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To Fashion a Library:
Libri Emptari

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Text in bold indicates medieval material.
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Text in green indicates dissertation material.
An asterisk (*) next to an entry indicates that it is currently on order.

Auctares
Nomini Librorum
Locus Emptari
Typos
The Book of Going Forth By Day (The Egyptian Book of the Dead)
Fiction
Mahabharata
Fiction
Barthes, Roland Mythologies Half Criticism / Theory
Berkow, Robert
The Merck Manual: Centennial Edition (HB)
Natural Philosophy
Bischoff, Bernard
Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Reference
Boethius, A. M. S.
On Arithmetic and On Music, Together with the Geometry Attributed to Him
Mathematics
Bordieu, Pierre
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Cultural Studies
Bremness, Lesley
Herbs
Reference
Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme
The Physiology of Taste
Cookery/Cultural Studies
Cambridge Companions Series
Old English Literature
Medieval Women's Writing
Chaucer

Medieval English Theatre
Medieval Romance
Criticism
Coogan, Michael
New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha
Reference
Dunlop, Fuschia
The Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook
Cookery
Eliot, T. S.
The Waste Land: Norton Critical Edition
Poetry
Feynman, Richard

Six Not-so-easy Pieces
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

The Meaning of It All

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Science / Biography
Foglio, Phil & Kaja

Girl Genius #3: Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine
Girl Genius #4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams
Girl Genius #5: Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess
Girl Genius #6: Agatha Heterodyne and the Golden Trilobite
Girl Genius #7: Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle

Fiction
Gaiman, Neil

Stardust

Half

Fiction
Grimm, Jakob
Teutonic Mythology, Vol 1
Teutonic Mythology, Vol 2
Teutonic Mythology, Vol 3
Teutonic Mythology, Vol 4
Cultural Studies
Heath, Thomas L.
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Vol 1
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's
Elements, Vol 2
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's
Elements, Vol 3
Mathematics
Hill, Donald

A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times
The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitab al-hiyal)

Natural Philosophy
Huang Su Huei
Chinese Cuisine
Cookery
Lacan, JacquesEcrits: The First Complete EditionHalfPsychology
Lefevbere, Henri
The Production of Space
Cultural Studies
Lent, Blair
The Funny Little Woman (Chinese Rice Demon Story)
Juvenile
Loeb Classical Library

Virgil Vol 1: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI
Virgil Vol 2: Aeneid VII-XII
Ovid Metamorphoses Vol 1
Ovid Metamorphoses Vol 2
Tacitus Agricola, Germania, Dialogue on Oratory

Classical Poetry and Natural Philosophy
Martianius Capellanus
De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae in Anglium
Language
Marx, Karl
Capital Vol 1
Capital Vol 2
Capital Vol 3
Grundrisse
Œconomics
Netter, Frank
Atlas of Human Anatomy
Medicine
Newton, Sir Isaac
The Principia
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (OOP)
Opticks
Natural Philosophy
North, Richard
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
Cultural Studies
Pauling, Linus
General Chemistry
Natural Philosophy
Robinson, James
The Nag Hammadi Gospels
Cultural Studies
Robinson, Orrin
Old English and Its Closest Relatives
Fiction
Russell, James
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
Cultural Studies
Sappho

Poems and Fragments

Poetry
Smalley, Beryl
Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Cultural Studies
Stieg, William
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Juvenile
Tacitus, P. Cornelius
Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators (Herbert Benario Tr.)
Historiography
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Lord of the Rings (Red Leather)
Fiction
Turville-Petre, E. G.
Myth and Religion of the North
Cultural Studies
Valmiki
Ramayana
Fiction
Zizek, Slavoj
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
How to Read Lacan
Theory

Books Total: 66 (0 on order)