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Rare books

Specialists

Glynn Edwards

Assistant Director, Department of Special Collections

(650) 521-2255

gedwards@stanford.edu

Digital collections

Manuscripts and archives

Rare books
Benjamin L Albritton

Rare Books Curator

Bibliographer for Classics

(650) 454-4164

blalbrit@stanford.edu

Digital collections

Manuscripts and archives

Rare books

Classics

Libraries

Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Today:

(650) 723-3563

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

Library website

Hours & access
Special Collections & University Archives

Today:

(650) 725-1022

specialcollections@stanford.edu

Library website

Hours & access

Blogs

Dime novels digitization collaboration launches | November 16, 2020

Starstuff: science meets art, print meets photography, Galileo meets Linda Connor | October 25, 2020

Stanford Special Collections & University Archives share statement on potentially harmful language in cataloging and archival description | September 9, 2020

Special Collections in Redwood City pivots to digital projects during COVID-19 shelter-in-place | April 24, 2020

Medieval Fragments and Interoperable Books: Recent Webinars from Special Collections | April 24, 2020

Notable collections

Super-Enlightenment

Thirty-six digitized texts, written in French between 1716 and 1835, investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge beyond Locke.
Memorial Library of Music

Scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the 17th to 20th centuries.
Frederick E. Brasch Collection of Newton and Newtoniana

Books and manuscripts related to Isaac Newton and the development of the physical sciences in the 17th century.
Aldine Collection

Books from the Aldine Press, founded in 1494 by Aldus Manutius and continued by his grandson, Aldo, until his death in 1597.
Kline/Roethke Collection

Eighteenth and nineteenth century books of English literature, international politics, and illustrated works.
Mary L. Schofield Collection of Children's Literature

Mary L. Schofield Collection of Children's Literature in Special Collections
Samson / Copenhagen Judaica Collection

Samson collection of Judaica once belonging to the Jewish Community of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Taube-Baron Collection of Jewish History and Culture

Taube-Baron collection of Jewish studies and culture, from the library of Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron.
Drink and the Victorians: A History of the British Temperance Movement

This collection consists of over 1200 items, published roughly between 1800 and 1980. It contains 845 pamphlets, 110 journals and periodicals, and 325 books.
Baha'i Collection

A collection of collections, originating from one of the most extensive private libraries of materials related to the Baha'i Faith, includes thousands of books, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs and early Baha’i publications from many countries and in various languages, from Urdu to Japanese to Greenlandic.
Incunabula Collection

An ever-expanding collection of books printed before 1501. Stanford Special Collections currently holds about 240 specimens, and there are additional books housed at the Lane Medical Library.