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Finding Aids, Bibliographies and Collection Descriptions relating to or based on the holdings of the Rare Books Unit

Architecture

The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University.  Compiled by Laurence Hall Fowler and Elizabeth Baer.  Baltimore: Evergreen House Foundation, 1961.  Also reprinted San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991.

Special Collections NA22 .J6 1961 Q (two copies)
Garrett Library Reference  NA22.J6 1961 Quarto (2 copies)
Peabody copy not listed online.
Garrett Library Reference  NA22.J6 1991 Quarto

The Fowler collection is also available on microfilm, with a printed index. The printed bibliography contains 448 entries, but the collection continues to grow; as of 2007, more than 100 titles have been added to the collection.

Verheyen, Egon, ed. Laurence Hall Fowler, Architect, 1876-1971. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1984.  A catalog of Fowler’s papers and drawings in the collections of the John Work Garrett Library and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

MSEL Stacks, Special Collections, and Garrett Reference NA735.B3 M45 1984
Peabody 728 F69 M45 1984

Books on architecture, decoration and furniture in the library of the Peabody institute, Baltimore, Maryland, nineteen-twenty. [Baltimore, 1920]

MSEL Special Collections NA22 .P43 1920  
Peabody 016.7 P352
Available on Google Books.

Catalogue of the architectural exhibition given under the auspices of the Baltimore architectural club and the Municipal art society: galleries of the Peabody institute, December 12th to 24th, 1904.
Peabody 720.6 B197 QUARTO

Maps and Atlases

An Index to Maps in the John Work Garrett Library. [Baltimore]: The Johns Hopkins University, [1993]. A handlist of flat maps in the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House.

MSEL Gen Ref  Z6027.U5 J6 1993 Quarto
MSEL Stacks Z6027.U5 J6 1993 Quarto
MSEL Special Collections Ref Z6027.U5 J6 1993 Quarto
Garrett Ref. Z6027.U5 J6 1993 Quarto

Map collection. Flat maps. Baltimore: George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins University, 1992.  A handlist of flat maps in the George Peabody Library.

MSEL Government Publications-Atlas Collection GA 195 .B34 G46 1992f QUARTO
Peabody (ask at front desk)

American History

Seventeenth Century Maryland: A Bibliography. Baltimore: John Work Garrett Library, 1949. Compiled by Elizabeth Baer. Introduction by Lawrence C. Wroth.See also Garrett, John Work. “Seventeenth Century Books Relating to Maryland,” Maryland Historical Magazine 34 (1939), 1-39.

MSEL Special Collections; Garrett Library Reference Z1293 .B3 1949 Q

A Hand-list of the Friedenwald Collection Presented to the Johns Hopkins University Library in 1937 by Herbert Friedenwald, Ph. D., A. B. 1890 in this University.A typewritten list of items in the Friedenwald collection of books on the American Revolution and preceding events.

MSEL Special Collections E173.5 .J65

Lee, John Wesley Murray. A Bibliography of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, 1827 to 1879. London: Chiswick Press, 1879.  Based in part on T. Harrison Garrett’s collection (shelved at the Garrett Library, 3rd floor office, but uncataloged as of January 2008), this bibliography appears to have been sponsored by T. Harrison Garrett and privately printed at his expense. All of JHU’s copies include presentation inscriptions from THG. Lee was apparently THG’s librarian.

Garrett New Library Z7235.U5 B25 1879 (three copies, two of which include handwritten notations of Garrett Library holdings. One of them is Mendes Cohen’s copy; might his collection have wound up at the Garrett as well?)
Peabody 016 .385 B197L
MSEL Special Collections HE2795.B3 Z53
Libraries Service Center HB30 .A v.89

Civil War Resources in the Special Collections Department. [Baltimore]: The Johns Hopkins University, [1994].

MSEL Stacks, Special Collections Ref, and Garrett Ref. E 647 .M5 1994
Peabody (ask at front desk)

The Birney Anti-slavery Collection of the Johns Hopkins University.   Baltimore: M.S. Eisenhower Library, Special Collections Division, 1985.

In 2007, the Sheridan Libraries online catalog was updated with a searchable note indicating items listed in this publication.

MSEL Special Collections, Sp Collns Ref, and Garrett Ref Z 1249 .S6 M54 1985 Quarto

Hollander, Jacob Harry. A collection of books dealing with Haiti and Santo Domingo from the private library of Professor Jacob H. Hollander. Presented to the Johns Hopkins University in 1936. [Baltimore, 1938]. [1 p.l., 6 numb. l. 25 cm.] Type-written.

MSEL Special Collections  F1902 .J65. This list has not been confirmed, nor has an attempt been made to track the collection, as of 2007.

Economics and Social History

Reynolds, Lloyd G. and Charles C. Chillingworth. Trade Union Publications … 1850-1941 (Baltimore: JHU Press, 1944). Vol 1: Description and Bibliography. Vols 2-3: Subject index. A revision of Barnett. This collection is largely in offsite storage and much of it may still circulate.

MSEL Special Collections Reference (vol. 1 only: Description and Bibliography). Z 7164 .T7 R4 1944
LSC  HD6515.9.R46 (includes vols 2-3: subject indices)

Barnett, George E. A trial bibliography of American trade-union publications (Baltimore: JHU Press, 1904 and 1907). Revised and updated by Reynolds and Chillingworth.

MSEL Special Collections HD6515.9 .B26 1904 and HD6515.9 B26 1907
Marsh, Elsie A.G., compiler. The Economic Library of Jacob Hollander, Ph.D. 
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1937. It is not clear how much of this collection is now part of Special Collections.

European History, Politics, Law

Bluntschli, Johann Caspar. Katalog der Bibliothek des verstorbenen Herrn Geh. Rath's u. Prof. Dr. J.C. Bluntschli in Heidelberg.

A lithographic reproduction of a handwritten catalog of Bluntschli’s library, ca. 1881. The library was added to the JHU Libraries en bloc, and is now dispersed among the MSEL Stacks, Special Collections, and Libraries Service Center; some items may also have been withdrawn. In 2005, Special Collections began a spreadsheet listing the titles from the library and attempting to note shelf locations where possible.

MSEL Special Collections JX 2776 .K3 1881. Three copies. Copy 3 has list of works by Bluntschli ([6] p.) inserted.


Gilman, Daniel Coit. Bluntschli, Lieber and Laboulaye. [Baltimore]: Privately printed for a few friends in Baltimore, 1884.

MSEL Special Collections JC204 .G55 1884. Seven copies.

Adams, Herbert Baxter. Bluntschli’s Life-work. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1884.

MSEL Special Collections CT90 .A v.6 and v. 94
MSEL Special Collections JX 2776 .A21. Five copies.

English Literature

The Book of the Tudor and Stuart club of the Johns Hopkins University. [Baltimore] 1927.

Includes a list of books from the library of Edward Revere Osler, and notable books added to the library, in the collection of the JHU Tudor and Stuart Club. The books are now shelved at the John Work Garrett Library and MSEL Special Collections

MSEL Special Collections PO6.J66 1927. Several copies.
LSC PO6.J66 1927. Two copies.

Bibliotheca E : R : O.: handlist of the books sent to Johns Hopkins University, March, 1922. Oxford, 1922.1a. ; 8o. Typewritten. The collection includes early eds. of Goldsmith, Keats, Milton, Montaigne, Shelley, Walton, and Whitman. These books are now in the Tudor and Stuart Club, founded by Sir Wm. and Lady Osler at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (on the model of the Elizabethan Club at Yale), in memory of their son, 2nd Lieut. E.R. Osler, R.F.A., who died Aug. 30th, 1917, in Flanders, of wounds received the previous day. MSEL Special Collections, in process.

Johnson, Francis R. A Critical Bibliography of the Works of Edmund Spenser Printed before 1700. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933.

Based in large measure on the Spenser holdings in the collection of the Johns Hopkins Tudor and Stuart Club, now shelved in the Garrett Library and MSEL Special Collections.

MSEL Stacks PO2360.Z9 J6
MSEL Special Collections PO2360.Z9 J6
Garrett Library Reference PO2360.Z9 J6 1933

Lord Byron: A Collection of 429 Items. Intro Jerome J. McGann. Dorking: C.C. Kohler, 1980.  Sale catalogue for a Byron collection acquired by the Friends of the Library for the MSEL Special Collections.

Uncataloged. Available by request in MSEL Special Collections, curators’ offices.

German Literature

Fifty Years of German Drama: A Bibliography of Modern German Drama, 1880-1930, Based on the Loewenberg Collection in the Johns Hopkins University Library. Compiled by Marianne Schmidt and Mrs. Edward Fenimore. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941.

The copies in Special Collections Reference and in the office of the Curator of Rare Books are interleaved, with additional handwritten entries for later additions to the collection.

MSEL Stacks PM4606 .J66
Special Collections PM4606 .J66
Special Collections Z2234.D7 J6 1941
Special Collections Reference PM4606 .J66

French Literature

Three Paris Theatres: Gaîté, Ambigu-Comique, Porte Saint-Martin: A Selection of Plays Presented 1772-1863.

Photocopied handlist of plays from these three Boulevard theatres in MSEL Special Collections.  Also available on-line.

Uncataloged. Available by request in MSEL Special Collections, curators’ offices.

Judaica

Catalogue of the Leopold Strouse Rabbinical Library Giving a List of the Accessions by Annual Gift from Mr. Strouse during the Years 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University library, 1900.

The collection is now dispersed among MSEL Special Collections, the MSEL Stacks, and the Libraries Service Center. In 2006 an effort was made to retrieve remaining titles in Hebrew and Yiddish from the open stacks.

MSEL Special Collections PT4853.C2 J6 1900


Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian Language and Literature

Catalog of the Oriental Language Books in the Hauer Collection. Baltimore 1945. Includes Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian books.

MSEL Stacks & Special Collections DS705.5 .J65 1945 Q
See also the provenance files in MSEL Special Collections

John Work Garrett Library

John Work Garrett and his Library at Evergreen House. [Baltimore] 1944.

A privately printed description of the Garrett Library, reprinting a talk by JWG and another by one of his close associates.

MSEL Stacks Z733.B2 J6
MSEL Special Collections; and Garrett Library Ref Z989.G25 J61 1944 QUARTO

An exhibition of books and maps, the Evergreen library, November - December 1945.  [Baltimore 1945]. At head of title: America 1492-1800, Maryland 1632-1777. Mimeographed. Moved from LSC to Garrett 1/2008. Z1207 .J65 1945

Illustrated Books, Nineteenth Century: An Exhibition, October- November, 1947. John Work Garrett Library. Baltimore: [Schneidereith], 1947.

LSC Z1023 .J57 1947
Peabody 655.54 J65
IHM Z1023 .J65 1947

There were at least three printed exhibition catalogues of T. Harrison Garrett’s print exhibitions at the Peabody Institute, published in the 1880s; there are copies of these, uncataloged, filed with the THG papers at Evergreen.

MS catalogue of T. Harrison Garrett’s library. Garrett New Library, uncataloged. Possibly compiled by J.W.M. Lee?

Garrett Library: handlist of uncataloged broadsides

Garrett Library: handlist of uncataloged pamphlets

Available by request at MSEL Special Collections or at the Garrett Library

George Peabody Library

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore. First Catalogue: 1883-92. Second Catalogue: 1896-1905. Reprinted G.K. Hall 1961.

A massive dictionary catalog consisting not only of the Peabody’s monographic holdings and journal subscriptions, but also offering analytics on the periodicals and multi-volume sets in the library, and thus serving as a still-useful subject index to the journal literature of the nineteenth century. The second catalogue supplements but does not duplicate the first.

Peabody Library; Garrett Library: Ask at front desk.
MSEL General Reference. Z 881 .B361 QUARTO
MSEL Special Collections Reference. Z881 .B36
Garrett copy is a specially bound Trustee’s copy.

First Catalogue, vol. 1 (A-C) has been made available via Google Books (2007).

Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Proposed to be Purchased for the Library of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. Baltimore: J.D. Toy, 1861. 

Peabody Library 027.07526 P352G C3 1861 (is this the copy in Librarian’s Office?). Probably also a copy in the Peabody Institute archives? Available via Google Books (2007).

Catalogue of Books to be Purchased by The Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore No. 2. Baltimore: John D. Toy, 1863.

Copy in Peabody Library Librarian’s Office is annotated and interleaved. Is this the copy cataloged as 027.07526 P352G C3 1863? Probably also a copy in the Peabody Institute archives.

A List of Titles of Books on Printing and Allied Arts and Crafts Contained in the Collections of the Peabody Institute and the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City.  Baltimore: Ottmar Mergenthaler School of Printing, 1926.  Many, though not all, of these books remain in the Peabody Library.

Peabody  016.655 P354L DUODECIMO

Etching and Engraving. A List of Books in the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Library of the Peabody Institute Relating to the Art of Engraving on Metal, Wood and Stone... (Baltimore 1923).

Many, though not all, of these books remain in the Peabody Library.

Peabody 027.07526 P352G E8
LSC NE 1965 .E62

Lives and Works of the Painters: A Catalogue of Books in the Enoch Pratt Free Library and in the Library of the Peabody Institute Relating to the Lives and Works of the Painters Represented in the Walters Gallery. Baltimore: Henry Walters, 1917.  Many, though not all, of these books remain in the Peabody Library.

Peabody 027.07526 P352G L5

Surprises & Delights from a Century of Collecting. Baltimore 1978.  This was a major exhibition celebrating highlights from the Peabody collections.

MSEL Special Collections

Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library, 1982.  Brochure describing various collections in MSEL and Garrett libraries, right before Hopkins took over the Peabody. Largely repeated (and occasionally superseded) by the department’s present Web site.

Uncataloged. Inquire at MSEL Special Collections. Need to catalog a copy.

Ex Libris [JHU Libraries newsletter]

Contains numerous articles describing or reporting the acquisition of various collections.  The first series (1931-63) is available in the cage and at LSC. A binder with the new series (1974-) is in the office of the Curator of Rare Books with extracts relating specifically to individual collections within Special Collections.

Inquire at MSEL Special Collections.

The JHU Circular

Contains librarians’ reports which often give general descriptions of recent acquisitions and gifts.

MSEL Special Collections Reference, A-Level

Music

Guide to the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. [Baltimore]: Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, 1984.




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