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Book of the Week – Zuschrift an Seine Zuhoerer Worinnen…

24 Monday Feb 2014

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Branschweig, E.G. von Kleist, electrical condensor, electricity, Halle, Johann Gottlob Krueger, Leyden jar, medicine

Kruger, Zuschrift…, 1744, Title Page
Kruger, Zuschrift…, 1744
Kruger, Zuschrift…, 1744, End Page

Zuschrift an Seine Zuhoerer Worinnen…
Johann Gottlob Krueger (1715-1759)
Halle: C.H. Hemmerde, 1744
First edition
QC516 K7

Johann Krueger was Professor of Medicine at Halle, and later at Branschweig. He was fairly well-known in his day as an electrical experimenter. He was one of the few persons to whom E.G. von Kleist communicated his invention of the Leyden jar (the electrical condensor). Krueger’s interest in electricity was largely in possible medical applications, as suggested in this lecture. This printing of his lecture is unrecorded. The first recorded printing is dated 1745.

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Rare Books in Outside Online

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

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America, Astoria, HarperCollins, John Jacob Astor, Northwest, Outside Online, Overland Party, Peter Stark, rare books, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving

An image from our first edition copy of Washington Irving’s Astoria (1836) was used for an Outside Online post: An excerpt from a new book about the legendary Overland Party attempts to establish America’s first commercial colony on the wild and unclaimed Northwest coast. The book, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire, a Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival  by Peter Stark was released this month from HarperCollins. The image was also used in the book.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration/Astoria-John-Jacob-Astor-and-Thomas-Jefferson.html

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Book of the Week – The Life of George Washington, Commander in…

17 Monday Feb 2014

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C. P. Wayne, Chief Justice, David Edwin, engraving, frontispiece, George Washington, Gilbert Stuart, John Marshall, Philadelphia, President, stipple-engraving

Marshall, The Life of George Washington, 1804

Marshall, The Life of George Washington, 1804

The Life of George Washington, Commander in…
John Marshall (1755-1835)
Philadelphia: Printed and published by C.P. Wayne, 1804-07
First edition
E312 M33 1-5

Shortly after John Marshall became Chief Justice he was asked by George Washington’s nephew to write the first President’s official biography. As a personal friend of Washington, it was Marshall who announced the death of the President in 1799, offered the eulogy, chaired the committee that arranged the funeral rites, and led the commission to plan a monument in the capital city. Marshall wrote this biography using records and papers provided him by the President’s family. The seminal work was written as the Chief Justice was beginning the enormous task of constructing the judicial review and the American system of constitutional law. Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait of Washington, introduced to the public through the engraved frontispiece of this work, was produced by Philadelphia stipple-engraver David Edwin. The second edition of this five volume work was issued within one year of the first.

 

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Rare Books Online Exhibition

14 Friday Feb 2014

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Alison Conner, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, pamphlets, Thomas Paine, William Pitt

New Online Exhibition – Fighting Words: American Revolutionary War Pamphlets

Fighting Words

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Book of the Week – Valentines to the Wide World

10 Monday Feb 2014

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Cummington Press, Curtis Rag, Eldora, Fred Becker, Harry Duncan, Iowa, Iowa City, Jarvis Thurston, K. Kimer Merker, Lutetia Italic, Mona Van Duyn, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Northern Iowa University, paper, Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature, poem, Raeburn Miller, Romanee, St. Louis, typefaces, University of Iowa, University of Louisville, Washington University, Waterloo

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Van Duyn, Valentines, 1958, The Gentle Snorer
Van Duyn, Valentines, 1958, Paratrooper

Valentines to the Wide World
Mona Van Duyn (1921- 2004)
Iowa City: Cummington Press, 1958
First edition
PS3543 A563 V3 1958

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Mona Van Duyn grew up in the small town of Eldora, Iowa (pop. 3,200) where she read voraciously and secretly wrote poems in her school notebooks from grade school to high school. In a 1991 interview she recalled a typical punishment in small town Iowa grade school: “One was made to stay after school and learn a poem.”

Ouch! Van Duyn earned a B.A. from Northern Iowa University in 1942, and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1943, the year she married Jarvis Thurston. In 1946 she was hired as an instructor at the University of Louisville when her husband became an assistant professor there. Together they began Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature in 1947 and continued it at Washington University in St. Louis when they moved there in 1950. Van Duyn lectured in the University College adult education program until her retirement in 1990. In 1983, a year after she had published her fifth book of poems, she was named an adjunct Professor in the English Department and became the “Visiting Hurst Professor” in 1987, the year she was invited to be a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. She was awarded numerous national prizes, awards, and fellowships.  She served as the first female Poet Laureate of the United States.

Printed by Raeburn Miller, K. Kimer Merker, and Harry Duncan with Romanee and Lutetia Italic typefaces on Curtis Rag paper. Edition of one hundred and eighty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 18.

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Book of the Week – Abrege Chronologique des Grands Fiefs de la…

03 Monday Feb 2014

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ballet, Desaint, fiefs, France, French, history, medieval, Mercure de France, opera, Paris, Paris Opera, Pierre Nicolas Brunet, poetry, Saillant

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Brunet, Abrege, 1759

Abrege Chronologique des Grands Fiefs de la…
Pierre Nicolas Brunet (1733-1771)
Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1759
First edition
DC36.6 B78 1759

Pierre Brunet was a French poet and dramatist. He is known for a heroic poem he published in 1756. Less successful were his plays, but he worked for several years with the Paris Opera on opera and ballet productions. He edited the political newspaper “Mercure de France,” contributing several pieces. Abrege is his longest and most serious attempt at writing, a history that he worked on with his father. Well-educated and articulate, Brunet was not a particularly good writer, nor was he a very strong researcher. Still, his history of medieval fiefs is an example of the study of medieval France going on in his day.

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