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Freedom Just Around the CornerBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This pocket sized exhibition booklet contains a chronicle of the African American experience told through the unique lens of stamps and mail. At around 100 pages long, it is full of beautiful color illustrations of stamp art. The National Postal Museum's exhibition opened to the public in the...Read More |
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The Gardens of KijkuitPreserve for the Future – $500 Elizabeth Woodburn, a well known 20th century American botanical rare book collector, considered The Gardens of Kijkuit a wonderful example of a pictorial book on one estate and its grounds. The book documents John D. Rockerfeller’s estate, cicra 1919, in upstate New York called Kijkuit, Dutch for...Read More |
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Geometriae pars UniversalisBuild and Access the Collection – $9,500 Three major works of Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory (1638-1675) who discovered infinite series representations for a number of trigonometry functions, although he is mostly remembered for his description of the first practical reflecting telescope, now known as the...Read More |
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Gold FeverBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Author of eight books in the National Postal Museum Library alone (including Gold Fever, California Gold, Black Gold, Klondike Gold, and Victoria Gold) Kenneth Kutz is a gold enthusiast. This 400-page book tells the history of gold prospecting around the world and the effect it had on early...Read More |
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Gold Fever and the Art of Panning and SluicingBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Lois DeLorenzo gets down and dirty when explaining how to search for gold in the wilderness of North America. Her text and detailed drawings include information on how to assess whether an area is likely to contain gold deposits and how to build the tools necessary for panning and sluicing....Read More |
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The Golden Figures of Buddha and Buddhist Sites in ThailandBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Legend has it that during the third century B.C., the Indian emperor Ashoka (272-232 B.C.) sent monks to Thailand to spread the teachings of the Buddha. Archaeological evidence contradicts this story, indicating that the earliest contact between Thailand and India did not occur until 50-250 A....Read More |
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Goldrausch: Gegenwartskunst Aus, Mit Oder, Uber GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Gold Rush: Contemporary Art Made From, With or About Gold is an exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibit of the same title, which was featured at Kunsthalle Nürnburg (October 18, 2012 to January 13, 2013) and at Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar (February 17 to...Read More |
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The Gospel According to Mark...in the Language of the Dakotas = Wotanin Waxte Markus Owa Kin DeeBuild and Access the Collection – $8,500 This is one of the earliest and rarest works in the Dakota (Sioux) language. The text includes all sixteen chapters of the gospel of Saint Mark. It was created by having missionary Thomas Williamson read from the Book of Mark in French, which was then translated into Dakota by Joseph Renville, the...Read More |
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The Grammar of OrnamentBuild and Access the Collection – $2,750 This was the first encyclopedic pattern book that examined ornament from a variety of cultures and historic periods. Jones created the Grammar to educate designers and stressed the need for a study of historic styles in order to prepare for an ornamental language suitable to the new industrial age...Read More |
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A Grandfather's Legacy.Preserve for the Future – $900 When you are businessman and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, you have a few heavy-hitters in your rolodex, including Millard Fillmore, Jefferson Davis, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, and Daniel Webster. Corcoran rubbed elbows with the well-heeled and well-connected, and was a catalyst for...Read More |
