Rare Book Collections @ Princeton
News of acquisitions, holdings, and activities of the Rare Book Division
in the
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library
Archives
2008.05.03:
219 years ago •
Description of a Slave Ship
2008.04.01:
Numerating Color in 18th Century Vienna and Prague
• Recently acquired •
Wiener Farbenkabinet
(The Viennese Color Collection)
2008.03.11:
Collecting in 19th Century America
2008.03.03:
New Acquistions • Books formerly owned by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2008.01.30:
Catchpenny Dreadfuls! 24 broadsides given by Bruce Willsie, Class of 1986
2008.01.18:
What ever happened to the Broadman Library?
2008.01.09:
Limp parchment wrapper • Use, re-use, continued use
2007.12.19:
Library publishes digital facsimile of 1930s Princeton newspaper
2007.12.12:
Recently acquired: Comunismo Argentino Collection
2007.11.25:
Beers' Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1811 • Only copy recorded
2007.11.20:
The Scheide Library on New Jersey Public Television
2007.10.20:
Penny Dreadfuls • Newly acquired
2007.09.29:
Just Published, on the Occasion of the Visit of the
Association Internationale de Bibliophile
2007.09.07:
Four Drawings by Renoir
2007.09.02:
Characters of the Present Most Celebrated
2007.08.26:
Award to Prof. William Gleason supports purchase of
A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery
(London, 1837)
2007.08.21:
Catalogue of the Virgil Collection: a progress report
2007.08.15:
Strange Adventures of a German Female Robinson Crusoe (1780)
2007.08.08:
Brayton Ives, collector
2007.08.01:
Additions to Book History ephemera • Posters
2007.07.31:
Newly catalogued • Hodder and Stoughton dustjackets
2007.07.30:
Recently acquired
• Angelo Decembrio,
De politia litteraria
(1540)
2007.07.30:
New Acquisition
• The Library of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881)
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219 years ago •
Description of a Slave Ship
Numerating Color in 18th Century Vienna and Prague
• Recently acquired •
Wiener Farbenkabinet
(The Viennese Color Collection)
Collecting in 19th Century America
New Acquistions • Books formerly owned by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Catchpenny Dreadfuls! 24 broadsides given by Bruce Willsie, Class of 1986
What ever happened to the Broadman Library?
Limp parchment wrapper • Use, re-use, continued use
Library publishes digital facsimile of 1930s Princeton newspaper
Recently acquired: Comunismo Argentino Collection
Beers' Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1811 • Only copy recorded
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