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The Grapes of New YorkPreserve for the Future – $550 U. P. Hedrick was a horticulturist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York in 1905 when he began writing the first of many monographs of fruit cultivars that could be grown in New York State. The Grapes of New York is the first of his many works. The...Read More |
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The Great InversionBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This book examines American urban/suburban society, gentrification, and the implications of shifts for the future. It discusses commercial canyons and mass transit versus car-dominated cities versus postwar suburbs. It explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or...Read More |
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Gu Gong Xin PianPreserve for the Future – $450 This little box of 100 postcards showing one hundred seals of the Qing emperors and empresses is volume five in what may have been a nine-volume set published by the Palace Museum in 1932 (the original seals are in the collection of the Palace Museum). No library seems to own a complete set of this...Read More |
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Gullah Culture in AmericaBuild and Access the Collection – $250 The book’s purpose is to take us behind-the-scenes so we can see what it’s like to grow up and live life in the Gullah community. Sayings such as “dog got four feet but can’t walk but one road” are uniquely Gullah. This translates to “you can only do one thing at a time.” The book has black adn...Read More |
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Handbuch fur Naturaliensammler oder Grundliche Anweisung die Naturkorper Aller Drei Reiche zu sammeln,...Build and Access the Collection – $920 Held by only one other library in North America, this book is a guide to collecting and preserving natural-history specimens. Thon (1792-1838) provides thorough and detailed instructions on the collecting, preparing, and stuffing of all manner of mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects, as well as...Read More |
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Herrn Georgii Galgemairs Kurtzer Gründlicher Gebesserter unnd Vermehrter UnderrichtBuild and Access the Collection – $3,850 Second, greatly expanded edition of a primer describing the construction & use of two instruments a proportional compass (Circkel) and lineal compass (Schregmäß) for the measurement of geometrical solids and lines, respectively. This 1615 edition is ninety-five pages longer than the initial...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle des Lepidoptères ExotiquesBuild and Access the Collection – $2,500 Pierre Hippolyte Lucas (1815?-1899) began his career in science at 13 as an apprentice preparator in the zoological laboratory of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He became a respected expert on several orders of invertebrates and wrote up the specimens of several important...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des ÉpimaquesBuild and Access the Collection – $5,000 Ever since the surviving ship of Magellan's fleet returned to Spain in 1522 with birds of paradise, all specimens known in Europe through the 18th century were prepared and preserved by native collectors with the bones and feet removed. As a result, Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (10th ed., 1758) gave...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle et Médicale des Casses : et Particulièrement de la Casse et des Sénés Employés en MédecineBuild and Access the Collection – $650 This is a thesis presented for a medical degree at the University of Montpelier by Louis Théodore Frédéric Colladon, a student of the renowned botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle. As was common in European universities at the time, it was de Candolle who wrote the detailed descriptions and...Read More |
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Historical Color GuideBuild and Access the Collection – $350 There is little to be found about Elizabeth Burris-Meyer’s life, but it is safe to assume that she was a proud aesthete. As the “Dean of the School for Fashion Careers,” Burris-Meyer published two books on color. Her Historical Color Guide draws inspiration from various historical works of art...Read More |
