Leo Cadogan
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Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
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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).
Funky babies. Madrid, 1738.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Funky babies. Madrid, 1738.
This one appears to have a little leather pull-tab attached to the tail. Good for removing it from a pile. I have seen a pull-tab on a manuscript before but never on a so-called “unbound” one.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This one appears to have a little leather pull-tab attached to the tail. Good for removing it from a pile. I have seen a pull-tab on a manuscript before but never on a so-called “unbound” one.
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.
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.
Juan Ruiz de Laguna, ‘Discurso del derecho, que tiene Su Magestad para fabricar puerto en el final’ (Milan, Giovanni Battista Malatesta, 1633).
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Juan Ruiz de Laguna, ‘Discurso del derecho, que tiene Su Magestad para fabricar puerto en el final’ (Milan, Giovanni Battista Malatesta, 1633).
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!
Thank you so much for citing yourself! I will be looking at your article, mainly because, due to the photo here, I have just found out the source for a plate in a book on caring for horses that I have from Valencia, 1742!
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thank you so much for citing yourself! I will be looking at your article, mainly because, due to the photo here, I have just found out the source for a plate in a book on caring for horses that I have from Valencia, 1742!
“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 12:20 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.
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.
I love hand-made manuscript pamphlets, even when the contents are taken from printed books. Examining my purchases at the Chelsea book fair.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I love hand-made manuscript pamphlets, even when the contents are taken from printed books. Examining my purchases at the Chelsea book fair.
“The Tory Notion of Peace & Goodwill. The government’s record abroad 1895-1900”. “Wars & massacres are coloured red”. 1900 election poster, seen at Timothy Millett @ the LAPADA fair. I believe he has sold it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“The Tory Notion of Peace & Goodwill. The government’s record abroad 1895-1900”. “Wars & massacres are coloured red”. 1900 election poster, seen at Timothy Millett @ the LAPADA fair. I believe he has sold it.