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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27/09/2026

Michelada at Los Frijoles restaurant on Aviation Boulevard. Food on its way. Wonderful start to a visit in Los Angeles.

Large pink beer drink with spiced rim and slice of lime. On a table. Nachos in background.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27/09/2026

Late afternoon in New Mexico. #Amtrak

Scrubby desert ground with a rocky hill in background. Clear sky.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25/09/2026

Very nice not to be flying to California.

Lounge car. Glass windows and skylights.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25/09/2026

US train stations can be magnificent.

Large waiting room. Curved glass roof. Columns.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 21/09/2026

A fine ox. Rotterdam, early C19.

Woodcut of a garlanded ox with baubles at end of horns. Touched with hand colour.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 20/09/2026

The preschool audience for Renaissance celestial tables.

JISC Library Hub discover entry for digitised copies of Johannes Bianchinus, ‘Tabulae celestium motuum’ (Venice, 1495). “Audience” is given in the cataloguing as “preschool”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 19/09/2026

Here’s the inside back cover.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 19/09/2026

Cataloguing a very nice Greek Catholic Marian liturgy this morning.

Title-page and facing inside front cover. Title in red and black. ‘Akolouthia tes makarias parthenou Marias’. Patavii, ex typographia seminarii, 1745. Facing board is covered with marbled paper and has leather book label of G.J. Arvanitidis.

Front cover. Red goatskin and ornate gilt.

Opening. LHS: woodcut of Virgin Mary with typographical decoration in red and black above and below. RHS: Greek text (red and black).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/09/2026

Our child is getting STRAWBERRY SANDWICHES for birthday tea. Can’t wait to try them.

Plate with hearts on. With four white bread sandwiches placed symmetrically, crusts trimmed off. With a “Happy Birthday” cake topper at centre and a candle sticking out of the middle of that. The sandwiches seem to be filled with cream cheese and sliced strawberry.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/09/2026

Dick Whittington, C14/15 merchant and Mayor of London. On his apocryphal journey into the city he came down what is now the A1 (the Holloway Road and many many other things). He passed metres from our house. Our local hospital is the Whittington.

Hand-coloured panel in an early C19 print showing Whittington passing a spire. With text “Aankomst van Whittington te London”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

The printed letter A set within ornate woodcut border including foliage, two squirrels and a crowned bird.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

The imprimatur has left an impression.

Last page of a printed booklet with facing stiff card cover. The page is an Imprimatur page with the word "Imprimatur" appearing twice and the names of clerics. Some of this text (including the word 'Imprimatur') has offset onto the inside cover.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/09/2026

Woodcut title-page vignette, Modena 1688.

Quite a rough woodcut, winged cherub above a flower and scrolls with some down pointing foliage below.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/09/2026

Want to celebrate your 18th birthday in princely C17 style? Have an oratorio performed for you! Here’s a libretto for a celebration of the birthday of Francesco II of Modena (1660-1694).

Title-page to ‘Il trionfo della fede nel glorioso martirio di S. Azzo Estense’ (Modena, Demetrio Degni, 1678).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 14/09/2026

A list that I put out today. Readable at: leocadogan.com/hispanicaseptember26

Title-page to a catalogue. Vignette of a page of emblem book (woodcut emblem titled “America” with letterpress below). Below this, text LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS “END OF SUMMER 2026”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/09/2026

Peekaboo what’s inside? Trying out a lightbox for photographs for a list.

View of a bit of a catafalque through a round hole.

Large C18 catafalque print, turned up at top edge.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/09/2026

Boredom in rare bookshops?

Young writing in a small writing book. "Dear diary Being in a rare book bookshop is a bit boring thats why im riting on you so I sort it would make me entritaind". Drawing of girl with book, table, pen.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 11/09/2026

For the journey home, joined by some very nice red and black astronomy publishing (Venice 1526).

Printed mathematical/astronomical tables in red and black. An opening photographed at an angle.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 11/09/2026

On the train to York (book fair) for the next two hours. But why pass up the opportunity for a spot of book-bothering?

An 18th-century leather-bound book on a bed of bubble-wrap on a besleeved computer on a train table. Beaker for
tea to right.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 07/09/2026

Honoured and a bit nervous to have my first ever book review in ‘The Book Collector’. Too nervous to read it again (but will read everyone else’s articles).

Review of ‘The Third Book of Booksellers’ by Sheila Markham. First one and a half pages.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 06/09/2026

Printed manicules and asterisks in title-page decoration. Mexico City, 1765. There seem to be two different manicules here, one normally for pointing from the left-hand margin, the other from the right.

8 printed manicules pointing outwards, with a pattern of printed asterisks at centre (coincidentally forming an 8).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 05/09/2026

“And this is where mummy met daddy”. Family trip to Bloomsbury.

Front of a windowed brick mid-century building with sign ‘The Warburg Institute’. Backs of a young woman and a slightly older woman.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 05/09/2026

Word On The Water. Floating bookshop on the Regents Canal by Kings Cross. Very nicely done.

Book cases outside the boat with browsers. DJ on the roof.

Inside the boat. Shelves, a sofa, backs of browsers.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026

Typos (not many considering how fast we’re working). Zaragoza, 1663.

Paragraph of errata headed “Erratas. No son muchas, para lo que và tan de prisa”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026

Do you think this will get his attention?

Large blank space with printed in large caps “SEÑOR”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 26/08/2026

Quite a spiky tail-piece. Lleida, 1641.

Woodcut. Almost a lozenge of very spiny plant matter.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25/08/2026

Tomb of the builder in Derby Cathedral. #herpalace

Ornate Jacobean funeral monument, polychrome sculpture of Bess of Hardwick lying wearing coronet.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 24/08/2026

#herpalace - Hardwick Hall, with initials on roof ‘ES’ = Elizabeth [Countess of] Shrewsbury (aka Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608)).

Two lines of hedges with in background a tall Elizabethan building with stone initials in tracery at tops spelling out ES.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 22/08/2026

A book in Catalan. Barcelona, 1641.

Diagonal photo of a page mostly in Catalan language (some Latin).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 21/08/2026

Stitching together of school notes with alum-tawed skin. Spain, c1800.

Opening in a manuscript showing part of pages from three different gatherings of school notes. The gathering in the middle has a shorter bottom margin allowing us to see a bit if the first page of the gathering below. Stitching in two places at gutter (inner margin).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 20/08/2026

True crime account of an awful story from Australia. So grippingly described that I resisted googling until I’d finished. Very glad to discover the interesting author.

Front cover of Helen Garner, ‘The House of Grief’. Back end of a car sinking into water.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 19/08/2026

Just about holding onto my marbles.

Five pamphlets in marbled wrappers, splayed out and held in one hand.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/08/2026

A Greek Catholic liturgical book, a mathematics manuscript and a sammelband of learned works, printed c1500 and bound in pigskin. All from a parcel that I have just unpacked.

Pile of three books, lying flat with spines facing us. On top, a small-format book in red goatskin gilt. In the middle, a book in rumpled parchment. On the bottom, the spine of a book bound on pigskin.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/08/2026

Detail of early 19th-century Spanish decorated endpaper.

What looks like overlaid map outlines or mazes in red and green, also red and green spots.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/08/2026

Andrea says yes. Lord Chamberlain to Duke of Modena assents to publication of a play. Modena, 1789. #censorship

Pasted in slip “Si stampi Marchese Andrea Cortese”. Below printed text “Fide[!] del Dramma”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/08/2026

Here’s some #Odyssey -adjacent book marketing. ‘The Sign of Pallas’, in late C18 Cesena, i.e. Pallas Athene, a business established by printer-publisher Gregorio Biasini.

Woodcut printer’s vignette of Athena with spear, shield and armour, an owl on her helmet, inscription in Greek letters, MELETE TO PAN.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/08/2026

Very much enjoying the pin-hole thing.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 09/08/2026

Twins in a T. Could be angels - there may be wings. The image will signify a word in Latin or Italian beginning with T but I can’t for the moment think what it is. Modena, 1685.

Woodcut inhabited initial ‘T’. Two men, possibly winged, each beside a crossbar of the letter, face each other. Landscape behind.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 09/08/2026

Child’s head, at centre of a headpiece used in Lucca, 1685.

Woodcut. Part of a headpiece. Shows a shaded head.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 09/08/2026

Tan-tan-ta-ra! 🎵🎵 (Modena, 1678).

Woodcut head-piece. Laurel wreath borne by winged putti with trumpets. Separately, in letter-press, the page number 5 appears at top right-hand corner of photo.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 08/08/2026

Bound for a library in an advert: C17 book in wrappers made from an ad for a C19 book (a collection of pictures of famous men and women in arts and sciences).