Author: John Locke
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Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: André Louis Simon
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Category : Liqueurs
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Sandra Raphael
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300049366
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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An Oak Spring Pomona is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white. The Pomona includes not only brief bibliographical summaries of each book but also background wssays that place the books in a historical setting.

Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Volumes for 1869-1952 include Extracts from the proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1100

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Author: Zara Anishanslin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.

Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
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Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Leonard N. Beck
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Abstract: A history of gastronomy derived from information gleaned from the Bitting and Pennell gastronomic library collections, translating and interpreting the writings contained in these two collections. The second half of the text provides an ambitious interpretation of French gastronomic liter ature. Many illustrative anecdotes are presented throughout the text and a variety of historic prints are included.

Author: John O'Brien
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629112X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Introduction: the corporation as metaphor -- John Locke, desire, and the incorporation of money -- Wonderful event: the South Sea bubble and the crisis of property -- Insurance and the problem of sentimental representation -- "Bodies of men": abolitionist writing and the question of interest -- Held in reserve: banks, serial crises, and the ekphrastic turn -- Coda: the entrepreneur as corporate hero