In honor of a national pastime, Ball, Bat & Bible Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York, has been selected as the featured book for August 2015. Written by Charles DeMotte, baseball historian, this book chronicles the social and moral ...
The Serpent Charmer: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny is an English translation of the 1879 French edition: Le Charmeur de Serpents. Published by Charles Scribner & Sons, this book is the First American edition. Its highly decorated binding is ...
The 2015 selection committee of the PR Xchange Awards Competition recently shared the announcement of our win in the category “Materials Promoting Collections” for the Miniature Books Exhibit and Reception. The PR Xchange competition is sponsored by the Public Relations and ...
During the expansion of the Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles, Willard Carroll unearthed a leatherbound scrapbook from a site that was once a pet cemetery. To his amazement, its yellowing pages contained the rags-to-riches story of Terry, the female brindle ...
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes / by Guillame-Thomas Raynal. Londres: [s.l.]. 1792. The Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes is ...
Professor of French and Comparative Literature Sandro Sticcca has continued a custom of many decades through his recent donation of two books to the Libraries’ Special Collections. “Gabriele D’Annunzio,” a richly illustrated book highlighting places in the Abruzzo region of ...
The New York Times T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Them By MARGALIT FOX APRIL 19, 2015 T. H. Tsien was one of the world’s renowned scholars of Chinese bibliography and paleography, the study of ancient ...
Paul Schleuse, associate professor of musicology, will present “Image, Imitation, Imagination: Woodcut Illustrations in Adriano Banchieri’s Music Books” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in LN-1106, IASH Conference Room. Illustrations in prints of renaissance music are extremely rare, beyond generic ...
Binghamton University Special Collections Featured Book for April is Robert Bolt’s screenplay for Doctor Zhivago: The Screenplay from the John McLaughlin Collection based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. British playwright, Robert Bolt (1924-1995), and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the ...
Aminta : favola boscareccia by Torquato Tasso. Aminta : favola boscareccia diTorquato Tasso. Amsterdam : Nella Stamperia del s.D. Elsevier; Et in Parigi : Si vende appresso Thomaso Jolly …, 1678. Illustrated by Sébastien LeClerc. 85 p. : ill. ; 11 cm. An “Elzevier” book. Call number: PQ4639. ...