Manuscripts
Complete manuscript (13 chapters) of 2nd volume Flora and Fauna of Mauritius by Nicolas Pike
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Nicholas Pike flora and fauna of Mauritius
Manuscripts
The collection includes the manuscript, with accompanying illustrations, of volume two of Nicholas Pike's Flora and Fauna of Mauritius. The watercolor drawings include butterflies, fish, insects, and spiders; the drawings also include leaves, spider webs, trees, and flowers. The drawings were made by Pike and his wife, Maria Louisa Pike. Also included are research notes, correspondence, and printed material.
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Original colored drawings of Indian Ocean fish made from life by Col. Pike
Manuscripts
Box also includes correspondence, printed material, research notes, watercolor drawings of spiders, spider webs, and leaves.
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Volumes 12-13
Visual Materials
This collection contains thirteen scrapbooks chiefly containing narratives, snapshots, and clippings documenting summer canyoneering, camping, and tourism trips to the American Southwest, the Colorado River, the Canadian Rockies, and Wyoming by Mildred E. Baker in the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as volumes related to Baker's activities and interest in bookbinding, poetry, and the Woodcraft League of America in Upstate New York with bookbinder John F. Grabau in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Most of these volumes reflect the participation of two Baker's friends from Buffalo: Florence A. Huck and Katherine Crisp, who frequently traveled with Baker and were also involved in bookbinding activities. Baker's scrapbooks follow a general pattern: they include typescript narratives describing her trips illustrated with her own snapshots and handwritten captions, as well as clippings from magazines and newspapers, occasional bits of poetry, and printed ephemera. Most of the travel volumes include lists of identified flowers, shrubs, trees, ferns, and birds seen on the trip, reflecting Baker's interests in botany and ornithology. Many of the volumes also have additional printed items laid in, with some dating through the early 1970s. All of the volumes are bound in decorative bindings stamped "Grabau," and most have marbled paper over the pasteboards.Volumes 1-2 and 4-5 reflect Baker's experiences chiefly at Sunset Hill, the summer home and artist's retreat of bookbinder John F. Grabau, near Buffalo, New York, presumably as part of the "Ojenta tribe" of the Woodcraft League of America. These volumes include poetry and photographs of the landscape, camping and other outdoor outings and group events, and bookbinding, including images of binding specimens by both Grabau and Baker; volume 5 includes poems by Baker, William P. Alexander and others. Many of the volumes document Baker's trips to the American Southwest, including her experience as one of the first women to raft the full-length of the Colorado River as part of the 1940 "Nevills Expedition" led by Norman D. Nevills. Her scrapbook of this trip (volume 11) includes photographs of Nevills and his wife, Doris Nevills, and fellow participants including mining engineer John S. Southworth of Glendale, California, botanist Hugh C. Cutler of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and future Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Regular themes among the photographs include depictions of the natural landscape including rock formations, mountains, rivers, and lakes; Native Americans; trading posts; cliff dwellings; petroglyphs; lodgings; and means of transportation including by train, automobile, airplane, horse, and burro.
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Miscellaneous ephemera
Rare Books
A collection of assorted Churchill ephemera and related materials. Four commemorative coins, three of which feature Churchill's profile. Plastic pencil sharpener from the Cabinet War Rooms with an illustrated profile of Churchill on one side. Four photographs of sculptures and paintings of Churchill. Three out of four photos are marked in the back, they read: "Royal British Columbia Museum, bust of Winston Churchill, Victoria, B.C.; Victoria, B.C., 1993.; The Plaza, "Married Love" Kansas City, Kansas. Six bookmarks; four are faux leather with gilt-stamped text or illustrations; one is metal shaped like Churchill; one featuring a bust-length portrait of Churchill. Medal from the OKSV Volksschiessen 1965 with a sculpted portrait of Churchill (seems to be an award for a marksmanship contest from a sports club in Overlangel, Netherlands). Miniature handmade book Winston Spencer Churchill: author, artist, statesmen, by Margaret Challenger; number 12 of 20. 15 postcards of Churchill or Churchill-related locations; two were mailed to Curt Zoller in 2002 by Greg Farmenr(?); one was mailed to Zoller in 2006 by Dave Sills; one is signed by Mary Soames, Churchill's youngest daughter. [2] p. photocopy on yellow paper of a sales description of a aerial propaganda collection for sale in Maggs catalogue #1375 in May 2005. Printed Dutch diagram with English ms. notes about the process used by the English to drop propaganda leaflets. Four color photographs from Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark. Two color photographs of Winston Spencer Churchill (1940-2010), taken in Boston in 1990. One black and white photograph of a man in hunting clothes holding a dead bird - ms. note suggests it may be of Ian Hamilton, because it was removed from a copy of Ian Hamilton's march. Two copies of a [4] p. booklet printed "In honour of James Davis 1935-2000" with a quote from Churchill on p. [3]. Two prints and the negative of a photograph of Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia, and others on camels in front of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza; accompanied by an ms. note identifying several of the people in the photograph. Small album of photographs from an event held at Chapman University in 2002. Piece of A4 paper with Churchill watermark. Printed copies of Churchill's "Sinews of peace" speech from 1946, and Margaret Thatchers "New threats for old" speech from 1996, both delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Three greeting cards; one with a color reproduction of a Churchill painting, one with a black and white photograph of Churchill, and one with a black and white caricature of Churchill and a holiday greeting from 1989 from Michael and Anna Wybrow. Small wooden box with an illustration of Winston Churchill on the top. Eight digital prints of two photographs, one telegram, three ms. letters, and a school report card reproduced from the Churchill Archives at Cambridge, with an ms. note dated 6/11/02 on Chapman University notepaper. Folded [6] p. pamphlet from the Chartwell studio where Churchill's paintings are displayed. Printed letter from David Irving to Professor Stephen Ambrose with copies of newspaper clippings reviewing Irving's book on Winston Churchill, with newspaper clippings covering Irving's libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt. Text of a speech by Secretary Jack Kemp entitled "Statesmanship, democracy, and Sir Winston Churchill" delivered on accepting the Winston S. Churchill Award at the Claremont Institute in Los Angeles on November 30, 1990. Typescript review of Roy Howells' Churchill's last years by W. Glen Browne. Printed news release from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) with the text of a speech by Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 11, 1983. Folded [4] p. photocopy of an article from Finest hour entitled "Bletchley Park blooms with Churchilliana" by Douglas J. Hall. Four newspaper clippings from 1969 to 1971 with brief articles about Churchill and related happenings. Compliments slips, one from Lord Digby, one from Lady Digby signed by Dione M. Digby; earlier note on housing identifies Lady Digby as the mother of Pamela Harriman, but that was the 11th Baroness Digby, while Dione Digby is the 12th Baroness Digby. Menu from the International Churchill Society Dinner at the Savoy in London on September 25, 1985, signed by Mary Soames (Churchill's youngest daughter), her husband Christopher Soames, Anthony Montague Browne (Churchill's secretary in his final years), and his wife Shelagh Montague Brown. Printed letter from the office of CIA Director Casey dated January 30, 1984, to Curt Zoller, informing him that a signed copy of the Director's remarks at Westminster College is unavailable, but that an unsigned copy is being sent. Broadside with a paraphrase of a Churchill quotation below illustrated portraits of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Collection of 30 envelopes with either a stamp featuring Churchill, or printed matter on the envelope featuring Churchill. There are thirteen envelopes from the United Kingdom (including one from the South Orkney Islands in the British Antarctic Territory), twelve from the United States (including one from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada), and one envelope each from Canada, Dominica, the Falkland Islands, the Netherlands, and Pakistan. A print of red ink on beige paper of the Churchill quotation "In war - resolution ; In defeat - defiance ; In victory - magnanimity ; In peace - goodwill". Print by Leo Wyatt, copy 24 of 100. Prospectus for Bookplates and labels by Leo Wyatt, published by Fleece Press. Probably arrived in the collection with the Wyatt print. Original motion picture sound track from Jack Le Vien's The finest hours: Sir Winston Churchill's own story are told in his memoirs of the Second World War. Released by Mercury Record Corporation in 1964, this two record volume featuring recordings of Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, narrated by Orson Welles. Records housed in sleeves that open like a book, with 10 pages of black and white photographs from throughout his life. The voice of Winston Churchill. Single record recording released by London Records. On cover verso: Many items on this record were taken from the London twelve record album "Winston S. Churchill. His Memoirs and his speeches." Still shrink-wrapped in plastic with a printed sticker reading "This record was authorized by Sir Winston Churchill" and a price sticker for Tectron Records. Two clippings from a magazine or catalog, one a color reproduction of Churchill's painting "The Weald of Kent under Snow, painted from Chartwell", the other a black and white photograph of Churchill at his easel, with his signature printed below. Winston Churchill talking action figure - batteries removed by cataloger for conservation purposes.
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