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Nelson Rare Books

@nelsonrarebooks.com
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Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British lit, street lit, and Gothic Revival. Dreaming of illuminated manuscripts. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. Always intentionally unhinged. You post, I reply. Never legal advice. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 15m
Is once a year too frequent to wash selvedge denim????
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 2h
Can a snake die from it's own venom?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 2h
Do they still do DDOS attacks or Trojan Horses? If not, I want to get into vintage hacking. Someone let me port scan them.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 2h
It’s not creepy or illegal to make vellum from human skin???
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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 6h
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 3h
My high school mascot used to be the “Red Raiders” but that was offensive so now they’re the “Red Hawks”, obviously named after the hawk tuah girl.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 4h
Hi @democrats.org, this is SPAM! I get about 4 of these a day from a variety of out of state candidates. I will never donate from an unsolicited text.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 5h
Has anyone every actually bought cards from Pokemon Center? Estimated wait time is 7 hours?! Sorry kid, no cards for Christmas this year.
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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 7h
🏆The 2027 Fellowships application is now open and accepting submissions! BSA funds a number of fellowships annually to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Application deadline is 1 December 2026. 🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-fellowships
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 8h
What's the best prompt to hack my competitors?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 21h
My 7yo doesn’t understand the concept of money, but she loves cash and wants to hoard it.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 21h
What was Harvard's acceptance rate in the 1920s?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 21h
Woo an institution that pays with credit card up front!!!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 22h
I wonder what happened to the girls that went wild on the 00s.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
Damn right I dip cookies in peanut butter.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I've never been to Bristol. Is Outlaws accurate or nah?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
If Microsoft weren't a bunch of beta cucks, they would've just brought back Clippy instead of "Co-Pilot"
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I refuse to say Tollkeen. I only say Tollkeyen.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
Woo Jack Smith is left handed!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I gave up reading The Ethicist several years ago when he said it was ethical to be one of those jerks that merge all the way at the end and slow down the right lane forcing your stupid car in.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I judge based on whether they have Aesop soap.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I need to get pumped up, time to listen to J Park theme song.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
Is there an app for finding platonic middle aged men friends?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 29/09/2026
I was inspired by the Lizzie Borden series on Netflix. I think I need a live-in maid!
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
Damn yall realize how big a raven is compared to a crow?!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
What’s the philosophical term for me choosing saving the life of my child over saving the lives of a million strangers?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
Going to read my kid a Manga so I had to look up how to read the panels.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
Instead of influencers, we need unfluencers.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
The only thing more important than being a billionaire, is being an influencer.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 28/09/2026
Wait?! The Willy Wonka show is a tour of the ACTUAL factory?!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Purely because I’m interested in legal theories of liability, does Cornell own or lease the fraternity houses, or are they separately owned?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Anyone campaigning in NJ except CD2 and CD7?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
If Russia attacks Latvia, the EU gets Kaliningrad right?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Blocked 4 times today. I’m back, baby!!!!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Why not just sell Staten Island to South Carolina?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Ever oompa a loompa?
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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
What is the ratio of mansplainers to manspreaders?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
You know his name is “Scut” and not Scott” Farkas.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Does marijuana affect or effect the memory?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
I thought it’d be a nice stormy weekend to sleep and relax and instead I’m babysitting four foot tall dog.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 27/09/2026
Anyone know any pet detectives?
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 26/09/2026
I've been a tech founder for 10 minutes, and I'm already ready to end democracy.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 26/09/2026
Should I wear a Patagonia vest with my shop’s logo on it?!
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 26/09/2026
Debating whether I should buy a Bentley.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 26/09/2026
I was one of 7 kids that had a Sega Saturn.
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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 26/09/2026
If I had like real money, I would have a herd of giraffes.
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