[All-postdocs] Fwd: Rare books

[Benjamin Harden]

Hi guys,

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.

Enjoy!

Ben and the PDA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Diane Rielinger <drielinger at mbl.edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Rare books
To: Benjamin Harden <bharden at whoi.edu>


Ben:

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.

Here is a reference list for some of the materials I showed yesterday.

a) All of the books in the MBLWHOI Library Rare Books Room are listed in
our card catalog - www.mblwhoilibrary.org.  Visits to the Rare Books Room
are by appointment only - please contact me (drielinger at mbl.edu) for
arrangements.

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 (www.biodiversitylibrary.org).  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 (www.archive.org). Of note:

   - 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 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45958#/summary.
   Elephant, rhino and unicorn can be found in
   http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64842#/summary.
   - James Cook expedition -
   http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagetopacificoXXcook
   - Maury's "Physical Geography of the Sea"
-https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograph621maur
   - 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
   https://archive.org/details/vrayedescriptio00veergoog
   - 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 -
   http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=voyagedelacorvetXXdumo

c) Some additional online resources:

   -     Challenger voyage:
   http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-linked.htm
   -     Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: through
   the MBLWHOI Library journal list via JSTOR or via the society website (
   http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/)

d) Copies of the Leuckart Wall Charts may be downloaded from
hpsrepository.asu.edu.  There is an exhibit with some background on the
MBLWHOI Library's website under "Rare Books and MBL Archives" (
http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives).

e) Please feel free to contact myself or any of the other librarians with
any questions.

Thanks,

Diane

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*From: *"Benjamin Harden" <bharden at whoi.edu>
*To: *drielinger at mbl.edu
*Sent: *Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:49:01 AM
*Subject: *Rare books


Hi Diane,

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!

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?

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?

Thanks again,

Ben



-- 
Diane M. Rielinger
Co-Director MBLWHOI Library
Director of Library Services at MBL
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
508-289-7341
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