Category: Rare Books
Special Collections Showcase April 2024
Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for two hours for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in our April 2024:
Special Collections Showcase March 2024
Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in March 2024: Object 1: Pank-a-Squith (1909) — (E-000072) Published in 1909 for […]
Special Collections Showcase February 2024
Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in February 2024.
The All Access Bookclub: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Beginning in January 2024, the Princeton Public Library and Special Collections at Princeton University Library launched a book club together for the first time. Called “All Access,” every six weeks, the club reads a book chosen by Princeton Public Library staff.
The Slave Ship Brooks
Princeton is particularly rich in important copies of the Slave Ship Brooks, representations of which went viral at the end of the eighteenth century and helped in abolishing the trade in England.