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.htmlext. link


DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Library of Congress - Digital Materials
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll.htmlext. link
including incunabula

Carnegie Mellon Posner Collection
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/browse.htmlext. link
incl. incunabula

Cornell U
-Witchcraft Collection
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/witchcraft/index.htmlext. link
- KMODDL
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/kmoddl/ext. link
- Saganet
http://saga.library.cornell.edu/ext. link

UIUC
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/digitized_books.aspext. link
incl. incunabula
- UIUC German Emblem Books
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/emblems/ext. link

U Penn Schoenberg Center
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ext. link

Stanford dd-ILL Files (PDF)
http://dlib.stanford.edu:6520/cgi-pbin/list_all_pdf.plext. link
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.htmlext. link
incl. 1 incunabula
Also in the OPAC rare books, e.g.
http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0003.pdfext. link

Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.botanicus.org/ext. link
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/ext. link (outdated)
incl. 1 incunabula (Schöffer, Herbarius)

Smithsonian Digital Library
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/index.htmext. link

Emory U: French Revolution Pamphlets
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/frenchrevo/ext. link

U of Utah Marriott Library
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/ext. link
2 rare books (Caesar, Cellarius)

U of Virginia Gordon Project
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/collections/gordon/ext. link
French books

Brown U Pico Project
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/ext. link
incl. incunabula

Catena - Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscape
http://catena.bgc.bard.edu/rare_books.htmext. link
incl. Incunabula
See also http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2006/liwi2006-22.htmext. link (German)

Linda Hall Library for Science, Kansas City
http://www.lindahall.org/services/digital/index.shtmlext. link
incl. latin books, 1 incunabula
Other books from the same library:
http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/lhl/index.htmlext. link

Medical Historical Library, Yale
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/books_main.htmlext. link
Incl. some latin books, 1 incunabula

John P. McGovern? History of Medicine Digital Library
http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu/data/www/html/collect/digital.htmext. link
Incl. some latin books

National Library of Medicine - Turning the Pages
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htmext. link
4 books

Lehigh U Astronomy Books Online
http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/planets/index.htmlext. link
2 latin books

Pitts Theology Library
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/DIA/complete_works.cfmext. link
2 German books

Michigan State U
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=11ext. link
2 French books

U of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/ext. link
French works
- History of Science
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistSciTech/Browse.htmlext. link
2 German books

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/browsecoll.aspext. link
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.tplext. link
1 Italian book

Texas State U: Southwestern Writers
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/index.htmlext. link
1 Spanish book (1555)

Cervantes Digital Library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/texts.htmlext. link
1 Spanish book (1615)

U of Michigan
http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.htmlext. link
At least 1 Spanish book (Extracto historial), 1 German
http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bosnia/ext. link
At least 1 French book
On the UMich/Google Mbooks see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2643658/ext. link

Leo Baeck Institute
http://www.lbi.org/lbirarebooks.htmlext. link
German books

U of South Florida
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.htmlext. link
http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/e3ext. link
1 Italian book (1595)

ADS Digital Library (Astronomy)
http://ads.harvard.edu/books/ext. link
2 Latin books

Euler Archive
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/ext. link
Scans of the original latin editions

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: Vivarium
http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/ext. link
1 latin Missale (St. John's Rare books), some other rare books

Villanova Digital Library
http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ext. link
Some Latin books

Electronic Variorum Edition of the Quixote
http://csdll.cs.tamu.edu:8080/veri/ext. link
2 Spanish books

U of Texas at Austin Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/ext. link
Only the Gutenberg bible

Princeton Digital Collections
http://diglib.princeton.edu/?_xq=browse&_xsl=browse.xslext. link
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=scheideext. link
Bulla Turcorum (Gutenberg work) etc.

http://digidev.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw/ext. link
Corpus Juris Canonici (1582)

Harvard Open Collection
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ext. link
Contagion, with incunabula
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/allbooks.htmlext. link
1 German book before 1800


Appendix: UNITED NATIONS

WHO Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology
http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/index5.htmlext. link