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Have you ever looked this chic in the snow? This fashionista, cutting a biting figure on the slopes,

This time of the year, it’s easy to get caught up in bustle of the holiday and forget to take time f

Fancy yourself a farrier? Here are some beautiful, very fancy bits, #handdrawn for #sothebys in the

The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica includes over 4,500 Victorian trad

This scrumptious floral #endpaper is part of the 18th-century #vellum binding of a 14th-century manu

A wonderful thing about old books is the mystery of their lives before the library, and it is especi

It is rather late in the day for us to be posting, but we wanted to share this early printed book of

This is an astronomical diagram from a 1739 French manuscript on Physics. It demonstrates the phases

American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott was born on this day in 1832 in Germantown. This gilded

This charming piece of marginalia is from a bound manuscript of four devotional works created in Eng

Ivory Memorandum Book (Ms. Coll. 1237) [England? between 1750 and 1850] Sarah Guérin, UPenn Dept. of

Detail from a set of five trading cards from Levi Strauss and Company. Created in San Francisco circ

LJS 185 contains the unbound leaves of an Egyptian psalter from the monastery of Saint Anthony on th

This #throwbackthursday we’re looking back to 2016 (December the 22nd, to be exact), when @atelier.a

Our contribution this week to the #librarywonderland challenge this week comes from our 2017 calenda

All this month we’ve loved exploring the #librarywonderland tag and find ourselves in the midst of m

While being inside with books offers some respite from cold temperatures, it’s easy to be drawn in b

An idyllic scene from “The Parlour Teacher”, a reader published in 1804 by Jacob Johnson

We couldn’t resist sharing one more #boatsinthelibrary image as the summer seems to float away

#tinytuesday treasures, a diminutive #detail from a Flemish book of hours. Taken from one of many la

Detail of blueprints from an experimental investigation conducted on the use of magnetic coils carri

We’ve fallen in love with this buffalo, his eye makes such soulful promises…He is the s

“I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.”— Emma Wood

A ship, a train, and a collective of sage travelers circle the eternal compass in this montage of Ki

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