We are particularly interested in unusual Kipling items.
Mr. Rider’s analysis makes no attempt to assay the contents of the various collections, as his concern is only with a quantitative analysis. Some of the scarcest and most important incunables have found their way into this country. As a result of an inquiry among the 236 most likely sources in the United States, a table is shown giving the relative sizes of incunabula collections in twelve institutions and over a hundred colleges and universities. Following the Huntington and the Library of Congress are Harvard University with 1,860 volumes, the Pierpont Morgan Library with 1,800 and the Newberry Library with 1,634. The Folger Shakespeare Library contains a surprisingly large Shakespearean ancestry of 250 fifteenth century sources. The summary leaves out of account the growing private collections, confined mostly to this country, whose numbers should materially affect the figures and perhaps the order of rank. Otherwise it gives a satisfactory account of the distribution of incunabula in public institutions.
Collecting Medical Literature
An Interview With An Authority
Hello, Henry Schuman.
Hello, James Madison.
Since moving from Detroit to 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, are you continuing to make a specialty of medical rarities?
Yes indeed, in fact more so than ever.
What class of collectors go in for medical books?
Mostly members of the medical profession, but also general collectors along scientific lines of which medicine is an integral part.