Saturday, September 05, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions (and Last)

I'm awfully behind on listing new arrivals, so I've got quite a backlog. This is from at least the last two weeks or so, including stops at Commonwealth and Raven, plus a bunch of review copies:

- The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton; edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon (Modern Library, 2007). Commonwealth Books.

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Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel (OUP, 2006). Commonwealth.

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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England by Jennifer Summit (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Commonwealth.

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New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance by Lawrence Buell (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Commonwealth.

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A Monument More Durable Than Brass: The Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson; edited by Thomas A. Horrocks, curated by John Overholt (Harvard University Press, 2009). Johnson Symposium.

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A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe (OUP, 1999). Raven.

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The Last Man by Mary Shelley (OUP, 1998). Raven.

- The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe (OUP, 1999). Raven.

- Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire (OUP, 1994). Raven.

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The Shawnees and the War for America by Colin G. Calloway (Viking, 2007). Raven.

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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Raven.

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Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity by Darrin M. McMahon (OUP, 2002). Raven.

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The Writing Life of Hugh Kelly: Politics, Journalism, and Theatre in Late-Eighteenth-Century London by Robert R. Bataille (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000). Raven.

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A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker by Frans Korsten (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

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Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light up Minds; edited by Ash Amin and Michael O'Neill (Profile Books, 2009). Publisher.

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The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages by Spike Bucklow (Marion Boyars, 2009). Publisher.

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The Peasant Prince: and the Age of Revolution by Alex Storozynski (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009). Amazon.

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A History of the Book in America, Volume IV: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940; edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway (UNC Press, 2009). Amazon.