Bloodsuckers, a fantastic exhibit at the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (for those enduring the Dracula Daily off season)
My significant other and I visited the Field Museum in Chicago over the holidays and took in the Bloodsuckers exhibit. It was great, and I encourage all with an interest in entomology, vampires, history, literature and the morbidly curious to check it out.
There is a huge span of material on exhibit. Starting off with the biological sciences (of course) with a focus on entomology and the diseases spead by bugs. But there is also a nod to the other phyla, including birds and of course mammals (vampire bats!).
Then the exhibit explores the folklore and mythology of bloodsucking monsters from around the world.
Of course, the most well known bloodsucker is given star treatment, with a first edition of Dracula as well as Stoker's initial character draft list, with name changes to the lead characters. Various pop culture renditions of Dracula are shown in movie clips, along with a copy of Carmilla.
Regretfully, there was no mention of Matt Kirkland's Dracula Daily substack phenomena.
Finally the exhibit ends with a treatment of medicinal leeches and their use in history.
Lots of great stuff for sale in the gift shop. I bought myself a plushie Pediculus humanus, but was also tempted by a pair of bat earrings. The Dracula book handbag was a bit much for me but I am sure would be popular with others.
I've got more photos I can share if my fellow tumblrs desire, let me know.
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@scarsmood, @ulfhethnar, @beastlybardou, @aestherians, @smol-paw, @strawberrybabydog, @megaraptormenace
Are the current staff on tumblr and a few more as well in other spaces! Stay tuned to see what's in store.
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Marquis de Sade, Justine, first edition, 1791. Frontispiece by Philippe Chéry. License: Public Domain.
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Charles-Emile Carlegle aka Charles Émile Egli, La Rivière. Costume de fantaisie (River. Fantasy costume), La Gazette du Bon ton, 1912-1913
For sale: EditionOriginale
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I managed to buy fantasy zine from 1986 where the Witcher story was first published ❤️
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Sawatari Hajime: Alice, first edition (1973)
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I FOUND THESE IN MY GRANDMA'S LIBRARY
These help add so much depth to the series I grew up listening to and reading. Is the series flawed? Heavily. But I love it nonetheless.
I was 6 was my grandma started reading the books to me. She gave me all of her Pern books and its a series we both love. So finding these hidden deeper in her library right next to the holy bible was great lmaoo
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First-edition copy of the children's classic The House at Pooh Corner with the first appearance of Tigger.
A.A. Milne (English).
Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (English).
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928.
Octavo.
Bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped pink cloth with top edge gilt, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, and illustrated dust jacket with mylar cover.
Listed by Sotheby's
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You all should check out my new Instagram account for bookselling. Rare books and collectibles! Free shipping the US!
Just look up Geddes Rare Books and you'll find me.
Also please reblog it'd really help.
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Round Two Part Five - Match 38
Mary, with all her shitty parenting and Leitner collecting skills! But can she beat Albrecht von Closen's Archive (129)?
MAG 062 - First Edition | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Mary Keay regarding her first Leitner.
MAG 023 - Schwartzwald | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Albrecht von Closen, regarding a discovered tomb near his estate in the Black Forest.
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