Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure PDF Author: Michael Sappol
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ISBN: 9780922233427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This spectacular illustrated book showcases rare, beautiful, idiosyncratic, and sometimes surprising works in the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. From thirteenth-century manuscripts to extravagant anatomical atlases to silent movies, pamphlets, magic lantern slides, stereograph cards, and much, much more, each item featured is a remarkable hidden treasure."--Jacket.

Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure PDF Author: Michael Sappol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780922233427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This spectacular illustrated book showcases rare, beautiful, idiosyncratic, and sometimes surprising works in the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. From thirteenth-century manuscripts to extravagant anatomical atlases to silent movies, pamphlets, magic lantern slides, stereograph cards, and much, much more, each item featured is a remarkable hidden treasure."--Jacket.

Treasures of the New York Public Library

Treasures of the New York Public Library PDF Author: New York Public Library
Publisher: New York : H.N. Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Discusses and illustrates 300 of the most important manuscripts, books, maps, prints, photographs, and ephemera held at the New York Public Library.

Treasures of the National Library

Treasures of the National Library PDF Author: Chando Paredes Morallos
Publisher: Manila, Philippines : National Library
ISBN:
Category : National libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Treasures from the World's Great Libraries

Treasures from the World's Great Libraries PDF Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher: Canberra : National Library of Australia
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Full-colour illustrations of all the items in the exhibition with commentary on each.

Treasures of the British Library

Treasures of the British Library PDF Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712348447
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A guide to the great collections of The British Library. Illustrated throughout in colour, it is an introduction to some of the world's most magnificent books and manuscripts, from The Lindisfarne Gospels to Magna Carta, The Diamond Sutra and The Gutenberg Bible.

Treasures from the National Library of Ireland

Treasures from the National Library of Ireland PDF Author: National Library of Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881682755
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Possessing the Past

Possessing the Past PDF Author: 國立故宮博物院
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810964945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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A major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

National Treasures

National Treasures PDF Author: Caroline Shenton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781529387438
Category : Art treasures in war
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures. 0National Treasures highlights a moment from our history when an unlikely coalition of mild-mannered civil servants, social oddballs and metropolitan aesthetes became the front line in the heritage war against Hitler. Caroline Shenton shares the interwoven lives of ordinary people who kept calm and carried on in the most extraordinary of circumstances in their efforts to save the Nation's historic identity.

Lost Treasures of American History

Lost Treasures of American History PDF Author: W.C. Jameson
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1589796322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.

Treasures of the Hungarian National Library

Treasures of the Hungarian National Library PDF Author: István Monok
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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