Rare Book Collections @ Princeton

In March 2014, the exhibition “By Dawn’s Light” opened at the Center for Jewish History in New York. It details the contributions of antebellum Jewish authors, composers, and comparable cre...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2014/07/new-interactive-online-exhibit/

❧ “By Dawn’s Early Light: : An exhibition of more than 140 books, maps, prints, manuscripts, and paintings documenting Jewish contributions to American culture from the nation’s founding ...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2014/03/by-dawns-early-light-loans-fro/

A representation of Columbus’ landing on an island in the Bahamas, with caption “Concerning the recently discovered islands in the Indies sea.” Note portion of land labeled “Insula hyspan...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2014/02/editions-of-the-columbus-lette/

Recently the Library completed work extending the holdings of two digital collections ❧ The Sid Lapidus ‘59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution • Eighty-five new digitial book...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2014/01/digital-collections-extended/

The retirement of Shirley Tilghman as the19th President of Princeton University at the end of June 2013 provided an opportunity for the Friends of the Princeton University Library to celebrate th...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/10/celebrating-the-presidency-of/

The following announcement is of the same disposition as Mark Twain's statement "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated."A 2011 posting on the blog "Revolution in Fiction" stated that the ...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/09/update-regarding-princetons-co/

Detail from Glarean’s Chronologia with annotations in the hand of his student Gabriel Hummelberg II. This issue of the Chronologia was published as part of an edition of Livy’s history of Rom...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/09/heinrich-glarean-1488-1563-and/

Currently on view in the lobby of Firestone Library through Commencement. The Princeton University Library and the Class of 1953 join in honoring the author John McPhee on the occasion of his 60t...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/05/the-art-of-factual-writing-an/

Like the novel itself, the epigraph of The Great Gatsby has achieved mythic status. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she... Continue...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/05/hollywood-1939-giving-great/

A Brief Essay by Minjie Chen (陈敏捷) Wrapped in paper and tucked in the protective case of Tong Jian Zong Lei (通鉴总类), a Chinese history book, were four aging black-and-white photograp...

https://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2013/04/to-have-friends-come-from-afar/