Books published by Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library

A ledger book of drawings by Lakota Sioux warriors found in 1876 on the Little Bighorn battlefield offers a rare first-person Native American record of events that likely occurred in 1866--1868 during Red Cloud's War. This color facsimile edition uncovers the origins, ownership, and cultural and historical significance of this unique artifact.

This checklist of Thomas Hollis's gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond's 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

First published in 1942, this book remains one of the standard works on its subject. Loring, a collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the extensive history and use of decorated papers in the book arts. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.

Houghton Library at 75 offers a tour of the primary repository for Harvard University's rare books and manuscripts with full-color illustrations. From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Bronte to costume designs for Star Trek, the selections celebrate great achievements in many and diverse fields of human endeavor.

This work explores the emergence of modern Greek language, thought, and sensibility reflected in Harvard's collection of Greek books and manuscripts, ranging from 15th century liturgical manuals to Renaissance translations into modern Greek of Homer and other classical authors to the works and papers of 20th-century Greek literary figures.

Among the Houghton's medieval manuscripts was an exhibition of twelfth century Biblical manuscripts. Light's catalogue catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in breviaries, lectionaries, commentaries, and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church.

This large and sumptuous volume highlights the diversity and value of the Houghton's collections. It contains reproductions ranging from ancient and medieval manuscripts to the earliest printed books to the works of some of the twentieth-century's most important and interesting authors, artists, and designers.

Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.

Picturing Emerson: An Iconography reproduces and explores the background of all known images of Ralph Waldo Emerson created from life, including drawings, paintings, silhouettes, sculptures, and photographs in all formats. The book provides dates and commentary, enabling readers to trace Emerson's visage from the 1820s to the 1880s.

This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English.

This catalog highlights material from the Collection of Hans Moldenhauer and the Estate of Rudolf Kolisch that was included in a joint exhibition between the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library, Munich) and Houghton Library in 1988. Written in English and German.

A catalog of an exhibition at Houghton Library in 1986 of Danish items, ranging from 1514 to 1942, from Houghton's collection, as well as items on loan from David P. Wheatland, Janet Jurist, and the Boston Public Library.

In 1987 the Houghton Library observed the 150th anniversary of Pushkin's death with an exhibition of materials from the extraordinary Russian literature collection assembled by Bayard Kilgour. From this trove, curator Malmstad chose books, letters, and manuscripts that illuminated Pushkin's life, career, and the world of his influences and rivals.

For the second catalogue of materials from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Professor Ward has selected over 2,100 items relating to Italian ballet from the seventeenth through the twentieth century.

A facsimile of Giambattista Bodoni's first type specimen, "Fregi e Majuscole" of 1771, two copies of which were given to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library by William Bentinck-Smith, Class of 1937.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) remains a larger than life figure, one whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring. To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Johnson, Harvard University's Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson

The generously illustrated essays in this collection of proceedings from a 2007 conference explore three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library as physical objects, and place them in their urban and historical contexts, as well as in the musical and ecclesiastical context of Milan, Italy, and medieval Europe.

A pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist. The richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Christ's "beloved disciple" in 14th-century art, liturgy, theology, and mysticism.

A catalogue of the 1985 exhibition at Houghton Library of Spanish and Portuguese 16th-century books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, with a Preface by Anne Anninger. The catalogue describes 40 items included in the exhibition, while the Bibliography offers information on 210 additional Iberian items in Houghton collections.

A facsimile of a letter from calligrapher, typographer, theoretician, and author Jan van Krimpen to Paul Hofer, Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches.

A catalogue of the exhibition at the Hougton Library and at the Harvard Law School Library in 1989 celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first printing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each section of the catalogue focuses on a single book: The Bay Psalms Book, the Eliot Indian Bible, and The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts.

Produced in honor of the Keeper of Printed Books at Houghton Library on his 65th birthday, this book includes a tribute by William H. Bond and essays by Paul Raabe, Philip Hofer, Eckehard Simon, Rodney G. Dennis, Karl S. Guthke, Eugene Weber, Ruth Mortimer, Eleanor M. Garvey, Anne Anninger, Hugh Amory, John Lancaster, Roger E. Stoddard, and more.

This catalogue of an exhibition featuring items given by Harrison Horblit '33, one of Houghton Library's most distinguished donors, includes materials covering Manuscripts and the Cradle of Printing, Early Arithmetics, Early English Printing, the Scientific Renaissance, Printing and Bibliography, Interesting Bindings, and Early Photography.

Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the best-known and widely-respected scholars of our time. Included are essays by James Basker, James Engell, Nicholas Hudson, Jack Lynch, and Allen Reddick.

The Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances incorporating music and dance. With over 1,600 entries and 40 color illustrations, this book explores the historical significance of the King's Theatre to cultural life.