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Do you have a library appropriate to house all your ancient and forbidden books?

What's the oldest book in your collection? Or the most creepiest...

>> No.9139240

how can we make this room comfier? it's nice but there has to be proper ventilation.

>> No.9139252

>>9139240
a blanket and a small coffee table

>> No.9139335

>>9139201
not enough books in the pic; it looks like a fucking pseud's

>> No.9139373
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>>9139252
And pillows

>>9139240
One must imagine the room properly ventilated

>> No.9139401

>>9139240
Good access to the wine cellar/a whiskey globe.

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>>9139240

>> No.9139478

>>9139373
"comficozy" ㅡ have you ever felt that type of yarn? it will itch. poor birdy abuse ㅠ^ㅠ

>> No.9139483

>>9139335

Quality over quantity; plenty of room for spooky artifacts found after reading some tomes.

>> No.9139540

>>9139201
An 1846 children's book with no cover, written by my great-great great-great uncle Septimus Winner, under the psuedoname Alice Hawthorne.

>> No.9139582

>>9139201
I got a whole box of old books from around 1820-1870, all Swedish though.

Rescued them when I was cleaning out my deceased father's house, my aunt wanted to simply throw them all away.

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>>9139483
>Quality over quantity; plenty of room for spooky artifacts found after reading some tomes.

That defeats the whole purpose of having a bookshelf, you fucking pseud.

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>>9139478
Have you ever had feathers?

>> No.9139746

>>9139582
Your aunt should be put in an asylum.

>> No.9139766

First authorized American edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary from the 11th London in 2 vols. James Maxwell, Philadelphia, 1819.

>> No.9139801

The complete poetical works of Tennyson from 1899. It's in great condition but it's extremely fragile so I'm avoid reading from it.

>> No.9139840

A philosophy course from Jaime Pérez Balmés. 1853.

>> No.9139888

book of Albrecht Durer engravings 1800s

>> No.9140984

>>9139540
review?
publish it on Project Gutenberg?

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These are most of my "old and rare" books. I can't be arsed to check which is the oldest though.