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Recent Gifts and Acquisitions  A Selected List of Unusual Books and Manuscripts Gratefully Received by THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES and located in the Department of Special Collections 2001 Hiram Barney to David Kilbourn[e], 1844 an autograph letter with steamboad cancel stamp 12/2001 "The Duties of Patriotism. A Sermon for the Times" preached by William Wilson, 1861, Washington, Iowa 12/2001 The No. 1 Hard Cook Book Fargo, North Dakota: Trustees First Presbyterian Church, 1889, The first cookbook published in North Dakota 12/2001 Bartolomeo Stefani L'Arte di ben cvcinare et instruire i men periti in questa lodeuole professione. Bologna: Gio Recaldini, 1675, An early Italian cookbook and guide to managing the kitchen 11/2001 Mexican Cooking San Antonio: Gebhardt Chili Powder Co., ca 1905-1910The first Mexican cookbook published in the United States 7/2001 Gene Wilder Papers 1961-2000 4/2001  A collection of the work of Barbara Cash's Ives Street Press 1979-1997 1/2001 See Gifts and Acquisitions in 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999