15c Ancient Cookery Manuscript by the Master Cooks of King Richard II NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1455 Biblia Latina by Johannes Gutenberg NY Public Library Rare Books
1460 Geographia by Nicolaus Germanus NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1514 The Complutensian Polyglot Bible printed in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Aramaic commissioned by Cardinal Francisco Ximénes de Cisneros NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1540 Astronomicum Caesareum by Petrus Apianus NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1623 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies printed by Isaac Jaggard NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1661 Harmonia Macrocosmica by Johannes Janssonius NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft- "The end, the grand end of [women's] exertions should be to unfold their own faculties and acquire the dignity of conscious virtue"
1796 George Washington's handwritten Farewell Address NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1804 Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by John Keenan (after ca. 1797 portrait by John Opie) NY Public Library Rare Books Division
1962 Typescript draft of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson NY Public Library Rare Books Division