Heritage Book Shop

Heritage Book Shop is closing ... according to this LA time story ... Ben Weinstein, the owner, mentions the 1922 first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses", an original copy of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio;", Shakespeare's Folios, an 1860s first edition of Tolstoy's "Voina i Mir" ("War and Peace"), a 1656 printing of one of Galileo's texts in Italian, a 1543 copy of Copernicus' "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," .... pretty awesom. Though sad to see it go ...

Lou Weinstein brother-co-owner, already retired.

Happily, Ben is contributing 12,000 reference texts used to assess rare books to UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Neat!! If you're looking for a particular Mauscript ... the goto guy is Ben who according to the story will "rent an office in the Pacific Design Center and serve as a "book broker,""

So ... all's not lost

HIDDEN TREASURES OF KENT

This might be of interest to the Treasure Hunters: THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF KENT -An exhibition to celebrate 150 years of the Kent Archaeological Society -- the claim "This exhibition brings together over 100 fabulous treasures representing some of the best of the county’s missing archaeology most of which have not been seen in the County since their discovery". Check it out here.

Not much in the missing manuscript department

but ... they say the have on exhibit

· Iron Age Mill Hill Crown from the British Museum ;
· Anglo-Saxon jewelled brooches from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum ;
· Bronze Age ‘Beck Hoard’ [now at the World Museum , Liverpool]
· Iron Age slave chain from Manchester Museum . [how can they tell it was a slave chain? very puzzling ... possibly biased ...]

Are there any missing Abraxas Manuscripts?

ABRAXAS, or ABRASAX, a word engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. The Basilidians, a Gnostic sect, attached importance to the word, if, indeed, they did not bring it into use. The letters of abraxas, in the Greek notation, make up the number 365, and the Basilidians gave the name to the 365 orders of spirits which, as they conceived, emanated in succession from the Supreme Being. These orders were supposed to occupy 365 heavens, each fashioned like, but inferior to that above it; and the lowest of the heavens was thought to be the abode of the spirits who formed the earth and its inhabitants, and to whom was committed the administration of its affairs. Abraxas stones are of very little value. In addition to the word Abraxas and other mystical characters, they have often cabalistic figures engraved on them. The commonest of these have the head of a fowl, and the arms and bust of a man, and terminate in the body and tail of a serpent.

More about Basilidians
and Abraxas



{from the Wiki Rendition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abraxas entry

Papus' Treasury of Analysis and the Lost Books

According to Carl Apollonius.
Boyer's A History of Mathematics, Papus' Treasury of Analysis listed treatises by Aristaeus, Euclid, Eratosthenes,and
Conics had 487 theorems ...so the last (eigth) lost book had 105 theorems currently missing ... Cutting of a Ratio, On Means, and Porisms are all missing ... just think if we they weren't lost ... we might have already had a settlement on Mars ... maybe ... maybe not ... you never know

I am particularly intrigued by Porisms ... aren't you?