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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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Lienzo de TlaxcalaPreserve for the Future – $1,300 This 1939 reproduction of a Tlaxcala codex was originally developed in the 16th century. The Lienzo de Tlaxcala uses detailed drawings to depict the time of contact and conflict between Hernando Cortez and various people groups in and around the Tlaxcala region of Mexico. The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is...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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Map of Lower CaliforniaPreserve for the Future – $975 This document is an early 20th-century road map of Baja California published by the Automobile Club of Southern California, one of the constituent groups of the American Automobile Association (AAA). Smithsonian botanist E. Yale Dawson (1918–1966) used the map to notate locations of collected cacti...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 |
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Meissen-Glas. Nachtrag-Katalog Nr. 65Build 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. Nachtrag-Katalog Nr. 65 has 8 pages of illustrations, mostly in color. They advertise hanging light fixtures and wall sconces and came in a variety of...Read More |
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Memoria Sopra la Scossa che Provano gli AnimaliBuild and Access the Collection – $700 Three works by Stefano Marianini, follower of Volta's work on electro-motors, and professor of physics in Venice and then in Modena. Bound with:
Marianini, Stefano. Memoria sopra la teoria chimica degli elettromotori voltiani. Venezia: Dalla tip. di Alvisopoli, 1830.
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Metal-Work and Its Artistic DesignPreserve for the Future – $2,600 Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877) was a British architect and art historian who championed the role of the designer in the manufacturing process. He was most famous for his two volume work, The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, which he composed as Secretary of the Great Exhibition...Read More |
