Summer Exhibit - New Highlights of the Rare Book Collection

Exhibit poster

Just opened: a summer exhibition of new additions to the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection, including:

--a set of lecture notes by an American student attending William Blackstone's lectures at All Soul's, Oxford, in 1758;
--a manuscript poem composed by Blackstone as a student; 
--Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," in its original publication in five issues of The New Yorker (1963);
--a pirated edition of Catherine the Great's Instructions to the Legislative Commission (1769); 
--a courtroom drawing of Harold Medina, as he oversaw a trial of the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party in 1949.

Come meet these and other new highlights of the Rare Book Collection in this summer exhibition. 

Recent Acquisitions: New Additions to the Rare Book Collection
Lillian Goldman Law Library
Rare Book Exhibition Areas, Levels 2 & 3
June 23 - August 27, 2025

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Rare Books

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