This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. This 1882 volume of Poe’s poetry and essays, accompanied by biographical information and commentary on the poems, is a fine example of the publishers’ cloth bindings of its period. In response to broadening literacy and therefore increasing demand, Read More
A Practice in Torture
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Sometimes you come across something so gruesome that even though you want to look away, you can’t. Le Musée des Supplices certainly fits that description. A book that gives the history of torture written by Roland Villeneuve, a Read More
Fuzz against Junk
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Most likely we have all heard the slang of the word “fuzz” to describe a police officer. There appears to be little reliable information to back up the supposition that people indeed used the word during Read More
L’Incal
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Julio Santo Domingo collected books across many forms; among them is the graphic novel. Pictured here is one of the great collaborations in French comics: L’Incal, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-born French filmmaker, actor, and author, and Read More
A Surgeon’s Predictions
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. A surprising discovery when opening up the book Predicting the Future: An Illustrated History and Guide to the Techniques is who the author is. Although not a particularly famous person, Albert, S. Lyons is a surgeon. His Read More