For Sale: Two New Bancroft Publications
The Bancroft Library has published two new volumes in its occasional series of scholarly works based on primary resources in its collections. The first is The Gold and Silver of Spanish America by professor emeritus of history Engel Sluiter, who focused his 60-year career on Dutch-Iberian rivalry in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. (See the Fall 1997 Bancroftiana, p. 5.)
After he retired in 1973, Sluiter turned his attention to analyzing the records of gold and silver mining in the Americas used to sustain the Spanish Empire. He repeatedly returned to archives in Seville, Spain to gather information to balance the record in New World archives, thereby determining how much the American mines produced, tax revenues gathered for the Spanish Empire, gold and silver actually received in Spain, and ultimately the expense of defending the Spanish Empire.
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Sluiter has distilled his research into some 50 tables of data, presented with brief essays on the nature and analysis of the statistical record.
In 1997 Sluiter donated his massive files to The Bancroft Library, where they complement the strongest collections of archival resources in the U.S. on the expansion of the Spanish Empire. Bancroft is proud of its long association with and support of Sluiter’s work and delighted to be the publisher of his monumental accomplishment. The Gold and Silver of Spanish America is available at $50, post-paid. Checks should be made payable to The Bancroft Library.
Bancroft’s second publication of 1998 is Utah Pioneer Merchant: The Memoirs of Samuel H. Auerbach (1847-1920).
Supported by a generous grant from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation of Hartford, Conn., the publication was compiled and edited by Judith Robinson from five separate manuscript sources in the papers of Eveline and Samuel Auerbach in The Bancroft Library. The memoirs detail a fascinating and full life: Auerbach’s youth in Prussia, his emigration to America in 1862 when he was just 15, his journey from New York to San Francisco and the Gold Country and his early business experience there, and his partnership with an older brother in Salt Lake City, where they built up a prosperous department store.
Auerbach’s keen recollection of business details, social life and customs, and pleasure in family and travels are complemented by an excellent sense of humor. His friendship with Brigham Young benefited Salt Lake City and the Auerbachs in numerous ways. Auerbach records that his family’s contribution of medicine to the sick prompted Young to give orders that the Auerbachs be permitted to redeem Mormon tithing script at face value — the only non-Mormon firm “to whom this unusual privilege was ever granted.”
Samuel H. Auerbach, pioneer
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Utah Pioneer Merchant, designed by Berkeley printer Peter Koch, is an excellent companion to Frontier Reminiscences of Eveline Brooks Auerbach, published by the Friends of The Bancroft Library in 1994 and still available for $20. Utah Pioneer Merchant is 232 pages, six by nine inches, bound in printed wrappers, and illustrated with six portraits. It is available from The Bancroft Library at $25, post-paid. Checks should be made payable to The Bancroft Library. |
Desiderata
The Bancroft would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of the books listed below for our MFK (Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher collection. If you can help, please contact Bonnie Bearden, (510) 642-8171, email: bbearden@library.berkeley.edu
Berne, Victoria. Touch and Go. New York: Harper, 1939. Collaborative pseudonym of MFK Fisher and her husband, Dillwyn Parrish.
The art of eating: the collected gastronomical works of M.F.K. Fisher.Cleveland: World, 1954. The boss dog: a story. Berkeley: North Point Press, 1991.
Consider the oyster. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941.
A considerable town. New York: Knopf, 1978.
The cooking of provincial France. New York: Time- Life Books, 1968.
Here let us feast, a book of bouquets. New York: Viking, 1946.
How to cook a wolf. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942.
Long ago in France: the years in Dijon. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
Not now but now. New York: Viking Press, 1947.
Serve it forth. New York: World Book Co, 1937.
Serve it forth. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989, c1937.
Sister age. New York: Knopf, 1983. Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Ferrary, Jeannette. Between friends: M.F.K. Fisher and me. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
Volume 113
Fall 1998
Table of Contents
"Sinners & Pilgrims" Colonel Denny’s Journal and Photo Album
From the Director: Students in Bancroft?
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Metamorphosed
Bonnie Hardwick Follows Her Passions
Rube Goldberg: An American Genius
William P. Barlow, Jr.—A Friend Indeed
Plumbing the Depths of the Spring Valley Water Company
Basketball? At Bancroft? The Oral History of Pete Newell
Jean Stone Honored at Annual Meeting
New Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting
