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Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths. 1646, First Edition, second state.
Sir Thomas "Browne is one of very great English stylists. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Often referred to as "Browne's Vulgar Errors," Browne drew upon his many years of reading, observation and experimental investigation to refute popular misconceptions in the fields of history, folklore, science, philology, natural history, medicine and embryology. Browne conducted numerous experiments in physics, comparative anatomy and biology, many of which were reported in Pseudodoxia epidemica; he also coined the term "electricity" (first printed here, found on page 51) to describe certain electromagnetic phenomena. "Except in matters of religious faith, [Browne] was unwilling to accept anything without carefully examining it in the light of such facts as he could gather. He has thus expressed himself regarding his own attitude: 'In philosophy, where truth seems double-faced, there is no man more paradoxical than myself, but in divinity, I love to keep to the road'" (Keynes, p. 51).”
Also held in the collection is the Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, which is said to be scarcer than the first edition and typographically superior. This second edition was extensively revised and enlarged by the author.
(Abebook.com book sellers)
Held in the Rare Books collection {PR3327 .A71646}
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Pop-Up Books:
Book Arts Collection The Book Arts Collection brings together the work of famous printers, type designers, book designers, book artists and illustrators, as well as documentation on print processes and typography from 1850 forward. This collection also includes our extensive collection of pop-up books.
The pop up book is a book with paper elements within the pages that may be manipulated by the reader. The books include text, illustrations, and folded, glued, or pull-tab elements that move within the pages of the story.
(https://www.encyclopedia.com/manufacturing/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/pop-book)
Titles held in the Book Arts collection:
*Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up {NA737.W7 T533 2002a}
*Star Trek Pop-ups {PN1992.8.S74 M335 2014a}
*M.C. Escher Pop-ups {NE670.E75 M33 2011a}
Robert Sabuda: Help the Animals of North America
*Robert Sabuda is known worldwide for his amazing pop-up paper engineering. (https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Robert-Sabuda/1077661)
{QL84 .S23 1995a}
Matthew Reinhart: Cinderella : a pop-up fairy tale
*Matthew Reinhart has created a huge array of pop culture pop-ups. (http://www.matthewreinhart.com/about/)
{PS3568.E5124 C45 2005a}
David A. Carter: How Many Bugs in a Box? : a pop-up counting book
*David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of the Bugs series and more.
(https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/David-A-Carter/68170625)
{PS3553.A773 H68 1988}
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African American Collection The African American Collection includes over 500 books and other publications. Collection areas of interest are United States black history, civil rights movements, and literature and pamphlets by black authors on slavery, emancipation, and the black experience in the United States.
Titles held in the African American collection:
*Maya Angelou-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings {PS3551.N464 Z466 1996}
*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1848) {E449 .D7 1848a}
*The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) {E185.615 .B5464 1998a}
*James Baldwin-The Fire Next Time {E185.61 .B1953 1964a}
*Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 {E185.97.K5 M3 1968a}
*Gwendolyn Brooks-In the Mecca {PS3503.R7244 I5 1968a}
*Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, 2nd Ed. (1835) {PS866 .W5 1835a}
*February 1965: The Final Speeches: Malcolm X {BP223.Z8 L57985 1992a}
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Horatio Alger Collection The Rare Books and Special Collections department is the official repository of the Horatio Alger Society. The repository has the largest collection of materials related to Horatio Alger, Jr. in the country.
1856 - Alger's first book, Bertha's Christmas Vision, is published
1864 - Frank's Campaign, A first book for boys, is published.
1867 - Ragged Dick, his eighth novel, is a best-seller.
Titles held in the Horatio Alger collection:
*Bertha's Christmas Vision {PS1029.A3 BRO.B53 1856a}
*Frank's Campaign {PS1029.A3 LOR.F74 1864a}
*Ragged Dick {PS1029.A3 POR.R26 1868a}
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American Popular Literature Collection The American Popular Literature Collection is comprised of mass-appeal publications issued in America from approximately 1840 to 1940.
Of note is the 38 volume Tom Swift series published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1910 to 1935. The stories are basically adventure tales with Tom's latest invention being heavily involved in the plot.
(http://tomswift.net/ts1.htm)
Titles located in the American Popular Literature collection:
*The Motor Boys on the Firing Line {PS3547.O472 M666 1919a}
*Beverly Gray's Island Mystery {PS3503.L4694 B4947 1952a}
*Cherry Ames Boarding School Nurse {PS3545.E545 C4261955A}
*Honey Bunch: Her First Days on the Farm {PS3539.H75 H45 1923a}
*A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure: Mystery of the *Arabian Stallion {PS3551.D34 M37 1964a}
*Adele Doring on a Ranch {PS3527.O57 A3466 1920a}
*The Boys of Columbia High in Winter Sports {PS3511.O355 B674 1915a}
*The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge {PS3537.T817 M9 1966a}
*Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Secret of Red Gate Farm {PS3537.T817 S42 1961a}
*Grace Harlowe with the U.S. Troops in the Argonne {PS3511.L7952 G757 1920a}
*Tarzan and the Golden Lion {PS3503.U687 T3251923A}
*Tom Swift titles {PS3501.P65 T...}
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Edward Ardizzone-Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979): a noted contemporary English author and illustrator. He is often considered the father of the modern children’s picture book.
Between 1929 and his death in 1979, Ardizzone illustrated a large number of books, and wrote and illustrated many more including the well loved Little Tim series, Johnny the Clockmaker, Diana and her Rhinoceros, Paul the Hero of the Fire; and with his cousin Christianna Brand, created Nurse Matilda, later familiar to many as Nanny McPhee.
(https://www.ardizzoneprint.com/introduction-2/)
Edward Ardizzone Collection:
Little Tim and the brave sea captain : a facsimile of the original manuscript of the first edition of 1936 in the possession of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. {PR6001.R445 L57 2011a}
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Robert Burns-Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns (1759-1796): Scottish poet.
In addition to poet, Burns found, edited, improved, and rewrote songs. It is by his songs that he is best known, and it is his songs that have carried his reputation round the world.
He never claimed “Auld Lang Syne,” which he described simply as an old fragment he had discovered, but the song we have is almost certainly his, though the chorus and probably the first stanza are old. (Burns wrote it for a simple and moving old air that is not the tune to which it is now sung, as George Thomson set it to another tune.)
(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Burns)
Robert Burns Collection:
This 1859 publication of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns is illustrated by George Harvey. {PR4306 .A71859}
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Lord Byron-Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron, or Lord Byron (1788-1824): English Romantic poet.
The first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage were published by John Murray in 1812, and Byron “woke to find himself famous.” The poem describes the travels and reflections of a young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands.
(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Byron-poet)
Lord Byron Collection:
Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt: and other poems. 1812-first American edition {PR4357 .A1 1812b}
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Comic Book Collection The Comic Book Collection consists of approximately 1,200 titles of comic books, graphic novels and trade editions, and trade magazines and fanzines. Much of our comic book collection dates from the 1970s forward, with particular strength in the 1990s.
Titles located in the Comic Book collection
*Aliens No. 1 of 6-Art by Mark Nelson, who taught at Northern Illinois University for twenty years. {PN6728 .A443 1988a}
*The Invincible Iron Man No. 6 (October 1968) {PN6728 .I76a}
*Captain America No. 101 (May 1968) { PN6728 .C35a}
*Sandman: Brief Lives {PN6728.s26 G35 1992a}
*Love and Rockets No. 1 {PN6728.L78a}
*Fables: Legends in Exile Book 1 (2002) {PN6727.W52 F33 2002a}
*Wonder Woman No. 210 (March 1974) {PN6728 .W65a}
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Dime Novel Collection Albert Johannsen Collection
and Edward LeBlanc Collection
The first dime novels were initially published around the start of the American Civil War, and became wildly popular in both the United States and in England, where they were known as "penny dreadfuls." Named for their cheap prices, dime novels were distributed in numerical series at newsstands and dry goods stores for a dime or a nickel a piece. The books were simple in appearance, bound in cheap paper with a brightly illustrated cover. They were lightweight at only about 100 pages long, easy to carry, and easy to pass around.
Irwin and Erasmus Beadle and Robert Adams published the first dime novel under their publishing house, Beadle and Adams, in 1860. It was a short novel entitled "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter," written by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens.
Irwin Beadle joined up with George Munro, a bookkeeper in the publishing house, and they founded their own house, Munro. Munro began to publish its own version of dime novels, calling them "Ten Cent Novels."
Another major publishing house for dime novels was Street and Smith. Authors like Horatio Alger, Upton Sinclair, and Jack London wrote for Street and Smith under pen names to make the money that would come with their published works.
Some of the most well-known dime novel writers were Thomas C. Harbaugh, Albert W. Aiken, Edward L. Wheeler, Joseph W. Badger, Jr., and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. Ingraham was the most successful writer of the short novels as the creator of the famous character, Buffalo Bill.
(https://www.history.org.uk/student/resource/4512/american-dime-novels-1860-1915)
Dime novels are located in the Albert Johannsen collection and Edward LeBlanc collection by series title:
*The Buffalo Bill Stories No. 1
*Ned Buntline's Own Series No. 4
*The Five Cent Wide Awake Library Vol. 1 No. 11 (September 30, 1878)
*Buffalo Bill Border Stories No. 211 by Col. Prentiss Ingraham
*Nick Carter Weekly No. 304
*Beadle's Dime Novels No. 1 "Malaeska: the Indian Wife"
*Munro's Ten Cent Novels No. 171
*Nugget Library No. 83 (March 5, 1891)
*Deadwood Dick Library No. 2
*Penny Popular Novels: "Dred; A Tale fo the Great Dismal Swamp" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*The New Nick Carter Weekly No. 27 (July 8, 1897)
*Irwin P. Beadle's Ten Cent Novels No. 5
