Saturday, March 14, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions (and Last)

Wow, I'm definitely behind on these. Lots of new arrivals:

- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Vintage, 2009). Border's.

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Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations by Richard J. Cox (Litwin Books, 2009). Publisher.

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Eugene Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France by Gaetan Benoit (Litwin Books, 2008). Publisher.

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Library Daylight: Traces of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922; edited by Rory Litwin (Library Juice Press, 2006). Publisher.

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Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870 by Lara Jennifer Moore (Litwin Books, 2008). Publisher.

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From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory by John Ridener (Litwin Books, 2009). Publisher.

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Peter Mark Roget: The Man Who Became a Book by Nick Rennison (Pocket Essentials, 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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North-East Passage to Muscovy: Stephen Borough and the First Tudor Explorations by Kit Mayers (Sutton, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel (Hudson Street, 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art by Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury, 2009). Publisher.

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The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Geoffrey Moorhouse (Bluebridge, 2009). Publisher.

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The Atlantic Enlightenment; edited by Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano (Ashgate, 2008). Publisher.

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Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds by Joscelyn Godwin (Phanes Press, 1991). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology by Kenneth A. Breisch (MIT Press, 2003). Edward R. Hamilton.

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William Macgillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea by Robert Ralph (Merrell, 2000). Edward R. Hamilton.

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A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut by Christopher Grasso (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler (Walker & Co., 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas by Alan Trachtenberg (Hill and Wang, 2007). Edward R. Hamilton.

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The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland by Patricia Pierce (Sutton, 2004). Edward R. Hamilton.

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The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance by Joscelyn Godwin (Weiser, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton.

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Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and The Revolution That Created The Constitution by Charles A. Cerami (Sourcebooks, 2005). Edward R. Hamilton.

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London's Pleasures: From Restoration to Regency by David Kerr Cameron (Sutton, 2001). Edward R. Hamilton.

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The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling (Bloomsbury, 2009). Publisher.

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The Library in Colonial New York by Austin Baxter Keep (Burt Franklin, 1970). Colophon.

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Ronald Brunlees McKerrow: A Selection of his Essays; edited by John Phillip Immroth (Scarecrow Press, 1974). Colophon.

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Thomas Frognall Dibdin: Selections; edited by Victor E. Neuberg (Scarecrow Press, 1978). Colophon.