Andrew McCabe
@andrewahala.bsky.social
Antiquarian books, Numismatics History. Modernism. Classical & African Art Literature & Culture #sicklecell, 🏳️🌈 dad, he/him. Woke af.
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On a ship, the Thamesis built 1930 in Holland & docked Albert Embankment. I already smashed a glass full of red wine on the deck when the boat shifted a bit and the deck table was sloping and slippy. I bought a replacement then they very kindly comped me a third and gave Austin water and snacks 🔥💯
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On a ship, the Thamesis built 1930 in Holland & docked Albert Embankment. I already smashed a glass full of red wine on the deck when the boat shifted a bit and the deck table was sloping and slippy. I bought a replacement then they very kindly comped me a third and gave Austin water and snacks 🔥💯
Pretty marginal notes with dates:
b. DXXXV (219 BCE)
c. BELLVM PVNVIC II (218 BCE)
d. DXXXV (but note the D is formed from I and a transposed C, so were they short of letters D? Or was it decorative as this format is often used on title page dates?)
e. DXXXXVI (also 218 BCE but different format)
b. DXXXV (219 BCE)
c. BELLVM PVNVIC II (218 BCE)
d. DXXXV (but note the D is formed from I and a transposed C, so were they short of letters D? Or was it decorative as this format is often used on title page dates?)
e. DXXXXVI (also 218 BCE but different format)
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Pretty marginal notes with dates:
b. DXXXV (219 BCE)
c. BELLVM PVNVIC II (218 BCE)
d. DXXXV (but note the D is formed from I and a transposed C, so were they short of letters D? Or was it decorative as this format is often used on title page dates?)
e. DXXXXVI (also 218 BCE but different format)
b. DXXXV (219 BCE)
c. BELLVM PVNVIC II (218 BCE)
d. DXXXV (but note the D is formed from I and a transposed C, so were they short of letters D? Or was it decorative as this format is often used on title page dates?)
e. DXXXXVI (also 218 BCE but different format)
New: 12mo 16th century #Antiquarian numismatic book gems both with exquisite typesetting, multiple types, multiple layout formats, Latin, Greek, Italic, various spacings, different font sizes, decorated letterings, woodcut images, marble inscriptions. Aurelius Victor, 1591 & Strein, Families, 1579
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New: 12mo 16th century #Antiquarian numismatic book gems both with exquisite typesetting, multiple types, multiple layout formats, Latin, Greek, Italic, various spacings, different font sizes, decorated letterings, woodcut images, marble inscriptions. Aurelius Victor, 1591 & Strein, Families, 1579
Broughton Magistrates is important and 1st c BCE vol is rare in print so great to see online. I've the 3 vols. I ALSO have versions of what became Broughton printed 1500s when Consular Fasti were dug up eg Sigonius, Fasti, 1567. Today by post I got De.Gentib.Et Familiis Romanorum by Strein 1591
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Broughton Magistrates is important and 1st c BCE vol is rare in print so great to see online. I've the 3 vols. I ALSO have versions of what became Broughton printed 1500s when Consular Fasti were dug up eg Sigonius, Fasti, 1567. Today by post I got De.Gentib.Et Familiis Romanorum by Strein 1591
ArtXLagos 6-9 Nov 2025
International art fair
Music Film Design Literature & Art
Keynote speakers El Anatsui, Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ibrahim Mahama and more
ArtX prize & support for early career artists
www.artxlagos.com/programme?ut...
International art fair
Music Film Design Literature & Art
Keynote speakers El Anatsui, Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ibrahim Mahama and more
ArtX prize & support for early career artists
www.artxlagos.com/programme?ut...
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ArtXLagos 6-9 Nov 2025
International art fair
Music Film Design Literature & Art
Keynote speakers El Anatsui, Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ibrahim Mahama and more
ArtX prize & support for early career artists
www.artxlagos.com/programme?ut...
International art fair
Music Film Design Literature & Art
Keynote speakers El Anatsui, Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ibrahim Mahama and more
ArtX prize & support for early career artists
www.artxlagos.com/programme?ut...
A reminder that the writer who shares beautiful book covers with us daily has beautiful covers to her books!
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A reminder that the writer who shares beautiful book covers with us daily has beautiful covers to her books!
The river Thames, home to 125 species of fish, even sharks, over 400 invertebrates, and various large mammals, including seals and Austin the puppy
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The river Thames, home to 125 species of fish, even sharks, over 400 invertebrates, and various large mammals, including seals and Austin the puppy
New in my library, revised ed. du Choul's numismatic Ancient Roman Religions (quarto, 1672, Wesel, Hoogenhuyse). Same French text as first ed (folio, 1559, Lyon, Rouille) but plates entirely re-engraved with bolder print and energetic style, compare e.g. portraits of Pompey the Great in first pic
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New in my library, revised ed. du Choul's numismatic Ancient Roman Religions (quarto, 1672, Wesel, Hoogenhuyse). Same French text as first ed (folio, 1559, Lyon, Rouille) but plates entirely re-engraved with bolder print and energetic style, compare e.g. portraits of Pompey the Great in first pic
Austin visits the Prime Minister at Downing Street
Austin visits Buckingham palace
Austin visits Parliament
Austin goes shopping in Piccadilly
Austin visits Buckingham palace
Austin visits Parliament
Austin goes shopping in Piccadilly
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Austin visits the Prime Minister at Downing Street
Austin visits Buckingham palace
Austin visits Parliament
Austin goes shopping in Piccadilly
Austin visits Buckingham palace
Austin visits Parliament
Austin goes shopping in Piccadilly
2. Austin's second swan encounter. Fake bravado, teeny little woofs and yelps but ready to run back to me.
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
2. Austin's second swan encounter. Fake bravado, teeny little woofs and yelps but ready to run back to me.
1. Austin the Terrified's first meeting with a swan. The swan hissed. He ran away.
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
1. Austin the Terrified's first meeting with a swan. The swan hissed. He ran away.
Safe distance from London but not as safe as the American Numismatic Society will be from New York once it moves to Toledo Ohio
#numismatics
#numismatics
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Safe distance from London but not as safe as the American Numismatic Society will be from New York once it moves to Toledo Ohio
#numismatics
#numismatics
Jetbridge aka AeroGangPlank. Since 1936.
My every visit to Dulles is a wtf moment. Note text below last image: "Jet bridges have yet to reach some airports, like Margate in South Africa". They might have added Washington DC, in USA
My every visit to Dulles is a wtf moment. Note text below last image: "Jet bridges have yet to reach some airports, like Margate in South Africa". They might have added Washington DC, in USA
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Jetbridge aka AeroGangPlank. Since 1936.
My every visit to Dulles is a wtf moment. Note text below last image: "Jet bridges have yet to reach some airports, like Margate in South Africa". They might have added Washington DC, in USA
My every visit to Dulles is a wtf moment. Note text below last image: "Jet bridges have yet to reach some airports, like Margate in South Africa". They might have added Washington DC, in USA
At the Mountains of Madness is a science-fiction and cosmic horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written on scrap paper Feb-March 1931. It details a disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and what is found by a group of explorers led by Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University.
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At the Mountains of Madness is a science-fiction and cosmic horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written on scrap paper Feb-March 1931. It details a disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and what is found by a group of explorers led by Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University.
Found a quiet circle in the fifty five thousand square foot (one White House or three-fifths a typical dance hall) dystopian IGA lounge at IST. Not especially luxurious but all usual stuff and most pax don't make it to further nooks so worth exploring to find a good perch.
Utterly Soulless.
Utterly Soulless.
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Found a quiet circle in the fifty five thousand square foot (one White House or three-fifths a typical dance hall) dystopian IGA lounge at IST. Not especially luxurious but all usual stuff and most pax don't make it to further nooks so worth exploring to find a good perch.
Utterly Soulless.
Utterly Soulless.
Russian food. Beets, odd potato dishes, fish with small bones, pickles with pickles, canned stuffs that taste so heavily of tin it makes my fillings hurt. And vodka. The vodka is good.
1924Istanbul for dinner met all expectations. Gloomy, brusque waiters, dark wood. I had a very good time. Vodka.
1924Istanbul for dinner met all expectations. Gloomy, brusque waiters, dark wood. I had a very good time. Vodka.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Russian food. Beets, odd potato dishes, fish with small bones, pickles with pickles, canned stuffs that taste so heavily of tin it makes my fillings hurt. And vodka. The vodka is good.
1924Istanbul for dinner met all expectations. Gloomy, brusque waiters, dark wood. I had a very good time. Vodka.
1924Istanbul for dinner met all expectations. Gloomy, brusque waiters, dark wood. I had a very good time. Vodka.
Sad to say contra the ALT text, ALL these coins are real types, the Sphinx the Crocodile the VCUSTVS is AVGVSTVS with the A covered by another coin etc. Lovely belt!
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Sad to say contra the ALT text, ALL these coins are real types, the Sphinx the Crocodile the VCUSTVS is AVGVSTVS with the A covered by another coin etc. Lovely belt!
Sometimes aligning with the needs of commerce is the only way, such as in the Museum Hotel Antakya,(pics), or many City of London skyscrapers who have turned a 'problem' (archeological remains) to their advantage
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sometimes aligning with the needs of commerce is the only way, such as in the Museum Hotel Antakya,(pics), or many City of London skyscrapers who have turned a 'problem' (archeological remains) to their advantage
Bouncing round the red light district of Istanbul like a drunken sailor
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October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bouncing round the red light district of Istanbul like a drunken sailor
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The Suleymaniye mosque built 1550 included a multi-domed complex of welfare institutions for the poor, sick and hungry, with a colonnaded courtyard restaurant, Daruzziyafe, in continuous use for 450 years. Always my favourite, sad on this Istanbul trip to find it now closed. These are my memories:
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Suleymaniye mosque built 1550 included a multi-domed complex of welfare institutions for the poor, sick and hungry, with a colonnaded courtyard restaurant, Daruzziyafe, in continuous use for 450 years. Always my favourite, sad on this Istanbul trip to find it now closed. These are my memories:
Istanbul.
1. View from my office towards an Ottoman bathhouse still in use today
2,3. Pandeli restaurant above the Spice Bazaar. Blue tiling consumes you. Old tradition food
4. Serpent bronze column built for 479 BCE Greek victory at Plataea over Persians, relocated to Hippodrome 324 CE
1. View from my office towards an Ottoman bathhouse still in use today
2,3. Pandeli restaurant above the Spice Bazaar. Blue tiling consumes you. Old tradition food
4. Serpent bronze column built for 479 BCE Greek victory at Plataea over Persians, relocated to Hippodrome 324 CE
October 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Istanbul.
1. View from my office towards an Ottoman bathhouse still in use today
2,3. Pandeli restaurant above the Spice Bazaar. Blue tiling consumes you. Old tradition food
4. Serpent bronze column built for 479 BCE Greek victory at Plataea over Persians, relocated to Hippodrome 324 CE
1. View from my office towards an Ottoman bathhouse still in use today
2,3. Pandeli restaurant above the Spice Bazaar. Blue tiling consumes you. Old tradition food
4. Serpent bronze column built for 479 BCE Greek victory at Plataea over Persians, relocated to Hippodrome 324 CE
"Ssalongo Kibaate Aloysius in the small Ugandan town of Mbirizi showed me thousands of negatives he had in a burlap sack and I was blown away"
After the 1990s discovery of Malick Sidibé, how many more sacks of photographic negatives remain to be found?
continent.substack.com/p/review-how...
After the 1990s discovery of Malick Sidibé, how many more sacks of photographic negatives remain to be found?
continent.substack.com/p/review-how...
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"Ssalongo Kibaate Aloysius in the small Ugandan town of Mbirizi showed me thousands of negatives he had in a burlap sack and I was blown away"
After the 1990s discovery of Malick Sidibé, how many more sacks of photographic negatives remain to be found?
continent.substack.com/p/review-how...
After the 1990s discovery of Malick Sidibé, how many more sacks of photographic negatives remain to be found?
continent.substack.com/p/review-how...
In 1738 Louis XV tore down a wing of Fontainebleau palace. Destroyed walls included magnificent frescoes by Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) frescos in the Galerie d'Ulysee
Fortunately I have a copy of the frescoes, Les Travaux d' Ulysse, Paris 1640. 57 plates
This post is not about Fontainebleau
Fortunately I have a copy of the frescoes, Les Travaux d' Ulysse, Paris 1640. 57 plates
This post is not about Fontainebleau
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In 1738 Louis XV tore down a wing of Fontainebleau palace. Destroyed walls included magnificent frescoes by Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) frescos in the Galerie d'Ulysee
Fortunately I have a copy of the frescoes, Les Travaux d' Ulysse, Paris 1640. 57 plates
This post is not about Fontainebleau
Fortunately I have a copy of the frescoes, Les Travaux d' Ulysse, Paris 1640. 57 plates
This post is not about Fontainebleau