Collection of artists' books created by artists participating in the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; donated by the founder of the coalition Beau Beausoleil between December 2019 and March 2020. Each participating book artist was asked to complete three books over the course of a year that reflected both the strength and fragility of books, but also showed the endurance of the ideas within them.
The winners of the American Institute of Graphic Artists awards known as "The Fifty Books of the Year" from 1923 to the present. RBML also has some of the cover award winners.
A group of early books by or about ancient Greek authors
Winners of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) awards in 1965-1991, were donated on a yearly basis
This collection of 3,933 volumes is formed from the union of the Spinoza collections of Adolph S. Oko and Carl Gebhardt, and contains material by and about Baruch Spinoza. Purchased and presented to the University by Dr. Simon L. Millner, Mrs. T.W. Lamont, Corliss Lamont, and Mr. E.A. Zabriskie, 1947.
The "B" collection is particularly strong in British and American literature and history, including a large group of nineteenth-century gift books. Other strong areas include editions of Greek & Roman authors, cometology, and polar exploration (thanks to Bassett Jones's Libris Polaris collection).
"B" collection comprises all the rare books that don't explicitly belong to the existing named collections
The Book Arts Collection is both a major collection of examples of fine printing and book illustration, and a collection of books about various phases of bookmaking and related subjects. Book Arts was established in 1938, currently contains over 15,000 volumes and growing. The older part of the collection is shelved in Dewey classification. In 1975, we switched to a slightly-modified Library of Congress classification. Both Dewey and Library of Congress sets include BOOKART prefix). Additional cross-collection card catalogs of designers (654: 25A) illustrators (654: 25B-I) imprints (654 Mez: 62A-F), bindings (654: 24I-J, 654 Mez: 52C, 13V:1D) and presses (654: 26A-27H) are no longer maintained, but could still be useful.
Catalogs issued by the principal book dealers and book auctions houses. Catalogs, that were received both via the Acquisitions department and from dealers directly, are largely from New York dealers, but also include other US, British and European firms.This collection spans the 20th century with some 19th century issues. Cataloged individually in CLIO in early 2000s with prefix SALECAT The 21st century catalogs are no longer individually cataloged. Selected titles are kept, arranged and described as an archival collection of the same name (Bib ID: 15329754) in paper or electronic versions.
