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Die Textilien aus PalmyraBuild and Access the Collection – $250 The ancient city of Palmyra was, for a number of centuries, an important trading center for materials transported across the Silk Road to and from many points in Asia and the Middle East. Much of our current understanding of silk in antiquity comes from the study of material from Palmyra. This...Read More |
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Die Versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirges von Wettin und Lobejun im SallkreiseBuild and Access the Collection – $2,400 This book by Germar (1786-1853), a professor of mineralogy at the University of Halle and the director of its mineralogical cabinet/museum, focuses on fossils discovered in Saxony, constituting some of the earliest fossil material described in Europe. It is of considerable importance to...Read More |
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Discours Sur la Structure des Fleurs, Leurs Differences et l'Usage de Leurs Parties....Build and Access the Collection – $4,125 This short publication by a little-known botanist gave Linnaeus the diagnostic tools and the anatomical terminology for his sexual system of classifying plants. After studying botany under Tournefort at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Vaillant (1669-1722) established a herbarium there and showed...Read More |
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Diseases and Enemies of PoultryBuild and Access the Collection – $250 While he graduated with a degree in agriculture at Cornell, it was summer work on combating contagious diseases in cattle that led to Dr. Leonard Pearson’s (1868-1909) interest in veterinary medicine. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school, Dr. Pearson continued his...Read More |
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Dr. Chase's Recipes, or, Information for EverybodyBuild and Access the Collection – $350 Alvin Wood Chase (1817-1885) was a travelling physician, salesman, author, and self-made man. He dispensed remedies all over America during the late nineteenth century, collecting recipes and domestic tips from the people he met along the way. His self-published books became celebrated U.S....Read More |
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The Ecology of Atlantic ShorelinesBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Even as our understanding of ecological systems evolve, there are touchstone texts that lay the foundations of our understanding. Ecology of Atlantic Shorelines by Mark Bertness is such a touchstone for these unique coastal ecosystems.
Covering coastal geology and the ecology of coastal...Read More |
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Eine Gläserne Flinte und Zugleich Nüzliche BergwerksmaschieneBuild and Access the Collection – $3,400 This fugitive promotional piece advertises the author's invention, a portable electric lighter, which he designed for mining and smelting but which had much broader uses. The lighter is considered in the literature of the history of science the first electric household appliance. A German pioneer...Read More |
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Emperor Kangxi and The Sun King Louis XIVBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Emperor Kangxi and King Louis XIV of France, also known as Louis the Great, were both considered among the greatest rulers of their respective countries. They have been compared politically and militarily, but few comparisons in artistic achievements have been done. Both rulers came to the...Read More |
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Epistola de Praecipuis Naturae et Artis Curiosis Speciminibus MuseiBuild and Access the Collection – $1,250 The natural history rare book collection includes a growing body of publications describing, cataloging, illustrating, and/or discussing early natural history cabinets and specimen collections. They are important to scientific researchers for identifying collections and individual specimens that...Read More |
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Experimental Gallery Records from the Exhibit CasitasBuild and Access the Collection – $250 From his arrival at the Smithsonian in 1984, Secretary Robert McCormick Adams felt the Institution needed to challenge visitors to wrestle with societal ills of the 1980s, including persistent inequality and prejudice. Secretary Adams felt that the "Smithsonian must strive for sensitivity to the...Read More |
