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Archives: Rare Books

This guide describes the materials stored in the Kingsborough Library Archives.

About our rare books

The Archives contains a small collection of very old or rare titles. Due to their very fragile condition, these items are unavailable to researchers, unless special circumstances require. 

A listing of all rare books in the Archive is below. 

Listing of rare books by title

Title Author Publisher/Date
Hebrew literature : comprising Talmudic treatises, Hebrew melodies and the Kabbalah unveiled S  L  MacGregor Mathers; Joseph Barclay; Alice Lucas; New York : The Colonial Press, [1901]
Gleanings for housewives Rahway, N.J. : First Baptist Church, [189-?]
Winter words Thomas Hardy New York, Book league of America, 1928.
Zola and his time Matthew Josephson [New York, Book league of America] 1928.
The Book league monthly. Book League of America, Inc.; Camden, N.J., Book league of America, inc.
The illustrated world history; a record of world events from earliest historical times to the present day, John Alexander Hammerton, Sir; Harry Elmer Barnes New York, W.H. Wise & Co., 1935.
The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1683 to 1884 L  P Brockett; L  B Proctor; Henry Reed Stiles; New York : Munsell, 1884.
Schiller's sämmtliche werke in einem bande. Friedrich Schiller Stuttgart [etc.] J.G. Cotta, 1840.
A history of the City of Brooklyn : including the old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh Henry Read Stiles Brooklyn : [s.n.], 1867.

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