Recent Acquisitions

The curator is steadily adding materials to the collection. These materials are primarily selected with the research interests of LSU-Shreveport faculty and students in mind. Currently, the curator is also specifically seeking out acquisitions in the area of panoramas and other physically-extended, three-dimensional or simulated three-dimensional printed artifacts.

Below is a list of our most recent acquisitions.
the gamut and time-table book
Finch, C. The Gamut and Time-Table, in Verse. London: Dean and Munday, [1825]

New to the collection

October 2018

Manuscript
  • Hancock, Richard. History of the Bossier Volunteers and Ninth Louisiana Regiment. Unpublished, transcribed manuscript.
 
Books
  • Meynell, Henry. Conversations with Napoleon at St. Helena. London, 1911.
  • Varin, Amedee. Les Papillons. Metamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l’air, texte par Eug. Nus et Antony Meray. Paris, 1852.
  • Valles, Jules and Auguste André Lançon. La Rue a Londres. Édition Ornée de Vingt-Deux Eaux-Fortes Et de Nombreux Dessins par A. Lançon. France, 1884.
  • Warden, William. Letters written on Board of His Majesty’s Ship The Northumberland and Saint Helena in which the Conduct and Conversations of Napoleon Bonaparte and His Suite, During the Voyage and the First Months of his Residence in that Island are Faithfully Described and Related. London, 1816.
  • Wight, John and George Cruikshank. Mornings at Bow Street. London, 1824.
 
Atlases
  • Vaugondy, Gilles Robert de. Atlas universel. Paris, 1757.
 
Maps
  • Sanson, Nicolas. Description De L'Empire du Sophi Des Perses tiree en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, et en partie de plusieurs et diverses Relations..., 1659.
  • Val, Pierre du. Il Carte de l’Itineraire de Perse, 1665. (two maps)
  • Val, Pierre du. Chemin de Moscovie au Cathai dresse sur les Relations des Tartares de Boghar, et sur les observations qu'en ont faites Antoine Jenkinson et Richard Johnson Anglois…, 1665.
  • Val, Pierre du. Route ou Itineraire de Goa a Visapour et de Visapour a Dabul; tire de la Relation du Voyage de Mandeslow, 1665.
  • Homann, Johann Baptist. Provinciarum Persicarum Kilaniae nempe Chirvaniea Dagestniae..., 1720.
  • Homann, Johann Baptist. Imperii Persici In Omnes Suas Provincias..., 1720.
  • Arrowsmith, John. The Caspian Sea. Khivah and the Surrounding Country, c. 1728.
  • Pinkerton, John, Map of Persia, 1815.
  • Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Persia, Arabia etc. 1850.
  • Sanford, Edward. Persia and its Communications with The Black Sea The Mediterranean and The Red Sea, 1860.
  • Mitchell, Samuel. Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, 1861.
  • Mitchell, Samuel. Map of Persia, Arabia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, 1881.
 
Prints
  • Sayers, James. Brissot’s Visit to his Friend Lord Leveller. H. Humphrey. 17 March, 1794. Uncoloured etching.
  • Sayers, James. Achitophel, an old Jew scribe lately turned Greek. Greeks. Persians (stowed together) worshipping the rising sun. H. Humphrey, 11th July, 1804. Uncoloured etching.
  • Seymour, Robert. Night. Morning. Thomas McLean, c.1833. Hand-coloured etching.
  • Williams, Charles. The Triumphal Entry into St. James's; or, The downfall of the modern colossus. S.W. Fores, Jan. 1811. Hand-coloured etching.
  • Cruickshank, George. The Affecting Farewell of Othello, 1809. Broadside with hand-colored engraved illustration.
 
Optical
  • Bury, Thomas Talbot. Fantascope. United Kingdom, 1833.
 
Peepshows
  • Optique No. 10 - Les Tuileries. France, 1830.
  • Optique No. 4 - Promenade de Longchamp. France, 1818.
  • The Tunnel under the River Thames. United Kingdom, 1850.
  • Te Deum Chante à Notre-Dame. France, 1 Janvier 1852.
 
Panoramas
  • Delkeskamp, F.W. Panorama of the Rhine and the Adjacent Country, from Cologne to Mayence Drawn from Nature. Engraved by John Clark… United Kingdom, 1831.
  • The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames..., United Kingdom, 1844.

September 2018

Books
  • Balzer, Richard. Peepshows: A Visual History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Hood, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. London, 1875.
  • Hyde, Ralph. Paper Peepshows: The Jacqueline & Jonathan Gestetner Collection. Woodbridge [UK]: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2015.
  • Oleksijczuk, Denise Blake. The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Maps
  • Matthaus Merian, Turcicum Imperium. Turckiche Reich. Concordia res parvae crescunt Discordia maximae dilabuntur, Frankfurt, 1636.
  • Matthaus Merian, Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum, ca. 1636.
  • Herman Moll, Persia, Caspian Sea, done by ye Czar, and Part of Independent Tartary By ... With His Tract from Astracan in Gilan in Persia Above 2700 English Miles, London, 1728.
  • Robert Wilkinson, Turkey in Asia, Drawn from the most respectable Authorities, London, 1794.
  • John Pinkerton, Persia, London, 1811.
  • John Arrowsmith, France, London, 1842.

Prints
  • S. Gans, Blowing Up The Fire -- Europe Plate - 1st A small spark will kindle a Flame That oceans cannot quench, London, 1830.
  • Ville d'Auxerre Album de la retraite illuminée 4 aout 1900. Auxerre, 1900.