Rare Book Collections

• Special Collections & University Archives
• Knight Library, 2nd Floor North
• 15th & Kincaid Street
  
• University of Oregon

Special Collections includes a large, general collection of rare books and several smaller, named collections. The collections concern a range of subjects and include a variety of materials, such as medieval manuscripts, early printed books, fine press imprints, modern first editions, paperback fiction, popular magazines and zines. Selected collections have been fully cataloged in the UO Libraries catalog and may be searched by keyword for collection title. Materials in uncataloged collections may be accessed by guides in Special Collections.

Phillip Ranney Brooks Memorial Library

Collection inclues primarily 19th century historical literature.

Edward Burgess Manuscript Collection

Catalog Record Web Page
Collection comprises 59 manuscripts, circa 1101-1900, including 34 western European manuscripts in Latin and 25 Near-Eastern manuscripts in various languages.

Edward Burgess Early Printed Book Collection

Catalog Record
Collection comprises 236 volumes published from 1476-1928, including 52 incunabula printed before 1501. Volumes are in Latin, English and other languages.

Edward Burgess 19th and 20th Century Book Collection

Catalog Record
Collection comprises 562 volumes printed from ca. 1775 to 1925.

Hallett Cole Zeppelin Collection and Lighter-Than-Air Library

Collection includes books, pamphlets, artifacts, and ephemera related to lighter-than-air craft.

George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection

Collection includes more than 3,500 books, periodicals, and pamphlets written in or about the artificial language of Esperanto.

Dunn Collection

Collection of Victorian-era English literature and historical novels.

Ernest W. Haycox Library

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Collection comprises the research library of Western writer Ernest W. Haycox and includes over 2,000 books and periodicals on the West, many of which are rare or scarce.

Pauline Potter Homer Collection of Beautiful Books

Collection comprises approximately 1,000 volumes, including fine press imprints, fine bindings, illustrations, books about books, children's books, and books about ships.

Georgia Lane Book Collection

Collection of Giambattista Bodoni imprints and other books.

Miniatures Collection

Collection of books under 5-inches tall.

Gertrude Bass Warner Memorial Library

Catalog Record   Web Page
Collection comprises 575 volumes on Asian art collected by Gertrude Bass Warner to support the Asian art collections of the University of Oregon Art Museum.

Bishop William A. Quayle Book Collection

Catalog Record
Collection comprises William A. Quayle's library of 500 titles illustrating the history of printing and the printed book, 31 titles authored by Quayle from 1897 to 1925, and a biography of Quayle. Collection includes early imprints, fine press imprints, fine bindings, and literary first editions.

Paperback Mysteries, Westerns, and Speculative Fiction

Collection includes paperback mysteries, westerns, and science fiction.

Pulps

Collection includes popular magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Zines

Collection comprises self-published literary, artistic, and political magazines from the 1960s to the present.

Maintained by: N. Helmer, spcarref@uoregon.edu