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New online resources -- regularly updated Web logs (a.k.a. blogs) of news, acquistions, etc.
provided by staff in
the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
November 2007
• Graphic Arts
Exhibitions, acquisitions, and other highlights from the Graphic Arts collection, Princeton University
http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts
• Mudd Manuscript Library Blog
News from the Princeton University Archives and Public Policy Papers Collection
http://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd
• Rare Book Collections @ Princeton
News of acquisitions, holdings, and activities of the Rare Book Division
http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks
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· NEW and NOTABLE
· Illustrated, annotated listings of significant accessions, 1998 to 2006. Eight (8) files totaling 390 pages.
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· Library acquires
archives of prominent literary magazine.
The archives of The Hudson Review, one of the most distinguished and influential American literary magazines, will permanently reside in the Manuscript Division. The acquisition of The Hudson Review archives and related papers was made possible in part by the Richard M. Ludwig Endowment, established in 2001 by Michael Spence, a member of the class of 1966, and Monica Spence. It is anticipated that the archives and papers will be fully organized and ready for researchers by summer 2007. Posted April 2006.
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· Graphic Arts Collection acquires
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War Full story in PDF format. One of the most important photographic documents of the American
Civil War, consisting of 100 large albumen silver prints by the Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner and his team of eleven photographic artists, including
Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Purchased with gifts from alumni as well as endowed funds, Fall 2005.
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New online resources
from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. April, 2005.
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· Rare
Books Treasure Chest Filled with Alumni Gems - PDF version of article in Spring 2003 With One Accord.
Pam Mendels describes the remarkable gifts of alumni
spanning two centuries.
(requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader) |
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Library acquires papers of eminent mathematician
Correspondence, editorial files, notes and other materials document the long and
distinguished career of Alonzo Church. May, 2003. |
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· University
Honors Donor Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953 Full story in PDF format.
· Keepsake
detailing books, manuscripts, prints and drawings appearing in the exhibition honoring Leonard L.
Milberg.
(Both require Adobe Acrobat
Reader) |
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The First Four Printed Bibles in the Schiede Library
The world's first four printed Bibles -- the Gutenberg Bible, the
Mentelin Bible, the 36-Line Bible, and the 1462 Bible -- are owned by only six
libraries in the world and only one outside of Europe. William H. Scheide, houses
his collection in the Scheide Library at Firestone Library. All four were on display
for a one-day special event on May 31, 2002.
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· James
Baker donates papers to Princeton's Mudd Library
Former Secretary of State, James A. Baker III, Class of 1952, is
donating papers from his long public service career to Princeton. Baker served under
three Presidents -- Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush. Over the course of
his career Baker saw the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
His papers join those of two other Secretaries of State, John Foster Dulles and
Robert Lansing in Princeton's Seely G. Mudd Manuscipt Library.
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· QUEEN'S BIBLE (Edinburgh, 1862-63)
A two-volume folio limited edition of the King James (Authorized) Bible, known as the
"Queen's Bible" because it was dedicated with permission to Queen Victoria, the reigning
monarch of Britain, when it was published in 1862-1863 by William McKenzie of
London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The book is exceedingly scarce in United States
libraries, only one other copy having been thus far located. Our copy is specially bound
in red morocco with gilt and blind stamped decorations, and brass mounts and clasps. Of
particular interest are the illustrations, comprising fifty-six photographs of the Holy Land
by noted English photographer and publisher Francis Frith (1822-1898).
Frith's photographic work is important in both technique and methodology. In the first
instance, he used the new wet collodion process that had replaced the paper-based
calotype used by earlier travel photographers. The wet plate negatives rendered rich
detail and broad tones, and the resulting contact prints on albumen paper rival even
today's gelatin silver papers. Frith's method was meticulous and thorough; he
photographed most of the major monuments several times, and combined general views
with close studies of their significant details. The clarity of his images--particularly those
made with the mammoth plates--is exceptional, and has made his photographs of
enormous value to archaeologists and historians of the built environment. At the same
time, his images are noted for their aesthetic qualities, sensitive use of light, and powerful
compositions, which make them works of art in their own right. Frith's photographs of
the Middle East are equally important in this instance (using them to illustrate a Bible) as
testaments of religious faith. As the disciplines of geology, astronomy, comparative
philology, and evolutionary biology were precipitating a crisis in mid-century Christian
faith, an individual such as Frith could appropriate the most modern of technologies—
photography--to prove the historical validity of the Bible's sacred texts.
The acquisition of the "Queen's Bible" makes Princeton's collection of Frith's
photographically-illustrated books one of the most outstanding and complete in the
United States. It joins Frith's works: Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem; Egypt and Palestine;
Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt; and Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, held
by the Graphic Arts Division of Princeton University Library's Rare Books and Special
Collections, and his Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids, held by the University Art
Museum. The Friends generous support of this purchase has, in fact, made it possible for us to dedicate this acquisition to University
Professor and Faculty Curator of Photography Peter Curtis Bunnell, upon the occasion of
his retirement from Princeton.
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·
Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers - an
online version of the exhibition curated by Rebecca Davidson in the Milberg Gallery during October 2002 - April 2003
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·
Lewis Carroll, Photographer: The Princeton University Library Albums -
now available
for purchase - first comprehensive publication of
the Library's 407 photographs by Carroll. Order from the
Princeton University Press. |
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Soviet Posters in the Graphic Arts Collection (GC091)
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· Princeton University
Library Publications - PU Library publications now available
for purchase. |
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· Light
of Athens - Princeton Weekly Bulletin
profile of current Bonfils exhibit. |
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· For
the Love of Books and Prints: Elmer Adler and
the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University - Press
release. |
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· The
Princeton University Papyrus Home Page - access
the Descriptive Inventory of the Princeton Collections of Papyri with
some 850 entries and a selection of 25 digital images of Pharaonic,
Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Arabic papyri. |
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·
Portfolio - online portfolio of
images available from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. |
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· William
O. Douglas Oral History - an online
transcript of the taped interviews by Professor Walter F. Murphy of
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. |
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http://
www.princeton.edu
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