We said fuck it, today. Too weighed down by shoddy social dynam­ics and long-​​postponed noi­some and dis­turb­ing chores. So we went to buy more books.

We did well.

Some­day soon, as time and energy and anti­his­t­a­mines per­mit, we’ll scan every last one of these and share them with you, for free, online.

But prob­a­bly My Sound­speed Dis­cov­ery first.…

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Gillette’s Indus­trial Solu­tion: World Cor­po­ra­tion. An Account of the Evo­lu­tion of the Exist­ing Social Sys­tem Together with a Pre­sen­ta­tion of an Entirely New Rem­edy for the Evils it Exhibits by Melvin I. Severy

Fiji and Its Pos­si­bil­i­ties by Beat­rice Grimshaw

Zigzag Jour­neys in Europe. Vaca­tion Ram­bles in His­toric Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

Myths and Leg­ends of Alaska by Katharine Berry Jud­son [some crayon, sadly]

Out­line of a Year’s Work in the Kinder­garten by Anna W. Devereaux

A Philosopher’s Advice, Or The Seer’s Mys­tery by Lyman E. Stowe

Jack-​​of-​​All-​​Trades by Mar­garet Applegarth

Taxi­dermy With­out a Teacher: Com­pris­ing a Com­plete Man­ual of Instruc­tion for Prepar­ing and Pre­serv­ing Birds and Ani­mals. by Walker Hunt­ing Man­ton. [miss­ing a cou­ple of leaves]

Suc­cess in Let­ter Writ­ing by Sher­win Cody

Cos­mos a Sketch of a Phys­i­cal Descrip­tion of the Uni­verse (Vol. II , 2 Only) by ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, trans. E. C. OTTE

Ange­line at the Seel­bach and Ange­line Step­pin’ Out by Cor­dia Greer-​​Petrie

The Den­tist Him­self, vol 1, no 1. (1892). peri­od­i­cal issue [sur­pris­ingly hard to ID]

The Scrap Book (Mun­sey), vol 1, no 3 (1906). peri­od­i­cal issue

Sug­ges­tive Spe­cial Day Pro­grams: Lin­coln Day, Wash­ing­ton and Low­ell Day, Longfel­low Day, Arbor Day, Memo­r­ial Day, Our Nation’s Birth­day, Labor Day, Thanks­giv­ing Day, Christ­mas pub Jason E. Ham­mond [some miss­ing leaves, but we know the words to the Get­tys­burg Address]

Neg­a­tives of the Indo-​​European Lan­guages by Fowler [no first name given], 1896 [bound aca­d­e­mic paper, only seen as citations]

The Out­look Vol. 91. bound peri­od­i­cal [edited by Teddy Roosevelt]

Tech­ni­cal World Mag­a­zine, Vol­ume 18. bound peri­od­i­cal. [includes amus­ing arti­cle “Farm Treat­ment for the Insane”]

The Con­nois­seur, Vol 1 (Sul­li­van, Colum­bus OH). bound peri­od­i­cal. [not the illus­trated mag­a­zine for collectors]

The Forum, vol 10, no 3, Nov 1890. peri­od­i­cal issue

Cos­mopoli­tan Mag­a­zine, Vol 51, 1911 [dis]bound peri­od­i­cal [has a Jack Lon­don story, duo­toned ads?!]

The Cen­tury Mag­a­zine, August 1895. peri­od­i­cal issue

The Cen­tury Mag­a­zine, Novem­ber 1895. peri­od­i­cal issue

Sys­tem: The Mag­a­zine of Busi­ness, vol 25, no 5. peri­od­i­cal issue

Munsey’s Mag­a­zine, vol 47, no 1. peri­od­i­cal issue

Annals of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Polit­i­cal and Social Sci­ence, Vol 1, no 3. peri­od­i­cal issue

Annals of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Polit­i­cal and Social Sci­ence, Vol 2, no 3. peri­od­i­cal issue

His­tory, The­ory, and Tech­nique of Sta­tis­tics by August Meitzen. [both vol­ume 1 and vol­ume 2]

D. D. Cot­trell News­pa­per & Mag­a­zine Cat­a­log, 1911

Bulbs, Roses & Plants. Autumn 1909. George H. Mellen cat­a­log, Spring­field OH

The Art Stu­dent School of Applied Art, 1921. cor­re­spon­dence school issue

Cat­a­logue of Emery Prints, 1916 [class­room teach­ing prints]

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Cat­a­logue, Part 1, 1883

Cos­mos Pic­tures, 1911 print catalog

Clear­ance List of Stan­dard and Mis­cel­la­neous Books from S. A. Maxwell & Co, Feb, 1890. book­sellers’ catalog

The Writer’s Mag­a­zine, Vol 6 No 1 (Feb 1914). peri­od­i­cal issue

[Box of mis­cel­la­neous plates from Uni­ver­sity Prints, Boston]

Mod­ern Painter’s Cyclopae­dia by F. Maire, 1918

Man­ual of Restora­tive Art by Charles O. Dhonau & G. Joseph Prager, 1932 [pub Embalm­ing Book Com­pany– with pics of dead peo­ple look­ing very natural]

The Cop­ley Prints, 1915 catalog

Esti­mates in Art by Frank Jew­ett Mather, Jr, 1916

The Min­istry of Art by Frank Bris­tol, 1897

The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher’s Com­pan­ion: Con­tain­ing Rules and REg­u­la­tions in Every Thing Relat­ing to the Arts of Paint­ing, Gild­ing, Var­nish­ing, and Glass-​​Staining; 13^th edi­tion by Baird, 1869 [some worm dam­age; seems OK]

Inter­pre­ta­tion of the Printed Page by S. H. Clark. 1915

Where and How to Sell Man­u­scripts, a Direc­tory for Writ­ers by William B. McCourtie, 1919 [like Writer’s Guide]

Macmil­lan Book Cat­a­logue, May, 1926

A sec­ond copy of the Mod­ern Painter’s Cyclo­pe­dia [woops; what we get for shop­ping separately]

Illus­trated Cat­a­logue of the Paint­ings in the Old Pinakothek, Munich. Unabridged Offi­cial Edi­tion by Reber, trans. Clarke [undated, late 1880s (inscribed 1887)]

Sam­ples of Lino­type Faces. c. 1910s? [men­tions beer; pre– or post-​​prohibition]

Com­mer­cial Illus­tra­tion for Adver­tis­ing Pur­poses, Les­son 13, 1900s

Ral­ston Gar­dens Of Life: A Study of Health by Edmund Shaftes­bury, 1901 [with tipped in fran­chise license, crayon, kook health book from the Ralstonites]

Lehrbuch der Gravierkunst. Mit 90 Illus­tra­tio­nen im Text und 20 Tafeln by Max­i­m­il­ian Hübener, 1906

Duchess of Few Clothes, A Com­edy by Philip Payne, 1904 [might be miss­ing the frontis]

The Zeppelin’s Pas­sen­ger by E. Phillips Oppen­hein [already in PG, but could use a new edition]

The Book of Spice by “Gin­ger”, 1906 [per­haps the weird­est illus­tra­tions of any acqui­si­tion this year]

A Night Out by Edward Peple, 1915 [obvi­ously a com­mon book, but still not in DP]

The Cur and the Coy­ote by Edward Peple, 1913 [Rube Gold­berg frontis]

It’s Up to You: a story of Domes­tic Bliss by Hugh McHugh, 1902

The Com­plete Poems of Christo­pher Har­vey (The Fuller Wor­thies’ Library) by Alexan­der B. Grosart (ed.). Printed For Pri­vate Cir­cu­la­tion, Lon­don, 1874 [some­what dis­bound, but all present]

“Charge It”, or Keep­ing Up with Henry by Irv­ing Bacheller, 1912

Lives of the Most Emi­nent British Painters & Sculp­tors sec­ond series vols. 4 & 5, of 5 by Allan Cun­ning­ham, 1835

The Gram­mar of Paint­ing And Engrav­ing (Blanc’s Gram­maire Des Arts Du Dessin) by Kate Newell Doggett, (trans­la­tor). 1891 edi­tion [can’t find at ABE; but who cares?]

Eng­lish Car­i­ca­tur­ists and Graphic Humourists of the Nine­teenth Cen­tury How They Illus­trated and Inter­preted Their Times. Sec­ond Edi­tion Gra­ham Everitt, 1893 [bro­ken bind­ing, but AOK for scanning]

Pic­to­r­ial Com­po­si­tion and the Crit­i­cal Judge­ment of Pic­tures a Hand­book for Stu­dents and Lovers of Art by H. R. Poore, 1903

The­ory and Prac­tice of Teach­ing Art by Arthur Wes­ley Dow, pub Colum­bia Teach­ers’ Col­lege. 1912 [can’t find an exem­plar of this edi­tion online]

Draw­ing for Line Engrav­ing, Part 1 by Koller. pub Inter­na­tional Text­book Com­pany © 1915, 1926 print­ing [so it’s pub­lic domain]

A his­tory of car­i­ca­ture & grotesque in lit­er­a­ture an art. First edi­tion. by Thomas Wright, 1865 [in pieces, but com­plete and rebind­able. w00t]

Bio­graph­i­cal Sketches of Amer­i­can Artists by Helen L. Earle, 1913. Michi­gan State Library, Lansing

My Sound­speed Dis­cov­ery: Expand­ing Into a Con­struc­tive Med­ley of Wit and Song by George Winslow Pierce, 1895 [OMFG an amaz­ing piece of psy­choce­ram­ica I’ve never seen before. Very exper­i­men­tal; printed land­scape; blank pages; empty index. Very very very odd. w00t. As odd as Rod of Iron, maybe?!]

All That’s Lovely by Samuel Fran­cis Woolard, 1909

Half a Cen­tury of Eng­lish His­tory. by “Mr. Punch”, 1884 [col­lected car­toons from Punch’s 50^th Anniversary]