Birnbaum Collection: turkish manuscripts -- University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library -- Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada -- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
"Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print c…
This volume examines a number of different book lists from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It offers a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history.
This text describes the history and development of navigating instruments. Before satellites these were used to measure the altitude of the sun and stars above the horizon, to determine the ship's position at sea. It also contains a catalogue of 347 mariner's astrolabes, cross-s…
American pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: in conjunction with the Exhibition Revivals and R…
by Bolger, Doreen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Revivals and Revitalizations, American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Exhibition. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses a remarkable collection of about 175 pastels by important American artists such as Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur G. Dove, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Because of their extreme fragility, these works are rarely exhibited and are n…