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This week is National Library Week, a time to celebrate the libraries in your community! Below are p

This late nineteenth century travelogue chronicles the journey of a French delegation from Bombay to

Happy World Oceans Day! Today we remember the importance of the ocean in our lives and the need to p

It’s the first day of Spring! To celebrate, we are presenting a trilingual flower arranging ga

It’s Miserable Monday! This humor book was written in 1806 and contains the grievances of Samu

After Brooklyn Museum’s successful run of Killer Heels, we’re bringing it down about 6 inches. The R

For Fashion Friday, we’re featuring three illustrations of traditional Russian garb. Russian f

Maps of Rome as the inside covers of a book on Roman Gastronomy! These are fairly common as instruct

This 1540 edition of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is printed in the original

Happy Hanukkah from GWU Special Collections! Our new acquisition, this illuminated manuscript leaf f

Today (July 18) in 1925, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler was first published. He wrote this controversial

These hand-coloured illustrations are from Chromatics Or, An Essay On The Analogy And Harmony Of Col

Happy Birthday to Alexander Pope, born on this day (May 21) in 1688. Pope was a poet and a translato

On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his pamphlet, Common Sense. In it, he made a

This book recounts the history of Great Britain over roughly 1600 years, from the Roman occupation t

Now we’ll travel into the Middle East toward Jerusalem, like George Sandys did back in the ear

On May 28, 1871, the Paris Commune fell. Founded following France’s disastrous defeat during t

A glimpse into our collections on this #shelfiesunday ***#shelfie #specialcollections #librariesofin

The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives recently received a reference question concerning the Lan

Lewis E 96 Book of Hours, Use of Paris from the Special Collections of the Free Library of Philadelp

Today we have two works printed at the Aldine Press. Founded by Aldus Manutius in 1495, it was among

Handmade history brings the past to life in a way that nomechanical method can match. For more than

This past weekend, I attended the New York Artists Book Fair held by Printed Matter Inc. at MoMA PS1

This book describes the progress of science, art, and humanities in France between 1590 and 1700.Ima

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