By Lauren Price

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10 of the Rarest Works in Norlin Library's Special Collections & Archives

Darwin's origin of species

  1. A leaf from a Latin Bible,聽"The Dragon Leaf,"聽1240 CE
  2. A leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455 CE聽
  3. A collection of works by Katibi of Nishapur, c. 1600 CE聽 聽
  4. Handwritten Latin Bible from Paris, 1210-1220 CE
  5. North African handwritten collection of devotions, with chapters of the Quran聽
  6. Collection of astronomical tables by scholars working under Alfonso X of Castile
  7. The Mercator Atlas, 10th edition, published in 1630 CE
  8. Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859 CE
  9. Deed from the Court of Augmentations, Edward VI聽(son of Henry VIII), 1547 CE
  10. Legal account book of anti-slavery lawyer, Caleb Sipple Layton, in Georgetown, Delaware, 1846-1882 CE

Learn interesting facts about each of these items.

To see聽these items yourself, visit the Norlin Library Special Collections聽& Archives. Get hours of operation or schedule an appointment .听

Photo by Lauren Price聽

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