Friends of the John Martin Rare Book Room
Four skeletons seated on blocks of stone, each with a different musical instrument, from Jacques Gamelin's Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie, 1779.

Boo-nes

Damien Ihrig, MA, MLIS
Curator, John Martin Rare Book Room

Hey folks, I am taking a break this month from our new selections to have a little humerus Halloween fun. I'll be highlighting a grave subject: skeletons. No bones about it, skeletons are amazing, and we have a bagful of them here in our collecting radius. Would I rib you about something this hip? If you've got the spine for it, please continue reading. If not, I'll see you again in November when I'll patella you about a new book.

Until then, safe Halloweening, everyone. Stay well and happy reading!

 

 

 

 

 

Fall Hours

Good news, everyone - the Rare Book Room is now open for researchers, classes, and visitors! The Room is available Monday-Thursday, 8:30-5:00 (U.S. Central) and Friday by appointment. FACE MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. To guarantee the room is available, please contact me at damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu.

 
"Boo!" - from Jacques Gamelin's Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie

 

"Well, hello." - from Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis "Money, pleeeease." - from Bernhard Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani

 

"It's 5 o'clock somewhere." - from Helkiah Crooke's Mikrokosmographia "How about over here?" - from Marc Jean Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme

 

"Oh, hi Mark." - from Bartolomeo Eustachi's Bernardi Siegfried Albini...Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii "Ready or not, here I come!" - from Jacques Gamelin's Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie

 
"Dear diary..." - from Jacques Gamelin's Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie

 

"My wit is even sharper." - from Guido Guidi's De anatome corporis humani *meniacal laugh* - from Jacques Gamelin's Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie

 

Portrait of the world's worst arm wrestler - from Guido Guidi's De anatome corporis human "Down low." - from Juan de Valverde's Vivae imagines partium corporis humani

 

"No, I said my fancy cape." - from Bernhard Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani Just another helpful Hardin librarian
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