Introducing this year’s blog theme: 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s.
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 weeks of fantastic bindings, and followed by 52 […]
Tag: Rare Book Collection
Lighting the Past: The St Andrews Collection
Last week the Lighting the Past team finished cataloguing the non-folio items of the St Andrews Collection. With some 2315 bib records and 3926 item records, this is the largest […]
Cataloguing Completed: the Hargreaves Collection
The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke […]
Lighting the Past: Next up, the Anderson Collection!
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been hard at work cataloguing our […]
400 years of metamorphosis: Theodor de Bry and Natalie Taylor on Jaques le Moyne De Morgues
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic technician, I was encouraged to […]
Lighting the Past gets under way — Beveridge Collection now catalogued!!
Introduction to Lighting the Past The Lighting the Past project aims to catalogue the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the University Library’s Department of Special Collections […]
Highlight from the stacks: Kircher’s Tower of Babel (1679)
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around 5,ooo volumes) which remain largely […]
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 51: the plates of Diderot & d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (1751-1772)
This final rare book entry for our Inspiring Illustrations thread has inspired generations of artists, merchants, craftsmen and businessmen. We have chosen the 11 volumes of plates which accompany Denis […]
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 49: Estienne’s Anatomy (1546)
Charles Estienne’s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545) was the third fully illustrated anatomical work ever to be published. Estienne came from a distinguished printing family: his father, […]
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 45: Campi Phlegraei (1776-1779)—Hamilton’s “Fields of Flame”
Since my return to this country, in January 1773, I have continued with aſſiduity my obſervations upon Mount Veſuvius, and the many ancient Volcanick productions in this Neighborhood. This week’s […]