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22.10.2014
The exhibition „Balloons and the Art of Aerial Navigation“
The Academy of Sciences Library would like to invite you to the exhibition “Balloons and the Art of Aerial Navigation” in the entry area of the study from 31 October to 31 December 2014. The exhibition presents aeronautic literature from the historical collection of the Academy of Sciences Library. The library holds almost seventy works on this topic from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibition focuses on the history of this collection and presents individual editions of selected works. Read more »
5.9.2013
18the-century foreign-language bohemica online
The database Bibliography of Foreign-Language Printed Bohemica 1501–1800 (BFPB) was launched. Read more »
17.7.2013
New acquistion for the historical collection
The AS CR Library has purchased the Epitaph of the Provost of the Vyšehrad and St Vitus Chapter Jan of Vartenberk (†1508 ), written by Bohuslav Hasištejnský of Lobkowicz (†1510), for its historical collection. This is a unique historical document from the early 17th century: painting and handwritten text with gilding on paper folio 329 × 407 mm; at the bottom is an inscription referring to another, evidently older person of the same name. A detailed analysis is given in M. Šárovcová’s study in the journal Books and History 20, 2013. Read more »
6.7.2013
Exhibitions for loan
The AS CR Library offers free loans of panel-based exhibitions on interesting topics concerning the history of books, which have been presented in recent years as part of Science and Technology Week. Read more »
