Pierre Eugène Du Simitière
Autor Gordon Marshall, James N. Green, John Van Horneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2026
Du Simitière opened the first American museum in 1782 to display his fossils, coins, medals, Indian artifacts, rocks, plants, and natural history specimens. While the fate of those materials is unknown, his extraordinary collection of contemporaneous pamphlets, broadsides, and prints that established him as the Archivist of the Revolution remains in the Library Company's collection.
Published nearly 250 years after the collection was acquired and featuring dozens of marvelous illustrations, the handsomely produced Pierre Eugène Du Simitière focuses on his materials relating to the Stamp Act and the American Revolution. An introduction puts Du Simitière's fascinating life and work in historical context, while other chapters present his varied interests in calligraphy, heraldry, numismatics, and natural history, as well as his interactions with Native Americans and his travels to the West Indies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439929353
ISBN-10: 1439929351
Pagini: 140
Dimensiuni: 176 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439929351
Pagini: 140
Dimensiuni: 176 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Notă biografică
Gordon M. Marshall (1942-2013) was Assistant Librarian and later trustee of the Library Company.
James N. Green is Librarian Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia, where he has worked since 1983. He has advanced degrees in American literature from Yale and rare books librarianship from Columbia. He was a contributor to and editorial board member of the multi-volume collaborative History of the Book in America, published by the American Antiquarian Society (2000-2010), and coauthor of Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer. He teaches courses on the history of the book in America at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School and the University of Pennsylvania.
John C. Van Horne is Director Emeritus of the Library Company. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Antiquarian Society and the editor of many volumes of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Van Horne is the coeditor of The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, and the editor of Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery: The American Correspondence of the Associates of Dr. Bray, 1717-1777 and Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Photographs of William H. Rau.
James N. Green is Librarian Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia, where he has worked since 1983. He has advanced degrees in American literature from Yale and rare books librarianship from Columbia. He was a contributor to and editorial board member of the multi-volume collaborative History of the Book in America, published by the American Antiquarian Society (2000-2010), and coauthor of Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer. He teaches courses on the history of the book in America at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School and the University of Pennsylvania.
John C. Van Horne is Director Emeritus of the Library Company. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Antiquarian Society and the editor of many volumes of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Van Horne is the coeditor of The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, and the editor of Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery: The American Correspondence of the Associates of Dr. Bray, 1717-1777 and Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Photographs of William H. Rau.