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Kunstoffner

Kunstoffner

Preserve for the Future – $400
Kunstöffner is a kit designed to encourage a young person’s appreciation of art through objects in the collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich, one of the most significant art collections in Switzerland. The cover image of Andy Warhol’s Big Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Vegetable Beef) and the metal case...Read More
Kurtze Betrachtung derer Kräuterabdrücke im Steinreiche

Kurtze Betrachtung Derer Kräuterabdrücke im Steinreiche

Build and Access the Collection – $1,500
Schulze, a German physician (1730-1775) with interests in mineralogy and paleontology, was a pioneer of paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. He is credited with recognizing the true nature of fossils, rejecting the supernatural explanations that had held sway for centuries. The Smithsonian...Read More
Drinking cups, dippers and dog whistles from the manufacturing firm.

Lalance & Grosjean

Preserve for the Future – $600
This 1885 trade catalog includes illustrations, descriptions, and prices for hundreds of metal tablewares, kitchen utensils, and plumbing fixtures produced by the New York firm of Lalance & Grosjean Manufacturing Co. The company, started by French immigrants Charles Lalance and...Read More
Cover of Lancome

Lancôme

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This is an exclusive early trade catalog of the great French perfumer produced by Draeger, the talented French designer and printer. A photographic illustration for each fragrance is included, along with a full description of each product, including details of the bottle and packaging....Read More
Huey excerpt in Land where time stands still

Land Where Time Stands Still

Build and Access the Collection – $300
In 1941, Max Miller financed an expedition the length of the Baja Peninsula with two natural history scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum, Frank Gander and Laurence Huey. Miller mentions briefly and ominously of the Japanese submarine presence in Magdalena Bay on the Baja...Read More
Title and plate of Les Peintres Indiens d'Amerique, vol. 2

Les Peintres Indiens D'Amérique

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These two portfolio volumes — each available separately for adoption — contain 77 individual plates by Native American artists. The author Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966) a Swedish-born American was a painter himself and a collector of Native American art. He served as the director of the...Read More
Title and plate of Les Peintres Indiens d'Amerique, vol. 1

Les Peintres Indiens D'Amérique

Build and Access the Collection – $1,200
These two portfolio volumes — each available separately for adoption — contain 77 individual plates by Native American artists. The author Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966) a Swedish-born American was a painter himself and a collector of Native American art. He served as the director of the...Read More
Les robes de Paul Poiret racontées par Paul Iribe

Les Robes de Paul Poiret

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The popularity of the French fashion plate was revitalized in the early part of the 20th century by artists like Paul Iribe (1883-1935), working with fashion designers such as Paul Poiret. These illustrations were hand colored using the pochoir process, whereby stencils and metal plates are used...Read More
Les trochilidées, ou, les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches

Les Trochilidées, ou, les Colibris et les Oiseaux-Mouches

Build and Access the Collection – $5,250
René Primevère Lesson, having served as surgeon/pharmacist/naturalist on the round-the-world scientific voyage of the Coquille (1822-1825), subsequently published several works in ornithology and mammalogy. Les Trochilidées is the third and last volume of his classic work on hummingbirds, and its...Read More
Less Than Nothing - cover

Less Than Nothing

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“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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