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Les Peintres Indiens D'AmériqueBuild and Access the Collection – $1,200 These two portfolio volumes — each available separately for adoption — contain 77 individual plates by Native American artists. The author Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966) a Swedish-born American was a painter himself and a collector of Native American art. He served as the director of the...Read More |
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Les Robes de Paul PoiretBuild and Access the Collection – $2,500 The popularity of the French fashion plate was revitalized in the early part of the 20th century by artists like Paul Iribe (1883-1935), working with fashion designers such as Paul Poiret. These illustrations were hand colored using the pochoir process, whereby stencils and metal plates are used...Read More |
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Les Trochilidées, ou, les Colibris et les Oiseaux-MouchesBuild and Access the Collection – $5,250 René Primevère Lesson, having served as surgeon/pharmacist/naturalist on the round-the-world scientific voyage of the Coquille (1822-1825), subsequently published several works in ornithology and mammalogy. Les Trochilidées is the third and last volume of his classic work on hummingbirds, and its...Read More |
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Less Than NothingBuild and Access the Collection – $2,500 “Is somnia a chronic condition with you?” Early in his career American author E. B. White (1899-1985), now best known for Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web, wrote his first book anonymously for The New Yorker magazine just two years after its founding. Published as a giveaway to subscribers and...Read More |
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Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword FeatsBuild and Access the Collection – $400 John Musgrave Waite (c. 1820–1884) was a Victorian fencing master and non-commissioned officer in the British 2nd Life Guards, a regiment in which the tradition of the sabre was maintained. This book is still used by the Schola Gladiatoria, a group in London which provides organized instruction in...Read More |
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Lucas Samaras : GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $250 The works of Lucas Samaras can be understood through one unifying principle: the artist’s “natural instinct for subversion.” Rather than springing from an urge to rebel, however, Samaras’ originality and nonconformity are centered in treating art as a mutable subject. Samaras spent two years...Read More |
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Magiae naturalisBuild and Access the Collection – $1,250 Porta's Natural magic was originally published in four "books" (=chapters) and later expanded to 20 chapters. The text is devoted to various experiments, distillation, transmutation of metals, artificial gems, etc. The 17th chapter on optics is the most important: it went through 18 editions in...Read More |
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Meissen-Glas. Katalog Nr. 60Build and Access the Collection – $725 The Cooper Hewitt Library recently acquired two catalogs of 1930 Meissner Glasraffinerie glass shades for electrical light fixtures. Meissen-Glas. Katalog Nr. 60 has 31 pages of illustrations, mostly in color. In addition to hanging lamps and wall sconces, this catalog features table lamps. They...Read More |
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Meissen-Glas. Nachtrag-Katalog Nr. 65Build and Access the Collection – $725 The Cooper Hewitt Library recently acquired two catalogs of 1930 Meissner Glasraffinerie glass shades for electrical light fixtures. Meissen-Glas. Nachtrag-Katalog Nr. 65 has 8 pages of illustrations, mostly in color. They advertise hanging light fixtures and wall sconces and came in a variety of...Read More |
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Memoria Sopra la Scossa che Provano gli AnimaliBuild and Access the Collection – $700 Three works by Stefano Marianini, follower of Volta's work on electro-motors, and professor of physics in Venice and then in Modena. Bound with:
Marianini, Stefano. Memoria sopra la teoria chimica degli elettromotori voltiani. Venezia: Dalla tip. di Alvisopoli, 1830.
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