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Information and empire : mechanisms of communication in Russia, 1600-1854 / edited by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers

Author:
Franklin, Simon  Search this
Bowers, Katherine  Search this
ProQuest (Firm)  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (444 pages)
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Russia
Date:
2017
Topic:
Communication--History  Search this
Written communication--History  Search this
Press--History  Search this
Communication in politics--History  Search this
Postal service--History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
P92.R8 F46 2017 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
1-user.
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1106376

The book : its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time / by Henri Bouchot ; with a treatise on the art of collecting and describing early printed books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places ; edited by H. Grevel ; containing one hundred and seventy-two fac-similes of early typography, book-illustrations, printer' ...

Author:
Bouchot, Henri 1849-1906  Search this
Translator:
Bigmore, E. C (Edward Clements) 1838?-1899  Search this
Editor:
Grevel, H.  Search this
Illustrator:
Einsle, Anton 1848-1897  Search this
Publisher:
H. Grevel & Co.  Search this
Bookseller:
William Wesley & Son DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
History
Date:
1890
Topic:
Books  Search this
Printing--History  Search this
Bookbinding--History  Search this
Cataloging of incunabula  Search this
Illustration of books--History  Search this
Call number:
Z124.A2 B76 1890
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1106636

Two Saint Peter tapestries

Issuing body:
French & Company (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Printer:
Cosmus & Washburn  Search this
Former owner:
National Gallery of Art (U.S.) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
12 unnumbered leaves, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
France
Date:
1914
Topic:
Tapestry  Search this
Call number:
NK3007 .F74 1914
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1086818

Dream of a house : the passions and preoccupations of Reynolds Price / text excerpts and poems from the works of Reynolds Price ; with photographs and an essay by Alex Harris ; edited by Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor

Author:
Price, Reynolds 1933-2011  Search this
Editor:
Harris, Alex 1949-  Search this
Sartor, Margaret  Search this
Author:
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library  Search this
Subject:
Price, Reynolds 1933-2011 Homes and haunts  Search this
Physical description:
151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2017
Topic:
Poetry  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1088040

T.C. Cannon : at the edge of America / edited by Karen Kramer ; with contributions by heather ahtone, Sherwin Bitsui, Caitlin Cooper, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Trevor Fairbrother, Santee Frazier, Joy Harjo, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Karen Kramer, Deana McCloud, America Meredith, Crystal Migwans, David Rettig, Shoshana Resnikoff, Melanie Benson Taylor, William Wallo, and Alfred Young Man

Artist:
Cannon, T. C. 1946-  Search this
Editor:
Kramer, Karen 1971-  Search this
Host institution:
Peabody Essex Museum  Search this
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center  Search this
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art  Search this
Subject:
Cannon, T. C. 1946-  Search this
Physical description:
244 pages ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1090014

David Smith : collected writings, lectures, and interviews / edited by Susan J. Cooke

Author:
Smith, David 1906-1965  Search this
Editor:
Cooke, Susan J.  Search this
Subject:
Smith, David 1906-1965 Written works  Search this
Smith, David 1906-1965 Interviews  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 478 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Interviews
Date:
2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1095123

The Frederick Douglass papers. Series one, Speeches, debates, and interviews / John W. Blassingame, editor [and others]

Author:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Blassingame, John W. 1940-2000  Search this
McKivigan, John R. 1949-  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Manuscripts  Search this
Physical description:
5 volumes : portrait (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Manuscripts
Place:
United States
Date:
1979
1992
1979-©1992
To 1863
Topic:
Antislavery movements  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Manuscripts, American  Search this
Call number:
CT275.D73 A1f
E449 .D733X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_109708

Cave temples of Dunhuang : Buddhist art on China's Silk road / edited by Neville Agnew, Marcia Reed, and Tevvy Ball

Editor:
Agnew, Neville 1938-  Search this
Reed, Marcia 1945-  Search this
Ball, Tevvy  Search this
Sponsoring body:
Getty Conservation Institute  Search this
Getty Research Institute  Search this
Dunhuang yan jiu yuan (China)  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
China
Dunhuang Caves
Dunhuang Caves (China)
Date:
2016
Topic:
Buddhist art  Search this
Buddhist mural painting and decoration  Search this
Mural painting and decoration, Chinese  Search this
Call number:
N8193.C6 C34 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1069431

Where eagles dare to soar : Indians, politics and AIDS / by Kevin White

Author:
White, Kevin 1962-1993  Search this
Subject:
White, Kevin 1962-1993  Search this
Physical description:
110 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Canada
Date:
1993
©1993
Topic:
AIDS (Disease)--Patients  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1069575

Incipit ep[isto]la sancti Hieronimi ad Paulinu[m] presbiter[um] de o[mn]ibu[s] diuine historie libris

Title:
Incipit epistola sancti Hieronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus divine historie libris
Biblia Latina edit. Norim. A. 1478 DSI
Printer:
Koberger, Anton approximately 1440-1513  Search this
Former owner:
Collegium Societatis Jesu (Munich, Germany) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[1], cccclxi, [6] leaves ; 42 cm (folio)
Type:
Specimens
Incunabula
Place:
Germany
Nuremberg
Date:
1478
Topic:
Incunabula  Search this
Call number:
BS75 1478 folio
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071924

Traictè dela [sic] decoration interieure 1717 / edited by Patricia Waddy ; with contributions by Bo Vahlne, Guy Walton and Jan von Gerber

Title:
Traictè dela decoration interieure 1717
Traictè de la decoration interieure 1717
Author:
Tessin, Nicodemus 1654-1728  Search this
Waddy, Patricia  Search this
Vahlne, Bo 1943-  Search this
Walton, Guy  Search this
Gerber, Jan von  Search this
Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna (Stockholm, Sweden)  Search this
Subject:
Tessin, Nicodemus 1654-1728 Manuscripts  Search this
Physical description:
293 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Early works
Place:
Europe
Date:
2002
Topic:
Interior decoration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1073463

Discoveries in western Tibet and the western Himalayas : essays on history, literature, archaeology and art : PIATS 2003, Tibetan studies, proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 / edited by Amy Heller and Giacomella Orofino

Title:
PIATS 2003
Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies
Author:
International Association for Tibetan Studies Seminar (10th : 2003 : Oxford, England)  Search this
Heller, Amy 1951-  Search this
Orofino, Giacomella  Search this
Physical description:
x, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
China
Tibet Autonomous Region
Himalaya Mountains
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Date:
2007
Topic:
Art, Tibetan  Search this
Buddhist art--History  Search this
Manuscripts, Tibetan--History  Search this
Civilization  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1078091

Fakes and frauds : varieties of deception in print & manuscript / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris

Title:
Fakes & frauds
Editor:
Myers, Robin (Book trade historian)  Search this
Harris, Michael 1938-  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
England
Date:
1996
1989
Topic:
Books--Forgeries--History  Search this
Forgery of manuscripts--History  Search this
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History  Search this
Fictitious imprints--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1080361

The Missouri River journals of John James Audubon / John James Audubon ; edited and with original commentary by Daniel Patterson

Author:
Audubon, John James 1785-1851  Search this
Patterson, Daniel 1953-  Search this
Subject:
Audubon, John James 1785-1851  Search this
Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Travel  Search this
Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Ethics  Search this
Physical description:
xxviii, 445 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Type:
Diaries
Place:
Missouri River Valley
United States
Missouri River
Date:
2016
19th century
Topic:
Scientific expeditions--History  Search this
Naturalists  Search this
Wildlife artists  Search this
Natural history  Search this
River steamers--History  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1063757

Walrus Correspondence 1953- 1967

Collection name:
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Records, 1945-1970
Physical Description:
1 folder
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 2
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Maps
Correspondence
Place:
Bering Sea
Little Diomede Island
United States
Alaska
Date Range:
1953-1967
Start Date:
1953
End Date:
1967
Topic:
Mammalogy  Search this
Accession #:
SIA RU007407
Access Information:
Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu.
See more records from this collection:
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Records, 1945-1970
See more records associated with this person:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Manville, Richard Hyde, 1910-1974
Data Source:
Smithsonian Field Book Project
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fbr_item_MODSI3847

The Chu silk manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province) Li Ling ; translated and edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen

Author:
Li, Ling 1948-  Search this
Translator:
Falkenhausen, Lothar von  Search this
Physical description:
volumes illustrations (some color) 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
China
Changsha (Hunan Sheng)
Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China)
Date:
2020
Topic:
Manuscripts, Chinese  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Call number:
DS796.C4 L5613 2020
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1117990

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum / edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis ; with the assistance of María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui

Editor:
Campbell, Mungo  Search this
Flis, Nathan  Search this
Contributor:
Sánchez-Jáuregui, María Dolores  Search this
Host institution:
Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow)  Search this
Yale Center for British Art  Search this
Physical description:
437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2018
18th century
Topic:
Collectors and collecting--History  Search this
Museums--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1106629

An account of Pennsylvania and West New Jersey / by Gabriel Thomas ; reprinted from the original edition of 1698 ; with introduction by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Title:
Thomas's Pennsylvania and West New Jersey
Author:
Thomas, Gabriel  Search this
Editor:
Brady, Cyrus Townsend 1861-1920  Search this
Publisher:
Burrows Brothers Company  Search this
Printer:
Imperial Press  Search this
Physical description:
83 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Early works to 1800
Early works
History
Place:
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Date:
1903
1698
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
F152 .T48 1903
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1106641

Why art museums? : the unfinished work of Alexander Dorner / edited by Sarah Ganz Blythe and Andrew Martinez

Editor:
Blythe, Sarah Ganz  Search this
Martinez, Andrew 1964-  Search this
Author:
Dorner, Alexander 1893-1957 Works Selections  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 254 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2018
Topic:
Art museums  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1107123

Barbara Hepworth : writings and conversations / edited by Sophie Bowness

Editor:
Bowness, Sophie  Search this
Author:
Hepworth, Barbara 1903-1975 Works Selections  Search this
Subject:
Hepworth, Barbara 1903-1975  Search this
Hepworth, Barbara 1903-1975 Written works  Search this
Physical description:
303 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Interviews
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2015
20th century
Topic:
Sculptors  Search this
Sculpture, Abstract  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1107877

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