Archaeolibris

Recently, I've seen a few referrals to my Bibliophemera blog from The Traveling Antiquarian , with which I was unfamiliar. The name alo...

I found an interesting reading list in the book The Impossible Journey: Unarmed to the South Pole , by Odd Harald Hauge (Pax Forlag 1995), w...

Today is Beatrix Potter 's birthday and I have gotten out a few of my childhood books she wrote for a little reminiscing. My grandmother...

Appropriate for today is a post that originally appeared here last year on this day. Today, July 4th, or Independence Day, Americans celebra...

I like looking at space exploration books from different eras--the 1950s anticipation of manned space flight and space travel, the 1960s vis...

Today is D-Day. I opened up the Sunday paper this morning, the comics were on top, and the first thing I saw was the Peanuts strip featuring...

Many book collectors like collecting firsts, such as first books of authors or first printings of authors' works. I have collected and s...

Ever been ship-bored at sea? I had to read through a few pages of this slim, little book to figure out what that term even meant. I was tryi...

This time of year, we're used to this kind of scene in Texas--a proliferation of beautiful wildflowers painting the spring landscape. Bl...