The well-known library of Americana amassed by Dr.
Until Mr. Stevens created the taste for Americana among his fellow-countrymen, very few collectors considered the subject worth notice.
It may be taken for granted that genuine Shakespeare quartos do not occur on bookstalls, and even a rare Americanatract only occurs in the wildest dreams of the book-hunter.
Historical Nuggets Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America.
Forms part of the introduction to the Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima.
The following catalogues include in the notes to the books much information as to their rarity, value or importance: Bibliotheca Americana et Selectissima.
Collectors of Americana of every kind will derive pleasure and profit from a labour that evinces a wide range of study and experience.
Bibliotheca Americana Nova; or, A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages, Relating to America, Printed since the Year 1700.
Among them I noticed, especially, the bison, the bighorn or wild sheep of the rocky mountains, the prairie antelope (Antilocapra Americana Ord.
Even more attractive than the society of the scientists was the presence of a good library of Americana and natural history, at that time probably the best west of the Atlantic seaboard.
In a sale of Americanaat Bangs’s in New York, Feb.
It is also noted in it that it is the identical copy described by Rich in his Bibliotheca Americana Nova (under 1782), no.
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A sort of candied preserve and molasses, expressed from the fruit of the cereus giganteus and agave Americanawas found by our party in 1851, as we passed through the Pinal Llano camps and among the Gila tribes, to be most acceptable.
The tall Cereus Giganteus and Agave Americana are found in abundance.
This annotated list of books and articles useful to collectors of incunabula, English and American first editions and rarities, and Americana does not intend to be a general bibliography of bibliographies.
His wide acquaintance with Americana leads him to mention Antonio Leon Pinelo's Epitome of 1620, perhaps the first important bibliography of Americana.
Since he was an agent and bookdealer specializing in Americana and the author of a bibliography in that field, his account of bibliographies of Americana is naturally adequate.
Its collector, after whom it is named, was a competitor with Lenox, Brinley, and other early collectors of Americana for many a choice nugget which Henry Stevens and other European dealers had secured for their American patrons.
During his administration the library's collection of Americana was largely increased and the preliminary plans for the new building were developed.
The collection is especially rich in Americana relating to the Mississippi Valley.
This library contains, if not the finest, at least one of the finest collections of early Americana in this country, and possesses many books not to be found in any other library on this side of the Atlantic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "americana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
