Recent Books
- Recent Books
This volume is published to celebrate Christopher de Hamel’s sixtieth birthday and the breadth of his scholarship and interests are well reflected in the wide ranging contributions. Nicolas Barker starts with a short biographical introduction of Christopher’s wanderings from Dunedin to Cambridge and back again. Lynley Herbert provides the extensive bibliography. The contributions are arranged in three sections: ‘Books’, the largest section, extending chronologically from the eleventh right through to the nineteenth century; ‘The Book Trade’, including reminiscences from colleagues at Sotheby’s; and ‘Collectors and Collecting’.
Papers from a conference held at the Royal Society in November 2008 to celebrate the 275th anniversary of the foundation of the Edward Worth Library, comprising: D. Westerhof, ‘Introduction: the Intellectual Alchemy of Medicine and Print’; L. Lambert, ‘Men of Varying Means’; D. Coakley, ‘Edward Worth and His Library’; C. Benson, ‘Some Private Libraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland’; J. Pittion, ‘Medicine in Print in the Early Modern Period: Medical Books in Marsh’s Library, Dublin’; E. Boran, ‘The Sceptical Collector: Alchemy and Chemistry in Early Modern Irish Medical Libraries’; B. McCormack, ‘Universal Language (1641) to Universal War (1814): A Reading of Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage’; M. Hunter, ‘Robert Boyle and the Uses of Print’; S. Kusukawa, ‘Vesalius, the Book and the Bones’; M. Koźluk, ‘Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in Print Before 1733 in the Edward Worth Collection, Dublin’; D. Westerhof, ‘Petrus de Crescentiis’ Ruralia Commoda: A Medieval Agricultural ‘Regimen Sanitatis’?’; Ilham Ibnou-Zahir, ‘Philosophical Regimen and Problematic Identity in the Healer: Hippocrates to Avicenna’; Howard Caygill, ‘Medicina Mentis: Medicine and the Origins of Modern Philosophy’.
This excellent series from Brill has recently gathered some momentum with seven new titles appearing in the last twelve months. This volume examines the relationship between politics and pamphleteering in the Dutch Republic, comprising: D. Femke, D. Onnekink and M. Reinders, ‘Pamphlets and Politics: An Introduction’; C. Harline, ‘Return to the Land of Little Blue Books’; R. Harms, ‘Thievery of Literature: Consequences of the Interaction between Politics and Commerce for the Form and Content of Pamphlets’; G. de Bruin, ‘Political Pamphleteering and Public Opinion in the Age of De Witt (1653–1672)’; ‘“The Citizens come from all Cities with Petitions”: Printed Petitions and Civic Propaganda in the Seventeenth Century’; J. Stern, ‘Poison in Print: Pamphleteering and the Deaths of Concini (1617) and the Brothers De Witt (1672)’; D. Onnekink ‘The Revolution in Dutch Foreign Policy (1688)’; K. Stapelbroek, ‘Economic Reform and Neutrality in Dutch Political Pamphlets (1741–1779)’; [End Page 439] F. Deen, ‘Handwritten Propaganda: Letters and Pamphlets in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt (1572–1578)’; M. Stensland, ‘Peace or No Peace? The Role of Pamphleteering in Public Debate in the Run-up to the Twelve-Year Truce’.
A well illustrated catalogue of incunabula and examples of printing on vellum and coloured paper; with contributions from Adri K. Offenberg, ‘The Honeycomb’s Flow: Hebrew Incunables in the Valmadonna Trust Library’; Isaac Yudlov, ‘Hebrew Books Printed on Vellum in the Valmadonna Trust Library’; and Brad Sabin Hill, ‘Hebrew Printing on Blue and Other Coloured Papers’.
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Julianne Simpson
