Am #Welttierschutztag ein Hinweis auf #WerkstattGeschichte 56/2011 "#tiere", hg. v. @DocRoscher & André Krebber; Beiträge v. Bernhard Gißibl über Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im kolonialen Ostafrika, Brett Mizelle zu "Grizzly" Adams und die Genese des Bildes vom Grizzly Bären im 19. Jh. sowie v. Anna-Katharina Wöbse & M. Roscher zu #Zoo-Tieren in #Berlin & #London im #2WW
Hi everyone, today is the day my book, THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE is published. 🙀💚
The Atlas catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland during the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐
It's taken me five years to get to this point! The Atlas is based on over 10,000 records from 200+ primary sources (essentially books written in the time period)!
Es wurde ein Hengst falsch abgeliefert, und nun steht das Tier nahe Stralsund im Jahre 1808, und wartet auf den Besitzer.
"Bey mir steht ein junger Hengst, Rothfuchs von Farbe, welcher mir in der Meinung, daß er mir zugehöre, zugesandt ist. Da er nicht der meinige ist, so wird der Eigner ersucht, ihn gegen Erstattung der Kosten abholen zu lassen." #Pferde#Zeitungsmeldung#animalhistory#histodons
A look inside an early modern book shop: a thread for #histodons and #bookhistory experts.
Expect surprises, nowadays book buyers. I am using printed images of the chapter dedicated to bookseller's shops of the "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" (Visible World in Pictures) from John Amos #Comenius. The book was firstly published in 1658 and became a widely reprinted and variated children's textbook for centuries.
The image begins to change more significantly after 1700. Like in this 1720 edition (in German and Latin) from #Nürnberg, the entire scene is interpreted more like a scholar's library work place: A large desk with a writing setting, a (normal sized, by the way) human working at the desk, and in the back are cupboards full of unbound book units, and stacked paper sheets of publications.
Bonus details: a window signals that these shops had fresh air. Also: a dog!