Recent acquisitions – Page 5 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

New Old Books: April 2016

Posted on 2 May 2016 by William Hale

Additions to the stock of the Rare Books Department this month include a nineteenth-century book of College verse, a satire from the period leading up […]

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

New Old Books: March 2016

Posted on 1 April 2016 by William Hale

Books added to the collections of the Rare Books Department this month include a French almanac, a further addition to our holdings of Enlightenment texts, […]

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Castles in the air: two works of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian poetry

Posted on 18 March 2016 by Sophie Defrance

Thanks to a recommendation of Dr Rodrigo Cacho, Reader in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies, the Rare Books department of Cambridge University Library has […]

Collectors and collecting, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

New old books: February 2016

Posted on 4 March 2016 by William Hale

The second instalment of our monthly series listing additions to the Rare Books collections. This month we feature Greek philosophy as read in sixteenth-century France, […]

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

New old books: January 2016

Posted on 1 February 2016 by William Hale

The Rare Books Department of the Library purchases over 200 printed books each year to enhance its historical collections. In the first of what we […]

Poetry, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

The Signal: the magazine of the brave

Posted on 28 January 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

We have a new collection coming to Rare Books. It will take some time before it will be available to see in our reading room, […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

‘World’s loneliest white man’

Posted on 28 August 2015 by John C.

This was the headline of an American newspaper describing the British planter William French (1897-1960), who had greeted an American Museum of Natural History South […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Decorated paper wrappers in the University Library

Posted on 29 July 2015 by Liam Sims

There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]

Collectors and collecting, Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections