Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Speed maps now in the Cambridge Digital Library

Posted on 23 March 2015 by Andrew

John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures. Published in 1611/12, it marked the first time […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Maps, Special Collections

The library of Gabriel Harvey

Posted on 19 March 2015 by Liam Sims

Discoveries are made frequently in libraries, and the University Library is no exception. Staff and readers alike may call up a volume which has been […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Aldus Manutius (1452? – 6 February 1515) : A humanist printer for humanist readers. Aldine editions at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 9 February 2015 by Laura

The 500th anniversary of Aldus Manutius’s death on 6 February 1515 (Incunabula Project Blog) is celebrated this year by libraries and institutions all over the […]

Exhibitions, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Tea and coffee in India and Ceylon

Posted on 22 January 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have uploaded an on-line catalogue for a visually rich recent acquisition, donated by the former planter John Weatherstone. Weatherstone was […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

Robert Hooke and his Micrographia

Posted on 12 January 2015 by Liam Sims

When Samuel Pepys strode through the City of London to visit his bookseller – a journey he made frequently – on 2 January 1665, he […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Colonial Postal History

Posted on 7 January 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection has published an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, RCMS 361, which will be of great interest to philatelists and […]

New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society, Uncategorized

John Flamsteed’s library

Posted on 31 December 2014 by Liam Sims

On this day in 1719 died John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, a position he held for 42 years from 1675 until his death. Quite […]

Uncategorized

Collectors: John Couch Adams, a reminder about the Rose Book-Collecting Prize, and a beautiful binding.

Posted on 19 December 2014 by Sophie Defrance

John Couch Adams, the collector. It is this time of the year when Cambridge University Library advertised this year’s competition for the 2015 Rose Book-Collecting […]

Uncategorized

Sir George Arthur and British Honduras

Posted on 10 December 2014 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its earliest manuscript collections, the archives of the colonial administrator Sir […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Royal Commonwealth Society