Brandeis University Libraries
Recent Acquisitions

The Canterbury tales : the new Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile (of Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9) / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Daniel Woodward and Martin Stevens.
Tokyo : Yushodo Co. ; San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Press, 1995.
Limited edition of 250 copies.
Rare++ PR1866 .W76 1995

Sacerdotale Romanum.
Venice: Dominico Nicolini,1585. Quarto. 19th century decorative blindstamped brown calf (worn; restored at spine; Aa7 misbound; overpastes to portions of several leaves; upper margins shaved in several instances just affecting running titles). Early signature to title-page. Gothic text printed in red and black. With numerous decorative woodblock initials and vignettes throughout. The treatise concerning ecclesiastical music begins on the recto of leaf 319 and is continuous to the verso of leaf 328 and is illustrated by a Guidonian hand, a chart of pitches and musical examples. Ex-libris Henri Barbier, with his attractive pictorial bookplate by Pugin. [Rare] BX 2036 .A5 1585

Catch-22 / Joseph Heller.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961. Signed copy of this landmark American novel, in excellent condition with an intact book jacket. The book enhances the library's Heller Collection, which includes the original manuscript to Catch-22. [Heller] PS3558 .E476 C3