National Agricultural Library Collections: Special Collections--Rare Books

Special Collections Guide to the Collections Rare Book Collection




	Guide to the Collections

	Rare Book Collection

Special Collections has a rare book collection strong in botany, natural history, zoology, and entomology. There are published writings of many great herbalists of the sixteenth century such as Brunfels, Bock, and Fuchs, as well as renowned works on flowers and fruits from both the 18th and 19th centuries.
	Other unique items include primary source literature documenting agricultural observations, experiments, and practices in America, England, and Western Continental Europe. In addition to important travel accounts by early naturalists, there is an extensive collection of early plant descriptions and original works by the eminent botanist Carl Linnaeus. Many of the rare books in this collection can be found in NAL's catalog, AGRICOLA. Other rare books can be located by e-mailing Special Collections.

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	Carl von Linne Materials at the National Agricultural Library View Special Collections holdings by and about Carl von Linne as well as images from these rare books and links to related web sites.

	Robert Leslie Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus View the list of titles included in the Robert Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus housed in Special Collections. These volumes were collected by Robert Leslie Usinger (1912-1968), one of the world's most outstanding entomologists and expert on the ecology of insects.

	The following Special Collections materials have been digitized in their entirety and are available full text online. You can access the digitized materials by clicking on the links below.

	Layne Beaty Oral History Tape Interview of Beaty by Roy Battles Date: August 12, 1985 Part of Collection 320: Layne Beaty Oral History Tape

	Edwin Dun: Reminiscences of Nearly Half a Century in Japan By Edwin Dun Date: 1991 Part of Collection 52: Edwin Dun Manuscript

	The Diary of George Cooke: Twenty-three Years on a Maryland Plantation, 1826-1849 (Typescript) By George Cooke Date: 1849 Part of Collection 37: George Cooke Diary

	South China Exploratons: Typescript By Frank N. Meyer and David Fairchild Date: 1916-1918 Part of Collection 295: The Frank N. Meyer Collection

	Linnaeus's System of Botany By William Curtis Published: London, England Date: 1777

	Memoirs of Horace Capron; Autobiography and Expedition to Japan Date: ca. 1884 Part of Collection Number 32: Horace Capron Memoirs

	Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics Published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Date: 1916-1917 Part of Collection Number 56: Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H

	Notions Élémentaires de Botanique By Jean Francois Durande Published: Dijon, France by L.N. Frantin Date: 1782

	Contributions Toward a Bibliography of Peach Yellows By Erwin Frink Smith Unpublished Manuscript Date: 1887-1888 Part of Collection Number 156: Erwin Frink Smith Papers

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