September 17, 2012
Bookplate reads, “Se taire, et faire,” or (roughly), “Shut up and do.” Also, is that the Statue of Liberty? From the front matter of A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, Never Before Printed, or Not Extant in His Works by John Locke, ed. by Pierre Desmaizeaux (1720). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 15, 2006.

Bookplate reads, “Se taire, et faire,” or (roughly), “Shut up and do.”

Also, is that the Statue of Liberty?

From the front matter of A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, Never Before Printed, or Not Extant in His Works by John Locke, ed. by Pierre Desmaizeaux (1720). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 15, 2006.

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January 28, 2012
Monogram letters and other doodles. From the front matter of Rifle and Caravan: Two Boys in East Africa by James Barnes (1912). 

Monogram letters and other doodles.

From the front matter of Rifle and Caravan: Two Boys in East Africa by James Barnes (1912). 

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