Dreyfus Affair microfilm collection

We have had a microfilm collection entitled "Dreyfus Affair in the making of modern France" for many years, but the individual titles included in this collection have not been made accessible in the library catalog. The only way to find out if we had these titles was by using the print guide down in the Media and Microfilm Room in the basement.

We recently purchased the online records for these individual titles, so that they now will show up in the catalog.

You can find them - over 600 titles - by doing a search in either SearchWorks or Socrates for "Dreyfus Affair in the making of modern France", or a call number browse for MFILM N.S. 14334.

SF Antiquarian Book Fair

We are fortunate to live nearby one of the largest rare and antiquarian book fairs in the country. The California International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held next weekend, Feb. 11-13, at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco. Many of the book dealers whom we work with throughout the year come to sell their treasures, and it is a great experience to see a large variety of rare books, maps, and other print materials.

I have a few extra admission tickets to the fair, and would love to give them away - if you are interested, just drop me an email. The Concourse Exhibition center is within walking distance from Caltrain.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books

Here are some books that we have added to Special Collections over the past few months:

CAHIER de Chansons appartenant au Soldat Louis Ginet. 18ème Colonial. Souvenir du Tonkin. Poste de Dang Trieu.  Tonkin, 1902.
MANUSCRIT in-4. 175ff. non chiffrés.  A beautifully hand-illustrated songbook compiled by a French soldier in Tonkin in the early 20th century.

Dinouart, Joseph-Antoine-Toussaint. Le triomphe du sexe. Ouvrage dans lequel on démontre que les femmes sont en tout égales aux hommes. On y examine les avantages de leur commerce, & quel doit étre l'amour réciproque des deux sexes. Amsterdam: I. Racon, 1749. Dedicated to Emilie du Châtelet, a mid-18^th feminist discourse arguing that social, cultural, and legal structures have determined women’s inferior status, and citing as examples notable women in the arts and sciences.

Estienne, Robert . Concordantiae Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti, Veteris & Novi, novae & integrae . [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 26 January 1555 .

Folio (leaf size: 355 x 235 mm), 548 leaves; Estienne's printer's device on title; text printed in four columns in tiny roman type.

"First edition of Robert Estienne's concordance to the Vulgate, both a scholarly and typographical tour de force, and his last original work; the text is printed in minute roman type, 102 - 104 lines to the page divided into four columns across, totaling approximately 450,000 entries." (from dealer's description).

Marat, Jean Paul. Journal de la République Française. (39 issues) (Paris), de l'Imprimerie de Marat, (1793).   This is the continuation of Marat's journal L'Ami du peuple, which was renamed following the declaration of the French Republic in September 1792. Bound with 14 French Revolution pamphlets on Louis XVI.  

 Le Tableau des piperies des femmes mondaines. Cologne: Marteau, 1685. Third edition. A misogynist work originally published in 1633 which proposes that women’s focus on their beauty are at the origin for their ruin. Moreover, men are also brought to downfall by such women who focus on beauty rather than virtue. 

[Colonna, Vittoria]. Per La Inaugurazione Del Busto Di Vittoria Colonna : Solenne Adunanza Tenuta Dagli Arcadi Nella Protomoteca Capitolina Il Di 12 Maggio 1845. Roma: Tip. Salviucci, 1845. First edition.   4to, pp. 112. Odes to Vittoria Colonna recited on the occasion of the unveiling of a bust of this 16th century poet at the Protomoteca Capitolina in Rome during the 19th century. 

Fantocci, Ippolito Delfico [FANTOTIUS, Hippolytus Delphicus] . Hippolyti Fantotii Delphici Perusini, De liberalium artium laudibus Oratio, initio studii Patavii habita XIIII. Cal. Novembris, MDLIII . Padua: Giacomo Fabriano, 1553 .   8 vo, [ 40 ] pages; italic type. Extremely rare sole edition of an academic inaugural address in praise of the Arts and Sciences, delivered at the University of Padua on 19 October 1553 by the Franciscan poet and orator Ippolito Fantocci (Hippolytus Fantotius, fl. 1540 -1560 ), a native of Perugia.

 

Journal of Romance Studies

The Journal of Romance Studies just published its latest issue, Vol. 10, Issue 3. The theme is Psychoanalysis and Italian Studies. Table of contents is below, and we have electronic access from a link in the catalog record. Stanford users should be able to access the titles below directly from the links.


Introduction
pp. 1-9(9)
Authors: Caldwell, Lesley; Capello, Francesco
Articles
Abjection and aesthetic conflict in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta
pp. 11-25(15)
Author: Civitarese, Giuseppe
Titian's Marsyas as an image of the creative process
pp. 27-37(11)
Author: Carvalho, Richard
Playing with the city of Rome
pp. 39-53(15)
Author: Caldwell, Lesley
Changing styles, affective continuities and psychic containers: Corrado Govoni's early poetry
pp. 55-74(20)
Authors: Capello, Francesco; Civitarese, Giuseppe
His problem or ours?: Notes on Eco and psychoanalysis
pp. 75-88(14)
Author: Smith, Jonathan
Translation and multilingualism in the psychoanalytic dimension
pp. 89-100(12)
Author: Mehler, Jacqueline Amati
Italian Freud: exploring some of the vicissitudes of the translation
pp. 101-112(12)
Author: Clayton, Gillian
Review articles
Borders and identities in Spanish cultural studies
pp. 113-121(9)
Authors: Sánchez, Antonio
The New 'New' Writing: Critical Essays on Contemporary Portuguese Poetry and Brazilian Prose
pp. 123-129(7)
Author: Williams, Claire
Notes on contributors
Notes on contributors
pp. 131-132(2)

New Acquisitions, November-December 2010

A selected list of new books to start off the year!

French
Balzac, Honoré de. Illusions perdues: les deux poètes, du manuscrit à l'édition Furne corrigé. Lagrasse: Verdier, 2010.

Barbier, Frédéric. Le rêve grec de monsieur de Choiseul: les voyages d'un Européen des lumières. Paris: Colin, 2010.

Belmessous, Hacène. Opération banlieue: comment l'Etat prépare la guerre urbaine dans les cités françaises. Paris: Découverte, 2010.

Costumes, décors et accessoires dans le théâtre de la révolution et de l'empire. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2010.

Dambre, Marc, and Richard Joseph Golsan. L'exception et la France contemporaine: histoire, imaginaire, littérature. Paris: Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2010.

Darnton, Robert. Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Debord, Guy, and Jean-Louis Rançon. Enregistrements magnétiques: (1952-1961). Paris: Gallimard, 2010.

Djian, Jean-Michel. Ahmadou Kourouma. Paris: Seuil, 2010.

Guillet, Bertrand. La soie & le canon: France-Chine, 1700-1860. Paris: Gallimard, 2010.

Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s Fashioning Politics in Film. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2010.

McDonald, Christie, and Susan Rubin Suleiman. French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Peeters, Benoît. Derrida. Paris: Flammarion, 2010.

Prochasson, Christophe. La gauche est-elle morale. Paris: Flammarion, 2010.

Rahal, Malika. Ali Boumendjel, 1919-1957: une affaire française, une histoire algérienne. Paris: Belles lettres, 2010.

Rogers, Rebecca, and Françoise Thébaud. La fabrique des filles: l'éducation des filles de Jules Ferry à la pilule. Paris: Textuel, 2010.

Tonnac, Jean-Philippe de. Dictionnaire universel du pain. Paris: Robert Laffont, 2010.

Italian
Andreozzi, Daniele, Loredana Panariti, and Claudio Zaccaria. Acque, terre e spazi dei mercanti: istituzioni, gerarchie, conflitti e pratiche dello scambio dall'età antica alla modernità. Trieste: Editreg, 2009.

Camerlenghi, Eugenio. Il paesaggio mantovano dall'età delle riforme all'Unità (1700-1866): atti del convegno di studi, Mantova 19-20 maggio 2005. Firenze: Olschki, 2010.

Dante Alighieri, Burton Raffel, and Henry L. Carrigan. The Divine Comedy. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2010.

Eco, Umberto. Il cimitero di Praga. Milano: Bompiani, 2010.

Israel, Uwe, Robert Jütte, and Reinhold C. Mueller. Interstizi: culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei suoi domini dal Medioevo all'età moderna. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2010.

Moravia, Alberto, and Simone Casini. Lettere ad Amelia Rosselli con altre lettere familiari e prime poesie: (1915-1951). Milano: Bompiani, 2010.

Morosini, Antonio. Il Codice Morosini: il mondo visto da Venezia (1094-1433). Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2010.

Saviano, Roberto, Gianni Ubaldo Canale, Duccio Forzano, and Fabio Fazio. La parola contro la camorra. Torino: Einaudi, 2010. With DVD (120 minutes)

Stampa, Gaspara, Troy Tower, and Jane Tylus. The complete poems: the 1554 edition of the "Rime". Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Troilo, Matteo. Un'economia di famiglia: strategie patrimoniali e di prestigio sociale degli Aldrovandi di Bologna, secoli XVII-XVIII. Bologna: Il mulino, 2010.