The Blogof Comellas Rare Books2026-02-21T18:18:50+02:00Copyright 2004-2005Ublog Reload 1.0.5MORRIS (W.)<![CDATA[I started collecting in my early twenties while studying Politics in Amsterdam. First buying texts even incomplete then buying more sophisticated copies. Yes microfilm could ...]]>https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=71#632020-05-10T00:30:22+02:002020-05-10T00:30:22+02:002020-05-10T00:30:22+02:00LAMBERT (J. H.)<![CDATA[Most professions can present a parade of important books, ones that laid down fundamentals or produced great advances in understanding or practice. Even in my ...]]>https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=71#622020-05-08T04:01:33+02:002020-05-08T04:01:33+02:002020-05-08T04:01:33+02:00 Photometria is honored by all, understood by few, read by none. Learning that Lambert’s Latin had never been translated into English, I undertook the project myself. Though microfilm could have served, I wanted to work from an original printed copy, and so, as a tyro innocent of antiquarian books, I searched for a copy.
Photometria was my first antiquarian purchase. I can still recall the moment when I held that book in my hand; untrimmed, unpressed, still in its original drab printer’s pasteboards and paper spine. But this is a common place, isn’t it? – most book collectors can recall the moment when they were first and permanently afflicted. ]]>