Sep 05, 2023 Book of the week — Color Standards and Color Nomenclature
Color Standards and Color Nomenclature Robert Ridgway (1850-1925) Washington, D. C.: The author, 1912 QC495 R5 Robert Ridgway, ornithologist and full-time curator of birds at the United States National Museum, was renowned for the accuracy with which he painted birds and was unmatched in his eye for the coloration....
Aug 28, 2023 License to Print in the Name of the King
"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...
May 01, 2023 Book of the Week — Local Conditions
"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...
Apr 26, 2023 Book of the Week — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"The world is everything, and that is the case." Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) New York; London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1922 BC135 W5 1992 Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He was raised Catholic, despite his mostly Jewish ancestry....
Apr 22, 2023 Book of the Week — Earth Day Cards: Eight Meditations
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wildness yet...
Mar 08, 2023 Book of the Week — An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex…
“There remains nothing more, but to shew that there are some necessary Qualifications to be acquir’d, some good Improvements to be made by Ingenious Gentlemen in the Company of our Sex. Of this number are Complacence, Gallantry, Good Humour, Invention, and an Art…” An Essay in...
Feb 14, 2023 Book of the Week — Apologie du Silence en Amour
Silence, then, becomes the companion of lovers...
Jan 31, 2023 Journal of the Week — Cope’s Smoke Room Booklets
"At a time when the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines was designed to strike the lowest common denominator of popular taste, the Tobacco Plant did its substantial bit to maintain a lively interest in literary topics among ordinary middle-class readers. Seldom, before or since,...
Jan 23, 2023 Book of the Week — Hokusai Manga
"Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer." — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro,1814-1878 NE1325 K3 H64 vol.14 To the modern Western world there is, perhaps, one image that stands out above the rest as being emblematic of...