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Gold FeverBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Author of eight books in the National Postal Museum Library alone (including Gold Fever, California Gold, Black Gold, Klondike Gold, and Victoria Gold) Kenneth Kutz is a gold enthusiast. This 400-page book tells the history of gold prospecting around the world and the effect it had on early...Read More |
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Gold Fever and the Art of Panning and SluicingBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Lois DeLorenzo gets down and dirty when explaining how to search for gold in the wilderness of North America. Her text and detailed drawings include information on how to assess whether an area is likely to contain gold deposits and how to build the tools necessary for panning and sluicing....Read More |
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The Golden Figures of Buddha and Buddhist Sites in ThailandBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Legend has it that during the third century B.C., the Indian emperor Ashoka (272-232 B.C.) sent monks to Thailand to spread the teachings of the Buddha. Archaeological evidence contradicts this story, indicating that the earliest contact between Thailand and India did not occur until 50-250 A....Read More |
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Goldrausch: Gegenwartskunst Aus, Mit Oder, Uber GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Gold Rush: Contemporary Art Made From, With or About Gold is an exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibit of the same title, which was featured at Kunsthalle Nürnburg (October 18, 2012 to January 13, 2013) and at Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar (February 17 to...Read More |
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The Gospel According to Mark...in the Language of the Dakotas = Wotanin Waxte Markus Owa Kin DeeBuild and Access the Collection – $8,500 This is one of the earliest and rarest works in the Dakota (Sioux) language. The text includes all sixteen chapters of the gospel of Saint Mark. It was created by having missionary Thomas Williamson read from the Book of Mark in French, which was then translated into Dakota by Joseph Renville, the...Read More |
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The Grammar of OrnamentBuild and Access the Collection – $2,750 This was the first encyclopedic pattern book that examined ornament from a variety of cultures and historic periods. Jones created the Grammar to educate designers and stressed the need for a study of historic styles in order to prepare for an ornamental language suitable to the new industrial age...Read More |
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The Great InversionBuild and Access the Collection – $250 This book examines American urban/suburban society, gentrification, and the implications of shifts for the future. It discusses commercial canyons and mass transit versus car-dominated cities versus postwar suburbs. It explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or...Read More |
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Gullah Culture in AmericaBuild and Access the Collection – $250 The book’s purpose is to take us behind-the-scenes so we can see what it’s like to grow up and live life in the Gullah community. Sayings such as “dog got four feet but can’t walk but one road” are uniquely Gullah. This translates to “you can only do one thing at a time.” The book has black adn...Read More |
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Handbuch fur Naturaliensammler oder Grundliche Anweisung die Naturkorper Aller Drei Reiche zu sammeln,...Build and Access the Collection – $920 Held by only one other library in North America, this book is a guide to collecting and preserving natural-history specimens. Thon (1792-1838) provides thorough and detailed instructions on the collecting, preparing, and stuffing of all manner of mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects, as well as...Read More |
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Herrn Georgii Galgemairs Kurtzer Gründlicher Gebesserter unnd Vermehrter UnderrichtBuild and Access the Collection – $3,850 Second, greatly expanded edition of a primer describing the construction & use of two instruments a proportional compass (Circkel) and lineal compass (Schregmäß) for the measurement of geometrical solids and lines, respectively. This 1615 edition is ninety-five pages longer than the initial...Read More |
