Book and Manuscript Collecting Interests

of

Norman E. Anderson

• Art of the book; also bibliography
• Ancient literature - especially Greek and Latin, but also religious, philosophical, and poetical literatures of all ancient cultures
• Judaica - especially literature up through the medieval period
• Old Norse sagas; also Viking history
• Poetry - especially Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anne Sexton, and others of penetrating inward vision
• Philosophy - especially ethics, hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion; Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Simone Weil are among many authors of high collecting interest
• Theology - especially patristics, colonial American church history, and theologians since the Enlightenment
• Human love, sexuality, and marriage - especially as they relate to spirituality, freedom, ethics, or the ancient world; also documentation of attitudes towards sexuality covering a wide historical, cultural, and philosophical spectrum
• Marine biology of New England - especially detailed field guides

In the above fields:

• Fine books, best editions under authorial guidance, and critical editions
• New England imprints through 1820
• Generally primary rather than secondary sources
• Bibliographies and reference tools
• Manuscripts and autographs (scholarly marginalia welcome); and
• Works in either the original language or English translation
• Among other possibilities

Some immediate collecting foci:

• The Loeb Classical Library
• Editions of The Christian Oeconomy or The Christian Economy (first published: London, 1760)
• Books containing chapters about individual theologians and philosophers
• Works by Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin
• First editions of the poet, Anne Sexton

Posted, 14 October 1995; new url, January 28, 2004; last modified, January 28, 2004

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