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  • av David R. Whitesell
    360,-

    Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.

  • - A Celebration of Its Collections
    av Heather Cole
    316,-

    Houghton Library at 75 offers a tour of the primary repository for Harvard University's rare books and manuscripts with full-color illustrations. From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Bronte to costume designs for Star Trek, the selections celebrate great achievements in many and diverse fields of human endeavor.

  • - Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson
    av James Engell, William Zachs, Thomas A. Overholt & m.fl.
    416,-

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) remains a larger than life figure, one whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring. To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Johnson, Harvard University's Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson

  • av Barbara Mahrenholz Wolff
    496,-

    A catalogue of music manuscripts from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Includes descriptions of works by Bach, Liszt, Mahler, Mozart, Purcell, Schoenberg, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and many others.

  • - A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections
    av Harvard University Houghton Library
    850,-

    This large and sumptuous volume highlights the diversity and value of the Houghton's collections. It contains reproductions ranging from ancient and medieval manuscripts to the earliest printed books to the works of some of the twentieth-century's most important and interesting authors, artists, and designers.

  • - Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia)
    av Jan Ziolkowski & Bridget K Balint
    416,-

    This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English.

  • - The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800
    av David P. Becker
    316,-

  • - Thomas Hollis's Gifts to the Harvard College Library
    av William H. Bond
    360,-

    This checklist of Thomas Hollis's gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond's 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

  • - Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions
    av Rosamond B. Loring
    586,-

    First published in 1942, this book remains one of the standard works on its subject. Loring, a collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the extensive history and use of decorated papers in the book arts. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.

  • av Jan van Krimpen
    316,-

    A facsimile of a letter from calligrapher, typographer, theoretician, and author Jan van Krimpen to Paul Hofer, Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches.

  • - The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest
    av Jeffrey Hamburger
    410,-

    A pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist. The richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Christ's "beloved disciple" in 14th-century art, liturgy, theology, and mysticism.

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