Exhibits
The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey will present masterpieces of early 19th-century photography by one of its unsung pioneers.
This exhibition, featuring materials from the Fisher's Victorian natural history collection.
For centuries Italy reigned as an essential stop for wealthy people taking the “Grand Tour.” In the wake of the 1922 Fascist Revolution, Benito Mussolini began promoting Italy as not merely a place
Journey to a medieval world with Africa at its center.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” With these words the Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers.
For the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth, this exhibition will highlight the many facets of his work, illustrating how he has been perceived and repurposed over the past 200 years.&…
This exhibition takes its name from the history of “arrant book-lovers” written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in 1842.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century in Britain, parents and teachers had begun to wholeheartedly embrace a suggestion from the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) that “Learning might be made
This exhibition of artists' books centers on ideas about the built environment and has been curated by Berkeley based book artist Julie Chen for UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Library.
An exhibition of some of the earliest and most important publications printed in Greek.
