THE SACRED DEER OF KASUGA AND NARA—MORE THAN A TOURIST ATTRACTION.  Nara's deer have a longstanding religious association with Kasuga. In the Kasuga tradition, the deity Takemikazuchi traveled from Kashima to Mount Mikasa on a deer, and deer consequently came to be regarded as sacred messengers associated with the shrine.....

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE: A CALENDAR OF LETTERPRESS POSSIBILITY. This work documents the continuing vitality of hand printing through the creative presentation of type, ornament, and presswork. Rather than functioning only as a printer’s specimen, etc. type etc. transforms the resources of The Three Generations Press into a designed typographic composition. Each.....

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE: THE POEM THAT DEFINED SEA ROMANCE. John Masefield’s ‘Sea-Fever’ remains among the most recognizable English poems celebrating the pull of the ocean, beginning with the memorable declaration of a desire to return to the sea. Originally published in Masefield’s poetry collection Salt-Water Ballads (1902), the poem became closely.....

France: A. Taride, Editeur, 1910. Wraps. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: PARIS SUBMERGED — DOCUMENTING THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1910. The January 1910 flood of Paris was one of the most significant natural disasters in the city's modern history. After weeks of heavy rainfall throughout the Seine basin, the river rose dramatically, reaching.....

New York: Time Inc., 1942. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE : Published in February 1942, this issue of Fortune provides a contemporary view of the United States during the first months of World War II, when American industry was rapidly reorganizing for global conflict. The magazine examines the relationship between manufacturing, technology, transportation.....

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: French Decorative Bindings First published beginning in 1909, The Harvard Classics represented Charles W. Eliot’s effort to create an accessible personal library of essential works from literature, history, philosophy, religion, and science. Eliot’s famous claim that a reader could obtain.....

London: John Murray, 1875. HISTORICAL: SIGNIFICANCE — THE RED BOOK BEFORE BAEDEKER DOMINATED THE TOURIST'S HANDBOOK. John Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were among the defining guidebooks of nineteenth-century British tourism. The familiar red Murray handbook became sufficiently associated with British travelers that contemporary commentary could treat the book itself as.....

Oslo: Norges Sjøkartverk, 1959. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY SURVEY TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY NAVIGATION. The underlying chart belongs to the nineteenth-century hydrographic mapping of Norway's western coast. Kartverket's historical collection records the corresponding Specialkart over Den Norske Kyst fra Haastenen til Lille Batalden in 1873 at the same 1:50,000 scale. A......

Norway: Norges Sjøkartverk, 1959. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — A WORKING CHART OF THE NORWEGIAN COAST. Norway's deeply indented coast and extraordinary concentration of islands, skerries, narrow passages, and submerged hazards made systematic hydrographic surveying essential to coastal navigation. Norwegian government charts recorded soundings, lights, hazards, and channels at scales intended for.....

London: Macdonald & Co., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — FROM THE SEA TO RURAL WALES Don Quixote Drowned occupies a transitional place in Hanley's career, joining the maritime world of his earlier fiction with the Welsh setting that increasingly occupied his later work.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — Walter Crane was among the most influential designers and illustrators of the Victorian period, closely associated with the Arts & Crafts movement and the revival of decorative book design. His work bridged fine art, illustration, and social idealism, emphasizing beauty, craftsmanship, and accessibility. Flora’s Feast stands as.....

Chicago: Circle Press, 1981. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — PRESERVING THE PRINTER'S CRAFT. Consider belongs to the long American tradition of amateur journalism in which printers produced and exchanged their own small publications outside commercial publishing. AN AMATEUR PRINTER ANSWERS THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION. Harold Smolin was a founding member of the American.....

London: McCorquodale & Co., Ltd., [c. 1930s]. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: MAPPING TRAVEL ACROSS PREWAR IRELAND. Produced for travelers, this sheet documents the transportation infrastructure through which visitors moved around Ireland during the interwar period. Its combination of railways with tourist motor-coach and steamer routes is particularly useful in showing how the.....