Towards the end of summer I drove up to New Haven Connecticut to visit a friend from college and check out some current photography exhibits. New Haven, the cultural capital of Connecticut and home of Ivy League college Yale is quite the poppin off town. Catering mostly to the college demographic the town is filled with vintage stores, coffee shops, and museums galore. The coolest in my opinion is The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Not only is the stuff in it cool, but the building itself is an architectural beauty.
#rare book
The beautiful 1894 edition of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, with illustrations and binding designed by Hugh Thomson.
The 1894 edition of Pride and Prejudice is rightly praised for its illustrations by Hugh Thomson, described as ‘Fey, anachronistic, and self-consciously escapist’ by Simon Cooke, but it is the iconic binding design by the same artist which really draws the eye. The stunning peacock stamped in gilt on the upper board reflects both the themes of wealth and display with which the novel is preoccupied, but it also suggests themes of courtship and the excesses of vanity which underlie the novel; ’Thomson’s design is extravagant, excessive, self-indulgent, and, in a calculated sense of the term, pointless beyond its ornamentalism: the very qualities that characterize the lives of Austen’s personae and are summed up in his luxurious image.’ This edition is also important for including in its introduction by George Saintsbury the first use of the term ’Janeite’ to describe devotees of Austen’s work.
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Mother’s Day is this Sunday so we would love to show you a sweet, sweet dedication.
It is very sweet to dedicate a book to your mother even if it does sound like a competition with a sister who has already done so. Almira does not only dedicate the book to her mother but gives her credit by calling out a mother’s affect: “that she may find the pious sentiments imbibed from herself, in some degree reflected from the following pages, is the wish of her daughter, Almira H. Lincoln.”
Familiar lectures on botany (1832) by Mrs. Phelps Lincoln.
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Well, would you look at that? It’s
B O N E T I M E
(From Helkiah Crooke’s 1616 “Mikrokosmographia”)
Happy October
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There are many benefits to being a marine biologist
(From the September 1886 issue of “The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine”)
One of our favorite books in our Native American literature collection within our special collections is In the Presence of the Sun by N. Scott Momaday, which has 16 letterpress-printed, hand-colored Plains Indian shield drawings, including these beauties…
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One of our favorite books in our Native American literature collection within our special collections is In the Presence of the SunbyN. Scott Momaday, which has 16 letterpress-printed, hand-colored Plains Indian shield drawings, including these beauties…
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Currentlyon view in our special collections is the first topographical view of a city in the Liber Cronicarum, this of Jerusalem, along with the page spread on the verso of this leaf which shows the construction of the Tower of Babel. This week only, these two page-spreads from our two Latin editions of the Nuremberg Chronicles; next week, new leaves, new views…
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Memoria del taller de educación popular Sexualidades, géneros y subjetividades: la educación como práctica de la libertad : 14, 21 y 28 de marzo y 4 de abril del 2003, Universidad Popular Madres de Plaza de Mayo
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Universidad Popular Madres de Plaza de Mayo, 2003 - 128 páginas
Memoria elaborada por Patricia Agosto y Roxana Longo
EN VENTA AQUI
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