Scroll to the bottom of this posting to see bookplates from the libraries of famous people which are currently available for sale or trade
If I heard about someone who has a collection of bookplates with severed heads I would most certainly would think he or she was a weirdo.Having said that here is a bookplate I purchased on Ebay this week.
More Severed Heads
For quite some time I have been fascinated by bookplates with severed heads and exposed brain matter. I call it my Donovan's Brain collection.
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Underwater awakening
If you are turned off by this topic do not click onto this memorable link from the movie
Underwater awakening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrVc_8vbZP8
If you want similar bookplates from your own collection added to this posting send jpeg scans to
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
If you want similar bookplates from your own collection added to this posting send jpeg scans to
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
This bookplate was designed by Roberto Buonacconsi
I see no artist's signature on this plate but the previous owner noted that it was done by Pavel Simon
Okay, this is not a bookplate. It is a magazine cover which reflects my own fears about our current president - his misguided , and very muddled mindset.
As a nation we survived the civil war , two world wars and the great depression
Hopefully we will also survive the very sad turn of events we are currently dealing with.
This bookplate shown above is a gift from fellow collector James Keenan.
It was etched by Matthew Collins
As a nation we survived the civil war , two world wars and the great depression
Hopefully we will also survive the very sad turn of events we are currently dealing with.
I missed out on this one l. It sold for $15.50 on Ebay.
Mr. Lombardo's plate ( below) was designed by Remo Wolf
Don't Mess with the Montgomery clan
Aubrey Beardsley's illustration for Oscar Wilde's Salome with the head of John the Baptist was selected for her bookplate by Wylly Folk St. John
Dr.Arthur Ward Jr. was the chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington
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Pacher, August [also Augustin] (1863-1926): Monast Schäftlariense [Schäftlarn in Upper Bavaria].
1913. 152 x 94 mm, letterpress
beautiful leaf - Witte, Bibliography 2, 264; Thieme-Becker
beautiful leaf - Witte, Bibliography 2, 264; Thieme-Becker
These items are allsubject to prior sale.
Cecil Blount DeMille (/ˈsɛsəl dəˈmɪl/; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. Cost $50.00 plus postage
Dennis Yeats Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.[
"Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (25 October 1888 – 11 March 1957) was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights, in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach the North Pole and theSouth Pole by air. His South Pole claim is generally supported by a consensus of those who have examined the evidence. Byrd was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for heroism given by the United States."
The Byrd bookplate was originally engraved by E.D.French in 1899 for Admiral Byrd's father or grandfather.Admiral Byrd had electrotype copies made for his own use by the firm of Demsey and Carroll.
Cost $50.00 plus postage
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG, KT, PC, FRS, FBA (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929), was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868 he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.
cost $50.00 plus postage
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