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Images of Canada : Illustrations from Old and Rare Books This website
hosts 550 searchable images (mostly engravings) from the National Library
of Canada's Rare Book Collection. All of the images are taken from old
books, often exploration or missionary narratives, published before the
year 1800. These particular images have been selected because they depict
geography that is now part of Canada or events that are significant in
Canadian history
Old and antiquarian books on Canada & U.S., Old and Rare Books, Libraries,
Manuscripts, Book Collectors, Rare Bibles, Americana, Canadiana Books
www.buriedantiques.com
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Significant literary collections include rare editions and signed works
by Rupert Brooke, Joseph Conrad, Robert Frost, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, T. E.
Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Siegfred Sassoon, and Glenway
Wescott. Also of note is the Sherwood Anderson Collection, donated by Dr. John
H. Sullivan ('57), and collections of literary criticism of both James Joyce and
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Marquette
University Library
One of English literature's most valuable works - a First Folio of William
Shakespeare's plays - has been sold by Oxford University's Oriel College for an
estimated £3.5 million to pay for building repairs and textbooks.
College sells First Folio of the Bard to pay bills By Catherine Milner, Arts
Correspondent (Filed: 02/03/2003)
In his lifetime no one did more than Ernest Thompson Seton
to promote the
idea that nature is a very good thing
Outside of the Library of Congress, Zeidberg said, the Huntington Library
is
"probably the most heavily used library of rare materials in the country.' In
the 305 days the library was open for research last year, some 1,700 scholars
made 22,000 visits to the library, using more than 360,000 items from its rare
collections, mostly manuscripts
Felix Darley's web site. Self-taught, Felix Octavius Carr Darley created an
immense volume of work over a long career Beginning as a staff artist with a
Philadelphia publisher and then moving to Delaware in 1859, he illustrated on a
wide variety of subjects. While in Delaware, Darley illustrated such famous
literary works as Charles Dickens' ``A Tale of Two Cities;'' Nathaniel
Hawthorne's ``The Scarlet Letter;'' Clement Clark Moore's a ``A Visit From Saint
Nicholas;'' Washington Irving's ``The Legend of Sleepy Hallow,'' ``Rip Van
Winkle,'' and the five-volume ``Life of George Washington;'' and Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow's ``Evangeline
The Vancouver Library
has a great site on Book Collecting
Discovery of huge book collection puts local bookstore owner in heaven
Searching
for fine Art online will never replace Art reference books.
Art Cyclopedia
Artlex art dictionary
Artchive. browse the
virtual galleries and special exhibits
Art in context. Reference library includes images, art dealers and current
exhibitions
the-artist.org. The A to Z bible on the 20th-century artist
Images of Native Americans at the Bancroft Library
Lost Book Surfaces On eBay
Historic Cities
A Book Lover in Scotland
Among my favourites are PG
Wodehouse’s novels, George Orwell’s essays, Kenneth Grahame’s, The Wind in the
Willows, and that shaggy bear of a book, Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
Christmas Books and Ephemera Children's books are the speciality of
Aleph-bet, though the ones they offer are now adult collector's items having
been among the few to survive to attentions of the children to whom they were
originally given. Frank L Baum's Christmas Stocking Series were extremely
popular pre World War I but it is now rare to find a complete set comprising The
Night Before Christmas, Little Black Sambo, Story of Peter Rabbit, Fair Tales
from Grimm, Fairy Tales from Andersen, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty in a box;
Aleph-bet have a set in the original Christmas steamer trunk for $2,800.
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