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February 28th, 7 pm ET Register via Zoom Zines are celebrations of self-expression. These unique documents often combine first-person narratives and frank opinion pieces with interviews, reviews, and musings on art, music, and culture. Popu…
Initia doctrinae physicae : dictata in Academia VVitebergensi By Philipp Melanchthon. Lipsiae: Iohannes Rhamba excudebat, 1563. Early edition (first 1549) of this influential physics text by the German humanist and reformer, Philipp Melanch…
The Trade Literature Collection—the catalogs and publications that were once part of the merchandising of business—is internationally known as an important source for the history of business, technology, marketing, consumption, and design.
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The Anthropology Library, officially known as the John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology, is located within the Anthropology Department of the National Museum of Natural History. Its collection reflects the important role that the Smith…
Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1844-1867. Conceived and directed by the naturalist Bory de Saint Vincent, one of the first modern, systematic biological surveys of northern Africa was undertaken by the Fren…
Alberti Ritter gymnasii Ilfeldensis regii con-rectoris Commentatio II. De zoolithodendroidis in genere et in specie de Schvvartzburgico-Sondershusanis curiosissimis ac formosissimis : vna cum supplemento rerum naturalium et curiosarum huius…
Explore early handmade books through the myriad natural materials—animal, vegetable, and mineral—that went into their making. Nature of the Book shows what the use of these varied and sometimes surprising resources can tell us about the boo…
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