Irony and decoration

[Jean Michel Maes]

A good solution would be for libraries to have facsimiles or e-version of
rare books, so people can read them and see the plates and keep the real
book out of reach of razor maniacs. If for a good reason (historical
studies) people want to consult real books, then they can ask for and the
control could be made on a few volume of books.

Sincerely,

Jean-Michel.

Dr. Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527 (Do not use DHL or similar !)
LEON
NICARAGUA
tel 505-3116586
FAX 505-3110126
jmmaes at ibw.com.ni

www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/nicaragua/MEL%20HOME%20PAGE.htm (Home
page)
www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/honduintro.htm
(Scarabaeidae)
www.windsofkansas.com/nicaragua.html (Odonata)
www.geocities.com/krislinde/pdf/JMMAES.pdf (bibliografia)

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris J. Durden <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <tiLS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 8:53 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Irony and decoration


>
> >Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 21:52:07 -0500
> >To: Michael Gochfeld <gochfeld at eohsi.rutgers.edu>
> >From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Irony and decoration
> >
> >Mike,
> >    Those prints were often razored out of scientific journals in
> > university libraries with open stacks by seedy individuals who needed
> > quick cash for a fix of some kind. I have had this happen between one
> > checkout of a reference to read the description and another checkout to
> > photograph the illustration that had been there - very frustrating.
> >    I have ransomed a couple of prints from these dealers in cutout
prints
> > (Stephens, 1828 illustration of *Pamphila bucephalus* = *Hylephila
> > phyleus; Edwards illustration of *Papilio calverleyi*) but I am loath to
> > support these pirates. The decorator market seems to be insatiable and
it
> > is depleting our library resources.
> >...................Chris Durden
> >
> >At 07:11 AM 6/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Mark Walker wrote:
> >>
> >> > Ironically, I believe there is more commercial value in selling
> >> butterflies
> >> > as wall ornaments to art lovers and trendy new-age nature lovers than
> >> there
> >> > is to slithering, conniving, one-step-away-from-a-felony butterfly
> >> > collectors.
> >>
> >>I think you're right, and it is an irony.  I am very fond of mid-19th
century
> >>lithographs of natural history subjects.
> >>I used to be able to find them easily (i.e. at low cost), but the
interior
> >>decorators have created a market that has driven the price up by an
order of
> >>magnitude.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Mike Gochfeld
>
>
>
>
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