Rare Books – Page 4 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Henry Compton’s Prayer Book, and John Wright’s Bible

Posted on 2 September 2019 by William Hale

Including as it does the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society as well as the collection of Arthur William Young, the University Library […]

Acquisitions, Rare Books

Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Posted on 24 June 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Maps, Rare Books, Travel

Conflicting Chronologies: A New Exhibition at the Whipple Library

Posted on 6 May 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Meira Gold, PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her research concerns the history of Victorian Egyptology […]

Exhibitions, Rare Books

Discoveries in the reading rooms

Posted on 8 April 2019 by Emily Dourish

Readers working with material in the University Library’s Special Collections reading rooms are accustomed to discovering new and exciting things every day, whether that be […]

Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections

Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Posted on 13 March 2019 by Katrina Dean

Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]

Archives, Astronomy, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Darwin Correspondence Project, Engineering, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Science, Special Collections

Before Endeavour: Joseph Banks and his travels in England and Wales

Posted on 22 February 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Edwin Rose, PhD student in the Department of the History & Philosophy of Science, working on ‘Managing nature in the age […]

Archives, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Queering the UL

Posted on 5 February 2019 by Liam Sims

February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Scrapbooking in Cork

Posted on 1 February 2019 by William Hale

The Library has recently acquired two large folio scrapbooks of 436 and 360 pages, compiled between 1818 and 1822 by one E. Madder of Cork. […]

Acquisitions, Irish, Rare Books

The school years of Dame Muriel Spark

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Special Collections

This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]

Acquisitions, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections