“A Fine Addi­tion: New & Notable Acqui­si­tions in Princeton’s Spe­cial Col­lec­tions” high­lights recent addi­tions to the hold­ings of the Depart­ment of Rare Books and Spe­cial Col­lec­tions, includ­ing the See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library, as well as the Mar­quand Library of Art and Archae­ol­ogy. The exhi­bi­tion is on view through August 5 in the Main Gallery of the Fire­stone Library.

Vesal­ius, De Humani Cor­poris Fab­rica, 1543.

One high­light among many on dis­play is a copy of Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Cor­poris Fab­rica, first pub­lished in Basel in 1543 (read more about the recent acqui­si­tion of the first and sec­ond edi­tion here). At the offi­cial open­ing on Sun­day, April 22, Dr. Eugene Flamm ’58, Jef­frey P. Berg­stein Pro­fes­sor and Chair­man of the Depart­ment of Neu­ro­log­i­cal Surgery at the Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Med­i­cine and Mon­te­fiore Med­ical Cen­ter, will high­light Princeton’s recent anatom­i­cal and phreno­log­i­cal acqui­si­tions with a talk inves­ti­gat­ing “Obser­va­tional and Imag­i­nary Anatomy.” The lec­ture at 2:30 p.m. in Betts Audi­to­rium will be fol­lowed by a recep­tion in the Main Gallery. The exhi­bi­tion and its related events are free and open to the pub­lic thanks to the gen­er­ous sup­port of the Friends of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library. Con­tinue read­ing →