8 old books unexpectedly discovered by readers
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The collections of academic libraries are rather research orientated. Sometimes the libraries get digitisation orders on books, which they would not have prioritised in their lists of digitisation or did not believe to be found in their collections in the first placeTRANSCRIPT
eBooks on Demand
8 old books unexpectedly
discovered by readers
eBooks on Demand
...from the academic library collections
eBooks on Demand
...and ordered as EOD e-books
A handbook how to play Whist – an English trick-taking card game widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries
Das Whist-Spiel in allen seinen Feinheiten und Abänderungen, als: Whist en cinq, en trois, en deux, Cayenne, Short-Whist usw..., 1859
Now available online at the Digital Library of the Saxon State andUniversity Library Dresden
Let’s play Whist
A product catalogue of BMW motorbikes (in Estonian), 1938
and a list of bicycles and their details (in Estonian), 1938
may refer to someone’s interest in restoration.
Digitised and made available by the National Library of Estonia
Bikes and bicycles
There have been several requests for telephone directories like this one in Tallinn (1934)
Telephone directories
Hermann Goethe. Ampelographisches Wörterbuch, 1876
A specific edition for wine experts
Something that a library would not prioritise in its list of digitisation, but happy to do it on request
PDF e-book made available by the University and Regional Library of Tyrol
Grapes2wine
An annual report of a school in Berlin
Zweiter Jahresbericht über die Luisenstädtische Gewerbeschule in Berlin, 1867
It takes deep interest and the requests to get the school reports digitised...
PDF e-book
made available by the University and Regional Library of Tyrol
Where did you study?
Maybe a researcher from the field of medicine sometimes needs a different type of approach, like fiction or drawings
Der Frauenarzt : Roman, 1910
Ethnologisches Bilderbuch: mit erklärendem Text..., 1887
Digitised on request by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University Library
Fiction
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