Month: April 2017
Lydekker’s Marsupials (1896)
Posted on April 22, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata, by Richard Lydekker. London: E. Lloyd, 1896.
Harry Houdini
Posted on April 16, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
Twenty-one photographs of the magician Harry Houdini and ephemera from his appearances, from the collection of the Library of Congress.
Antiquities of Samarkand (1872)
Posted on April 8, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
Watercolor illustrations from Turkestanskīi al’bom, chast’ arkheologicheskaia, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, by Nikolai V. Bogaevskii (1843-1912) and Aleksandr L. Kun (1840-1888). Tashkent: 1872.
The Firebird & Other Russian Folktales (1925)
Posted on April 1, 2017 by Kathleen - No Comments
L’Oiseau de Feau et d’autres contes populaires russes, by Boris Zvorykin (1872-1942). Paris, 1925.