Books Pictured On Stamps

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting an open book of the law, a quill pen, and an inkwell, printed by lithography, and issued by Brazil on August 13, 1943 to publicize the Second Inter-American Advocates Conference, Scott No. C54.

- nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a teacher, pupils, a school, text books and an urn, designed by Laotian artist Ng Cam, engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by Laos on March 30, 1965 to publicize American aid (as one of a set of four stamps recognizing foreign aid), Scott No. 107.

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The Year of Bible (2007)



On stamp (sheet) is Dalmatin`s Bible from 1584, which is the first Slovenian translation of the whole Bible. The special promotion of the Bible on the jubilee stamp is fully justified, because Dalmatin`s Bible is the fundamental document of Slovenian literary language. The stamp depicts the book it in all its height, width and thickness. The cover page lies on an enlarged page of the general foreword. The miniature sheet is decorated with parts of the illustrations from the cover, including among others the one that contains the year date 1584. Above the stamp is the title of the Bible: "Biblia, tu je, vse Svetu pismu, Stariga inu Noviga Testamenta, Slovenski, tolmaèena, skuzi Juria Dalmatina".

What we are doing with books?



Reading:
Romania: World Teacher`s Day,
Brasil: Day of Children`s books,
GDR-Germany: International year of books,
Germany: Year of Bible,
Soviet Union: Lenin working on Book Materialism and Empirical Criticism in Geneva library. (painting of P. Belousov, 1978)

The First Latvian book



450 years of the first book written in Lithuanian language: The Catechismus, of Martynas Mazvydas.

Title page of the Moravian Brethren's Daily Texts of Bible readings, designed by German artist Peter Steiner, printed by lithography, and issued by Germany on July 10, 1980 to commemorate the 250th edition of this book, Scott No. 1333, Michel No. 1054. Note: The first printed edition of the Daily Texts (Losungen) was published in Herrnhut, Saxony, in 1731.

- nethryk

500th anniversary of the printing of the first book in Greek - 1976



On stamp is the book Summary of the Eight Parts of Speech printed in 1476 in Milan by Dionysius Paravisinus. The type face, resembling the cursive Greek handwriting of the time, was carved by Dimitrios Damilas.
The inscription on the stamp is "500th anniversary of the printing of the first book in Greek".

German blacksmith and printer Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1395-1468), early and modern printing presses, books and newspapers, airmail stamp designed by Hungarian artist Sándor Légrády (1906-1987), printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on May 15, 1948, Scott No. C53. Bonus: Owl.

- nethryk

The first printed book in Ukraine



In 1574 the first printer in Russia and Ukraina Ivan Fedorov (1525-1583) published Apostol (The Apostle), the first book printed in Ukraine.
He printed his books in Moscow and in Lviv. The first Ukrainian book is a remarkable work of art, notable for its large size, variety,
and artistic and polygraphic representations. About 100 copies have been preserved in major libraries to the present day.

500 years of printing the first book on the territory of Romania - 2008



...................two pages of the Missal...................ruler Radu cel Mare, founder of the Dealu Monastery in Targoviste
........................................................................where the manuscript was printed

The first book printed on the territory of Romania is Missal printed in 1508 by Hieromonk Macarie.
The Missal has 128 leafs (256 pages), is numbered on notebooks, initial letters are adorned and each page has 15 rows with text in black and red.
Three copies of the book are now in the Metropolitan Library in Bucharest.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a student hitting the books, designed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Bokros (1891-1974), printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on May 24, 1968 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Mosonmagyaróvári College of Agricultural Sciences, Scott No. 1899.

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The first printed book in Ukraine - Soviet Union - II.


.....An illustration from Apostles

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Fedorov printing the first Russian book .....monument of Ivan Fedorov in Moscow

400th Anniversary of first Russian printed book (in 1964 Ukrain was part of Soviet Union).


.....monument of Ivan Fedorov, on the background hand and rotary presses

350th Death Anniversary of Ivan Fedorov.

See also my first post of Ivan Fedorov : http://goscf.com/t/14839&whichpage=4#308418

900th Anniversary of the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus


.......Siemowit...................................................Mieszko I (940-992)
..................................................................first crowned king of Poland
..........................Boles³aw III Wrymouth (1086-1138)

Boles³aw I the Valiant (967-1025).........Casimir I the Restorer (1016-1058)

Gesta Principum Polonorum (The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles) was written around 1112-1116.
It is the oldest narrative source from Poland. It is formerly attributed to Gallus Anonymus a French monk.
The anonymous author tells the ancient history of Poland down to the reign of Boleslaw III.
On stamp and on sheet are Polish rulers from cronicle.

The first printed book in Denmark (and Scandinavia)



Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) is the first known printed book in Denmark (and Scandinavia).
It was printed by printer Johan Snell in Odense in 1482.
After printing the book`s pages were decorated with paints in the blue and red color.
The original breviarium can today be found in the Royal Library, Denmark.