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Aquatilium Animalium HistoriaeBuild and Access the Collection – $9,500 Ippolito Salviani's book on aquatic animals is renowned as one of the three 16th century works that established ichthyology as a modern science; SIL holds the other two and this completes the trio. A professor of medicine at the University of Rome and physician to several Popes, Salviani collected...Read More |
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Aranei, or A Natural History of SpidersBuild and Access the Collection – $4,000 Thomas Martyn's Aranei translated into English Carl Alexander Clerck's Svenska spindlar/Aranei Svecici (Stockholm, 1757), the founding text on modern scientific nomenclature for spiders, with illustrations originally published in Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Spiders (London, 1736). Eleazar...Read More |
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Architectural Designs for Model Country ResidencesBuild and Access the Collection – $4,000 A book published to sell his designs to prospective clients and illustrated with twenty lithographs in full color, Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences is one of the handsomest American books of architecture published in the 19th century. It includes designs for villas, cottages, and...Read More |
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ArizonaBuild and Access the Collection – $325 An attractive, slipcased catalog for a collaborative exhibition of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, painter Genichiro Inokuma, and designer Issey Miyake at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Japan, highlighting the mutual influence of the three friends and their hybrid...Read More |
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Arizona HighwaysBuild and Access the Collection – $500 “Civilization Follows the Improved Highway.” That was and still is the motto of the enduring and always alluring travel magazine Arizona Highways. It was first published in 1925 as an engineering newsletter by the Arizona Highway Department. By the 1930s, it had segued into a magazine...Read More |
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Arizona HighwaysBuild and Access the Collection – $500 “Civilization Follows the Improved Highway.” That was and still is the motto of the enduring and always alluring travel magazine Arizona Highways. It was first published in 1925 as an engineering newsletter by the Arizona Highway Department. By the 1930s, it had segued into a...Read More |
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Artificial Insemination Clouded Leopard Cubs (Slides)Build and Access the Collection – $450 These slides are from the files of Dr. JoGayle Howard (1951–2011), theriogenologist (veterinary reproductive specialist) at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute. Dr. Howard dedicated her career to breeding endangered species in captivity by adapting techniques...Read More |
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Aspen: The Magazine in a BoxBuild and Access the Collection – $500 This FAB detergent box in dayglo colors is actually the cover of Aspen: The Magazine in a Box, Volume 1 Issue 3, December 1966. It is one of six issues owned by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library and was designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. As with all...Read More |
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The Auklet, November 1924Build and Access the Collection – $400 The Auklet was the humor magazine of the American Ornithologists' Union, first published in the early 1920s. Not to be confused with the AOU’s official quarterly magazine The Auk, its booklet-length Auklet cousin features short stories, poetry, phony meeting minutes, cartoons, fake advertisements,...Read More |
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Awareness of LoveBuild and Access the Collection – $3,500 Born in Chile, but settling in the United States in the mid-1960s, Juan Downey (1940-1993) explored many different art media. Although he became primarily known for his video art, he also created in other media, including painting, installations, and printmaking. Early in his career he studied in...Read More |
