Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many educators and has been widely shown in Australia and New Zealand. The pictures are absolutely real and are the most daring ever taken, for Mr. Eustace, before realizing the possibilities of photography, spent over twenty years as a big game hunter. Some of the animals shown are exceedingly rare and include the white rhinoceros, heretofore considered extinct...
...extremely valuable Russian books, including the first important historical sets since the Revolution in Russia, are also being added to the Library, most of which were collected by Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, Director of Widener, during his stay in Moscow. Included in the collection are some extremely rare and learned works, such as the reports of the Russian Archeographical and Archeological Commission, and these will be valuable to advanced students in the University. Books of a lighter vein, some illustrated by Russian artists of the new school; Bolshevist periodicals, many of literary and scholarly merit; and scientific tracts...
...Among the prints shown are three XVth Century paste prints; a cut from a XVth Century edition of the Apocalypse block book; XVth and Early XVIth Century wood cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier and Delacroix...
...rare collection of medieval manuscripts and autographed books from the library of Charles Sumner is on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most interesting exhibits is the Greek exercise book used by John Dryden while a student at Westminster school. The fly-leaf bears the famous author's signature in a childish hand. A large Bible bearing on its fly-leaf the signature of John Bunyan and a copy of Pindar with marginal notes by John Milton are on exhibit, as is a ponderous copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle with woodcuts by Michael Wolgemuth...
...What is so rare as a day in June...