This is the third in a series of “year in review” posts about what we were up to in Special Collections during the 2022-2023 academic year, highlighting new acquisitions by gift and purchase during the year.
We are delighted to report that we had a great year for new additions to the collections, so this is just a sampling of the new materials now available in Special Collections for teaching and research. Click on the title to see the library catalog record for more information about each item. As a reminder, if you would like to consult any materials in Special Collections, please email speccoll@binghamton.edu to set up an appointment.
These and other acquisitions are made to diversify, enhance and complement our existing holdings and to provide new examples for use in Special Collections instruction sessions.
Artists’ and fine press books
- Simon Armitage, Resistance (Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022)
- Alice Austin, Grand Canal (Philadelphia, 2019) and nesting (Philadelphia, 2022)
- Tia Blassingame, Black: A Handbook (New Haven, CT: Primrose Press, 2022)
- David Esslemont, De Cataractis (Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2023)
- Randi Annie Strand, Den Største Form Har Ingen Kontur (Oslo, 2012)
- Pablo Neruda, Las Piedras del Cielo = Skystones: Poemas (Easthampton, MA: Emanon Press, 1981)
- Peter and Donna Thomas, The John Muir Trail (Santa Cruz, CA, 2000)
Photobooks
- Heather Doyle-Maier, At Risk: Female (Denver, 2023)
- Kikuji Kawada, Chizu: Maquette Edition (London: Mack, 2021)
- Amanda Marchand, Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again (Seoul: Datz Press, 2019)
- Christian Patterson, Redheaded Peckerwood (London: Mack, 2011)
Herbals and botanical books
- John Gerard, Herball: Or, Generall Historie of Plantes (London, 1636)
- John Hill, The Family Herbal (Bungay, England, 1808 or 1809)
- James Edward Smith, A Grammar of Botany (New York, 1822)
Walt Whitman-related items
- Complete Instructions: From the Preface of ‘Leaves of Grass’ (Tucson, AZ: Foolsgold Studio, 2022)
- Walt Whitman, Good-bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891)
- Walt Whitman, November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888)
- A Wartime Whitman (Armed Services Edition, 1945)
- At the Graveside of Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: Billstein & Son, 1892)
Local History/Civil War materials
- Romeyn Beck Hough, American Woods (Lowville, NY, 1888). Part I
- An 1806 election broadside for the Federalist candidates to the New York State senate district covering the Southern Tier
- Manual of the Police Force of the City of Binghamton (1881)
- James Bostwick Robinson diaries, 1860, 1862-1866
Other notable acquisitions
- A 1642 folio psalter printed in Toul, France, with numerous additions and annotations through the early twentieth century
- A 1797 German book in unbound octavo sheets
- Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy (London, 1767)
- Various protest posters and periodicals from the 1960s
- Audubon material to complement our third octavo edition of Birds of America, including three uncolored plates from the double elephant folio Birds, an original fascicle from the first octavo edition, a plate from the 1859 Bien chromolithograph edition, etc.