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Discovered Jazz and Swing in middle school and have been a fan ever since. Collecting 78s, which I started about 35 years ago, has helped me expand my musical horizon. One of my areas of interest is now also the "ethnic" or foreign-language music on shellac that Columbia, Victor, and many other labels produced for immigrants to the United States between the 1910s and 1950s.

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xiphophilos 15th Feb 2024		Book Maximilian Böttcher - Die Wolfrechts	The publisher is called Antäus (not Intäus)-Verlag, after the Giant that challenged all passers-by to wrestling matches and defeated them. The name makes sense for a press that published Maximilian Böttcher's Blut und Boden-type fiction because Antaeus was a son of the Earth who regained new strength from his mother whenever someone wrestled him to the ground. It also seems an unintentionally ironic choice, given that Antaeus ended up losing against Hercules, the representative of human decency and civilization, when Hercules lifted him up into the air and crushed him to death. The press, however, survived the end of the Nazi regime. It was active from the early 1920s into the 1950s.
xiphophilos 5th Feb 2024		Book Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentarii	Uploaded a scan of my own copy now.
xiphophilos 25th Sep 2022		Book Quintus Curtius Rufus - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni	If I've deciphered the inscription on the very last page correctly, the former owner could be Edward Mardon, baptized in Moreton (Hampstead, Devon, England) on November 14, 1695 (father: Thomas Mardon). It is difficult to say for sure because there were a confusing number of men named Edward Mardon in that area of Devon in the 17th and 18th century.
xiphophilos 10th Jun 2022		Book Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Roman in neun Briefen	This book has beautiful typography. Must make reading it even more of a pleasure.
xiphophilos 21st Nov 2020		Book Edward Young (Poet) - The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts On Life, Death, And Immortality	Love the illustration!

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Book added by xiphophilos 5th Feb 2024:

Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentarii - Aldus Manutius Iunior - Hardcover - Italy (1576)

Book added by xiphophilos 2nd Oct 2020:

Gaius Julius Caesar - C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico - Verlag Von Paul Neff, Stuttgart - Hardcover - Germany (1892)

Book added by xiphophilos 1st Oct 2020:

Gaius Julius Caesar - C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico Et Civili Una Cum Hirtii Vel Oppii Supplementis - Orphanotropheum - Hardcover - Germany (1817)

Book added by xiphophilos 25th Sep 2020:

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Maior - Suasoriae, Ac Controversiae, Cum Declamationum Excerptis. Tomus Tertius - Joannes Manfrè - Hardcover - Italy (1728)

Book added by xiphophilos 24th Sep 2020:

Quintus Curtius Rufus - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni - Elzevir - Hardcover - Netherlands (1650)

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