Dirda Michael Olson Storrs (17 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. Black cloth, lettered in silver foil, with cloth book mark stitched in to binding. As issued. Dust jacket as issued. 180 pp., fully illus. w/ many color + b&w plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 179 pages; map eps; b/w & color photo illustrations; contents clean; binding solid; 10" tall; photo illustrated dj; silk ribbon place-marker. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ***SPRING CLEARANCE SALE*** Cloth, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Ribbon book mark. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Fine DJ. Another copy available. *** "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." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, May 16-August 4, 2021.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition.

HC. color illustrations (illustrator). 179pp ISBN 1588340368 fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Color & b&w (illustrator). 2nd printing; hardcover; dj in mylar; 178 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. 179 pages: color illustrations, plans, facsimiles. New hardcover exhibition catalog in dust jacket. No remainder marks or defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Cloth, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Ribbon book mark. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. *** "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." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by Nancy E. Gwinn; Realms of Wonder, by Michael Dirda; A Voyage through the Smithsonian Libraries; The Curator and the Book, by Storrs L. Olson. ADVENTURES IN THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES: Introduction; PART I: JOURNEYS OVER LAND AND SEA; Travelers and Places; In the Air. PART II: JOURNEYS OF THE MIND: Classifiers and Describers; Explaining the Heavens. PART III: JOURNEYS OF THE IMAGINATION: Book Arts; Architecture and Design; Trade Literature; Index; Acknowledgments. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. blue cloth, 179 pages, illustrated, (some col.), col. maps, map end papers, Catalog of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, May 16-Aug. 4, 2001, and at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Gallery, Washington, May 2002-May 2003. Includes index. Size: 4 to.,27 Cm. Book.

Condition: FINE. First printing. A beautiful and lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for The Grolier Club exhibition from May to August 2001 entitled "Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition " and the same exhibition at the Smithsonian Libraries Gallery from May 2002 to May 2003 under the title used in this book. Includes a foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn, essays by Michael Dirda and Storrs Olson. The exhibition (and this book) is divided into three major sections - Journeys over Land and Sea, Journeys of the Mind, Journeys of the Imagination - and features book about flight, travel, exploration, natural history, children's books, book arts, architecture and more, fully illustrated in black and white, sepia tone, and full color - sometimes with 2 or more photographs for one book. INSCRIBED on the title page by Thomas, the curator of the show, who also wrote an essay on the history of the Smithsonian Libraries for this book. Index. Large format. 179 pp. Map illustrated endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (small nick to bottom edge of front cover of dj and at fold.).

Full Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Full blue cloth with silver lettering on the front cover and the spine, blind stamped butterfly design on the front cover, light wear to the jacket. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a EXCELLENT brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.