Tuesday, September 2, 2008

What's new?

About a year ago we stopped publishing complete lists of recently acquired books on the French and Italian website. Now, books in the P call number range (literature) show up on the DLCL Library RSS feed. French and Italian (and Spanish and Portuguese) literatures are in the PQ range.

At the beginning of every month, I'll be posting a selection of newly acquired antiquarian and rare titles here on Au courant.

Here are some books that have arrived over the summer:

Annales de la propagation de la foi: recueil périodique des lettres des évêques et des missionaires des missions des deux mondes, et de tous les documents relatifs aux missions et à l'oeuvre de la propagation de la foi: collection faisant suite aux Lettres édifiantes. A Lyon: chez l'editeur des annales, 1822-1931.
Library owns 1822-1851.

Dépôt de la guerre (France). Aperçu historique, statistique et topographique sur l'état d'Alger à l'usage de l'armée expéditionnaire d'Afrique.. 2 édition. Paris: C. Piquet, 1830. 244 p. and atlas of 11 pl. , 3 fold. maps, 3 fold. plans.

Lebourgeois, H. Zola; 32 caricatures de Lebourgeois... Paris: E Bernard, 1898.
Anti-dreyfusard caricatures of Zola's works.

Mailly, chevalier de. Histoire de la république de Genes... suivant la copie de Paris. En Hollande, aux depends de la Compagnie, 1697.

Manuscript. Madame Dubois. Account journals of two lady vintners from Angers, Madame and Mademoiselle Dubois. 1747-1763. 88 leaves.

Morelly, M. Le prince, les délices des coeurs, ou Traité des qualités d'un grand roi, & sistéme général d'un sage gouvernement. Par Mr. M#... Amsterdam, Aux dépends de la Compagnie, 1751.

Varj componimenti per le nozze degli eccellentissimi signori D. Andrea Coppola, duca di Canzano, principe di Montefalcone, marchese di Robledo, &c., e D. Laura Caracciolo, de' marchesi dell'Amoroso. Firenze, 1725.
According to the dealer's catalog, this work of poems is notable for including 3 sonnets by Giambattista Vico.
We have also acquired a collection of Italian fumetti, for teaching and research purposes, including titles in the following series:
  • Corto Maltese
  • Valentina
  • Tex Willer
  • Dylan Dog
  • Nathan Never
  • Gregory Hunter
  • Dampyr
  • Zagor
  • Diabolik

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