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	Picasso; Forty Years of His Art Build and Access the Collection – $4,500 Joseph H. Hirshhorn, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, was an avid collector and supporter of Pablo Picasso. The two became friends after being introduced by photographer Edward Steichen. The Hirshhorn Library’s copy of the exhibition catalog...Read More
	A Pilgrimage to My Motherland Build and Access the Collection – $1,000 In the 1850s, life was hard for free black Americans, and many were considering emigration to Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, or Africa. Debate was fierce. In 1854, the National Emigration Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, began to consider the African option proposed by Harvard...Read More
	Podrovnoe Opisanīe Parovoĭ Mashiny Build and Access the Collection – $2,450 An early Russian technical book describing an atmospheric steam engine for pumping water. The title indicates that it is based upon the one devised by the Englishman T. Savery. Thomas Savery (1650?-1715), the English military engineer, patented the first commercially successful atmospheric steam...Read More
	Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Build and Access the Collection – $25,000 This 1773 collection of poems was the only edition of Phillis Wheatley's work printed in her lifetime. Wheatley was first brought to the United States at age 7 or 8 to be sold into slavery. She was purchased by John Wheatley of Boston and taught to read and write. Having been tutored in the...Read More
	Polycystins Build and Access the Collection – $4,000 Priscilla Susan Bury (1799-1872), who published under her married name, is most famous for her work A Selection of Hexandrian Plants. Although she is well-known in the world of the botany of living plants, her work on polycystins is relatively obscure despite its importance. Concerned with fossil...Read More
	The Porcelain of Hung-Hsien Build and Access the Collection – $250 In 1913, Yuan Shih-k’ai (Yuan Shikai, 1859-1916) became the first president of the Republic of China after he helped Sun Yan-sen overthrow the last Qing emperor in 1911. In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himself the Hung-Hsien (Hongxian) Emperor but ruled for only 83 days before being forced to back...Read More
	Porcelaines, Faiences & Cristaux Build and Access the Collection – $750 A rare trade catalogue from the Paris firm of Le Grand Dépot, a manufacturer of porcelains, faience ceramics, and glassware, contains images and sale information for a variety of tablewares in many popular patterns. The catalogue, complete with more than 100 pages of illustrated designs, is a...Read More
	The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours Build and Access the Collection – $250 Published in 1859, Michel Eugene Chevreul's (1786-1889) The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours is considered a masterpiece in the science and exploration of color. A chemist who specialized in the study of animal fats and fatty acids, Chevreul is one of the 72 French engineers and...Read More
	The Principles of Natural Philosophy Build and Access the Collection – $2,900 An enquiry and attack on the scientific principles of Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, and Descartes. Almost half of the book is devoted to light and colors, including the phenomenon of the rainbow, with a large chapter on sound. Green dismisses the Cartesian theory of light in favor of Newton's, which he...Read More
	Promotional Brochure for Bicentennial Park Build and Access the Collection – $450 Bicentennial Park, a combination Smithsonian museum and national park, was planned to coincide with the two hundredth anniversary of the United States. This brochure details plans for two parcels of land, one in Alexandria and the other in Prince George’s County, Maryland, connected by riverboat...Read More

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