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A diminutive duodecimo from 1638 on the history of temples. #NewAcquisition

A diminutive duodecimo from 1638 on the history of temples. #NewAcquisition

OK, bookseller, you had me at “unpublished account of 17th century nun’s heretical sex cult”. #NewAcquisition

OK, bookseller, you had me at “unpublished account of 17th century nun’s heretical sex cult”. #NewAcquisition

New fiscal year means it's #NewAcquisition time! A 1658 biography of Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, seen in the frontispiece performing her cover of Terence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name Across My Heart."

New fiscal year means it's #NewAcquisition time! A 1658 biography of Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, seen in the frontispiece performing her cover of Terence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name Across My Heart."

A very charming 18th century Persian manuscript on the wonders of the natural world. We get lots of teaching requests for our Islamic manuscripts but relatively little in the collection is at all accessible if you don't read the language. #NewAcquisition

A very charming 18th century Persian manuscript on the wonders of the natural world. We get lots of teaching requests for our Islamic manuscripts but relatively little in the collection is at all accessible if you don't read the language. #NewAcquisition

We probably won’t get *every* 17th century book on comets before I retire, but I’m working on it. #NewAcquisition

We probably won’t get *every* 17th century book on comets before I retire, but I’m working on it. #NewAcquisition

At 8 feet I’m pretty sure this #NewAcquisition is the longest item in our extensive collection of English caricature. It’s made up of four separate sheets and you can see in the Yale copy they were assembled by purchasers in different arrangements. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33434235

At 8 feet I’m pretty sure this #NewAcquisition is the longest item in our extensive collection of English caricature. It’s made up of four separate sheets and you can see in the Yale copy they were assembled by purchasers in different arrangements. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33434235

Get ready for a lot of #NewAcquisition posts after my visit to the New York Book Fair last week!

I don’t know if I could name another 16th century English madrigal, but I thought we should have “April is in my mistress’s face” even if it’s a bit of a janky copy.

Get ready for a lot of #NewAcquisition posts after my visit to the New York Book Fair last week!

I don’t know if I could name another 16th century English madrigal, but I thought we should have “April is in my mistress’s face” even if it’s a bit of a janky copy.

Just ordered this "Oops, forgot to re-ink the type" for our collection of printing accidents and errors. #NewAcquisition

Just ordered this "Oops, forgot to re-ink the type" for our collection of printing accidents and errors. #NewAcquisition

An 18th century sheet of short prayers for the souls of the dead, intended to be cut into slips and randomly drawn out of a box. "For the Souls to whom you are strangely enraptured", "For the Souls whose pain you bear", ‘For the Souls of all Good Deeds", "For the Souls who loved you and those you loved in this life and no longer remember." #NewAcquisition

An 18th century sheet of short prayers for the souls of the dead, intended to be cut into slips and randomly drawn out of a box. "For the Souls to whom you are strangely enraptured", "For the Souls whose pain you bear", ‘For the Souls of all Good Deeds", "For the Souls who loved you and those you loved in this life and no longer remember." #NewAcquisition

Sermon delivered on Dec. 23, 1754, at the dedication of the Convento de la Enseñanza, the first public school
for women in Mexico City. #NewAcquisition

Sermon delivered on Dec. 23, 1754, at the dedication of the Convento de la Enseñanza, the first public school
for women in Mexico City. #NewAcquisition

A 1703 poem from a young Josiah Cotton, scion of one of the most important Puritan families in Massachusetts (and cousin of Cotton Mather), to one Deborah Browne. #NewAcquisition

A 1703 poem from a young Josiah Cotton, scion of one of the most important Puritan families in Massachusetts (and cousin of Cotton Mather), to one Deborah Browne. #NewAcquisition

My Fashion Police exhibition has closed but I’m still acquiring works from men who are mad about women’s clothing. This Italian priest is particularly concerned about bare arms and shoulders. #NewAcquisition

My Fashion Police exhibition has closed but I’m still acquiring works from men who are mad about women’s clothing. This Italian priest is particularly concerned about bare arms and shoulders. #NewAcquisition

1794 rebus maps of England and France with a decidedly contrasting view of current events in each. (I hope someday to do an exhibition on radicalism and revolution in 1790s Britain and France, so I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this.) #NewAcquisition

1794 rebus maps of England and France with a decidedly contrasting view of current events in each. (I hope someday to do an exhibition on radicalism and revolution in 1790s Britain and France, so I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this.) #NewAcquisition

A tiny relic of a venerated 18th century abbess—a little piece of her habit preserved in a folded printed sheet less than 10cm square. #NewAcquisition

A tiny relic of a venerated 18th century abbess—a little piece of her habit preserved in a folded printed sheet less than 10cm square. #NewAcquisition

I have been working for years to fill out our collection of the Minerva Press, a late 18th/early 19th century publisher that specialized in popular fiction by and for women. I love that this novel has a bit of self-referential product placement, describing a circulating library (a for-profit lending library) full of Minerva Press books. #NewAcquisition

I have been working for years to fill out our collection of the Minerva Press, a late 18th/early 19th century publisher that specialized in popular fiction by and for women. I love that this novel has a bit of self-referential product placement, describing a circulating library (a for-profit lending library) full of Minerva Press books. #NewAcquisition

Did I buy this to complement the American cookbook collection at the Schlesinger Library and because it has a contemporary female ownership inscription? Yes.

Did I buy it because it calls people who work in food preparation the "Officers of the Mouth"? Also yes.
#NewAcquisition

Did I buy this to complement the American cookbook collection at the Schlesinger Library and because it has a contemporary female ownership inscription? Yes.

Did I buy it because it calls people who work in food preparation the "Officers of the Mouth"? Also yes.
#NewAcquisition

I'm always on the lookout for books with features I've never seen before, and this is a 17th century day by day account of a siege of Copenhagen with little iconic images of typical occurrences during the siege that you could cut out of larger sheets at the back and paste in next to the relevant entries. It would have been much easier and cheaper to print that way than the printer embedding each image on its page. #newacquisition

I'm always on the lookout for books with features I've never seen before, and this is a 17th century day by day account of a siege of Copenhagen with little iconic images of typical occurrences during the siege that you could cut out of larger sheets at the back and paste in next to the relevant entries. It would have been much easier and cheaper to print that way than the printer embedding each image on its page. #newacquisition

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition

I was really taken with this gift binding, likely a present from one woman to another, lettered "Take and Read this Out of Friendship for Me". #NewAcquisition

I was really taken with this gift binding, likely a present from one woman to another, lettered "Take and Read this Out of Friendship for Me". #NewAcquisition

I just bought our second copy of a not very interesting devotional book, because it shows something that is interesting. It was a presentation copy to a nobleman, so to remove any hint of vulgar commerce the publisher pasted a slip over the price on the title page and then stamped a row of ornaments to disguise it further.
#NewAcquisition

I just bought our second copy of a not very interesting devotional book, because it shows something that is interesting. It was a presentation copy to a nobleman, so to remove any hint of vulgar commerce the publisher pasted a slip over the price on the title page and then stamped a row of ornaments to disguise it further.
#NewAcquisition

One of the rarest works by the transgender pioneer the Chevaliere d'Eon, shortly after negotiating a return to France from exile on the condition that she be able to live openly as a woman.

It's a sign of the times that the bookseller said he was pleased to hear that I was still interested in acquiring books about her despite the current political climate.

#NewAcquisition

One of the rarest works by the transgender pioneer the Chevaliere d'Eon, shortly after negotiating a return to France from exile on the condition that she be able to live openly as a woman.

It's a sign of the times that the bookseller said he was pleased to hear that I was still interested in acquiring books about her despite the current political climate.

#NewAcquisition

One of the earliest Dutch accounts of Guyana and Suriname, with a real grabber of a frontispiece. #NewAcquisition

One of the earliest Dutch accounts of Guyana and Suriname, with a real grabber of a frontispiece. #NewAcquisition

A German translation of an Anne Radcliffe gothic novel, with some lively pastepaper endsheets.
#NewAcquisition #NewAcq

A German translation of an Anne Radcliffe gothic novel, with some lively pastepaper endsheets.
#NewAcquisition #NewAcq

A #NewAcquisition for my 2028 exhibition "Beach Reads: The Literature of Shipwreck", a Dutch "Robinsonade" from the popular 18th century genre of works inspired by Robinson Crusoe.

A #NewAcquisition for my 2028 exhibition "Beach Reads: The Literature of Shipwreck", a Dutch "Robinsonade" from the popular 18th century genre of works inspired by Robinson Crusoe.

This 3-volume English novel was thought to survive only in a German translation and a single known copy of v.1. Nine years ago I acquired the translation and I just now got the full three volume set. Houghton is now the undisputed world center for Man of Honour studies. (Hopefully someone cares, it is by all accounts terrible, but i can't resist a lost book.) #NewAcquisition #RareBooks #Libraries

This 3-volume English novel was thought to survive only in a German translation and a single known copy of v.1. Nine years ago I acquired the translation and I just now got the full three volume set. Houghton is now the undisputed world center for Man of Honour studies. (Hopefully someone cares, it is by all accounts terrible, but i can't resist a lost book.) #NewAcquisition #RareBooks #Libraries

Take a video tour of a cool #NewAcquisition with my colleague Kelly Rene Bullard. Kami no Tabi (The Journey of Paper) is a beautifully illustrated guide to Japanese papermaking, complete with an array of sample sheets. https://youtu.be/sy01BfcMwTQ?feature=shared

Take a video tour of a cool #NewAcquisition with my colleague Kelly Rene Bullard. Kami no Tabi (The Journey of Paper) is a beautifully illustrated guide to Japanese papermaking, complete with an array of sample sheets. https://youtu.be/sy01BfcMwTQ?feature=shared

Library catalogue of a learned 18th century French noblewoman, married to two different Marquises. Plus an interesting note from the printer explaining a gap in the pagination.
#NewAcq #NewAcquisition

Library catalogue of a learned 18th century French noblewoman, married to two different Marquises. Plus an interesting note from the printer explaining a gap in the pagination.
#NewAcq #NewAcquisition

Ah, now I remember--this is for an exhibition on books of trades we're planning for 2027. This is a satirical print about corruption in the trades depicted; according to the bookseller's description "the tailor keeps trimmings of fine cloth for himself, the weaver siphons off yarn and replaces it with its weight in glue and starch, the miller takes the best grain home with him, and the sergeant gets his way through artifice and flattery."
#NewAcq #NewAcquisition

Ah, now I remember--this is for an exhibition on books of trades we're planning for 2027. This is a satirical print about corruption in the trades depicted; according to the bookseller's description "the tailor keeps trimmings of fine cloth for himself, the weaver siphons off yarn and replaces it with its weight in glue and starch, the miller takes the best grain home with him, and the sergeant gets his way through artifice and flattery."
#NewAcq #NewAcquisition

An extensive collection of letters, some enciphered and decoded, written home by the Florentine ambassador to the court of Henry VIII. #NewAcquisition #NewAcq

An extensive collection of letters, some enciphered and decoded, written home by the Florentine ambassador to the court of Henry VIII. #NewAcquisition #NewAcq

A rare publication of short essays and poems by Harvard students, making it the first poetry anthology published in the (future) U.S.
#NewAcquisition #NewAcq

A rare publication of short essays and poems by Harvard students, making it the first poetry anthology published in the (future) U.S.
#NewAcquisition #NewAcq