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==Rare holdings==
The library houses several rare manuscripts, including one of only five copies of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Gettysburg Address#Bancroft copy|Gettysburg Address]] (1863), the only copy that is privately owned and the only one accompanied both by a letter from Lincoln transmitting the manuscript and by the original envelope addressed and [[franking|franked]] by Lincoln.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=RMC website|title=The Gettysburg Address |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause.htm |date=2013 |access-date=March 4, 2015 }}</ref> The library houses cuneiform tablets; a major collection of medieval books and witchcraft trial records; thousands of pamphlets produced during the [[French Revolution]]; and the correspondence between [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Lafayette]].

It also holds a copy of ''[[The Birds of America]],''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/guide/hillguide13.htm|title=Ornithology Collections in the Libraries at Cornell University: A Descriptive Guide|first=White, Jeanne|last=A.|date= June 10, 1999|website=rmc.library.cornell.edu}}</ref> of which only 120 complete sets are known to exist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/06/most-expensive-book-birds-of-america-10m|title=World's most expensive book, Birds of America, set to fetch $10m|last=Flood|first=Alison|date= January 6, 2012|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=June 9, 2013}}</ref> The library also has first editions of [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[Origin of Species]]'' (1859),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/darwin/exhibition/origin/|title=Origin of Species|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=March 4, 2015}}</ref> the [[Book of Mormon]] (1830),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=22&ti=1,22&SAB1=book%20of%20mormon&BOOL1=all%20of%20these&FLD1=Keyword%20Anywhere%20%28GKEY%29&GRP1=AND%20with%20next%20set&SAB2=&BOOL2=all%20of%20these&FLD2=Keyword%20Anywhere%20%28GKEY%29&GRP2=AND%20with%20next%20set&SAB3=&BOOL3=all%20of%20these&FLD3=Keyword%20Anywhere%20%28GKEY%29&CNT=50&PID=Tq_67a3ObTf9Xat2rLiTyuyMgPv1&SEQ=20111011163839&SID=8 |title=Book of Mormon |publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=October 11, 2011}}</ref> and of [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/early_role_models/Jane_Austen_L_p2.htm|title=Pride and Prejudice|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=March 4, 2015}}</ref> The rare manuscript collection also includes a 1st edition copy of [[Thomas Hobbes|Thomas Hobbe]]'s [[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathan]] from 1651.

The Rare and Manuscript Collection is housed in the Cornell Library System’s Carl A. Kroch Library. With more than 500,000 printed volumes and 20,000 cubic feet of manuscript materials, the collection is vast and useful to the faculty and staff of Cornell University, as well as the public who can access any of the collection that has been digitized. The collection dates back to the university’s founding in 1865, by the first president of the university Andrew Dickson White. In 1891, the collection received its founder’s 30,000-volume collection. Specifically, the Department of Rare Books was founded in 1951 and was absorbed into the Rare and Manuscript Collection in 1992, the year the current physical location opened its doors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rare.library.cornell.edu/|title=Rare and Manuscript Collections}}</ref> The 14 main collections within the Rare and Manuscript Collection are the: American History & Culture, Architecture & City Planning, Asian History & Culture, Cornell University Archives, Digital Collections, European History & Culture, Food, Wine, and Culinary History, Icelandic History & Culture, Literature & Theater, Moving Images & Sound Recordings, Music, Photographs, Science & Technology, and Sexuality & Gender.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rare.library.cornell.edu/collection-highlights/ | title=Collection Highlights – Rare and Manuscript Collections }}</ref> The Rare and Manuscript collection houses the largest collection on the French Revolution outside of Paris, the largest collection in North America on European witchcraft, America’s founding collection on the abolitionist movement, and the second largest William Wordsworth Collection.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rare.library.cornell.edu/collections/ | title=Collection Overview – Rare and Manuscript Collections }}</ref>