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Shunsuke Tsurumi Rinsen Nakazawa Tokyo, Japan; Harvard University, 1938-1942 Rinsen Nakazawa's 近代思想十六講 [Kindai shisō jūrokkō] was a bestselling compendium and guide to the thought of sixteen modern thinkers, including Nietzsche, Rousseau, Darwin, Bergson...

London, England, 1572 This page is from a volume of twenty “year books” covering the reign of Edward IV. It was published between 1571 and 1572, nearly a century after Edward’s death in 1483. In the upper corner of the first leaf of the text, a former...

Virgil Paris, France, 1542-67 The second part of a tract volume of short texts of Latin classical authors printed in Paris ca. 1560 with wide margins and interlinear spacing for student annotations. This Sammelband (or collection of works bound together)...

Albert Richter Leipzig, Germany; Ithaca, NY, 1882-1887 Widener received this copy of Albert Richter’s Bilder aus der deutschen Kulturgeschichte on June 12, 1935, from the private library of Horatio Stevens White, Class of 1873, Professor of German...