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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Since the acquisition of the Australian Pulp Fiction Collection in 2005, Special Collections has been steadily obtaining new pulp fiction titles and pertinent reference works. This is just one of a small number of titles garnered over the last four to five years.
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Mickey Spillane
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London: Arthur Barker
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1952
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Pulp (Special Collections) PS3537 P652 I2 1952
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I, the Jury
Mickey Spillane
Pulp fiction
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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Since the acquisition of the Australian Pulp Fiction Collection in 2005, Special Collections has been steadily obtaining new pulp fiction titles and pertinent reference works. This is just one of a small number of titles garnered over the last four to five years.
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James Hadley Chase
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Chatswood, Australia: Harlequin Mills & Boon
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2009
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Pulp (Special Collections) PR6005 H36 Y68 2009
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You Never Know with Women
Pulp fiction
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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Since the acquisition of the Australian Pulp Fiction Collection in 2005, Special Collections has been steadily obtaining new pulp fiction titles and pertinent reference works. This is just one of a small number of titles garnered over the last four to five years. Rachael Johns’s Jilted was a book that was given away free to Qantas Executive Club flyers in 2012. It was a joint promotion with Harlequin (Australia).
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Rachael Johns
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Chatswood, Australia: Harlequin Mira
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2012
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Pulp (Special Collections) PR9612 J653 J54 2012
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Jilted
Pulp fiction
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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Since the acquisition of the Australian Pulp Fiction Collection in 2005, Special Collections has been steadily obtaining new pulp fiction titles and pertinent reference works. This is just one of a small number of titles garnered over the last four to five years.
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James Hadley Chase
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Chatswood, Australia: Harlequin Mills & Boon
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2009
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Pulp (Special Collections) PR6005 H36 I44 2009
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I’ll Bury My Dead
Pulp fiction
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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The Monro Collection of medical rare books and manuscripts once belonged to Alexander Monro Primus (1697-1767), and following generations AM Secundus (1733-1817) and AM Tertius (1773-1859). Together these men monopolised the teaching of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh for well over 100 years. Monro Tertius bequeathed the collection to his son Sir David Monro (1813-1877), who emigrated to New Zealand. In 1929, Dr Charles Monro Hector, a graduate of Otago Medical School, and Sir David’s grandson, encouraged the transfer of the collection to the Medical School Library. In 2012 it was transferred to Special Collections. This is a treatise by the Dutch anatomist, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). The coloured plate depicts a partially dissected scrotum and urethra.
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Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
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[Leiden: With Theodore Haak…]
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[1737]
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Monro Collection M4
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Dissertatio Secunda. de Sede et Caussa Coloris Aethiopum et Caeterorum Hominum. Accedunt Icones Coloribus Distinctae
Albinus
Monro Collection
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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In 2013, some 250 Scientific Expedition Reports were transferred to Special Collections from the Science Library. These Reports range in date from 1832 to 1960, and detail expeditions made to the Arctic, the Antarctic, Uganda, Patagonia, and Arnhem Land. This image depicts <em>Strigops habroptilus</em>, or the Kakapo, New Zealand’s flightless parrot and is from the Reports of the<em> Erebus</em> and <em>Terror</em> expedition that set sail from Chatham in Kent, England on 29 September, 1839. Led by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, the ships took a circuitous route to the South Pole, visiting many islands in the Atlantic, and Australia and New Zealand.
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Edited by John Richardson and John Edward Grey
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London: E. W. Janson,
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1844-1875
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Expeditions (Special Collections) Q115 E67 1839
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The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S, during the years 1839-1843. Volume I: Mammalia, Birds
Captain Sir James Clark Ross
Kakapo
Voyage of the Erebus and Terror
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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In 2013, some 250 Scientific Expedition Reports were transferred to Special Collections from the Science Library. These Reports range in date from 1832 to 1960, and detail expeditions made to the Arctic, the Antarctic, Uganda, Patagonia, and Arnhem Land. This image shows three shrew-like marsupials found in Australia and is from the Reports of the <em>Erebus</em> and <em>Terror</em> expedition that set sail from Chatham in Kent, England on 29 September, 1839. Led by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, the ships took a circuitous route to the South Pole, visiting many islands in the Atlantic, and Australia and New Zealand.
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Edited by John Richardson and John Edward Grey
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London: E. W. Janson
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1844-1875
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Expeditions (Special Collections) Q115 E67 1839
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The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S, during the years 1839-1843. Volume I: Mammalia, Birds
Captain Sir James Clark Ross
Voyage of the Erebus and Terror
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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The 19th century French novelist Charles Paul de Kock (1791-1871) wrote about 100 titles, many of them depicting urban life in Paris. Once extremely popular, they soon lost favour with readers. Indeed, by 1905 they were described as ‘rather vulgar, but not immoral, demanding no literary training and gratifying no delicate taste’ (<em>New International Encyclopedia</em>). Bree Narran, the pseudonym of the Australian politician William Nicholas Willis, translated de Kock’s work under the imprint of his own London-based Anglo-Eastern Publishing Company. He too wrote ‘racy’ romances, many of them selling well during the years 1910 and 1923. This title and other de Kock ‘pulps’ were donated to Special Collections in 2012.
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Paul de Kock
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London: Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co.
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[c.1920?]
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Pulp Fiction (Special Collections) PR 9610 N37 C37
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Cards, Women and Wine
Paul de Kock
Pulp fiction
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Special Collections - University of Otago
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‘3 May. Bistritz. – Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but the train was an hour late.’ So begins Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula</em>, an epistolary novel that features Count Dracula, ‘a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache’. Stoker initially called the novel ‘The Dead Un-Dead’ and had Dracula as ‘Count Wampyr’. This Folio Society edition, illustrated by Abigail Rorer, is based on the first edition of 1897.
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Bram Stoker
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London: Folio Society
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2008
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Special Collections PR6037 T617 D7 2008
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dracula
The Folio Society
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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The first draft of what was to become Jack Kerouac’s <em>On the Road</em> was written on a scroll, some 120 feet of tracing paper that the author cut and taped together. Written over a three week period in 1951, it was tapped out single-spaced, with no margins or paragraph breaks. It was eventually published by Viking Press in 1957. Depicting the exploits of Salvatore Paradise (Kerouac) and Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady), the book is now regarded as the high-point representative of the ‘Beat Generation’; a must-read for those interested in post-war America.
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Jack Kerouac
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London: Folio Society
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2010
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Special Collections PS3521 E735 O5 2010
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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The first draft of what was to become Jack Kerouac’s <em>On the Road</em> was written on a scroll, some 120 feet of tracing paper that the author cut and taped together. Written over a three week period in 1951, it was tapped out single-spaced, with no margins or paragraph breaks. It was eventually published by Viking Press in 1957. Depicting the exploits of Salvatore Paradise (Kerouac) and Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady), the book is now regarded as the high-point representative of the ‘Beat Generation’; a must-read for those interested in post-war America. This evocative photograph in this Folio Society edition is of Times Square, New York.
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Jack Kerouac
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London: Folio Society
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2010
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Special Collections PS3521 E735 O5 2010
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
The Folio Society
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Frank Harris’s <em>My Life and Loves</em> was purchased to form part of the ‘modern’ contingent in the very successful ‘Banned Books’ exhibition in Special Collections in 2009. Privately printed in Paris in 1925, this particular edition was not allowed to be imported into England or the U.S.A. Often shipped in plain brown wrappers, it was, if discovered, summarily destroyed; having been judged indecent. John Sumner, zealous member of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, called it the ‘most obscene book published in the present century.’
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Frank Harris
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Paris: Obelisk Press Books; Les Editions du chêne
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1949
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Special Collections PR4759 H37 M9 1949
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My Life and Loves. Vol. I
Frank Harris
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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During the 1960s and 70s, the Gilkison family of Dunedin gifted to the University of Otago Library numerous books by and manuscripts related to the Scottish poet James Hogg (1770-1835), widely known as the Ettrick Shepherd. Manuscript letters from John G. Lockhart, Thomas Pringle, and Sir Walter Scott sit with first and second editions, including <em>The Spy</em>, a rare volume. <em>The Mountain Bard</em> was Hogg’s first collection of poetry, and on Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, it was published by Constable in February 1807. In an effort to complete our Hogg holdings, this first edition was obtained. Note the re-use of the engraving dated 1803 for the ‘Highland Heroism’ frontispiece.
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James Hogg
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Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne for Arch. Constable and John Murray, London
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1807
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Special Collections – Hogg Collection PR4791 M68 1807
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The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales
James Hogg
The Ettrick Shepherd
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Another Hogg title that Special Collections lacked was <em>Mador of the Moor</em>, an historical romance in five cantos which was published in 1816 by William Blackwood. Most of this love-story about a farmer’s daughter being wooed by the King of Scotland (in disguise) was written by Hogg in 1813 when he was staying at Kinnaird House, the home of his friend Eliza Izett, near Dunkeld, Perthshire. Somewhat unfairly, it has been compared to Scott’s outpourings, deemed by some as a ‘second-hand Lady of the Lake’. This particular copy was once in the library of Ian Jack (b.1945), the Scottish journalist and editor.
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James Hogg
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood
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1816
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Special Collections – Hogg Collection PR4791 M3 1816
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Mador of the Moor: a Poem
James Hogg
The Ettrick Shepherd
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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As Pauline Scudamore writes in her introduction: ‘You could not, at first glance, find a more unlikely pair than the erudite poet Robert Graves, classical scholar, writer and late professor of Poetry at Oxford and the apparently crazy ex-Goon Spike Milligan.’ Their correspondence began in 1964 and their friendship lasted until Graves died in 1985. Charles Brasch liked Graves as a poet and funded the University of Otago Library to buy first and second editions of his works. This title adds to the existing strength of the Graves Collection in Special Collections.
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___
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Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton
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1991
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Special Collections PR6013 R35 Z5 A45 1991
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Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan Correspondence
Robert Graves
Spike Milligan
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) was an American writer who, according to biographer Richard Perceval Graves, played a crucial role in the development of Robert Graves’ thoughts, especially during the years when he created his classic <em>The White Goddess</em>. Indeed, at one stage Riding was Muse to Graves. While in London they started Seizin Press, a private press set up to publish their works. <em>A Trojan Ending</em> (1937) was Riding’s first novel and it retells in a very personal way, the story of the siege of Troy from the point of view of the Trojans and the Greek invaders. This is the Random House first edition which was also co-published by Constable and Seizin Press in England.
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Laura Riding
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New York: Random House
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1937
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Special Collections PS3519 A363 T76 1937
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A Trojan Ending
Laura Riding
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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William Bowyer (1663-1737) was apprenticed to the London printer Miles Flesher in 1679. After a fire destroyed his premises in White Friars, Bowyer relocated to Temple Lane in October 1713. His son, William Bowyer Jr, joined the printing business in June 1722. One very important aspect concerning the firm is the survival of their ledgers that detail the books printed during 1710 and 1777. Dunedin-based academic Keith Maslen, along with John Lancaster, diligently deciphered the <em>Bowyer Ledgers</em> (1991). Primary resources were vital for this undertaking, so Maslen collected a number of Bowyer printings. Cheselden’s <em>The Anatomy of the Human Body</em> was once in his library.
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William Cheselden
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London: Printed by William Bowyer
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1741
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de Beer Eb 1741 C
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The Anatomy of the Human Body. 6th edition
William Cheselden
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Maslen and Lancaster’s <em>The Bowyer Ledgers</em> offers a vast amount of information to researchers on book production and book distribution in 18th century London. More than 5,000 works by some 1,000 authors were commissioned by some 500 customers, including booksellers, institutions and private gentlemen. Copies were delivered to more than 1,500 people, members of the trade or representatives of the reading public at large. The ledgers record what happened to the text as it moved through the printing house, noting paper, types, format, corrections, number printed and the like. The bibliographical details for Cheselden’s T<em>he Anatomy of the Human Body</em> (1741) are registered at entry no. 2914.
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Keith Maslen and John Lancaster, editors
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The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer, Father and Son. London: The Bibliographical Society; New York: The Bibliographical Society of America
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1991
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Special Collections Z232 B79 BS59
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The Bowyer Ledgers
The Bowyer Ledgers
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an 18th century writer best known for his epistolary novels <em>Pamela</em> (1740),<em> Clarissa</em> (1748), and <em>The History of Sir Charles Grandison</em> (1753). Richardson was also a printer. With meticulous detective work on some 500 ornaments, Keith Maslen was able to identify titles printed by Richardson, which numbered some 2300 individual works. Maslen’s <em>Samuel Richardson of London Printer: A Study of his Printing</em> <em>based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts</em> was published in 2001. This copy of <em>Sir Charles Grandison</em> – printed by Richardson – was part of a large 18th century collection owned by Maslen that was eventually acquired by Special Collections.
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Samuel Richardson
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London: Printed for S. Richardson, and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes [and 5 others]
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1754
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de Beer Eb 1754 R
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The History of Sir Charles Grandison. 2nd edition
Samuel Richardson
Sir Charles Grandison
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
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An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Voltaire’s satirical novel, <em>Candide</em>, was first published in 1759 when he was 65 years old. Upon publication it caused widespread scandal and was subsequently banned. The introduction to this Nonesuch Press edition by French author Paul Morand (1888-1976) describes Voltaire’s <em>Candide</em> as ‘a sequence of burlesque, breath-taking catastrophes’. Richard Aldington (1892-1962) supplied the translation for this edition and the French artist, Sylvain Sauvage (1888-1948) produced the colourful illustrations. The volume not only complements our French holdings in Special Collections, but also our private press items.
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François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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London: Nonesuch Press
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1939
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Special Collections PQ2082 C3 E5 1939
Title
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Candide
Candide
Voltaire
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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This ‘pint-sized’ 17th century Racine volume was purchased locally, from retired French and Art History lecturer, Dr Roger Collins. Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-1699) were two of the most popular and successful authors of their time and both writers drew heavily on ancient Greek and Roman history and literature for their works of tragedy and comedy. Special Collections has almost one hundred works by or concerning Corneille and Racine.
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Jean Racine
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[Paris]
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[1680?]
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de Beer Fb 1680 R
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Britannicus: Tragedie
Racine
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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This ‘pint-sized’ 17th century Corneille volume was purchased locally, from retired French and Art History lecturer, Dr Roger Collins. Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-1699) were two of the most popular and successful authors of their time and both writers drew heavily on ancient Greek and Roman history and literature for their works of tragedy and comedy. Special Collections has almost one hundred works by or concerning Corneille and Racine.
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Pierre Corneille
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[Paris: Abraham Wolfgang?]
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[1663]
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de Beer Fa 1663 C
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Le Menteur: Comedie
Corneille
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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Described in his <em>Correspondance</em> as ‘un travail archéologique’, Gustave Flaubert’s <em>Salambo</em> is an historical novel. Flaubert (1821- 1880) relied heavily on Polybius’s <em>Histories</em> (2nd cent. BC) and his visits to Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia, as sources for this work set in Carthage, after the First Punic War (3rd cent. BC). Named for the female character, Salambo, priestess and daughter of the Carthaginian general, Hamilcar, this novel has been described as ‘exotic’ and ‘decadent’ and is highly descriptive. This Golden Cockerel edition contains attractive wood engravings by the Irish artist and author Robert Gibbings (1889-1958).
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Gustave Flaubert
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Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press
Date
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[1931]
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Special Collections PQ2246 S3 E5 1931
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Salambo
Golden Cockerel Press
Gustave Flaubert
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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‘God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures’. This is the much-quoted first line from Sir Francis Bacon’s essay <em>Of Gardens</em>, first published in 1625. <em>Of Gardens</em>, essay 46 in a series of 58, was meant to be read in conjunction with essay 45,<em> Of Buildings</em>, in which Bacon (1561-1626) describes the ideal position and lay-out of a palace. He advises a garden should be no less than 30 acres and should be divided into three areas: the green area or lawn, the main garden, and ‘a heath or desert’. This edition was printed by Simon Lawrence, owner-operator of Fleece Press, Yorkshire. The engravings are by English artist Betty Pennell.
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Francis Bacon
Publisher
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Netherton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press
Date
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1993
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Special Collections SB455.3 B317 1993
Title
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Of Gardens
Francis Bacon
Gardens
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Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new acquisitions Special Collections aims to build on the strengths of the collection such as those traditional collecting fields of 18th century literature, garden history, art and architecture, travel, and works by and about John Evelyn, John Locke, and the English poet Robert Graves.
Over time new areas of collecting have come to the fore, in particular ‘popular culture’ items in the guise of pulp fiction and science fiction (SF). In 2010, Professor Fred Fastier gifted his entire SF Collection to Special Collections. Since then holdings in this field have grown considerably with the acquisition of the Hal Salive SF Collection, some 2400 titles kindly donated by Rachel Salive, and a near complete run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, donated by Trevor Agnew. ‘Pulps’ continue to be acquired as too the works by the Dunedin-born artist John Buckland Wright. Other books have been acquired because of their historical significance or because they fill a visible gap in the existing collection. Brief examples here include French language works by Racine and Corneille, and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1780)
It is by no means true that all rare books are old books. Recent purchases include important modern works that complement the older material. By this means Special Collections will continue to house significant examples of printing and publishing into the next century, will continue to provide an important forum for original research, and will retain its position as an important University-based rare book collection in New Zealand. These volumes are a selection of titles added to Special Collections between 2008 and 2013. Please enjoy.
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English gardener and historian, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1885-1950) describes William Lawson’s <em>A New Orchard and Garden</em> as a classic of ‘English garden literature’. Lawson’s treatise advises on all facets of orchard development, care and management, with especial reference to his own experience gardening in the north of England. Lawson (c. 1553-1635), a Protestant priest, who lived in Yorkshire, also wrote <em>The Country House-Wife’s Garden</em> (published with <em>New Orchard and Garden</em> in 1618) – a gardening volume exclusively for women. This Cresset Press edition is copy 56 of 650.
Creator
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William Lawson
Publisher
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London: Cresset Press Limited
Date
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1927
Identifier
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Special Collections SB97 LD52 1927
Title
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A New Orchard and Garden
Garden design
Gardens
William Lawson