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Long before the age of self-service machines and e-books, the library of this university was housed in the
Quadrangle.
Then one of three Queen's Colleges, the others located in Cork and Belfast, Queen’s College Galway
opened its doors to just under 70 students in October 1849, and its library now forms
the kernel of our Old Library book collection. With a range of subjects reflecting the teaching scope of
QCG, this large collection holds something of interest for everyone.
Treasures of the collection are numerous and varied, and include a study of Bartolomeo Eustachi’s (d. 1574)
Tabulae anatomicae
some 200 years after its completion by the Dutch anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), and was published in
Leiden in 1761.
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Albinus
worked
closely
with the Dutch engraver Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759), and this item
includes his superb anatomical engravings, as well as the item’s
beautiful title-page vignette.
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| Wandelaar engraving |
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| T.p. vignette |
If
you would like to view/ consult this or any item from the Old Library
collection, please submit an online request or contact the
staff of the Special Collections Reading Room in the Hardiman Research
Building at
specialcollections@nuigalway.ie.
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