is so important to understand preservation as an active process, not a passive one.It is so important to understand preservation as an active process, not a passive one. Even for the materials in my period, preservation means keeping the AC running, patching the leaks, squashing the bugs—it all starts to decay as soon as you let those systems lapse. And we’ve spent the last 150 years finding ever more fragile, demanding ways to store our culture.
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This story sounded real interesting but it turns out he’s just a human lawyer for dog cases. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/05/magazine/salem-dog-lawyer/This story sounded real interesting but it turns out he’s just a human lawyer for dog cases. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/05/magazine/salem-dog-lawyer/
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I have a meeting tomorrow with a professor about selecting items for her class on the Moon.I have a meeting tomorrow with a professor about selecting items for her class on the Moon.
Unrelatedly, I was down in the stacks looking for something else and stumbled upon a rare and important 17th century map of the Moon that is *completely uncataloged*.
This is the closest I’ve ever felt to having a superpower.