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Friends of the UNT Libraries Purchases/Donations
Founded in 1981, the Friends of the UNT Libraries support the activities of the Rare Book & Texana Collections. In addition to sponsoring poetry and short story readings, musical recitals, workshops, receptions and events, the Friends also raise money to help acquire rare and unusual materials for the Rare Book & Texana Collections that would not otherwise be available to the students, faculty, staff, and visiting researchers at UNT.
2008: August
Cassell's Household Guide: being a complete encyclopaedia of domestic and social economy, and forming a guide to every department of practical life
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1869-1871.
Call Number: TX 11 .C377 1869z v.1-4
Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
Cassell's Household Guide was originally issued in 24 parts, and then as bound volumes. It contains articles on every aspect of managing a mid-Victorian household, including clothing, cooking, household medicine, home decor, and even "technology" such as photography.
2008: May
The Mite
Grimsby [England]: E.A. Robinson, 1893
Call Number: Z 232 .R756 M584 1893
Shelved in the Miniature Book Collection.
Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
2nd of 3 printings (1891, 1893, 1896).
When
printed, The Mite was the smallest book in the world printed with
movable type. It held this title until 1896 when the Italian firm of
Salmin printed their Galileo a madama Cristina di Lorena. The Mite may still be the smallest book printed in England with movable type.
2007: June
Pāka Khoradeha Avastāe.
Bombay : D.B. Tarapouwala Sons and Co., 1899.
Call Number:
BL1515.5.K5 A43 1899
Shelved in the Miniature Book Collection.
Gift: Friends of the UNT Libraries, June 2007.
Miniature Zoroastrian sacred text, in Gujarati
From the collection of James (Jim) F. DeLancey, acquired by him in 1962 from Ruth Adomeit.
Bound in publisher's red heavy paper or thin flexible leather covers with dense gilt scroll-work over entire surface of covers. All edges gilt.
With bookplate of J. DeLancey inside front cover.