Aug 28, 2023 License to Print in the Name of the King

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"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...

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Jan 23, 2023 Book of the Week — Hokusai Manga

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"Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer." — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro,1814-1878 NE1325 K3 H64 vol.14 To the modern Western world there is, perhaps, one image that stands out above the rest as being emblematic of...

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Mar 30, 2022 Book of the Week — Biographium Fæmineum

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“Souls are of no sex, any more than wit, genius, or any other of the intellectual faculties.” Biographium fæmineum. The Female Worthies: or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all ages and nations. London: Printed for S. Crowder, and J. Payne in Paternoster-Row; J. Wilkie, and...

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Sep 20, 2021 Book of the Week — Pantographia

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"The noblest acquisition of mankind is speech; and the most useful art is that of rendering it visible: that distinguishes Man from the brute creation...

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Nov 23, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — Novel, but not New

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“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way,...

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Oct 08, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Botanical Rarities

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To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. from "God's Garden" -- Robert Frost The first Mesopotamian writings on clay tablets included information about plants. Ancient pharmacopoeias recorded...

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Sep 25, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — What You See With Your Eyes

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"Do not believe more than what you see with your eyes." -- Montezuma to Cortés, according to Cortés, 1519 Rare Books invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, "What You See With Your Eyes." Why are texts written? and for whom? Why are texts recorded...

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Aug 13, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lecture: What is a Book?

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We invite you to visit our most recent addition to the Rare Books Virtual Lecture Series: What is a Book?, an exploration of the object we call the "book" that answers questions you never knew you had. What is a book? Where did it come...

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