Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2012 No Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Today’s volume, an 1860 edition of Baudelaire’s Les paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch, is handsomely appointed in navy morocco and marbled paper boards, with a matching suede-lined slipcase. It bears the bookplates of the French writer Maxime Du [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2012 No Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Les fleurs animées is a beautiful lithographic collection in two volumes that was illustrated in the mid 19th-century by J.J. Grandville, whose real name was Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard. The book imagines a world where the flowers are able [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Tights, unitards, and spandex are probably the top three words that come to mind when one pictures a superhero’s wardrobe, but let us not forget the capes! Sure Superman and Batman are the typical cape wearing suspects, but [...]
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