The Library of Rudolf Steiner: Catalogue of a Book Collection - Fine Edition

This three-volume set, totaling 1915 pages, is the English translation of the original catalogue, published in 2019, detailing the entire contents of Rudolf Steiner’s personal library. The catalogue is the result of years of thorough and careful work by Dr. Martina Maria Sam of the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach, Switzerland, where the library is housed and kept fully intact in Haus Duldeck.  It is introduced with a preface by David Marc Hoffman, leader of the Archive. This is followed by a series of photographs of Haus Duldeck, of the library itself, and of Rudolf Steiner through the course of his life. In a substantial introduction, Dr. Sam describes Rudolf Steiner’s relation to books throughout the phases of his biography and recounts numerous valuable anecdotes; she then details the history of how his library developed, began to be catalogued and ordered according to various sections (History, Medicine, Philosophy and Psychology, etc.), and eventually arrived at the nuanced and