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anna l.
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rare book cataloger in baltimore; reading, crafting, walking
perfect end to Turnstile summer!
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
a monarch butterfly showed up on the milkweed I planted this spring!!
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I recently checked on some baby trees I helped plant last month on the streets of Baltimore, and they are growing and blooming! Happy spring!
April 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
cover design of the day: Raising Frogs for $$$
March 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Great woodcut of the Visconti arms, which shows the biscione: a man either emerging from or being devoured by a crowned serpent (glass half full/half empty sort of situation I guess).
From Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca Contrada, 1733, JHU BX4705.S116 V58 1733.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
oh no, found some bugs in a book!
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hand coloring an engraved portrait may not always be the best choice.
Vida de la beata María de la Encarnacion, Madrid 1791.
JHU BX4700.M34 M657 1791
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
rip David Lynch, one of the greats, what an inspiration
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Baltimore fall walks, featuring a favorite bus stop 🍂
November 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Czech books with bindings designed by Toyen published 1933-1936 in the Edice Symposion series
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...
November 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
I love these little woodcut skulls, crossbones, and scythes in De Wel-Meynende Boere-Dogter (1789?), a dialogue of religious instruction for daughters of farmers. #woodcuts #mementomori
catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01...
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 PM
days when I go to the Evergreen Museum & Library more accurately meet my workplace expectations for ~rare book librarian~
October 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Look at this perfect little still functioning clasp! It's on Direttore delle religiose cavato dale opere della beata madre Giovanna Francesca Fremiot di Cantal, 1756, from the #WomenoftheBook collection JHU BX4213 .C336 1756 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01...
October 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM
bonus favorite: chomp
January 22, 2024 at 7:32 PM
just cataloged Plantin Book of Hours from 1570, which includes 17 engravings by Pieter van der Borcht, and each page is inside an engraved border of various flora and fauna.
JHU Peabody Library 242 .C2863 1570
January 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
when I am working instead of actively petting Ozzy
January 22, 2024 at 6:20 PM