Adopt-a-Book Program

Books have long been regarded by many people as friends, but as an old adage says, "in order to have a friend, you have to be one."

Many books in the MU Libraries are fragile, others need minor repairs, still others require extensive help if they are to survive this century. Those of us who consider books our friends cannot bear to lose them, and it is in that spirit that the Friends of the MU Libraries have initiated the Adopt-A-Book Program. By adopting a book, you will ensure that it gets the help it needs to remain with us for years to come.

Please consider sponsoring a book. All monies will go directly to the care and maintenance of rare, fragile and just plain good books. As our thanks, your adoption will be noted in the Merlin online catalogue, and you will be invited to an annual Celebration of the Book event, sponsored by the Friends of the MU Libraries.

	Abercrombie, John The complete kitchen gardner, and hot-bed forcer London, Printed for J. Stockdale, 1789 Donation Needed: $150
	Abingdon, Thomas The antiquities of the cathedral church of Worcester London: Printed for E. Curll ... 1717 Donation Needed: $50
	Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Summa contra gentiles : libri quatuor Romae : Ex typographia Forzanii et Socii, 1894. Donation Needed: $125
	Baedeker guidebook - India Indien; handbuch für reisende. Mit 22 karten, 33 plänen und 8 grundrissen. Leipzig, Verlag von Karl Baedeker, 1914. Donation Needed: $50
	Baedeker guidebook - United States The United States, with an excursion into Mexico; handbook for travellers, by Karl Baedeker; with 25 maps and 35 plans. Leipzig, K. Baedeker; New York, C. Scribner's Sons; [etc., etc.] 1904. Donation Needed: $150
	Beckford, William Popular tales of the Germans London, Printed for J. Murrary, 1791 Donation Needed: $75
	Bouverie, Georgina Georgina: or, Memoirs of the Bellmour family London: R. Baldwin [etc.], 1787 Donation Needed: $75
	Burney, Fanny Camilla: or, A picture of youth London: Printed for T. Payne ..., 1796 Donation Needed: $250
	Butler, Charles The Feminin Monarchi, or The Histori Of Bees. Shewing Their admirable Natur, and Propertis Oxford: Printed by William Turner, for the Author, 1634 Donation Needed: $75
	Digby, Kenelm, Sir Two treatises: in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soul, is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable souls ... London, John Williams, 1658 Donation Needed: $50
	Dubos, abbé (Jean-Baptiste) Réflexions critiques sur la poësie et sur la peinture Paris, Pissot, 1755 Donation Needed: $150
	Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse The art of painting London, Printed for B. Lintott, 1716 Donation Needed: $75
	Hale, Matthew, Sir The original institution, power and jurisdiction of parliaments London : Printed for J. Tonson [etc.], 1707 Donation Needed: $50
	Hutton, Charles A course of mathematics : in two volumes ; for the use of academies, as well as private tuition New York : Published by Samuel Campbell ... [and 7 others in New York], 1818 (New York : George Long) Donation Needed: $50
	Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius, 1758-1831 Marie Menzikof et Fédor Dolgorouki. Histoire russe, en forme de lettres. Paris: Gosset , 1804 Donation Needed: $75
	Loomis, Augustus Ward Confucius and the Chinese classics: or, Readings in Chinese literature San Francisco, New York, A. Roman & Company, 1867 Donation Needed: $200
	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de De l Paris, Barrillot, 1750 Donation Needed: $100
	Oldys, William The life of Sir Walter Ralegh from his birth to his death on the scaffold London : Printed for the booksellers in town and country, 1740 Donation Needed: $50
	Ovid Metamorphoses London : printed by S. Palmer for S. Bettesworth [et al.] 1724 Donation Needed: $75
	Perkins, John A profitable booke of Master John Perkins, felow of the Inner Temple treating the lawes of England Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the sign of the hande and starre : by Rycharde Tottil, 1567 Donation Needed: $50
	Radcliffe, Ann Ward The mysteries of Udolpho, a romance; interspersed with some pieces of poetry London, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794 Donation Needed: $250
	Richardson, Samuel The history of Sir Charles Grandison : in a series of letters Davies, and S. Bagster, 1796. Donation Needed: $50
	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Emile : ou, De l Londres, 1780-81 Donation Needed: $400
	Steele, Richard The Lover and Reader; to which are prefixed the Whig-Examiner, and a selection from the Medley, of papers written by the principal authors of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. London, Printed by and for John Nichols, 1789 Donation Needed: $75
	Terence Les comédies / de Térence ; avec la traduction et les remarques de Madame Dacier. Rotterdam : G. Fritsch, 1717. Donation Needed: $75
	Vicars, John The burning-bush not consumed, or, The fourth and last part of the parliamentarie-chronicle Imprinted at London : By R.C. and M.B. for M. Spark..., 1646 Donation Needed: $50
	Virgil P. Virgilii Maronis Opera omnia : Bucolica, Georgica, Æneis ; Ciris et Culex... [Wittenbergae] : Apvd Zachariam Schvrervm, 1618 Donation Needed: $300
	Williams, William Carlos The Wedge [Cummington, Mass.] : Cummington Press, 1944 Donation Needed: $50
	Woodville, William Medical botany: containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic... London, J. Phillips, 1790-93 Donation Needed: $50
	Æsop Fables of Æsop and others London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts, 1754 Donation Needed: $50