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![[picture: Dumbledore's Wizarding Spell-book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/tn/img_9008-old-leather-book-with-brass-clasps-q90-500x311.jpg "[picture: Dumbledore's Wizarding Spell-book]")
Here are some public domain pctures of old books. You can do whatever you like with these, although you shouldn’t say that you made them! I (Liam R E Quin) do retain the moral right to be identified as author/creator. The one with the shelf visible was taken by my partner, who also explicitly assigned copyright to the public domain.
There are some more pictures from old books taken from an old book, too.
There’s something about leather-bound books; a lot of people collect leather books. For my own part I’m more interested in what’s inside the book than the fine bindings, but since some of these antiquarian books still look rather pretty, I thought I’d share some pictures!
Title: Pictures of old books
City: Toronto
Date: 2003
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 1581 Psalter with Rose]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/wm/big/cimg5142-psalter-with-rose-267x200.jpg "[picture: 1581 Psalter with Rose]")
![[picture: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/wm/big/img_9003-nova-totius-terrarum-orbis-tabula-q85-365x200.jpg "[picture: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula]")
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula
Atlas open to what looks like a redrawing of Frederik de Wit’s “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula” of 1670. The map measures over four feet on a side (1.2 x 1.8 metres), but this book has a reduced-size copy.
The book is leather-bound with brass clasps, and was a 1971 fac simile of the Atlas of the Great Elector presented in [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dumbledore's Wizarding Spell-book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/wm/big/img_9008-old-leather-book-with-brass-clasps-q90-322x200.jpg "[picture: Dumbledore's Wizarding Spell-book]")
Dumbledore’s Wizarding Spell-book
This atlas, shown here closed and sitting on a table, is much larger than it appears: it weighs fifty pounds! It is bound in full leather with brass to protct [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Pictures of old books: Two shelves of antiquarian books]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/wm/big/Books02-181x200.jpg "[picture: Pictures of old books: Two shelves of antiquarian books]")
Pictures of old books: Two shelves of antiquarian books
A photograph my partner took of two shelves of old and antique books in my study; it gives a good view of the book spines. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Against the Light]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/wm/big/img_2148-pile-of-dictionaries-q75-248x200.jpg "[picture: Against the Light]")
