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- catalog abstract ""Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the twenty-two libraries that support Smithsonian museums and research centers into one system encompassing 1.5 million books and manuscripts. The expansive collection includes many rare and unusual works equal to the celebrated art and artifacts of the Smithsonian's museums." "This illustrated accompaniment to a new Smithsonian Libraries exhibition of the same name provides a three-part expedition through the collection. The first presents works such as a 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Liber geographiae (Book of geography) and the pop-up book Buck Rogers, 25th Century, featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" to illustrate how the world has been imagined, seen, and recorded by Europeans and Americans. The second journey explores how scientists have extended our understanding of the world, and includes a 1641 edition of Galileo's Systema cosmicum (System of the world) and a copy of Walden inscribed by Henry David Thoreau to Spencer Baird, then assistant secretary of the newly founded Smithsonian Institution. The final section journeys through the imaginations of artists, architects, and book designers, presenting among many pictorially rich selections a 1535 edition of Albrecht Durer's Institutionum geometricarum (Geometric instruction) and Doxford Opposed Piston Oil Engine, a paper-and-board pamphlet with movable pistons and levers from 1922"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12497585.
- catalog contributor b12497586.
- catalog contributor b12497587.
- catalog contributor b12497588.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the twenty-two libraries that support Smithsonian museums and research centers into one system encompassing 1.5 million books and manuscripts. The expansive collection includes many rare and unusual works equal to the celebrated art and artifacts of the Smithsonian's museums." "This illustrated accompaniment to a new Smithsonian Libraries exhibition of the same name provides a three-part expedition through the collection. The first presents works such as a 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Liber geographiae (Book of geography) and the pop-up book Buck Rogers, 25th Century, featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" to illustrate how the world has been imagined, seen, and recorded by Europeans and Americans. The second journey explores how scientists have extended our understanding of the world, and includes a 1641 edition of Galileo's Systema cosmicum (System of the world) and a copy of Walden inscribed by Henry David Thoreau to Spencer Baird, then assistant secretary of the newly founded Smithsonian Institution. The final section journeys through the imaginations of artists, architects, and book designers, presenting among many pictorially rich selections a 1535 edition of Albrecht Durer's Institutionum geometricarum (Geometric instruction) and Doxford Opposed Piston Oil Engine, a paper-and-board pamphlet with movable pistons and levers from 1922"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Nancy E. Gwinn -- Realms of wonder / Michael Dirda -- A voyage through the Smithsonian libararies -- The curator and the book / Storrs L. Olson -- Adventures in the Smithsonian libraries -- Introduction -- Journeys over land and sea -- Travelers and places -- In the air -- Journeys of the mind -- Classifiers and describers -- Explaining the heavens -- Journeys of the imagination -- Book arts -- Architecture and design -- Trade literature.".
- catalog extent "179 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1588340368 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "027.573 21".
- catalog subject "Books History Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Library resources Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Smithsonian Institution. Libraries Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Smithsonian Institution. Libraries.".
- catalog subject "Z733.S67 S64 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Nancy E. Gwinn -- Realms of wonder / Michael Dirda -- A voyage through the Smithsonian libararies -- The curator and the book / Storrs L. Olson -- Adventures in the Smithsonian libraries -- Introduction -- Journeys over land and sea -- Travelers and places -- In the air -- Journeys of the mind -- Classifiers and describers -- Explaining the heavens -- Journeys of the imagination -- Book arts -- Architecture and design -- Trade literature.".
- catalog title "An odyssey in print : adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries / Mary Augusta Thomas ; with a foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn ; and essays by Michael Dirda and Storrs L. Olson.".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".