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Unless otherwise noted, all items acquired during fiscal year 2005 were purchased with funds from the Elmer Adler Memorial Endow-ment.

contemporary artists ’ andfine press books

archer, caroline, and robert harling. The St. Bride Note-book. [Oldham, England] : Incline Press, 2003. Book designed and printed by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious.

b idwell, john. Mattioli’s Herbal : A Short Account of Its Illustrations, with a Print from an Original Woodblock. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2003. Printed by John Randle at the Whittington Press, and John Grice at the Evergreen Press, Gloucestershire. Accompa-nied by a re-strike from the woodblock used in the Mattioli’s Herbal of 1562, hand-colored by Louisa Hara. Copy XIV of L.

chen, julie . The Veil. Berkeley, Calif. : Flying Fish Press, 2002. Let-terpress printed using a combination of photopolymer plates and collagraphic blocks. Binding by Julie Chen and Anna Sacramento. Copy 47 of 100.

cummins , maureen. Stocks and Bonds. Riverdale, Md. : M. Cummins, 2000. Printed with Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Copy 27 of 30.

deniz , gerardo. Semifusas. Mexico City : Taller Ditoria, 2004. Copy 82 of 300.

dupont, inge, and hope mayo, editors. Morgan Library Ghost Sto-ries. Engravings by John De Pol. Roslyn, N.Y. : Stone House Press, 1990. Copy 48 of 200.

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hawthorne, nathaniel (1804–1864). The Birthmark. [Oakland, Calif.] : Em Press, 1994. Letterpress printed at the Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, by Cynthia Imperatore. Copy 15 of 25.

herbert, george (1593–1633). Sundrie Pieces : A New Selection of George Herbert’s Poetry, with Samples of His Prose. Edited, with an intro-duction and notes, by the Earl of Powis. Newtown, Powys : Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Wood engravings by Sarah van Niekerk. Copy 116 of 200.

lewis , ann p . If Only I Weren’t at Work. [Massachusetts : Ann P. Lewis], 1997. This artist’s book includes various plant matter pressed into a dozen slides that are wrapped in pieces of maps, sealed with beeswax, and tightly housed in a box wrapped in the map index for Principal Cities of California.

milton, john (1608–1674). Paradise Lost : A Poem in Twelve Books. Ed-ited by John T. Shawcross, with an introduction by Helen Vendler. San Francisco : Printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press, 2002. Copy 132 of 400. Supplemented with a portfolio of prints : William Blake (1757–1827), Thirteen Watercolor Drawings by William Blake Il-lustrating “Paradise Lost” by John Milton : The First Facsimiles Printed at Full Scale in Full Color from the Original Works . . . (San Francisco : Arion Press, 2004). The works of John Milton hold an important place at Princeton. Along with first editions (1667) of Paradise Lost in the Scheide and Taylor Libraries, the Library has Henry Austin Whit-ney’s collection of Milton, which includes 254 volumes of first edi-tions and other rare examples of Milton’s pamphlets and poetry, along with works of criticism, biography, and translation. We now add to these riches a significant new edition of Paradise Lost from the Arion Press, along with a facsimile portfolio of William Blake’s drawings after Milton’s text. Typographically, Arion’s Paradise pays tribute to two earlier printings : the second edition in 1674, which divided the text into 12 books rather than 10, and John Baskerville’s second edition of 1759. Hoyem arranged for special 14-point type to be cast from cuttings of the Monotype Corporation’s 1923 ver-sion of Baskerville, which in turn had been modeled after the letter forms of Baskerville’s own Paradise. In keeping with the 1674 edi-tion, the 2002 edition employs running heads printed in a black- letter type, Goudy Text. Then Hoyem chose an inkjet printer spe-

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cially developed for large-scale, high-resolution work to create a facsimile edition of Blake’s Paradise watercolors. Commissioned in 1806 by Joseph Thomas, the original 12 watercolors were dispersed after 1885. Between 1911 and 1914, the American collector Henry E. Huntington found, purchased, and reunited them, along with a thirteenth on the same theme. They are now in the collections of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Together with John T. Shawcross’s modernized version of Milton’s 1652 text, the Arion Press edition combines the best of each generation’s invention and creativity to produce a contemporary classic.

o’connor, john. The English Scene. Risbury, Herefordshire : Whit-tington Press, 2004. Colored engravings and linocuts printed by Patrick Lawson-Thomas. Copy 44 of 55.

rgo, jos l ins do (1901–1957). Pureza : Romance. Illustrations by Flávio Tavares. [Brasilia] : Confraria dos Bibliófilos do Brasil, 2001. Copy 24 of 251.

ryan, kay. Believe It or Not ! Fairfax, Calif. : Jungle Garden Press, 2002. Poems by Kay Ryan ; drawings by Carl Dern, transferred and printed from photopolymer plates by Alan Hillesheim, Digger Pine Press. Designed by Marie C. Dern and bound by John Demerritt. Copy 49 of 125.

trevisan, dalton. A Polaquinha. Illustrated by Darel Valença Lins. Brasilia : Confraria dos Bibliófilos do Brasil, 2002.

tzudiker, robert. Animal Natures. Illustrated by Claribel Cone. Oakland, Calif. : Littoral Press, 2004. Written in Corrupto no-point ; composed entirely underwater. Designed and printed by Lisa Rap-poport. Copy 13 of 74.

weston, heather. Defeating the Object. London : Bookery, 2004. Copy 10 of 100.

wilde-menozzi , wallis . The Heron Songs. Menlo Park, Calif. : Occasional Works, 2004. Copy E from 26 lettered copies.

ephemera

caxton printing co. Sample Book. [Walingford, Conn.], ca. 1880 – ca. 1890.

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eagle card works. Agent’s Sample Book. [Cadiz, Ohio], ca. 1880 –ca. 1890.

h. t. johnson’s printing establishment. Sample Cards. N.p., ca. 1885.

photography and optical devices

alabaster peep show egg. [London, ca. 1850]. A peep show (or peepshow) is an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed in a box through a small hole or magnifying lens. References to such a de-vice, also known as a viewing box or “raree show,” can be found as far back as the 15th century. A description of a camera obscura, one of the earliest examples of a viewing box, appears in Giambattista della Porta’s Magiae naturalis libri viginti (1664 ; available in the Rare Books Division). By the 17th century, the interiors of many viewing boxes were decorated to resemble a theater, and their prints were drawn in elaborate, three-dimensional perspective. Peep shows be-came complex affairs with multiple viewing holes and strings that, when pulled, could change the views from day to nighttime scenes. In France, the boite d’optique was designed with more height than depth and a mirror angled at 45 degrees, which allowed standing viewers to see a series of decorative prints. During the 19th century, the wooden box and paper print were replaced with a multitude of viewing options, including the moving image in a phenakistiscope, the photographic image in the megalethoscope, and the projected image in the magic lantern (examples of each are in the Graphic Arts Collection). A particular favorite of the Victorian age was the alabaster peep show egg, slightly larger than a real egg and elegantly fitted with a lens at the top and handles on either side to turn a se-ries of miniature prints. The alabaster allowed light to illuminate the prints without a second opening. Princeton’s egg reveals a hand- colored engraving of Greenwich Hospital, a second engraving of the Thames River, and a panel of crystals and dried foliage.

Mémoire sur la construction et la théorie du symétrisateur, lunette connue sous les dénominations de metamorphosiscope. Paris : n.p., 1818.

Photographs of the Crystal Palace. [London], ca. 1855. Bound with Dolly’s Guide to the Fine Arts Dept. of the South Staffordshire Exhibition ([Staf-fordshire], ca. 1869). The first book is a rare souvenir album of 12

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mounted albumen prints attributed to Philip Henry Delamotte (1820–1889) depicting the Crystal Palace as re-erected at Sydenham in the early 1850s. The second book is illustrated with two albumen photographs by E. Hasleur of Wolverhampton.

scott, s ir walter (1771–1832). The Lord of the Isles. London : Pro-vost & Company, 1871. Illustrated with original albumen photo-graphs by Russell Sedgfield and Stephen Thompson.

Story of Peter Pan : Lantern Lecture. [London : W. Butcher & Sons], ca. 1910. Twenty-four hand-colored, glass lantern slides, along with a script, probably William Butcher’s “Lantern lecture readings VII.”

Sun Pictures. New York : Hans Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, 1984 ?–2005. A complete set of catalogs, nos. 1–14, on 19th-century photog-raphy, many with essays by Larry J. Schaaf. Gift of H. P. Kraus Jr.

book history

barlow, marjorie dana. Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States, 1639–1975. New York : Hroswitha Club, 1976. Compiler’s presentation copy, with inscription to Mrs. Clifton Rather.

courtney, cathy. Speaking of Book Art : Interviews with British and American Book Artists. Los Altos Hills, Calif. : Anderson-Lovelace Publishers, 1999. As director of the research project “The Art of the Book 1960 to the Present,” based at Camberwell College of Arts, London, Courtney recorded conversations with artists involved in the new field of contemporary book arts. Comparing activities in Great Britain with those in the United States, she focused on Mills College in Oakland, California, which played an increasingly im-portant role in the development of book artists and ultimately es-tablished a Center for the Book in 1989. Speaking of Book Art brings together these conversations to form an oral history of the develop-ments in book arts from the 1970s to the 1990s. The 15 artists and presses included are Karen Bleitz, Circle Press ; Julie Chen, Flying Fish Press ; Sas Colby, Studio in the Sky ; Paul Coldwell, Camberwell College of Arts ; Betsy Davids, Rebis Press ; Helen Douglas, Wepro-ductions ; Johanna Drucker, Druckwerk ; Alia Golden, never mind the press ; Susan Johanknecht, Gefn Press ; Ron King, Circle Press ;

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Susan King, Paradise Press ; Joan Lyons, Visual Studies Workshop ; Telfer Stokes, Weproductions ; Ian Tyson, Tetrad Press ; and Kathy Walkup, Mills College.

gale, nathan. Type 1 : Digital Typeface Design. London : Laurence King, 2002. Additional information on cd-rom.

gallagher, connell b . , and cynthia imperatore. Objects/Encounters : Bookworks at Flying Fish Press, 1987–2001. Burlington, Vt. : University of Vermont Libraries, 2002.

Geheimen der Boekbinderij = Secrets of Bookbinding : An Anonymous 19th Cen-tury Dutch Bookbinding Manual Reproduced in Facsimile. Translation, introduction, and notes by Richard J. Wolfe. Boston : R. J. Wolfe, 1991. Printed at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, and bound by Richard Wolfe. Includes four original samples of marbling and four samples of gilding on paper, silk, velvet, and leather. 250 cop-ies printed.

helfand, jess ica. Reinventing the Wheel : Volvelles, Equatoria, Plani-spheres, Fact-Finders, Gestational Charts. . . . New York : Princeton Archi-tectural Press, 2002.

jensen, kristian, editor. Incunabula and Their Readers : Printing, Sell-ing, and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century. London : British Library, 2003.

kelly, jerry, compiler. A Checklist of Books Published by William Pick-ering, 1820–1853. With essays by Joseph Blumenthal and Arthur Wa-reen. Pomona, N.Y. : Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. Includes many actual-size reproductions of Pickering imprints and three tipped-in leaves from original Pickering printings. Copy C of 296.

mitchell, john. The Craftsman’s Guide to Edge Decoration. Five Oaks, West Sussex : Standing Press, 1993. Edited and designed by Nolan Watts.

o’dell, ilse . Deutsche und Österreichische Exlibris 1500–1599 im Briti-schen Museum. London : British Museum Press, 2003.

ould, martyn a. Stanley Morison & “John Fell” : The Writing and Printing of Stanley Morison’s Book “John Fell,” the University Press and the “Fell” Types. Bath : Old School Press, 2003. Includes four mounted specimens from books set in Fells type, and 12 reproductions of pho-tographs. Copy 113 of 240.


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schmoller, tanya. A Yorkshire Source of Decorated Paper in the Eigh-teenth Century. [Sheffield, England] : n.p., 2003. An account of the decorated paste paper produced by the Moravian sisters who settled at Fulneck, in Yorkshire. Includes two samples of color patterned paper.

prints and drawings

benirschke, max (1880–1961). Buchschmuck und Flächenschmuster. Vienna : M. Gerlach & Co., ca. 1904. Thirty color lithographs. Ac-quired together with a portfolio of original designs for Buchschmuck und Flächenschmuster, ca. 1900. Includes 60 colored pen-and-ink draw-ings on 12 boards.

Graphic Illustrations of Animals : Shewing Their Utility to Man, in Their Ser-vices during Life and Uses after Death. London : Roake & Varty, ca. 1843–1851. A set of 23 hand-colored lithographs by Benjamin Wa-terhouse Hawkins (1807–1889) and R. Kent Thomas (1816–1884), printed by J. Graf, C. Graf, and Day & Haghe. This portfolio aug-ments Princeton’s already significant collection of works by Hawkins, an eminent English sculptor, lecturer, and natural history artist. Early in his career, Hawkins worked as an illustrator, preparing 166 plates for the five-volume report, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle . . . edited and superintended by Charles Darwin (1839–1843 ; avail-able in the Rare Books Division). Hawkins’s reputation was further established during the 1840s with the animal studies commissioned by Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, and the animal sculptures he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy. It was during this pe-riod that publisher Thomas Varty teamed Hawkins with illustrator R. Kent Thomas to create a series of instructional prints under the title Graphic Illustrations of Animals. Each lithographic plate includes a large center scene of an animal in its natural habitat, surrounded by eight or nine vignettes, such as the tanning of its hide for clothing or the preparation of its meat for consumption. Although the dating of these plates is uncertain, the project certainly ended with Hawkins’s appointment as assistant superintendent of the Great Exhibition of 1851, when his primary focus turned to the creation of life-size mod-els of dinosaurs. In 1868, Hawkins moved to New York and began plans for a Paleozoic Museum in Central Park, working with Fred-erick Law Olmstead. When he was dismissed owing to a feud with


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Boss Tweed, Hawkins found work teaching and publishing at the College of New Jersey, where Professor of Geology Arnold Guyot secured an honorary degree for him in 1874. Beyond his illustrated books and prints, some of Hawkins’s paintings and sculptures are owned by the University, including a model of the Hadrosaurus, the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton found in America, which Hawkins constructed and mounted for Princeton’s E. M. Museum.

japanese color woodblock prints . Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho, ca. 1870, from the series “Thirty-Six Tokyo Restaurants”; and Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839–1892), Portrait of a Geisha Seated for Her Photographic Portrait, 1881, from the series “Twenty-four Hours at Shinbashi & Yanagibashi.” Both of these prints incorporate references to the new medium of photog-raphy in 19th-century Japanese life.

moreau, jean michel (1741–1814). Dessins de Moreau. [Paris, 1778–1779]. A collection of 25 plates engraved by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune and gathered by Robert Dighton (1751–1814).

russ ian posters . Two groups of posters, 1924–1927. One group is from the Meyerhold Theater ; the other promotes books and read-ing. The titles (in English translations) : Meyerhold Theater : Reper-toire for February Earth Aroused and Other Plays, 1925 ; Meyerhold Theater Broadside for Forward Europe, 1927 ; Meyerhold Theater : Forward Europe and The Forest [red], 1927 ; Meyerhold Theater : Forward Europe and The Forest [blue], 1927 ; Read the Popular Scientific Journal Spark . . . , 1924 ; No Knowledge = No Bread. Knowledge Lies in Books. Books Are on the Co-operatives, 1925 ; Read the Journal, Production Meeting, Read the Journal, 1927 ; and The Horror of Future War, 1924.

taller de grfica popular. A collection of 72 prints and post-ers printed by the collective in Mexico City, ca. 1938–1950. Pri-marily linocuts and woodcuts on colored papers. Includes the work of Celia Calderon, José Morado Chávez, Sarah Jiménez, Francisco Mora, Isidoro Ocampo, Pablo O’Higgins, and Rufino Tamayo, among others.

williams, charles (1797–1850). The Term Below, or, The Road to Retribution. London : Thos. Tegg, 1818. A hand-colored engrav-ing, with eight lines from John Dryden’s Virgil engraved below the scene.


Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839–1892), Portrait of a Geisha Seated for Her Photo-graphic Portrait, 1881. Color woodblock print from the series “Twenty-four Hours at Shinbashi & Yanagibashi.” The series depicts each hour in a gei-sha’s day. In this image, for the noon hour, the geisha has her photograph taken in the studio of Tsukuba Kitaniwa in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. Japanese Prints Collection, Graphic Arts Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.


illustrated books and fine printing

audiffredi , giovanni battista (1714–1794). Specimen historico criticum editionum italicarum saeculi XV. in quo praeter editiones ab Orlandio, Mettario, Denisio, Laerio, et a nonnullis bibliographis recentioribus hactenus relatas plurimae aliae recensentur omnesque plenius uberiusque describuntur. . . . Edited by Mariano de Romanis. Rome : In typographio Palearini-ano, 1794. An astronomer, naturalist, and librarian of the Biblio-teca Casanatense in Rome, Audiffredi completed his Catalogus his-torico-criticus romanarum editionum saeculi XV. (Rome : Ex typographio Paleariniano, 1783) before undertaking an inventory of incunabula printed in Italy. He arranged the books first by place of publication and then chronologically, but was able to finish only 26 cities, A–G, before his death in 1794. From the reference library of H. P. Kraus.

bachaus, theodore [Arthur W. Rushmore] (1883–1955). Ceremo-nial Papers of America : An Investigation into Their Variety, Uses, and Prop-erties with an Essay on Their Psychological Effects on the Life of Our Time. Foreword by Quincy P. Emery ; illustrated with specimens obtained from original sources. [Meriden, Conn.] : Columbiad Club, 1938. This satirical keepsake was composed and printed by Rushmore, director of the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. Sam-ples consist of four pieces of tissue or toilet paper, one of gold foil paper, one of leatherette, and three of unidentifiable papers ; two plant leaves (corn and Sicilian sumac) ; one piece of a page from a bookseller’s catalog, and one from a Latin text. Copy 22 of 30.

ball, eliza craufurd. The Christian Armour. New York : Charles Scribner & Co., 1866. Chromolithographic plates printed by Major & Knapp, illustrating the Christian armor described in Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (6 :11–17).

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Sculptures, Models, Drawings, Prints, &c. Exhib-ited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain, at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761. [London : Society of Art-ists of Great Britain, 1761]. Engraved headpiece and two engraved plates by William Hogarth (1697–1764). This work was sold as a ticket of admission for the benefit of impoverished artists.

Commodes und Beständig-Währendes Wasch-Büchlein, darinnen alles Wäsch-Geräthe derer Mannes- und Weibes-Personen, und zur Haußhaltung Gehöriges,

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vom grösten biß zum Kleinesten enthalten, daß man alle stücke, ohne Vieles Schreiben, in geschwinder Kürtze, genau bemercken, und wieder auslöschen kan. . . . Leipzig : Johann Christoph Hartmann, ca. 1750. Includes a full-page woodcut of a laundry works and workers.

cosway, maria hadfield (1759–1838). Progress of Female Dissipa-tion. London : Richard Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1800. Ac-quired with Cosway, Progress of Female Virtue (London : Richard Ack-ermann’s Repository of Arts, 1800). Eight engravings in each volume by Anthony Cardon (1772–1813) after drawings by Cosway.

de vinne, theodore low (1828–1914). The Printers’ Price List. A Manual for the Use of Clerks and Book-Keepers in Job Printing Offices. New York : F. Hart & Co., 1871.

Dissertation historique sur l’invention des lettres, ou caractères d’écriture : Sur les instrumens dont les anciens se sont servi pour écrire ; & sur les matières qu’ils ont employées : suivie d’une Instruction raisonnée sur le papier nouveau que le sieur Desnos annonce au public. . . . Paris : Desnos, ingénieur-géographe & libraire de Sa Majesté danoise, 1771. Includes 52 samples of Des-nos’s original papers.

earhart, john franklin. The Harmonizer. Cincinnati : Earhart & Richardson, 1897. Includes 240 plates of color printing on tinted paper, using 12 colored inks and 24 mixed colors, intended to dem-onstrate proper technique and correct ink choice for printing on col-ored stock.

federici , domenico maria (1739–1808). Memorie trevigiane sulla tipografia del secolo XV : Per servire alla storia letteraria e delle belle arti d’Italia. Venice : Presso F. Andreola, 1805. From the reference library of H. P. Kraus.

grollier de servire, gaspard (1677–1745). Recueil d’ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou, Description du cabinet de Mon-sieur Grollier de Servière, avec des figures en taille douce. Lyon : David Forey, 1719. A descriptive catalog of the marvelous and curious mechani-cal models and ivory turnings constructed by the author’s father, Nicholas Grollier de Servière (1596–1689). Illustrated with 88 cop-perplate engravings by Étienne Joseph Daudet (1672–1730).

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. . . : Op nieu uit de oirsprongklyke schriften van Cezar Ripa, Zaratino Kastel-lini, Pierius Valerianus, Horus Apollo en andere. . . . 3 vols. Delft : Gedrukt by Reinier Boitet, stds drukker, 1743–1750. Etchings by Frederik Ottens and Jan Caspar Philips (ca. 1700–1775). An emblematic Dutch dictionary, encompassing all fields of human knowledge and activity.

Histoire des quatre fils Aymon, très nobles et très vaillans chevaliers. Paris : H. Launette, 1883. Illustrations drawn by Eugène Grasset (1845–1917) and etched by Charles Gillot (1853–1903). A prose translation from the Old French first published in 1665. Grasset’s watercolor draw-ings were reproduced on zinc plates with the active collaboration of the artist and printed in relief by the newly developed process of “chromotypogravure,” or photo color relief printing.

houbraken, jacobus (1698–1780), and george vertue (1684–1756). The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraven by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue with Their Lives and Characters by Thomas Birch. 2 vols. in 1. London : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1743–1751. This copy is a fragment, consisting of the title page and two states of a portrait of George Hamilton, Earl of Orkney (1666–1737). One apparently is the final state ; the other is earlier, without lettering on or below the cartouche, and with Hamilton’s face etched only in light outlines.

hupfauer, paul (1747–1808). Druckstücke aus dem XV. Jahrhunderte, welche sich in der Bibliothek des regulirten Chorstiftes Beuerberg befinden. Augsburg : C. H. Stage, 1794. Illustrated with 23 woodcuts. An an-notated bibliography of 434 incunabula in the Augustine cloister of Beuerberg, compiled nine years before the secularization of that li-brary. From the reference library of H. P. Kraus.

lambinet, p ierre (1742–1813). Origine de l’imprimerie, d’après les ti-tres authentiques, l’opinion de M. Daunou, et celle de M. van Praet ; Suivie des établissemens de cet art dans la Belgique et de l’Histoire de la Stéréotypie. . . . Paris : H. Nicolle, 1810. A second, enlarged edition of the author’s Recherches historiques littéraires et critiques sur l’origine de l’imprimerie, pre-senting early relief and wood engraving, the origins of letters, books before printing, woodblock printing, and early printing. Bookplate of William T. Timmons.

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nant, 1679 : Auec vn abrégé historique sous chacun, contenant leurs naissances, inclinations et actions plus remarquables pendant leurs regnes. . . . Paris : Ber-trand, 1679. Sixty-one plates of engraved portraits.

latomus, s igismundus. Schön newes Modelbuch : Von 600. ausserwehl- ten künstlichen so wol italiänischen, frantzösischen, niderländischen, engellän-dischen als teutschen Modeln, allen Seydenstickern, Nähterin vnd solcher Arbeit gefliessenen Weibspersohnen zu Nutz zugerichtet = Un beau et nouueau liure à patrons : Enrichie de six cens belles pourtraitures et patrons exquises, tant à la mode italiène, françoise, du Pais Bas, angloise, qu’allemande, fort profi- tables à tous brodeurs, cousières, & autres dames & ieunes filles desireux de ceste besoigne. Frankfurt am Main : Durch Sigismundum Latomum, [1606]. This unrecorded first edition pattern book contains 17 full-page and 96 vignette woodcuts on 34 leaves of plates. Latomus

A selection of the elaborate needlework patterns offered in Sigismundus Latomus, Schön newes Modelbuch . . . (Frankfurt am Main : Durch Sigismundum Latomum, [1606]). Graphic Arts Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collec-tions, Princeton University Library.


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catered to an international clientele of women and girls, offering both favorite designs and the latest in needlework patterns. An elab-orate opening woodcut cartouche with contemporary hand color-ing was commissioned by Latomus specifically for this edition. The design features Virtues and Senses in the four corners : Labor, Dili-gence, Sight, Touch. In the central scene, six women can be seen weaving, measuring, and cutting fabric, while also attending to a wealthy customer and his page.

milton bradley company. Bradley’s School Aids and Kindergar-ten Material : Language Work, Toy Money, Drawing Implements, Card-board Sewing, Froebel’s Gifts, Clay Modeling, Dissected Maps, Paper Weav-ing, Color and Form, Number Work. Springfield, Mass. : Milton Bradley Company, [1891].

shelley, george (ca. 1666 – ca. 1736). The Second Part of Natural Writing : Containing the Breakes of Letters and Their Dependance on Each Other ; Likewise Various Forms of Business Written in the Most Proper Hands ; and also Variety of Ornament in Several Delightful Fancies & Designs ; the Whole Making a Compleat Body of Penmanship. London : Printed and sold by Tho : Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, between ca. 1740 and 1754. Engraved by George Bickham (ca. 1684–1758).

soldini , francesco maria. De Anima brutorum commentaria. [Flor-ence : Cambiagi Regius, 1776]. Bound in full vellum with 16 engrav-ings and 6 historiated initials printed with blue and brown inks. The text incorporates elements of mythology, animal psychology, zool-ogy, and creationism nearly a century before Darwin’s theories of evolution. For this reason, De Anima was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibiorum in 1784.

spoelder, jan. Prijsboeken op de Latijnse school : Een Studie naar het Verschijnsel Prijsuitreiking en Prijsboek op de Latijnse Scholen in de Noorde- lijke Nederlanden, ca 1585–1876, met een Repertorium van Wapenstempels. Amsterdam and Maarsen : APA-Holland Universiteits Pers, 2000. A bibliography of prize books at the Latin schools in the northern Netherlands, ca. 1585–1876, with the coats of arms on each book.

weis , andrea. Libro mano scritto da me Andrea Weis. Rome, 1718. An original sample book of a professional scribe writing in Rome in the early 18th century.


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winckler, otto. Der Papierkenner : Ein Handbuch und Rathgeber für Papier-Käufer und Verkäufer, technische Lehranstalten etc. Leipzig : Th. Grieben’s Verlag, 1887. Thirty-nine leaves of 36 samples of various papers and 127 wood engravings.

—julie l. mellbyCurator of Graphic Arts

HISTORIC MAPS COLLECTION

Unless otherwise noted, all items added in fiscal year 2005 were ac-quired on the Robert M. Backes, Class of 1939, Fund and with gen-eral Library funds.

arrowsmith, aaron (1750–1823). “Outlines of Greece, and Ad-jacent Countries. . . .” London, 1819. Acquired with funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

colton, j . h. (1800–1893). Colton’s Traveler and Tourist’s Guide-Book Through the New-England and Middle States and the Canadas. . . . New York, 1852.

conder, thomas. “York Town, and Gloucester Point, as Besieged by the Allied Army.” [London, 1788].

coronelli , v incenzo maria (1650–1718). “Terre Artiche.” [Venice], ca. 1696.

A Directory for the Village of Rochester. . . . Rochester : Elisha Ely, 1827. With folding map. First directory of the city. Contains the bookplate of Elmer Adler, a Rochester native and the first Curator of Graphic Arts at Princeton (1940–1952). Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Princeton University Library Acquisitions Program.

homem, diogo. Atlas universal. Barcelona : M. Moleira, [2000]. Fac-simile edition of this 1560s manuscript atlas. Copy 899 of 987.

houston & texas central railway company. “Map Show-ing Houston & Texas Central System of Railroads.” Chicago : Poole Bros., 1895. Inset engraved views of cotton picking and pastoral scenes ; backed by 16 panels of timetables, a county map, and a view of the state capitol, among other information.


Thomas Conder, “York Town, and Gloucester Point, as Besieged by the Allied Army” [London, 1788]. Historic Maps Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.


lewis , samuel (1753/4–1822). “The State of New York, Compiled from the Best Authorities.” [Philadelphia : Mathew Carey, 1795]. Gift of the estate of Elizabeth C. Dilworth.

merian, matthaeus (1593–1650). “Nova descriptio Africæ.” [Frank- furt], ca. 1640.

moll, herman (d. 1732). Untitled [“This Draught of the North Pole is to Shew all the Countries near and adjacent to it . . . ”]. [Lon-don, 1705].

“New Jersey–New York / Staten Island Quadrangle.” [Washington, D.C.], 1901. Facsimile topographic map. Gift of David Bright.

“Ratification Chart.” Westerville, Ohio, 1918. Pertains to the Eigh-teenth Amendment (Prohibition).

rhode, johann christoph (1713–1786). “Tabula Geographica Hemisphaerii Borealis . . . ” and “Tabula Geographica Hemisphae-rii Australis. . . .” [Berlin, 1753].

smith, i . Routes between New-York & Washington. New York : J. Dis-turnell, 1837.

texas and pacific railway. “A Geographically Correct Map of the State of Texas.” [Marshall, Texas, 1878 ?]. Shows counties and railroad lines ; text on verso includes the schedule in effect as of June 1, 1878. Stamp of Henry H. Hannan, land and emigration agent, Swan Creek, Ohio.

united states department of the interior, general land office. “Territory of Arizona.” Washington, D.C. Two maps (1896, 1907).

whipple, a . w. [amiel weeks] (1817 ?–1863). “Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, War Department Route near the 35th Parallel . . . 1853–54.” Map No. 1 : “From Fort Smith to the Rio Grande” ; Map No. 2 : “From the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.” [Washington, D.C.], ca. 1855.

wytfliet, cornelis . “Estotilandia et Laboratoris terra.” [Lou-vain, 1597].

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zatta, antonio (fl. 1757–1797). Atlante Novissimo. Vol. 1. Venice, 1779. Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Princeton Uni-versity Library.

—john delaneyCurator of Historic Maps

MANUSCRIPTS

Significant accessions by the Manuscripts Division in the period from July 1, 2002, to December 31, 2005, are listed by subject area. Since 2000, the Manuscripts Division has assumed responsibility for man-uscripts and related non-print collections in the Morris L. Parrish Collection, Robert H. Taylor Collection, Theatre Collection, and Princeton Collections of Western Americana. New acquisitions in these areas are thus reflected in this report. As in the past, continued collection growth would not have been possible without the avail-ability of endowed funds in the Department of Rare Books and Spe-cial Collections, sustained acquisitions support from the Friends of the Princeton University Library, occasional assistance from the Uni-versity Librarian’s Discretionary Fund, ongoing cooperation of aca-demic departments and programs, and the generosity of individual donors, especially Princeton alumni and their families.

american literature, culture, and history

agate, frederic j . Diary, letters, and photographs of an Ameri-can Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I on the front between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in 1918. On the envelope of a June 26, 1918, letter to Agate’s wife, Helen, a note re-cords : “Ernest Hemingway was with him and used his story as the story in one of his novels.” Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

bell, madison smartt, Class of 1979. Additions to his papers. Thirty-four cartons of manuscripts, correspondence, and other ma-terials of this contemporary novelist, 1970s–2004. Purchase, Theo-dore F. Sanxay Fund.

blair family papers . Additions to the archive. Thirteen boxes and cartons containing scrapbooks, diaries, photograph albums, and other materials, ca. 1843–1961, pertaining to the family of the American business executive and philanthropist John Insley Blair (1802–1899) and the family’s travels. Gift of Ann Martindell.

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charles scribner’s sons . Additions to the archive. Seven cartons of publishing files and family papers, 1856–2003. Gift of Charles Scribner III, Class of 1973 *77.

chew, william w. Six letters written aboard the USS Princeton, 1864–1865, to his wife, Elizabeth. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

coomaraswamy, ananda k. (1877–1947). Additions to the Stella Bloch Papers on Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Includes correspon-dence (1912–1925) of the art historian and theorist with Ameri-can dancer and artist Bloch (1897–1999), and original photographs by Coomaraswamy, Mortimer Offner, and Lizzie Caswell Smith. Gift of David Eliscu, with additional items purchased, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, n.d. Portrait by Mortimer Offner. Stella Bloch Papers on Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, box 6, folder 8, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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fitzgerald, f . scott (1896–1940), Class of 1917. There have been three significant acquisitions pertaining to Fitzgerald. (1) Gi- nevra King (1898–1980), diary, 1913–1914 ; letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1915–1917, 1920. Fitzgerald had King’s letters to him transcribed from the originals (no longer extant) for his personal use, and the 227-page typescript includes a cover sheet : “Strictly Private and Personal Letters, Property of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Not manuscript).” Also received was Fitzgerald’s last letter to King, July 21, 1918, and related correspondence with Fitzgerald biographers, 1947–1949. Gift of the family of Ginevra King. (2) Correspon-dence file of Harold Ober Associates. Includes copies of letters from Fitzgerald, 15 original telegrams, and other related correspondence, 1936. Gift of an anonymous donor. (3) Additions to the Arthur Mize- ner Papers on F. Scott Fitzgerald, including a paperweight belong-ing to Fitzgerald and a corrected version of Mizener’s celebrated bi-ography, The Far Side of Paradise (1951). Mizener was a member of the Class of 1930. Gift of Rosemary Mizener Colt.

grade, chaim (1910–1982). Five letters to the Jewish American writer, 1967–1978. Gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953.

halliburton, richard (1900–1939). Letters in mimeographed form sent to P. L. Williams in Hong Kong, January 25–July 11, 1939. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

hemingway, ernest (1899–1961). Letter to “Margaret and Monie” Griggs, 1936 ; accompanied by a letter from Pauline Hemingway, 1936. Items found in Professor Earl Miner’s desk, which was prob-ably used by Professor Carlos Baker in the 1960s.

kahler, erich (1885–1970). Additions to his papers (10 items), 1945–1971. Gift of Janet M. Roberts.

kunitz, stanley. Additions to his papers. Twelve cartons of cor-respondence, manuscripts, and other papers from the 1990s. Pur-chase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund. Also, letters by Kunitz and printed materials, 1972–2000. Gift of Roger Skilling.

lewisohn, ludwig (1882–1955). Twenty-nine letters to George Sylvester Viereck, with four poems, 1904. Gift of Leonard L. Mil-berg, Class of 1953.

mcgraw, harold, Class of 1940. Selected papers pertaining to McGraw-Hill and to American publishing, 1978–1992.


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mchenry, barnabas. Selected correspondence and cards, 1980–2000, chiefly pertaining to Jonathan Williams and Henry George Fischer, Class of 1945. Gift of Barnabas McHenry, Class of 1952.

meyer, helmut (1912–2004). Papers, 1938–2000. Meyer, a refu-gee from Nazi Germany, served in the U.S. Army in military intel-ligence during World War II and later became a New York liter-ary agent specializing in translations (especially German-English), the occult, and other subjects. His papers include letters from Al-fred Eisenstaedt, Emil Ludwig, Arnold Rosin, Peter Viereck, and other friends and literary clients ; family correspondence from Ger-many and Bolivia ; photographs and printed ephemera related to Germany, the Holocaust, and Allied and Axis propaganda during World War II ; and manuscripts of his own unpublished plays. Gift of Jacqueline Laumann.

pinkney, william (1764–1822). Legal brief (32 pages), n.d., per-taining to legislation of 1777 concerning a disputed election. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1987.

Quarterly Review of Literature. Additions to the archive. These items in-clude additional correspondence, 1954–1997, chiefly found in an-notated books from the library of Professor Theodore R. Weiss (1916–2003), which were presented to the Rare Books Division ; a corrected manuscript by Paul De Man (1919–1983) ; and 11 reels of audiotapes. Gift of Renée Weiss.

reppert, henry c. Selected papers of an officer in the First Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War. Includes 25 letters ; five photographs of Union generals, officers, and soldiers ; and 32 documents and other items, 1864–1865. Gift of Jonathan Whitticom, Class of 1998.

richter, conrad (1890–1968). Additions to his papers. Includes five journals, 1925–1927 ; 349 letters to his daughter Harvena Rich-ter, 1951–1959 ; and professional correspondence with literary agents, editors, and publishers, among them, Paul R. Reynolds, Brandt and Brandt, and Alfred Knopf Publishing, 1950s–1960s. Gift of Har-vena Richter.

schechner, richard. Additions to his papers. Twelve cartons of videocassettes and films pertaining to Schechner, theatrical produc-tions (especially Dionysus in 69), and the journal TDR, 1959–2002. Gift of Richard Schechner.


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thomson, charles (1729–1824). Four letters and two envelopes addressed to his wife, Hannah, in Philadelphia. These are additions to the 33 letters that Thomson wrote to his wife while he was a mem-ber of the Continental Congress during its session at Nassau Hall, June–October 1783. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

thornhill, arthur, jr . , Class of 1946. Additional correspon-dence, photographs, and printed ephemera pertaining to Little, Brown & Co., 1975–1991.

velikovsky, immanuel (1895–1979). Papers, 1930s–1979. The Russian-born American scientist and author received his master’s degree from the University of Moscow in 1921. While living with his family in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, he began his special-ization in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Velikovsky moved to the United States in 1939 and lived first in New York City and later in Princeton. He is best known as the author of Worlds in Collision (1950), Ages in Chaos (1952), Earth in Upheaval (1955), Oedipus and Akh-naton (1960), Ramses II and His Time (1978), Peoples of the Sea (1977), and other controversial studies of ancient Egypt, Greece, and bibli-cal history. The Immanuel Velikovsky Papers comprise 156 boxes of published and unpublished manuscripts and drafts, subject files, lectures, personal and professional correspondence, and legal doc-uments (1920s–1990s). His extensive correspondence includes ex-changes with friends like Horace Kallen and Ted O. Thackrey, and with his publishers and readers, as well as selected letters from Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas, Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, Eugen Bleuler, Chaim Weitzmann, Harold C. Urey, and other scientists and aca-demicians. Among Velikovsky’s manuscripts are selected typescript essays annotated by Albert Einstein, which later became chapters in Velikovsky’s posthumously published book, Stargazers and Grave-diggers : Memoirs to Worlds in Collision (1983). Gift of Ruth Velikovsky Sharon.

welty, eudora (1909–2001). Five letters to Dr. N. Nottman, 1980. Transfer from the Rare Books Division.

woods, james sterett (1824–1846). Papers, 1840–1847. Woods, a grandson of John Witherspoon (1723–1794), entered the U.S. Mil-itary Academy at West Point in 1840 and died in Mexico at the Bat-tle of Monterey. Gift of Henry F. Davis.

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english literature, culture, and history

behan, brendan (1923–1964). Typescript of a radio play (“An Evening with Brendan Behan”), [1962 ?] ; postcard to James Mc- Kenna, 1960. Gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953.

booth, jane (1730–1794). Commonplace book of poetry, entitled “Poems on various subjects,” 1774–1779. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

cowper, william (1731–1800). Nine letters and notes by or per-taining to the English poet, 1781–1793. Gift of Charles Ryskamp.

cruikshank, george (1792–1878). Sketchbook, ca. 1830. In-cludes drawings in pencil, ink, and watercolor of landscapes, archi-tectural and sporting scenes, plants, and animals. Portraits include Lord John Russell, Sir Isaac Newton, and Cruikshank himself. Pur-chase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund. Draft of “The Glass” (4 pages). Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

dixon, james hepworth (1821–1879). Eighty letters from con-temporary writers (1855–1878) received by this British critic and ed-itor of The Athenaeum (1853–1869). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

eliot, t. s. [thomas stearns] (1888–1965). Four letters and a signed card to Elizabeth Horton, 1948–1950. Gift of Elizabeth Horton.

graves , robert (1895–1945). Letters to Frederic and Foster Grun-feld, 1959–1960. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

gregory, augusta (1852–1932). Includes seven letters and cards by Lady Gregory to unidentified correspondents, 1914, 1917–1918. Gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953.

hall, samuel carter (1800–1889). Correspondence of the writer and his wife, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, plus a scrapbook of poetry assembled by Hall. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

handel, george frideric (1685–1759). Te Deum [Chandos hwv 281]. Score in the hand of a contemporary copyist. Purchase, Theo-dore F. Sanxay Fund.

harris , frank (1855–1931). Additions to his papers, 1915–1930. Includes correspondence with writers and publishers, and manu-


scripts from the 1920s, such as My Life and Loves and On the Trail : Being My Reminiscences as a Cowboy. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

hooper, william m. Twenty-seven letters to John Russell Smith, 1856–1876. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

ibbett, william joseph (b. 1858). Three bound manuscripts of poetry, with dedications to A. H. Bullen, 1903–1917. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

ingram, john, and frances ingram. Travel journal kept in northern Italy, 1819–1820 ; interleaved with a 1597 edition of Giam-battista Cinzio Giraldi (1504–1573), Commentario delle cose di Ferrara, et de’ principi da Este. The journal also concerns Italian Renaissance libraries and book collecting. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and Rare Books Fund.

laurence pollinger, ltd. Correspondence, typescripts, clip-pings, and other files concerning publication of the first unexpur-gated American edition of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Grove Press, 1931–1960. Purchase, Richard M. Ludwig En-dowment Fund, established by Michael Spence, Class of 1966, and Monica Spence.

mortimer, raymond (1895–1980). Additions to his papers, 1925–1970. Includes letters by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Aldous Hux-ley, and Vita Sackville-West. Purchase, Robert H. Taylor Fund. Also received are the files kept by Viscountess Eccles concerning her acquisition of the Raymond Mortimer Collection, with an inven-tory compiled by Anthony Hobson. Gift of Four Oaks Farm.

morris l . parrish collection of victorian novelists . Additional letters, notes, and other manuscript items : Mary Eliza- beth Braddon, 9 letters to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, 1906 ; Edward Bulwer Lytton, two items, 1850, 1854 ; George L. Craik and Geor-gina Craik, nine items, 1850–1877 ; Thomas Hughes, 45 letters to Frances Hughes, 1861–1877 ; Charles Kingsley, two items, 1852, 1861 ; Charlotte Mary Yonge, one item, 1877 ; “Ouida” [Louise de la Ramée], 40 letters to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, 1883–1886, and 3 other letters, 1894, n.d. ; Charles Reade, one item, n.d. ; Margaret Oliphant, one item, 1890 ; and other authors. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

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rossetti , christina (1830–1894). Her transcription of “The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio,” by her uncle Gaetano Polidori (1764–1853), accompanied by the latter’s note (1852) about presentation of the manuscript to Francesca Rossetti and William Michael Ros-setti’s note (1898) about the manuscript. Separately acquired was a letter of Christiana Rossetti to [Archer Thompson ?] Gurney, ca. 1880. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

rossetti , william michael (1829–1919). Correspondence (seven items) with Henry Currie Marillier, 1899–1900 ; Theodore Watts-Dunton, 1896 ; McKenzie Bell, 1898 ; and Ford Madox Brown, n.d. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

ruskin, john (1819–1900). Three letters, 1840s–1868, and a water-color of a mountain scene with autograph annotations on the verso. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

sheridan, richard brinsley (1751–1816). Letter to an un-known recipient concerning Drury Lane Theatre, London. Pur-chase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

symons, a . j .a . (1900–41). Binder’s dummy for A Bibliography of the Eighteen-Nineties (London : First Editions Club, 1926), together with the author’s 15-page corrected typescript for the introduction. Pur-chase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

robert h. taylor collection of english and ameri-can literature. Additional correspondence and other items : Thomas Hardy (9 letters) and Florence Hardy (23 letters) to Caleb Williams Saleeby, 1914–1929 ; Anthony Trollope (30 letters) to John Lewis Merivale, 1848–1862, including 2 incomplete letters and a carte-de-visite photograph of Trollope ; Thomas Adolphus Trollope (3 letters) to Hiram Powers and his wife, 1872–1873 ; William Make-peace Thackeray to John Lewis Merivale, 1863 ; approximately 150 letters received by John Henry Fowler, 1883–1931. Purchase, Rob-ert H. Taylor Fund, Friends of the Princeton University Library, and Theodore F. Sanxay Fund. Also acquired for the Taylor Col-lection was a 17th-century English household “receipt book,” de-rived in part from recipes kept by a certain “Lady Sandys,” possibly the wife of the Jacobean statesman Sir Edwin Sandys (1561–1629). Purchase, Robert H. Taylor Fund, with the assistance of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

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tebbs , henry virtue. Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Photographs, 1866–1897. Composed of 75 mounted photographs of drawings and paintings, chiefly by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) and his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862). This collection in-cludes an 18-plate album that the English artist and poet D. G. Ros-setti put together in 1866–1867 to reproduce drawings and paintings by his late wife ; it is one of three such handmade albums. Many of the mounts are inscribed by D. G. Rossetti and his brother William Michael Rossetti ; a number of images have the stamp of the English photographer Frederick Hollyer. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Princeton University Library.

toynbee, arnold j . (1889–1975). Five letters and a signed card to Elizabeth Horton, 1948–1954 ; handwritten notes by Toynbee for A Study of History, Religio historici, and The Rise and Fall of Hellenic Civili-zation. Gift of Elizabeth Horton.

warburg, frederic j . (1898–1981). Selected files of Warburg and Secker Publishing, 1945–1974. Includes typescript copies of 35 letters from George Orwell to Warburg, 1945–1949 ; a letter from Katia Mann, 1959 ; and other correspondence. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

See also Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts.

ethiopic manuscripts

gospel book. Illuminated manuscript, 19th century. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

bruce c. wills ie collection of ethiopic magic scrolls . Contains 91 illustrated rolls designed to be worn on the body as am-ulets, chiefly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. This is an open collection, to which the donor will add other items. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

hellenic studies

butler, elizabeth (1850–1933). Travel journal kept and illus-trated by Lady Butler on a tour of the Near East and Greece, 1891. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

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byzantine greek miscellany (Princeton MS. 180). 13th cen-tury. Includes works by John of Damascus and others. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

greek grammatical miscellany (Princeton MS. 184). Around 1550, a Greek monk named Theoleptos, a teacher in the Veneto, as-sembled this Sammelband of printed and manuscript texts on Greek grammar. The volume contains his manuscript copies of various Byzantine texts by Theodore Prodromos, Dionysios Thrax, and Manuel Moschopoulos, as well as 16 folios of manuscript additions to the incunable edition of Theodore of Gaza [Theodoros Gazes] (ca. 1400–ca. 1475), [Grammatike eisagoge . . . ] (Venice : Aldus Manu-tius, 1495). Formerly in the Bibliotheca Meermanniana and in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872). Purchase, Rare Books Fund, University Librarian’s Discretionary Fund, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

Sketch by Lady Elizabeth Butler, possibly Alexandria, March 1891. General Bound Manuscripts, 2nd Series, no. 78, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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greek historical documents collection, 1820s–1840s. A collection of 82 documents from the period of the Greek war of in-dependence (1821–1832). Gift of Stefanos Papageorgiou in honor of Dimitri Gondicas.

greek photograph collections . Additions include 226 sep-arate photographs and 23 albums with photographs by Abdullah Frères, Konstantinos Athanasiou, L. Fiorillo, Mirhan Iranyan, Pet-ros Moraites, Rhomaides Brothers, Sebah & Joallier, Zangaki Broth-ers, and others, chiefly documenting Hellenic antiquities in Greece and the Ottoman Empire (primarily Athens and Constantinople), ca. 1850–1920. The earliest photograph, from 1852, is attributed to Eugène Jean Baptiste Piot (1812–1890). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Pro-gram in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. These purchases have been supplemented by gifts, such as 24 19th-century photographs of Greek antiquities by Atha-nasiou. Gift of Dimitri Gondicas, Class of 1978.

ionides family correspondence. Six letters received by Aglaia Ionides Coronio from E. C. Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and oth-ers, 1888–1906. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

journals and diaries . (1) Joseph-Victorin-Marius Castillon (1793–1866), “Voyage et séjour en Morée pendant les années 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833,” 1851. Unpublished account of the last years of the Greek war of independence (1821–1832), written by a French military officer. (2) George Fisher, journal. Fisher was a British surgeon who died at Varna in 1854. (3) Paget Walter Lestrange, diary, 1856. Lestrange was a British artillery officer in the Crimean War. (4) James Croxall Palmer, diary. Palmer served in the British Mediterranean Squadron, 1858–1860. (5) C. A. Roach, album of photographs, cards, and drawings documenting a bicycle trip from London to the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, 1934. (6) Richard Spisser, travel journal pertaining to the Ottoman Empire (1773–1775), France (1788), and the Netherlands (1791). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

keeley, edmund. Additions to his papers, 1950s–2003. Contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other items, per-


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taining especially to modern Greek literature. Gift of Professor Ed-mund Keeley, Class of 1948.

larcher, p ierre-henri (1726–1812). “Mémoire sur les observa-tions astronomiques envoyée a Aristote par Callisthène,” ca. 1808. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

le fevre, le s ieur [ ?]. “Memoire sur l’etat du negoçe des fran-cois . . . ,” 1682. Unpublished French text providing detailed lists of articles traded between western Europe, Spain, Italy (especially Venice), Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. There is also a section on the “Isles de l’Amerique.” Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

princeton greek manuscripts , nos . 17–28. Eleven bound manuscripts on various subjects, 17th to 19th centuries. These in-clude collections of liturgical music in late Byzantine or Chrysantine notation ; Constantine Rhiziotes’s medical commonplace book, ca. 1617 ; a proskynetarion with illustrations of churches and shrines in the Holy Land, 1693 ; and a letter of 1853 signed by Patriarch Constan-tinos I (1770–1834), with a painting of St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai, 1853. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

ross ini , gioacchino (1792–1868). “Gran scena & marchi de’ Greci nell’assedio di Corinto,” ca. 1825–1850. A 19th-century piano reduction of the Greek march from the opera The Siege of Corinth (1826). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with match-ing funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the sup-port of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

vala�rit�s , nanos. Papers, 1953–2002. Contains personal and professional correspondence received over nearly 50 years by Valaōritēs. Correspondents include Mantō Aravantinou, Laura Beusoleil, Sinclair Beiles, Nicolas Calas, Andrei Codrescu, Markos Dragoumēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Cecil Helman, Jan Herman, Jack Hirschman, Alain and Manina Jouffroy, Helenē Karkazē, Michaēl Mētras, Opal and Ellen Nations, Harold Norse, Nicole Ollier,


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Alexandros Schinas, Nikos Stangos, and Kōtas Tachtsēs. There are also letters written by Valaōritēs, as well as letters between other writers. The papers also include the author’s own manuscripts, note-books, and sketchbooks, as well as the files of the literary review Pali, 1963–1968. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

young, frank a. h. Two missionary letters from the Ottoman Em-pire, ca. 1860. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund ; acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

latin american studies

colombian slavery collection, 1757–1812. Fifty-seven docu-ments pertaining to the slave trade in the Kingdom of New Granada. Purchase, Western Americana Fund.

corbo borda, juan gustavo. Additional papers of this Colom-bian writer and diplomat, 1990s. Purchase, Latin American Fund.

diaz quiones , arcadio. Additional correspondence, manu-scripts, and other papers (1965–2000) of Professor Diaz Quiñones of Princeton University, who is a writer and critic from Puerto Rico. Gift of Arcadio Diaz Quiñones.

donoso, jos (1924–1996). Additions to his papers, 1924–1996. These items include selected writings, correspondence, contracts, and photographs. Purchase, Latin American Fund.

garcia ponce, juan (1932–2003). Manuscripts, drafts, notes, photographs, audiotapes, correspondence, and other papers of this Mexican author and critic. Among his many correspondents (other than family) are Octavio Paz, Pierre Klossowski, Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán, Angel Rama, Tomás Segovia, Mario Vargas Llosa, and many other contemporary authors. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund, Latin American Fund, University Librarian’s Discre-tionary Fund.

koch, dolores m. Collection of Reinaldo Arenas, 1974–1989. In-cludes letters, typescripts, photographs, and other items by or per-taining to Cuban writer Arenas (1943–1990). Gift of Dolores M. Koch.


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mexican land transfers , 1602–1848. This volume pertain-ing to property in Mexico City begins with a notarial document in Nahuatl, with an Indian-style map. Purchase, Western Americana Fund.

mora, gabriela. Correspondence with the Mexican writer Elena Garro and related materials, 1974–1980. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

muj ica lainez, manuel (1910–1984) . Twenty-eight letters and cards to the Argentine writer Alberto Manguel, chiefly 1970s. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

ocampo, s ilvina (1903–1993). Selected papers, 1951–1988. Docu-ments of this Argentine writer and artist include 80 letters, 20 draw-ings, and five notebooks with writings in prose and verse. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and Latin American Fund.

Review : Literature and Arts of the Americas. Addition to the archive. Four cartons of author files, including those for the Cuban writer Rei- naldo Arenas, since the 1980s. Gift of the Americas Society.

rodriguez, reina maria. Manuscripts, corrected typescripts, notebooks, drafts, diaries, correspondence, and other papers by the contemporary Cuban author, 1972–2004. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and Latin American Fund.

rotzait, perla. Seven letters received from Julio Cortázar, 1958–1979 ; and five items (letters, drawings, and a notebook) from Ale-jandra Pizarnik, 1969–1970. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund, Latin American Fund.

stein, stanley j . Album containing 111 mounted photographs of rural Brazil for his doctoral dissertation, “Vassouras : A Plantation Society, 1850–1900” (1951). Gift of Professor Stanley J. Stein.

medieval, renaissance, and earlymodern manuscripts

boccaccio, giovanni (1313–1375). Il Corbaccio (Princeton MS. 181). Italy (probably Florence), late 14th century, in contemporary binding. Purchase, Friends of the Princeton University Library and the Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.


book of hours (Use of Rome) (Princeton MS. 183). Paris or vi-cinity, end of the 15th century. Illuminated devotional manuscript possibly made for a member of the de Maridort family, lords of the chateau of La Freslonnière, north of Le Mans. Gift of an anony-mous donor.

cambacrs , jean jacques rgis de (1753–1824). Notes on the history of French literature, ca. 1781. Interleaved with a printed edi-tion of Charles Palissot de Monenouy, Mémoires pour server à l’histoire de notre littérature (1775). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

du pin, jean (1302–1374). Le roman de Mandevie (Princeton MS. 182). First quarter of the 15th century. Formerly in the library of Robert Land (1750–1828) and Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

fauques , marianne-agnes p illement, dame de (ca. 1720–ca. 1777). “Mémoire secret des amours de Louis XV ou anecdote curieuse de la vie de Madame de Pompadour avec luy,” 1772. Pur-chase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and History Fund.

horoscope (Princeton MS. 187). Ca. 1583. An anonymous Ger-man astrologer’s “luxury horoscope” in Latin, prepared and writ-ten in northern Germany, possibly the duchy of Saxony, for an un-named person born in 1549. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

italian humanistic miscellany. 15th century. Includes Pseudo-Phalaris, Epistolae ; Leonardo Bruni d’Arezzo (1369–1444), Ad Petrum Histrum dialogi ; Gasparino Barzizza (ca. 1360 – ca. 1431), Tractatus de compositione ; Giorgio Valagussa (1428–1464), Elegantiae Ciceroniae ; and other Latin and Italian texts. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

lampersdorf lutheran congregation. Registers, 6 vols., 1677–1822. Chiefly composed of rescripts and official decrees issued by the Holy Roman Emperor and king of Prussia affecting life in the Lutheran congregation in Lampersdorf, Silesia (now Zaborow, Poland). Gift of Professor Peter Singer.

love, nicholas (fl. 1410). Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (Princeton MS. 186). Mid-15th century. Fragment of a Middle En- glish manuscript written in the London area and now containing 22 leaves. Purchase, Friends of the Princeton University Library and the Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

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[mess ier, robert]. La vie de Dame Ysabel de France (Princeton MS. 188). Ca. 1518. Unpublished vernacular text concerning the life and miracles of Isabel de France (1225–1270), the younger sister of King Louis IX and founder of the Franciscan Abbey of the Humility of the Virgin Mary at Longchamp. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

miscellaneous leaves and documents . (1) Textual amulet for childbirth and general protection, made from a bifolium of a late-15th-century French Book of Hours (Princeton MS. 138.44). (2) Eight leaves from a 15th-century French devotional and Italian liturgical manuscripts. Gift of the Hunt Speedball Corporation. (3) A leaf with miniature of St. Adrian of Nicomedia and accompany-ing prayer, from a north German prayer book, ca. 1524 (Princeton MS. 138.45). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund. (4) Two 15th-century German liturgical leaves (Princeton MSS. 138.46, 138.47). Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986. (5) Notarial document on parchment, issued in the name of Count Armanno Rainaldi Gilfi, pertaining to property in the Marche region of Italy. Gift of Brooks E. Levy.

miscellany (Princeton MS. 179). A Sammelband of manuscripts, in-cluding texts by Johannes de Turrecremata (1388–1468) and the Tractatus contra Hussitas by Oswaldus Reinlein de Norimberga. Bound together with one incunable. The volume was once in the library of the Dominican Convent, Vienna. Purchase, Rare Books Fund.

bruce c. wills ie collection of british s igillography. Encompasses more than 100 seal matrices (bronze, latten, lead, and copper alloys), chiefly used by private individuals and dating from the 13th to the 15th century ; and 20 royal seals (wax), royal docu-ments with pendant seals, and related items from the reigns of King Henry III to Queen Victoria, 13th–19th centuries. This is an open collection to which the donor will continue to add. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

See also Hellenic Studies ; Western Americana.

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arabic documentary papyri . 8th–10th centuries. Twenty-one pieces from Egypt. Gift Joseph De Gregorio.

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brenner-felsach, ignaz von (1772–1849). “Czagataicum Lexi- con,” n.d. Manuscript of an incomplete and unpublished dictionary of Caghatay Turkish, with Latin text, compiled by an Austrian scholar. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund.

elphinston, john (1722–1785). Papers of a British naval officer in service to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, 1769–1771. Includes Admiral Elphinston’s log-books and letterbooks for this Russian expedition, as well as his four- volume unpublished manuscript, “Narrative of the Russian Expedi-tion by Sea in the Years 1769 & 1770” (1773). Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and the Program in Near Eastern Studies.

hebrew manuscripts . 17th–19th centuries. (1) Eleven volumes of Hebrew manuscripts, containing the polemical text Toldot Yeshu and other writings. Purchase, Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and Judaica Fund. (2) A 19th-century Hebrew prayer book received with the pa-pers of Helmut Meyer. Gift of Jacqueline Laumann.

islamic manuscripts (Third Series). 17th–19th centuries. The additions number 136 bound manuscripts and miscellanies of Ara-bic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish texts on religion, law, literature, history, and other subjects. Most were purchased through the Theo-dore F. Sanxay Fund, with contributions from the Arabic Fund and Turkish Fund. Nine of the manuscripts were the gift of the Gardner Magic Project in memory of David A. Gardner, Class of 1969. Two notable acquisitions are : (1) Muhammad Rafi Bāzil, Kitāb-i �amlah-i �aydarī (Third Series, no. 571), 18th century. This chronicle of early Islamic history contains 41 miniatures. Gift of Richard H. Norair and Rosalie W. Norair, Class of 1976. (2) Forty-one Arabic legal documents, letters, and magical texts (Third Series, no. 584), 5th–12th centuries a.h./12th–18th centuries c.e. This collection, orig-inally gathered by George Anastase Michaelides, was purchased through the Theodore F. Sanxay Fund, with additional support from the Gardner Magic Project, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Program in Near Eastern Studies.

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church, alonzo (1903–1995), Class of 1924. Papers. Forty-two cartons of the writings, correspondence, notes, and subject files of the renowned mathematical logician who taught at Princeton Uni-

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versity from 1929 to 1967, and then at the University of Califor-nia at Los Angeles from 1967 to 1990. Correspondents include Paul Bernays, Rudolf Carnap, Frederic B. Fitch, S. C. Kleene, E. L. Post, Willard Van Orman Quine, J. Barkley Rosser, Alfred Tarski, and Alan Turing, in addition to the many contributors to the Journal of Symbolic Logic during the years when Church was editor of reviews (1936–1979). Gift of Alonzo Church Jr., Mildred Dandridge, and Mary Ann Addison.

cone, edward toner (1917–2004), Class of 1939. Papers, 1939–2000. Primarily manuscripts, sketches, and scores of compositions for orchestra, piano, voice, chorus, and chamber ensembles, 1939–1996. An influential musicologist, Cone was professor of music at Princeton from 1947 to 1985. His papers include letters and cards received from composers such as Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copeland, John Eaton, and Roger Sessions, and letters and some poems from writers such as John Berryman, R. P. Blackmur, and William Mer-edith. Bequest of Edward Toner Cone.

dwork, bernard (1923–1998). Papers, 1958–1997. Consists largely of mathematical notebooks and professional correspondence, 1960–1992. Dwork was professor of mathematics at Princeton from 1964 to 1993. Gift of Shirley Dwork.

kauzmann, walter j . , Graduate Class of 1940. Selected papers relating to his work on the Manhattan Project and his years as pro-fessor of chemistry at Princeton. Gift of Walter J. Kauzmann.

stauffer, donald a. (1902–1952), Class of 1923. Papers, 1916–1952. Includes family correspondence from his student years and service in the military during World War II, and selected letters received from Jacques Barzun, Harold Dodds, Christian Gauss, J. Duncan Spaeth, and others, 1942–1951. Stauffer was chair of Princeton’s English department from 1946 until his death. Gift of Valmar Stauffer Thompson.

stewart, john q. (1894–1972), Class of 1915 *19. Additions to his papers. Twenty-five boxes and cartons of subject files and other pa-pers of this professor of astrophysics, 1907–1972. Gift of the Ameri-can Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

van dyke, henry (1852–1933), Class of 1873. Letter to Charles W. McAlpin, 1923. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

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wilkinson, david (1935–2002). Papers, 1957–2002. These items include scientific writings, professional correspondence, and subject and project files. Wilkinson, professor of physics at Princeton from 1963 until his retirement in 2002, was a pioneer in the study and analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation as evidence for the Big Bang theory. Gift of Mrs. David Wilkinson.

See also Hellenic Studies ; Latin American Studies.

western americana

account book (Princeton MS. 185). Fresnillo, Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1576–1590. In this book, royal treasury officials recorded the receipts from silver miners in Fresnillo and Mazapil. Purchase, Friends of the Princeton University Library in honor of Gillett G. Griffin on his retirement.

brown, edward, and charles j. brand, “Report on a Trip to Kansas, Nebraska and Utah,” 1907. Includes 28 mounted photo-graphs. Purchase, Western Americana Fund.

card, virginia. Additions to her papers, 1947–2002. This group includes 57 letters to Elizabeth First, eight photographs, 16 audio-cassette tapes, and other materials. Gift of Elizabeth First.

cattle mark and brand book. Hill County, Texas, 1853–1881. Gift of William S. Reese to honor the retirement of Alfred Bush as Curator of Western Americana.

historic photographs. More than 100 historical photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were added to the West-ern Americana Photograph Collections, including : David F. Barry (1854–1934), 11 photographs of Little Bighorn Battlefield, 1875–1890 ; William Bell (1830–1910), 1 photograph of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado River (Wheeler Survey), 1872 ; Evelyn Cameron (d. 1928), 1 photograph of George Burt’s Traction Engine, 1905 ; F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), 1 photograph of Arapahoe Indian chiefs at Fort Washakie, Wyoming, at the time of President Chester A. Arthur’s visit, 1883 ; William Henry Jackson (1841–1906), 3 pho-tographs of various western views, 1880–1885 ; R. J. Kingsbury, 12 photographs of Ojibwe Indians, 1908–1910 ; Harmon Percy Mar-ble, 14 photographs of Navajo and Dakota Indians, 1910–1920 ; Timothy O’Sullivan (1840–1882), 1 photograph of Navajo Indians


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near Fort Defiance, New Mexico, 1873 ; John P. Soule (1827–1904), stereocard of P. T. Barnum at Yosemite, ca. 1870 ; Julia Tuell, 3 pho-tographs of Sioux Indians, 1910–1916 ; 4 anonymous photographs of Geronimo’s last buffalo hunt, 1905 ; 3 anonymous photographic postcards of North American Indians, signed pictographically by the subjects ; a mammoth photograph of Buffalo Bill and General Nel-son Miles surveying the aftermath of the battle at Wounded Knee, 1891. Also acquired was the John Daggett collection of 41 photo-graphs pertaining to Siskiyou County, California, 1880s–1914. Pur-chase, Western Americana Fund.

shipman, charles m. Papers, 1888–1919. Contains Shipman’s correspondence with painters and galleries, as well as some personal papers of the Western artist George DeForest Brush (1855–1941). Gift of Margaret J. Bance.

thompson, george alexander. Papers, 1797–1828. Consists primarily of 29 letters and the original page proofs of the first seven chapters of his book Narrative of an Official Visit to Guatemala from Mex-ico (1829). Thompson was secretary to the British Commission to Mexico following the abdication of Agustín de Iturbide (1783–1824). An excised section of his book, entitled “Narrative of a Mission to Guatemala from Mexico,” treats Thompson’s departure from Plym-outh, his arrival at Vera Cruz, and his journey to Xalapa. Purchase, Western Americana Fund.

See also Latin American Studies.—don c. skemerCurator of Manuscripts

NUMISMATIC COLLECTION

The Numismatic Collection undertook a series of initiatives in fiscal year 2005 stemming from the transition in curators from Brooks Levy to Alan Stahl and the creation of an office for the curator separate from the vault. The most important long-range project is the creation of an online database catalog of the collection, estimated at around 60,000 coins, medals, and paper notes. In addition to the basic nu-mismatic collection of Firestone Library, the database will encompass coins from the Antioch Excavations and those belonging to the Art


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Museum and the Department of Near Eastern Studies. The catalog includes fields for a full numismatic, bibliographic, and museological description of each object, with color images of both faces. A team of (at present) six Princeton undergraduates is involved in researching the attributions of the coins, photographing them, and writing their descriptions in the database. In keeping with their academic interests, the students are focusing on issues of the Roman and Byzantine Em-pires, Medieval Europe, and Early Modern Islamic dynasties.

The transfer of office facilities has made it possible to dedicate the vault to the appropriate preservation of all of its contents in accessible cabinets, in chemically neutral open coin trays with labels derived from the database. Books regularly used in consultation with the col-lection, along with many titles that had been stored in the Annex and off-campus, have been moved to the new numismatic reference library established adjacent to the office. All books in the reference collection can be consulted in the Dulles Reading Room, as well as in the numismatic office.

Among the gifts to the collection this year are nine German med-als from Cornelius C. Vermeule III, purchased on Princeton’s behalf to supplement the rich holdings of pieces relating to World War I in his personal medal collection, which he has donated in a series of gifts over the past few years. From William T. Anton III, Class of 1988, come two apparently unpublished silver medals : a cast pla-quette from Potosi, Bolivia, in the name of Severino Gumiel, and an elaborate Masonic medal presented in 1845 to Richard White of the Stonehouse District of Devon. A gift of seven ancient coins from an anonymous member of the Class of 1964 includes a silver miliarense of Theodosius the Great (379–395 c.e.), our first silver issue from a reign in which gold and copper coinage predominated. Brooks Levy, the outgoing curator, contributed a collection of eighty-seven medi-eval coins in honor of the hiring of her successor ; the gesture was reciprocated with the purchase of two shekels of Tyre in honor of Levy’s retirement, building our holdings of a series in which she has dominated modern scholarship.

Other purchases this year have been made toward the goal of building a representative collection of medieval Mediterranean coin-age. One piece that illustrates the interactions among various issuers is a gold ducat of Dorino Gattilusio, the Genoese ruler of the island of Mytilene (1428–1449) ; it copies the Venetian coin of the same name.


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It was purchased with matching funds from the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, as were thirty-seven coins of the Byzantine Empire, of which eighteen have been on public display in the office of Rare Books and Special Collections to illustrate the development of the mint of Thessalonica in the later Middle Ages.

—alan m. stahlCurator of Numismatics

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

alumni records. Letters written by William Edward Foster, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1862. Foster left the college in 1861 to join the Confederate Army. Gift of Susan Stoker.

alumni records. Correspondence from Clifford Dixon, Class of 1911, to family members, covering the period 1906–1911. Gift of Mrs. F. W. Kunzelmann.

Mytilene (Lesbos), gold ducat of Dorino Gattilusio (r. 1428–1449). Obverse : Gatti-lusio kneeling before a saint ; dmetel dvx dorinvsgtel. Reverse : Christ standing in a mandorla ; sittredatqtvr egisistedvcate. This coin is an adaptation of the gold ducat of Venice, the standard monetary unit in the eastern Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages. Of Genoese origin, the Gattilusio family was granted rule over the island of Lesbos, off the coast of Asia Minor, as a result of aid offered to the Byzantine Empire in the mid-fourteenth century and ruled there until 1462. Nu-mismatic Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.


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autograph book. An album that belonged to Samuel Gardner, Class of 1864. Gift of John Hawley.

Daily Princetonian Photograph Collection. Thirty-four boxes of negatives from the newspaper’s photo archives, ca. 1990–2000.

football. A football commemorating Princeton’s 1951 win over Brown, signed by members of the renowned 1951 football team, in-cluding Dick Kazmaier. Gift of Robert Lamperti, Class of 1952.

general manuscripts . Thirty-five letters written by John Wither-spoon Woods, Class of 1837, to his mother. Gift of Henry F. Davis.

robert hein f iles on concerned alumni of princeton. Addition of six inches of materials, ca. 1966–1975. Gift of Robert Hein, Class of 1956.

historical photograph collection. Additions to the collec-tion. Three cartons of photographs depicting events during Prince- ton’s “With One Accord” capital campaign, 1996–2000. Trans-ferred from Development Communications.

historical subject f iles . Addition of one 1933–1934 Fresh-man Handbook. Gift of Ira Dorian, Class of 1937.

i sabella mccosh infirmary/health services . Additions to the collection. Two cartons of materials, including correspondence, clippings, and annual reports, 1909–1995. Gift of Inez Scribner.

lecture notes . Well-illustrated notes taken by William Temple Allen, Class of 1838, for Joseph Henry’s course on Natural Philoso-phy and another course on architecture. Gift of Howard O. Allen, Class of 1943.

lecture notes . Notes taken by Stanley W. Root, Class of 1904, for Professor Woodrow Wilson’s course on Constitutional Law. Gift of Stanley Root, Class of 1945.

lecture notes . Notes of William Lawson Reno, Class of 1930. Several bound volumes containing detailed typescripts and hand-written notes from Reno’s time at Princeton. Gift of Alice Malone.

memorabilia collection. Two shadow boxes of rowing med-als awarded to Constance S. Titus, national elite sculls champion in 1902 and 1906 and rowing coach at Princeton from 1906 to 1910. Gift of Joan Titus.


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newspaper. One page of an 1802 edition of the New York Post con-taining an article describing the Nassau Hall fire of March 6, 1802. Gift of Marta Richards, Class of 1973.

organization of women leaders (owl) . One box of materi-als, ca. 1999–2003, from the group that provides a “network of sup-port for women on Princeton’s campus to develop their talents and leadership skills.” Gift of Nancy Ippolito, Class of 2003.

photograph album. An album that belonged to John Yeoman Boyd, Class of 1884. Gift of Mrs. Alexander Boyd.

photograph albums. Two albums that belonged to Sheldon R. Judson (Class of 1940), the Knox Taylor Professor of Geology, doc-umenting geology trips to the western United States in 1939 and 1940. Gift of Pamela Judson-Rhodes, wife of Professor Judson.

princeton cooperative school program (pcsp) . Two photo albums that belonged to Sheldon R. Judson (Class of 1940),

Sketch of Nassau Hall by William Temple Allen, Class of 1838. Lecture Notes Col-lection, Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Col-lections, Princeton University Library.


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the Knox Taylor Professor of Geology and Program Director of pcsp from 1963 to 1966. Gift of Pamela Judson-Rhodes, wife of Professor Judson.

princetoniana committee. One box of materials supporting the creation of the book Going Back : An Oral History of Princeton, in-cluding transcripts of interviews, ca. 1995. Gift of Cynthia Penney, Class of 1983.

—daniel j . l inkeUniversity Archivist

ROBERT H. TAYLOR COLLECTION

The most recent book acquisition for the Robert H. Taylor Collec-tion is Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson’s illustrated 1507 edi-tion of The Golden Legend, purchased in March 2005 from the English bookseller Christopher Edwards. The text is William Caxton’s En- glish translation of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea, a medieval compilation of the lives of the saints and other ecclesiastical commen-taries by Roman Catholic authors.

The Legenda Aurea was by far the most influential hagiography of the Middle Ages. Plenty of others were available, but the Legenda Aurea—though by no means the most accurate—was the liveliest and most widely read. At least 156 editions of the text were published be-tween 1470 and 1500, of which 87 were in Latin. The 69 vernacular editions published in the same period include the first four editions of Caxton’s translation. But the Legenda Aurea was, after all, a thirteenth-century text, and its popularity went into rapid decline during the Renaissance. By the time Caxton published his first edition in 1483, The Golden Legend had already begun to fall from favor on the Conti-nent. In England, however, Caxton’s translation went through at least seven more editions, ending with Wynkyn de Worde’s in 1527.

At the time of its publication, the 1507 edition of The Golden Leg-end was the most richly illustrated book printed in England. Edward Hodnett notes that seventy-six woodcut blocks were used, some of which—especially in the case of bishops and popes—were employed to represent more than one saint. Hodnett attributes thirty-one of the woodcuts to Wynkyn de Worde and forty-five to Richard Pynson, re-marking on “the facsimile nature of De Worde’s copying and the su-


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periority of Pynson’s cutting” (Hodnett, English Woodcuts 1480–1535 [Oxford, 1973]).

Only six copies of this edition are known to survive, of which the Taylor copy is the third most nearly complete. The only possibly com-plete copy, at Lambeth Palace in London, has 466 leaves, including a woodcut frontispiece and a final colophon leaf. The Taylor copy lacks the first sixty leaves and the last thirty. The first sixty leaves are lack-ing also in the Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Harvard copies and per-haps were never issued in some copies. In fact, the headline of the first page of the Taylor copy bears the words “Folio primo.” Also missing from the Taylor copy is leaf 64, from the life of St. Thomas à Becket. This leaf may have been torn out of the book by the same indignant owner (or other reader) who inked out the word “pope” in a dozen places on the following page. Or it may have been removed by who-ever crossed out five columns of text on leaves 173 and 174, containing “The translacyon of saynt Thomas of caunterbury,” that is, the place-ment of the saint’s relics in a shrine in Canterbury Cathedral, a cer-emony that took place in 1220 at the jubilee of Becket’s martyrdom.

The Taylor copy has a number of interesting marginal annota-tions, some of which have been rendered illegible through close trim-ming of the leaves by a stingy binder. On leaf 173, for example, in the same anti-Catholic hand that deleted the translation of St. Thomas, is the following note : “Truthe cannot be stayned with lyes, yet have thay vsed som truthe to bring suche lyes as this is to credet, but truthe hathe made manyfest [last line partly cropped].” In the inner margin of the opposite page, next to an account of St. Swithun’s miraculous restoration of a basket of broken eggs, is this derisive note in the same hand : “The poultars lack such a bysshop now adayes for he myght do muche good among them for thay breake many eges.” And at the foot of the same page, in a different hand, is a reference to another pas-sage on St. Swithun (“And whan he sholde dye, he charged hys men to burye hym in the chyrcheyerde for the people sholde not worshyp hym after his deth”) : “St Swythune was not of the opynion of the pa-pists for they worshyp dead [last word partly cropped].”

Both for its text and its annotations, The Golden Legend of 1507 is a fitting addition to the Taylor Collection, which is already rich in vernacular books of the Tudor period. It will be of interest to modern historians of the book, especially those who study the his-tory of reading. Moreover, the illustrations in this edition will be of


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The martyrdom of St. Thomas à Becket. Woodcut. Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, trans. William Caxton ([London : Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson, 1507]), 62v. Robert H. Taylor Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

considerable interest to iconographers and other art historians. Ac-cording to Christopher Edwards, “the Legenda Aurea was one of the relatively few works which would have been common stock to every literate Englishman in the early sixteenth century. A familiarity with the text and its illustrations is essential to understanding the mind of the early modern Englishman.”

—mark r. farrellCurator, Robert H. Taylor Collection

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PUBLIC POLICY PAPERS

During the academic year 2004–2005 the Seeley G. Mudd Manu-script Library received the following manuscripts, which augment or supplement existing papers or established collections, or which repre-sent new collections.


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american civil l iberties union. Additions to the archives. One hundred fifteen cartons of materials documenting Ira Glasser’s tenure as Executive Director of the aclu. Also six compact discs containing recorded interviews with James E. Lincoln, who worked with Roger Baldwin.

american committee for devastated france records. Diary of Maud Jessen Conway, written during the committee’s goodwill visit to France in 1923. Documents Conway’s experiences, including battlefield tours, and her interaction with French people and officials. Purchase.

baker, james a. , iii, Class of 1952. Additions to his papers. Thirty cartons containing correspondence, memos, drafts of speeches and writings, and other materials documenting Baker’s early political ca-reer, his relationship with George H. W. Bush, the 1988 and 2000 presidential campaigns, and other topics. Gift of James A. Baker III.

baker, william o. , Graduate Class of 1939 and Charter Trustee. Forty-two cartons of records documenting Baker’s career at Bell Laboratories and his work with various scientific foundations. Gift of William O. Baker.

bogle, john c. , Class of 1951. Three boxes of various materi-als from Bogle’s time as Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies. Includes speeches, re-marks, published materials. Gift of John C. Bogle.

byler, william. Additions to his papers. Two boxes of material documenting his work as director of the Association on American Indian Affairs, in particular his work on the water supply project for the Ak-Chin Indian community in Arizona.

council on foreign relations . Additions to the archives. Thirty-two cartons containing Board of Directors minutes, Council briefings, Washington office files (seminar series, study group records, meetings), administrative records, and National Program, Ex-ecutive Office, Communications Department, Studies Department, and Corporate Program records.

l ink, arthur s . Five cartons of correspondence from Professor Link’s pre- and post-Princeton career. Gift of his son William A. Link.


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macmurray, john van antwerp, Class of 1902. Additions to his papers. Fifty-six photographs of Chinese and American officials from the period of his tenure as U.S. Minister to China (ca. 1925–1929), with dedications to MacMurray. Gift of his daughter Lois MacMurray Starkey.

mccombs-lyons collection on woodrow wilson. Addi-tions to the collection. Seventeen scrapbooks of clippings related to Woodrow Wilson’s political campaigns. Gift of William M. Hardy, Class of 1938.

pitchersky, carol. Fifty-four cartons of materials documenting Pitchersky’s work as a fund-raiser for public interest groups in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including items related to the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International, and other organizations. Gift of her husband, Mort Halperin.

van heuven, marten, Graduate Class of 1975. Three cartons of materials documenting his career in the Foreign Service and with the National Intelligence Council. Gift of Marten van Heuven.

—daniel j . l inkeCurator of Public Policy Papers


Photograph inscribed “To His Excellency Mr. John V. A. Mac Murray with best regards. Yours sincerely Chao Chi Governor of Kiao-As Territory, Tsingtao. Feb-ruary 1928.” John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers, Public Policy Papers, Depart-ment of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.


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