Rauner Special Collections Library

By 1912, selling books in parts was pretty much a thing of the past ( think Dickens in the 1850s ). If you wanted to serialize a book, mass-...

In the 1720s, the newly-formed Kingdom of Great Britain was in a bit of a fix. Although the Royal Navy was the largest in the world, the Bri...

Green goggles and their box When Dorothy and her friends reach the Emerald City of Oz, they're each given a set of green spectacles....

You see what you are looking for. Last week we wrote about William Bradford's Arctic Regions . On the same trip Bradford enjoyed on boar...

One of the most glorious books in our collections is William Bradford's Arctic Regions (London: Low, Marston, Low and Seale, 1873). It ...

MS-1310, 747217 Sarah Woodworth, wife of Ichabod Woodworth of Lebanon, North Parish, was called to the meeting house for a public admoni...

Our Kenneth Roberts Library collection consists of Roberts' personal library, including a well-thumbed and annotated cookbook. After Rob...