Bibliopole

A blog dedicated to antiquarian books and other aspects of bibliophilia, with a smattering of musings about natural history, science, technology, fossils, classical antiquity and literature. This blog expresses personal opinions only, and does not necessarily reflect those of my employer, or, indeed, anyone else.

Friday, 27 January 2012

Georg and Edvard Scheutz and the Construction of Difference Engines

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So after two inactive years, I've decided to reactivate my blog. This post is something I wrote about four years ago and never published...
Thursday, 8 October 2009

How to deaccession properly

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After my last blog post, here's news of one library that's deaccessioning properly. The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, ha...
Wednesday, 7 October 2009

How not to de-accession

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Many apologies not not posting lately, but some very interesting devlopments have been happening at work. One of these includes coming acros...
Thursday, 2 July 2009

The Dodo's Lost Venue!

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Sorry, the previous post contained two errors. Firstly, the sale of Old Master, 19th century & British Drawings & Watercolours that ...
Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The Dodo's Lost Portrait

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Many apologies for being silent for so long, but a combination of work and holidays has kept me from the blogger's keyboard. Anyway, I c...
Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Worldcat and Boopsie

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I'm often using Worldcat to check library holdings of antiquarian books. As a resource it's pretty amazing, and when I saw that I ...
Friday, 8 May 2009

The Dodo's Lost Foot

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Welcome to the first Bibliopole posting. Since my life normally revolves around items of varying antiquity, I thought, in a twist on the old...
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