Temporary

10 November 2014

Turnbull Library Rare Books on Tumblr

The Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, has launched a Tumblr page for its Rare Books & Fine Printing Collection:

http://turnbullrarebooks.tumblr.com

The page is off to a fun start, with topics ranging from medieval manuscripts and an eighteenth-century geometric binding, to decorative endpapers and the title-page of one of the Turnbull's copies of Aurora Australis, the first book published in Antarctica created by Ernest Shackleton.

A personal favourite is a closeup image of the pigments used on the illuminated title-page of a Persian manuscript:



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