Special Collections recently digitized its holdings of art books and periodicals from the Rare Book and Victorian Collections. They can be found in the BYU collection at the Internet Archive. To search for this content in the Internet Archive, use the subject search facet to limit results to topics like art, artists, painters, or specific …
The Lee Library recently digitized a well-known book of early modern English science: the 1633 edition of John Gerard’s Herball, or Generall historie of plantes (online at https://archive.org/details/herballorgeneral1633gera). Gerard was a surgeon and herbalist who curated the Royal College of Physicians’ garden of medicinal plants. He first published his herbal, which is a type of …
The Lee Library’s multi-year project to digitize our collection of French Political Pamphlets from the 16th and 17th centuries is now complete: a total of 2,156 pamphlets are available at the library’s Digital Collections site. You can link directly to the French Political Pamphlets project at http://lib.byu.edu/digital/fpp/.