Collector's Choice : A Selection of Books and Manuscripts Given by Harrison D. Horblit to the Harvard College Library, a Commencement Exhibition for the Class of 1933.

Printed wrappers, 4to, 26 cm, 45, [2] pp, ills. 57 entries. From the introduction by Owen Gingerich: "Harrison Horblit began searching out rare works in the history of science long before it was fashionable to collect earlv science, and without a guide such as his own Grolier Club volume, One Hundred Books Famous in Science. More recently he became intrigued with the pioneering days of photography, and he began to acquire the photographically illustrated books of Fox Talbot long before earlv photographv became fashionable. An admirer of the great nineteenth-century manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps. Horblit gathered together some selected manuscripts and a great deal of memorabilia from Philiipps' remarkable library. .A significant number of Horblit's choicest items now reside in Houghton Library. .This catalogue and exhibition show only a fraction of the treasures that Harrison Horblit has shared with Harvard. His gifts to Houghton Librarv include forty-one incunabula, volumes from the first half centurv of printing: sixteen of them are shown here. Of the manuscripts, ranging from what is apparently the earliest papal bull in America (early twelfth centurv) to a letter from Sigmund Freud on King Lear, only two are in the catalogue. Of a large number of 'STC' items - English printing before 1641-eleven are included.On the exhibition labels and in the catalogue that follows, I have tried to indicate the significance of each item either as a text or .is an object, or both." Very Good.…