Established in 1977 by Julia B. Leisenring (College for Women 1970), this fund supports acquisitions for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
The fund has enabled the Library to acquire a number of fascinating works including:
Richard Bradley, A Complete Body of Husbandry: Collected from the Practice and Experience of the Most Considerable Farmers in Britain, 1727.
Marianne-Agnes Pillement Fauques, L'histoire de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1759.
Lorenzo de' Medici, Poesie del Magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici, 1791.
For faculty, students, and visiting scholars, this fund supports collection development that provides the basis for new understanding of the past.
Materials purchased through this fund include:
- Lettres de Mademoiselle Aïssé a Madame C--------- : qui contiennent plusieurs anecdotes de l'histoire du tems, depuis l'année 1726 jusqu'en 1733 : précédées d'un narré très-court de l'histoire de Mademoiselle Aïssé, pour servir à l'intelligence de ses lettres / avec des notes, dont quelques-unes sont de Mr. de Voltaire
- [Albertus Magnus Arcana quaedam Alberti Magni aliorumque de secretis mulierum. [Holland?, c. 1800], 4to, approximately 500 pp., manuscript written on paper in a more or less uniform hand, mostly in brown ink, 9-14 lines to a page, modern white calf.]
- Brief memoirs of the life of Anne Freame : with her death-bed sayings
- Modern thinker, an organ for the most advanced speculations in philosophy, science, sociology, and religion.
- Happy kids present Sally Dingle picture land paper doll cutouts.
- Napoléon le grand : médaillons historiques / par un ancien soldat de l'Empire
- Adelaide Horatio Seymour Spencer commonplace book, 1848-1851.
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