Curious Catalog

Featuring the rare book collection (early printed titles, sheet music and broadsides) and the map collection from the Library of Virginia.

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From: Seward Trunk and Bag Company, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.A. : catalog L, 1908-1909.

TS2301.L8 S4 1908

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Some lovely marbled pages, including some hidden marbling on the fore edge.

From: Equiano, Olaudah, Charles Stalker, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African. Sixth edition, enlarged. London: Printed for, and sold by the author & G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and by Charles Stalker, Stationers-Court, Ludgate-Street, London, 1793. 

HT869.E6 A3 1793

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One more for spooky season, from a spooky Virginian.

From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Gustave Doré, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. The Raven. New York: Harper, 1884.

PS2609 .A1 1884a

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Anatomy studies are perfect for spooky season.

From: Cutter, Eunice P, and Edmund Flagg. Human and Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene. School edition. New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith, 1854.

QM27 .C88 1854

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Scientific study of sea monsters?

From: Bushnan, J. Stevenson. The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; [etc.], 1840.

QL45 .J12 v.35

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Spooky friends to start spooky season.

From: MacGillivray, William. British Quadrupeds. London: H.G. Bohn, 1866. The Naturalist's Library, v. 17.

QL45 .J12 v.17

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This is pretty neat- a study of hieroglyphs from before the Rosetta stone was found.

From: Pownall, T., & Dodsley, J. (1782). A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research : also marking and explaining some of the desiderata : with an appendix : No. I. On the elements of speach : No. II. On the origin of written language, picture, hieroglyphic, and elementary-writing : No. III. On the ships of the ancients : No. IV. On the chariots of the ancients. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall.

D55 .P88 1782

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Delightful miniature portraits.

From: Foster, J. J. Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century. London: Dickinsons, 1914.

ND1337.G7 F5 1914

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Lovely garden images. The first two are the same picture, and the fence flips up!

From: Repton, Humphry, and J. C Loudon. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton; Being His Entire Works on These Subjects. New ed., by J.C. Loudon. London: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman, 1840.

SB471 .R426 1840

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Audubon's illustrations of some of our favorite chaotic critters.

From: Audubon, John James, John Bachman, and John Woodhouse Audubon. The Quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. 

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While we don't love damage to books, you can find some surprises hiding in the bindings.

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Some pretty bindings today.

From: Poe, Edgar Allan, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and George Edward Woodberry. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe : Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir, Critical Introductions, and Notes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894

PS2601 .S72 1894

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Can someone make this for my dog?

From: Godey’s Lady’s Book (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1840). Philadelphia, Pa: L.A. Godey, v. 86, no. 515, May 1873.

AP2 .G56 v. 86 May 1873

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Taking a trip to Versailles.

From: Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar. Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles et de Marly : contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures, tableaux, statues, vases & ornemens qui s’y voient : leurs dimensions : & les noms des peintres, des sculpteurs & des graveurs qui les ont faits ... Cinquieme édition. A Paris: Chez la veuve de Florentin Delaulne, rue Saint-Jacques, à l’Empereur, 1724.

DC801.V56 P5 1724

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Heraldry for London professions in the 1600's

From: R. B. Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster : Shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates, Towers ... : With an Account of the Most Remarkable Accidents ... Which Have Happened Therein for above Nine Hundred Years Past ... : Illustrated with Pictures of the Most Considerable Matters Curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates, with the Arms of the Sixty Six Companies of London, and the Time of Their Incorporating. London: Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.

DA678 .C76 1681

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Here's some suggestions for your next feast.

From: Lamb, Patrick. Royal Cookery; : Or, The Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in All the Particular Branches of Cookery, Now in Use in the Queen’s Palaces of St. James’s, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. London: A. Roper, 1710.

TX705 .L3

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Today, we have a few pressed flowers found in a bound volume of The Casket : Flowers of Literature, Wit & Sentiment from 1830.