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...total collection approaches 100,000 rare books, most of which are unshelved and remain uncatalogued in old classrooms, while the most significant works-"the icing on the cake" Henderson calls it-are stored in the Treasure Room...
...second largest collection of rare books at Harvard University resides in the Francis. A Countway Library of Medicine at the Medical School...
...There are more records in medicine than any other endeavor in American history," says Richard J. Wolf, curator of Countway's department of rare books. "And since some of the earliest doctors in America practiced here in Boston, one idea for such a library developed in New England," he adds...
Wolf brings collections to Countway which enable historians to research medicine from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching...
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, in the Divinity School features the work of some of the greatest Protestant theologians. The Rare Book Room concentrates on early New England theology, early Dutch theology and its related literature, and the world's largest selection of Unitarian Universalist materials, says curator Maria Grossman. For such a small library, the Rare Book Room has an impressive array of manuscript featuring the published and unpublished works of theologian Paul Tillich and literature reflecting the continental pietism during the 17th and 18th centuries within the German Lutheran Church. Most of the rare books are unavailable for undergraduate...