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Rare Books
[Scrapbook of prints depicting travels in Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa in 1850 to 1853]
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
In The war and the Bagdad Railway, Morris determines that the path connecting Constantinople with Bagdad through Asia Minor is at the core of the Eastern Question and is the determining element in bringing about the alternate rise and decline of the East.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Visual Materials
The Travel subseries comprises sheet music dating from 1900 to 1962 and is dedicated to travel within the United States (U.S.) with a small number of scores dedicated to travel abroad. The scores focus on destinations, including California, New York, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, England, Europe, Mexico, and Polynesia. This subseries also includes a folder of travel-related scores with inconspicuous destinations.
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Manuscripts
Forty volumes with specimens of small jobs, from bookplates and envelopes to full pamphlets and programs. The numbers correspond to the entries in the job books (volumes 104-141) and are frequently non-consecutive.
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Rare Books
This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets and other works, covering a span of 1812 to 1894, collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and forming part of his library. The items are contained in 430 envelopes and cover 17 different categories of material: General; Periodicals, Congress Reports; Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore; Biography; Geography, Travel; Linguistics; Literature; Medicine, Psychology; Religion, Philosophy; Science, Pure, Natural, Applied; Sword; Africa; Americas; Asia; Europe; Pacific, Australasia. Some of the works include manuscript annotations by Burton as well as correspondence sent to him and insertions of articles and clippings. This is a subsection of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection in the Rare Books Department. Those items can be searched as a whole under the heading: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890, former owner or Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, former owner.
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Visual Materials
Includes four travel journals containing Yoch's sketches and notes on places visited in Europe and Africa (Items 1-4) and one hardcover volume of Yoch's handwritten travel notes (Item 5, 349 pages). The travel journals, which were featured in the exhibition "Personal Edens," contain drawings and notes on various landscape design features in places including Italy and England (Item 1, 1922, 50 pages); Spain, Brussels, and North Africa (Item 2, 1924 and 1935, 28 pages); Spain and Switzerland (Item 3, approximately 1924, 27 pages); and England and Spain (Item 4, approximately 1924, 51 pages). Notably, Item 2, which is labeled "Old Travel Sketches - FY" on the front cover, contains a list of plants of North Africa dated 1935 and sketches for the landscaping for the film, The Garden of Allah; and Item 4 includes two typed pages of lists of flowers. Item 5, dated 1920, contains indexes on countries and on some topics, several pasted-in maps and other materials, and inserted notes pages; the item is extremely fragile.
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