Today I offer five books printed in English. Printed before 1700. Each with interesting declared printers, two printed in France. One printed by two Widows. In the 17th century, false imprints, or misleading attribution of publication to a specific printer, were... Continue Reading →
In this little list they're seven large descriptions of books by jesuits current to my stock. They are all illustrated, in early binding and uncommon. Follow this url to see the catalogue. https://www.jamesgraybookseller.com/searchResults.php?action=catalog&category_id=221 https://www.jamesgraybookseller.com/cat.php?id=221 https://www.jamesgraybookseller.com/images/upload/cat221_1.jpg
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/usatoday/article/2450123 Many people believe that the Voynich manuscript—a book found in 1912 written in an unknown language with images of plants and astronomy—is a hoax. Cryptographers, mathematicians, and linguists have been trying to decipher the supposedly 15th-century text found by... Continue Reading →
As always within human sciences the way we categorize things determine what those things are. In archaeology it is called contextualization, in order to see the forest for the trees, sometimes it is necessary to take a step back from... Continue Reading →


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