The Second PLL Collection: Robert Smithson!

The Personal Libraries Library is happy to announce the beginning of its second collection: the Robert Smithson Personal Library.

The Library was recently reminded (thanks Lacey!) that the personal library of Robert Smithson was catalogued shortly after his death. The catalogue, compiled by Valentin Tatransky, can be found in Robert Smithson, organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.) This catalogue is not comprehensive in itself, but is quite extensive. Some books from Smithson's personal library are also currently in the Library's librarian's personal library and have seamlessly become the beginning of the Robert Smithson Personal Library. These include Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum, Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones and Labyrinths, as well as Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea and Bachelard's The Poetics of Space. Due to this fortuitous overlap, the catalogue set forth by Tatransky, and the Library's interest in Smithson, he seemed like the perfect second collection.



Interestingly enough, there was not only cross-over in Smithson's and the librarian's libraries, but also that of Maria Mitchell! Emerson's Essays and The Marble Faun can be found in the Maria Mitchell- and Robert Smithson Personal Library. Please note the multiple book cards.


Please peruse the Robert Smithson Personal Library Catalogue to see the Library's holdings. Also, check the Robert Smithson Wish List if you want to donate a book, or find a book and care to alert the Library. Contact the Library at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com

Robert Smithson Personal Library Catalogue

The following books are available to be checked out by PLL members:

ART & AESTHETICS:
Entropy and Art by Rudolf Arnheim - RS 2.27 2009
Art by Clive Bell - RS 2.36 2010
The Nude by Kenneth Clark - RS 2.40 2010
The Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper - RS 2.128 2012
Rock Art of the American Indian by Campbell Grant - RS 2.97 2011
How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary by William M. Ivins, Jr. - RS 2.145 2012
Albrecht Durer Complete Woodcuts edited by Dr. Willi Kurth - RS 2.131 2012
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy R. Lippard - RS 2.62 2010
Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay - RS 2.106 2011

FICTION & POETRY:
Earthworks by Brian Aldiss - RS 2.118 2012
Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire - RS 2.15 2009
Endgame by Samuel Beckett - RS 2.55 2010
The Portable Blake by William Blake - RS 2.68 2010
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges - RS 2.17 2009
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges - RS 2.19 2009
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges - RS 2.18 2009
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges - RS 2.16 2009
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - RS 2.3 2009
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino - RS 2.20 2009
t zero by Italo Calvino - RS 2.21 2009
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe - RS 2.73 2010
The Nun by Denis Diderot - RS 2.77 2010
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle - RS 2.147 2012
The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T.S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot - RS 2.58 2010
Emerson's Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - RS 2.7 2009
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - RS 2.5 2009
Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert - RS 2.43
Bouvard and Pecuchet & Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert - RS 2.39 2010
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - RS 2.70 2010
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - RS 2.12 2009
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass - RS 2.13 2009
The Marble Faun I by Nathaniel Hawthorne - RS 2.8.1 2009
The Marble Faun II by Nathaniel Hawthorne - RS 2.8.2 2009
Poems & Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins - RS 2.139 2012
The Selected Works of Alfred Jarry by Alfred Jarry - RS 2.117 2012
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - RS 2.1 2009
Leopardi: Poems & Prose by Giacomo Leopardi, edited by Angel Flores - RS 2.59 2010
A Soldier of Humor and Selected Writings by Wyndham Lewis - RS 2.98 2011
Mallarme by Mallarme, edited by Anthony Hartley - RS 2.57 2010
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil - RS 2.60 2010
The Diary of Anais Nin by A. Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann, ed. - RS 2.129 2012
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor - RS 2.81 2010
The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe - RS 2.152 2012
The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound - RS 2.123 2012
Ariel by Sylvia Plath - RS 2.105 2011
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - RS 2.76 2010
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - RS 2.6 2009
Snapshots by Alain Robbe-Grillet - RS 2.89 2011
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - RS 2.9 2009
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein - RS 2.94 2011
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - RS 2.63 2010
The Same Door by John Updike - RS 2.11 2009
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal - RS 2.14 2009
Candide by Voltaire - RS 2.75 2010
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells - RS 2.23 2009
The Invisible Man & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - RS 2.79 2010
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - RS 2.72 2010
Kora in Hell: Improvisations by William Carlos Williams - RS 2.151 2012
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - RS 2.153 2012*

PHILOSOPHY / CRITICISM:
NIL: Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void during the 19th Century by Robert Martin Adams - RS 2.28 2009
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - RS 2.121 2012
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard - RS 2.4 2009
The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard - RS 2.83 2010
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin - RS 2.24 2009
Joyce-Again's Wake by Bernard Benstock - RS 2.31 2010
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel Boorstin - RS 2.135 2012
Other Inquisitions 1937-1952 by Jorge Luis Borges - RS 2.54 2010
The Novels of Flaubert: A Study of Themes & Techniques by Victor Brombert - RS 2.87 2011
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges by Richard Burgin - RS 2.34 2010
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke - RS 2.86 2010
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus - RS 2.10 2009
Thoreau as World Traveler by John Aldrich Christie - RS 2.64 2010
Metaphysics, Reference, and Language by James Cornman - RS 2.114 2012
Daedalus, "Utopia," a Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Spring 1965 - RS 2.38 2010
Of Time, Work, and Leisure by Sebastian de Grazia - RS 2.102 2011
Socialism and American Art by Donald Egbert Drew - RS 2.32 2010
Some Versions of Pastoral by William Empson - RS 2.95 2011
The Aims of Phenomenology by Marvin Farber - RS 2.116 2012
Madness & Civilization by Michel Foucault - RS 2.136 2012
Nine Chains to the Moon by R. Buckminster Fuller - RS 2.2 2009
Phenomenology: Its Genesis & Prospect by Quentin Lauer - RS 2.138 2012

Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre - RS 2.100 2011
James Joyce by Harry Levin - RS 2.47 2010
Time & Western Man by Wyndham Lewis - RS 2.122 2012
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - RS 2.22 2009
The New Novel from Queneau to Pinget by Vivian Mercier - RS 2.61 2010
The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges by L.A. Murillo - RS 2.88 2011
Flaubert: A Biography by Philip Spencer - RS 2.69 2010
Four Essays on Philosophy by Mao Tse-Tung - RS 2.26 2009

PSYCHOLOGY:
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud - RS 2.37 2010

LANGUAGE AND WRITING:
Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes - RS 2.66 2010
Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes - RS 2.78 2010
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method by Kenneth Burke - RS 2.25 2009
On Human Communication: a Review, a Survey, and a Criticism by Colin Cherry - RS 2.120 2012
The Structure of Complex Words by William Empson - RS 2.84 2010
Symbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication by J.R. Pierce - RS 2.96 2011

HISTORY, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, ANTHROPOLOGY:
Culture & Anarchy by Matthew Arnold - RS 2.92 2011
The Story of Maps by Lloyd Brown - RS 2.111 2011
The Triumph of Time: A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, Decadence by Jerome H. Buckley - RS 2.115 2012
Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss by G. Charbonnier - RS 2.85 2010
The Megalith Builders of Western Europe by Glyn Daniel - RS 2.52 2010
Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life & Work in the Sixteenth Century by J.L.E. Dreyer - RS 2.90 2011
The Pyramids of Egypt by I.E.S. Edwards - RS 2.99 2011
Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade - RS 2.48 2010
Witchcraft Today by Gerald B. Gardner - RS 2.33 2010
Man's Discovery of His Past: Literary Landmarks in Archaeology edited by Robert F. Heizer - RS 2.51 2010
The Age of Energy: Varieties of American Experience 1865-1915 by Howard Mumford Jones - RS 2.108 2011
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer - RS 2.143 2012
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan - RS 2.150 2012
The Black Death by Johannes Nohl - RS 2.30 2009
Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations by Robert Silverberg - RS 2.29 2009
The Aztec: Man and Tribe by Victor W. Von Hagen - RS 2.35 2010

SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS:
The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences by Frank Adams - RS 2.144 2012
Experiments in Seeing by Harry Asher - RS 2.46 2010
The Bloodstream: The River of Life by Isaac Asimov - RS 2.146 2012
The Moon by Isaac Asimov - RS 2.134 2012
Canals by Fon W. Boardman Jr. - RS 2.113 2012
Crystals: Their Role in Nature by Charles Bunn - RS 2.65 2010
The Geological Evolution of North America by Thomas Clark & Colin Stearn - RS 2.127 2012
Biogeography of the Southern End of the World by Philip Darlington - RS 2.137 2012

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly - RS 2.119 2012
An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne - RS 2.82 2010
Flying Saucers- Serious Business by Frank Edwards - RS 2.49 2010
Tracks by E.A.R. Ennion and N. Tinbergen - RS 2.112 2012
Exploring American Caves by Franklin Folsom - RS 2.103 2011
Audubon's Butterflies, Moths, and Other Studies by Alice Ford - RS 2.53 2010
Cryptanalysis by Helen Fouche Gaines - RS 2.109 2011
Discovering Rocks and Minerals: A Nature and Science Guide to Their Collection and Identification by Roy Gallant - RS 2.74 2010
The Origin of the Zodiac by Rupert Gleadow - RS 2.67 2010
Mapping by David Greenhood - RS 2.133 2012
The Realm of the Nebulae by Edwin Powell Hubble - RS 2.149 2012
Crystals and Crystal Growing by Alan Holden & Phylis Singer - RS 2.42 2010
Western Gem Hunter's Atlas by Robert & Cy Johnson - RS 2.140 2012
Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner & James Newman - RS 2.110 2011
Field Geology by Frederic Lahee - RS 2.126 2012
Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals by Frederic Brewster Loomis - RS 2.44 2010
Crystals, Diamonds, and Transistors by L.W. Marrison - RS 2.45 2010
Mazes & Labyrinths by William Matthews - RS 2.148 2012
The Succession of Life Through Geological Time by Kenneth Oakley & Helen Muir-Wood - RS 2.130 2012
A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals by Jay Ellis Ransom - RS 2.91 2011
Magic and Schizophrenia by Geza Roheim - RS 2.80 2010
Landforms of Australia by Vincent Serventy - RS 2.141 2012
Geology Illustrated by John S. Shelton - RS 2.104 2011
The Day of the Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp & Catherine Cook de Camp - RS 2.132 2012
Stripping, A Sierra Club Battlebook by John F. Stacks - RS 2.107 2011
Treatise on Sedimentation, Volume I by William Twenhofel - RS 2.124 2012
Treatise on Sedimentation, Volume II by William Twenhofel - RS 2.125 2012
Geology: Our Changing Earth through the Ages by Jerome Wyckoff - RS 2.41 2010
Making Friends with the Stars by Arthur J. Zadde - RS 2.50 2010

RELIGION:
Ritual Magic by E.M. Butler - RS 2.93 2011
A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse by Austin Farrer - RS 2.101 2011
The Bhagavad-Gita, introduction by Aldous Huxley - RS 2.71 2010
The I Ching, translated by Wilhelm & Baynes, Foreword by C. G. Jung - RS 2.56 2010


Please contact the Library at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com to check out a book from the Robert Smithson Personal Library. * latest book / accession number

The personal library of Robert Smithson was catalogued shortly after his death. The catalogue, compiled by Valentin Tatransky, can be found in Robert Smithson, organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.) This catalogue is not comprehensive in itself, but is quite extensive.

Robert Smithson Personal Library Wish List

There are many books that comprised Smithson's personal library; thus the Wish List represents the books that are the PLL's most wanted. This list will grow and change as Smithson books are acquired.

In accordance with the Library's acquisition policy (and due to Tatransky's detailed cataloguing) I am trying to acquire the same edition of the books if possible. I am also following Tatransky's categories in the following list:

ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Levi-Strauss (Beacon, 1969)
The Hopi Indians by Ruth DeEtte Simpson (Southwest Museum, 1953)
The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia by Peter Worsley

ART & AESTHETICS:
Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten by Bern and Hilla Becher (Art-Press Verlag, 1970)
Arte Povera by Germano Celant (Mazzotta, 1969)
A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture by KAC Creswell (Penguin, 1958)
The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message by D. Davidson and H. Aldersmith
The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley (Scribner, 1970)
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach by Ernst Fischer (Penguin, 1963)
Heaven and Hell in Western Art by Robert Hughes (Stein and Day, 1968)
Frederick Law Olmstead's New York by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (Praeger, 1972)

CRITICISM:
Borges: The Labyrinth Maker by Ana Maria Barrenechea (New York University Press, 1965)

Poetry and Mathematics by Scott Buchanan (Lippincott, 1962)
Science Fiction: The Other Side of Realism; Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thomas D. Clareson, editor (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971)
The Reactionaries: A Study of Anti-Democratic Intelligensia by John Harrison (Schocken, 1967)
Leon Bloy by Rayner Heppenstall (Yale University Press, 1954)
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode (Oxford Univ Press, 1967)
Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets by Marjorie Hope Nicolson (Princeton University Press, 1966)
For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction by Alain Robbe-Grillet (Grove, 1965)
The Rise of Romance by Eugene Vinaver (Oxford University Press, 1971)
The City as Metaphor by David Weimer (Random House, 1966)


FICTION & POETRY:
The Draught by J.G. Ballard (Penguin, 1968)
The Essence of Laughter, and Other Essays, Journals and Letters by Charles Baudelaire (Meridian, 1956)
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges (Dutton, 1970)
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (Penguin, 1962)
The Image by Jean De Berg (Grove, 1966)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (Doubleday)
Selected Writings of Thomas De Quincey by Thomas De Quincey (Random House, 1937)
Notes From the Underground, Poor People, The Friend of the Family: Three Short Novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dell, 1960)
The Immoralist by Andre Gide (Vintage, 1958)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway
Winner Take Nothing by Earnest Hemingway  (Scribner, 1961)
Eagle or Sun? by Octavio Paz, Trans. Eliot Weinberger (October House, 1970)
Selected Writings by Paul Valery (New Directions, 1964)
From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
The Aeneid by Virgil (Penguin, 1956)
Candide; or, Optimism by Voltaire (Penguin, 1958)

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS & ECONOMICS:
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (Ballantine, 1968)
The Civil War by Harry Hansen (Mentor, 1961)
The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler by Arthur Koestler (Anchor, 1960)
The Fool: His Social and Literary History by Enid Welsford (Doubleday, 1961)
The Puritan Oligarchy: The Founding of American Civilization by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (Scribner, 1947)
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff (Ballantine, 1958)

LINGUISTICS:
The Logical Syntax of Language by Rudolf Carnap (Littlefield, Adams, 1959)
Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification by L. Wieger (Dover, 1965)
The Subconscious Language by Theodore Thass-Thienemann (Washington Square Press, 1967)
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction by J. Eric S. Thompson (University of Oklahoma Press, 1960)

PHILOSOPHY:
The Serial Universe by J.W. Dunne (Faber & Faber, 1955)
Against Entropy by Michael Frayn (Viking, 1967)
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (Harper & Row, 1971)
Further Speculations by T.E. Hulme (University of Nebraska Press, 1962)
Word Rain; or, A Discursive Introduction to the Intimate Philosophical Investigations of G, r, e, t, a, G, a, r, b, o, It Says by Madeline Gins (Grossman, 1969)
On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus (Penguin, 1955)
Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision by Wylie Sypher (Random House, 1968)
Thoreau: The Major Essays by Henry David Thoreau (Dutton, 1972)
Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Anchor, 1966)
A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Univ of Chicago Press, 1970)

PSYCHOLOGY:
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities by Mircea Eliade (Harper, 1957)
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud (Vintage, 1918)
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung (Dell, 1964)
Hypnosis: Theory, Practice and Application by Raphael Rhodes (Citadel, 1950)

RELIGION:
The Documents of the Vatican II by Walter Abbott, ed. (American, 1966)
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (Doubleday Image, 1962)
The Book of the Dead: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, Trans. E.A. Wallis Budge (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960)
The Cloud of Unknowing by G.K. Chesterton (Penguin, 1961)
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (McGraw-Hill, 1963)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis (Image, 1955)
Zohar, the book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, ed. (Schocken, 1968)

SCIENCE:
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor (Dover)
A Textbook of Mineralogy, with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy by Edward Salisbury Dana (Wiley, 1958)
Principles of Geomorphology by Don Easterbrook (McGraw-Hill, 1969)
Logic Machines and Diagrams by Martin Gardner (McGraw-Hill, 1958)
Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics (Foreword by Albert Einstein) by Max Jammer (Harper, 1960)
The Observer's Book of Common Insects and Spiders by E.F. Linssen and L. Hugh Newman (Warne, 1960)
Islands: Their Lives, Legends, and Lore by Seon and Robert Manley (Chilton, 1970)
The History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence (University, 1968)
Perpetual Motion: Electrons and Atoms in Crystals by Alec Stewart (Anchor, 1965)
Polymorphism and Polytypism in Crystals by Ajit Ram Verma and P. Krishna (Wiley, 1966)
Stars: A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens by Herbert Zim and Robert Baker (Golden Press, 1956)

TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY:
The Deserted Village at Allaire by Alden Cottrell (1960)
Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide (University of California Press, 1962)
The Salton Sea: Yesterday and Today by Mildred de Stanley (Triumph)

New Additions to Maria Mitchell Personal Library

The Personal Libraries Library is proud to announce four recent acquisitions to the Maria Mitchell Personal Library. They include Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh (the main character is rumored to be based on Margaret Fuller, another author in Mitchell's library.) While traveling in Florence, Italy in 1858, Mitchell wanted very much to meet Barrett Browning; she had the perfect introduction in the form of a book from a mutual friend. Yet, Mitchell was too shy (or proper) to call unannounced and left the book on Barrett Browning's stoop. This story is beautifully recounted in Bergland's Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science (Beacon Press).

Also acquired is this beautiful copy of Sarah K. Bolton's Lives of Girls Who Became Famous. This book includes essays about Maria Mitchell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller (Ossoli), Madame de Stael, Louisa May Alcott and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The final sentence of the discussion on Maria Mitchell states, "She is an honor to her sex, a striking example of what a quiet country girl can accomplish without money or fortuitous circumstances."

Two other new acquisitions are On the Connection of the Physical Sciences by Maria Somerville (this purchase was made possible by PLL member Palmarin Merges) and Poems by Bret Harte.

Maria Mitchell Personal Library Catalogue

FICTION & POETRY:  
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - MM 1.4 2009 
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord George Byron - MM 1.10 2010 
In the Sky Garden by Lizzie Champney - MM 1.15 2012*  
Emerson's Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - MM 1.1 2009
Poems by Bret Harte - MM 1.6 2009
The Marble Faun, Volume I by Nathaniel Hawthorne - MM 1.2.1 2009
The Marble Faun, Volume II by Nathaniel Hawthorne - MM 1.2.2 2009
Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton - MM 1.3 2009
Corinne by Madame de Stael - MM 1.8 2010
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands by Harriet Beecher Stowe - MM 1.11 2011

SCIENCE & MATH:
Gravitation by Sir George Airy - MM 1.14 2011
Geometry and Faith by Thomas Hill - MM 1.12 2011
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville - MM 1.5 2009
Physical Geography by Mary Somerville - MM 1.13 2011

SUFFRAGIST TEXTS & WRITINGS:
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton - MM 1.7 2009
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller - MM 1.9 2010

Contact the Library at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com to place holds on a book from the Maria Mitchell Personal Library.

The catalogue will be updated as books are acquired.

This list was compiled with the help of The Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket; most notably by the incredibly helpful curator of Special Collections at the Association, Jascin Finger. Other books were gleaned by reading Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by Renee Bergland (Beacon Press, Boston) and Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals compiled by Phebe Mitchell Kendall (BiblioBazaar).

Maria Mitchell Personal Library Collection Wish List

Now that the Library is functioning, more books need to be acquired! Please notify me if you find an affordable copy of the following books for the Maria Mitchell Personal Library. Book donations are gladly accepted.

FICTION & POETRY:
 
SCIENCE & MATH:
Elements of Natural Philosophy by W.H.C. Bartlett
A Key to the Solar Compass and Surveyor's Companion by William Austin Burt
A Collection of the Works of Thomas Chalkley by Thomas Chalkley
A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy by William Chauvenet A Complete Collection of Tables for Navigation and Nautical Astronomy by Jose de Mendoza y Rios Astronomical Engraving from the Observatory of Harvard College, Harvard College Observatory
Preliminary Discourse by John Hershel
A Manual of Chemistry by John Johnston
A Treatise of Meteorology by Elias Loomis
Astronomy for Schools and Colleges by Simon Newcomb A Treatise of Trigonometry by James E. Oliver
Familiar Astronomy by Hannah Mary Peterson
An Elementary Treatise in Curves, Functions, and Forces by Benjamin Pierce
A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Somerville Flowers and Ferns for Caroline Starbuck by Horace Starbuck, her brother
A Complete System of Astronomy by Samuel Vince and Charles Hutton
The Mariner's Compass Rectified by Andrew Wakeley
Elements of the Differential Calculus by J. R. Young
Essays on the Endowment of Research by Mark Pattison
U.S. Nautical Almanacs
 
SUFFRAGIST TEXTS & WRITINGS:
The Higher Education of Women by Emily Davies
Characteristics of Woman by Mrs. Jameson History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & Matilda Joslyn Gage
 
RELIGION & MORALS: Darwinism in Morals and Other Essays by Frances Power Cobbe
A Catechetical Course of Sermons for the Whole Year by Peter Newcome
The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, Robert Smith, editor

Books and authors that need more research and may be a part of her library are:
Louisa May Alcott, George Sand, Herman Melville's Redburn, attended a public reading by Dickens of The Cricket on the Heath, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Summer on the Lakes by Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke (biographer of Margaret Fuller), Matthew Arnold, Loomis' The Recent Progress of Astronomy

Please check back on this list, as it will be added to when new books from her personal library come to light. It will also be amended when books are purchased for the Personal Libraries Library.

This list was compiled with the help of The Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket; most notably by the incredibly helpful curator of Special Collections at the Association, Jascin Finger. Other books were gleaned by reading Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by Renee Bergland (Beacon Press, Boston) and Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals compiled by Phebe Mitchell Kendall (BiblioBazaar).
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