Download or read book The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Download or read book The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library. Manuscript Division and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library by Victor Hugo Paltsits written by Victor Hugo Paltsits and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by Victor Hugo PALTSITS and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder at the 42nd Street Library written by Con Lehane and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in an irresistible new series introduces librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler, a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble façade of New York City’s landmark 42nd Street Library. Murder at the 42nd Street Library follows Ambler and his partners in crime-solving as they track down a killer, shining a light on the dark deeds and secret relationships that are hidden deep inside the famous flagship building at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. In their search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler and his crew uncover sinister, and profoundly disturbing, relationships among the scholars studying in the iconic library. Included among the players are a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library’s crime fiction collection; that writer’s long-missing daughter, a prominent New York society woman with a hidden past, and more than one of Ambler’s colleagues at the library. Shocking revelations lead inexorably to the traumatic events that follow—the reading room will never be the same.
Download or read book The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library Classic Reprint written by Victor Hugo Paltsits and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library Of choice literary manuscripts there are not many in the Library. The principal items are W ashington Irving's Apology for his Diedrich Knicker hocker's New York, written at Sunnyside, in 1848; his Biographical Sketch of Washington Allston, 1854-1855 a contribution to A Book of the Hud son, 1849; and pages from his manuscript of his Life of George Washing ton. Nathaniel Hawthorne is represented by a portion of his Mosses from an Old Manse; Thackeray, by his Note Book for Lectures and Henry Esmond, as well as the manuscript of a long introduction to an American edition of his works; and there is a manuscript of Samuel Warren, author of Ten Thousand a Year. In the field of American literature the Library has the extensive correspondence of Evert A. Duyckinck in connection with his editorship of Arcturus, The Literary World, and The Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 1840-1855, and some to his brother George L. Duyckinck, from nearly every American man of letters during that period and some from foreign writers. In this aggregation are literary letters from Park Benjamin, Charles Frederick Briggs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wil liam Allen Butler, George Henry Calvert, John Esten Cooke, Frederick S. Cozzens, Richard Henry Dana, George Cary Eggleston, Ralph Waldo Emer son, Edward Everett, Charles Gayarre', fitz-greene Halleck, Nathaniel Haw thorne, P. H. Hayne, Joel T. Headley, Henry William Herbert, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, G. P. R. James, Francis Lieber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Benson J. Lossing, James Russell Lowell, Cornelius Mathews, James K. Paulding, John Howard Payne, Edgar Allan Poe, Epes Sargent, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Horace E. Scudder, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, Bayard Taylor, George Ticknor, Robert Tomes, Henry T. Tuckerman, Martin F arquhar Tupper, Charles W. Webber, Richard Grant White, and hundreds of others; also the literary correspondence of Evert A. Duyckinck with Edward S. Gould and William A. Jones. Apart from those enumerated above, there are one or more letters, etc., written by Robert Burns, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Southey. Twelve legal documents relate to Milton's family and a volume of miscellaneous papers bears upon Milton himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Diasporic Blackness written by Vanessa K. Valdés and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad. A Black Puerto Ricanborn scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (18741938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He was an autodidact who matched wits with university-educated men and women, as well as a prominent Freemason, a writer, and an institution-builder. While he spent much of his life in New York City, Schomburg was intimately involved in the cause of Cuban and Puerto Rican independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, he would go on to cofound the Negro Society for Historical Research and lead the American Negro Academy, all the while collecting and assembling books, prints, pamphlets, articles, and other ephemera produced by Black men and women from across the Americas and Europe. His curated library collection at the New York Public Library emphasized the presence of African peoples and their descendants throughout the Americas and would serve as an indispensable resource for the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. By offering a sustained look at the life of one of the most important figures of early twentieth-century New York City, this first book-length examination of Schomburgs life suggests new ways of understanding the intersections of both Blackness and latinidad.
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Download or read book A Guide to Scholarly Resources on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the New York Metropolitan Area written by Social Science Research Council (U.S.) and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1990 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies collections held by public and university libraries, historical societies, and other institutions, as well as private collections, with material relating to any subject and historical period, and to the widest geographical area under imperial or Soviet rule. Includes movements for example
Download or read book Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs Jarena Lee Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel Revised and Corrected from the Original Manuscript Written by Herself written by Jarena Lee and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Black Bibliophile Collector written by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.
Download or read book Washington at the Plow written by Bruce A. Ragsdale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
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Download or read book Treasures of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by New York : H.N. Abrams. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses and illustrates 300 of the most important manuscripts, books, maps, prints, photographs, and ephemera held at the New York Public Library.
