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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and MoralBuild 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 |
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PolycystinsBuild 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 |
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The Porcelain of Hung-HsienBuild 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 |
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Porcelaines, Faiences & CristauxBuild 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 |
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Practical Gold-MiningPreserve for the Future – $650 Imagine that you are a Victorian gentleman with a reasonable income and a mid-life crisis. You hear about a gold strike somewhere in the far corners of the earth (to you, at least). In hopes of turning your bourgeois into gorgeois, you pack up your things and say "Toodle-oo" to the missus. What’s...Read More |
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The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of ColoursBuild 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 |
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The Principles of Natural PhilosophyBuild 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 |
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Promotional Brochure for Bicentennial ParkBuild 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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Psyche : Figures of Non-Descript Lepidopterous Insects, or Rare Moths and Butterflies From Different Parts of the WorldBuild and Access the Collection – $1,350 Best known as a botanist and conchologist, Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) also published works on entomology. His Psyche is a famous and famously rare work, once thought to exist in only 10 copies, and while that number has been expanded to about 18, they are all different in the number of plates...Read More |
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Pyrite [Fool's Gold]Build and Access the Collection – $250 David Rickard gives gold’s poor relation the royal treatment in this scholarly work on the mineral pyrite. Rickard presents both the social uses of pyrite—from historical accounts—and the scientific nature of the mineral. Whether a scientist is researching the history of an older piece of metalwork...Read More |
