Rare Books digitized in the USA
Digital Collections containing pre-1800 books (i.e. digital facsimiles) in European languages other than English, printed in Europe
Helpful Directory
http://bcdlib.tc.ca/general-collections-us.html
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress - Digital Materials
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll.html
including incunabula
Carnegie Mellon Posner Collection
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/browse.html
incl. incunabula
Cornell U
-Witchcraft Collection
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/witchcraft/index.html
- KMODDL
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/kmoddl/
- Saganet
http://saga.library.cornell.edu/
UIUC
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/digitized_books.asp
incl. incunabula
- UIUC German Emblem Books
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/emblems/
U Penn Schoenberg Center
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/
Stanford dd-ILL Files (PDF)
http://dlib.stanford.edu:6520/cgi-pbin/list_all_pdf.pl
The titles are in SOCRATES, use PDF as keyword and year limit
U of Chicago Electronic Open Stacks
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/eos/html/page.form.html
incl. 1 incunabula
Also in the OPAC rare books, e.g.
http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0003.pdf
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.botanicus.org/
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/ (outdated)
incl. 1 incunabula (Schöffer, Herbarius)
Smithsonian Digital Library
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/index.htm
Emory U: French Revolution Pamphlets
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/frenchrevo/
U of Utah Marriott Library
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/
2 rare books (Caesar, Cellarius)
U of Virginia Gordon Project
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/collections/gordon/
French books
Brown U Pico Project
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/
incl. incunabula
Catena - Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscape
http://catena.bgc.bard.edu/rare_books.htm
incl. Incunabula
See also http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2006/liwi2006-22.htm (German)
Linda Hall Library for Science, Kansas City
http://www.lindahall.org/services/digital/index.shtml
incl. latin books, 1 incunabula
Other books from the same library:
http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/lhl/index.html
Medical Historical Library, Yale
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/books_main.html
Incl. some latin books, 1 incunabula
John P. McGovern? History of Medicine Digital Library
http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu/data/www/html/collect/digital.htm
Incl. some latin books
National Library of Medicine - Turning the Pages
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm
4 books
Lehigh U Astronomy Books Online
http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/planets/index.html
2 latin books
Pitts Theology Library
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/DIA/complete_works.cfm
2 German books
Michigan State U
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=11
2 French books
U of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/
French works
- History of Science
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistSciTech/Browse.html
2 German books
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/browsecoll.asp
1 printed German book, some mss.
U of Missouri
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=esm;cc=esm;tpl=home.tpl
1 Italian book
Texas State U: Southwestern Writers
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/index.html
1 Spanish book (1555)
Cervantes Digital Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/texts.html
1 Spanish book (1615)
U of Michigan
http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.html
At least 1 Spanish book (Extracto historial), 1 German
http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bosnia/
At least 1 French book
On the UMich/Google Mbooks see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2643658/
Leo Baeck Institute
http://www.lbi.org/lbirarebooks.html
German books
U of South Florida
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.html
http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/e3
1 Italian book (1595)
ADS Digital Library (Astronomy)
http://ads.harvard.edu/books/
2 Latin books
Euler Archive
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/
Scans of the original latin editions
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: Vivarium
http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/
1 latin Missale (St. John's Rare books), some other rare books
Villanova Digital Library
http://digital.library.villanova.edu/
Some Latin books
Electronic Variorum Edition of the Quixote
http://csdll.cs.tamu.edu:8080/veri/
2 Spanish books
U of Texas at Austin Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
Only the Gutenberg bible
Princeton Digital Collections
http://diglib.princeton.edu/?_xq=browse&_xsl=browse.xsl
Bulla Turcorum (Gutenberg work)
http://digidev.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw/
Corpus Juris Canonici (1582)
Harvard Immigration Collection
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/allbooks.html
1 German book before 1800
Appendix i: CANADA
U of Toronto
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/
Latin, Italian etc.
Osler Library
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/tuberculosis/
See the German comment http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/09/05/tuberkulose/
Appendix ii: UNITED NATIONS
WHO Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology
http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/index5.html
Digital Collections containing pre-1800 books (i.e. digital facsimiles) in European languages other than English, printed in Europe
Helpful Directory
http://bcdlib.tc.ca/general-collections-us.html
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress - Digital Materials
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll.html
including incunabula
Carnegie Mellon Posner Collection
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/browse.html
incl. incunabula
Cornell U
-Witchcraft Collection
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/witchcraft/index.html
- KMODDL
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/kmoddl/
- Saganet
http://saga.library.cornell.edu/
UIUC
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/digitized_books.asp
incl. incunabula
- UIUC German Emblem Books
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/emblems/
U Penn Schoenberg Center
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/
Stanford dd-ILL Files (PDF)
http://dlib.stanford.edu:6520/cgi-pbin/list_all_pdf.pl
The titles are in SOCRATES, use PDF as keyword and year limit
U of Chicago Electronic Open Stacks
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/eos/html/page.form.html
incl. 1 incunabula
Also in the OPAC rare books, e.g.
http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0003.pdf
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.botanicus.org/
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/
(outdated)incl. 1 incunabula (Schöffer, Herbarius)
Smithsonian Digital Library
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/index.htm
Emory U: French Revolution Pamphlets
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/frenchrevo/
U of Utah Marriott Library
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/
2 rare books (Caesar, Cellarius)
U of Virginia Gordon Project
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/collections/gordon/
French books
Brown U Pico Project
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/
incl. incunabula
Catena - Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscape
http://catena.bgc.bard.edu/rare_books.htm
incl. Incunabula
See also http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2006/liwi2006-22.htm
(German)Linda Hall Library for Science, Kansas City
http://www.lindahall.org/services/digital/index.shtml
incl. latin books, 1 incunabula
Other books from the same library:
http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/lhl/index.html
Medical Historical Library, Yale
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/books_main.html
Incl. some latin books, 1 incunabula
John P. McGovern? History of Medicine Digital Library
http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu/data/www/html/collect/digital.htm
Incl. some latin books
National Library of Medicine - Turning the Pages
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm
4 books
Lehigh U Astronomy Books Online
http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/planets/index.html
2 latin books
Pitts Theology Library
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/DIA/complete_works.cfm
2 German books
Michigan State U
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=11
2 French books
U of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/
French works
- History of Science
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistSciTech/Browse.html
2 German books
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/browsecoll.asp
1 printed German book, some mss.
U of Missouri
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=esm;cc=esm;tpl=home.tpl
1 Italian book
Texas State U: Southwestern Writers
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/index.html
1 Spanish book (1555)
Cervantes Digital Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/texts.html
1 Spanish book (1615)
U of Michigan
http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.html
At least 1 Spanish book (Extracto historial), 1 German
http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bosnia/
At least 1 French book
On the UMich/Google Mbooks see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2643658/
Leo Baeck Institute
http://www.lbi.org/lbirarebooks.html
German books
U of South Florida
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.html
http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/e3
1 Italian book (1595)
ADS Digital Library (Astronomy)
http://ads.harvard.edu/books/
2 Latin books
Euler Archive
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/
Scans of the original latin editions
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: Vivarium
http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/
1 latin Missale (St. John's Rare books), some other rare books
Villanova Digital Library
http://digital.library.villanova.edu/
Some Latin books
Electronic Variorum Edition of the Quixote
http://csdll.cs.tamu.edu:8080/veri/
2 Spanish books
U of Texas at Austin Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
Only the Gutenberg bible
Princeton Digital Collections
http://diglib.princeton.edu/?_xq=browse&_xsl=browse.xsl
Bulla Turcorum (Gutenberg work)
http://digidev.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw/
Corpus Juris Canonici (1582)
Harvard Immigration Collection
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/allbooks.html
1 German book before 1800
Appendix i: CANADA
U of Toronto
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/
Latin, Italian etc.
Osler Library
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/tuberculosis/
See the German comment http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/09/05/tuberkulose/
Appendix ii: UNITED NATIONS
WHO Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology
http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/index5.html
