Per l'inaugurazione del busto di Nicolo Paganini : nella villetta di Negro il 28 Juglio 1835
89 p. 22 cm
Commemorates the dedication of David d'Angers' bust of Nicolo Paganini at the Villetta Di Negro, a public park in Genoa, Italy. The oration was given by A. Brignole-Sale.
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini
The sculptor, Pierre-Jean David (1788 – 1856) was a French sculptor and medallist. He adopted the name David d'Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter Jacques-Louis David in 1809 as a way of both expressing his patrimony and distinguishing himself from the master painter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_d%27Angers
Antonio Giovanni Francesco Maria Ignazio Luigi Brignole Sale Marquis Groppoli (1786 - 1863 ) was a diplomat and an Italian politician in the service of the Kingdom of Sardinia .
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Brignole_Sale
Speech, poetry and an essay relating to Nicolo Paganini
Parallel French and Italian text on facing pages: pp. 82-89
Orazione. -- Poesie. -- Fragment d'un quart d'heure de reverie = Frammenti di un quarto d'ora d'astrazione
Orazione signed March. A. Brignole-Sale. -- p. 27
b30964660
ML418.P2 P4 1835
Finlandia I. Suomalaisia pianosävellyksiä = Pianostycken av finska tonsättare
58 p. of music 31 cm
Selected piano compositions by several Finnish composers.
Ilmari Hannikainen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmari_Hannikainen
Heino Kaski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Kaski
Toivo Kuula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo_Kuula
Ernst Linko
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Linko&prev=search
Armas Maasalo
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armas_Maasalo&prev=search
Leevi Madetoja
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leevi_Madetoja
Erkki Melartin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Melartin
Oskar Merikanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Merikanto
Selim Palmgren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_Palmgren
Jean Sibelius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
Keskustelu = Conversation, Op.11b, No. 3 Valse (fis), Op. 17, No. 1 / Ilmari Hannikainen -- Prelude (c), Op. 4, No. 3 Vuorenpeikkojen iltasoitto = Bergtrollens aftonspel, Op. 15, No. 1 / Heino Kaski -- Pikku gavotti = Liten gavott, Op. 3b, No. 3 Nocturne, Op. 26, No. 4 / Toivo Kuula -- Nocturne, Op. 2, No. 3 / Ernst Linko -- Au crépuscule, Op. 1, No. 1 / Armas Maasalo -- Pieni satu = En liten saga, Op. 31, No. 3 Kehtolaulu = Berceuse / Leevi Madetoja -- Perhoisvalssi = Fjärilsvals, Op. 22, No, 17 Berceuse pour un coeur triste, Op. 83, No. 7 / Erkki Melartin -- Scherzo, Op. 6, No. 4 Valse à la Chopin, Op. 6, No. 5 Romanssi = Romans, Op. 12 / Oskar Merikanto -- Midsommarlek, Op. 64, No. 2 Snöflingor, Op. 57, No. 2 / Selim Palmgren -- Harpunsoittaja = Harpspelaren, Op. 34, No. 8 Rondoletto, Op. 40, No. 7 / Jean Sibelius
1916
b32669537
M21 .F565 1920z
Reunion of former residents of the town of Plymouth, Conn. : at Bridgeport, March 15th, 1877
20 p. 20 cm
This volume commemorates a reunion in 1877 of former residents of Plymouth, Connecticut who, at that time, were residents of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Approximately 75 people attended the reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bishop. This volume contains an historical sketch of the town of Plymouth and a poem composed for the event.
Plymouth was incorporated in 1795, and became known nationally for the manufacture of clocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_Connecticut
b30792666
F104.P7 Axx 1877
The New-England primer, improved, or, An easy and pleasant guide to the art of reading : to which is added, the Assembly's Catechism
63 p. : ill. (woodcuts) 11 cm
The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been brought over from England. By 1690, Boston publishers were reprinting the English Protestant Tutor under the title of The New England Primer. The Primer included additional material that made it widely popular with colonial schools until it was supplanted by Noah Webster's Blue Back Speller after 1790.
The New England Primer was first published between 1687 and 1690 by printer Benjamin Harris, who had come to Boston in 1686 to escape the brief Catholic ascendancy under James II. Based largely upon The Protestant Tutor, which he had published in England, The New-England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies.
While the selections in the New England Primer varied somewhat across time, there was standard content for beginning reading instruction. Included were the alphabet, vowels, consonants, double letters and syllabariums of two letters to six letter syllables. The 90-page work contained religious maxims, woodcuts, alphabetical assistants, acronyms, catechism answers, and moral lessons.
The primer remained in print well into the 19th century and was even used until the 20th century. A reported 2 million copies were sold in the 18th century. No copies of editions before 1727 are known to survive; earlier editions are known only from publishers' and booksellers' advertisements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_England_Primer
This volume dates from 1821.
Stereotyped by A. Chandler & Co.
Frontispiece included in pagination
First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers
Heartman, C.F. The New-England primer, 334
b2746751x
PE1119.A1 N5 1821
A Catalogue of the deaths in the Second Society of Groton, : from the year seventeen hundred and seventy, to eighteen hundred and fifteen. : [Two lines of Scripture text]
48 p. 17 cm
The Second Society of Groton refers to the Congregational Church of Groton, established in 1702.
http://www.grotoncongregational.org/our-colonial-history.html
The New London County town of Groton sits between the Thames and Mystic Rivers on the eastern end of the state’s shoreline. Europeans settled this Pequot land in 1650, and, in 1705, Groton separated from New London. Throughout Groton’s history, maritime industry has fueled the community’s growth—from whale and seal hunting in the 1800s to the 1954 launch of the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. Key attractions include Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park (a Revolutionary War site) and the Submarine Force Library & Museum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton,_Connecticut
Of particular interest in the Catalogue is a list of the members of the Society killed at the battle of Groton Heights in 1781.
http://connecticuthistory.org/blood-on-the-hill-the-battle-of-groton-heights-september-6-1781/
Caption title: Catalogue of deaths in the Second Society of Groton from 1770, to 1815
Recommendations."--p. [3]
"The fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?"--p. [43]-44
"Subscriber's names."--p. [45]-48"
b30921272
F104.G84 Sxx 1815
Ridgefield Connecticut a charming old New England Town 1708-1935
16p. : ill. 22 cm
This is a publication of the Ridgefield Lion's Club, describing the town, its history and .its civic attractions in 1933
Ridgefield was first settled by English colonists from Norwalk and Milford in 1708, when a group of settlers purchased land from Chief Catoonah (also known as Chief Katonah) of the Ramapo tribe.[citation needed] The town was incorporated under a royal charter issued in 1709. The most notable 18th century event was the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777. This American Revolutionary War skirmish involved a small colonial militia force (state militia and some Continental Army soldiers), led by, among others, General David Wooster, who died in the engagement, and Benedict Arnold,[2] whose horse was shot from under him. They faced a larger British force that had landed at Norwalk and was returning from a raid on the colonial supply depot in Danbury.
For much of its three centuries, Ridgefield was a farming community. In the late 19th century, spurred by the new railroad connection to its lofty village and the fact that nearby countryside reaches 1,000 feet above sea level, Ridgefield began to be discovered by wealthy New York City residents, who assembled large estates and built huge "summer cottages" throughout the higher sections of town.
Many of these estates became unaffordable and unwieldy during and after the Great Depression, and most were broken up. Many mansions were razed. In their place came subdivisions of one- and 2-acre lots that turned the town into a suburban, bedroom community in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. However, strong planning and zoning has maintained much of the 19th and early 20th century charm of the town, especially along its famous mile-long Main Street.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgefield,_Connecticut
Cover title
Second printing
b30936330
F104.R39 Rxx 1935
Recreative science : a record and remembrancer of intellectual observation
3 v. : ill. 21 cm
Vol. 1, 1860
Nineteenth-century England was home to a great deal of scientific progress; particularly in the latter half of the 19th century, England underwent enormous technological and industrial changes and advances. In addition, during this period, the number of popular science periodicals doubled from the 1850s to the 1860s. According to the editors of these journals, the publications were designed to serve as “organs of science,” in essence, a means of connecting the public to the scientific world
One such journal was entitled Recreative Science: A Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation, which, created in 1859, began as a natural history magazine and progressed to expand its contents over the course of its existence to include more physical observational science and technical subjects and less natural history. This broadening of content could be detected in the journal’s name changes from its original title to Intellectual Observer: A Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research, and Recreative Science and then later to the Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature, and Art. Recreative Science attempted, as mentioned, to include more physical sciences such as astronomy and archaeology, while Intellectual Observer broadened itself further to include literature and art along with the science of the era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ragesoss/Nature_%28journal%29
b29232314
Q 1 .S9
Sculpteurs florentine du quattrocento introduction de Francois Gébelin
cover-title, 2 p. l., xi. (i.e. 38) pl. (2 double) on 20 l. 35 cm
Publication of the Alpina Illustrated Encyclopedia on the Floretine sculptors of the fifteenth century.
In fine art, the term "quattrocento" (Italian for 'four hundred') is an abbreviation for "millequattrocento" (Italian for 'fourteen hundred'), meaning the fifteenth century. It therefore embraces cultural and artistic activities in painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, during the period 1400-1500. Since the quattrocento coincided almost exactly with the Florentine Early Renaissance, the term is often used as a synonym for early Renaissance art in general - with its new found enthusiasm for classical antique forms from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
The 15th century witnessed a huge range of new developments in both fresco and oils. Building on the achievements of Medieval Byzantine art as well as the courtly 14th century International Gothic style, Italian quattrocento painters switched in general from illuminated manuscripts and other forms of book illustration, to panel paintings and other large-scale works like fresco painting. Likewise decorative art such as stained glass and mosaic art also declined. Although tempera remained an important medium, oil painting - introduced from Northern Europe (by artists like Antonello da Messina) attracted a growing number of adherents.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/quattrocento.htm
Illustrations on cover
Imprimé en Italie."
Issued in portfolio"
b29276755
NB621.F6 S3
Long Society Preston. Re-dedication of its historic old church. Memorial address by Rev. Robert P. Stanton. An eloquent and exhaustive discourse
5 p. 23 cm
This is a copy of a newspaper article taken from Cooley's Weekly (Feb. 23, 1889) on the Rededication of the Second Congregational Church in Preston, Ct.
Cooley's Weekly was a newspaper published in Norwich, Connecticut from 1876 to 1927.
Long Society (Congregational) Derived its name from its location on the long, narrow strip of land east of the Thames and Shetucket rivers which formed the eastern boundary of the original town of Norwich (then nine miles square), and extended from the present village of Poquetanuck to that of Plainfield. The church was organized in 1726, under the pastoral care of the Rev, Jabez Wight. The first meeting-house of the society stood where to-day stands its successor, about three miles from the centre of the city of Norwich. The church yard, from which many of the older gravestones have disappeared, lies immediately in the rear and on both sides of the meeting-house. When Norwich was divided, in 1786, Long Society became a part of Preston.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1982521
Clipped from Cooley's Weekly
b30922677
F104.P9 Lxx 1889
The Shakespeare gallery
xxx, 375 p. incl. 98 plates : ill. 22 cm
The plates are photographs of engravings which originally appeared in John Boydell's A collection of prints, from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare, 1803. Text consists of quotations from Shakespeare
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell in an effort to foster a school of British history painting. In addition to the establishment of the gallery, Boydell planned to produce an illustrated edition of William Shakespeare's plays and a folio of prints based upon a series of paintings by different contemporary painters. During the 1790s the London gallery that showed the original paintings emerged as the project's most popular element.
The works of William Shakespeare enjoyed a renewed popularity in 18th-century Britain. Several new editions of his works were published, his plays were revived in the theatre and numerous works of art were created illustrating the plays and specific productions of them. Capitalising on this interest, Boydell decided to publish a grand illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays that would showcase the talents of British painters and engravers. He chose the noted scholar and Shakespeare editor George Steevens to oversee the edition, which was released between 1791 and 1803.
The press reported weekly on the building of Boydell's gallery, designed by George Dance the Younger, on a site in Pall Mall. Boydell commissioned works from famous painters of the day, such as Joshua Reynolds, and the folio of engravings proved the enterprise's most lasting legacy. However, the long delay in publishing the prints and the illustrated edition prompted criticism. Because they were hurried, and many illustrations had to be done by lesser artists, the final products of Boydell's venture were judged to be disappointing. The project caused the Boydell firm to become insolvent, and they were forced to sell the gallery at a lottery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boydell_Shakespeare_Gallery
A reproduction commemorative of the tercentenary anniversary" -- p. [vii]"
b24878339
PR2883 .S43 1867