Adopted Books
Earliest manuscript evidence for Tarot Cards. The Vanderbilt-Steele Manuscript, Italy, ca. 1460.
Preservation
Special Collections and University Archives
The earliest mention of playing cards occurs in Italy in 1377, and by the 1420s there were city injunctions and numerous sermons against card games. St. Bernard of Sienna delivered […]
Medical Botany, Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants… (Vol. 2)
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Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center
William Woodville (1752-1805), an English physician and early advocate of smallpox inoculation and vaccination, was also a botanist and member of the Linnaean Society. His three-volume Medical Botany (1791-1793), illustrated […]
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