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Among Harvard's Libraries: Looking at Books, Learning from It, Passing It Along Among Harvard's Libraries: Looking at books, learning from it, passing it along The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Stoddard, Roger E. 1992. Among Harvard's Libraries: Looking at books, learning from it, passing it along. Harvard Library Bulletin 2 (3), Fall 1991: 4-17. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42661985 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA 4 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN LOOKING AT BOOKS, LEARNING take through the gigantic telescope, reveals to FROM IT, PASSING IT ALONG him nothing of the intense concentrated watching by which the observer wins his Roger E. Stoddard higher reward. The nightly vision of the astro- nomer, revealing myriad worlds in the vague From my European acquisitions trip six nebulous spaces of heaven, is not for him; he years ago, subject of my talk and essay, I must take the great results of astronomy for returned with three emblems of my journey: granted, since no man capable of original "Aux lecteurs 'fervents,' salut" by research has the time to prepare for the Gerard Blanchard, typographe,in a re- uninitiated the attendant circumstances cent book on design that I found at essential to his more difficult investigations, or Beaubourg. to train their eyes to see what he sees." 2 Here is a good example of what Agassiz "Questa sera spegni la TV . Un could convey: libro e meglio" in Hoepli's bookshop window in Milan. The similarity of motion in Families is another subject well worth the consid- "One fondly hopes that this piece, too eration of the naturalist: the soaring of short to be boring, will amuse by a the Birds of Prey,-the heavy flapping philosophical tone well suited to the of the wings in the Gallinaceous taste of the moment" by Marc Michel Birds,-the floating of the Swallows, Rey in his introduction to one of with their short cuts and angular Hemsterhuis's Letters in r 770. tums,-the hopping of the Sparrows,- the deliberate walk of the Hens and the As I composed my thoughts about my strut of the Cocks,-the waddle of the experiences abroad, I began to see the rele- Ducks and Geese,-the slow, heavy vance to my line of work of some of the things creeping of the Land-Turtle,-the I had been reading by or about the great natu- graceful flight of the Sea-Turtle under ROGERE. STODDARDis Cura- ral scientist Louis Agassiz. In his eulogy, the water,-the leaping and swim- tor of Rare Books in the Har- William James exposed Agassiz's method: ming of the Frog,-the swift run of vard College Library and Senior "'Go to Nature; take the facts into your own the Lizard, like a flash of green or red Lecturer on English in the hands; look, and see for yourself!'-these were light in the sunshine . In short, Department of English and the maxims which Agassiz preached wherever every Family of animals has its charac- American Literature and Lan- he went, and their effect on pedagogy was teristic action and its peculiar voice; guage, Harvard University. electric. The extreme rigor of his devotion to and yet so little is this endless variety this concrete method ofleaming was the natu- of rhythm and cadence both of motion ral consequence of his own peculiar type of and sound in the organic world under- intellect, in which the capacity for abstraction stood, that we lack words to express and causal reasoning and tracing chains of con- one half its richness and beauty. 3 sequences from hypotheses was so much less developed than the genius for acquaintance From the 28th of April, 1985, when I fled with vast volumes of detail, and for seizing Visiting Committee weekend for London, upon analogies and relations of the more until the 2 r st of May when I returned from proximate and concrete kind." 1 The last word Milan, I looked at books in fifty-three on the discipline of observation was set forth bookshops, libraries, museums, and private by Agassiz in his Lowell lectures: "The glance collections in London, Long Sutton and at the moon, or at Jupiter's satellites, which the Bourne (Lincolnshire), Oxford, Blackheath, chance visitor at an observatory is allowed to Sevenoaks, Paris, and Milan. I will tell you This essay was prepared as a talk for the Athenacum Group 1 William James, Louis Agassiz: Words Spoken by Professor and delivered at its Boston meeting two days after my re- William James at the Reception of the Amen'can Society of turn from Milan. Then it was offered as a brown-bag lun- Naturalists by the President and Fellows of Harvard Colfr;qe, at cheon talk for Harvard librarians. After all the books and Cambridge, on December 30, 1896 (Cambridge: Printed for manuscripts arrived in Cambridge. I took slides and pre- the University, 1897), pp. 9-10. sented it as a slide lecture at the Columbia University School Louis Agassiz, Methods of Study in Natural History (Boston: of Library Service, the John Carter Brown Library, the Ticknor and Fields, I 863), pp. 296-97. Grolier Club, the New York Harvard Club, the University J Idem, pp. I 24-25. of California at Davis, and finally, to a class in the Columbia Rare Book School. Among Harvard's Libraries 5 about that experience, but I will not bore you with a complete account, and I will conclude with some remarks about ourselves and our own libraries, demonstrating how far short of Agassiz's ideal I have fallen and how close you can come if you will try. The purpose of my trip was library acquisitions, but I looked at a few books for other reasons, as you will see. I began my peregrinations with a full day at Bernard Quaritch's, where an energetic, young staff-led by Nicholas Poole-Wilson and Arthur Freeman-with a rich line of credit maintains a marvelous stock of science, economics, continental literature, and Eng- lish literature-among other things. A Japa- nese stock, as they say. And what prices! Everything, whether French romantiques, Humanism, or a Spanish Vives on the edu- cation of women, seemed to be 1 50 percent of retail, sure defense against raids by special- ist dealers on a dependable stock of rarities for collectors and librarians. I left a stack for quo- tation, wondering what we could afford (. !f:t./ ~}_-,;;,-.- among our desiderata. Early books are capi- ,f VKW tal investments nowadays. .,,.,,., -. -- . ·,r;,,*"'fll~ Next day at Pickering & Chatto, now 1ofwtp1',,li:IIJUIK,.,,,._..ffllYlll,i, , owned by Sir William Rees-Mogg, I had the thrill of browsing the remnants of Dudley Massey's lifetime of squirreling away obscure rarities while he supported himself by selling other items. There was a Congreve, probably the last one lacking at Harvard, but it wanted its half-title, and the paper was browned: $2,500 for one of the three copies known on ordinary paper-in addition to the three fine- fiable to those well acquainted with the reli- Samuel Ward, The Papists Powder- paper copies. More to my liking was gious and social history of the day; and a Treason (Germany? 1689?) Bromley's, that is Anthony Wilson's, Cata- wonderful satirical print showing that Sir logue efEngraved British Portraits(1793), with Robert Walpole, though out of office, con- Sir Christopher Sykes's bookplate by J. E. tinued to pull the strings, as if behind a Millais, but owned previously by Sir Mark screen. Also from Dudley's things came a rare Masterman Sykes, who had used it as a cata- survival, a conger document for an early log of his own portrait print collection. nineteenth-century edition of Goldsmith's There, for instance, you find the description Animated Nature. At the top is a draft adver- of the Marshall engraving of Thomas Scott, tisement and at the bottom a list of the share- S.T.B. et Geograph., with Sykes's annotation holders and their parts. Overleaf are the "Gd." We purchased a copy of that very expenses of the edition (note that the print from Dudley Massey's cache: Thomas engraved plates were the most costly item by Scott S. T.B., author of numerous pamphlets more than half), the payments of the copy- whose false imprints or lack of imprint have right holders according to their shares, and puzzled bibliographers. From the same lot the dates and costs of the advertisements. we got an unrecorded German rendition of a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights Powder Plot broadside, the English original of my first week I spent in the North Library of which rests unique at Harvard; a later anti- of the British Library looking first at La Quaker broadside which proves that no Mettrie, the eighteenth-century materialist number of Quaker books could ever out- philosopher whose bibliography I am essay- weigh a single copy of the Bible; a satire on ing, obtaining a photocopy of a cancellans leaf some evangelicals who are doubtless identi- so I could compare it later with the cancelland 6 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN The Quakers Bookes at the Bibliotheque Nationale; then begin- Some sight. One came later on from (London, ca. 1685?) ning to look at the elegant philosophical Theodore Hofmann. But for us at Maggs's works of the late eighteenth-century amateur there were ephemeral pamphlets and broad- Hemsterhuis.
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