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Land Where Time Stands StillBuild and Access the Collection – $300 In 1941, Max Miller financed an expedition the length of the Baja Peninsula with two natural history scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum, Frank Gander and Laurence Huey. Miller mentions briefly and ominously of the Japanese submarine presence in Magdalena Bay on the Baja...Read More |
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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 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 |
