Aug 11, 2020 Book of the week — Idea de una nueva historia general de la america…

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Jul 21, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lectures

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from Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1688 “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” We miss our books, we miss holding our books, we miss our classroom, we miss our students, we miss putting our books...

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Jul 20, 2020 Book of the Week — Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle

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“Don’t fancy I attempt dancing—no, no. I am well content to look on.” -- Elizabeth Gould The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle… Charles Darwin (1809-1882) London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839-43 First edition Zoology was first published as a five-volume unbound book in nineteen parts as they were...

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Jul 13, 2020 Book of the Week — The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent…

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“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building to make it stand.” – Mark Twain The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the… New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1870 F594 C46 This is one in a series of pictorial guide-books published by T. Nelson and...

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Jul 06, 2020 Book of the Week — Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah

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"After following some miles down the ravine upon which we had encamped, we struck upon an Indian lodge-trail, leading either to Cache Valley or to Ogden's Hole. This we followed in nearly a southerly direction, crossing many deep hollows and very steep ridges, up which...

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Jun 30, 2020 Book of the week — Georgii agricolae…de re metallica libri xii…

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"There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be able to dig out the veins easily and advantageously, and...

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Jun 22, 2020 Book of the week — Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted, Desolate, reluctant as any landscape To yield what are laws of perspective After all only to the painter's deep Mistrust, a weak instrument though Necessary. Of course some things Are possible, it knows, but it doesn't know Which ones. Some day we will try To do...

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Jun 17, 2020 The Whites of Their Eyes — Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775

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"The fire of the American troops, delivered at short range, was so overwhelming, that Pigot was forced to order a retreat. The same fate attended Howe's attack on the left, where the same tactics were pursued by the Americans, with like success." Rare Books celebrates...

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Jun 08, 2020 Book of the Week — Woman Suffrage in Utah

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"The franchise conferred by a theocracy, exercised in dominance, made to conserve its power, to perpetuate polygamous life, and to clothe lawlessness with authority, is not the franchise of a Christian republic." Woman Suffrage in Utah Angelia French Thurston Newman (1837-1910) Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1886 JK1911 U8...

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Jun 01, 2020 Book of the Week — The Central Gold Region

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"The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent — to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward — to set the principle of self-government...

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