“I question this.”
From p. 185 of Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee by Thomas Edward Bowdich (1873). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 19, 2007.
May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013
Stains.
Throughout A Survey of the National Debts, the Sinking Fund, the Civil List, and the Annual Supplies (1745). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 29, 2010.
May 5, 2013
Frontispiece left folded.
From Chūshingura: or, The Loyal Retainers of Akao by Izumo Takeda, Shōraku Miyoshi, and Senryū Namiki, translated by Jukichi Inouye (1894). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 2, 2009.
May 5, 2013
Torn paper poem.
From the back matter of A Princess of Java: A Tale of the Far East by Sarah Jane Higginson (1887). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 25, 2008.
May 5, 2013
Digital gutter splits botantical illustrations.
Throught Plantae Javanicae Rariores by Thomas Horsfield, Johannes-Josephus Bennett, and Robert Brown (1852). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized September 2, 2011.
May 5, 2013
Marginalia including phrases from an identification rhyme.
Throughout Vox Stellarum: or, A Loyal Almanac for the Year of Human Redemption (1777). Original from Princeton University. Digitized May 6, 2009.
May 5, 2013
Neon moiré.
From the frontispiece to The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee by Thomas William Humes (1888). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 15, 2006.
May 2, 2013
Plates photographed through tissue.
From Vincent Van Gogh: A Biographical Study, v.2, by Julius Meier-Graefe (1922). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 22, 2009.
May 2, 2013
Partial library stamp.
From p. 447 of L’Art de se Connoître Soy-Même ou la Recherche des Sources de la Morale by Jacques Abbadie (1701). Original from University of Lausanne. Digitized September 4, 2008.
May 1, 2013
Reanimated stain.
From L’Examen de Soy-Mesme pour Bien se Préparer à la Communion par Jean Claude (1682). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 16, 2010.
May 1, 2013
Ink hurricanes.
From the title page of L’Art de se Connoitre Soy-Mesme: ou, La Recherche des Sources de la Morale by Jacques Abbadie (1710). Original from Columbia University. Digitized October 16, 2009.
May 1, 2013
Bookmark.
From p. 200-01 of Quatre Traictez Excellents by Francisco Arias and Pillehotte (1609). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized October 24, 2011.
April 30, 2013
Severe distortion: “a remarkable collection of (what can only be described as) hallucinogenic architectural views and plans.” Pointed out by asfaltics here.
Throughout The Builder, v. 77 (1899). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 26, 2011.
April 30, 2013
Frontispiece photographed through tissue.
From The Book of Legends Told Over Again by Horace Elisha Scudder (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.
April 29, 2013
Distortion of employee’s finger and ring.
From the back matter of Libanii Sophistae Graeci (1522). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized August 24, 2012.
