Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).
Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.
Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies.
Art of writing, 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D., illustrated in a collection of original documents written on vellum paper, papyrus, silk, linen, bamboo, or inscribed on clay, marble, steatite, jasper, haematite, matrix of emerald and chalcedony, exhibiting forty styles of scripts in the languages of Europe, Asia and Africa, 1930
Book bindings: historical & decorative, 1927
Bucheinbände aus dem XIV-XIX jahrhundert in der Landesbibliothek zu Darmstadt [Book covers from the XIV-XIX century in the Landesibibliothek zu Darmstadt],
Civitates orbis terrarum, 'The towns of the world,' 1572-1618 v.1-3, 1966
Aldine 1872-3, 1876/1877
Art and letters 1889 v. 1-4
Art journal (London) 1850-53
Art journal (NY) v.1 1875-77
Artnews 1926-31
Figaro-Salon (v.1-5, 1885)
London Art-Journal 1871
Print-collector's quarterly, 1911-1938
A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters; in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures; a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference to the galleries and private collections, in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools: by John Smith, dealer in pictures, 1829-42
France under Louis XIV (Le grand siècle) its arts, its ideas. From the French by Mrs. Cashel Hoey, 1897
Groot schilderboek, waar in de schilderkonst in al haar deelen grondig werd onderweezen… [Great painting book, thoroughly taught the painting art in all its parts], 1740
Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, dans le Cabinet du roi [Collection of prints from the most beautiful paintings and from the most beautiful designs that are in France, in the King's Cabinet; also known as the Cabinet or Recueil Crozat], 1763
Rembrandt de l'Ermitage Impérail de Saint-Pétersbourg. Quarante Planches gravées à l'eauforte [Rembrandt of the Imperial Hermitage of St. Petersburg. Forty boards engraved with aquatint], 1872
Discours historique sur la gravure en taille-douce et sur la gravure en bois [Historical treatise on intaglio engraving and wood engraving], 1808
Kupferstichkabinet. Nachbildungen von werken der graphischen kunst vom ende des xv. bis zum anfang des xix. Jahrhunderts [Print Room. Replicas of graphic art works from the end of the xv. until the beginning of the xix. century],1897-1901
Mythology-Sculpture. A book of France 17th Century engravings [Folio of garden statuary from Versailles, the Louvre, and the Tuilleries, 1680-1715]
The Print-Collector's Quarterly, 1911-1938
Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720), 1914
Guide to the knowledge of pottery, porcelain, and other objects of vertu, 1857
Matériaux et documents d'architecture et de sculpture [Architectural and Sculptural Materials and Documents], v.1-10, 1872-1921