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In the mid-1930s, Mary McDonald (1848-1935), concerned with the preponderance of scientific and technical books at most land
grant universities, donated a rare book collection to the Oregon State University library. In 1934 the McDonald Rare Book
Room was established with gifts to the library of books from
her collection. Since then, the McDonald endowment has enabled the acquisition of over 2,000 rare books and fine bindings.
Included in the
collection are over thirty incunabula (books printed before 1501) and several
pre-1600 manuscripts. One of the notable items housed in the McDonald
Collection is Bernard Gordon's Lilium Medicinae,
Lyons, 1480, one of only three copies known to exist in the United
States.
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