On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century… Read More »Cataloguing of all 17th Century Books by Athanasius Kircher Complete!
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic… Read More »400 years of metamorphosis: Theodor de Bry and Natalie Taylor on Jaques le Moyne De Morgues
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around… Read More »Highlight from the stacks: Kircher’s Tower of Babel (1679)
This final rare book entry for our Inspiring Illustrations thread has inspired generations of artists, merchants, craftsmen and businessmen. We have chosen the 11 volumes… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 51: the plates of Diderot & d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (1751-1772)
Since my return to this country, in January 1773, I have continued with aſſiduity my obſervations upon Mount Veſuvius, and the many ancient Volcanick productions… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 45: Campi Phlegraei (1776-1779)—Hamilton’s “Fields of Flame”
This week’s selection for the ‘Inspiring Illustrations’ thread speaks for itself and needs very little introduction. We have selected the 1650 printing of Athanasius Kircher’s… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 42: Athanasius Kircher’s beautiful Musurgia Universalis (1650)
”He saw the city like an Istanbullu but painted it like a cleareyed Westerner.” -Orhan Pamuk, Memories of the City (2005) This week’s illustration post… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 35: Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore (1819)
This week’s inspiring illustrations post is about a photo-mechanical process which I’ve always found to be one of the most evocative ways or reproducing photographs… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 22: the beauty of the photogravure
To celebrate the first meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (the St Andrews Lectura Dantis) of this academic year, I spent a bit of time… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 21: images inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy
This week’s illustration post is a wonderful blend of the earlier photographic and the highly skilled engraving arts of the 19th century. The beautiful engravings… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 20: Excursions daguerriennes (1842)
Hieroglyphic Bibles became en vogue in late 18th century England as a means for teaching Bible stories to a new audience: children from poor and… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 15: “A new hieroglyphical Bible, for the amusement & instruction of children” (1794)
