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Text by Columbus scholar Mauricio Obregon, translation by Lucia Graves

An heirloom facsimile edition of the letter Columbus wrote to the royal court describing his first voyage to America. Illustrated with five color maps and engravings from the fifteenth century.

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Published by Macmillan USA, 1991.

Edited by Israel J. Katz

Carleton Sprague Smith was chief of the New York Public Library's  Music Division from 1931-1959.

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459 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Published by Pendragon Press, 1991.

C. Vann Woodward

No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about he New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. In this book, based on a series of lectures delivered at The New York Public Library, histrorian C. Vann Woodward offers a brilliant study of how Europeans have seen and discovered American over the last two centuries.

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167 pages. Published by Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Elinor DesVerney Sinnette

The first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose search for the hidden records of the black experience led to the development of a research collection which laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.

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262 pages, b/w illustrations. Published by Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Edited by Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche

An exploration by North American and European scholars of how the printed word contributed to the French Revolution. 

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351 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Published by University of California Press, 1989.

Paperback. $24.95.

Edited by Leonard Singer Gold, foreword by Vartan Gregorian

A beautifully illustrated collection of essays depicting within a historical and cultural context the development of the Hebrew book from the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern times.

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224 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, 34 color plates. Published by Oxford University Press, 1988.

Marshall B. Davidson in collaboration with Bernard McTigue

Describes and illustrates close to 300 of the most important items from the Library's vast collections.

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304 pages, 300 illustrations, 110 color plates. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1988.

Introduction by Francis O. Mattson

Facsimiles of charming gift books (two by Hawthorne) in the Library's Berg Collection, published in the nineteenth century to help paperboys garner tips at holiday time.

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54 pages, 25 facsimile pages including broadside with engraving. Published by The New York Public Library, 1987.

Richard B. Bernstein, with Kym S. Rice, foreword by Richard B. Morris, preface by Vartan Gregorian

A thorough examination of the complicated history and philosophy behind the formation of our country's constitution.

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342 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, 19 color plates. Published by Harvard University Press, 1987.

Pierre Provoyeur and June Hargrove

A fully illustrated history of the Statue of Liberty from a French and American perspective.

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342 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, 69 color plates. Published by HarperCollins, 1986.

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