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anna l.
@annabe.bsky.social
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rare book cataloger in baltimore; reading, crafting, walking
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perfect end to Turnstile summer!
The band Turnstile on stage.
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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a monarch butterfly showed up on the milkweed I planted this spring!!
A monarch butterfly with wings open perched on pink flowers of swamp milkweed.
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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!
Small eastern redbud with dark pink flowers tied to a stake and planted next to a city sidewalk. Small tree with some green leaves planted between a city sidewalk and street.
April 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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cover design of the day: Raising Frogs for $$$
Red book with cover design of a black and white frog and title "Raising Frogs for $$$."
March 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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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.
Large woodcut of a coat of arms, at center is a man emerging from the mouth of a serpent wearing a crown.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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oh no, found some bugs in a book!
from Cibus solidus perfectorum, 1670
JHU BX4312.A3 D47 1670
Small printed image of an insect at the end of a passage. Small printed image of an insect at the end of a passage.
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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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
Engraved 18th century portrait of Marie de l'Incarnation with crude hand-coloring in blue, yellow, red, and green.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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rip David Lynch, one of the greats, what an inspiration
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Baltimore fall walks, featuring a favorite bus stop 🍂
Baltimore sidewalk with a tree turning yellow and orange and a city bus. Baltimore row houses with a tree with red leaves and a red mini cooper.
November 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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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...
Orange cloth binding with gilt design of a face and tree. Yellow cloth binding with gilt design of a tree. Green cloth binding with gilt nature design. Orange cloth binding with gilt design of a tree.
November 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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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
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Printed page of book with skull and crossbones and crossbones on either side of “HEDEN GROOT, MORGEN DOOD.” Printed page of book with skull and crossbones and crossed sythes on either side of “HODIE MIHI, CRAS TIBI.”
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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days when I go to the Evergreen Museum & Library more accurately meet my workplace expectations for ~rare book librarian~
interior of library with wooden bookshelves and large window interior of library with wooden bookshelves, library ladder, and upholstered chairs
October 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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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...
A single metal clasp in the middle of the fore-edge of a small, vellum-bound book.
October 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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bonus favorite: chomp
An exceptionally round cat biting a mouse within an engraved border.
January 22, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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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
Title page: Horae beatissimae Virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum repurgatissimae. Antuerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1570. Engraving of Saint John, "Initium sancti evangelii secundum Joannem." Engraving of Saint Matthew, "Sequentia sancti evangelii secundum Matthaeum."
January 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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when I am working instead of actively petting Ozzy
adorable gray and white cat looking at the camera with contempt
January 22, 2024 at 6:20 PM