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Jun 28, 2021 Book of the Week — Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River

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We have amongst our men, a great variety of dispositions. Some who have not been accustomed to the kind of life they are to lead in future, look forward to it with eager delight, and talk of stirring incidents and hair-breadth ‘scapes. Others who are...

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Oct 13, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Travelers: Forty Years of Books To Go

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"Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!" -- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. Since 1977 they have worked both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering...

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Nov 15, 2019 Book of the week — Tychonis Brahe Mathim: eminent: Dani Opera omnia, sive Astronomiae instavratae progymnasta…

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"On the 11th day of November in the evening after sunset, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky. I noticed that a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy, was shining almost directly above my head; and since I had,...

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May 22, 2017 Book of the Week — A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

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“The fact that certain bodies, after being rubbed, appear to attract other bodies, was known to the ancients. In modern times, a great variety of other phenomena have been observed, and have been found to be related to these phenomena of attraction.” — James Clerk...

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Apr 29, 2016 Book of the Week, after a conversation with a reader — Ka buke o na berita amen a kauoha

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“A eia kekahi, i kona heluhelu ana, ua hoopihaia oia me ka Uhane o ka Haku.” KA BUKE O NA BERITA AMEN A KAUOHA San Francisco, 1855 First edition The first missionary work in Hawai’i for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1850, when Charles...

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