![]() Tarlton's rare books are kept in a climate controlled space and the most vulnerable items in our collection are protected with 'phase boxes,' custom sized archival storage boxes or wrapper cases for fragile or deteriorating items in a collection. Their refined palate prefers the leather and wood bindings, manuscript waste and high cloth content paper of a rare books collection. Modern bookbinding techniques have rendered most publications unappetizing to book-boring insects. Basel: Johan Amerbach for Johannes Froben, 1500. Gregory IX (Ugolino di Conti.) Decretalium domini pape Gregorij noni compilatio accurata diligentia emendata summoque studio elaborata et cum scripturis sacris aptissime concordata. This detailed 'patch' job was undertaken on each leaf of the Decretals where text was obscured by wormholes. This tiny insect eats microscopic organic matter found in cool, damp, dark places, like between the covers of your favorite legal treatise.Ī previous user of this volume of the Decretals of Gregory attempted to repair bookworm damage with handwritten replacement text pasted over the holes, visible on the third and fourth lines from the bottom of the right column. One of the most destructive library pests is the paper louse, probably the creature described by Aristotle. Wood and paper are appetizing to death watch beetles. Various types of book bindings and paper attract specific pests leather bound books are appealing to larder beetles and carpet beetles. Scholars and librarians have been complaining about bookworms for thousands of years Aristotle, in Chapter 32, Book V of Historia Animalium, described creatures he had seen chomping through scrolls "resembling tailless scorpions, but very small." And Phillippus of Thessalonica in the first century compared his more studious contemporaries to bookworms, voicing the metaphor now so common that law students touring our rare books collection are often surprised to see the evidence of real rather than metaphorical bookworms.Īctual bookworms aren't worms at all, but beetles. Amsterdam : Chez Pierrre de Coup, 1712.Įven when not leaving behind such catastrophic damage, bookworms can render text illegible, weaken bindings, and deteriorate paper. #BOOKWORM REAL PLUS#Le droit de la nature et des gens : ou, Système général des principes les plus importans de la morale, de la jurisprudence, et de la politique. In some instances, such as the first volume of Tarlton's 1712 edition of Pufendorf's De jure naturae et gentium, their paths of destruction can resemble abstract art. ![]()
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