Leo Cadogan
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Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
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Getting to know a mythical Burgundian heroine called Ambiorixenes.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Getting to know a mythical Burgundian heroine called Ambiorixenes.
Q for Quite a nice factotum initial (initial with space at the centre so that the letter can be swapped out). Nuremberg, 1618.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Q for Quite a nice factotum initial (initial with space at the centre so that the letter can be swapped out). Nuremberg, 1618.
New one to me (very happy to see it) - Aristotelian physics lecture notes following medieval philosopher Duns Scotus (Zaragoza 1744) - bound after an academic festival publication from the same place, with songs to the Virgin Mary.
![Opening with intaglio print of Virgin Mary on LHS and RHS manuscript text with heading TRACTUS[sic.] IN MAGNAM ARISTOTELIS PHISICAM JUXTAM[sic.] ME[NT]EM SUBTILISE MARIANOQUE DOCTORIS JOANNIS DUNSI SCHOTI. DIE 12a. ANNO MDCCXXXXIV.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreieix7hpsfgspegw6dtefnn2tojuxqo3yp6lidfabmfk4tbz7vxdgm@jpeg)
![Title-page. “Festivas canoras aclamaciones, que a la Purissima Concepcion en gracia de Maria Santissima, dedica obsequiosa, y ofrece rendida la Sutil Mariana Escuela, en el Real Convento de S. Francisco de Zaragoza […] Dia 8. de Diciembre de 1744” (Zar., Francisco Moreno). Border of typographical decoration, Virgin Mary device.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreigzhnwl7igkqbsyerstz3vuc62vfnkkcqwi2nimycmlyez6hn2oje@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New one to me (very happy to see it) - Aristotelian physics lecture notes following medieval philosopher Duns Scotus (Zaragoza 1744) - bound after an academic festival publication from the same place, with songs to the Virgin Mary.
This lion destroys books. Augsburg, c1750. (This is St Jerome’s lion).
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This lion destroys books. Augsburg, c1750. (This is St Jerome’s lion).
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Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
Funky babies. Madrid, 1738.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Funky babies. Madrid, 1738.
I love early modern exercise books. They are the basic components of many bound manuscripts, which contain these fascicles bound together. But they also remained solo like here, and I love an exercise book which contains prophesies of Nostradamus and St Bridget.
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I love early modern exercise books. They are the basic components of many bound manuscripts, which contain these fascicles bound together. But they also remained solo like here, and I love an exercise book which contains prophesies of Nostradamus and St Bridget.
Don’t forget your obligations to the confraternity! Ephemeral placemarker.
![Small form bordered with typographical decoration: “El [MS: dia domingo 7] del mes de [MS: Marzo] celebra Cabildo la Hermandad del Santissimo Sacramento, y Animas Benditas de la Parroquial del Señor San Estevan. [para break] Suplica à Vmd. no falte al cumplimiento de su obligacion.” [added at end in MS: a las 11].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreibukew4yx3gkostwb4b7eeplpsvvc23d7lncvdf66fdljapcpefbe@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Don’t forget your obligations to the confraternity! Ephemeral placemarker.
Not quite sure yet what this creature on a book spine is.
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Not quite sure yet what this creature on a book spine is.
3:30pm today. Winter gloom has its own attractions.
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
3:30pm today. Winter gloom has its own attractions.
I’m guessing this is L for Laus (praise). If I had art skills and could design a contemporary initials series that I was happy to subsequently look at, I might make an L for Loser.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m guessing this is L for Laus (praise). If I had art skills and could design a contemporary initials series that I was happy to subsequently look at, I might make an L for Loser.
Some typographical decoration to bring an end to the page - and the week.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Some typographical decoration to bring an end to the page - and the week.
Reposted by Leo Cadogan
When I say I want to be like Shakespeare, I mean I want to be able to afford a modest lodging in Borough and Bankside.
When I say I want to be like Shakespeare, I mean I want to observe wild speculation over my identity and redefine the borders of the English language.
...I do not want to write rom-coms.
...I do not want to write rom-coms.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
When I say I want to be like Shakespeare, I mean I want to be able to afford a modest lodging in Borough and Bankside.
Celebrating some business success north London style. indiebeer, Holloway Road.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Celebrating some business success north London style. indiebeer, Holloway Road.
Saved by folding. These printed side notes extend beyond the point to which the binder was trimming the margins.
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Saved by folding. These printed side notes extend beyond the point to which the binder was trimming the margins.
If you’re in Venice next week, my wife Marta Cacho Casal is giving a plenary paper on Tuesday at a conference on Aristotle and verisimilitude in the Spanish Golden Age. Her paper is on Velazquez’s still lives. ¡Estoy muy orgulloso!
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you’re in Venice next week, my wife Marta Cacho Casal is giving a plenary paper on Tuesday at a conference on Aristotle and verisimilitude in the Spanish Golden Age. Her paper is on Velazquez’s still lives. ¡Estoy muy orgulloso!
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His namesake grandpa was murdered – because he was mistreating the serfs of his estate in Aragon… – and his book about orthography was printed with a typo. Poor D. Juan de Palafox!
“Apuntamientos de otorgrafia”. Typo in the Spanish word for correct spelling (ortografia) in this early C18 publisher’s ad.
![Publisher’s ad to last page of a book, within border of typographical decoration. Last item: “Apuntamientos de otorgrafia[sic.], por D. Juan de Palafox”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreihskapw4pnmdeyxqo5cbsbeyedbjmgks4qdvdqnqovz4s2swdllyi@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
His namesake grandpa was murdered – because he was mistreating the serfs of his estate in Aragon… – and his book about orthography was printed with a typo. Poor D. Juan de Palafox!
“Apuntamientos de otorgrafia”. Typo in the Spanish word for correct spelling (ortografia) in this early C18 publisher’s ad.
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Apuntamientos de otorgrafia”. Typo in the Spanish word for correct spelling (ortografia) in this early C18 publisher’s ad.
Pleased to have the poems of Teresa Guerra from Madrid c1725. While Spanish authors who were nuns are always very interesting, it is also extremely interesting that Guerra wasn’t one.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Pleased to have the poems of Teresa Guerra from Madrid c1725. While Spanish authors who were nuns are always very interesting, it is also extremely interesting that Guerra wasn’t one.
If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.
Valuable parcel appears lost on the European customs border - if there was no such border with the UK there would be less losing (harrumph). Had grumpier, more anti-Brexity things to say about it earlier in the day, though still very annoyed.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Valuable parcel appears lost on the European customs border - if there was no such border with the UK there would be less losing (harrumph). Had grumpier, more anti-Brexity things to say about it earlier in the day, though still very annoyed.
Definitely walking towards the finishing line of some admin chores, but next week should see me I hope trotting along again (with some interesting cataloguing).
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Definitely walking towards the finishing line of some admin chores, but next week should see me I hope trotting along again (with some interesting cataloguing).
Mad Victorian facade of the Holloway Road in north London. Seven different external window frame designs.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mad Victorian facade of the Holloway Road in north London. Seven different external window frame designs.
Part of my job is to read indexes of old books looking for interesting things. Here be genitalia worship, it seems.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Part of my job is to read indexes of old books looking for interesting things. Here be genitalia worship, it seems.