📸Girl Reading a Newspaper, by Wada Eisaku, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, 1897

#OnThisDay in 1804, Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, completing his 5 year expedition to America.

Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907.

‼️La Libreria Bardon lleva cerrada desde nov. 2021 debido a la rotura de una caldera‼️
☑️Hoy en día la #librería sigue rodeada de puntales y andamios, sin que AXA España, se haga cargo de los daños causados. Mucho ánimo. Noticias Cuatro Susana Bardón #GremioMadrileñoLibrerosViejo

1928: George Bernard Shaw surfing at the Muizenberg beach (South Africa) at the age of 75.

'Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words'.
―Edgar Allan Poe.

📷Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907.

#OnThisDay in 1644, John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
📃'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties'.

#OnThisDay in 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft marries William Godwin after Wollstonecraft became pregnant with his child.
'Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.'
- Mary Wollstonecraft.

#DidYouKnow
George Orwell Fought In the Spanish Civil War (figure in the middle, his wife is seated to his left)

Plan of Paris by Olivier Truschet & Germain Hoyau, circa 1550.
📷Basel University Library.

Commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco, one of the most influential astronomy textbooks in history.
📷Burns Library

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
📷Moyan Brenn.

'Siempre hablar con la verdad, pensar antes de hablar y escribir'. Lewis Carroll

📖'All right, then, I'll go to hell.'
#OnThisDay in 1885, Mark Twain publishes the 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in the United States (UK in 1884).

Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907.

'We live for books.'
📖Umberto Eco.
Umberto Eco, author (The Name of the Rose) and bibliophile (owns +50,000 books), was born #OnThisDay in 1932.
📸Aubrey

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#OnThisDay in 1926, George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize.
📖'Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'

#OnThisDay in 1859, Final installment of Charles Dickens’ serialized novel, 'A Tale of Two Cities' is published.