The Rare Book Collection contains over 3,150 titles. Some highlights of the collection include:

Oldest Book:
Seminarium totius philosophiae Aristotelicae et Platonicae, written by Giovanni Bernardi and published in Lyon, France in 1599. This particular edition was owned by North Dakota politician Usher Burdick, and the signature of his wife, Emma Burdick, is written on the front, pastedown endpaper. For further information, see the ODIN record.

Smallest Book:
Addresses of Abraham Lincoln, published in 1929 by Kingsport Press of Kingsport, Tennesse. This book is 1/2 of an inch wide and 3/4 of an inch long, and is bound in red morocco leather, with gilt pages. For further information, see the ODIN record.

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