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Four Rare Book Acquisitions Build on Early Colonial Holdings

New acquisitions contribute to linguistic, religious, and legal studies of early colonial Mexico

Behind the Scenes: Finding Food in Rare Books

Folger Before “Farm to Table” team visits the Plant Humanities Initiative

Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants

Centered on the paintings of botanical artist Margaret Mee, this exhibit explores the traditions of women botanical artists and illustrators primarily using ...

Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants

September 21, 2021–January 9, 2022 | Centered on the paintings of botanical artist Margaret Mee, this exhibit explores the traditions of women botanical ...

Behind the Scenes: Beaming a Book to the Internet

Librarians preserve 500 years of history with keen eyes and sharp knives

The Mystery of the Pink Pineapple

How a team of scholars uncovered the lost history of a rare Southeast Asian book

2023 Plant Humanities Summer Program

June 26–August 4, 2023 | Program for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in plants from the perspectives of botany, botanical ...

Hans Vredeman de Vries

This selection from the Rare Book Collection contains several important titles that give a taste of Hans Vredeman de Vries’s versatility and prolificacy as a ...

Exuberant Visions of the German Baroque

Through selections from the Rare Book Collection, this exhibition conveys the varied and dynamic character of the German baroque, which was marked by ...