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Collection Title: Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves
Dates: 1582-1860 A.D.
Identification: M000089
Physical Description: 34.00
Language of Materials:
English
Hebrew
German
Latin
Spanish;Castilian
French
Arabic
Italian
Repository:
Sutro Library, California State Library
1630 Holloway Avenue
5th floor
San Francisco, CA, 94132-4030
URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/about/sutro_main.html
Email: sutro@library.ca.gov
Phone: 415-469-6100
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.
He died in Beverly Hills in 1997.
Slotkin traveled around the world to collect facsimiles of title pages of rare books to which he attached pages from the actual
work. He also annotated the specimens in English in order to explain their contents and significance.
Each item was encapsulated in mylar and matted in acidic housing. Sutro Library staff disposed of the matting and housed the
encapsulated items in archival folders and housed the collection in an archival flat box.
Each item was encapsulated in mylar and matted in acidic housing. Sutro Library staff disposed of the matting and housed the
encapsulated items in archival folders and housed the collection in an archival flat box.
Index created by student assistant Thai-Van Stanoff in Winter 2024.
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
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[Identification of item], Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860, M000089, Sutro Library, California
State Library, San Francisco, Calif.
This collection is arranged into one series with two sub-series. Each series is arranged chronologically:
Series 1: Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860
Sub-series 1: Unframed Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860 [32 items]
Sub-series 2: Framed Slotkin book leaves, 1609-1705 [2 items]
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.