The work of archival and rare book processors is truly fascinating and never-ending. At RBML, we take great pleasure in exploring beyond the obvious and discovering curious and surprising artifacts left behind between pages and amidst letters for years, decades, and even centuries. These treasures come in varying formats, subjects, and meanings, some of them […]
Tag: Rare Books
Rare book as artifact
This intriguing object was found on our shelves recently by Tabrizia Jones, our rare book processor. Forty-six issues, dating between 1808 and 1853, of the Neuer Bauernkalendar, an Austrian farmer's almanac, were stitched into a canvas wrapper. Each issue is 32 pages, and is mostly devoted to the hand-colored illustrated calendar showing […]