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:Â 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 GaoithÃn (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:Â The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh (London, 1629)
2022 April: Â 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 MacGaoithÃn, 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
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
2016 December: The Antiquities of Canterbury 1640
2016 August: Monasticon Anglicanum 1655
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:Â ‘Considering the nature of birds‘.
2012 October:Â Â Â Â Â Anatomy and the Baroque: FREDERIK RUYSCH, THESAURUS ANATOMICUS 1709-26
2012 September: The Etymologicum Magnum of 1499.
2012 August: ‘Loyalty binds me’.
2012 July:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Summer Roses by Crispijn van de Pass (1589-1670)
2012 June:Â Â Â Â Â Â The Ship of Fools
2012 May:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘Travelling to Louisiana in 1720’.
2012 April:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘The Dancing Earth’.
2012 March:Â Â Â Â ‘Chocolate is good for you’.
2012 February: ‘Worth’s oldest book’.