Book of the Month

Book of the Month

Books of the Month in 2025

April 2025: Daniel Beeckman, A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East-Indies … (London, 1718). Text: Ms Apriliya Rida Nabila (MA in Public History, UCD).

Books of the Month in 2024

December 2024: Hudibras (London, 1694), by Samuel Butler. Text by Ms Hannah Mattsen, Fourth Year Student, English Literature, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

September 2024: Micrographia (London, 1667), by Robert Hooke. Text by Ms Eleanor Mooney, Transition Year, Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin.

July 2024: Mare Clausum Seu De Dominio Maris (London, 1635) by John Selden. Text by Ms. Deirdre Kennedy, third year student of Educational Sociology and Museum Studies, Purchase College, State University of New York.

May 2024: The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft by John Webster. Text by Ms Emily Higgins, Third Year Student, Creative Writing and Literature & Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, USA.

Books of the Month in 2023

December 2023 ‘Histoire Physique de la Mer (Amsterdam, 1725)‘, by Mr Antoine Mac Gaoithín (Library Assistant of the Edward Worth Library).

August 2023: ‘Chapman on Homer‘ by Ms Sofia Podgorski, Third Year Student, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Boston University, USA.

Books of the Month in 2022

2022 December: Stonehenge

2022 August:  The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh (London, 1629)

2022 April:  The workes of Geffray Chaucer (London, 1532)

2022 July: Camden’s Britannia (London, 1722).

Books of the Month in 2021

2021 August: William Cowper’s The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (Oxford, 1698). The text is by Ms Sarah Horder, MA in Public History and Cultural Heritage, TCD.

2021 June: Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (London, 1676). The text, written to mark the 400th anniversary of the first edition of the work, is by Professor Brendan Kelly, Dun’s Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.

2021 April: Henry Maundrell’s A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 (London, 1714). The text is by Mr Antoine MacGaoithín, Library Assistant of the Edward Worth Library.

2021 February: John Speed’s The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (London, 1676). The text is by Mr Charles Watson, TCD M. Phil. In Public History and Cultural Heritage.

Books of the Month in 2018.

2018 July: Jacques Rohault

Books of the Month in 2017.

2017: August: The Expert Midwife London 1637

2017 July: Mauriceau’s Diseases of Women with Child

2017 June: John Locke

2017 February: Anthony Collins’ Discourse on Free Thinking

Books of the Month in 2016.

2016 December: The Antiquities of Canterbury 1640

2016 August: Monasticon Anglicanum 1655

Books on the Month in 2015:

2015 December: Spanish Antiquities

2015 November: Roman Catacombs

2015 October: Agincourt

2015 September: Dryden

2015 August: Louis XIV’s Medals

2015 July: Publishing Paradise

2015 June: Robert Dudley’s Magna Carta

2015 February: Ranuccio Farnese’s Aldine.

Books of the Month in 2014:

2014 November The Moon

2014 October: Cults, Hieroglyphs and Egyptomania at the Worth Library.

2014 September: Israelites in the Antiquarian period.

2014 August: Scheffer’s Winter Wonderland: Lapland as seen through anthropological eyes.

2014 July: Aldrovandi’s Monsters

2014 June: The Worth Family Bible.

2014 May: El Escorial

2014 April: The Anatomy of Plants

2014 March: Shamrocks

2014 February: The Nut Brown Maid

2014 January: Reading Herodotus

Books of the Month in 2013:

2013 December: Christmas Island

2013 November: William Whiston’s A New Theory of the Earth

2013 October: The Lion King of Kandy

2013 September: John Smith’s A Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles.

2013 August: A binding belonging to Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France.

2013 July: John Freind’s History of Physick

2013 June: Kings and Queens of Spain

2013 May: Bishops of Aberdeen

2013 March:  Papal Conclaves

2013 February: Virgil: Prince of Poets

2013 January:   Strange Creatures and New Beginnings: The Voyages of François Leguat.

Books of the Month in 2012:

2012 December: The Salisbury Primer (1514)

2012 November:  ‘Considering the nature of birds.

2012 October:      Anatomy and the Baroque: FREDERIK RUYSCH, THESAURUS ANATOMICUS 1709-26

2012 September: The Etymologicum Magnum of 1499.

2012 August:  ‘Loyalty binds me’.

2012 July:        Summer Roses by Crispijn van de Pass (1589-1670)

2012 June:       The Ship of Fools

2012 May:         ‘Travelling to Louisiana in 1720’.

2012 April:        ‘The Dancing Earth’.

2012 March:     ‘Chocolate is good for you’.

2012 February: ‘Worth’s oldest book’.

 

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