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Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana The Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (BHL), given by M. C. Lang, is a collection of editions and translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey with the goal of tracing their transmission in printed form. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects Special Collections Classics |
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Book Arts Collection The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center holds artists' books, notable bindings, and novel book structures. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects Arts History of Print Special Collections |
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Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama The Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama consists of English-language theater published before 1900, including extensive holdings of British drama and related publications from between 1600 and 1800. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects English Literature Special Collections |
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Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics The Earl J. Hamilton Collection on the History of Economics contains over 3,000 rare and scholarly titles, with particular strengths in the economy of Spain and the life of John Law of Lauriston. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects Economics Special Collections European History |
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Hengstenberg Collection The Hengstenberg Collection, assembled by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg in nineteenth-century Berlin, consists of approximately 10,000 bound volumes and 2,500 unbound books and pamphlets, chiefly in the departments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theology, church history, and biblical literature |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects Religion Special Collections |
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Islamic Lithographs Collection The Islamic Lithographs Collection, acquired by the University of Chicago Library in 2004, consists of approximately 330 nineteenth- to twentieth-century Arabic lithograph printed books, mostly published in Iran and India, through Egypt, Turkey, and the Levant are also represented. Over 200 titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog. |
Formats Digital Books & Journals |
Subjects Arabic Area Studies Islamic Studies Middle East Religion Special Collections |
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Lincke Collection of Popular German Literature Formerly a nineteenth-century Leipzig rental library, the Lincke Collection is an important source for European popular literature published between around 1790 to 1875. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects German Literature Special Collections |
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Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry The Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry consists of approximately 600 books of nineteenth-century English poetry, including many special copies, collected by Dr. Gerald N. Wachs and donated to the Library by his family. |
Formats Books & Journals |
Subjects English Literature Special Collections |
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William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana The 1932 purchase of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana formed the nucleus of the Library's distinguished holdings of books, manuscripts, and artifacts concerning the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The Barton family established an endowment fund that has enabled the University to expand and shape Barton's original 3,500 volume collection into a major resource for exploring the social, economic, and political history of the United States in the nineteenth-century. |
Formats Archives & Manuscripts Books & Journals |
Subjects American History Special Collections |