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MAPPING THE WEST

WITH LEWIS AND CLARK

RALPH E. EHRENBERGand HERMAN J. VIOLA

Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark draws fromthe collection of period maps in the Library’s Geography& Map Division and other repositories to examine thecritical role that maps played in President ThomasJefferson’s vision of a formidable republic that wouldno longer be eclipsed by European empires.

The book contains two loose, pocketed, full-color maps thatunfold to 36” x 28.” One is a reproduction of Nicholas King’s1803 composite map of the West, which the JeffersonAdministration commissioned for the expedition. The otheris the first major map of the West that William Clarkproduced in 1804 – 05. The 120-page hardcover features a

linen cover with a Smythe-sewn binding for longevity and a ribbon bookmark for easy refer-ence to the endnotes. It was printed in America on a high grade of archival-quality paper.

$99.00, Hardcover, 11 x 14 in., 120 pages, 107 illustrations including 2 foldout mapsISBN: 9781929154562 August 2015

Levenger Press in association with the Library of Congress

TO KNOW WISDOM

AND INSTRUCTION

LEVON AVDOYAN

In AD 1512 Hakob Meghapart (Jakob the Sinner)created the first Armenian Press in Venice, Italy,and published the first printed Armenian book, theUrbatagirk’ (The Book of Fridays). His action inauguratedwhat would become a rich printed literary tradition andwould lead to a rebirth of Armenian scholarship.

This volume celebrates the growing role of the Library ofCongress as a major research center for Armenian andnon-Armenian scholars whose studies delve into the pastand present of the Armenian people and their neighbors.

$11.99 from the iBookstoreE-Book, 87 pages, 75 color illustrations

ISBN: 9780844495712 August 2015

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treasures to readers of all ages.JACOB A. RIIS: REVEALING

NEW YORK’S OTHER HALF

A Complete Catalogue of His Photographs

BONNIE YOCHELSON

Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849 –1914) found successin America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye tohousing reform. As tenement living conditions becameunbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riisand his camera captured some of the earliest, most

powerful images of American urban poverty. This publication is the first comprehensive studyand complete catalogue of Riis’s world-famous images, and places him at the forefront ofearly 20th-century social reform photography. It is the culmination of more than two decadesof research on Riis, assembling materials from five repositories (the Riis Collection at theMuseum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society,the New York Public Library, and the Museum of South West Jutland) as well as previouslyunpublished photographs and notes.

$65.00, Hardcover, 12 x 9 in., 336 pages25 color, 375 duotone, and 210 black-and-white illustrations

ISBN: 9780300209167 October 2015

Yale University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York and the Library of Congress

FACING CHANGE

Documenting America

LEAH BENDAVID-VAL

Facing Change is a nonprofit collective with a boldmission: to create a new national portrait of America. Itsmembers include some of the country’s most celebratedphotojournalists. Their vision is inspired by the FarmSecurity Administration’s project that documented theGreat Depression.

This astounding collection of images by award-winningphotographers chronicles the challenges of modernAmerica, offering compelling stories of people who arecoping with the aftermath of recent events such as thewar in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the great recession.Facing Change includes images from the original FSAproject as well as interviews with Library of Congressphotography experts. The photographers are each intro-

duced in intimate essays that describe their history, work, and aspirations for the project.

$60.00, Hardcover, 10 x 11 in., 252 pages, 200 color illustrationsISBN: 9783791348360 October 2015

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Armenian eBook Initiative in association with the Library of Congress

Sylvia Rodgers Albro

FabRiano City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking

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THE CARD CATALOG

Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Foreword by Carla Hayden,Librarian of Congress

The Card Catalog highlights the literary treasures in theLibrary of Congress’s immense collection. Featuringmore than 200 images of original catalog cards, rareedition book covers, and photographs, this visualtour of rarely seen treasures highlights the brilliantcatalog system that has kept the world’s largest library

organized for hundreds of years.

Highlights include:

• 1479 German edition of Aesop’s Fables

• 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies

• Original drawings from John James Audubon’sBirds of America, 1827 – 1838

• The 1891 Harper & Bros. edition ofHerman Meville’s Moby Dick

• Alexander Pope’s 1852 translation ofHomer’s Iliad

• The 1854 Ticknor & Fields edition of HenryDavid Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods

• The 1899 G. P. Putnam’s Sons edition ofWashington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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AMERICA

AND THE GREAT WAR

A Library of Congress Illustrated History

MARGARET E. WAGNER

Foreword by David M. Kennedy

From August 1914 through March 1917, Americans wereincreasingly horrified at the unprecedented destruction ofthe First World War. While sending massive assistanceto the conflict’s victims, most Americans opposed directinvolvement. Their country was immersed in its owninternal struggles, including attempts to curb the power ofbusiness monopolies, reform labor practices, and secureproper treatment for millions of recent immigrants.

Yet from the first, the war deeply affected American emo-tions and the nation’s commercial, financial, and political

interests. The menace from German U-boatsand failure of U.S. attempts at mediation finallyled to a declaration of war, signed by PresidentWoodrow Wilson on April 6, 1917.

The companion volume to a major Library ofCongress exhibition opening in April 2017,America and the Great War commemorates thecentennial of the U.S. entry into World War I.Chronicling the United States in neutrality andin conflict, it presents events and arguments,political and military battles, bitter tragedies andepic achievements. Drawing on the matchlessresources of the Library of Congress, the bookincludes many eyewitness accounts and morethan 250 color and black-and-white images, manynever before published.

Margaret E. Wagner is the author of The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War, The American Civil War: 365 Days, and World War II: 365 Days.

$40.00, Hardcover, 8½ x 11 in., 336 pp.full-color images throughout

ISBN: 9781620409824 May 2017

Bloomsbury Publishing in association with the Library of Congress

Ordered chronologically with engaging text that charts the history of thecatalog — from its origins 5,000 years ago to the present — and sprinkledwith interesting trivia and anecdotes, The Card Catalog is a celebration of thewritten word and the enduring magic of books.

$35.00, Hardcover, 7½ x 9 in., 224 pp., full-color images throughoutISBN: 9781452145402 April 2017

Chronicle Books in association with the Library of Congress

PICTURING AMERICA

The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

STEPHEN J. HORNSBY

Foreword by Ralph E. Ehrenberg

From the 1920s to the 1950s, American pictorial maps were among the most originalcartographic creations produced anywhere in the world. Picturing America is the firstwork of its kind to examine this bold art form, emblemized by renderings of skyscrapercities, enormous industrial factories, streamlined trains, airplanes, and automobiles —all depicted with the verve of comic books, Hollywood movies, and art deco design.

Drawing on the immense pictorial map collections at the Library of Congress, PicturingAmerica reveals the significance of this cartographic work. These colorful combinationsof text and images — sensitive to history, memory, architecture, landscape, and terrain —display a textual richness lacking in scientific maps and reflect the extraordinaryexuberance, creativity, and diversity of twentieth-century American popular culture.

Stephen J. Hornsby is director of the Canadian-American Center and professor of

geography and Canadian studies at the University of Maine.

$45.00, Hardcover, 8½ x 11 in., 280 pp., 188 illustrations ISBN: 9780226386041 (cloth), ISBN: 9780226386188 (e-book) March 2017

University of Chicago Press in association with the Library of Congress



FabRiano City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking

FABRIANO

City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking

SYLVIA RODGERS ALBRO

Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking explores how the Arab art of paper-making by hand came to the Italian peninsula in the thirteenth century and why the city of Fabriano was well-positioned to develop as the heart of this artisan craft. Sylvia Rodgers Albro describes details of the technical advancements introduced by Fabriano, including machinery and equipment, the use of watermarks, and improvements in the physical processes of papermaking.

As a result of these innovations, Fabriano and other centers in Italy developed along similar lines and soon Italian hand-made paper was unrivaled

in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Their lustrous white sheets were favored by merchants and Michelangelo, princes and popes, and a growing, international clientele. Many books, prints, and manuscripts made with Italian paper from this time have survived in remarkably pristine condition and retained qualities still imitated by modern papermakers.

This study analyzes the conditions that have kept Fabriano’s papermaking industry successful since the medieval period, while other areas ceased production. More than half of the book’s 230 illustrations — including images of original artifacts and their identifying watermarks from rare books, prints, drawings, maps, and manuscripts from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries — are from Library of Congress collections.

Sylvia Rodgers Albro is a senior conservator of rare materials on paper at the Library of Congress.

$95.00, Hardcover, 9 x 9 in., 216 pp., 230 illustrations ISBN: 9781584563518 October 2016

Oak Knoll Press in association with the Library of Congress

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Fabriano: City of Medieval and RenaissancePapermaking explores how the Arab art of paper-making by hand came to the Italian peninsula inthe thirteenth century and why the city of Fabrianowas well-positioned to develop as the heart ofthis artisan craft. Sylvia Rodgers Albro describesdetails of the technical advancements introducedby Fabriano, including machinery and equipment,the use of watermarks, and improvements in thephysical processes of papermaking.

As a result of these innovations, Fabriano andother centers in Italy developed along similar linesand soon Italian hand-made paper was unrivaled

in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Their lustrous white sheetswere favored by merchants and Michelangelo, princes and popes, and a growing,international clientele. Many books, prints, and manuscripts made with Italian paperfrom this time have survived in remarkably pristine condition and retained qualities stillimitated by modern papermakers.

This study analyzes the conditions that have keptFabriano’s papermaking industry successful sincethe medieval period, while other areas ceasedproduction. More than half of the book’s 230illustrations — including images of original artifactsand their identifying watermarks from rare books,prints, drawings, maps, and manuscripts from thethirteenth to the nineteenth centuries — are fromLibrary of Congress collections.


$95.00, Hardcover, 9 x 9 in., 216 pp., 230 illustrationsISBN: 9781584563518 October 2016


PICTURING AMERICA


STEPHEN J. HORNSBY


From the 1920s to the 1950s, American pictorial maps were among the most original cartographic creations produced anywhere in the world. Picturing America is the first work of its kind to examine this bold art form, emblemized by renderings of skyscraper cities, enormous industrial factories, streamlined trains, airplanes, and automobiles — all depicted with the verve of comic books, Hollywood movies, and art deco design.

Drawing on the immense pictorial map collections at the Library of Congress, Picturing America reveals the significance of this cartographic work. These colorful combinations of text and images — sensitive to history, memory, architecture, landscape, and terrain — display a textual richness lacking in scientific maps and reflect the extraordinary exuberance, creativity, and diversity of twentieth-century American popular culture.





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THE CARD CATALOG



Foreword by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

The Card Catalog highlights the literary treasures in the Library of Congress’s immense collection. Featuring more than 200 images of original catalog cards, rare edition book covers, and photographs, this visual tour of rarely seen treasures highlights the brilliant catalog system that has kept the world’s largest library


Highlights include:



• Original drawings from John James Audubon’s Birds of America, 1827 – 1838

• The 1891 Harper & Bros. edition of Herman Meville’s Moby Dick

• Alexander Pope’s 1852 translation of Homer’s Iliad

• The 1854 Ticknor & Fields edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods

• The 1899 G. P. Putnam’s Sons edition of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

$35.00, Hardcover, 7½ x 9 in., 224 pp., full-color images throughout ISBN: 9781452145402 April 2017



Ordered chronologically with engaging text that charts the history of the catalog — from its origins 5,000 years ago to the present — and sprinkled with interesting trivia and anecdotes, The Card Catalog is a celebration of the written word and the enduring magic of books.


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Highlights include:











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PICTURING AMERICA


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AMERICA

AND THE GREAT WAR


MARGARET E. WAGNER


From August 1914 through March 1917, Americans were increasingly horrified at the unprecedented destruction of the First World War. While sending massive assistance to the conflict’s victims, most Americans opposed direct involvement. Their country was immersed in its own internal struggles, including attempts to curb the power of business monopolies, reform labor practices, and secure proper treatment for millions of recent immigrants.

Yet from the first, the war deeply affected American emotions and the nation’s commercial, financial, and political

interests. The menace from German U-boats and failure of U.S. attempts at mediation finally led to a declaration of war, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on April 6, 1917.

The companion volume to a major Library of Congress exhibition opening in April 2017, America and the Great War commemorates the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I. Chronicling the United States in neutrality and in conflict, it presents events and arguments, political and military battles, bitter tragedies and epic achievements. Drawing on the matchless resources of the Library of Congress, the book includes many eyewitness accounts and more than 250 color and black-and-white images, many never before published.


$40.00, Hardcover, 8½ x 11 in., 336 pp. full-color images throughout

ISBN: 9781620409824 May 2017




MAPPING THE WEST








TO KNOW WISDOM

AND INSTRUCTION

LEVON AVDOYAN




ISBN: 9780844495712 August 2015




RECENTLY PUBLISHEDColoring books, puzzles, notecards,


treasures to readers of all ages.





RECENTLY PUBLISHED

JACOB A. RIIS: REVEALING



BONNIE YOCHELSON

Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849 –1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most

powerful images of American urban poverty. This publication is the first comprehensive study and complete catalogue of Riis’s world-famous images, and places him at the forefront of early 20th-century social reform photography. It is the culmination of more than two decades of research on Riis, assembling materials from five repositories (the Riis Collection at the Museum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of South West Jutland) as well as previously unpublished photographs and notes.

$65.00, Hardcover, 12 x 9 in., 336 pages 25 color, 375 duotone, and 210 black-and-white illustrations

ISBN: 9780300209167 October 2015


FACING CHANGE

Documenting America

LEAH BENDAVID-VAL

Facing Change is a nonprofit collective with a bold mission: to create a new national portrait of America. Its members include some of the country’s most celebrate photojournalists. Their vision is inspired by the Farm Security Administration’s project that documented the Great Depression.

This astounding collection of images by award-winning photographers chronicles the challenges of modern America, offering compelling stories of people who are coping with the aftermath of recent events such as the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the great recession. Facing Change includes images from the original FSA project as well as interviews with Library of Congress photography experts. The photographers are each intro

$60.00, Hardcover, 10 x 11 in., 252 pages, 200 color illustrations ISBN: 9783791348360 October 2015


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RECENTLY PUBLISHEDColoring books, puzzles, notecards,


treasures to readers of all ages.JACOB A. RIIS: REVEALING



BONNIE YOCHELSON




ISBN: 9780300209167 October 2015


FACING CHANGE

Documenting America

LEAH BENDAVID-VAL








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MAPPING THE WEST


RALPH E. EHRENBERG and HERMAN J. VIOLA

Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark draws from the collection of period maps in the Library’s Geography & Map Division and other repositories to examine the critical role that maps played in President Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a formidable republic that would no longer be eclipsed by European empires.

The book contains two loose, pocketed, full-color maps that unfold to 36” x 28.” One is a reproduction of Nicholas King’s 1803 composite map of the West, which the Jefferson Administration commissioned for the expedition. The other is the first major map of the West that William Clark produced in 1804 – 05. The 120-page hardcover features a

linen cover with a Smythe-sewn binding for longevity and a ribbon bookmark for easy refer ence to the endnotes. It was printed in America on a high grade of archival-quality paper.

$99.00, Hardcover, 11 x 14 in., 120 pages, 107 illustrations including 2 foldout maps ISBN: 9781929154562 August 2015


TO KNOW WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION LEVON AVDOYAN

In AD 1512 Hakob Meghapart (Jakob the Sinner) created the first Armenian Press in Venice, Italy, and published the first printed Armenian book, the Urbatagirk’ (The Book of Fridays). His action inaugurated what would become a rich printed literary tradition and would lead to a rebirth of Armenian scholarship.

This volume celebrates the growing role of the Library of Congress as a major research center for Armenian and non-Armenian scholars whose studies delve into the past and present of the Armenian people and their neighbors.

$11.99 from the iBookstore E-Book, 87 pages, 75 color illustrations

ISBN: 9780844495712 August 2015


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MAPPING THE WEST








TO KNOW WISDOM

AND INSTRUCTION

LEVON AVDOYAN




ISBN: 9780844495712 August 2015




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JACOB A. RIIS: REVEALING



BONNIE YOCHELSON




ISBN: 9780300209167 October 2015


FACING CHANGE

Documenting America

LEAH BENDAVID-VAL









Coloring books, puzzles, notecards, posters, and calendars bring the Library’s

treasures to readers of all ages.


THE CARD CATALOG






Highlights include:












AMERICA

AND THE GREAT WAR


MARGARET E. WAGNER








ISBN: 9781620409824 May 2017


catalog — from its origins 5,000 years ago to the present — and sprinkledwith interesting trivia and anecdotes, The Card Catalog is a celebration of the



PICTURING AMERICA


STEPHEN J. HORNSBY


cartographic creations produced anywhere in the world. Picturing America is the firstwork of its kind to examine this bold art form, emblemized by renderings of skyscrapercities, enormous industrial factories, streamlined trains, airplanes, and automobiles —all depicted with the verve of comic books, Hollywood movies, and art deco design.





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