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An image of the interor ofInvectives contre la secte de vauderie by Johannes Tinctor, housed at Bruce Peel Special Collections (BF 1565 T587 1465)
A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver by William Saunders
Acquired in honour of Michael Houghton
A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver
Acquired in honor of Dr Michael Houghton
A System of Phrenology
The title page of A System of Phrenology boasts that the volume features “upward of one hundred engravings.” Photography had been discovered by the time the book was published, but the dominant processes of the time (the daguerreotype and the…
A Set of Mimeographed Press Releases: Summaries of Discoveries Presented to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, 17-19 November 1947
Acquired in recognition of Dr Brian Cox
A Portfolio of Piles
Artists Iain and Ingrid Baxter formed the NE Thing Co in 1966. The Company, which was incorporated under Canadian law, challenged the supposed divide between art and everyday life—and particularly everyday economic life—while also parodying the…