Rare Books
Subjects such as Wichita and Kansas history, the U.S. Civil War and Sanitary Commission, abolition, the history of printing, Mesmerism and hypnotism, and aviation and other modes of transportation are representative of the books held in Special Collections.
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The bibliographic records for our book collection can be accessed on the WSU Libraries' online catalog. Use the "Special Collections & University Archives" filter to limit the search. Books in Special Collections are available for onsite use only.
A selection of books from the Robert T. Aitchison Collection is available in digital format.
- Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum and The New Atlantis, 1631
- Blaeu's New World Maps, 1662
- Blundall’s A True and Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament [1642]
- Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, 1793
- Clarke’s A True, and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations, 1670
- Dreadfull Newes; or, A True Relation of the Great, Violent and Late Earthquake, 1638
- Dürer’s Institutiones Geometricae [1532]
- Fine’s Sphaera Mundi, 1551
- Franklin's New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, 1754, 1760
- Hegesippus' Hegesippi Historiographi inter Christianos Antiquissimi, 1524
- Leclerc's Figures des Histoires de la Saincte Bible, 1666
- Macrobius' Somnivm Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro de repvblica exerptvm, 1500
- Mennel’s Seel unnd heiligen Buch, Keiser Maximilians altfordern, 1522
- Naturhistorische Abbildungen, 1818
- Panvinio's Accuratæ Effigies Pontificum Maximorum, 1573
- Paterculus’ Historiae Romanae, 1543
- Petrarch’s Hülff, Trost und Rach in allem Anligen der Menschen, 1559
- Pico della Mirandola's Physici Libri Duo, 1518
- Plutarch’s Von dem Leben und Ritterlichen, 1534
- Rubens' De Re Vestiaria, 1665
A selection of books from the Maurice Tinterow Collection also is available in digital format.
