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Cuisines of the western world

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Description: "In this book, Elizabeth Gordon, former editor of House beautiful, gives the reader a broad view of the food lore and cooking principles of our western civilization. She traces the influence of trade, travel, colonization, climate, and religious taboos on the development of various cuisines over the centuries. In addition to 320 recipes, the book includes expert advice on reading foreign menus and ordering classic dishes of many countries."--Jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1965]
Call number: 647890
Creator: Gordon, Elizabeth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jennifer A. Watts, October 2019.

The Encyclopedia of decorative arts, 1890-1940

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There have been many books on the individual movements and figures of the decorative arts of this century, but "The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts 1890-1940" is the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of all the classic movements in design of the modern period. Every section of this encyclopedia has been written by an expert in that particular field. The editor of the volume is Philippe Garner, an expert at the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet and head of the department of modern decorative arts and photography at Sotheby's Belgravia.

608289

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Photographs of Western personalities

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence with friends and other writers of Western lore, such as Eugene Manlove Rhodes and his wife, May Louise Davison Purple Rhodes, and to General Thomas Cruse, who was in Arizona during the Indian campaigns and wrote the book, Apache days and after. There are 12 bound volumes and one box containing manuscripts of the works of Cunningham and others, 5 scrapbooks, and 250 photographs of Western figures (many reproduced from the collection of Noah H. Rose of San Antonio, TX).

mssCunningham papers

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Photographs of Western personalities

Manuscripts

mssCunningham papers

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World Conference on Faith and Order pamphlets

Manuscripts

These pamphlets are arranged first by size (large or small) and then by job number. For further information on the ordering of these pamphlets, see group 1330.

mssMerrymount

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Orange recipes : customs, facts, fancies

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"A collection of 158 orange recipes and fascinating orange lore from thirty-two countries, beginning with 1500 A.D. up to and including the present day"--Half-title.

640928

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A child's garden of verses

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The classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," and "Foreign Land."

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