rare book and special collections division

Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book" /

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Sixteen reproductions 43 x 33 cm. mounted on board with hinged mat, covered with guard sheet with letterpress. Many captions include quotation... More

Grover & Baker sewing machines for family sewing and manufacturing ......

Page Order: Folded Scroll Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 133, Folder 45.

Spiritali di Herone Alessandrino, ridotti in lingua volgare da Alessan...

Translation of Pneumatika. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-11-15 update (1 card)

De fluuiorum mōtiumq nominibus, & de ijs, quæ admirabilia in illis inu...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

United States Lottery. No. [blank] class the third : This ticket entit...

Not in Evans; imprint based on Evans 15194. LC copy is no. 11[?]m1[?]96, signed by G. Campbell. At lower left corner: "H." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ballad of the lost hare - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Queen-Like Closet. A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A li...

The second part (p. 121-264) and the supplement (p. [23]-[46], 144 p. at end) have special title pages. ESTC R222047 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift A. W. Bitting Oct. 6... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hickory mallet used by Leonard Wells Volk in making his busts of Linco...

Accompanying handwritten note by the sculptor's son, Jessie Volk: Hickory mallet used by my father 16 years in New York and Massachusetts. Given me by him in 1847. Since which time I have used it. Mallet used b... More

Eyn gar loblich ... Cronica sagend von eynem heyligen Kunig mit Namen ...

Rosenwald 63 Goff B-127 Hain 5915 BM 15th cent., II, p. 326 (IB.5580) GW 3398 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: provenance: Ortolffus de Trenbach (inscription).

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states ...

Printed in brown, orange, or green on 30 leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. Songs of innocence, with special title page dated 1789, printed from plates of the 1789 editio... More

Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states ...

Printed in brown, orange, or green on 30 leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. Songs of innocence, with special title page dated 1789, printed from plates of the 1789 editio... More

New York Suffrage Newsletter, editor Harriet May Mills

Report of Legislative Hearings. Harriet May Mills, Editor. Speeches on the state suffrage amendment given before New York State Joint Committee on Judiciary, February 19, 1908. Senator S. Percy Hooker , who int... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...

One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More

Mary's little lamb: a picture guessing story for little children

T.p. in red and black. Throughout the text some of the nouns are presented graphically. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, with a green cloth spine. LC copy is a copyright deposit: ... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

[A list of delegates by counties] [1821].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 185, Folder 17.

From block book to Leonard Baskin; 500 years of book illustration. Wil...

List of books in exhibition held May 1-31, 1966.; Page Order: Uncut Sexto/ Tri-fold. List scanned in numerical order, with illustrations interspersed as they arose. Page Order: Tri-fold Available also through t... More

Compleat cook. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

With (as issued): The queens closet opened. London, 1656. ESTC R216675 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

William Tell told again

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

[Postcard. Ford's Theatre. The house in which Lincoln died.]

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter to General Thompson from Gideon J. Pillow, August 29, 1861.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt on freedom. [New York, Amalgamated Lithograp...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 133, Folder 63.

Retirement of the late postmaster, Col. Graham.

On p. [2]: Gift estate of William C. Rives Apr. 1940; top of p.[4] clipped. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in... More

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic ...

"The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9]. Also availa... More

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 : photographic ...

"The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9]. Also availa... More

Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper.

Report of the grand committee of the Continental Congress, read May 13, 1785; with the plan of Robert Morris, dated January 15, 1782, and Notes on the establishment of a money unit, and of a coinage for the Uni... More

Bastiment de receptes, 16th century

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6 '39; Rec. 7-27-46. LAC ecr 2019-02-11 update (1 card)

Office of the state and managers' agency, No. 7 Light street, Baltimor...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 31, Folder 7b.

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Program of ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statute of John W...

Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 208, Folder 14.

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

Sunday as a civil institution - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Thanksgiving proclamation 1904 State of South Dakota. [Pierre 1904].

Thanksgiving proclamation. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 13,... More

Thus endeth thys book of the dictes and notable Wyse sayenges of the p...

Translated from the French version of Guillaume de Tignonville by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers; edited by William Caxton. Title and date from colophon. Place and publisher, and corrected imprint date from Ill... More

New-York, January 9, 1769. The freeholders and freemen of this City an...

Imprint 3.; Political campaign. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 103, Folder 12.

Bizzarie di varie figure - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

"All'ill[ustrissi]mo s[ignor] don Pietro Medici." Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1345 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy probably from the library... More

Vol. I. Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebellion. Witchcr...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 100, Folder 46. Copy scanned: 1

[84 broadsides issued through the U. S. employment service U. S. Depar...

84 broadsides. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 242, Folder 6.

To the commissioners of forfeitures of the Western district of the sta...

Blank form filled in in mss. by Abraham Bloodgood and dated Aug. 3, 1782.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. ... More

Three cancelled plates from "America, a prophecy." Three unique plates...

Manuscript t.p. Printed in blue, brown, or green on 6 leaves, from engraved plates containing both text and illustrations. Includes plates 1-2, 9-10, and 2 copies of plate 13 of America, a prophecy. Keynes, G.L... More

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 19, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Woodcut illustrations and title vignette. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The History of insects. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Woodcut illustrations and title vignette. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

... An act more effectually to provide for the national defence by est...

Caption title: At head of title: Second Congress of the United States: at the first session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennyslvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, on... More

The copie of a letter sent from sea by a gentleman,

The letter describing a voyage begun Feb. 4 is dated at sea Mar. 12, 1588 [i.e. 1589] and signed: T. F. [i.e. Thomas Fenner?] STC 10653 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 23 Also available in digital form on th... More

A working man's appeal. Abraham Lincoln hated tobacco.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Speech of His Excellency the Governor to both branches of the legislat...

Not in Evans.; Imprint 2. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 44, Folder 12.

Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of Ne...

Signatures: [A]² B-D²; horizontal chain lines. Followed by the letter of transmittal to the states: In Congress, November 17, 1777; recommendations to the legislatures relating to taxes etc.: In Congress, Novem... More

Rum-running a crime not a business. Prohibition a growth not a fixed s...

Page Order: Tri-fold Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 138, Folder 24b.

Speech of Governor Fulwar Skipwith to the Senate and House of Represen...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 1. Copy scanned: 1

[Postcard of the Lincoln National Memorial, near Hodgenville, Ky.]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Fables choisies pour les enfants et illustre´es par B. de Monvel

LC copy may be a printing of later date. Printer's imprint on p. 4 includes the number 18523. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Publication date from Lorenz

Le cave di fiesole - Public domain medieval manuscript

Caption title. In verse. Illustrations: 1 woodcut; illustration is the same as that used in Luca Pulci's Epistole. Signature: A⁴. Ex libris Josephi Martini; bookplate of Baron Landau. Library of Congress. Lessi... More

Vieilles chansons pour les petits enfants

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Copy 2. Gift; Gunilla Marcus-Luboff 1993.

Anne Fitzhugh Miller's Address Before Senate Committee

Anne Fitzhugh Miller's February 15, 1906 speech before U. S. Senate Suffrage Committee stresses that government concerns more than business and women voters could contribute to improved social welfare of all; a... More

Leonora O'Reilly to Anne Fitzhugh Miller regarding visit to Geneva

Leonora O'Reilly is trade union activist and speaker

Library bill of rights. [Chicago, Printed by the Norman Press, 1962].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 18, Folder 73.

The Abraham Lincoln portfolio of photogravures from the famous McClure...

Includes: Lincoln the President; The famous Cooper Union portrait; Lincoln on the line of battle; The Lincoln family; Abraham Lincoln; The first portrait ever made of Lincoln. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 18... More

Illustrirte Zeitung, [newspaper]. May 4, 1861.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustrirte Zeitung, [newspaper]. May 4, 1861.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 29, 1865.

Charity: a poem by John Eyre. New York, August 18, 1853.

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 121, Folder 14b.

In Congress at Exeter, January 5th, 1776. We the members of the Congre...

Not in Evans.; A different printing from Evans 14901. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera... More

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; captain general and Governor i...

Imprint. 3.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More

La rapresentazione de sette dormienti: di nuouo mandata in luce.

LC copy bound with: La rapresentatione del angelo Rafaello i Tobbia. [Firenze, 1554]. Bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 853 Also available in digital form on... More

The ghost of Abel : a revelation in the visions of Jehovah / seen by W...

Ms. Transcribed by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Presented to Lessing Rosenwald by C.A. Stonehill, 1939. The original published in 1822. Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921) 51A Rosenwald 1812 A... More

The president's hymn: song and chorus words by Dr. Muhlenburg [sic]; m...

Plate/Publisher number: 22148

Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of Ne...

Evans 15627.; Imprint 3.; Title. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfol... More

William Blake - The song of Los.

LC copy printed in green on eight leaves, from plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand colored. ESTC T64903 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Keynes, G.L. Bibliogra... More

Argument. Gentlemen: As counsel of the "original proprietors" of the c...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 196, Folder 20.

Susan B. Anthony Fair and Reception

Lists committees and patrons; volunteer workers at various tables; Anna Shaw, guest of honor on her Feb. 14 birthday, and in memory of Susan B. Anthony's Feb. 15 birthday, description of fair activities and goo... More

The Charter for the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay. known as the She...

Original in possession of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.; Page Order: Piece 1 was scanned unfolded as one image. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images... More

[Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original sto...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Original stories from real life. London, 1791, contain 6 of the illus.; the other four were not used. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1818 Keynes, G.L. Bibliography o... More

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770. An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece,... More

Bayonet fighting for war - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

LC copy is item no. 428 of the George Fabyan Collection. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-04-04 no edits (1 card)

Railroad franchise granted by the Mexican government to Benigno V. Gar...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Proposals for publishing, by subscription, A history of the rise and p...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 118, Folder 14a.

The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to t...

Compiled by Francis Drake, nephew of the Admiral. STC, 7161 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 42 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Gabrovsko - Public domain book about history of the first secular scho...

Printed in Istanbul, a history of the first secular school in Bulgaria. The Gabrovo School, founded in 1835, trained Bulgarian teachers and employed such notable scholars as Neofit Rilski. Has added lithographe... More

Gabrovsko - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Printed in Istanbul, a history of the first secular school in Bulgaria. The Gabrovo School, founded in 1835, trained Bulgarian teachers and employed such notable scholars as Neofit Rilski. Has added lithographe... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More

Jean de Tournes - Pourtraits divers, 16th century

Title supplied from 1557 edition, cf. Brunet. Brunet, IV, column 850. Cartier, A. Bib. des. éditiones des de Tournes no. 353 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1057 Also available in digital... More