Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Special Collections

Special Collections

The holdings of the Beinecke Library include:

  • American Children's Literature
  • John James Audubon
  • James M. Barrie
  • John Baskerville
  • William Thomas Beckford
  • Sir John Betjeman
  • John Boswell
  • Bryher
  • Mary Butts
  • Cartography, including the "Vinland Map"
  • Cary Collection of Playing Cards
  • Ernst Cassirer
  • Congregationalism
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Walter Crane
  • Dada
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Charles Dickens
  • Norman Douglas
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • George Eliot
  • The Elizabethan Club collection
  • Erasmus and his contemporaries
  • Faust
  • Fantasy Magazine Archives
  • Henry Fielding
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Goethe
  • Greek and Latin Literature
  • Thomas Hardy
  • H.D. Papers
  • W. Head & Sister, photographers
  • Langston Hughes
  • Humanism
  • Incunabula (over 3100 volumes including the Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible)
  • James Weldon Johnson Collection
  • James Joyce
  • Judaica
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • Doris Lessing
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Pre-1600 manuscripts
  • Thomas Mann
  • F.T. Marinetti
  • John Masefield
  • F. O. Matthiessen
  • The Mellon Collection of Alchemy and the Occult
  • George Meredith
  • Eugene O'Neill, Jr.
  • Ornithology
  • the Papyrus Collection
  • Polish Literature
  • Pop-up books and movable books
  • Ezra Pound Papers
  • Dorothy Richardson
  • Rilke
  • Rochambeau Family
  • Bruce Rogers
  • the Romanov Family photo albums
  • Olga Rudge Papers
  • John Ruskin
  • Russian Literature
  • Schiller
  • Sixteenth-Century Printed Books
  • Sporting Books
  • The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • James J. Strang
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Vanderbilt Collection
  • Carl Van Vechten
  • Rebecca West
  • Edith Wharton
  • The Thornton Wilder papers
  • Kurt Wolff

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