Jul 10, 2017 Rare Books Goes to Geneva!

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“A seemingly idyllic, rarely seen American past comes to life like a fairy tale — some land before time, before film, before death.”...

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Jun 26, 2017 A Noble Genealogy — Happy Birthday, Philip the Fair

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“Here follow some chronicles excerpted from some ancient registers and other teachings of certain ancient kings, princes and several holy persons from the very noble and ancient house of Burgundy.” THE FLEMISH CHRONICLES OF PHILIP THE FAIR Quaternio verlag Luzern, 2015 DC611 HB776 F5 2015 Facsimile. The Flemish Chronicles...

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Jun 05, 2017 Book of the Week — Athanasii Kircheri Societatis Iesu Magnes; sive, de arte magnetica

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““The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.” — Attributed to Athanasius Kircher Athanasii Kircheri Societatis Iesu Magnes; sive, de arte magnetica Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) Romae: sumptibus Blasii Deuersin, & Zanobii Masotti Bibliopolarum typis Vitalis Mascarditypis V. Mascardi, MDCLIV (1654) Third and...

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Apr 24, 2017 Book of the Week — Offering Time: Songs

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“Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song — the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that...

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Mar 31, 2017 “The Books Opened My Eyes to New Possibilities:” A Visit From Utah State University Students

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  “It was nice being able to get lost in someone’s work and to look at books in a way that I never have before. Being able to actually hold and handle the books teaches us many things. ” Early in the cold, wet month of February,...

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Mar 20, 2017 Books of the Week — Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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“Every morning I am newly amazed at the inexhaustible richness of these tiny and delicate structures. That I thrust myself with sheer passion on these scientific treasures, which are simultaneously so pleasing to the aesthetic eye, you can well imagine.” Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda Radiaria)… Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) Berlin:...

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Mar 20, 2017 Rare Books Exhibition — Enquiring Minds

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Enquiring Minds: Fourteen Centuries of Questions and Answers Humans have been compiling information to answer an infinity of questions for thousands of years. From Ptolemy to Izaak Walton, the best minds have annotated, edited, translated, measured, arranged, and defined what it means to live a life...

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Mar 08, 2017 Mrs. Delany & Her Circle

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“I have invented a new way of imitating flowers.” — Mrs. Delany MRS. DELANY AND HER CIRCLE Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, eds. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art; London: Sir John Soane’s Museum;… 2009 xNX547.6 D45 M77 2009 Publication to accompany an exhibition organized by the Yale Center for...

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Jan 09, 2017 Book of the week — Unnoticed Like a Bird

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“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...

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Jan 04, 2017 A New Year’s Resolution

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Statement for the new year printed on gold and copper board in a Jacob’s Ladder structure. Housed inside printed folder, as issued. Rare Books copy is from the library of Gabriel Rummonds. ...

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