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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 |
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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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Handwörterbuch der Mineralogie und GeognosieBuild and Access the Collection – $2,350 Raised in one of the most important mining districts in Germany, Carl Hartmann (1796-1863) served as Commissioner of Mines in Brunswick through the 1820s and 1830s, and published more than 100 works on the subjects of mineralogy and mining. His books are important for their comprehensiveness and...Read More |