It’d be very easy for me to essentially become a mirror site for BibliOdyssey, the excellent book art blog, because I just get so darn excited about so many of the things PK manages to find: A Physician’s Handbook from the 1450s, spirit books, cyanotypes, Buddhist tantra art, Leonard Baskin’s work with Gehenna Press and so on.The samples seen above are from two of today’s entries, one on British Geographical and Trignometrical Surveying History (image on the left) full of nifty maps and survey imagery and a link to more from the collection at the British Library.

And the other focusing on the Alchemy Notebook found at Ninth Wave Design Blog, created in a Moleskin journal. The description from the artist, L Laughy who seems delightfully obsessed with Moleskin journals in general:

These are the pages from my ongoing project titled “Alchemy Notebook”. I have been creating this series of images in a Moleskine Classic Pocket Sketchbook using a variety of materials. These images are a visual exploration of some of the ideas I have been reading in Jungian psychology, specifically those that draw from the rich archetypes of Alchemy.

Beyond all the maps and allegorical drawings in this art book, I’m particularly taken with the cypher table, the cypher wheel and the pendulum diagrams. All in all, a beautiful object that makes me wistful for the time to try something similar.