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;iNG Collections
 

biographv and genealogy; geography and local
customs; law; military affairs; natural sciences and
math; medicine; agronomy and agriculture; engi¬
neering; home economics and domestic arts; ath¬
letics and martial arts; language; children's books;
and Western language text.
 

TitK A\i;r\' Library'

Nerii-York Historical Society auction purchase: By
preemptive bid, Avery Library purchased three
items from the New-York Historical Society at auc¬
tion at Christie's in New York. The items add sig¬
nificantiy to Avery's holdings on the New York
architect Alexander Jackson Davis. Two small
drawings of New York City scenes, the Rutgers
Medical College and the St. John's Burying
Ground, were purchased for the Drawings and
Archives collection. A rare volume of lithographs
of early New York City architecture—Vieius of the
 

Public Building in the City of New York, published by
Anthony Imbert, ca 1830 and featuring litho¬
graphs by A. J. Davis—^was acquired for Avery's
Rare Book collection. The purchase was support¬
ed in part by a generous donation from Jane
Davies, noted Davis scholar and former rare book
calaloger al Columbia University Libraries.

Piatt, Wychoff anil Ci>lc.\ g/p: The Library also
received, from the firm of Piatt, Wyckoff and
Coles, additional files from the firm and its prede¬
cessors. The firm was founded by architect
Charles A. Piatt, continued with his sons William
and Geoffrey Piatt, and later became Piatt,
Wyckoff and Coles. The latest gift of ca 8,200
drawings and other office files has been added to
the first gifl of the Piatt archive, ca 3,500 drawings
given in 1974, and a smaller gift in 1991. The pre¬
sent gift includes material from all of the firms. An
exhibition on the work of Charles Piatt, to which
the Avery Library is a major lender, is currentiy on
display at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College.
 

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