“Oh, the sea is so full of a number of fish, If a fellow is patient, he might get his wish!” McElligot’s Pool Dr. Seuss New York: Random House, 1947 First edition This is the first of Dr. Seuss’s books to be illustrated in full color. Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss,...
“…in which true images of fish are displayed.” Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus ver piscium effigies Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) Lugduni: M. Bonhomme, 1554-1555 First edition QL41 R6 Guillaume Rondelet was one of the first of sixteenth century scientists to break with the eighteen-hundred-year-old tradition among natural historians of quoting or...
“I’ve been looking for you, said the fishman, unable to advance or retreat. They say you can soothe my dreams.” Catching a River Alisa J. Golden Berkeley: never mind the press, 1993 One net bag with three folded parts. “start with a sturdy boat. start with a heavy book. start...
El Ama del Cura “Dear reader, it will not have escaped your insightful sensitivity that you are the friend to whom I have written from the beginning.” — Jose Maria Tenorio, loosely translated by Luise Poulton Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores Madrid: Gaspar y...
Dr. Ronald Rubin has donated four issues of early American newspapers highlighting Jewish contributions to commerce. The Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, October 9, 1781, features an advertisement by Haym Salomon, broker, considered the Financier of the American Revolution. In the news that day, a report on the war...
“All for the People and all Through the People” — Programma Revolution had been bleeding red on the tongues of Russian citizens for a least a decade before the fateful Autumn of 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas II, ending the 300 year...
“this is how it is longing sets in as days shorten and nights, well, nights shoulder their way right into day. it helps to have a sense of humor, a big stack of cordwood, skis waiting for snow, a book and a chair, some paper to draw on, cloth to stitch with thread: threads to tie it...
“Dedicated to the officers and men of the Utah Air National Guard whose past accomplishments, sincere endeavor, and esprit de corps have been an inspiration to all air units and with whom it has been our privilege to serve.” Title: Vapor Trails: 1949, 191st Fighter Squadron Author:...
“Also mein allerliebster bruder, sterck dich ynn dem Hern und sey gestrost ynn seiner mechtigen krafft, auff das du erkennest, tragest, liebest, und lobest aus gutwilligem hertzen, den veterlichen willen Gottes. Du werdest ledig odder nicht. Das du aber solches vermogest zu ehren seines heyligen...
“…yours until the final ghosts from darkened fires rise like filaments on the low blue-grey edge of light and air, to shine like music must, momentarily, to the blind.” Autumn’s End Christopher Buckley Lagniappe Press, 1992 PS3552 U339 A98 1992 Printed in October 1992 with 12 point Dante. The poem first appeared in “Hubbub,” Fall 1992....