Word: rare
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...spirit of John Harvard's lost collection, over ten rare book libraries have been established over the years through the diligence of College librarians and benefactors...
...very rare reproduction of the Code of Justinian which served as the basis of "all European law and legal scholarship for several hundred years" is the choice of Edith Henderson, curator of Langdell Library's Treasure Room. Henderson keeps this book, one of the few extant reproductions in the world, secured away, out of public view...
Cultural trends in rare books are important to Ruth R. Rogers of the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Rogers pays special attention to German books of the 17th century for traces of anti-Semitism evident in the dealings of money-changers who cheated their Jewish customers by giving them worthless coins. Rogers also recommends the materials from the Bancroft Collection on the South Sea Bubble, which include posters, pamphlets, and books chronicling the speculative main which swept through England in the 1720's, when lots of financiers invested their money in tulips. "There's always something to be learned...
Like Rogers, Shari Regan, associate curator of special collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, pursues cultural trends in rare books. Letters, short pamphlets, and manuscripts by women at the MCZ provide Regan with a sense of the conflicts confronted by early women scientists...
...presented to the countess by the author himself. Widener considered this book to be one of the finest example of Elizabethan leather work in the world. A life-long collector, Widener died on the Titanic in 1912, returning from a book buying mission in London. Fortunately, all of the rare books purchased by Widener in England were shipped back to the U.S. separately, except for one volume which went down with the Titanic, a second edition of Sir Francis Bacon's "Essays...