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Deborah Coltham

@debscoltham.bsky.social
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Book lover and bookseller with focus on medicine and science.

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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Only a few days to go until the @abararebooks CHELSEA BOOK FAIR which opens on Friday at 2pm, at the historic Chelsea Old Town Hall. I can be found at stand 75 and very much hope to see you there. Full details and free tickets available via my website
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
British.
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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2025
BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.
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Dr. Jane Goodall, legendary animal rights advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wednesday statement.
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Are you singing or listening to one of your pieces being performed 🥰
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
That is wonderful!
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🧪 Frustrated by the actions (or inactions) of some of our professional and learned societies during this ongoing attack on #science and scholarship more generally? If so, this letter to the @royalsociety.org from my mate, @scurry.bsky.social, is worth a read and I hope, signing ✍🏻
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Delighted to be taking part in the 2024 Winter Edition of Firsts Online - which opens today at 14.00 (GMT) and runs until midnight on Sunday. Showcasing a wide selection of rare books and works on paper - the perfect gift buying opportunity! www.firsts-online.com
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The ABA's Virtual Rare Book Fair | Firsts Online
Firsts Online is a virtual book fair run by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association showcasing a curated selection of rare books, first editions, and works on paper from a range of accredited rare bo...
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
aba.org.uk/news/keel-ro...?
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ABA News | Keel Row Books wins Action on Climate Change Award
Keel Row Books wins Action on Climate Change Award: News from the Antiquarian Bookseller Association
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Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I left school at 16, was in women’s refuge at 25 with 3 small children, went back to education at 26👩‍🎓 got degree in #computing 1993, #PhD in #softwareengineering 2001, an OBE from the King in 2016, I’m now a Prof @durhamuniversity and have 6 Honorary Doctorates inc a DSc award from UniKent ❤️💪🏽😍🎉
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
@radiotimes.bsky.social The Clangers first aired on the BBC 55 years ago today, on 16th November 1969. - can you share the image please 🥰
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
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a bunch of ants are crawling around a circular object that looks like an infinity sign
Alt: A bunch of ants are crawling around a Mobius strip, which is a one sides object produced by twisting one end of a flat strip by 180 degrees and then gluing it to the other end.
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
When not doing the day job (rare bookseller focusing upon medicine and science) my time is spent enjoying the Malvern Hills - such a wonderful part of the UK
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Anna - Ove showed me a John of Ardenne manuscript - something similar I think?
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
@hagstromer.bsky.social
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Haha! But no - having sold copies of books by both over the years they were very real!
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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There’s only one surviving document signed by the first four US presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison) and it’s a 1793 subscription list, now at the American Philosophical Society, raising funds for André Michaux’s botanical expedition—remarkable proof of early US support of science
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Maggie Keresteci @maggiekeresteci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is a ward full of kids in iron lungs because they had polio. Vaccines saved future generations from this tragedy. RFKs determination to ban vaccines shakes me to the core because this picture from 1955 would once again become our reality.
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Having studied* both Quantum and Particle Physics, I firmly believe that portals to a 5th dimension are conduits through which kittens are able to reach us from their own multiverse. *I've watched Professor Brian Cox and Horizon programmes on the telly and all of the Star Trek films
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
On point, as usual, Marina Hyde: "it will never not blow my mind .... the fact that at least 26 women – TWENTY SIX – have accused one candidate of sexual assault just has not even remotely dominated the news cycle. ... It is just – what? – accepted? Expected? Priced in? Boring?"
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Lovely photo - yes we still have some around 🥰
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Fantastic 👏👏👏👏🥂🥂
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Oh no - sorry to hear that :-( had heard there has been a spike in the UK
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
At least 63 billionaires have now publicly endorsed Trump, hosted a fundraiser for him, or contributed to Trump aligned PACs. Why are they rallying behind him? Tax cuts, mostly. But there's more. The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes. Be warned.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
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Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelf
Just 13 first editions of Oroonoko were known to exist before the discovery.
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
I know what you mean - I have some amazing photographs which have been kept lovingly but not documented and so have no idea who they are :-(
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Oh my goodness - not thought about that film for years but I loved it! The book had a different title I think but having a brain cramp …
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Once again when the heart reply symbol is completely inappropriate :-(
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Delight to plug this the great new initiative bringing together Early Career Booksellers - we are hosting a brunch and tour at Firsts London. Aimed primarily for booksellers in the first 10 years of their careers To register for a ticket please use the following link firsts.artsvp.com/f4e0e4
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Event | Early Career Booksellers' Brunch & Tour of Firsts London
Book for Event | Early Career Booksellers' Brunch & Tour of Firsts London by The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
I can imagine - so sorry to read this. Hope you can sort out x
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Wow :-)
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Enjoy!!
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
"She was a book thief and a genealogist, c. 1743" - what a title! For a fascinating research note from @kawulf.bsky.social drawing on the newly relaunched@OldBaileyOnline records! #familyhistory #bookhistory #genealogy #C18 karinwulf.com/trove/she-wa...
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She Was a Book Thief and a Genealogist, c 1743 - Karin Wulf
This week the newly updated Old Bailey Online was unveiled, with newly powerful features and a very welcoming look. It’s deliciously easy to use; a keyword search will turn up every incidence of tha...
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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 05/12/2023
Friends, my talk with Nick Wilding about UCL London's copy of Galileo's "il Saggiatore" (1623) is now up! We discuss the context of production, our bibliographical investigations into the book, and examine UCL's copy. Please share, and I hope you enjoy! 📜 #histsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tYi...
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Rare-Books Club 2023: 1st editions of Galileo's Il Saggiatore 1623
Nick Wilding and Jason W. Dean talk to Tabitha Tuckett about research into an annotated copy of Galileo's work held at UCL Special Collections. Event: 6 Sept...
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A.M. Roos @handle.invalid · 30/11/2023
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/newton-chr... If you are up Lincoln way on 13 December, the Newton Christmas Lecture is afoot: Why it Matters: The Story of Atomism with me and Andrei Zvelindovsky in Maths/Physics. I think this will be streamed on You Tube as well. Free registration at the link above.
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Newton Christmas Lecture 2023
"Why it matters: the story of atomism" - a duo public lecture by Professor Anna Marie Roos and Professor Andrei Zvelindovsky
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
The ABA winter edition of Firsts Online is now open and runs until Sunday December 3rd - hopefully something to tempt all book collectors! www.firsts-online.com
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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Now the British Library confirms that some user data has been stolen and is available on the dark web. Hardly a surprise, but bad news all the same, and an indication there might be more to come. blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...
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Cyber incident update
We’re continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack. The outage is still affecting our website, online systems and services, as well as some onsite services, howev...
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Good luck - on the basis of your Columbus article though it will be great! Am I right in remembering that scholars now realise that some of the bones depicted to complete his skeletons are not all human - that he added a few animal bones to complete the picture as it were?
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
A personal favourite for the charming woodcuts - taken from one of the earliest vernacular zoological handbooks printed in Swedish in 1776 by Magnus Orrelius #histsci #zoology #woodcut #printinghistory #naturalhistory
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
An astounding achievement. Am I right I remembering Brunel’s Great Eastern was used to lay some of the Atlantic cable?
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Next up - an appealing decorative binding on this 1750 edition of John Hill’s noted scientific spoof ‘Lucina Sine Concubitu’ ‘pregnancy without intercourse’ #decorativebinding #royalsociety #satire #falseimprint #newcatalogue
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Tried to post more of the stunning anatomical and pathological images but they were all deemed ‘adult content’ so can’t share the amazingly skilled, intricate and detailed craft of the lithographer. Happy to share more
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Stunning mid 19th c. introduction to the ‘body of man’ by Dr Jules Galet. Originally published in parts with 193 graphic lithograph plates - coloured or uncoloured copies were available. A unique opportunity to acquire both for comparative study. #printingtechniques #bookhistory #newcatalogue
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Next recently catalogued favourite - an uncommon bilingual guide on the art of commercial correspondence published in 1814 - the year which saw the defeat of Napoleon. Many of the templates relate to trade between Europe and the East Indies and the Caribbean. #trade #rarebooks #newcatalogue
An octavo book. Two title-pages on facing pages in Spanish and French - Art de La Correspondanfe Commerciale. Bordeaux, printed by Braine in 1814.
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Recently catalogued items - fine mezzotint portrait of the 18th c. Enlightenment ‘femme de science’ and Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749). #mezzotint #engravingtechniques #womeninSTEM #newcatalogue DM me for more details
Fine mezzotint image of the French Enlightenment scientist Émilie du Châtelet. She is seen facing the front, looking out through a window, with a globe visible in the back, with a partially hidden library and two books resting in front of her on a sill. The mezzotint engraving is rich and velvety in colour. It was engraved by Johann Haid of Augsburg, after the famous painting by Jean Marc Nattier - one of the most fashionable portrait artists of the day.
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Wonderful!
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Deborah Coltham @debscoltham.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
And got a nice segment on Bbc 5live today
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