Catherine Labio has had to cancel her talk this Wednesday. Vera Keller, Associate Professor of History in the Clark Honors College, UO, will instead be speaking. A reception will follow. Keller’s talk will be: The Graphic Nature of Projects Modernity is unthinkable without projects. We all pursue projects, large and small, in our intellectual […]

From Here to Utopia: Imagining Better Worlds from the Sixteenth Century to Today 4:45 pm, January 18, 2017 Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, Oregon

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                                Thanks so much for attending Cynthia Herrup’s wonderful talk, Why Pardons Fail. Above is the 1612 Geneva Bible printed by Robert Barker discussed in the previous post on this blog, that we had on view, among much else, at […]

You may have read the story in the Oregonian about the discovery of a Geneva Bible at Lewis and Clark. http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2016/09/1599_bible.html We also have a Geneva Bible from 1611; it is here if you are interested in calling it up: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations […]

Thanks to a third year of funding from the Oregon Humanities Center and from the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School (UVA), as well as to support from our co-sponsors, Special Collections and University Archives and the Clark Honors College, we are pleased to announce this year’s roster […]

Thanks to Paula Findlen, the audience, and all our sponsors for a fantastic conclusion to the ORBI 2015-16 lecture series, with a talk on the global networks behind Athanasius Kircher’s China illustrata. Here are some photos and call numbers of select rare works from the display.       Kircher and Competitors. Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii […]

Arnoldus Montanus, Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary, trans. John Ogilby (London: Johnson, 1671), 701. UO Special Collections and University Archives, Warner […]

Below please find the list of the works from Special Collections we examined together for Beth Yale’s visit. Thanks to Bruce Tabb for collecting the call numbers. John Evelyn, Silva (London: Scott, 1706). 634.91 Eu22 The Survey of Cornwall Richard Carew, 1555-1620.; Pierre Desmaizeaux, 1673?-1745.; Richard Carew, 1555-1620.; London, Printed for S. Chapman, D. Browne […]