Adopt a Rare Book

You will help to protect the extraordinary Cushing/Whitney Historical collection and ensure its existence for future generations of scholars and students by making a gift to this project and adopting a rare book.

We will acknowledge your generous support with a certificate, along with an invitation for a personal tour and an introduction to your adopted book.

For questions regarding preservation, contact Sarah McGlynn, Preservation Librarian at sarah.mcglynn@yale.edu or 203-737-2954.

Bartolomeo Eustachi, Tabulae Anatomicae. 1722

Ex Libris: John F Fulton
Cost for Adoption: $1,000

Edward Topsell, History of four-footed beasts and serpents. 1658

Ex Libris: John F. Fulton
Cost for Adoption: $1,000

Wiliam Hunter, Anatomical and chirurgical lectures: read by Dr. William Hunter and Mr. William Cruikshank (on dissected bodies): at their theatre in Windmill Street, Hay Market, London, taken in writing by William Tempest Mercer, a pupil attending the said lectures in 1775 and 1776.

Ex Libris: Harvey Cushing
Cost for Adoption: $4,000

William Buckland, Geology and mineralogy : considered with reference to natural theology

Cost for Adoption: $1700

John Hawkesworth, An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere : and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour : drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq; 1773, volume 1 of 3.

Ex Libris: Harvey Cushing
Cost for Adoption: $2500

John Robertson, Treatise of such mathematical instruments. 1747

Ex Libris: Edward Clark Streeter
Cost for Adoption: $1300


Ways to Give

To make a gift or for information regarding ways to give, contact Sharon McManus, Development Officer, sharon.mcmanus@yale.edu or 203-436-8543.


Contribution Levels* and our donors

Vesalius      $3,000-and up         

Pare            $2,000-$3,000
Galen          $1,000-$2,000

Hippocrates $100-$1,000

 

*Conservation treatments typically begin at $1,000. All monetary increments are welcome. Donations less than $1,000 will be combined to reach this goal.