Rare Books at The Milton S. Eisenhower Library

Mailing Address

MSEL-Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Contact: Earle Havens

Phone: 410-516-8662

E-mail: earle.havens@jhu.edu

Web: Milton S. Eisenhower Library

Catalog: Find Rare Books
              JHU Catalog

Hours of Service

Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
Materials to be used on Thursday evenings must be requested no later than 4:30pm that afternoon.

Overview

The rare book collection at the Eisenhower Library contains over 60,000 volumes, and is strongest in the humanities and social sciences.  This includes medieval and Renaissance manuscript books as well as many facsimile editions of similar works, the Machen collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501), and fine printed books.

Special Services

• Cameras (at curator discretion)

• Digital cameras (at curator discretion)

• Photo print service

• Photocopies

• Photoduplication services

• Scanning
  
  

Type of Materials

• Books and Monographs

• Digital Collections

• Digital Exhibits

• Primary Resources

• Serials

• Vertical File Material

Detailed Description of Collections

• Books and Monographs

  • The anti-slavery collection of William Birney

  • American Literature

  • Economics and Political Thought

  • English Literature

  • French Literature

  • German Literature

  • Incunabula and Early Printing

• Digital Collections

  • The Gold Koran

  • The Roman de la Rose

• Digital Exhibits

  • Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

  • Don Quixote de la Mancha

• Primary Resources

• Printed Ephemera

• Prints and Drawings

• Serials

• Vertical File Material