Patrick’s Rare Books
@patricksrarebooks.bsky.social
Forensic Pathologist buying & selling antiquarian medical books, theology, & Bibles.
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Author of The Grave Below.
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Author of The Grave Below.
Preferably antiquarian books.
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Preferably antiquarian books.
“amongst her…” what, do you suppose?
Here’s a free sample of You Were Darkness.
Here’s a free sample of You Were Darkness.
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“amongst her…” what, do you suppose?
Here’s a free sample of You Were Darkness.
Here’s a free sample of You Were Darkness.
What to do while avoiding awkward conversation today…?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What to do while avoiding awkward conversation today…?
Fight seasonal depression. Read the best pair of vampuritan grave robbing novels this side of the sun:
The Grave Below and its sequel You Were Darkness.
The Grave Below and its sequel You Were Darkness.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Fight seasonal depression. Read the best pair of vampuritan grave robbing novels this side of the sun:
The Grave Below and its sequel You Were Darkness.
The Grave Below and its sequel You Were Darkness.
Have you considered a career in pathology? We see the most fascinating things.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Have you considered a career in pathology? We see the most fascinating things.
Time to crank the dial on your home library to the Josephus setting.
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Time to crank the dial on your home library to the Josephus setting.
Since 2006.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Since 2006.
Limited edition miniature books require very little shelf space.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Limited edition miniature books require very little shelf space.
Does brilliance deserve beauty?
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Does brilliance deserve beauty?
For the plastic surgeon in your life.
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
For the plastic surgeon in your life.
Some of the cover art ideas for You Were Darkness. The first two felt too Young Adult. We ultimately went with something more contemplative and on-brand with its predecessor The Grave Below.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Some of the cover art ideas for You Were Darkness. The first two felt too Young Adult. We ultimately went with something more contemplative and on-brand with its predecessor The Grave Below.
Most relationship problems come down to communication. This is a perfect example. I wish my wife would just tell me how she feels rather than dropping hints hoping I notice.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most relationship problems come down to communication. This is a perfect example. I wish my wife would just tell me how she feels rather than dropping hints hoping I notice.
Feedback from a former coworker. This helped my attitude for today (which is shaping up to be long and brutal). Anyway. Read The Grave Below and You Were Darkness.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Feedback from a former coworker. This helped my attitude for today (which is shaping up to be long and brutal). Anyway. Read The Grave Below and You Were Darkness.
Did you know antiquarian books weigh less than modern books of the same size?
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Did you know antiquarian books weigh less than modern books of the same size?
Have you considered magnetism?
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Have you considered magnetism?
Time to re-home these volumes from my personal reference library.
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Time to re-home these volumes from my personal reference library.
Kitto’s Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature. 1852.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Kitto’s Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature. 1852.
Have truer words ever been spoken—er, typed?
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Have truer words ever been spoken—er, typed?
Wait! I thought we were supposed to believe COVID invented these clots! Curse you, Nicolas Tulp, and your evidence from 1652.
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wait! I thought we were supposed to believe COVID invented these clots! Curse you, Nicolas Tulp, and your evidence from 1652.
It’s Friday night. Make it count. Buy this copy of Melanchthon.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It’s Friday night. Make it count. Buy this copy of Melanchthon.
This is exactly how I remember my orthopedics rotation in med school.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is exactly how I remember my orthopedics rotation in med school.
If I were engraved and printed in 1671, I wouldn’t tell anyone. But there would be signs.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If I were engraved and printed in 1671, I wouldn’t tell anyone. But there would be signs.
For the dermatologist in your life, a book about moles, as discoursed upon by Saunders, 1671.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
For the dermatologist in your life, a book about moles, as discoursed upon by Saunders, 1671.
Some of you may also recognize the name Bidloo from my latest novel, You Were Darkness.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Some of you may also recognize the name Bidloo from my latest novel, You Were Darkness.
Spotted Bidloo. We have this engraving in Cowper’s Anatomia (originally in Bidloo’s atlas) #frankenstein
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Spotted Bidloo. We have this engraving in Cowper’s Anatomia (originally in Bidloo’s atlas) #frankenstein