Rare Books
Burma : something went wrong
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Burma road
Rare Books
Account of the author's experiences and adventures during a trip over the Burma Road.
654153
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus : presenting a stupendous new congress of amazing world-wide features including giraffe-neck women from Burma
Visual Materials
Image of six Padaung women of Burma wearing neck rings with stretched earlobes and jewelry.
priJLC_ENT_000039
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Rall, Ted. 1995, Apr. 3. "America: What Went Wrong."
Manuscripts
The collection consists of original cartoons, book proposals, and manuscripts. The correspondence deals with Rall's personal and business matters, including letters to and from his fans.
RL 1190
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Buddhist Bible extract
Manuscripts
This extract is from Burma and includes the formulae for the ordination of monks. The decorations and illustrations are gilt and lacquer on boards made of woven bamboo fibre and horsehair treated with clay, dried and then varnished; it was probably a gift to a monastery library from a king or noble of Burma.
mssHM 68492
Something Pretty to Paint
Visual Materials
One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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How to Draw: The Right and The Wrong Way
Visual Materials
One art instruction book entitled How to Draw: The Right and The Wrong Way, by A.S. Avery, published by The University Publishing Co., New York and Baltimore, copyright 1872. Also on the title page: "Illustrated with over one hundred figures. Adapted for use in public and private schools, and prepared expressly for all persons who do not know how to draw, but would like to learn." This book is comprised of 14 individual lessons, each of which consists of an illustrated (lithograph) plate and a numbered half-page of textual guidelines and instruction. The lessons are progressive in that each one builds upon the previous lesson, and they range from basic and introductory to more complex. For example, Lesson 1 is devoted to drawing straight lines; Lesson 4 is for shading "to give more boldness to the figures..."; Lesson 7 is a continuation of learning curved lines, and Lesson 14 is to draw a scene in which an old castle is the focal point. The front cover is elaborately decorated and illustrated; the title and cover vignette are framed by a stick-and-ivy pattern. The vignette pictures three children who are studying and drawing a house. The vignette is signed "Bobbett". On the back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "The Original Duntonian System of Rapid Writing", with a sample page from "Dunton's Drill Exercises in Movement". The insides of the front and back covers are blank. On the verso of the title page is a two-column list of drawing terms and definitions. "Presented to E.J. Loomis by the Author, A.S. Avery. October 1874" is written in ms., in ink, on the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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