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Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by American Negro ArtistsBuild and Access the Collection – $950 The American Negro Artists show (1929 and 1930) was part of a traveling exhibition of African American art sponsored by the Harmon Foundation and the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) staged in the Smithsonian’s National Museum building (known today as the Arts and Industries Building). Most of the...Read More |
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Catalogue de la Collection Archéologique Provenant des Fouilles et ExplorationsBuild and Access the Collection – $2,750 This rare catalogue of an exhibition in Paris in 1883 – held by only six libraries in the U.S. – provides descriptions and brief historical explanations of 102 antiquities from Mexico and the Yucatan that famed French archaeologist Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) acquired during an expedition of...Read More |
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Catalogue d'une tres-belle collection des objets de troise regnes de la nature...Build and Access the Collection – $5,500 This is the auction catalogue of one of the most impressive private collections of natural-history specimens ever formed. Pasquay (1719-77) was a physician in Frankfurt and privy councilor of Anhalt-Dessau; he formed the collection over many years, assembling more than 9000 specimens of minerals,...Read More |
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Catalogue of Singer Sewing-MachinesPreserve for the Future – $550 The Singer name is synonymous with sewing machines. In addition to making the first practical use sewing machine for the home in 1851, Isaac Merritt Singer made important design improvements to sewing machines used for clothing, leather, and other industries.
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Catalogus Variorum Exoticorum Rarissimorum Maximam Partem Incognitorum et Nullibi...Build and Access the Collection – $3,160 This is an extremely rare catalogue of a private natural-history collection in the early 18th century, not held by any other library in North America. Abraham Vater (1684-1751) was a German physician and professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Wittenberg. In that connection he also...Read More |
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Ceramica Industrial "El Aguila, S.A."Build and Access the Collection – $450 This catalog is from the Mexican “Eagle Industrial Ceramic Co.” With beautiful full-color chromolithographic illustrations of the tiles, it demonstrates the various uses of their designs for fountains, seating, open spaces, and other decorative design applications, as well as samples of individual...Read More |
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Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch MarketBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This is a catalog of Chinese porcelain decorated with Dutch family coats of arms, the arms of Dutch provinces and cities, and monograms. These items were made-to-order for members of the Dutch patrician class. This catalog illustrates and analyzes 455 of the approximately 500 Dutch armorial...Read More |
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Codex CortesianusBuild and Access the Collection – $2,250 Léon de Rosny, a French ethnologist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wrote this volume describing a Native Central American object in the collection of a Spanish museum. In the 1860s, two fragments of ancient Mayan language surfaced in Spain. Léon de Rosny was one of the first...Read More |
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Codex NuttallPreserve for the Future – $550 This 1902 facsimile is one of a small number of codices of native pictography from Mexico dating to pre-Hispanic times. The original is a screenfold manuscript comprised of 47 leaves of deer skin now in the British Museum. It uses a kind of picture writing to relate two narratives...Read More |
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Collection P. Barboutau, V. 1Preserve for the Future – $1,300 This is volume one of a two-volume catalog of the Japanese art collection of Pierre Barboutau (1862-1916) auctioned off on June 3, 1904 in Paris. Barboutau was one of the great 19th century collectors in France and this catalog has become a highly important reference for Japanese prints, paintings...Read More |
