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THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: BODY AND LANDSCAPE IN LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHS By Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector
Item# 9781858944340 WAS $75.00 NOW $37.50 Los Angeles, a sprawling, multi-ethnic city on the edge of a continent, conjures up imagery as seductive and contradictory as the place itself. Equal parts glamour and cataclysm, sunshine and noir, few cities have provoked visual representation as insistently as LA. This Side of Paradise explores the synergistic relationship between the city and photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the key themes of landscape and the body. Eschewing the traditional, chronological approach to the subject, this stunning book encompasses the full spectrum of documentary, commercial and artistic imagery, shedding new light on both LA and the photographic practices within it. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this stimulating and wide-ranging survey includes images by Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Garry Winogrand, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Herb Ritts, John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and many others.
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The Huntington for Kids By Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen
Item # 9780873282246 $24.95 Would you like to learn how to grow plants from seeds? Create your own portraits of friends and family members? Design your own bookplate? "The Huntington for Kids," written by children¹s book author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen and published by the Huntington Library Press, offers numerous activities to help children learn and express their creativity at home or at the Huntington. Go behind the scenes of the Huntington¹s galleries and gardens, and imagine what it¹s like to be a book collector, art curator, or gardener. You can also discover what curators and conservators do to make sure that treasures from the past will last for years to come. In addition to offering activities related to the Huntington¹s world-class collections of books, art, and plants, the volume lets kids journey back in time to experience life in Southern California as it was during the early twentieth century.
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What Hath God Wrought By Daniel Walker Howe
902 pages, hardcover Item #9780195078947 $35.00 Huntington Scholar Wins Pulitzer Prize in History Howe's panoramic narrative portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. He examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. He reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States.
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Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books
The Caldecott Medal, established in 1937 by the American Library Association, is awarded each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. While many people are familiar with this prestigious award, relatively few are acquainted with the English illustrator after whom it was named. Randolph Caldecott was one of the most popular book illustrators of the late nineteenth century. His picture books were issued two at a time every Christmas, from 1878 until his death in 1886. He chose the subjects on his own, drawing from a mix of age-old nursery rhymes, pieces by eighteenth-century writers, and nonsense he made up himself. With their humorous wordplay and exquisite illustrations, Caldecott's picture books continue to engage the imaginations of children and adults alike. This new edition reproduces nine of his most popular stories: The House that Jack Built, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Sing a Song for Sixpence, The Three Jovial Huntsmen, The Farmer's Boy, The Queen of Hearts, The Milkmaid, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Baby Bunting. This book is the third in the series of Huntington Library Children's Classics, which include facsimiles of favorite children's books from the Huntington's rare book collections. |
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Pressed in Time: American Prints 19051950 By Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy
The skyscraper, for instance, became a prime subject, admired for its roots in American architecture as well as its associations with national power. Prints frequently portrayed the city's inhabitants, often in crowded spaces where the distinctions between public and private life might become uncomfortably blurred. Depictions of the Depression of the 1930s suggest pessimism about the prospects for social justice in a capitalistic economy. Other prints demonstrate a heroic conception of industry and an idealized view of life in the nation's agrarian heartland. |
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Desert Plants : A Curator's Introduction to the Huntington Desert Garden By Gary Lyons
Softcover Item # 9780873282314 $24.95 This year the Huntington celebrates the centennial of its spectacular desert garden, one of the largest such collections of cacti and other succulents in the world. Visitors to the twelve-acre garden marvel at its more than 3,000 species, including the vivid blue and green Puya, a rare type of bromeliad; the Lithops, or "living stone," whose camouflaged leaves mimic the shape and color of rocks; and the dazzling red, orange, and yellow torch-like blooms of the winter-flowering aloe. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Lyons draws on decades of experience with these unusual specimens to explore the Huntington's desert garden. He tells of its early development, describes its principal collections, and gives instructions on the care and landscaping of desert gardens. |
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Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church By Kevin J. Avery
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) traveled the world, captured its beauty in countless paintings, and brought it home to live at Olana, his castle on the Hudson. The name Olana was inspired by a reference Church found to a fortress or a treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia; this extraordinary selection of Church's paintings from his collection at Olana puts the most cherished of his treasures on full display in a volume that includes 77 color plates. |
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John James Audubon and the Birds of America by Lee Vedder
Item # 9780873282178 $24.95 John James Audubon’s sumptuous four-volume edition of Birds of America, published between 1827 and 1838, contains 435 hand-colored life-size prints of 1,065 individual American birds. In tracing Audubon’s quest to produce this groundbreaking work, Vedder draws on the artist and naturalist’s own writings and the latest scholarship on his life and on Birds of America. Plates from the Huntington Library’s double-elephant folio are reproduced in color, including the wild turkey, Baltimore oriole, bald eagle, and the (once presumed extinct) ivory-billed woodpecker. Vedder provides with each plate a commentary on the unique characteristics of the species depicted, based on Audubon’s own observations in the field.
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| Kate Greenway's Mother Goose By Kate Greenway
Item # 0873282167 $14.95 Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were printed in German and French editions as well. One of Greenaway's early successes was Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes, first published in 1881. Her enchanting watercolors of children wearing clothing from an earlier age and frolicking in the countryside evoked the Victorian reader's sense of nostalgia for the rural life of eighteenth-century England and echoed Greenaway's own longing to retreat from the industrial, urban setting of her native London. This new edition of Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose reproduces illustrations from the rare 1881 edition in the Huntington Library's collections. The Huntington owns an extensive collection of books illustrated by Greenaway, several of her manuscripts, and nearly one hundred of her original drawings. |
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Sensation & Sensibility By Ann Bermingham
Item # 0300110022 WAS $39.95 NOW $19.97 Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to reflect the eighteenth-century aesthetic of sensibility. As a way of seeing, sensibility valued nature for its innocence and simplicity, and images, such as Gainsborough’s cottage subjects, for their power to move the viewer. This lovely book brings together the cottage door paintings and essays that discuss Gainsborough’s departure from the more naturalistic style of his earlier career and that place his new concern with sentimentalism and artificiality in the context of sensibility and the growing interest in expressive, even sensational, visual spectacles. To this end, contributors to the volume investigate new viewing practices associated with sensibility, the meaning of the cottage for Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the artist’s creation of affecting landscapes through the use of peasant subjects, and his theatrical treatment of these subjects in order to heighten his viewers’ emotional responses. |
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The Cornucopia: Being a Kitchen Entertainment and Cookbook By Judith Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman
Buy both The Cornucopia: Being a Kitchen Entertainment and Cookbook and A Celebration of Herbs for just $39.95 The Cornucopia, published to wide acclaim in 1973, is an exquisitely annotated collection of five centuries of European and American culture as seen through the eyes of both the chef and the gourmet. Drawing on more than 150 sources, beginning with The Forme of Cury (1390), through to the 1890s and some of the most beautiful examples of culinary Victoriana, this richly good-humored book tumbles out a virtual treasury of food lore, commentary and opinion, customs and attitudes, and more than three hundred delectable and tested recipes, given in their original format. From a 1598 recipe for “four and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie,” to an exquisite 1653 Izaak Walton recipe for stuffed pike, to an 1898 formula for a drink improbably named the ”Bosom Caresser” (sherry, brandy, sugar, an egg yolk, and a pinch of cayenne pepper), this unique volume is all the food lover could ask for. |
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: Expanded Third Edition The Wit and Wisdon of Charles T. Munger Foreward By Warren E. Buffett Edited By Peter D. Kaufman
Item #9781578645018 $49.00 Warren E. Buffett is the public face of Berkshire Hathaway and is rightly credited with its tremendous success. But there is another major contributor to the firm's legendary performance record, Charles T. Munger. Although less well-known to the general public than Buffett, he is an equally astute and effective teacher, as Poor Charlie's Almanack, a collection of his best talks, quotes, and ideas, will demonstrate. Throughout the book, Charlie displays his intellect, wit, integrity, and rhetorical flair. Using his encyclopedic knowledge, he cites references from classical orators to eighteenth-and nineteenth-century European literati to pop culture icons of the moment while simutaneously reinforcing the virtues of lifelong learning and intellectual curiosity. |
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| The Children's Garden Book By Olive Percival
Item # 0873282108 $24.95 A gardener "ought to have a little make-believe," the Southern California garden maven Olive Percival mused more than eighty years ago. Inspired by this principle, she devised plans for whimsical gardens that could be created by children and adults alike. Her delightful schemes included "The Garden of Aladdin," an enchanted, sunken orchard fragrant with kumquat, persimmon, and orange trees; "The Fairy Ring," a blue fairyland of forget-me-nots, larkspur, and borage; and "The Sliced Cake," a round, pink-and-white garden divided into wedges--the perfect setting for afternoon tea. Percival's charming illustrations and instructions for fifteen fanciful children's gardens, all selected from her unpublished manuscript in the Huntington Library, are reproduced for the first time in this volume, designed in keeping with her own arts and crafts aesthetic. Described by Percival as "a potpourri of flowery facts and garden lore," The Children's Garden Book shows children that the pleasures of one's own garden may be achieved through planning, patience, dedication, and imagination. |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Romantic Spirit By Carol Bishop
In this book, stemming from a deep emotiove connection to Frank Lloyd Wright's work, Carol Bishop captures its radiant energy with an inherent understanding of Wright's design philosophy. Bishop has made a pilgrimage across the United States focusing on Wright. In Frank Lloyd Wright: The Romantic Spirit she employs a unique combination of photography and paint which exudes an ephemeral quality that perfectly expresses the experience of Wright's buildings. She says, "Through photography I reveal how his architecture can force us to think and feel about harmony between nature and humanity." |
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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens By Peggy Park Bernal
Hardcover Item # 0873281438 $24.95 The treasures of The Huntington - literally, historic, artistic, and botanical - are captured in this beautiful volume. Lavishly illustrated with 140 full-color photographs and containing a wealth of information about the collections, the book is both a pictorial treat and a fascinating resource for anyone wanting to learn more about The Huntington.
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| The Huntington Library: Treasures from Ten Centuries
Book lovers now can take the treasures of the Huntington home in a new, lavishly illustrated pictorial co-published by the Huntington Library Press and Scala Publishing. The Huntington Library: Treasures from Ten Centuries throws open the vaults for perusal, providing a close-up look at both familiar icons and a host of lesser-known rarities. An introduction by Library Director David Zeidberg describes how Henry Huntington's personal collection became the foundation for one of the world's leading humanities research centers. Chapters written by the curators present highlights from the collections of medieval manuscripts, British and American history and literature, western Americana, early printed books, cartography, paleography, history of science and technology, and ephemera. |
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| Not of an Age But for All Time: SHAKESPEARE AT THE HUNTINGTON By Jane Purcell
The Huntington's Shakespeare collection is one of the four largest in the world. That an American library could match the collections of the two great libraries of England was a source of considerable pride to Henry Huntington. This generously illustrated volume introduces readers to Shakespeare the man, the poet, and the playwright, using examples from the Huntington's store of rare items. The book addresses the valuable scholarship that has resulted from studies of this collection. While most of the color illustrations are from the Huntington’s extra-illustrated Turner Shakespeare, the volume also includes images drawn from the art collections and other rare books in the Library.
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| The Newtonian Moment By Mordechai Feingold
From his optical experiments during the 1660s, to the publication of both the Principia (1687) and Opticks (1704), Isaac Newton's groundbreaking achievements were widely disseminated, inciting tremendous excitement as well as controversy. The Newtonian Moment investigates the effect of Newton's theories and discoveries on the trajectory of science and on the very shape of modern culture and thought. Beginning with a fresh view of Newton's intellectual development, Feingold explores the manner in which Newton's success in revolutionizing the natural sciences made him a figure to be emulated or rejected, revered or excoriated - but always there to contend with. |
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BEST-LOVED PAINTINGS:
Item # 0873281705 $6.00 This handsome gift book tells the stories behind these two famous Huntington paintings.
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| The Gutenberg Bible: Landmark in Learning
Item # 0873281691 $11.95 The Huntington holds one of the three vellum copies of The Gutenberg Bible in the United States. Color reproductions of several pages and initial letters from this Bible accompany the text, which details
the early history of printing and how The Gutenberg
Bible was printed. Also discussed is the history
of the Huntington copy and how it was acquired by Henry Huntington
in 1911. |
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| HENRY
E. HUNTINGTON'S LIBRARY OF LIBRARIES
Item # 0873282035 $21.95 Henry E. Huntington
(1850–1927) was one of the most important book and manuscript
collectors of the twentieth century. This is the first study devoted
to Huntington's pursuit of rare materials, which dominated the
last fifteen years of his life. From myriad details unearthed
in reports, memoranda, invoices, and correspondence found in the
Huntington archives, Dickinson creates a portrait of Huntington
and the social and economic world of book collecting in the early
twentieth century. "This is, first and foremost, a life of the great man in the context
of the formation of the greatest of all his monuments. It is based on, and
wisely never strays far from, the mass of documentation still preserved at the
Huntington."—The Book Collector |
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SIGHTS ONCE SEEN: DAUGUERREOTYPING FREMONT’S LAST EXPEDITION THROUGH THE ROCKIES
Item # 0890133409 $45.00 John Charles Fremont’s fifth
and last western expeditionary survey was destroyed by fire and
lost to history. Using Fremont’s maps, expedition documents,
and Carvalho’s diary accounts, author
and daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer has reconstructed the
lost expedition in 120 original daguerreotypes. |
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| THE REVOLUTION
IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART: TEN BRITISH PICTURES, 1740-1840
Item # 0873281853 $19.95 softcover Ten representative works of art in the world-renowned Huntington collection illustrate the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Unlike previous periods, artists at this time employed many styles, borrowing from ancient Greece, India and China, from the Byzantine, and from the just-closing rococo period. Nearly 100 color illustrations place the ten primary pictures in artistic context. |
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| HENRY EDWARDS
HUNTINGTON: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Item # 0873281608 $6.95 An engaging look at Huntington's role
in the development of Southern California as well as his
achievements as a book and art collector, horticulturist, and
philanthropist. |
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| THE
ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPT OF CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
Item # 0873281527 $11.95 This book is an ideal introduction to this important manuscript, covering its context, construction, and provenance, with two dozen full-page color
illustrations showing the techniques of the scribes and illuminators. |
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A Celebration of Herbs By Shirley Kerins
Buy both A Celebration of Herbs and The Cornucopia: Being a Kitchen Entertainment and Cookbook for just $39.95 The Huntington's Herb Garden is one of the most comprehensive gardens of its kind in America, prompting the creation of a popular new cookbook published by the Huntington Library Press. A Celebration of Herbs includes more than 200 recipes flavored with herbs both familiar and uncommon, from parsley and sage to nigella seed and lemon grass. The recipes were submitted by Huntington staff, volunteers, and scholars, and were tested by a corps of experienced volunteer cooks under the direction of former Herb garden curator Shirley Kerins. |
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Gardens of The Huntington DVD
This "video tour of one of the world's greatest Botanical Gardens" was originally produced for Home Garden Television. Featured in the video of the 206-acre estate are the Desert, Japanese, Sub-Tropical, Palm, and Jungle Gardens. James Folsom, Director of the Botanical Gardens, and his knowledgeable staff answer many questions pertaining to the over 14,000 types of plants found on the property. NTSC format
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The Botanical Gardens at The Huntington
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the first-ever definitive treatment of one of the grand garden achievements of the twentieth century. The 192-page softcover pictorial features 250 color photographs revealing the 206-acre estate's fifteen theme gardens. Featured are many rare and interesting specimens from towering landmark trees to tiny desert succulents.
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| HENRY EDWARDS HUNTINGTON By James Thorpe
623 pages, hardcover Item # 0520082540 $60.00 A legendary
book collector, a connoisseur of fine art, a horticulturist, and
a philanthropist, Henry Edwards Huntington is perhaps best known
as the founder of the world-renowned Huntington Library, Art Collections,
and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Thorpe's comprehensive
biography of Huntington tells the richly human story of a man
who became America's greatest book collector and was a leading
figure in the early development of Southern California. |
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| DESERT
GARDENS
Item # 0847821870 $50.00 Levick's 100 opulent color photographs capture the beauty of
18 private and public desert gardens in Southern California, including
the Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs, Balboa Park in San
Diego, and The Huntington Desert Garden, recognized as the most
important desert garden in the world. In the text, Lyons balances
the poetics and technical aspects of this garden genre, providing
an inspirational guide to these horticultural treasures. He also
includes the addresses and visiting hours of gardens open to the
public along with a bibliography of what one needs to create one's
own desert garden. |
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Old Roses for the American Garden
Item # 076111341X $17.95 "Old Roses are treasured for their mixture of toughness and charm, versatility in the garden, and glorious scent..." In this book, Clair Martin provides
advice on the selecting, planting, pruning, and
caring for these diverse and disease-resistant beauties. |
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The Rose: An Illustrated History
Item # 1552977870 Suggested Retail $60.00 OUR PRICE $35.00 Roses are treasured for many reasons, as flowers of captivating beauty, for their sweet fragrance, their fascinating history and as symbols of fidelity, nationhood, and love. This book explores the links that tie the simple wild roses of nature to the earliest roses of civilization and tells how the dedication of horticulturists from many nations has brought into being the full-petaled beauties of today. Using historical botanical illustrations rarely seen and engaging text, The Rose: An Illustrated History takes you on a journey through the disciplines of history, botany, exploration and art to arrive at a new appreciation of these cherished beauties. |
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| PALM TREES: A STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS
Item # 1595880100 $39.95 Palm Trees: A Story in Photographs is a visual masterpiece filled with spectacular images of palm trees from around the world. From the formal gardens of Versailles to a lush tropical rainforest in the South Pacific, you'll enjoy the vast diversity of palms that inhabit our planet.
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| BRITISH
PAINTINGS AT THE HUNTINGTON
Item # 0300090560 $85.00 Some of the most famous British paintings in the world are to be found at The Huntington. This lavishly illustrated catalogue examines the circumstances of Henry Huntington's art acquisitions and his fascinating dealings with art dealer Joseph Duveen. In addition to standard card catalogue information, the volume includes substantive biographies of the portrait sitters, full interpretive discussions of the 120 most important paintings in the collection, and detailed assessments of the paintings' physical condition and development. |
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PASSION FOR PERFORMANCE: SARAH SIDDONS AND HER PORTRAITISTS
Item # 0892365579 WAS $24.95 NOW $12.47 This book features three essays exploring the life and career of the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) who was renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances. This volume contains fifty-six portraits of Siddons including works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Romney along with a chronology of the actress' life.
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