This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. As the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the bourgeoisie took up a variety of arms against the aristocracy; among them was literature. Pictured here from the Santo Domingo Collection is La Messaline françoise, a libelous account, published under…
Natural Highs!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Although much of the Santo Domingo Collection focuses on illegal and medical drugs, there is some exceptions to these books that suggest other ways of getting that feeling. Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., an educator and administrator in…
The Jimi Hendrix Bibliographic Experience
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This week’s feature is the second of two sculptural volumes: in this case, the binding itself, rather than the enclosure, defies convention. The book, a paperback French biography of Jimi Hendrix published in 1976, is unremarkable in itself. However,…
A warning from the High Priestess of Oom
Alma Hirsig’s My Life in a Love Cult….
Unmodified sexuality
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We return to the occult in this week’s feature from the Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s author is Austin Osman Spare, an English artist, writer, and occultist active in the first half of the twentieth century. While Spare’s finely-wrought…
Whodunit and howdunit?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Alexandre Lacassagne was a French physician and criminologist in the 19th-century. He founded the Lacassagne School of Criminology which was based in Lyon, France and focused on medical jurisprudence and criminal anthropology. He quite famously gave…
A Practice in Torture
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Sometimes you come across something so gruesome that even though you want to look away, you can’t. Le Musée des Supplices certainly fits that description. A book that gives the history of torture written by Roland Villeneuve, a…
A Surgeon’s Predictions
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. A surprising discovery when opening up the book Predicting the Future: An Illustrated History and Guide to the Techniques is who the author is. Although not a particularly famous person, Albert, S. Lyons is a surgeon. His…
Death caps
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Once you have made the fateful choice to eat a Death cap it starts out slowly, there is no discomfort for the first twelve hours then you have abdominal pain with vomiting, diarrhea, and an extreme thirst. After…