Saturday, June 25, 2011

Recent Acquisitions

Books which have arrived recently:

- A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf by Kevin J. Hayes (University of Tennessee Press, 1996). Amazon (used).

- Books As History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Text by David Pearson (Oak Knoll, 2011). Publisher.

- The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild (Princeton University Press, 2011). Amazon.

- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (OUP, 2011). Amazon.

- The Library of John Montgomerie, Colonial Governor of New York and New Jersey by Kevin J. Hayes (University of Delaware Press, 2000). Amazon (used)

- L'auberge by Julia Stagg (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011). Publisher.

- James Bowdoin: Patriot and Man of the Enlightenment by Gordon E. Kershaw (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1976). Green Hand.

- In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace by David G. Post (OUP, 2009). Heartwood Books.

- Studies in Bibliography (Volumes 6, 11, 40, 48). Heartwood Books.

- Senefelder on Lithography: The Classic 1819 Treatise by Alois Senefelder (Dover, 2005). Heartwood Books.

- Abel Buell of Connecticut by Lawrence C. Wroth (Wesleyan University Press, 1958). Heartwood Books.

- Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville by Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 2007). Heartwood Books.

- Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750-1832 by Kathryn Temple (Cornell University Press, 2003). Heartwood Books.

- Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake by James Horn (University of North Carolina Press, 1994). Heartwood Books.

- Jonathan Swift, A Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography by David Nokes (OUP, 1986). Heartwood Books.

- Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth M. Harris (David R. Godine, 2004). Heartwood Books.

- The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield (Random House, 2011). Publisher.

- Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz (Random House, 2011). Publisher.