<div dir="ltr">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>Hope those of you who came to the rare books coffee hour enjoyed it as much as I did! Here is an email from Diane with some info on the books she showed us and where you can find spanned copies and other books.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Ben and the PDA<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Diane Rielinger</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drielinger@mbl.edu">drielinger@mbl.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:37 PM<br>Subject: Re: Rare books<br>To: Benjamin Harden <<a href="mailto:bharden@whoi.edu">bharden@whoi.edu</a>><br><br><br><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<div>Ben:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Glad you and the others enjoyed the visit so much. I was just finishing an e-mail to Liz but will send to you instead so you can pass it around.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Here is a reference list for some of the materials I showed yesterday. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>a) All of the books in the MBLWHOI Library Rare Books Room are listed in our card catalog - <a href="http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org" target="_blank">www.mblwhoilibrary.org</a>. Visits to the Rare Books Room are by appointment only - please contact me (<a href="mailto:drielinger@mbl.edu" target="_blank">drielinger@mbl.edu</a>) for arrangements.</div>
<div><br></div><div>b) Many books have been digitized by the MBLWHOI Library or one of our partner institutions. Books related to biodiversity (the topic being defined very, very broadly) can be found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org" target="_blank">www.biodiversitylibrary.org</a>). The MBLWHOI Library has also scanned a few books that are strictly non-biological. These, as well as the books in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), are available through the Internet Archive (<a href="http://www.archive.org" target="_blank">www.archive.org</a>). Of note:<br>
</div><div><ul><li>Conrad Gesner's 1560 Historiae animalium. Our copy was not scanned due to defects that would prevent proper OCR text recognition (some holes in the text made by bookworms). Copies by other institutions are available through the BHL. The closest to our aquatic section with the sea monsters is <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45958#/summary" target="_blank">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45958#/summary</a>. Elephant, rhino and unicorn can be found in <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64842#/summary" target="_blank">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64842#/summary</a>. <br>
</li><li>James Cook expedition - <a href="http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagetopacificoXXcook" target="_blank">http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagetopacificoXXcook</a><br>
</li><li>Maury's "Physical Geography of the Sea" -<a> https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograph621maur</a><br></li><li>1609 voyage through the Northeast Passage "Vraye description de trois voyages de mer tres admirables, faits en trois ans, a chacvn an vn..." - by Gerrit de Veer. This was the small leather book with the polar bears and seals. Available online at <a href="https://archive.org/details/vrayedescriptio00veergoog" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/vrayedescriptio00veergoog</a><br>
</li><li>Unfortunately, we have not scanned the large hand-painted illustrations from the voyage of the Astrolabe due to their size. The text is available via the BHL - <a href="http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagedelacorvetXXdumo" target="_blank">http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagedelacorvetXXdumo</a><br>
</li></ul></div><div>c) Some additional online resources:</div><ul><li> Challenger voyage: <a>http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-linked.htm</a><br></li><li> Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: through the MBLWHOI Library journal list via JSTOR or via the society website (<a href="http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/" target="_blank">http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/</a>)</li>
</ul><div>d) Copies of the Leuckart Wall Charts may be downloaded from <a href="http://hpsrepository.asu.edu" target="_blank">hpsrepository.asu.edu</a>. There is an exhibit with some background on the MBLWHOI Library's website under "Rare Books and MBL Archives" (<a href="http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives" target="_blank">http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives</a>).<br>
<div><br></div>e) Please feel free to contact myself or any of the other librarians with any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div>Diane</div><div><br></div><hr><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">
<b>From: </b>"Benjamin Harden" <<a href="mailto:bharden@whoi.edu" target="_blank">bharden@whoi.edu</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:drielinger@mbl.edu" target="_blank">drielinger@mbl.edu</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:49:01 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Rare books<div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Diane,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for such an interesting discussion and tour yesterday in the archives. It was fascinating - I could have spent hours with those books and I'll make sure I come and visit again soon!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Couple of questions, could you send me the links to the online archives where these books have been scanned in so I can have a look from home and send around to the postdocs for their reference?</div><div>
<br></div><div>Also, could you send me some of the details for the books you showed so I can find them online. Specifically the amazing inked illustrations, the 16thC "Encyclopedia of Life", and the Barrents expedition to Nova Zemla?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Diane M. Rielinger<br>
Co-Director MBLWHOI Library<br>Director of Library Services at MBL<br>7 MBL Street<br>Woods Hole, MA 02543<br><a href="tel:508-289-7341" value="+15082897341" target="_blank">508-289-7341</a><span name="x"></span><br></div>
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