Spotlight on Special Collections

  • Work of Silver Buckle Press on Display — and Kudos to Tracy Honn

    Posted on February 8, 2013

    The current exhibit in Special Collections, “Parts and Wholes,” explores part/whole relationships, weaving together examples from the sciences and from print culture. […]

  • Irish manuscript included in exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library

    Posted on January 25, 2013

    An exhibition entitled “Nobility and newcomers in Renaissance Ireland,” which explores the Ireland of Shakespeare’s time, opened on January 19, 2013, at […]

  • 40 years since the last issue of LIFE

    Posted on January 16, 2013

    December 29, 2012, marked the 40th anniversary of the last issue of the original LIFE magazine. An  exhibit in the 1st-floor lobby […]

  • Hooke’s Micrographia makes multiple appearances

    Posted on December 29, 2012

    The copy in Special Collections of Robert Hooke’s influential Micrographia: Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses [that is, […]

  • Holiday cookery from the Peter Pauper Press

    Posted on December 23, 2012

    One of the mainstays of the Peter Pauper Press was the slim cookbook, attractively designed, and usually running to 60-some pages. From […]

  • Geographies

    Posted on December 13, 2012

    For this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Meridith Beck Sayre and Nicolas Jacobson, graduate students in history of […]

  • Willughby’s turkey

    Posted on November 21, 2012

    In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we offer here the turkey from The ornithology of Francis Willughby, as edited for publication […]

  • From another hotly contested election

    Posted on November 6, 2012

    As the nation watches election returns, we call your attention to an example of political print culture from an another hotly contested […]

  • Little books of secrets

    Posted on October 12, 2012

    Alerted by a reference in William Eamon’s Science and the secrets of nature: Books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture […]

  • Essay on flower painting (1810) now on exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art

    Posted on September 28, 2012

    A book from Special Collections entitled A practical essay on flower painting in water colours by Edward Pretty (London: For S. and […]

  • Gallery Talk, 4 p.m., September 14, 2012

    Posted on September 12, 2012

    It is a pleasure to launch the Special Collections blog with the announcement of a gallery talk by Rachel Melis at 4 […]