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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A pair of happy birds sitting in the margin of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicæ (Lübeck, 1475-76). In the library of the Earls of Sunderland at Blenheim Palace, sold in 1882 to @quaritch1847.bsky.social, from whom likely bought by William Morris. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.A.14.1[1013.1-2].

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

lāð, adj: hostile, malign, bearing hate toward another. (LAWTH / ˈlaːθ) Image: Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 168v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval marginalia depicting an elephant with a trunk nearly the size of its entire body and a tower bearing three soldiers on its back facing off with a man who carries a shield and a giant sword.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bell Systems Vehicle Graphics Manual, 1970 archive.org/details/bell...

A speeding Bell telephone van with heavy motion blur. Very 1970s.

Drawings of three different types of lineman trucks, one with a flat bed, one with a ladder, and one with a cherry picker. They're painted white and olive green with blue and yellow details.

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This from 2022 ‘The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart. There is serious talk of a Liberal split.’ w/ @stuartkells.bsky.social #auspol #AusVotes25 #DuttonDumped #ModeratesGone FastFwd. There is serious talk of a Coalition break. www.linkedin.com/pulse/grifts...

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Grifts, shifts and splits: Get ready for politics on the wild side, LNP style

The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves and each other apart.

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nobody-2024.bsky.social @nobody-2024.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The Worlds Financial System Is Vulnerable to Trumpism!!

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Firsts Rare Book Fairs @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

First Look 🌱🌸⚜️ This beautifully bound edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass features an elaborate gilt foliate design in an arts and crafts style. You can see this item displayed by Lucius Books at Firsts this year. Find out more: www.firstslondon.com

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Firsts Rare Book Fairs @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

First Look at another highlight you can see at Firsts 💐 A lovely example of a miniature ‘language of flowers book’ from Camden Lock Books.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 13/05/2025

NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928 Zwart’s innovative use of bold typography, dynamic layouts, and photomontage transformed otherwise dull topics into avant-garde masterpieces.⁠ Grab the facsimile: letterformarchive.org/shop/nkf-pie... #PietZwart #ModernistDesign

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Before and After The Day After Judgement by James Blish. 1974, cover art by David Pelham. #booksky

a multi-colored snaggly-tooth 'dragon' head

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Spotted down the shore, in Belmar, NJ (didn't realize there were many more!)

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Björn Biester @philobiblos.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Antiquariat Walter Markov, Bonn - Antifaschistische Tarnschriften & illegale Kleinschriften, Dünndruckschriften 1933–1945 antiquariat-markov.de #Antiquariat

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

All aboard! Another BlueSky book review "par excellence!"

The Ship from Outside by A. Bertram Chandler. 1963, cover art by Ed Valigursky.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here is another golden example from the #LibraryStampMadness series: featuring a thoughtful stamped horse connecting humans and the stars. Experts do know that this library stamp is from the HAB Wolfenbüttel. #bookhistory

Title page of VD16 B 803 showing a stamp in the middle between a man and a woman. The stamp of the library connects humans and the stars.

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Jake Hayes @tygertale.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Sad to hear about the passing of Rosemary Sandberg, co-founder of the Puffin Club with Kaye Webb and later editor of Collins' rival to Puffin, Lions and Picture Lions. I interviewed Rosemary about her fascinating career in 2017, you can read the piece here: tygertale.com/2017/03/28/r...

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Rosemary Sandberg – From the Puffin Club to Picture Lions

Last week saw the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential Puffin Club, the children’s book group that brought a generation of readers together with each other and their favourite authors. By coi…

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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social · 14/04/2025

NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Book Binding ... OR Torture Device?! #NewberryLibrary (SC1665) 1/?

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Some bindings and clasps are truly impressive. This is certainly the case with this 19th-century copy printed in Louvain (R5A12995). #rarebooks #tomorrowsresearch

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A poetic BlueSky book review, perfectly executed, profoundly evocative - where's our rocket? #booksky

A Storm is Rising, by N Mackenzie. 1958, cover artist unknown, likely lost in the storm

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Per Capita Australia @percapitaaustralia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What does successful public policy look like, and how has it been achieved in Australia? John Brumby and Stuart Kells, co-authors of "In A Better Australia" joined Per Capita for their March John Cain Lunch. Listen to their speech on the JCL podcast. Now available here: apple.co/3Avhego

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Wendy&Co @wendy59.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Quintessential Australia! A kookaburra in a gum tree with a rainbow behind it. #Birds #Rainbows #Australia

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Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tiffany Shellam reviews 'Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled' by Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social @simonschusteranz.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For National Library Week, we can't recommend enough @shannonmattern.bsky.social's 2014 essay "Library as Infrastructure." A decade on, it remains a potent argument for libraries as social, technological & intellectual infrastructure — part of a critical network of institutions buoying public life.

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Library as Infrastructure

Reading room, social service center, innovation lab. How far can we stretch the public library?

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Highly recommend pre-ordering #StephenGapps new book on the frontier resistance in the south east of Australia. #UniNSWPress is the place to look.

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Another in a long line of stunning BlueSky book reviews.

The World Within by Rog Phillips. 1950, cover artist not attributed. Astonished man apparently haunted by a beautiful woman traversing space (and time?).

Book summary back cover. The telling line: "... to close that door Lin had to close his heart against his love ..."

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Variations on a theme. Doc Savage will find 'em.

Quest of the Spider, by Kenneth Robeson (L Dent). 1933, cover art by W Baumhofer. Doc Savage, with 2 fingers pressed to the forehead of another man.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Winding down after a @camglamresearch.bsky.social team meeting with a walk round outside @theul.bsky.social and spotted a tiny Bee resting inside a Crocus. #WildWebsWednesday

A tiny Bee in a white Crocus against a blurred dark green background.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Stephen Goldin (1947-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1976; R, Don Maitz, 1981 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Scavenger Hunt. The head of a woman in military uniform is superimposed over three flying spaceships and planets.

Cover for Assault on the Gods. Woman with massive machine gun shoots at what look like angels from what looks like a cloud-like rock.

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

When I need a pithy book review BlueSky delivers.

Doc Savage - The mental Wizard. 1970, cover art by James Bama. Doc running up to and around a sleepy and ancient stone carving.

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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Did you know that of Australia's total population of First Nations peoples, a massive 8.6% are Torres Strait Islanders? As a minority within a minority, what do you even know about the Torres Strait? Remedy the situation with an easy read. 'Spirit of the Crocodile' is out next week. Can't wait!

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For anyone who missed the Society’s virtual Winter Visit yesterday to the library of St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, a video is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcP...

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Virtual Library Visit - The Sinai Library: A Treasure Held in Trust

YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 28/02/2025

A quill in an account book.

A white plumed quill with traces of ink at one end, lying in the gutter of an early C19 account book.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Walter Tevis (1928-1984) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Jim Burns, 1981; R, Lou Feck, 1981 #scifi #sciencefiction #book

Cover for The Man Who Fell to Earth. Alien who looks humanoid walks across a desert toward the viewer from a crashed spacecraft.

Cover for Mockingbird. The huge expanse of New York City is abandoned.

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

BlueSky book reviews are being influenced by current events. #signofthetimes

Despot of the World by Geo. E. Rochester. 1931, cover artist not attributed.

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

‘USAID was a force for good around the world and a vital arm of American soft power - one which Trump has given up without a second thought.’ @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/21/d...

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For #CelandineDay, a Lesser celandine from Cambridge Professor of Botany Charles Cardale Babington’s copy of ‘Flora Londinensis’ (1777-1798). CCF.47.45 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Two bright yellow Lesser celandine flowers and mid green leaves.

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Occasionally, one finds BlueSky book reviews that might be just a little bit misleading.

Crash by JG Ballard. 1974, cover art by R. Shore. Long red car, with woman's form across hood and face between headlights.

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Fantastic to be at Benalla Library for author talk with @StuartKells #SoldDownTheRiver #books #ABetterAus

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A little late for Valentine’s Day: the heart-shaped printer’s device of Bernardino Stagnino. In a copy of the works of Vergil printed by him in #Venice in 1507. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Td.52.53.

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