Posner Memorial Collection in Electronic Format

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Description: Search or browse a collection of full text books containing landmark titles in the history of western science, decorative arts and literature. Provided by Carnegie Mellon University. Selective list of titles include:

• Bibliotheca Chemica : A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry. Compiled by John Ferguson. London: Derek Verschoyle, 1954.
• Bibliotheca Osleriana : A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science. Collected, Arranged, and Annotated by Sir William Osler and Bequeathed to McGill University. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1929.
• Binding of Books, An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings. Herbert P. Horne. New York: Empire State Book Co., 1927.
• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time. Henri Bouchot. London: H. Grevel, 1890.
• Early Illustrated Books : A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15TH and 16TH Centuries. Alfred W. Pollard. New York: Empire State Book Company, 1927.
• English Coloured Books. Martin Hardie. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906.
• English Embroidered Bookbindings. Cyril Davenport. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, 1899.
• Etchings. Frederick Wedmore. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911.
• The Great Folio of 1623; Shakespeare's plays in the Printing House. John W. Shroeder. N.P.: The Shoe String Press, 1956.
• The Greatest Book in the World and Other Papers. A. Edward Newton. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925.
• Illuminated Manuscripts. J.A. Herbert. London: Methuen and Co., (1911).
• Japanese Colour Prints. Laurence Binyon and J.J. O'Brien Sexton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
• EX LIBRIS. Carl Stephen Junge. New York: H.L. Lindquist, 1935.
• Frankfort Book Fair, the Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne. James Westfall Thompson. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911.
• An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, From the Decease of the Poet to our own Times, Have Been Offered to the Publicas Portraits of Shakspeare. James Boaden. London: Printed for Robert Triphook, 1824.
• Librarians Are Human, Memories In and Out of the Rare-Book World 1907-1970. Margaret Bingham Stillwell. Boston: Colonial Society of Mass., 1973.
• Mezzotints. Cyril Davenport. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
• Old Picture Books with Other Essays on Bookish Subjects. Alfred W. Pollard. London: Methuen and Co., 1902.
• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature with Facsimiles of the Title-Pages. Introduction by George E. Woodberry. New York: The Grolier Club, 1902.
• Royal English Bookbindings. Cyril Davenport. London: Seeley and Co., 1896.
• The Shakespeare Folios and the Forgeries of Shakespeare's Handwriting in the Lucy Packer Linderman Memorial Library of Lehigh University. Robert Metcalf Smith. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University, 1927.
• A Thousand And One Fore-Edge Paintings, with Notes on the Artists, Bookbinders, Publishers, and Other Men and Women Connected With the History of a Curious Art. Carl J. Weber. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1949.

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