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Biblia Hebrea, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, G.II.8, full-size color facsimile (Madrid: Testimonio Compañía Editorial, 1997). Hand-sewn and bound in brown goatskin with bronze fittings and gold-plated page edges.

Jean De Coras, Arrestum sive Placitum Parlamenti Tholosani, continens historiam (In casu matrimoniali) admodum memorabilem (Frankfurt: A. Wechel, 1576).

Gaspar de la Anunciación, Representacion de la Vida del Bienaventurado P. F. Juan de la Cruz, Primer Carmelita Descalço, hand-colored with 79 engravings (Brussels, 1678).

Mahoney, James William and Richard “Bark” Foreman, The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor (Asheville, N.C.: Edney & Dedman, 1849.) First North Carolina edition. 

Friendship Album, 1851-56, kept by Catherine “Kate” Barnett of Boonsboro, Washington County, Maryland. 

Divān Hafiz, [Collected Poems] (Persia, before 1883).

Early Nursing Photo Archive, 1890s-1920s.

Szold, Henrietta. A Century of Jewish Thought. 1st edition. Baltimore: Zionist Association of Baltimore, 1896.

Suffrage Speeches from the Dock. Conspiracy Trial, Old Bailey, May 15th-22nd, 1912 (London: The Women’s Press, 1912).

Moxon, Frank, What Forcible Feedings Means (London: The Woman’s Press, 1913).

Lawson, Elizabeth, Study Outline – History of the American Negro People, 1619-1918 (New York: Workers Book Shop, 1939). 

Aufbau Almanac: the immigrant’s handbook, 1941-5701 (New York Verlag German-Jewish Club, 1941).

Brown, Ross D. Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know About Your Race? With Unusual Historic Facts About Prominent People of African Descent from A to Z (Chicago: Published by the author, 1943).

Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic (Moï Ver), POLIN (Tel Aviv: Ha-kibutz Ha-Meuhad, 1945-6).

Ovington, Mary White, How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1945). Seventh printing.

Snieg, Samuel Abba; Samuel Jacob Rose (eds.), First Individual Tractates of the Talmud Printed in Europe After the Holocaust. Tractate Keddushin [with] Tractate Nedarim, 2 vols., first edition (St. Ottilien: Rabbinical Representative by Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone [sic], 1946). Elephant folios.

Hogan, Lou Rand, The Gay Cookbook (Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.)  7’’ x 10’’. Original pictorial boards. 280 pages.

Lewin, Esther; Lewin, Birdina, The Men’s Lib Cookbook: or, Feel Free, illustrated by Jay Rivkin ([Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1973.)

Meltzer, Milton, In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro 1916-1966, first edition (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967.

Soul Force: Official Journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, vol. 1, no. 1, February 15, 1968 and vol. 6, no. 13 (Atlanta: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1968). 

Archive of photographic negatives with contact sheets showing a protest of the Olivetti typewriter headquarters, New York, 1972.

Attica: Two Years Later 1971-1973 (New York: National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1973.)

Rowell, Carol, Feminism in a New Key: A Key to Organizing, first edition (San Diego: Center for Womens Studies & Services, 1973).

Ms. Playing Cards, Lib Deck (Professional Trading Aids, 1975.)