A miscellany of horse books : new publications & reprints /

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Books : a memoir / by McMurtry, Larry

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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : reflections at sixty and beyond / by McMurtry, Larry

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M.R. James : an informal portrait / by Cox, Michael, 1948-2009

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Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas /

Table of Contents: “…Place names and indigenous languages : Samuel Alexander Lafone Quevedo and British antiquarian methods in nineteenth-century Argentina /…”

Italian forgers : the art market and the weight of the past in modern Italy / by Helstosky, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The Benivieni affair -- Brokers of the past -- Law and deception -- Icilio Joni: the forger that wasn't -- The American collector and the modern antiquarian -- The Dossena affair -- The Italian predicament.…”
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A history of the book in America. the expansion of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 /

The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels / by Soskice, Janet Martin

Table of Contents: “…Cambridge, 13 April 1893 -- The birth and upbringing of the lady Bible-hunters -- The journey to the Nile -- The boat -- The perfect dragoman -- The search for the perfect mate -- Greece -- The estate of marriage -- The Cambridge antiquarian -- Heresy and mortality -- Sinai and von Tischendorf -- The perils of Bible-hunting -- The story von Tischendorf did not tell -- Setting out for Sinai -- The treasure in the dark closet -- The Cambridge party -- The disjoint expedition -- The final falling-out -- The devilish press and the Highland Regiment -- The Cambridge cold shoulder -- A lightning course in text scholarship -- In the company of orientalists -- Burying the hatchet -- Keepers of manuscripts -- Solomon Schechter and the Cairo Genizah -- In Cairo with Schechter -- Castlebrae -- The college's opening -- To the monasteries of the Nitrian Desert -- The active life -- The darkening to war -- Palimpsest.…”

To build a shadowy isle of bliss : William Morris's radicalism and the embodiment of dreams /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1 William Morris's "Lesser Arts" and "The Commercial War" -- 2 Illuminating Divergences: Morris, Burne-Jones, and the Two Aeneids -- 3 Radical Tales: Rethinking the Politics of William Morris's Last Romances -- 4 Telling Time: Song's Rhythms in Morris's Late Work -- 5 The Pre-Raphaelite Tongue: The Politics of Antiquarian Poetics -- 6 Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press -- 7 Morris's Road to Nowhere: New Pathways in Political Persuasion -- 8 A Dream of William Morris: Communism, History, Revolution -- 9 News from Nowhere Two: Principles of a Sequel -- 10 Redesigning the Beautiful: Morris, Mabb, and the Politics of Wallpaper -- Conclusion.…”
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The Judgment of experts : essays and documents about the investigation of the forging of the Oath of a freeman /

Interdisciplinarity and archaeology : scientific interactions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology /

Table of Contents: “…Interdisciplinarity in archaeology - a historical introduction / Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Laura Coltofean-Arizancu -- Two sides to the coin: erudition and natural history from antiquarianism to archaeology in the work of John Evans / Nathan Schlanger -- Non-spectacular exceptions: faunal remains and bone artefacts in nineteenth-century Hungarian archaeology / Laura Coltofean-Arizancu -- From plants to pollen, from Europe to Spain: looking at interdisciplinarity in archaeology / Margarita Díaz-Andreu - Archaeology and interdisciplinarity in the Irish Free State in the 1930s: the role of the Committee for Quaternary Research / Mairéad Carew -- Interdisciplinarity? …”
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Éirinn & Iran go Brách : Iran in Irish-nationalist historical, literary, cultural, and political imaginations from the late 18th century to 1921 / by Bonakdarian, Mansour

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One "Iran" in Irish Nationalist Antiquarian Imaginations: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two Thomas Moore's Poetic and Historical Irans: Intercepted Letters (1813), Lalla Rookh (1817), and The History of Ireland (1835) -- Chapter Three Irans of Young Ireland Imaginations, 1842-48: From Thomas Osborne Davis' "Thermopylae" to James Clarence Mangan's "Aye-Travailing Gnomes" -- Chapter Four Contemporary Affinities: The Nation and the Anglo-Iranian War of 1856-57 -- Chapter Five An Gorta Mór of Others and Nationalist Neglect: The Nation and the Iranian Famine of 1870-72 -- Chapter Six The Ghosts of Iran's Past in Irish Nationalist Imaginations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Seven Irish Nationalists and the Iranian Question, 1906-21 -- Chapter Eight Perspectival Detour: Iranian Familiarity with Ireland and the Irish Question Prior to the Easter Rising -- Chapter Nine Nation, History, and Memory: The Irish Free State, Europe-Centered Worlding of Ireland, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939) -- Conclusion: Historical Apophenia, Affinities, Departures, and Nescience -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.…”
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Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas /

Table of Contents: “…Interplays -- Skulls and Idols : Anthropometrics, Antiquity Collections, and the Origin of American Map, 1810-1850 / Miruna Achim -- Finding the Ancient in the Andes : Archaeology and Geology, 1850-1890 / Joanne Pillsbury -- Place Names and Indigenous Languages : Samuel Alexander Lafone Quevedo and British Antiquarian Methods in Nineteenth-Century Argentina / Máximo Farro -- Part II. …”
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A history of the book in America.

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A history of the book in America.

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The diatonic modes in modern music / by Vincent, John, 1902-1977

Table of Contents: “…The Lowest Ebb of Modality ; XXV. Abbe Lesueur, Antiquarian ; XXVI. Modality and the French Romanticists ; XXVII. …”

The triple mystery / by Luehrmann, Adele

Gale Cengage Learning

Radiant with color & art : McLoughlin Brothers and the business of picture books, 1858-1920 : December 6, 2017-February 3, 2018, The Grolier Club, New York / by Hewes, Lauren B., Schiller, Justin G., Wasowicz, Laura, 1961-

The other Brown / by Luehrmann, Adele

Gale Cengage Learning

Popular Receptions of Archaeology : Fictional and Factual Texts in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain. by Duesterberg, Susanne

Table of Contents: “…The Genesis of a Popular Archaeological Discourse in Britain; 3.1 From Antiquarianism to Archaeology; 3.2 Greek Archaeology: : bi Troia Fuit9 or : bi Britannia Est9 3.3 Egyptian Archaeology: The Mummy in Fiction; 3.4 Zimbabwean Archaeology: The Empire as a Space of Negation and Construction.…”
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