Current methods to isolate synaptic vesicles (SVs), the organellar quanta of synaptic transmission, require highly specialized materials and up to 24 hours. These technical obstacles have thus far limited the study of SVs in models of synaptic function and pathophysiology. Here, we describe techniques for the rapid isolation of SVs by immunoprecipitation with widely available antibodies conjugated to magnetic beads. We report that the inexpensive rho1D4 monoclonal antibody binds SVs and show that elution with the 1D4 peptide yields native vesicles that are ≥ 10-fold purer than those obtained with classical techniques. These methods substantially widen the accessibility of SVs, enabling their purification in 60-90 minutes for downstream analyses including mass spectrometry and cryoelectron microscopy. Immunopurified SV preparations from mouse brain contained apolipoprotein E (ApoE), the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor Lrp1, and enzymes involved in lipid metabolism, suggesting that SVs may play direct roles in lipid homeostasis and lipoprotein trafficking at the nerve terminal.Significance Statement Synaptic vesicles (SVs) are small organelles that form and recycle at nerve terminals to enable synaptic transmission. Much remains unknown about the processes that enable the formation and function of SVs. Moreover, nerve terminals appear to be particularly vulnerable to pathophysiologic processes underlying neurodegenerative diseases and schizophrenia. While techniques to purify synaptic vesicles thus have the potential to yield significant insights into physiology and pathophysiology of nerve terminals, current methods rely on either esoteric materials or expression of transgenes. This paper addresses these problems by establishing robust, efficient methods for SV purification using widely available materials, and it highlights several promising areas of future study arising from proteomic analyses of immunopurified SVs.