New Rare Book Room Exhibit: Recent Additions to the Collection – Fall 2009
You are invited to visit our latest exhibit in the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room.
“Recent Additions to the Collection” features books, manuscripts, and art donated by
Dan Coquillette, Buzzy Baron, Morris Cohen, Mike Hoeflich, and Robert Brooker, as
well as materials we have purchased to strengthen key areas of our collection.
The exhibit features a number of eye-catching items, including two large property deeds
handwritten on vellum, a comical lithograph of French lawyers by the satirist Honoré
Daumier, elegant engravings of London law buildings, and a piece of colorful sheet
music written in the 1890s to advertise a new legal encyclopedia. Several important
legal manuscripts and magnificent early printed books are also on view.
You can view highlights of the exhibit here. A handout describing the entire exhibit and
a
photo gallery of selected images are also available. The exhibit will be on view through
early December 2009. The Rare Book Room is generally open Monday – Friday 9 to 5.
Please do not bring food or drinks into the room.
GEORGE BISHOP (COMPOSER), PLEADING AND PRACTICE GRAND MARCH, 2 STEP. New York, 1896.