June 2005--Rare Book News |
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Dr. and Mrs. William J. Schull have donated a collection of antiquarian books to Raynor Memorial Libraries. The gift includes several first editions and spans a wide array of topics ranging from the history of East Asia, the American West and the Society of Jesus, a 1786 essay addressing slavery in North America, and a 1739 edition of Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. |
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Perhaps the most valuable book
in the collection is a 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World, a work better known as
Gulliver's Travels, which tells the tale of the four fantastic voyages
of Lemuel Gulliver, a British surgeon. Scholars of the 18th century consider
Swift's fantasy a satire of seminal importance. Marquette is the first
library in Wisconsin to own a first edition of the work and one of only 20
in North America. Dr. and Mrs. Schull decided to donate the book to
Marquette, in part, after they learned that the University has two faculty
members who are scholars of Swift: Dr. Albert J. Rivero and Dr. Stephen E.
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| The Schulls also donated Emmanuel H.D.
Domenech's Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America
(1860). Also a first edition, this two-volume set contains 58
hand-tinted maps of the American West. The author was a French missionary
who served as the private chaplain to Emperor Maximilian during his
residence in Mexico. The book outlines the early American frontiers of
California, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and
Utah, and much of the content is compiled from the reports of the surveys of
the Pacific Railroad. The second volume describes various Native American
tribes, their origin, customs, languages, character and antiquities. In 1997 Marquette University presented Dr. Schull (Arts ’46, Grad ’47) with the All-University Alumni Award for his eminent career and leadership in the study of human genetics. |
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