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The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/david-beghe-and-a-nineteenth-century-fresco/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/david-beghe-and-a-nineteenth-century-fresco/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 David Beghè, the Pinacoteca Beghè at Castello Doria Malaspina, and a method for reading nineteenth-century frescoes in Liguria. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/sword-typology-early-steel-and-blade-care/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/sword-typology-early-steel-and-blade-care/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A reading-room guide to European sword typology, the making of iron and steel before industry, and the conservation of blades in public collections. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/civil-war-haiku-terrain-camp-life-and-loss/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/civil-war-haiku-terrain-camp-life-and-loss/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A short-form collection on the American Civil War: poems grouped by battlefield, camp life and mourning, plus the counting and season word of haiku. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/american-film-noir-formation-craft-legacy/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/american-film-noir-formation-craft-legacy/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How American film noir formed in the 1940s, how chiaroscuro and the fatal woman shaped it, and what neo-noir made of that inheritance. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/local-radio-clusters-and-broadcast-sound/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/local-radio-clusters-and-broadcast-sound/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How a local radio cluster divides its airtime and engineering work, from FM multiplexing and AM propagation to microphone technique and loudness. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/adult-classes-at-a-cultural-centre/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/adult-classes-at-a-cultural-centre/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How adults choose a dance, theatre, art or language class at a municipal cultural centre, what paperwork follows, and how a season is programmed. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/kobe-mosque-1935-and-the-war-years/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/kobe-mosque-1935-and-the-war-years/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Kobe Mosque opened in 1935, funded by Indian Muslim traders and designed by Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr. Its war years and survival examined. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/reading-kangaroo-wombat-and-koala-signs/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/reading-kangaroo-wombat-and-koala-signs/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Field notes on telling grey kangaroos from wallabies, reading wombat burrows and koala scratches, and naming the calls of kookaburras, rosellas and black The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/el-dia-de-los-ninos/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/el-dia-de-los-ninos/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What Día is, who began El día de los niños / El día de los libros in 1997, and how Children's Day is kept in Mexico on 30 April. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/inside-a-contemporary-gallery/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/inside-a-contemporary-gallery/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What an art dealer does day to day, how a gallery exhibition is mounted, and how to read a wall label in a contemporary gallery, explained plainly. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/be-on-our-side-transit-posters/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/be-on-our-side-transit-posters/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How the Be On Our Side transit poster campaign began, where it ran in American systems, and the counter-advertising that answered the 2011 subway posters. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/baptist-baptism-and-sunday-order/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/baptist-baptism-and-sunday-order/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Believer's baptism by immersion, the shape of an ordinary Baptist Sunday service, and how American Baptists differ from Southern Baptists. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/a-library-for-a-small-crew/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/a-library-for-a-small-crew/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What a ship's library had to do with a fixed shelf and a few readers, and how a small congregation plans its own reading. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/naturalist-volumes-in-a-ship-library/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/naturalist-volumes-in-a-ship-library/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How the scientific volumes of a surveying voyage were made, and what a reader can still check in their plates and locality lines. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/buying-second-hand-sea-books-netherlands/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/buying-second-hand-sea-books-netherlands/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A short route through Dutch antiquarian listings, the condition terms a buyer meets first, and a safe way to buy at a distance. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/what-we-are-reading/ https://agbfinebooks.com/journal/what-we-are-reading/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A dated note on reference works that repay repeated use. The Logbook https://agbfinebooks.com/ Nautical books, reading routes and records from the Age of Sail en-gb https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/nautical-book-collecting-guide/ https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/nautical-book-collecting-guide/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A calm first route through editions, condition, provenance and the questions worth asking before a shelf grows. https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/how-to-identify-first-edition/ https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/how-to-identify-first-edition/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Edition, printing, issue and state are related terms, but they do different work. https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/book-condition-terms/ https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/book-condition-terms/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A field guide to the faults and strengths that descriptions often compress into a few words. https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/provenance-association-copies/ https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/provenance-association-copies/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How to tell documented ownership from a label that merely looks persuasive. https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/build-an-age-of-sail-library/ https://agbfinebooks.com/books-and-editions/build-an-age-of-sail-library/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A staged shelf for readers who want history, ships, people, primary records and fiction in conversation. https://agbfinebooks.com/reading-patrick-obrian/series-reading-order/ https://agbfinebooks.com/reading-patrick-obrian/series-reading-order/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A spoiler-light route through the Aubrey-Maturin novels, related works and useful companion timing. https://agbfinebooks.com/reading-patrick-obrian/companions-without-spoilers/ https://agbfinebooks.com/reading-patrick-obrian/companions-without-spoilers/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Choose a reference tool by function and by how much future plot it may reveal. https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Perp2004/Alpha/Alpha2004.htm https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Perp2004/Alpha/Alpha2004.htm Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Historical path restored with a rights-aware route for readers meeting unfamiliar phrases. https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Movie/Master and Commander.htm https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Movie/Master and Commander.htm Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Historical path restored for viewers seeking a route from the film to the novels, ships and naval context. https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/MusterBook/MusterBookErrata.htm https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/MusterBook/MusterBookErrata.htm Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Historical path restored as a method for checking corrections in long-lived reference works. https://agbfinebooks.com/age-of-sail/royal-navy-ranks-and-roles/ https://agbfinebooks.com/age-of-sail/royal-navy-ranks-and-roles/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A reading framework for ranks, responsibilities and the record trails they leave behind. https://agbfinebooks.com/age-of-sail/ships-logs-musters-lists/ https://agbfinebooks.com/age-of-sail/ships-logs-musters-lists/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What each record type can establish, and where a reader should look next. https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Irish/right frame.htm https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Irish/right frame.htm Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Historical path restored for family and local historians tracing naval service through reliable records. https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Memorials/Naval Memorials in London.htm https://agbfinebooks.com/publications/Memorials/Naval Memorials in London.htm Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Historical path restored as a careful route from a memorial inscription to evidence. https://agbfinebooks.com/research-desk/research-a-royal-navy-officer/ https://agbfinebooks.com/research-desk/research-a-royal-navy-officer/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A three-stage route from a known name to service, ship and contextual records. https://agbfinebooks.com/research-desk/research-a-royal-navy-ship/ https://agbfinebooks.com/research-desk/research-a-royal-navy-ship/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A route for following service, movements, crew and the surviving paper trail of a vessel.