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Seth Godin: Books That Will Change The Way You Work & Think [Headlines]
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 • Filed under Look • No Comments
Business guru provides a list of his recommended autumn reads which includes reads by Tim Wu and John Taylor Gatto.
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“Conjuring & Circus: Books, Prints, Posters and Apparatus” Auction, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, September 8
Posted on September 1st, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments
It has just come to my attention that Bloomsbury Auction House in London, England will be auctioning off a pretty epic collection of 729 lots related to “conjuring and circus”–a few of my favorites above–this Thursday September 8th.
You can find out more–and learn how to bid!–on the Bloomsbury Auction website by clicking here. Thanks so much to Morbid Anatomy reader Janine Veazue for sending this along!
All images sourced from the auction website; details about each can be found here.
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New Lot of Amazing, Lavishly Illustrated, Hard-to-Find Books on Victorian Anthropomorphic Taxidermist Walter Potter for Sale!
Posted on June 22nd, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments
For those of you who, like I, are fascinated by the kitten tea parties, bunny schoolhouses, and kitten croquet matches of the undisputed king of Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermy Walter Potter, I have good news! Henceforth, Morbid Anatomy will be distributing the amazing (and very difficult to find!) book Walter Potter and his Museum of Taxidermy written and published by collector and taxidermy scholar Pat Morris.
There are two versions of the book available: the hardcover (see top image)–which sports a handsome stamped canvas cover and an extra signature of 8 full-color pages–and the paperback (see second image down). Both versions are large scale and lavishly illustrated in full-color with scores of nearly impossible-to-find photographs of Potter’s unforgettable works, archival photographs of the early museum, and antique and vintage ephemera related to the museum (see bottom two images for examples; click on image to see larger size). The book is also extremely well researched, providing a through biography or Mr Potter, a detailed history of his museum of curious taxidermy, and the stories behind the making of his iconic pieces of anthropomorphic taxidermy.
Books can be purchased on Amazon.com; click here to purchase the hardcover, which goes for $50, and here to purchase the soft cover, which goes for $35. But order quickly: I only have about 8 hardback remaining, and 7 paperback, and these books tend to sell out fast!
And one more thing: I am also distributing the paperback version of Pat Morris’ new book A History of Taxidermy: Art, Science and Bad Taste; you can find out more about this book by clicking here. if you are interested in purchasing a copy of this book, you can email me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.
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“Lewd and Scandalous Books,” Monash University Library, Melbourne, Through September 30th
Posted on July 27th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments
Above are some wonderful anatomical images from the exhibition “Lewd and Scandalous Books,” on view at Monash University library in Melbourne, Australia until September 30th. I especially love the top image, which brings to mind the Anatomical Venus trope.
You can visit the virtual exhibition–from which these images are drawn–by clicking here.
Images top to bottom:
- Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868. An improved system of midwifery, adapted to the reformed practice of medicine: illustrated by numerous plates … / / by W. Beach (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1859).
- Mauriceau, François, 1637–1709. Traité des maladies des femmes grosses … / Par François Mauriceau. 6th ed. (Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1721–28)
- Crooke, Helkiah, 1576–1635. Mikrokosmographia: A description of the body of man … / By Helkiah Crooke … 2nd ed. (London: Printed for Thomas and Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, 1631).
Found via Book Tryst.
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