Rare Book News & Events Update

Join RBSCD for our next Thursdays at 3:00 talk!

Rare and Unique works on Ichthyology from 1500-1900 at the Library of Congress
by Andrew Gaudio
February 27, 2020 at 3:00pm in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Room

In this talk Mr. Gaudio will explore The Fishes of North America (1898), a periodical acquired by the Science, Business, and Technology Division and placed in the custody of the Rare Books and Special Collections Division. This talk will focus primarily on the editor and publisher of The Fishes of North America, William Harris, who sought to create a publication that brought together ichthyology and angling. This talk will explore how Harris hired an artist to accompany him throughout his fishing adventures. It will also discuss the process by which images of fish moved from canvas, to print, and, eventually, into a periodical with Harris’ accompanying text.

Andrew Gaudio is a reference librarian and collection specialist for classics, the middle ages and linguistics in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  He received his Master of Arts in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2012 and his Masters in Library Science from Simmons College in 2013. Gaudio has several publications of important Latin translations, including first Latin grammar of Vietnamese from 1561 (Journal of Vietnamese Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 2019, and several articles on in the first poem about New England, entitled Nov-Anglia, 1625. (Notes and Queries, vol. 66, no. 4, Dec. 2019 and vol. 66, no. 1, March. 2019)

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As always, talks are held in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205) on the second floor of the Jefferson Building. If you have any questions, feel free contact us via Ask a Librarian.