An Ottoman cosmography
The brown leather binding looks unremarkable enough, but within the Library’s rare books collection there is a volume, which once opened up, demonstrates a key […]
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History of Cartography online
Since the first volume appeared in 1987 the University of Chicago’s History of Cartography series of monographs has become a standard and authoritative reference work […]
Continue reading »William Bedwell: the tribulations of an Arabist
William Bedwell was an Arabic scholar and mathematician born in Great Hallingbury, Essex, in 1563. He is sometimes known as the father of Arabic studies […]
Continue reading »Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2010-2011
The winner of this year’s Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Basie Bales Gitlin of Pembroke College, for his collection of salesman’s samples, ‘Canvassing books’. Read the […]
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