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« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2012, 09:54:43 AM » |
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Oh T. Kelly Lee those are gorgeous. Now I'm going to have to break into the rare book cataloger's office to get another fix. <_< >_>
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« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2012, 04:01:22 PM » |
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Ex libris, or it didn't happen!  You're trying to give this archivist a heart attack aren't you??  I've spent the bulk of my career trying to get those damn things OUT of rare books - not put them in!!! I can't help it. I loves me a challenge and that was tantamount to throwing down the gauntlet. It took me about a half-hour to find that the images came from two books. The alchemical images came from "Astronomicum Caesareum," which can be found online here: http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/appast/index.htmlThe title page is from "New Welt vnd americanische historien" printed by Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt and an excerpt can be found here: http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/appast/index.htmlOK, everyone begin to shun T. Kelly Lee. He is obviously an avatar of Nyarlathotep trying to tempt up into joining his cult by showing us rare tomes to wet out whistles. Beware!!!! Bob Well then, I am probably doomed; since I may have, in essence, thumbed my nose at him.  |
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"...prayers without sacrifices are only words." - Sallustius
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« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2012, 09:49:23 PM » |
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Ex libris, or it didn't happen! You're trying to give this archivist a heart attack aren't you?? I've spent the bulk of my career trying to get those damn things OUT of rare books - not put them in!!! I'm an archivist by training and I know what you mean. I can't stand paper-strokers who never want anything to be available. |
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2012, 11:10:40 PM » |
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Those are the titles...good detective work! The first is an astrological grimoire and the second a German history of the Americas. The first I took as payment for conservation work I did for a Catholic archive. Mine has a heavily damaged cover. They didn't like having such a book due to its magical context and paid my bill with it. The second I bought at auction. I collect incunabula of all sorts. Gottfried is a well known printer and I wanted a sample of his work.
And no nose thumbing! I only have about 20,000 books. I could keep you busy a while.
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« Reply #34 on: April 21, 2012, 01:08:02 AM » |
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Those are the titles...good detective work! The first is an astrological grimoire and the second a German history of the Americas. The first I took as payment for conservation work I did for a Catholic archive. Mine has a heavily damaged cover. They didn't like having such a book due to its magical context and paid my bill with it. The second I bought at auction. I collect incunabula of all sorts. Gottfried is a well known printer and I wanted a sample of his work.
And no nose thumbing! I only have about 20,000 books. I could keep you busy a while.
Hmmn ... Doesn't Wilbur study an astronomy treatise in the HPLHS version of The Dunwich Horror?  Seriously, I'd love to get paid in rare books! |
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« Reply #35 on: April 21, 2012, 11:30:46 AM » |
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Those are the titles...good detective work! The first is an astrological grimoire and the second a German history of the Americas. The first I took as payment for conservation work I did for a Catholic archive. Mine has a heavily damaged cover. They didn't like having such a book due to its magical context and paid my bill with it. The second I bought at auction. I collect incunabula of all sorts. Gottfried is a well known printer and I wanted a sample of his work.
And no nose thumbing! I only have about 20,000 books. I could keep you busy a while.
Wow, just wow. It must be interesting working in field where you can get paid with books. My husband just rolls his eyes whenever I bring another book in the house. Any rare tomes that I have are in electronic format. The only exception is an old autrograph book owned by a student from a now defunct college in Iowa that has not relation to HPL whatsoever. To be honest, I would be a bit hesitant to touch anything that old; so much history in one's hands is a bit breathtaking. Oh hey, wait a sec....are you saying you are Nyarlathotep?  |
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"...prayers without sacrifices are only words." - Sallustius
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« Reply #36 on: April 21, 2012, 02:27:06 PM » |
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I already live in Lovecraft country. Well, a little west of there. But "Dunwich" (by which I mean Wilbraham) is a stone's throw from me, and school field trips to "Arkham" (by which I mean Salem) were common.
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« Reply #37 on: April 21, 2012, 05:30:09 PM » |
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I visited Salem during one of my Army reserve tours at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. It's a lovely little town but I found it to be quite depressing. To me the town was making money off its infamous past and the fact that 19 people were executed for witchcraft. The memorial to the Witch Trial victims is quite moving, though.
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #38 on: April 23, 2012, 08:47:20 AM » |
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Oh hey, wait a sec....are you saying you are Nyarlathotep? No. Dr. Henry Armitage! |
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Ruth - CthulhuChick
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« Reply #39 on: April 23, 2012, 03:40:42 PM » |
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Oh hey, wait a sec....are you saying you are Nyarlathotep? No. Dr. Henry Armitage! I would say "Nope, I called Armitage!" but you seem to have soundly beaten me, sir. |
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« Reply #40 on: April 23, 2012, 03:43:06 PM » |
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Being from Alabama, I think I'm the closest to Harley Warren, unless one of y'all is a Floridian.
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2012, 08:26:05 AM » |
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Well, I'm from just east of of New Orleans, so I guess I would be closest to Inspector LeGrasse (sp). Hell, I even come from a line of police and first responders, so there's that too. Strange how I never correlated those data.
Bob
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2012, 08:46:30 AM » |
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Being from Alabama, I think I'm the closest to Harley Warren, unless one of y'all is a Floridian.
Oh, man, there is some serious Lovecraft country up in the north part of Alabama. My mother's family is originally from the area around Sheffield - a little town called Waterloo. They were there during the Civil War and handed down some horror stories from that time period. My wife and I went to visit and do some geneaological research (OF COURSE) several years back and that was one of the creepiest, most remote places I've ever been. There was an old cave there along the Trace where one of my ancestors held out during the war along with some armed irregulars. We visited that place and though I don't believe in ghosts - it sure as hell felt haunted. |
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« Reply #43 on: May 01, 2012, 10:36:27 PM » |
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Markham with day trips to other locations.
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« Reply #44 on: May 02, 2012, 09:55:24 AM » |
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I already live in New England, although in Connecticut. Not sure if he ever wrote about us...
Although if I had to choose one place to visit, it'd have to be Antarctica. I'm already obsessed about going there sometime in my lifetime...the fact that HPL wrote about it is just icing on the cake.
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