Fold-out black and white engraving showing the animals of Madagascar from Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar. Gift of Rev. Edward Udovic, C.M. and the Office of Mission and Values.
Woodcut frontispiece illustration titled: A happy book collector, from You can judge a book by its cover. Purchased with the Goult Goodin fund for artists’ books.
Handcolored engraved allegorical frontispiece portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte. Text undre image reads: "Aces trais fiers et durs on ne voit point un sage. Mais d'un usurpateur la trop sanglante image."
Hand-written notes (inside front cover): Inscribed May 17, 1968 by Daniel Berrigan, beginning upside down on the title page and running through two pages and the inside cover. The inscription is the original draft of the speech he made later that day…
Black and white engraved illustration by George Cruikshank from The History of the Irish rebellion in 1798. The image depicts Father Murphy, an Irish leader in Wexford showing his follower that the heretic bullets were harmless. Purchased with the…
Hand-colored map on paper. Front: small map of of the Ottoman Empire showing areas from present-day Greece to the west to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran to the east. Relief shown pictorially. Title cartouche in lower left corner. Text at head of the…