This collection includes book leaves and facsimiles of title pages from rare books collected by Stanley S. Slotkin. Most of the leaves are from religious texts and are written in a variety of languages including Old English, Hebrew, German, Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Italian.

Stanley Slotkin, founder of the national chain Abbey Rents, Inc., which offers items for rent, was an amateur archeologist, book collector, and philanthropist. Born in New York City to Russian immigrants, he was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s. He donated a large collection related to Charles Darwin to the University of Southern California. He and his wife founded Abbey Rents in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Property rights reside with the repository. Any applicable literary rights would reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please email: sutro@library.ca.gov .

This collection is open for research. Please page materials three business days in advance of your visit by email: sutro@library.ca.gov .