The History of McLean County, Illinois; portraits of early settlers and prominent men,

Mode of access: Internet.

A complete history of the great American rebellion, embracing its causes, events and consequences, with biographical sketches and portraits of its principal actors ...

Vol. 2 by E.G. Storke and L.P. Brockett.

Compendio storico della vita di S. Giuseppe Calasanzio della Madre di Dio fondatore delle Scuole Pie /

Mode of access: Internet.

Portraits et souvenirs littéraires /

Gérard de Nerval.-- Madame Émile de Girardin.-- Henri Heine.-- Charles Baudelaire.-- Achim d'Arnim.

Poëtes et amoureuses, portraits littéraires du XVIe siècle,

"Tiré à 380 exemplaires (tous numérotés) 300 papier de Hollande. 50 [papier de Hollande] portraits doubles. 30 [papier] Whatman, [portraits doubles] no. 50 [portraits double]"

I Capibrevi, ora per la prima volta pubblicati da Giuseppe Silvestri.

Vol. 3, fasc. [5], edited by Giuseppe La Mantia; "Avvertimento" (V.3, p. [613]-616) dated 1907.

Kay's Edinburgh portraits ; a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fanaticism; its source and influence, illustrated by the simple narrative of Isabella, in the case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A reply to W. L. Stone, with descriptive portraits of all the parties, while at Sing-Sing and at Third street ...

Checklist Amer. Imprints

L'osservatore fiorentino sugli edifizj della sua patria. 3. ed., eseguita sopra quella del 1797,

"Il cappello di paglia, poema in verso sciolto, del prop. Marco Lastri": v. 8, p. 141-162.

Storia civile commerciale e letteraria dei Genovesi dalle origine all'anno 1797.

Mode of access: Internet.

Stripping Sight Bare : Alison Jones’ ‘Portraits by Proxy’

In this paper I analyse UK artist Alison Jones’ sonic interventions Portrait of the Artist by Proxy (2008), Voyeurism by Proxy (2008) and Art, Lies and Audio Tapes (2009). In Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, Jones – who, due to deteriorating vision, has not seen her reflection in a mirror in years – asks and trusts participants to audio-describe her own image back to her. In Voyeurism by Proxy, Jones asks participants to audio-describe erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt. In Art, Lies and Audio Tapes, Jones asks participants to audio-describe other artworks, such as W.F. Yeames’ And When Did You Last see Your Father?. In these portraits by proxy, Jones opens her image, and other images, to interpretation. In doing so, Jones draws attention to the way sight is privileged as a mode of access to fixed, fundamental truths in Western culture – a mode assumed to be untainted by filters that skew perception of the object. “In a culture where vision is by far the dominant sense,” Jones says, “and as a visual artist with a visual impairment, I am reliant on audio-description …Inevitably, there are limitations imposed by language, time and the interpreter’s background knowledge of the subject viewed, as well as their personal bias of what is deemed important to impart in their description” . In these works, Jones strips these background knowledges, biases and assumptions bare. She reveals different perceptions, as well as tendencies or censor, edit or exaggerate descriptions. In this paper, I investigate how, by revealing unconscious biases, Jones’ works renders herself and her participants vulnerable to a change of perception. I also examine how Jones’ later editing of the audio-descriptions allows her to show the instabilities of sight, and, in Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, to reclaim authorship of her own image.

Experimental evaluation of the culture performance of three exotic and a ‘local’ Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii, De Man 1879) culture strain in Fiji

Giant freshwater prawn (GFP; Macrobrachium rosenbergii) aquaculture has expanded rapidly since 1990. Most local culture industries, however, have developed in an unsystematic way. Fiji has a small culture industry producing the ‘Anuenue’ strain; however, performance of this strain has never been systematically evaluated. Recently, some Fijian farmers have reported declines in stock productivity. The current project evaluated the relative performance of three exotic strains with different genetic backgrounds from Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, against the ‘local’ strain in Fiji in a 4 × 3 replicated pond trial experiment. A total of 5827 prawns were harvested after 143 days growout. Individual growth rate and relative survival of the Fiji strain were not statistically different from any of the introduced strains, but Vietnam strain was superior to that of the Malaysia strain. Genetic diversity showed significant differences in variability among strains, with the Malaysian strain displaying the lowest genetic diversity. Indonesia strain showed that females were reaching maturation earlier than other strains and were smaller in size. This study suggests that Malaysian and Indonesian strains would constitute a poor choice for Fiji, whereas the Vietnam strain consistently performed well on all criteria measured. High variation among replicate ponds within strains unfortunately confounded among-strain variation.