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Print: $18.95 Download: $75.00 The “Crystal Palace Guides” reprints original guides from the 1854 Crystal Palace. Detailed descriptions and many illustrations makes this Guide a comprehensive overview, together with descriptions of the special courts and galleries. It also offers a walking tour around the park’s thematic gardens. The Geological Illustrations and Extinct Animals are described, including the famous dinosaurs of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Maps include both palace and park. Facsimile of
1856 edition. Complete. Why 1856? When the 1854 edition went to press, the palace and park were not yet finished, e.g., the fountains weren't working! The 1856 edition accurately describes the palace and park as visitors experienced them, providing more maps, more drawings of exhibits, and far better descriptions. Editions after 1856 were substantially revised but images were degraded or simplified. Important historical information was removed. Compared with others, the 1856 edition is special.
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Print: $22.40 Download: FREE First published in 1854 as part of the official handbook series for the Crystal Palace, this guide to the Portrait Gallery provides a catalogue of those chosen for display, plus biographical information. In effect, this offers a directory of those held in high esteem by mid-Victorian London society. It’s a roll call of Britain’s heritage. Listed are artists and musicians, poets and dramatists, scientists, soldiers, statesmen, theologians, and royalty. Portraits were organised by nation: Greek and Roman, Italian, French, German, and English (notably, not ‘British’). Complete facsimile.
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Print: $22.40 Download: $51.71 After the Great Exhibition in 1851, the famous Crystal Palace was dismantled, then moved to Sydenham. The glasshouse was expanded and set within a beautiful 200 acre, fountain-filled pleasure park. It re-opened in 1854.
Education and entertainment combined at Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace Company published a series of guides – official handbooks – describing the park’s themed courts, special features, and sculpture galleries. These helped visitors interpret key features. They also provided background information. The effect was to add an air of authenticity to the visitor’s experience and to justify the intricate attention to detail (and its expense). More than a dozen guides were produced.
Facsimile of 1854 original edition. Complete. This guide also includes Pasqual De Gayangos, “An Historical Notice of the Kings of Granada, From the Conquest of that City by the Arabs to the Expulsion of the Moors,” and Anonymous, “The Flight from Granada”. ISBN 978-1-906267-06-3
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Print: $22.40 Download: $51.71 An inventory for the statues and sculptures displayed in the Crystal Palace and Park. It’s a celebration of modern sculpting, 17th to 19th century, with English work set alongside French, German, and Italian masters. Individual items are described. Biographies of sculptors are given. Mrs Jameson’s introduction provides a rationale for selection and an instruction to visitors: what should they be seeing? Facsimile of 1854 edition. Complete.
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Print: $22.40 Download: $51.71 Catalogue for one of the great courts in the 1854 Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Detailed description of this exhibition, together with a brief survey of architectural and design history of Byzantium and other parts of Christian Europe, including German and French Romanesque. Additional notes are provided on Irish art (550-1000AD), described as superior to Anglo-Saxon work in the same age, and on the effigies found in Temple Church, London belonging to the Order of the Temple, or Knights Templar. Facsimile of 1854 original edition.
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Print: $10.33 Download: $51.71 In 1915, Kellogg was a pacifist and humanitarian working with relief organisations in war-torn Europe. By 1917, he wanted war with Germany, pursued to total victory. Headquarters Nights is the story of his conversion. The Prussians told Kellogg how Darwinism justified war and offered the ultimate test for the ‘survival of the fittest’. Kellogg was shocked. This perverted Darwinism. It had to be resisted. Kellogg’s conversion was no easy journey. This offers an intimate study of one man’s transformation from an opponent of all wars into a firm advocate of one war. It will offer insight for modern thinkers about world events today.
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Print: $9.92 Download: $25.00 A guided tour through key architectural and design philosophies underpinning this marvellous building. Henry Acland played a key role in the building of Oxford’s new science museum in the 1850s. In this essay, he describes expectations for the building - its construction was nearing completion as he wrote. He also discusses its famous connection to the “Gothic style”. While guiding readers through some of the building’s chief features, Acland leaves no doubt this was a project meant to combine nature and God; reverence and rigour. It’s a vision of science that’s largely forgotten today.
Acland appends two 1858/9 letters from John Ruskin. The great advocate of Gothic design elaborates core principles of this approach and relates them to Oxford’s museum. A superb summary of Gothic Revivalism. Acland also adds 1859 correspondence from John Phillips, describing plans to integrate geological materials into the building’s decorative features. ISBN 978-1-906267-08-7
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Print: $21.59 Download: $29.99 While a master’s student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright’s lecture courses. He made copious notes. These are a detailed record of Wright’s teaching. This book reprints Sloan's notes from Wright’s Evolution (Zoology 313) course, June-August 1951. In addition to lecture notes, this volume includes three population genetics exercises, Sloan’s research paper for the course, and Wright’s final examination.
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Print: $21.32 Download: FREE While a master’s student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright’s lecture courses. He made copious notes. These are a detailed record of Wright’s teaching. This book reprints Sloan's notes from Wright’s Fundamental Genetics (Zoology 310) course, January-March 1952.
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Print: $21.36 Download: $29.99 While a master’s student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright’s lecture courses. He made copious notes. These are a detailed record of Wright’s teaching. This book reprints Sloan's notes from Wright’s Physiological Genetics (Zoology 312) course, March-April 1952. This offers a fascinating glimpse into the lecturing of one of America’s most famous evolutionary biologists.
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Print: $32.17 Download: $25.83 Regular contact with anyone interested reprints these little known documents Emerson circulated in 1941. These are the first and only materials distributed on behalf of the Society for the Study of Speciation. Few copies have survived the intervening years, and these have been used only rarely by historians interested in evolutionary theory. To these original documents, Cain adds a brief introduction, editorial notes, and a summary of his detailed analysis of the Society’s membership.
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Print: $8.65 Download: $24.99 Meet Eoörnis, the woofen-poof. As the author explains, ‘Through countless ages and successive civilizations this remarkable bird has been the symbol of speed, stamina, grace of line, proportion of members, and beauty of motion.’ Here are the origins of the phrase, ‘graceful as a bird.’ A classic ‘burlesque’ in the history of science. Not a hoax. Not a mistake. It’s a raucous, now legendary, adventure through the zoology and natural history of a most unusual creature. Written in the 1920s by Augustus C. Fotheringham, a pseudonym for Lester Sharp and Cuthbert Bancroft Fraser, this monograph has circulated far and wide. For years, it has moved quietly through scientist circles, handed down with a wink and a nod. If nothing else, Eoörnis shows the passion and dedication scientists have for their subject. Profits from the sale of this facsimile will be donated to support natural history museums.
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Download: $86.12 Art Print: $17.16 Map of Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham. Originally published in 1856 edition of Samuel Phillips' Guide to the Crystal Palace and the Park (Crystal Palace Company, London).
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Download: $86.12 Art Print: $17.16 Map of transport links to the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Originally published in 1856 edition of Samuel Phillips' Guide to the Crystal Palace and the Park (Crystal Palace Company, London).
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Download: $86.12 Art Print: $18.62 Ground Plan (floor plan) of Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Originally published in 1856 edition of Samuel Phillips' Guide to the Crystal Palace and the Park (Crystal Palace Company, London), showing location of courts and special features.
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