Treasures of the Huntington Library

Selected images from The Huntington's manuscript, historic photograph and rare book collections.
Selected Manuscripts Selected Rare Books
Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," illuminated manuscript on vellum. England, c.1400-1405. ("The Ellesmere Chaucer") EL 26 C 9, fol. 72. ©

William Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, London 1623. (First Folio). Title page. ©
"North Africa" (South at the top) from a Portolan Atlas on vellum produced in France in 1547. ("The Vallard Atlas"). HM 29(7) © B. W. Pierce, Birdseye View of Los Angeles, 1894. ©
Page from Benjamin Franklin's autograph Autobiography, setting out his schedule for the day. 1771-1790. HM 9999, p. 99 ©

The Gutenberg Bible, Mainz, Germany. c. 1455 (2 vols.). Vol 1, l 130. ©

Autograph letter from Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, April 30, 1864. HM 25159 ©

 Jan Jansson, Novus Atlas, Amsterdam, 1647-62. 11 vols. World map by Henricus Hondius. ©
Title page from the original autograph manuscript of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" HM 924. © John James Audubon, Birds of America, London, 1827-38. Roseate spoonbill. Plate CCCXXI. ©
"The Annunciation" miniature from a Book of Hours produced in the Workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford, France, mid-15th century. HM 1100, fol. 28 © The Whole Book of Psalms, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1640. (The Bay Psalm Book). Psalm XXIII. ©
Selected Historic Photographs    
Album 300 vol. 1, p. 63 (#7239). Capt. Huff's Commissary Camp. Gettysburg. © George Caitlin, North American Indian Portfolio, 1844. Illustration of Bear Hunt. ©
James E. Taylor coll. "Contrabands at Fullers House, Cumberland Landing. 1862. ©

Guiliano Dati, La Lettera Dellisola, Florence, 1495. Poetical paraphrase of the first letter of Columbus with illustrations. ©

RB 137503 (1341) "Round House at Yuma" ©

 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, London, 1590. Woodcut of the Redcrosse Knight slaying the dragon. ©
Whitt. Coll. # 2420. Dupont Roadster, 1929. ©

Robert John Thornton, The Temple of Flora: or, Garden of Nature, London, 1799. Tulips. ©
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