Saturday, January 10, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions

A few things from Commonwealth, one more from the Brattle sale, plus an order from Hamilton's $2.95 catalog (trouble-making thing).

- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian (Norton, 1991). Commonwealth.

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Norton, 1995). Commonwealth.

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Journal of the proceedings of the Society, which conducts the Monthly Anthology and Boston Review, October 3, 1805, to July 2, 1811 (Boston Athenaeum, 1910). Commonwealth.

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Horae Bibliographicae Cantabrigienses: A Facsimile of Dibdin's Cambridge Notebook, 1823; With Readings from the Library Companion, 1824; edited, with an introduction, by Renato Rabaiotti (Oak Knoll, 1989). Brattle. A really nice little book, and the Brattle's got a few more copies on sale through 24 January.

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The Political Education of Henry Adams by Brooks D. Simpson (Univ. SC Press, 1996). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World by Kieran Doherty (St. Martin's, 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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For Love and Liberty: The Untold Civil War Story of Major Sullivan Ballou and His Famous Love Letter by Robin Young (Basic Books, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton. I'm acknowledged in this one, though I can't for the life of me remember why. Something to do with "Taps," I think ...

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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78 by Ian Davidson (Grove/Atlantic, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia by Susan Dunn (Basic Books, 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician by Alyn Brodsky (Truman Talley, 2004). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary by Joseph Wheelan (Carroll & Graf, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton.

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The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France by John J. Conley (Cornell University Press, 2002). Edward R. Hamilton.