Tour of Special Collections Library, Dartmouth, September, 2008

Annual Special Collections Tour

We are very pleased to announce that the main street museum's annual tour of rauner special collections library and talk with librarian jay satterfield will take place

this coming friday, 26 september, 2008 from 4 to 5 pm. webster hall, rauner special collections.

this year the theme—"Collecting Monstrosities!"

free and congenial to all!

here are titles of just some of the rare volumes that are intended to be viewed:

Monsters in the Stacks

Religion:

• Leaf from a Book of Hours, Flemish, ca. 1330.
Ms 002253
• Book of Hours, France, ca. 1440
Codex 003141
• John Foxe. Acts and Monuments. London: John Day, 1563.
Presses D334f

Natural History:

• Konrad Gesner. Historiae animalium. Tiguri, 1551-58.
Rauner Rare QL41.G37
• Albertus Seba. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium. Amsterdam, 1734-65
Rauner Rare. QH41.S4
• Carl von Linne. Systema Naturae. Stockholm, 1748.
Rauner Rare QH43.S21
• Linnaean Society of New England. Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of New England Relative to a Large Marine Animal, Supposed to be a Serpent, Seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August 1817. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817.
Rare QL89.2.S4L56 1817

Medicine:

• Joannes de Ketham, Fasciculus Medicine. Venice: Joannem et Gregoriu de Gregoriis Fratres, 1500.
Incun 74
• Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty. Anatomie Generale. Paris, 1752.
Rare QM535.G377
• Ambroise Pare. Opera. Paris: Iacobum Du-Puys, 1582.
Rare R128.7 1582
• Johan Georg Schenck. Monstrorum historia memorabilis. Francofurti, 1609.
Rare QM691.S345
• Frederik Ruysch. Opera. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1721-1722
Rare R128.7.R876, vols 1-4
• Academiae Naturae Curiosorum. Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica. Leipzig: Sumpt. Viti Jacobi Trescheri, 1670-1677.
Rare R128.7.A3

Conquest:

• John Ogilby. America. London: John Ogilby, 1671
McGregor 129
• Casas, Bartolome de las. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos qvosdam deuastatarum verisima. Francofvrti: Theodori de Bry, 1598.
McGregor 33

we aim to please!

for more info see Special Collections on the web