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Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. [1] It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The collections of Houghton Library include the ...
Library of Congress Main Reading Room Houghton Library is the primary repository for rare books and manuscripts at Harvard University and houses the Gutenberg Bible and other unique books and documents.
Director Harvard University, Houghton Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts,1942-1964; [33] Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society, 1965. [34] [35] LeRoy E. Kimball [36] 1948- 1949 New York University comptroller; President of the Modern Language Association of America; President, New York Historical Society. [37] James T. Babb [38] 1950-1952
The cost in shillings indicates that this was done in Britain, and it seems that Furnivall may have taken responsibility for it. The manuscript was then forwarded to Child at Harvard. This manuscript remains in America, in the Houghton Library, MS 25241.17*, still bound in 3/4 maroon Morocco and marbled boards.
The Houghton Library's copy of Arsene Houssaye's 'Des destinees. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail ...
Horblit's wife Jean (née Mermin) donated most of this collection to Harvard's Houghton Library in 1995. From March 10 to May 26, 1999, after three years of cataloguing, re-housing and conserving the collection, Houghton Library exhibited the collection to the public, along with a two-day symposium on the 10th and 11 March. [ 2 ]
Harvard Library announced this month that it had removed human skin from the binding of its 1880s copy of "Des destinées de l’âme" by Arsène Houssaye, which was held at the Houghton Library ...
Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s. The decision came after a review ...