A compendious account of the whole art of breeding, nursing, and the right ordering of the silk-worm / Illustrated with figures engraven on copper, whereon is curiously exhibited the whole management of this profitable insect.

Call Number: Uzfj15 733b

see: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3526361

 

Pattern book for silk weaving, [circa 1790].

Call Number:  GEN MSS VOL 507  

 

Words … / by Bob Brown.            

Call Number: Za B8155 +930     

 

Modernist era writer and publisher Bob Brown (Robert Carlton Brown, 1886-1959) had a “life-long fascination with the poetics involved in multiple reading machines, from ticker-tape machines to film projectors to his own microfilm-like machine.”  In 1929 he moved to Paris and there established Roving Eye Press; the following year he published The Readies, an anthology of works written to be viewed using a reading machine he invented.

 

SEE:

http://www.rovingeyepress.com/ (quoted above)

 

The readies, by Bob Brown

Call Number: Za B8155 930r

 

Modernist era writer and publisher Bob Brown (Robert Carlton Brown, 1886-1959) had a “life-long fascination with the poetics involved in multiple reading machines, from ticker-tape machines to film projectors to his own microfilm-like machine.”  In 1929 he moved to Paris and there established Roving Eye Press; the following year he published The Readies, an anthology of works written to be viewed using a reading machine he invented.

 

SEE:

http://www.rovingeyepress.com/ (quoted above)

 

Tender buttons, tenderly. Adapted from Gertrude Stein

Call Number: Zm St34   

 

Thirteen 4.5 cm. paper discs joined accordian-style with a pink silk ribbon to form 26 pages, in a hinged brass box with seven buttons affixed to the lid.

 

The reticule and pocket companion, or, Miniature lexicon of the English language / by Lyman Cobb. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1838.

Description:818 p. : front. (port.) ; 9 x 6 cm.

Call Number: Zm C63

Variant and related titles: Added engraved t.p.: Ladies’ reticule companion, or, Little lexicon of the English language. New York, 1834

 

Petite anthologie des poètes français. [France : s.n., 1942?]

Description:107 p. ; 80 mm.

Call Number: Zm F88 4

    

“La résistance passive des civils aux exigences allemandes n’est plus suffisante. En raison des méthodes apportées par les Allemandes dans la conduite de la guerre, il faut que la lutte des populations civiles entre dans une phase active”–“Introduction,” p. 1.

 

Masquerading as a poetry anthology and produced by the French resistance, this is in fact a pocket sabotage guide for French citizens during the Nazi occupation.

 

Smallest English dictionary in the world : comprising besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary and technical terms.

 

Call Number: Zm Sm18