May 29, 2018 Stop and Smell the Flowers

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“But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The May Queen”...

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May 25, 2018 Exhibition — Travelers ~~ In Celebration of Peter and Donna Thomas ~~ Forty Years of Books to Go

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TRAVELERS ~~~~~~~~~~ IN CELEBRATION OF PETER AND DONNA THOMAS ~~~~~~~~~~ FORTY YEARS OF BOOKS TO GO Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work collaboratively and individually letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books. Inspired...

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May 24, 2018 The Great American Read

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Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....

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Mar 05, 2018 Beer libator

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Photograph and stop motion by Scott Beadles. Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet of Third Dynasty of Ur PJ3824 B33 From the Kenneth Lieurance Ott Collection donated to the Okanangan County Museum, Washington, now in the Rare Books collection, J. Willard Marriott Library, the University of Utah. Our thanks to Dr. Renee...

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Feb 26, 2018 Books of the Week — Sara Langworthy

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Everything Speaks In Its Own Way Sara Langworthy 2003 N7433.4 L355 E8 2003 Printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum on blotters using a Vandercook press. Drum leaf binding. Edition of twenty copies. Rare Books copy is no. 14, signed by the author/bookmaker. New Patterns in Old Style Sara Langworthy Oxford, IA: Sara...

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Oct 04, 2017 Pioneers of Science — Now Online

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“A library is as much a scientific instrument as a telescope.” — Luise Poulton Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World now online. Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early masters of movable type...

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Sep 28, 2017 Join Us Tonight! — Pioneers of Science

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Thursday, September 28, 2017 ASB 220 Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early...

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Sep 21, 2017 Book of the Week — Tablettes De La Vie et De La Mort

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“It seems that from a King, the Majesty fades Without many servants trailing his royalty It may be grand to engage them in spades But it is a great pain to depend on their loyalty.” Tablettes de la vie et de la mort Pierre Mathieu (1593-1621) A Paris: Iean Petit-Paz, rue...

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Sep 18, 2017 Rare Science

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Click to view slideshow. The J. Willard Marriott Library has a great collection of seminal science works in its Rare Books Department. Visit level 3 of the library to see images from some of these books. Join us for a lecture on September 28. Frontiers of Science ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From...

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Sep 18, 2017 Rare Books Goes to Leiden!

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New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam, edited by Sobhi Bouderbala, Sylvie Denoix, and Matt Malczycki, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017 Papers presented at the fifth conference of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), held in Tunisia in 2012. The cover...

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