Strange book of the day

Lots of colourful fish, book published in 1719. You can view it online.

Amplify’d from www.rarebookroom.org

In 100 plates containing 460 brilliantly colored engravings that represent a dazzling multitude of fishes, along with crustaceans, grasshoppers, a dugong, and a mermaid, Louis Renard’s Fishes, crayfishes and crabs, of diverse coloration and extraordinary form displays the most fantastic evocation of exotic aquatic life ever produced. Read more at www.rarebookroom.org

 

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Korea by J.D. Coulson

The entire book can be viewed here

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If you don't see me I'm reading comics

Occasionally I do remember that Comics.com exists and then I am hooked. My childhood dream was to spend a lazy summer afternoon with a huge pile of comics next to me. With a laptop and Comics.com that dream comes true :)

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Four kids when smiling wasn't trendy

Shame that this blog is not updated more often. If you are into history or old photos it is an interesting read.

Amplify’d from datedimages.genpics.org

This photograph shows four children, probably siblings, carefully posed by the photographer on and around a couple wooden chairs — the younger boy kneeling on a kitchen chair, and the youngest girl seated in a high-chair. Despite the photographer’s best efforts, the expressions on the children are of suspicion and confusion. The older girl has one hand draped around the forearm of the younger boy, while the older boy holds one of the little girls hands — both quite awkwardly. The children neither understand nor approve of these arrangements, but Momma is probably off to one side, urging them to behave, so they try their best.

I don’t know who the photographer was, or exactly where this was taken, but I have noted that it was taken in December of 1851. It is a fine daguerreotype from just a dozen years after the introduction of photography to the public, so there was still a lot of experimenting going on to find pleasing poses. This photographer didn’t bother with any props beyond the chairs needed to raise the younger children to the heights of their standing siblings. This image provides a good view of children’s clothing from the early 1850s. Read more at datedimages.genpics.org

 

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Panama by Edith A. Browne

This book, published in 1913, is here

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