Book collectors.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Burton I. Weiss collection
Collection
Identifier: 7812
Abstract
Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays. Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism, transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include...
Dates:
1886-1975.
Charles Mills papers, ca.1663-[19--]
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6339
Scope and content
Correspondence, research notes, bookplates, illustrations, sample typographic pages, and other material of a book collector who took a special interest in the forms of the Sibyl used by the Tramezzini as their device (16th century). Included are six bound manuscripts dating from the 17th and 18th centuries: Philosophia peripatetica, by Giacomo Filippo Simonelli (bound in vellum); Trattato astrologico di quanto influiscono le stelle ... per l'anno 1715, by Bartolommeo Albizzini (in paper...
Dates:
1663; Undated
Clara T. Evans bookplate collection
Collection
Identifier: 8027
Abstract
Bookplates from a variety of countries and time periods, mainly American and European. Armorial and pictorial plates are included, as well as those consisting of portraits, family crests, or mottoes.
Dates:
circa 1740-1960-(bulk 1890-1940).