This magnificent oversize flower book first published in 1613 documents the plants that were in the personal collection of Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt near Nuremberg, Germany.
The resources of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library may be used by all scholars and researchers, whether or not they are members of the University of Toronto community. A University of Toronto Library card is not necessary to access the collections, but onsite registration is required.
The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. This exhibition will examine the importance of the printing press to the Reformation movement.
We celebrate 150 years of Canada at the Fisher with a wide array of materials from our extensive collection of Canadiana, including books, personal letters, photographs, maps, and prints.
Drawing on the magnificent Michael Millgate collection donated to the Fisher Library, this exhibition will include Hardy’s first editions, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera.
The year 2016 marks four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare. To honour this milestone, this exhibition will explore how Shakespeare's works shaped ideas of the world beyond England.
Features books and journals published from the turn of the nineteenth century to the late 1940s with examples ranging from the beautiful bibliophile movement to works by avant-garde artists and writers centered around the literary association Devětsil.
This exhibition will feature items that were produced every century from the 10th to the 21st, including biblical manuscripts, works of Jewish law and liturgy, incunabula, rare Constantinople imprints, and much more.
This exhibition focuses on the words and images of those who served in the Great War – individuals like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Erich Maria Remarque; but also on that of writers born decades after 1918.
We are commemorating the five-hundreth anniversary of the birth of one of the great figures in the history of medicine, Andreas Vesalius. His monumental De humani corporis fabrica is celebrated for its splendid woodcuts that introduced art into anatomy.
This exhibition draws on the extensive and diverse holdings relating to the War effort in the University of Toronto Archives, the wider University library system, and elsewhere on campus.
Showcases a selection of utopian and dystopian visions ranging from Plato’s Republic to Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, to H. G. Wells War of the Worlds and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale
This exhibition highlights a broad selection of original archival material from the Fisher's Derek Walcott Papers, from O Babylon! to Omeros, as well as other aspects of his life and work, including his painting and drawing.
This exhibition drew upon the Fisher Library's collections of Ucrainica - books, maps, documents, photographs, etc. - to situate Ukraine, to illustrate the diversity of its peoples, and to show the depth of Ukrainian political activity abroad.
The exhibition highlighted the finest part of the Mu Collection, a major and significant Chinese rare book collection in North America that contains about 2,300 titles and 40,000 volumes, spanning the period from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
The Fisher Library's outstanding collection of prints and book illustrations by printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) is highlighted in this exhibit, curated by Anne Thackeray.
As this exhibition demonstrates, John Calvin's life and legacy can be told through books. Books shaped him and his age, and in the end he and his followers used the medium of print to bring about one of the greatest revolutions the world has ever known.
This exhibition, the first travelling exhibit of the artist books and book-objects of Werner Pfeiffer, features 39 objects made by Pfeiffer using real books. The intention is to comment on censorship and to provoke reactions from his audience.
This is an exhibition about the men and women who answered their country's call when war was declared in August 1914. It brings together a range of material that highlight different aspects of this response.
This exhibition includes poetry, fiction, drama, 'zines, photos, and artwork, celebrating a rich history across the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.
Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) designed about five hundred books between 1892 and 1957. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the exhibition presented not only Rogers’ prized ‘Thirty’, but a selection of his other works.
This celebration of the remarkable achievements of Canadian explorer, trader and cartographer David Thompson (1770-1857) forms part of the North American David Thompson Bicentennials initiative.
This exhibition is about travellers, and the exhibits are for the most part accounts of their travels. There are few restrictions: the journeys will be to anywhere in the world, at any time from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries.
This is the first time we have attempted a joint, collaborative exhibition to display in one venue a selection of the treasures throughout the whole university.
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