Charlie Cheesecake

The eRecords project will no doubt identify some rare and important items. The project will also bring to light curiosities and charming examples of how life used to be. In the Adventures of Charlie Cheesecake young children are warned not to go swimming straight after eating, are cautioned about hanging out the train window and not looking both ways before they cross the road.
We have two copies of this title. One is located with Children's literature the other copy with Children's health & hygiene. I'm not sure the modern advertising Executive would choose Cheesecake for the family name of the main character in a child safety campaign!
In the images below the author Marjorie Hann warns children not to run around with sharp objects in their mouth! Excellent advice!

I See Dead People's Books

LibraryThing has a group called I See Dead People's Books
'Description: A group for those interested and involved in entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries.'
Amongst the list of complete and incomplete libraries is one for Alfred Deakin. You can see a description of the Project which is based on a list held by the National Library of Australia.
Could this facility help to gather collections 0f other important Australian people? Books once owned by Ludwig Leichhardt, Samuel Marsden, Henry Gurner that have now been dispersed.
Just one thing from LibraryThing that I am not quite clear about. How can you find out the details of the item that have been added to the Legacy Library - which individual or Library holds the title?

NYPL Digital Gallery

Looking for a Christmas gift or a new way to provide access and gain revenue from collections? The New York Public Library is redesigning their Digital Gallery. You can view the Digital Gallery Redesign Preview or take a look at Der Emu oder der neuholländische Strauss. (1803-1805) use the buttons at the top to resize, select and then create your own unique emu coffee mug!

This book is a real stinker!

Bloomsbury Auctions in New York has a really interesting item for sale. Full calf binding with an elaborate blind-tooling!

Fight to stop rare books sell-off

According to an article on BBC News live, Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 'Cardiff Council could eventually sell up to 18,000 items dating from the 15th Century at auction to raise money for improvements in library services.'

Is this a dangerous trend? In 2003 Oriel College at Oxford University sold their copy of Shakespeare's First Folio to pay for building repairs and textbooks.

Wound man

This image of the Wound man is taken from the Library's copy of Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, by Hans von Gersdorff. Our copy was published in Strassbourg in 1540 although the first edition was published in 1517. Feldtbuch der Wundartzney is a medical text written for military surgeons. Along with illustrations of amputations, trepanning, cauterizing and palmistry we find the image of the Wound man which illustrates the various wounds suffered in battle or in accidents. The original woodcut was possibly drawn by Johannes de Ketham who published the first printed medical text Fasciculus Medicinae in 1491.
Hannibal Lecter, in the novel Red Dragon, uses the illlustration of the Wound man as a model for the arrangement of the body of his sixth victim.
From the call number, MRB/ Q617.99/ G (16th Century), you can see that this item is from David Scott Mitchell's original bequest and doesn't quite fit that obsession with Australian History.

An anastatic diversion

An authentic anastatic facsimile of the original handwritten 1776 Declaration of Independence has been rescued from obscurity... an anastatic facsimile?
It's not quite Web2 but the EX-LIBRIS-L listserv often carries interesting stories like this one!