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The Smith Rare Book Room houses the library's non-archival special collections, including the Cumming Map Collection, the Fugate Collection of First Editions, the Bruce Rogers Collection, the Golden Cockerel Press Collection, publications from the Iron Mountain Press, as well as other individual rare books.
Additional items of note include the Arabic Bible of Omar ibn Sayyid, cuneiforms, early American Bibles, artist's books, Diderot's Encyclopedie, as well as first editions of John Milton's Paradise Lost, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Patrick Gass' journal from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Materials in the Rare Book Room can be searched for by using the Davidson College Library Catalog and filtering by location.