The Special Collections Department collects and preserves rare and unique materials including rare books, oral histories, university archives, historical manuscripts, maps, microfilm, photographs, art and artifacts. The department is located in UNT's Willis Library in the fourth floor Reading Room.
Rabbi Eliezer Toledano, trained in Prague, established himself in Lisbon, Portugal, to print books in Hebrew. His first book was Moses ben Nahman's Hiddushe ha-Torah (Commentary on the Pentateuch) on July 16, 1489. Later that year, on November 25, 1489, Toledano published the Perush Seder Tefillot (Sefer Abudarham).
West-European incunabula: 60 original leaves from the presses of the Netherlands, France, Iberia and Great Britain
Issued in portfolio. The plates are mounted and inlaid in paper mats, with mounted descriptive labels. The text consists of a list of plates, arranged under country alphabetically by place of printing, with a short history of the early printing in each country followed by descriptive notes on each specimen, giving information about the printer and the character of the types. "This English edition appears in one issue of 100 copies numbered by hand." Purchase; 2018. Housed in publisher's tan cloth-covered portfolio, with black titles. Libraries' copy is number 79 of 100.