Word: incunabula
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...January 16, the Library received the second gift, a bequest of 176 rare volumes left to the Library by the late Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, former member of the Board of Overseers. Despite its small size, this collection is of great interest, and contains a number of incunabula and several Aldine editions of the Classics. There are also some unusual items of Americana, such as the first book printed in Connecticut, the Saybrook "Confession of Faith," New London...
...years, I have travelled on one excuse of another for about eight months of the year, spending four tied down to an office desk. Of course, those four months meant pretty hard routine work. But a trip to Italy on the excuse of buying Italian books, to Germany for Incunabula, or merely around England and Scotland in quest of English works were a refreshing interlude...
Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
...will be struck by the wide range of tastes represented. There are choice editions of such Eighteenth authors as Lord Chesterfield. Joseph Addison, and William Shenstone from the libraries of W. A. C. Miller, III, '34 and H. S. Glazier, Jr. ocC., together with one or two items of incunabula. Especially noteworthy are the special groups, each containing a number of choice items of a particular writer. One of these is the selection from the Rupert Brooke collection of R. W. Baker, Jr. '34, which includes a first edition of the war poet's first volume of verse, printed...
...impressed were Congressmen that the bill to purchase the Incunabula passed the House without a dissenting vote. In the Senate, Massachusetts' Gillett was the only possible obstacle. He said: "Great museums and libraries and collections of pictures and jewels have in the past been purchased by monarchs, who have thereby made their cities celebrated. . . . In this country that has always been left to private individuals. . . . But I have no doubt this expenditure will not only give us some of the rarest and most splendid books in the world but will also stimulate prospective donors. . . . And so, although I think...