Special Collections and Art Books, with Cassie Brand

NBS Bibliotalk: The Coin Book Lover Podcast

English - December 31, 2020 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Previous Episode: The World of Bookbinding, with Scott Kellar

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On this episode we talk to Cassie Brand, Curator of Rare Books at Olin Library, Washington University in St. Louis. We talk about her professional background, the collection at the Olin library, and the world of rare book collecting outside of numismatics.

The alchemy book we discuss is shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP2c1_Q6Z6M

You can view other pieces in the WUSTL collection of rare books at https://library.wustl.edu/spec/rarebooks/

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