{"id":89,"date":"2011-06-14T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender.library.american.edu:8083\/archives\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-06-14T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:39:39","slug":"special-collections-acquires-missing-book-from-the-artemas-martin-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/special-collections-acquires-missing-book-from-the-artemas-martin-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections acquires missing book from the Artemas Martin Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSpecial Collections recently acquired <em>The Dawn of Sensuality<\/em>, Lutetia, 1900 [Limited edition copy 82 of 200; Bound by W. Launder].\u00a0 Inside the front cover is an American University Library bookplate. We know very little about the provenance of this book other than it was officially accessioned into the American University Library at one time. Intrigued by this puzzle,we began exploring our records relating to the Artemas Martin Collection to which this book originally belonged.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we have discovered so far: Artemas Martin agreed to donate his personal library to American University in 1918.\u00a0 None of the contemporary descriptions of the donation specify the total number of volumes in the library just that it was stored in a separate residence.\u00a0 As of 1952, the collection consisted of 5,000 volumes which were housed in the Math Department\u2019s Library and the main library.\u00a0 We found several letters in the Library\u2019s files which discuss the possibility of selling duplicates and transferring some of the more technical works to the Naval Observatory Library.\u00a0 \u00a0Unfortunately, we were unable to confirm whether any volumes were given away or sold at that time.\u00a0 There are over 4500 Martin volumes listed in American University\u2019s library catalog so it is possible that some items were deaccessioned or sold. \u00a0 We just don\u2019t have enough information at present to determine what happened to <em>The Dawn of Sensuality<\/em> but we will keep looking.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections recently acquired The Dawn of Sensuality, Lutetia, 1900 [Limited edition copy 82 of 200; Bound by W. Launder].\u00a0 Inside the front cover is an American University Library bookplate. We know very little about the provenance of this book other than it was officially accessioned into the American University Library at one time. Intrigued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-accessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}