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We search the world to find important historical documents and bring them to our historically passionate clientele.

Our Discoveries

Quality defines value. We have decades of experience measuring the caliber of an item’s content or importance, and that assessment is crucial.

Who We Are

Meet the men and women of The Raab Collection.

Our History

What began as a hobby has become a company with customers worldwide, private collections, as well as major institutions.

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Every item purchased from the Raab Collection, LLC is guaranteed to be authentic, without time limit, to the original purchaser.

Raab Donates Books from the Patterson Family to the University of Virginia

The Raab Collection has donated a large collection of books from the library of the family of Director of the Mint Robert Patterson to the University of Virginia, where the family has deep ties. The books are textbooks for college and college prep use. Patterson likely acquired some while in Europe before going to UVA. Most of the books were used by Patterson’s son Robert, either prior to entering UVA or while at UVA, and later at Penn after his father took a position there. A number of the volumes were bound in Charlottesville at that time; two have an interesting note to the effect that Robert, Jr. bound them himself. The Raab Collection has a long history of donation where the material is tangential to or outside its core business.