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Not All Okies Are WhiteBuild and Access the Collection – $300 The author of this book is currently a professor of English at the University of Arizona. Sixteen years ago, Geta J. LeSeur collected oral histories from Black cotton pickers in Arizona. These are a special population of migrant workers who formed their own community (not by choice, of course) the...Read More |
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Noted Porcelains of Successive DynastiesBuild and Access the Collection – $9,000 This color illustrated porcelain catalogue of Chinese culinary objects was compiled by the famous Ming art collector Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590). He was the first Chinese scholar to compile a catalogue of porcelains with colored illustrations. The manuscript was not published during...Read More |
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Notes et Souvenirs sur Charles MéryonPreserve for the Future – $750 Charles Méryon (1821 –1868) was a French artist and poet who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from colour blindness. Although now little-known in the English-speaking world, he is generally recognized as the most significant etcher of 19th century France. He wrote in verses which...Read More |
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Nvgvmouinvn Genvnvgvmouat Igiu Anishinabeg AnvmiajigBuild and Access the Collection – $995 Smithsonian Libraries has a premiere collection of published works on Native American languages. As Christian missionaries were often the first to make extended contact with native cultures and to devise a written alphabet for the native languages, many of the earliest works take the...Read More |
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Objets de Mon AffectionBuild and Access the Collection – $550 The “objects” of American artist Man Ray’s affection were small, limited-edition sculptures. Although influenced by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Ray eschewed the Duchampian term readymade, preferring a lyrical title based on a popular song, “The object of my affection is to change your complexion...Read More |
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On the Use of the Improved Papier MacheBuild and Access the Collection – $1,250 The Cooper Hewitt Library has a wonderful collection of 19th century ornament pattern books, patterns that continue to inspire artists and designers today. The Library also collects books about the use of materials and techniques. This particular book discusses the use of papier mâché as an...Read More |
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Opuscula Iuventutis Mathematica Curiosa...Build and Access the Collection – $4,000 The first part of this work describes a newly invented instrument of the era: a planisphere illustrated with a plate. A planisphere is a star chart analog computing instrument in the form of two adjustable disks that rotate on a common pivot. It can be adjusted to display the visible stars for any...Read More |
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Oriental Field Sports, Vol. 1Preserve for the Future – $650 This rare first edition, published in two volumes, is a fascinating series of anecdotes of wildlife and hunting in India told by Captain Thomas Williamson. Williamson served in a British regiment in Bengal and was an avid sportsman while there. Edward Orme (1775-1848), a British engraver,...Read More |
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Ornamental Textile Fabrics of All Ages and NationsBuild and Access the Collection – $450 Ornamental Textile Fabrics of All Ages and Nations: A Practical Collection of Specimens features specimens from Auguste Dupont-Auberville's collection of ornamental textile designs. The samples, reproduced as simple chromolithographs, serve as a showcase of European, Eastern, and Egyptian design...Read More |
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Osservazioni Sopra Alcuni Frammenti di Vasi Antichi di VetroPreserve for the Future – $450 Observations over some Fragments of Ancient Glass Vases Ornamented with Figures Found in Rome Cemeteries is the work of Filippo Buonarroti (Florence, 1661- 1733), an early scholar of Etruscan art and antiquities, studying the collection in the family palazzo-museum, Casa Buonarroti. He made a...Read More |
