Sublime Miscellany

Treasures from the Rare Book Room

This exhibition highlights works that are part of the varied collections in the Swarthmore College Libraries Rare Book Room.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Mary Wollstonecraft
Neijmantototsintle Ateri Miyawatl, illustrated by Francisco Villa
Interaction of Color: Josef Albers Josef Albers
Manuscript Notebook: "Poems, Sept. 1932-[1934]" W. H. Auden
Fl. Vegetii Renati Viri ilustris de re Militari libri quatuor Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Astronomicum Caesareum Peter Apian
[Pages 15-16] of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted Geoffrey Chaucer, printed by Kelmscott Press
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith, painting by Bolton Corney
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes John Gerard
In Their Memory: Human Rights Violations Chile (1973-1990) Maria Veronica San Martin
La Prose du Transibérien Re-creation Kitty Maryatt, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Blaise Cendrars
Hierīn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion Albrecht Dürer
The Arts and Crafts Movement T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, book design by Elizabeth Griscom Marot
Five Poems Toni Morrison, illustrated by Kara Walker
Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song Donald Glaister
Ker-bloom! Artnoose
The Book of Job: According to the Authorized Version of MDCXI, Following the Arrangement of the Temple Bible Grabhorn Press, frontispiece by Valenti Angelo
Marcel Duchamp, Notes et/and Notations (3 volumes) Richard Hamilton, Ecke Bonk
Moths and Butterflies, 1891 Henry Voorhees Lesley
The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings Manual Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
A Season in Hell Robert Mapplethorpe, poetry by Arthur Rimbaud
Bon Bon Mots: A Fine Assortment of Books Julie Chen
Pierres Pierre André Benoit, illustrated by Pablo Picasso
Non-Flowering Plants James Allen
South Pacific: A Musical Play Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, II, Joshua Logan, James Michener
Character Traits Russell Maret
La Botte à Nique Jean Dubuffet
Inception Islam Aly
Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book Clarissa Sligh
Lines & Color Sol LeWitt
Prism Maurice G. Eldridge, Paul Trachtman
We Hunger, We Suffer & We Thirsty CUBA
A History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea Thomas Bell
Roycroft Press Elbert Hubbard
Student Body M. R. Hodgkin
The Birds of America John James Audubon
Black at Swarthmore Don Mizell, conceived of by the Swarthmore Afro-American Student Society
Pollucis Uocabularii index in Latinum tralatus: ut uel Graece nescientibus nota sint Julius Pollux
Hockney's Alphabet David Hockney, Stephen Spender
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz; Also Known as the Alphabet Poem Emmett Williams
David H. Keller Collection David H. Keller
955,000: An Exhibition Lucy Lippard
The Persephones Carolee Campbell, poetry by Nathanial Tarn
North American Wild Flowers Mary Vaux Walcott
Novo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi Vittorio Zonca
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Tales Rudyard Kipling
Diagrams Jenny Holzer
Ashendene Press Charles St. John Hornby
Incipiunt sermones de festis sancto[rum], et primo de sancto Andrea sermo primus Albertus Magnus
Plunging Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec
rot: konkrete poesie international Dieter Roth
The English Bible Doves Press
Manayunk Bridge Thomas Parker Williams, photography by Mary Agnes Williams
Eragny Press Lucien Pissarro
Twentysix Gasoline Stations Edward Ruscha
On this Island W. H. Auden
Di Ershte Bagegenish Bella Chagall, illustrated by Marc Chagall
Alphabet for Adults Man Ray
Tobacco Project: Red Book Xu Bing
Ici Commence la Danse Macabre des Femmes Suivi de la Danse Nouvelle des Hommes Anne-Marie Yvon, Jacques Yvon, illustrated by Velestinlēs Rēgas
The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Man that Was Used Up Edgar Allan Poe
Bible Copyist unknown
Wordsworth letters William Wordsworth
Travels Through the Interior Parts of America Thomas Anburey
The White Alphabet Ronald King
Bleak House Charles Dickens
The Dance of Death Hans Holbein, enlarged facsimiles of the original wood engravings by Hans Lützelberger
News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being some Chapters from a Utopian Romance William Morris
Les Malheurs des Immortels Révélés par Paul Eluard et Max Ernst Paul Eluard, Max Ernst
Memoriale Vitae Sacerdotalis Claude Arvisenet
Ai toy Sophokleoys Tragodiai epta Sophocles
L A Air Bruce Nauman
1 step – 100000 Steps Stanley Brouwn
Sir Thomas'more, or Utopia Impaled: A Memento Mori Angela Lorenz
Common Threads Candace Hicks
Dream Days Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish