A major collection of printed documents from the era of the French Revolution, the Maclure Collection comprises approximately 25,000 pamphlets and periodicals published in France from the late 1780s to ca. 1815.
The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture collections include the Society's records, beginning with its 1785 founding, and its extensive library.
The Rittenhouse Orrery was built in 1770-71 by David Rittenhouse for the College of Philadelphia and preserved by the University thereafter.
The Ross Bible Collection includes three medieval manuscripts and over one hundred printed editions of the Bible and related Biblical texts.
Penn Libraries holds more than 3,000 manuscripts from South Asia, making it one of the largest collections of its kind in the Americas.
The Sydney S. Keil Collection contains over 1,000 items from colonial Latin America, including books, pamphlets, broadsides, and maps.
The Wetherill Papers comprise business records, ca. 1762-1899, of the store and White Lead Works founded by Samuel Wetherill in the late eighteenth century and held by his successors through the nineteenth century. This sizable collection documents the long manufacturing history of a single family-held company in early America.
Because of longstanding collection strengths in area studies as well as because of disciplinary trends recognizing philosophers outside of the traditional western canon, the Penn Libraries have a significant amount of material relating to philosophy and philosophers in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.