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 Collection: Miniature Book Collection
Pocket almanack, for the year of our Lord 1847

Pocket almanack, for the year of our Lord 1847

Date: 1846
Creator: Spofford, Thomas, b. 1795.
Description: Almanac for 1847, bound in publisher's yellow printed wrappers, with hole at upper left through which a string is looped for suspension. The almanac contains information on eclipses, tides, phases of the moon, rising and setting of the moon/sun, historical facts, and quotations. Anonymous gift to the Miniature Books Collection in 2003.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
The Poetic Gift : or, Alphabet in Rhyme

The Poetic Gift : or, Alphabet in Rhyme

Date: [1840-1849]
Creator: unknown
Description: Child's pictorial primer with the alphabet, and wood-cut illustrated rhymes to teach the letters.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Prudent policy for seller survival: a tiny conceit

Prudent policy for seller survival: a tiny conceit

Date: 1979
Creator: Massmann, Robert E.
Description: Humorous rules for commerce and seller survival.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

Date: 1826
Creator: Horace
Description: A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and left thus. The separately printed frontispiece engraving is included as an individual sheet. The whole is housed in a book-form leather case.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Raceauto's : Zo herkent men de moderne race-wagens

Raceauto's : Zo herkent men de moderne race-wagens

Date: 1965 - 1973
Creator: Franco-Suisse
Description: A brief overview of the various categories of race cars.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
A recipe for moon tea

A recipe for moon tea

Date: 1986
Creator: Bridge, Gertrude S.
Description: Poem on the making of moon tea.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Recognition dinner in honor of Gertrude S. Bridge, educator: Wednesday, May twenty-second MDCCCCLXVIII.

Recognition dinner in honor of Gertrude S. Bridge, educator: Wednesday, May twenty-second MDCCCCLXVIII.

Date: 1968
Creator: unknown
Description: Keepsake honoring Gertrude S. Bridge. Includes brief biography, lists of achivements, honors, travel, a poem in her honor, and program for the evening banquet in her honor.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Relax in de praktijk : Ontspan je . . . brief aan mijn vriend Piet

Relax in de praktijk : Ontspan je . . . brief aan mijn vriend Piet

Date: 1965 - 1973
Creator: Franco-Suisse
Description: A brief overview of ways to relax and escape the stresses of daily life.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
REM Acrostics

REM Acrostics

Date: 1972
Creator: Massmann, Robert E.
Description: Acrostics based on the names of 14 friends of the author, and his own. The title page and colophon are also written as acrostics also. The people are: Robert E. Massmann; Samuel E. Murray; J.N.B. Artfield; Ruth E. adomeit; F. J. Board; Glen Dawson; A. J. St. Onge; Julia P. Wightman; Eugene D. Buchanan; Francis J. Gagiardi; Royce L. Gale Jr.; Philip Bliss; Julian I. Edison; and Raymond A. Smith.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections
Rhymes, for infant minds.

Rhymes, for infant minds.

Date: c.1850
Creator: unknown
Description: Mid-1800's children's book containing various poems with moral themes. Most deal with death of children, and how if they live right, they will go to heaven.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections