Treasures from UCL
"UCL has one of the foremost university Special Collections in the UK. It is a treasure trove of national and international importance, comprising over a million items dating from the 4th century ad to the present day. Treasures from UCL draws together detailed descriptions and images of 70 of...
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Table of Contents:
- Note continued: 49.A British entrepreneur in 19th-century South America
- Jose Manuel Groot, Portrait of Joseph Brown / Nicola Miller
- 50.A gallery fit for sculpture models
- Decoration of the Flaxman Gallery, University College, Gower Street / Rosemary Ashton
- 51. Pioneers in science and medical science who shaped 20th-century life
- Sir Victor Horsley, physiologist and surgeon, First World War field operations notebook, Gallipoli
- Sir William Ramsay, discoverer of argon, helium, krypton and other gases, laboratory notebook
- Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the thermionic valve, laboratory notebook on telegraphy
- Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, letter to Dr Matheson, Governor of HMP Holloway
- 52. An early supporter of women's rights
- Leonora Tyson, ed, An Ariti-Suffrage Alphabet, The Women's Press
- Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, eds, Votes for Women newspaper, Vol III
- 53. Contemporary literature of the First World War
- Note continued: 26.A guide to the etiquette of courts and courtiers
- Baldassarre Castiglione. Il Libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione
- 27.A rare and unusual late Elizabethan commonplace hook
- Thomas Trevelyon, manuscript, c. 1603
- 28. Early mathematical treatise for artists' use
- Albrecht Durer, Les quatres livres d'Albert Durer, peinctre & geometrien ... de la proportion des parties & pourctraits des corps humains
- 29.A revolutionary discovery on the circulation of the blood
- William Harvey, Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in amimalibus
- 30. Views of the magnified world
- Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses
- Eleazar Albin, A natural history of spiders, and other curious Insects: illustrated with fifty-three copper plates, engraven by the best hands
- 31. The greatest work on exact science
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Note continued: 43. Art for medicine's sake: Carswell collection of drawings of pathological conditions
- Sir Robert Carswell, Anaemia cured by the Carbonate of Iron and Heart with hydatid [cyst] in walls of left ventricle
- 44. Illustrations by Edward Lear and `the Bird Man'
- John Gould, FLS, A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains and A monograph of the Ramphastidae: or family of toucans
- 45. The cult of the autograph
- and a Bloomsbury literary connection
- Autograph book of Mary Talfourd, London, 1840s
- 50s
- 46. The first operation under ether in Europe
- Robert Liston, Patient case register, University College Hospital
- 47. The classic description of the struggle for life
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1st edition, and manuscript drafts of On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man
- 48. Paris literary and theatre life in the 1860s
- Manuscript letters of Emile Zola
- Note continued: 19. First translation of Vitruvius's De Architectura in Italian
- Cesare Cesariano (ed), Di Lucio Vitruvia Pollione De Architectura / Adrian Forty
- 20. Medical treatises from the East
- Haly Abbas [Ali ibn-al-'Abbas al Majusi], Liber totius medicine neessaria continens
- 21. Battlefield surgery techiniques: a 16th-century self-help manual
- Hans von Gersdorff, Feldtbuch der Wundartzney
- 22. Copernicus
- the first publication on a heliocentric universe
- Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutienibus orbium coelestium
- 23.A physician's handbook for the Elizabethan age
- Pier Andrea Mattioli, Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscorides Anazarbei, de medica materia
- 24. Second expanded edition of Vesalius's De Fabrica, the first book of scientific anatomy
- Andreas Vesalius, De lumami corporis fabrica libri septam
- 25. Fine early editions of Dante's La Divina Commedia
- Comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra La Commedia di Dante Alighieri
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Illuminated Bible of the 13th or 14th century, Italy / Biblia Latina
- 2. Jewish service book of the 13th or 14th century, Spain / Castilian Haggadah
- 3.A beautiful Lectionarium, or reader, with fragments of two texts
- 13th-century Lectionary
- 4.A rare late medieval chemise binding
- Passio Christi (`Passion of Christ') / Frederick Bearman
- 5. Early edition of Rabanus Maurus's commentaries
- Rabanus Maurus, De Sermonum proprietate, sive Opus de universo
- 6. Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England, from a Yorkist
- Chronicon genealagicum regum anglorum / David D'Avray
- 7. Book of Hours from the late 15th century, adapted for the Victorian market
- Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis
- 8. Witch-hunting handbook with a Ben Jonson connection
- Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer Institoris, Malleus Maleficarum
- 9. Part of Book V of Confessio Amantis (`The Lover's Confession')
- John Gower, Confessio Amantis
- Note continued: Francisco de Sancha y Longo [F Sandra], Aesop's Fables Up to Date
- 54.A modern classic with notoriety
- James Joyce, Ulysses, 1st edition, Shakespeare and Company
- 55. Henry James and George Orwell
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, The As pern Papers Mary Collins
- 56. George Orwell
- a timeless voice
- George Orwell, literary notebook and National Union of Journalists membership card Rene Weis
- Note continued: 37. Tortoiseshell binding of the 18th century
- Orden de las oraciones cotidianas [`Order of the daily prayers'] / Frederick Bearman
- 38.A very rare first edition of Paradise Lost
- John Milton, Paradise Lost: a poem written in ten books
- 39. The creation of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
- Samuel Johnson, The plan of a dictionary of the English language and A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings ... The third edition, carefully revised
- 40. Designs for a panopticon prison by Jeremy Bentham
- Section of an Inspection House; Plan of Houses of Inspection: Section Plan, c. 1791
- 41. An unusual manuscript poem of Lord Byron
- Samuel Rogers, The pleasures of memory: with other poems, with a handwritten poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
- 42.A musical note
- Ludwig van Beethoven, handwritten note
- Note continued: Sir Isaac Newton, Philosophise naturalis principia mathematica
- 32.A 17th-century manual for mathematical calculations
- Rechenbuch, auff der Feder, Johann Best Vater
- 33. The ruins of Rome, seen through 18th-century eyes
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vedute di Roma. `View of the Flavian Amphitheatre known as the Colosseum'
- 34. Breaking new ground: The Johnston-Lavis Collection
- Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus / David Price
- 35. Fiery fields
- volcanoes as never seen before
- Sir William Hamilton, ed Pietro Fabris, Campi Phlegraei, Observations on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, as they have been communicated to the Royal Society
- 36. Showpiece bindings for treasured texts
- Solomon ben David de Oliveyra, Calendario facil y curiozo de las tablas lunares calculadas con las tablas solares Mir shams al-Din Faqir Dihlavi, Masnavi-i Akbar Sultan (`Romance of the Sultan Akbar')
- Note continued: 10.A guide to the good Christian life
- Andrew Chertsey, The crafte to lyve well and to dye well
- 11. Miles Coverdale and the genesis of the Bible in English
- Miles Coverdale, Biblia: the Byble: that is the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament / Paul Ayris
- 12. The art of practising Judaism in the 16th century / Italian Mahzor
- 13. Islamic art in the 15th century
- Fragment of the Holy Qur'an
- 14.A very rare medieval astronomical text
- Johannes De Sacrobosco, Tractatus de Sphera and other tracts
- 15. First printed edition of Euclid's Elements
- Euclid of Megara, Elementa geometriae
- 16. An early printed herbal
- Anonymous, Herbarius latinus: Herbarium seu de virtutibus herbarum
- 17.A very rare book of lunar tables
- Bernat de Granollachs, Lunarium ab anno 1490 ad annum 1550. Summario de la luna
- 18. The standard medieval manual of surgery
- Guy de Chauliac, Cyrurgia [with other medical tracts]