The George Hartje Collection

A gift of Pickler Memorial Library’s Director Emeritus, George N. Hartje, this collection covers the history of books, libraries, printing, and all aspects of the printed word. It includes old and rare editions as well as current works and continues to grow courtesy of a fund established by Mr. Hartje for that purpose.

Recent Acquisitions

Barall, Fabian. TAA Type Art Archives, 3 book collection – The Alphabet Cities, The Monograms Collection, The Atlas Typography Collection. Grabels, France: Barral Creations, 2023.

Dover Publications. Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts: A Selection of 190 Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts from Gesner’s and Topsell’s Natural Histories. New York: Dover, 1971.

Getty Research Institute. Codice Maya de Mexico: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book in the Americas. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2022.

Gigante, Denise. Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

Sharpe, Richard. Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy, 1954-2020. Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023.

Vallejo Moreu, Irene. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.