Rauner Special Collections Library

In June of 1819, a young man named Levi Spaulding embarked on a trip to South Asia that would ultimately lead him to the island country of...

This week, we welcomed to Special Collections a visiting delegation of Rotarians from the United Kingdom. First editions of works by Auste...

Some title pages are just irresistible--you know from the start of this pamphlet that nothing is likely to be as it seems. The title reads: ...

We just picked up a beautiful early edition of the Romant de la Rose (Lyon, 1503). It is the perfect complement to our early 14th-century m...

While preparing for a Tuck Reunion event that occurred this last Saturday, we stumbled upon a fascinating broadside announcing a "Grea...

Hattie Whitcomb Taylor was born in 1898 in a small farmhouse in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, about seventy miles north-northeast of Hanover. I...

Ah, the struggle of making sense of things! Think of the poor English gentleman setting out in the 1670s on the Grand Tour. Italy--so much t...