Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
12th September 2019
Who doesn’t love a good wedding? And, more importantly, who doesn’t love a good party favour? Here’s a fun party favour of sorts we’ve recently stumbled across, and included in our latest e-list: the Hochzeitszeitung, or ‘wedding newspaper’. It is a genre of occasional printing found in German-speaking countries. Normally they are bespoke, something to […]
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3rd July 2014
1776 is famous as the year that America declared its independence (celebrated tomorrow, of course), but what else happened that year? Here’s something: Catherine the Great’s son got married. This collection came in recently. Printed at present-day Stargard Szczeciński (Poland), it’s an account of the celebrations given in the town to welcome Catherine’s son, Paul, […]
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