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Patagonia revisited
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Travel: Patagonia and Ecuador photographs
Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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American cardiology : the history of a specialty and its college
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Today, more U.S. physicians specialize in cardiology than in any other clinical nonprimary care, nonsurgical discipline. In this book cardiologist and medical historian Bruce Fye offers a comprehensive history of this medical specialty, from its invention in the early twentieth century to its more recent transformation into one of medicine's most significant fields.
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Delineato omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae ; dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam, Pariam, et Castellam auream, una cum omnibus Insulis Antillas dictis, Hispaniolam, item & Cubam comprehendentis, usque ad promont. floridae, vulgo, cabo de la florida; item isthmi inter Panamam et Nombre de dios, Terrae Peru auriferae cum ejus metropoli cusco.; / Arnoldus Florentius à Langren, Author & Sculptor
Visual Materials
Kashnor notes, "A delightful map of the Early School, with the quaint miniatures, beloved of the old cartographers, scattered over the unknown interior of the continent. In Patagonia a lusty savage, armed with a chopper, is busily dismembering the body of an unfortunate fellow-creature, Whilst his assistant conveys the joints to a large fire hard by, to be roasted for dinner. In Peru stands a fearsome beast, bearing a human countenance on the body of a tiger, with an appended note. Tall galleons under full sail plow the surrounding ocean, whales spout, and dolphins gambol. One can imagine this map spread out before Drake and Hawkins on an oaken table in the parlour of the inn that overlooks Plymouth Hoe." After waxing lyrical, Kashnor dates as [Amsterdam, 1595]. Two cartouches with strapping and figures. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: German Miles, Spanish leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 844 No. 801-850.
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