"B-LC" General Rare Book Collection, 1500 - present approximately 200,000 Volumes
"B" collection comprises all the rare books that don't explicitly belong to the existing named collections
"B" collection comprises all the rare books that don't explicitly belong to the existing named collections
The Bakhmeteff Archive General Manuscript Collection is an artificial collection of correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, class work, essays, administrative documents, minutes, and other documents collected by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The collection includes individual documents or small collections and some small additions to existing Bakhmeteff Archive manuscript collections.
Artificial collection of etchings, engraving and photographs, ca. 15,000 items.
The collection consists of approximately 100 items. This includes twenty five authentic 18th century imprints from the Lavra's famous printing house (1734-1794); rare Old Believer imprints; 19th century reprints of 18th century Pochaev imprints; 11 late 19th/early 20th century Pochaev imprints; and two 17th century Muscovite imprints, a Mineia sluzhebnaia (1629), and a Psaltyr' (1646). Also included are 19th and early 20th century minor graphics, lacking serial issues (including issues of USSR in Construction designed by El Lissitsky), color lithographs, original drawings, and stereopticon slides.
Office records for the publication project, and photocopies and microfilm copies of Jay letters and related documents.
Over 3,000 volumes of non-circulating reference books, cataloged online and classed in the Library of Congress system preceded by REF sublocation
This collection consists of primary source material.