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I always reblog pictures of libraries. travelingcolors: Trinity College Library, Dublin | Ireland (by Irish Welcome Tours | via derangedbutterfly) Aside from being absolutely gorgeous, with two story dark wooden arches, this is also the largest library in all of Ireland. It serves as the country’s copyright library, where a copy of all new books and periodicals must be sent when they apply for copyright protection. The library is also home to the famous Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the year 800.

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Alys, there are tons of tattoo ideas in here. karenh: explore-blog: Haruki Murakami Bingo by Grant Snider for the New York Times Book Review. (ᔥ this isn’t happiness) (in print on June 3rd, NYT Sunday Book Review: Sketchbook)

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If you fear your bookishness is not immediately recognizable, there’s always this necklace from Etsy. Which I, of course, want.

Chris Evans also has a sexy brain?!

Sold.

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Every white person in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.  hipster-animals: bookstore cafe showoff

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jackieislegend: The sixth book in TSOIAF

massofglass:

Georgia Russell

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heyoscarwilde: Who are you? Alice and the Caterpillar illustrated by Iban Barrenetxea :: via ibanbarrenetxea.blogspot.ca

magnolius:

Brick Books - Melbourne-based artist Daryl Fitzgerald gives these bricks a new life by painting them and transforming them into antique books. 

It whimsically invokes nostalgia for a time when libraries were cavernous worlds full of yellowing paper, silence and time - DF

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This guy invented the Iron Man suit way before Tony Stark.  missfolly: Digital highlights: Girolamo Fabrizio d’Aquapendente, early surgeon and anatomist, in two editions  Comments (0) By Jay Moschella, December 18, 2011 Girolamo Fabrizio was a 16th century surgeon and trail-blazing anatomist, a well-known teacher, and an early expert in the science of embryology, which he investigated through a series of dissections on animal subjects. Here at the Center, we recently digitized two posthumously-published, 17th century copies of his surgical writings. Both translated from the original Latin, these two books represent early editions of Fabrizio in Italian and German, which would have made his work available to the wider public, and cover topics ranging from the treatment of wounds and ulcers, to fractures, dislocations, and tumors. The two books are illustrated with engraved plates by Giovanni Georgi that show surgical instruments and apparatus as described in the texts, along with highly detailed anatomical preparations. Taken together with the scores of early medical books that the Center has already digitized and contributed to the MHL, these two works offer a detailed glimpse into a vein of primary source material that memorializes the history of medicine as practiced by physicians from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond.    The Italian text, published in Padua in 1671, can be found here. The German, published in Nuremberg in 1673, is here. You can visit the Medical Heritage Library online, which contains a growing catalog of over 13,000 individual, fully-searchable volumes, including many early works on surgeons, surgery, anatomy, and a wide range of diverse topics.  Center News, Center for the History of Medicine, Collections, Drafts |  Giovanni Georgi,Hieronymus Fabricius, Medical Heritage Library, Rare books collection, surgery

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swissariknife: Pietari Posti Moby Dick bookmark collection.

fer1972:

A Skull of Books by Maskull Lasserre

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I UNDERSTAND THIS HUNGER GAMES REFERENCE NOW. 

questceque-cest:

THIS IS MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE EVER

(via tastysoup)

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“Le Petit Prince” by Flavia Flou The Little Prince (which I originally read in the French, and struggled with mightily, even though it was a children’s book — I’m terrible with foreign languages) is one of my favorite books of all time. 

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I have a policy of generally reblogging all things Little Prince.  anniecarbo: “On ne connaît que les choses que l’on apprivoise, dit le renard. Les hommes n’ont plus le temps de rien connaître. Ils achètent des choses toutes faites chez les marchands. Mais comme il n’existe point de marchands d’amis, les hommes n’ont plus d’amis. Si tu veux un ami, apprivoise-moi!” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le petit Prince — ‘One only understands the things that one tames,’ said the fox. ‘Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.’  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince