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Proactive collection development is paramount to the Newberry’s mission of serving research in the humanities. Each potential acquisition the library considers is intensely scrutinized with the goal of selecting unusual and evocative books and manuscripts most likely to challenge opinions, expand knowledge, kindle the imagination, and stimulate original research.

Caleb Wright. Historic incidents and life in India (Chicago: J.A. Brainerd, 1869).

Historic incidents and life in India

Caleb Wright

Case DS421 .W748 1869

This rare travel and description narrative is another pre-Fire Chicago imprint from the Lane Theological Seminary, new to the Newberry's holdings. This is a rare example of a pre-Fire imprint publisher's black cloth binding and "Illustrated by numerous engravings." The preface states that the information contained in this volume has been collected by personal research and extensive travel in India and by compilation from authentic sources.

The sinners salue, or, Medicine of the soule

The sinners salue, or, Medicine of the soule

Robert Wolcomb

Case BT 715 .W45 1595

One of only two extant copies, this book is an Elizabethan handbook on the art of dying. Such books were small and easily carried in a pocket; prefatory matter indicates that they were intended for use by ministers or by devout laymen in helping those terminally ill to die with the comfort of faith. Printed in ever increasing numbers from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, these handbooks had essentially the same purpose in the Anglican Church as the older Ars Moriendi had for the Church of Rome.

Grammatica Hebraea

Grammatica Hebraea

Abraham Balmes

Wing ZP 535 .B633

Abraham Balmes (ca. 1440-1553) was a celebrated translator into Latin of Arabic scientific and philosophical works that had been transmitted to Western Europe only in Hebrew versions. An important figure of the Hebrew Renaissance (the subject of a major Newberry exhibition in 1997), Balmes addressed this grammar to a gentile readership, and it subsequently exercised great influence on Christian Hebraists.

The Seven Golden Candlesticks

Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion

Gryffith Williams

Case BV 4500 .W65 1624

This volume, one of six North American copies, is a collection of sermons preached before King James I. While Gryffith Williams’ work stressed the importance of sabbath observance, he argued that Puritan scruples over ceremonies gave them no excuse for separation from the Anglican Church. Williams, of Welsh birth, preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral and was domestic chaplain to Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery (and later Pembroke), to whose children he served as tutor. The Seven Golden Candlesticks is dedicated to the Herbert family.

Historie fiorentine

Historie fiorentine

Niccolò Machiavelli

Vault Case DG 737 .A2 M34 1532

The first edition of the official history of Florence compiled by the most important political thinker of the Italian Renaissance. In manuscript, the Historie was presented in 1525 to Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII), who had commissioned it as cardinal and ruler of Florence. This copy contains a rare variant in its colophon.

Opera. Wing folio ZP 539 .E8033

Opera

Justin Martyr

Wing folio ZP 539 .E8033

This first edition of the Works in the original Greek of the third-century Church father Justin Martyr, based on manuscripts of the French Royal Library, is bound along with the first edition of the Latin translation (Paris, 1554) by Joachim Perion. Begun by Robert Estienne and completed by his younger brother, Charles Estienne, this edition of the Greek is set in the first “grec du roi,” a type font designed a decade earlier by Charles Garamond.

Chorographica descriptio provinciarum et conventuum F. F. Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum, praedicatorum sacerdotorum, clericorum et laicorum quorundam fratrum labore industria delineata, sculpta, impressa iussu Joannis a Montecalerio.

Chorographica descriptio provinciarum

Giovanni da Moncalieri

Case oversize G1793 .G37 1649

A very rare atlas of the locations of the convents of the Capuchins (a faction of reformed Franciscans recognized in 1628). One of over 800 volumes constituting the rare book collection of the Catholic Theological Union recently donated as a block to the Newberry. This image is the woodcut title-page for a map of the Capuchin province of Aquitaine; that is, southwest France. Each of the over 50 maps has a different and similarly beautiful title-page, each with its own distinct border decoration. Only one other copy of this, the second edition, is recorded in North America.

Sermon occasioned by the assassination of President Lincoln, April 16, 1865

Sermon occasioned by the assassination of President Lincoln, April 16, 1865

William H. Hornblower

Case E457.8 .D22 1865

An example of Lane Theological Seminary’s rich Americana, this rare sermon is a significant addition to the Newberry’s holdings on Lincoln. It is one of nine post-assassination sermons contemporaneously bound together; separately published in the East and Midwest. The Newberry had held only four of the nine items contained in this volume before the McCormick Theological Seminary donation.

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