Special collections books
- Missale Romanum byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize BX2015 .A2 1588Publication Date: Paris, 1588The oldest book in the collection; the organization of mass according to the Catholic liturgical calendar as specified by the Council of Trent.
- Ornatvs Ecclsiasticvs byCall Number: RISD Special NA2190 .M8 1591Publication Date: Regensburg, 1591
- Merrymount Press type and printing blocks byCall Number: uncatalogedPublication Date: 1893-1949
- The picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig : a Pennsylvania German emblem book byCall Number: RISD Special N6537.D4455 A4 1989
- The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for Greater Ease of Learners byCall Number: RISD Special QA31.E875 2010
- [The hornbook]Call Number: RISD Special PE1118 .H67Contemporary reproduction of an 18th century American hornbook, an alphabet tablet used as a primer for students learning to read.
- Hokusai manga byCall Number: RISD Special NE1325.K3 G67
Special Collections books
- Had gadya = The only kid : facsimile of El Lissitzky's edition of 1919 byCall Number: RISD Special N6999.L5 H2 2004
- The Analysis of Beauty byCall Number: RISD Special BH181 .H6 1772 platesWilliam Hogarth was a mid-18th century painter and engraver. The Analysis of Beauty is his treatise on painting and his criticism of the current art establishment.
- Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art byCall Number: RISD Special NC961.63 .H421 1851
- L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art : des moeurs et de la législation byCall Number: RISD Special Large Folio NA1053.L4 A5 1804Publication Date: 1804
- Los Codices mayas : introduccion y bibliografía byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL F1435 .C68 1985
- The Dresden Codex : reproduced from tracings of the original, colorings finished by hand byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL F1435.3.P6 D7 1932The Dresden Codex is a pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphic text. The astronomical calculations contained within prove the Mayans were adept astronomers.
- The Esther Scroll = Die Estherrolle = Le Rouleaud d'Esther byCall Number: RISD Special Large Folio BS1375.2 .W54 2012Publication Date: 2012A facsimile of the illuminated 1746 Hanover Scroll of The Book of Esther.
- Blue Yodo waltz byCall Number: RISD Artists' Books Flat Folio M389Bl
- Emakimono : the art of the Japanese painted hand-scroll byCall Number: RISD Special ND1053 .S413Publication Date: 1959
- Materiae signa : alchemistic signs of various materials in common usage byCall Number: RISD Special N7745.A4 C65 1888Publication Date: 1888
- Spirit land byCall Number: RISD Artists' Books Flat Folio Sp57L
- Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians byCall Number: RISD Special E77 .C38 1857Publication Date: 1857
- Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts manufacture, trade, social, literary and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art ; together with some acount of the principal suburbs and most attractive loca byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL DA683 .W38 1854
