DESIDERATA
Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books or manuscripts that the Library lacks. We would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of any of the materials listed below. If you can help, please telephone Bonnie Bearden, Rare Books Acquisitions Assistant, 510-642- 8171; or you may send a fax to 510- 643-2548, write a note, or send email to bbearden@library.berkeley.edu .
Western Americana
Territorial Enterprise . Utah Territory, Carson City, Virginia City, Nevada. Begun as a weekly on Jan 1, 1859. Ceased publication in Sept 1861. Continued by the Daily Territorial Enterprise . (1861-1905) The first newspaper published in Nevada. We are particularly interested in any copy (or clipping) from the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise from Sept 1861 through March 1866, when Mark Twain may have published accounts in it.
Hillyer, Katharine. The Amazing Story of Piper's Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada. [Virginia City, 1953]
Barba, Alvaro Alonso. Arte de los metales en que se enseña el verdadero beneficio de los de oro, y plata por açoque. Madrid: Imp. Del Reyno, 1640. (We have later editions only, and copies of pages of this first edition.)
Bamford, Mary Ellen. Angel Island : the Ellis Island of the west. Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1917.
Latin Americana
Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Guide to materials for the history of the United States in the principal archives of Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1913. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1965. (We would like to have extra copies of this on hand.)
History of Science & Technology
Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe. De aurora boreali. Rome, 1738
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Observatio defectus lunae habita Patavii.
Rome, 1743
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Dissertatio de maris astu.
Rome, 1747 Euclid
... Elementorum ...
Translated by Bartolommeo Zamberti. Venice, 1505
Alexandre-Gui Pingre. Journal du voyage de M. le Marquis de Courtanvaux ... pour essayer par ordre de l'Academie, plusieurs instruments relatifs a la longitude. Paris, 1768.
Correspondence and personal papers of Berkeley's Nobel laureates in science, including Luis Alvarez, Melvin Calvin, Owen Chamberlain, William Giauque, Donald Glaser, Ernest Lawrence, Yuen Lee, Edwin McMillan, John Northrop, Glenn Seaborg, Emilio Segre, Wendell Stanley, Charles Townes
Rare Books & Manuscripts
We are interested in acquiring these first English editions of books by Virginia Woolf.
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, [1924]
Mrs. Dalloway.
London: Hogarth Press, 1925
Mrs Dalloway's party; a short story sequence.
London, Hogarth Press, 1973
Night and day.
London, Duckworth and Company [1919]
Nurse Lugton's golden thimble.
London, Hogarth Press, 1966
A room of one's own.
London : Hogarth Press, c1929
Three guineas.
London: Hogarth Press, 1938.
To the lighthouse.
London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
The voyage out.
London: Duckworth, 1915.
The waves.
London: Hogarth Press, 1931.
Volume 116
Spring 2000
Table of Contents
The Silent Multitude of Voices in the Reading Room
From the Director: Bancroft Goes Digital
Highlights from Bancroft's Web Resources
Paramount Theatre Archives at The Bancroft Library
Three Monuments in the History of Science Arrive at Bancroft
Ancient Lives: The Tebtunis Papyri in Context
From Mine to Natural Reserve: ROHO records the transition
Chemistry Symposium in Honor of Kenneth S. Pitzer Held January 9 to 13, 2000: Oral History Presented
Welcome, Iris Donovan, Circulation Supervisor in Bancroft
