"I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight."
- Johannes Kepler on the solar system
Kepler's De Stella Nova in pede Serpentarii
with works by Paracelsus and Robert Fludd
THE JOHN WINTHROP COLLECTION
science and medical books
"They call me the inimitable, and the incomparable,
and the sprightly and whimsical ... I wonder if I am."
- Max BeerBohm
Beerbohm's Rosetti and His Circle
with works by Edith Wharton and Maxfield Parrish, Frans Masereel, Eugene Delacroix
THE JOHN CLEVE GREEN COLLECTION
books related to the fine arts
"Hear, hear, Ambrosio!... scarcely could I propose crimes
so quick as you performed them.
You are mine, and heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power!"
- Matthew Lewis
- Matthew Lewis' The Monk
with works by Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Thomas Love Peacock & Charles Brockden Brown
THE JAMES HAMMOND COLLECTION
gothic fiction
