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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Ushistory.org : Major John Clark Jr. was a hero of the American revolution, a colonial James Bond, Clark was America's first master spy. This was his copy of Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1777, by Adam Smith. This copy also belonged to war hero Arthur MacArthur and Col. Levi Maish. 📚💙 #rarebooks

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Jimmy Carter special. These are very special to me because they're some of my favorite people. Jimmy and Rosalynn's personal Bibles. Signed with a laid in presidential letterhead card stating these Bibles were owned and used by the former president and first lady. 💙📚 #rarebooks #books

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Boock of Physicke, 1599 by Gabelkover, is one of the earliest vernacular-language collections of remedies. For joint pain he suggests using a live frog sewn in cloth to determine corruption of bones. Remedies for pimples take up five pages. This title in facsimile. #rarebooks 📚💙 #books #medsky

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

🍃The Hasheesh Eater, 1857. An autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow recounting his experiences with cannabis. First example of full-length American literature on psychoactive substances. This one in rare, original green cloth. Fun fact, this cloth may contain arsenic #rarebooks 💙📚

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

QUEEN POWER! More firsthand retelling of the Stonewall Riot. This coverage published in Rat Subterranean News, New York's second underground newspaper. 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #rarebooks

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Maybe I should've labeled it NSFW 🤷

Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

These underground papers were wild

Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

More STONEWALL coverage. This article printed in the Berkeley Barb. Excuse the finger; I was trying to keep it flat. ☝️ 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #rarebooks

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Careful with that chipped glass 🍸😬

Shame there's not some sort of public digital bulletin board that could tell us where to find such a thing

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Thanks for sharing. How is it?

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Firsthand account of the Stonewall Riot published less than two weeks after the event. Printed in the "East Village Other", an NYC underground newspaper. The derogatory terms were an act of reclamation. Follow me for interesting historic literature! More to share 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #rarebooks

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I have some of the earliest coverage of Stonewall by queer/'alternative' publications. I don't recall if they name them specifically, but I know some of it is stories recounted by the rioters. I'll share them soon.

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Feeling a bit like I'm shouting in a void, but I'll continue sharing interesting pieces I've collected. A groundbreaking piece of queer culture. Offering radical critiques of sexism and what we now call homophobia. You can read a copy here; www.bishopsgate.org.uk/gay-liberati... 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #rarebooks

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Also bound in this copy is GMELIN, Johann Georg. "Sermo academicus de novorum vegetabilium post creationem divinam exortu", considered a pivotal piece in botany. A rare find, last auctioned by Sotheby's in 1971.

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Methodus Fungorum, 1753, is considered the first book entirely dedicated to fungi. This particular copy was owned by the mycologist Nils Fries, great grandson of Elias Fries, father of Swedish mycology. Beautiful vellum, red edges, and engraved plates. 💙📚 #rarebooks #books #mycology #mushrooms

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I know which dealers I need to call for best price and which are offering it, typically.

Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Things you're doing right; 1. Cats 2. Protecting rare books from drinks 3. Keeping prices fair instead of raising them only to offer a discount Hope this helps.

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Here's a timely book, "Nazi Germany Means War". The author, Pulitzer Prize winning Leland Stowe, visited Nazi Germany in the early 1930s and was convinced the brutality and militarization that he saw would lead to WWII. He was largely dismissed as an alarmist. Final proof copy 💙📚 #books #rarebooks

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Most people think of Uncle Tom's Cabin as the first American abolitionist novel. Memoirs of Archy Moore predates it by 16 years, 1836. This first edition has the interesting provenance of William H Johnson, an abolitionist and monumental contributor to early Black rights. #books #rarebooks 💙📚

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Voodoo aka Beans aka Sweetie aka Pumpkin aka the Baby #cats #blackcats 🖤🐈‍⬛

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Bryan Keenan @bkeen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sending well wishes for that sweet cat 🖤

Because you love them 🧡

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Beautifully vibrant miniatures

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1599 and 1615 Geneva Bible. Many Geneva Bibles were brought over on early colonial American ships. Check out the doodle in this 1599 copy. To me it looks like ships pulling up to Plymouth Rock. What do you think? 💙📚 #books #rarebooks 📚💙

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