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Beschreibung Eines EllipsographBuild and Access the Collection – $800 A superb monograph on the theory, construction and use of a mechanical drawing device to describe ellipses. The author, Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767 1852) was a German scientist, the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat (University of Tartu), being elected by the University Council...Read More |
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Bible [in Mohawk]Build and Access the Collection – $4,500 Native American languages have been a central research interest at the Smithsonian since the late 1800s when anthropologist John Wesley Powell founded the Bureau of American Ethnology and (who is he?) James C. Pilling compiled his still-authoritative bibliographies on Native American linguistic...Read More |
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Biggle Orchard BookPreserve for the Future – $350 This pocket sized book is part of the Biggle Farm Library, a collection of numerous volumes that cover a gamut of agricultural topics from gardening to beekeeping to raising pigs and horses. The author, Jacob Biggle, states that his book “aims to tell the inquiring reader just what he or she needs...Read More |
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Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera.Preserve for the Future – $1,300 The Biologia Centrali-Americana is an important literary resource of Central American biodiversity. Issued between 1879 to 1915 in 215 parts, the series resulted from scientific surveys and explorations during the turn of the 20th century. The BCA is a scarce resource in Latin America research...Read More |
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Biological Conservation Newsletter, Numbers 105–116Build and Access the Collection – $300 The Biological Conservation Newsletter was established in 1981 to develop awareness among both scientists and the general public to the environmental changes caused by human activities. The monthly newsletter highlighted conservation research and activities being undertaken by Smithsonian...Read More |
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Birth of the CoolBuild and Access the Collection – $500 Birth of the Cool may be the coolest book you will ever see. In this 2008 exhibition catalog of his first retrospective, Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) distills black identity into powerful three-quarter and full-length portraits that teem with style and attitude. His sitters are unapologetic in...Read More |
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Black American Heritage Through United States Postage StampsBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This thin, 26 page booklet has both color portraits and black and white pencil sketches of prominent heroes of Black History. Written by three Black doctors, it was published in Washington, D.C. Part One is arranged in chronological order based on significant events in American history. For...Read More |
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Black GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Kenneth J. Kutz is the former President of Texasgulf Mining Corporation. He is also the former President of the Collectors Club of New York. The Collectors Club of New York was founded in 1896, making it one of the oldest existing philatelic societies in the United States. This book is about the...Read More |
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Black Radio: Telling It Like It WasBuild and Access the Collection – $550 Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was was a 13-part Smithsonian Productions program that highlighted the history of African American radio through interviews with radio hosts, record executives, and cultural historians. Produced by Jacquie Gales Webb and hosted by Lou Rawls, it won two Gold Medals at...Read More |
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Black, Red, and DeadlyBuild and Access the Collection – $250 You may know the names of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, or Pat Garrett. But what about Buss Luckey, the Rufus Buck Gang, the Lighthorsemen, or Zeke Miller? Although whites dominate popular depictions of the lawless west, Black, Red and Deadly presents the sagas of African-American and American Indian...Read More |
