Jules Loiseleur.. bookplate 1872

Tommaso Pirolito..bookplate..1804..Satyr

Ernst Christoph Schultz (1740-1810) German Naturalist...monograph

Robert Fludd... primordial darkness... 1617

The primordial darkness of the universe at the moment before creation, as represented in a plate in Robert Fludd’s 1617 Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia (The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds, Namely the Greater and the Lesser). The words Et sic in infinitum (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the square. Courtesy Wellcome Photo Library.

from CABINET

Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) ... blooming muse...

Thalia

Bookplate... the witch swims!

Illustration from
Montague Summers's The Discovery
of Witches: A Study of Master Mat-
thew Hopkins. 1928

Ex libris... Austin Osman Spare

  few scans from one of my favourite books...

by Robert Ansell 1988

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