Collection: Fresh Books & Manuscripts

Journeying to the Middle East in the 19th Century: William Henry Bartlett - Forty Days in the Desert (1848)

"The thousand mixed recollections that hallow the ground": Bulwer Lytton - Pilgrims of the Rhine (1843)

Demons in the Convent: Nicolas de Montmorency - Manna absconditum (1616)

Facsimile of Henry the Lion's Evangeliar (12th c./1988)

A Facsimile Fit for an Emperor: Rudolf von Em's "Weltchronik" (World Chronicle) and Stricker's epic of Karl der Große (Charlemagne) (14th c./ 1980)

Vaguely Erotic Illustrations & A Ship-to-Shore Mystery: Alexandre Kuprin - Sulamith (1928)

"Where my arrow falls there dig me a grave": Henry Gilbert & Walter Crane - Robin Hood and the Men of the Green Wood (1912)

Jewish, Indian, and British Interests in the early 20th century: Stanley Rice - Tales from the Mahabharata (1924)

"And this is the last of Mowgli's Stories": Rudyard Kipling - The Second Jungle Book (First Edition, 1895)

The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Jules Verne - Les Indes Noires (1877)

Cats, dogs, & Natural History: René Richard Castel - Histoire naturelle de Buffon (1799)

Scottish-Gaelic Grammar as Patriotic Duty: Alexander Stewart - Elements of Gaelic Grammar in Four Parts (1812)

Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Arashiyama (Arashiyama Sakura-Gari no Zu)

Utagawa Kunisada II, Excursion for A Princess (Himegimi Goyûran no Zu) (1860)

Utagawa Kunisada, Enjoying Cherry Blossoms in Ueno (Ueno no Sakura-Gari) (1850)

Utagawa Fusatane, Shining Prince & Companions at the Yatsu Bridge (1860)

Young Woman Blowing a Poppen (Popen o Fuku Musume)

Kotozuka Eiichi , Rice Planting in Early Summer (ca. 1950)