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Examples of Rare library resources of the University of Mary Washington Galleries

(The works listed are samples of larger groups in each category.)

Art under the Nazis

Dresler, Adolf. Deutsche Kunst und entartete "Kunst," Kunstwerk und Zerrbild als Spiegel der Weltanschauung [German Art and Dengenerate "Art," Artwork and Travesty as Reflection of World View]. Munich: Deutscher Volksverlag, 1938.

Haus der Kunst, München. Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung 1937 im Haus der Deutschen Kunst zu München [The Great German Art Exhibition 1937 in the House of German Art in Munich]. Munich, 1937.

World War II; propaganda; Nazi theory

Steiner, Jesse F. Behind the Japanese Mask. New York: Macmillan Co., 1943.

American Historical Association. What Shall Be Done About Japan After Victory? Washington, D. C.: War Department, 1945.

Cigaretten-Bilderdienst. Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers [Adolf Hitler: Images from the Life of the Führer]. Hamburg: Cigaretten Bilderdienst, 1936.

Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage. Die Juden in Deutschland [The Jews in Germany]. Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1935.

Mayer, Anton. Aufsteig zur Welt-Macht [The Rise to World Power]. Berlin: Buchhandlung den Weisenhauses Gmbh, 1936.

Rosenberg, Alfred. Der Mythus des 20-Jahrhunderts: Eine Wertung der seelisch-geistigen Gestaltenkämpfe unserer Zeit [The Myth of the 20th Century: An Assessment of the Emotional and Spiritual Struggles Between the Peoples of Our Time]. Munich: Hoheneichen-Verlag, 1938.

Wichtl, Friedrich. Weltfreimaurerei, Weltrevolution, Weltrepublik: Eine Untersuchung über Ursprung, Verlauf und Fortsetzung des Weltkrieges [World Freemasonry, World Revolution, World Republic: An Examination of the Origin, Development and Continuation of the World War]. Munich: J. F. Lehmans Verlag, 1936.

Buddhism and Buddhist art

Ritter, Carl. Die Stupa's (Topes) oder die architectonischen Denkmale an der Indo- Baktrischen Königsstrasse und die Colosse von Bamiyan [The Stupas (Topes) or the Architectural Monuments along the Indo-Baktrian King's Road and the Colossus of Bamiyan]. Berlin: Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1838.

Carus, Paul. The Gospel of Buddha. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1915.

Cat's Yawn: The Thirteen Numbers Published from 1940 to 1941 by the Buddhist Society of America, Now the First Zen Institute of America. New York: The First Zen Institute of America, 1947.

India and Hinduism

Da Fonseca, A. E. Wollheim. Mythologie des alten Indien. [Mythology of Ancient India]. Berlin: Verlag von Gustav Hempel, 1856.

Martin, R. Montgomery. The Indian Empire: Its History, Topography, Government, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products. With a Full Account of the Mutiny of the Native Troops, and an Exposition of the Social and Religious State of One Hundred Million Subjects by the Crown of England [3 vols.]. New York: S. D. Brain, 1858.

Wilkins, W. J. Hindu Mythology. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co., 1882.

Vedanta; Ramakrishna Order

Vivekananda. Letters of Swami Vivekananda. Mayavati, Almora, Himalayas: Swami Pavitrananda Advaita Ashrama, 1942.

Life of Sri Ramakrishna Compiled from Various Authentic Sources. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1955.

Swami Brahmananda in Pictures (Birth Centenary Souvenir 1863-1963). Belur Math: Swami Vireswarananda, 1964.

Monthly programs of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, 1963-1983.

Theosophy

Bragdon, Claude. The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

Bragdon, Claude. A Primer of Higher Space. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

Victorian scholarship on Gothic architecture

Sharpe, Edmund. Decorated Windows: A Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Decorated Window Tracery in England [2 vols.]. London: John Van Voorst, 1849.

Pugin, A. Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture [3 vols.]. London: Henry & Bohn, 1850.

Brandon, Raphael and J. Arthur. An Analysis of Gothick Architecture: Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical ediface [sic] [2 vols.]. London: W. Kent & Co., 1855.

20th-century art

Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937, Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. Le Guide Officiel

La Pintura Contemporanea Norteamericana. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941.

Max Beckmann. St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1948.

La Biennale di Venezia. XXX Biennale Internazionale d'Arte. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 1960.

First editions

Bryan, William Cullen. A Forest Hymn. New York: W. A. Townsend, 1860.

Ruskin, John. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1866.

Books illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark (original editions)

Deland, Margaret. The Awakening of Helena Richie. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.

Janvier, Thomas A. Legends of the City of Mexico. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1910.

Van Dyke, Henry. The Ruling Passion. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.