Recent Acquisitions
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PUL honors Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, Princeton University Library highlights the following e-resources and research guides that speak to the contributions of Black leaders and communities.
Posted on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 - 1:25pm in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Featured E-Resource, General news, Recent Acquisitions -
A 'Wonder Theatre of Nature' in Marquand Library
Scholars and wealthy amateurs acquired examples of both natural phenomena and the material evidence of earlier civilizations for their private “cabinets of curiosities.” Guests were invited to visit these “Wunderkammern,” the precursors of today’s public museums.
Posted on Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - 12:43pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Marquand and East Asian Libraries collect Chinese COVID-19 posters
Recently, Marquand Art and Archaeology Library and the East Asian Library jointly acquired a collection of 32 Chinese COVID-19 posters.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:55am in Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
Marquand Library's rare books acquisitions during the pandemic
Nicky Shilliam shares recent rare books she acquired for Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology.
Posted on Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 4:15pm in Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
PUL builds special collection of early editions of Frederick Douglass autobiographies
Douglass, an enslaved citizen from Maryland who escaped slavery and later became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, wrote three autobiographies in his lifetime: “Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (first published in 1845),” “My Bondage and My Freedom (1855),” and “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881).” PUL’s goal, according to history and African American studies librarian Steve Knowlton, is to eventually own copies of each of the early editions produced in Douglass’s lifetime.
Posted on Friday, 28 February 2020 - 11:46am in Collections, General news, Special Collections, Recent Acquisitions -
Humphrey Tonkin gifts rare Esperanto book to Princeton University Library
Humphrey Tonkin, dedicated Esperantist, presented a rare book gift to Princeton University Library: "Unua Libro" (published in 1887).
Posted on Thursday, 11 October 2018 - 11:51am in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires a complete set of early Soviet art magazine, "Tvorchestvo"
PUL's Graphic Arts Collection (within the Department of Special Collections) recently acquired the set, which includes all 23 issues running from 1918 to 1922.
Posted on Tuesday, 11 September 2018 - 1:33pm in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires proofs for well-known lithograph "The Darts Champion" by Barnett Freedman
PUL's Graphic Arts Collection recently acquired a progressive series of proofs for the well-known lithograph.
Posted on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 - 9:27am in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires rare set of early-Soviet weekly "Krasnaia niva"
Krasnaia niva ("Red Field") published poetry and short prose works by contemporary literary figures, alongside pieces and images related to the young state's broader political, artistic and cultural spheres.
Posted on Thursday, 12 July 2018 - 10:35am in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires photographs documenting life in migrant camps, immigrant communities, and low-income areas across U.S. in 1968
PUL's Graphic Arts Collection (within the Department of Special Collections) recently acquired a series of 73 photographs documenting poverty across America in April/May 1968, presumably commissioned for Time Magazine.
Posted on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 - 8:58am in Recent Acquisitions -
Marquand Art Library acquires rare Japanese book by renowned artist Kitagawa Utamaro
Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology recently acquired Gifts from the Ebb Tide by renowned artist Kitagawa Utamaro, described as "one of the most beautiful books ever published."
Posted on Wednesday, 9 May 2018 - 1:38pm in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires rare 1933 vocal score of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
The extremely rare score marks only the fifth recorded copy of this edition held by libraries in the West.
Posted on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 - 10:33am in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires the papers of Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator, New York Knicks player, and Princeton alumnus
The Library has acquired an extensive collection of documents and records chronicling Bradley's professional and academic career.
Posted on Monday, 5 March 2018 - 3:21pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Marquand Art Library acquisition: The Great Mirror of Male Love
Posted on Friday, 9 February 2018 - 11:07am in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL acquires collection of 480 late-Soviet posters
Princeton University Library has acquired posters from the Stagnation and Perestroika periods of the last decades of the Soviet Union.
Posted on Friday, 2 February 2018 - 2:39pm in Recent Acquisitions -
PUL receives Bell Collection of Ducats--an extraordinary set of medieval gold coins
The Numismatics department of Princeton University Library's Special Collections announces the receipt of an extraordinary collection of medieval gold coins
Posted on Friday, 17 November 2017 - 5:58am in Recent Acquisitions -
New Acquisition: The Peter Donald Collection of Byzantine Coins
The Princeton University Numismatic Collection announces the acquisition of Peter Donald’s vast collection of rare Byzantine coins. Comprising 5,280 coins, the London-based numismatic scholar’s collection is one of the most comprehensive private collections in the world.
Posted on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 - 10:31am in Recent Acquisitions -
Princeton University Library Acquires a Vellum Fragment of the Gutenberg Bible Preserved as a Book Cover
Princeton University Library’s Department of Special Collections is pleased to announce the acquisition of the most significant specimen of the ‘Gutenberg Bible’ discovered during this century.
Posted on Monday, 24 April 2017 - 3:05pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Gee’s Bend Prints Acquired
Three spectacular new etchings have been acquired for Firestone Library’s African American Studies Room (B floor) thanks to a joint initiative between the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University Library, and the Department of African American Studies.
Posted on Monday, 24 April 2017 - 12:12pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Celebrating the Japanese “Creative Print” (1924-1930)
Posted on Monday, 16 January 2017 - 2:43pm in Recent Acquisitions -
China from Empire to Republic: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals
Posted on Tuesday, 22 March 2016 - 12:09pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Charlotte Catherine Patin: A Seventeenth-Century Female Art Historian?
Posted on Tuesday, 17 November 2015 - 2:25pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Ehon imayō sugata from the Edmond de Goncourt Collection
Posted on Friday, 18 September 2015 - 11:33am in Recent Acquisitions -
Scheide donates rare books library to Princeton
On February 16, 2015, the University announced that the The Scheide Library has been received as a legacy from William H. Scheide, Class of 1936. It has been housed in Firestone Library since 1959, when Scheide moved the collection from his hometown of Titusville, Pennsylvania. Bill Scheide added new acquisitions to the Library continuously down to his death in November 2014. For the past 56 years it has been available to scholars on terms comparable to the University’s other rare book collections and this will continue.
Posted on Monday, 16 February 2015 - 9:56am in Recent Acquisitions -
Toni Morrison Papers at Princeton University Library
The Princeton University Library is pleased to announce that the Papers of Toni Morrison, celebrated American author and Nobel Laureate, now have a permanent home in the Library. President Christopher L. Eisgruber made the announcement on Friday, October 17, in Princeton's Richardson Auditorium, during the conference Coming Back: Reconnecting Princeton's Black Alumni.
Posted on Friday, 17 October 2014 - 4:48pm in Recent Acquisitions -
Peter N. Heydon ’62 Gift of Browning Artifacts
The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections is pleased to announce that Peter N. Heydon, Class of 1962, has made several important gifts, which are now on view in Firestone Library’s Eighteenth-Century Window.
Posted on Monday, 24 March 2014 - 11:01am in Recent Acquisitions -
Alumnus Henry Wendt and wife Holly donate historic world map collection
An extraordinary collection of world maps, dating from 1472 to 1700, has found a permanent home in the Historic Maps Collection of the Princeton University Library.
Posted on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 - 10:12am in Recent Acquisitions -
Library Acquires an 18th Century Handel Score
The Princeton University Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of an eighteenth-century scribal score (297 pages) of George Frideric Handel’s three-act opera Berenice, copied by a contemporary Handel copyist (“S2”) from the composer’s autograph manuscript. The scribal score is complete but for Berenice’s aria “Avvertite mie pupille” and opens with the title page reading, “Berenice Opera Composta per il Sgr G:F: Handel / Comminciato December: 15 1736.” Handel’s opera seria concerning the life and loves of Queen Cleopatra Berenice of Egypt around 80 B.C.E. was based on an Italian libretto by the Florentine poet Antonio Salvi, who entitled it Berenice, regina d'Egitto.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 January 2013 - 10:34am in Recent Acquisitions
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