The UK Medical Heritage Library brings together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century history of medicine and related disciplines. This ongoing digitisation project is funded by Jisc ( http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/ ) and the Wellcome Library ( http://wellcomelibrary.org ). The UK Medical Heritage Library is a sub-set of the Medical Heritage Library ( archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary ). UK Medical Heritage Library partners...
The Wellcome Library is one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. It houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world. The Library is making as many of its collections as possible freely available online. In addition to this selection of historical books and journals, increasing amounts of digitised material, including manuscripts and...
La Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF) è la più grande biblioteca d'Italia, con oltre 6 milioni di volumi a stampa. È biblioteca nazionale e serve da biblioteca centrale insieme alla BNCR (Roma). Questa collezione comprende alcuni dei libri, tornati nel pubblico dominio, http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/notizia.php?id=1268 >digitalizzati nel progetto Google Books e messi a disposizione nel 2014. The National Central Library of Florence (BNCF) is the biggest library of Italy,...
Topic: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
The reports were produced each year by the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) of a district and set out the work done by his public health and sanitary officers. They provided vital data on birth and death rates, infant mortality, incidence of infectious and other diseases, and a general statement on the health of the population. The reports also allowed the authors to express the diversity of their local communities and their own personal interests so sometimes contained unexpected and quirky...
This is a selection of items from the National Library of Scotland , which is an information treasure trove of Scotland's knowledge, history and culture, with millions of books, manuscripts and maps covering every subject.
Topic: National Library of Scotland
The Royal College of Surgeons of England is a professional membership organisation of 20,000 UK and international members, and registered charity, which exists to advance surgical standards and improve patient care. The College received its first Royal Charter in 1800 but traces its origins to the Company of Barber-Surgeons, established in 1540. In 1745, the Barber-Surgeons were split by an Act of Parliament into two bodies and the Company of Surgeons was established. The Hunterian Museum ,...
To browse journals by title, please click here . The journals collection is part of the Wellcome Library, one of the world’s major resources for the study of medical history. The Library houses 2.5 million items of exceptional diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world. The journals comprise a very large collection, going back as far as the late eighteenth century, and are representative of the broad span and...
INRA is Europe’s top agricultural research institute and the world’s number two centre for the agricultural sciences. Its scientists are working towards solutions for society’s major challenges. Herbier Vassal-Montpellier Avertissements Agricoles (warning bulletin on agricultural threats). Mass download Paris Center Villa Thuret (Antibes) Jean Weber's photographies Digitized Inra journals Inra Mensuel, Inra Magazine Premier institut de recherche agronomique en Europe, deuxième en...
Topics: natural sciences, agriculture, wine, vine
The RCPE is an independent standard-setting body and professional membership organisation. Our aim is to improve and maintain the quality of patient care. We help qualified doctors to pursue their careers in specialist (internal) medicine through medical examinations, education and training. We also provide resources and information to support and facilitate professional development for physicians throughout their careers. The Library was founded in 1682 when Sir Robert Sibbald, one of the...
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is the professional body for physicians, with over 30,000 members and fellows across the globe. The RCP has an extensive library , started at the foundation of the RCP in 1518 and maintained and developed today. The rare books and special collections are displayed in public exhibitions and can be viewed in person by making a research appointment with the library. 20th-century collections are available to all for reference access in the library reading room....
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The University of Padova is committed to the preservation and valorisation of the cultural heritage in its libraries, archives and museums. Several digitisation projects are ongoing, in order to safeguard the original documents while promoting their on line access. This Internet Archive collection represents a selection of these documents.
Topics: University of Padova Library System, Cultural Heritage, European Libraries
A collection of books from the University of Turin, which deals mostly with philosophical topics, history of science, religion, Italian languages and human geography, and focuses on Italian language, including Italian traslations of foreign authors. Partners in the project are the Philosophy Department Library, the Historical Studies Library "Giovanni Tabacco", the Library of Literary and Philological Sciences, the Library "Arturo Graf" and the Piero...
Topic: bibliotechetorino
Chemist and Druggist, the leading trade journal for the pharmacy community in the UK, has been in continuous publication since 1859. It contains a wealth of information for studying the history of medicine and pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Also contained in its pages are many striking visual examples from over 150 years of developments in advertising, packaging and graphic design. The Chemist and Druggist has been made available by the Wellcome Library , one of the greatest...
Leeds University Library is one of the major academic research libraries of the UK, attracting students and scholars from around the world to its rich and extensive print, online and manuscript collections gathered during its 100 -year history. The Library has some of the UK's outstanding collections of rare books and manuscripts, and five of its premier Special Collections have been awarded "designated status" under the national scheme for recognising world class collections held in...
Books in Gaelic and relating to Gaelic topics contributed by the National Library of Scotland .
This collection contains items from the University of Glasgow Library. Glasgow University is a broad based, research intensive institution with a global reach, and has been teaching medicine since 1714. The University's Libra ry's medical collections cover all subject areas and are particularly strong in anatomy, surgery, clinical medicine, public health, sanitation and homeopathic medicine.
National Library of Scotland, Scottish Directories
Topic: Scottish Directories
National Library of Scotland, British Navy Lists
Topic: Navy, Scotland
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Topics: medecine, turin, italy
Almost all of the writings in Balinese were digitized and preserved here in 2011 by the Internet Archive from their major library in Denpasar, Bali. A official in the cultural ministry said that this collection is "90% of all writings in Balinese." Most of the Balinese literature is written on palm leaves, or Lontar. Some were not digitized because of the culturally sensitive materials they contain. This makes the Balinese the first to have...
Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week by thousands of new products and now offers access to several million documents. In the initial project of "library of a new genre" called by François Mitterrand in 1988, multimedia technologies are in the spotlight. A virtual library project, accessible from the reading rooms of the Library, is then envisaged: the aim is to offer readers, on...
Topic: french, gallica
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 3,900 students and more than 1,000 staff worki ng in over 100 countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, and was recently cited as the world's leading research-focused graduate school. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence...
University College London's University College London's Main Library primarily holds collections in the Arts & Humanities and there is an equally large Science Library close by. Following further expansion over the past century there are a further 14 libraries supporting UCL's teaching and research, including several that provide services to both UCL and the National Health Service. Our Special Collections and Digital Collections are a rich source of manuscripts, archives and rare books.
Books contributed by National Library of Scotland
This collection contains items from the Foyle Special Collections Library, King's College London. The Foyle Special Collections Library holds over 180,000 printed books and journals, as well as maps, slides, sound recordings and manuscript material, spanning the humanities, sciences and social sciences and ranging in date from the 15th century to the present day. The history of medicine is a notable strength of these holdings, which include the historical library collections of St. Thomas's...
Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Sexology exhibit, 2014-15.
Italian books from various Italian libraries and universities (especially from the University of Trieste) about philosophy, scienze, geography and other topics
Topics: Italian books, science, scienza, geografia
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Solomon, King of Israel. n 80024516; Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (Samuel Liddell MacGregor)
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Limited ed. of 500 numbered copies
Topic: Jewish magic
The Law School of the University of Padova presents a selection of works from the Law Library, bringing important texts on subjects of law, history and philosophy of law to a wider public.
Topics: University of Padova Library System, law, history and philosophy of law
This is the collections page of The Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society, until recently known as the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Since 1870 we have published the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal and other works dealing with the history and archaeology of the ancient county of Yorkshire, and we continue to do so. https://www.yas.org.uk/ Copies of our academically-respected journal and other publications have for many years enjoyed a place in scholarly libraries of many...
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Martindale, William, 1840-1902; Martindale, W. Harrison (William Harrison), 1874-1933, (Reviser); Westcott, W. Wynn (William Wynn), 1848-1925, (Reviser); Westcott, W. Wynn (William Wynn), 1848-1925; Royal College of Physicians of London
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Previous ed., 1910
Topics: Pharmacopoeias, Formularies
The history of medicine in film The Moving Image and Sound Collection (MISC) is part of the Wellcome Library , one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. The Library houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world. This selection of over 200 digitised videos from MISC covers all aspects of 20th century healthcare and medicine. Some of the...
Topic: medical
National Library of Scotland, British Air Force Lists
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 348 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 550 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church.
Codice figurato in 4 volumi rilegati in due tomi, con in tutto 210 tavole di piante del Monte Baldo, disegnate e colorate a mano da Bartolomeo Martini, entro cornice rossa. Le specie sono raggruppate topograficamente secondo i luoghi della loro raccolta. Numerose note manoscritte posteriori, relative in particolare a diverse denominazioni della piante. Alla nomenclatura bauhiniana è aggiunta la citazione di un'opera dello stesso Martini: Catalogus plantarum M. Baldi, pubblicato a Verona nel...
Topics: University of Padova Library System, botanical illustration, botany
The University of Bristol Library serves the needs of one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Its special collections reflect the broad scope of the institution’s research and teaching, ranging from important deposits of publishing archive, through leading geological collections to the library and archive of the National Liberal Club, a key source for public debate in the nineteenth-century. The present collection is drawn from the library of the Bristol Medical School...
Topics: turin, torino, science
Books from the Music collection at the National Library of Scotland
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The Biblioteca Elettronica di Linguistica e Filologia (“Electronic Library of Linguistics and Philology”) presents complete digitised copies of a selection of antique and modern publications on questions of language and linguistics, Italian dialects in particular. The original volumes are held in the Maldura Library and the Legnaro Archive (NAL, or Nuovo Archivio di Legnaro). Some of these works were part of a bequest from Prof. Giovan Battista Pellegrini (1921-2007).
Topics: University of Padova Library System, linguistics, philology, Italian dialect
National Library of Scotland, British Army lists
Topics: NLS, National Library of Scotland, Harts Army List
Founded in 1823, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland is dedicated to promoting public interest and scholarly exchange into the histories and cultures of Asia. One of the ways the Society does this is by providing free public access to its historic collections of books, manuscripts, archives, and artworks, which originate from across Asia. The Society seeks to make as many of its collections as possible freely available online. In...
A complete set of articles published in the Records of the Scottish Church History Society from 1926-2015
The Berio Library is the Central Public Library in Genoa , the heart of the libraries network constituted by 16 public libraries . The history of our Library dates back to the middle of the 18th century, when the abbot Carlo Giuseppe Vespasiano Berio (1713-1794) opened his private library to the public. In the 19th century the volumes of the abbot’s private library were donated to the City of Genoa; this marked the opening of the first public library of the City ( 1824 ) . For many years, the...
A collection of manuscripts and rare books from Padua's Botanical Garden Library.
Topics: University of Padova Library System, botany, history of science, Botanical Garden of Padua
L'Istituto culturale e di documentazione Alessandro Lazzerini di Prato raccoglie più di 200.000 volumi e possiede numerosi fondi storici e collezioni specializzate. Questo progetto di digitalizzazione è nato grazie al contributo iniziale dalla Regione Toscana e mira a condividere con la più vasta platea possibile il prezioso patrimonio storico della biblioteca che altrimenti non sarebbe accessibile al pubblico. The Prato public library's collection consists of more than 200.000 books and...
Topics: Fondo Aldo Petri, Biblioteca Lazzerini
Glasgow School of Art was established in 1845 as the first Government School of Design in the UK outside London, and is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s foremost institutions for creative education and research. Throughout its long history, the School has provided a library service to its staff and students, and is well-known for its famous library interior designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1907-1909. Today’s library collections encompass a wide range of...
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Topic: Mental Disorders
The Royal Academy of Music is the oldest conservatoire in the UK. Founded in 1822, it received its Royal Charter in 1830. The Academy provides undergraduate and postgraduate training across instrumental performance, composition, jazz, musical theatre and opera, and recruits musicians from around the world, with a student community representing more than 50 nationalities. It is committed to lifelong learning, from Junior Academy, which trains musicians up to the age of 18, through Open Academy...
The authoritative digital collection of the 300 publications produced by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches from 1910 to the present.
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE,[1] and possibly much earlier.Their use began in South Asia, and spread elsewhere, as texts on dried and smoke treated palm leaves of Borassus species (Palmyra palm) or the Ola leaf (leaf of Corypha umbraculifera or the talipot palm). From Wikipedia :
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University of Glasgow Library
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United States. Armed Forces Medical Library; United States. Army Medical Library; United States. Surgeon General's Office. Library; University of Glasgow. Library
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Continued by Armed Forces Medical Library catalog
Topics: Incunabula, Medicine, Medicine
Les bibliothèques de l’École normale supérieure (ENS) sont partie prenante de la formation par la recherche dans toutes les disciplines enseignées à l'ENS. En développement constant depuis le début du XIXème siècle, les collections rassemblent des livres, revues, manuscrits, archives et ressources électroniques et multimédia, offrant ainsi un large accès autant à la littérature critique ainsi qu’aux résultats de la recherche et aux sources primaires. Le réseau documentaire...
Topics: Lettres, Sciences Humaines, Philosophie, Histoire, Mathématiques, Physique, Chimie, Géosciences,...
CoBiS is a network of special libraries based in the Turin metropolitan area. This collection, which includes about 180.000 digitized pages from CoBiS libraries' holdings, is the result of «CoBiS Digital Library & Archives», a digitization project established in 2018 and sponsored by Regione Piemonte. For further information please refer to www.cobis.to.it CoBiS è un network di biblioteche speciali e specialistiche dell'area...
Topic: Collezioni digitali di area piemontese
Lists of Scottish soldiers and regiments serving in World War I.
The Botanists Portrait Collection consists of 2,380 portraits of Italian and foreign botanists dating from the second half of the seventeenth century through to the first half of the twentieth. The collection is made up of photographs (salt prints, albumen prints, aristotypes, platinotypes and gelatin prints), glass negatives, engravings, watercolours, drawings, paintings and photomechanical prints. The collection is preserved in the Padua Botanical Garden Library.
Topics: University of Padova Library System, photography, portraits, botanists, history of botany
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Topics: 93-1541, Galen, Anti-Vaccinating Society
The Society’s largest collection of palm leaf manuscripts was formed by Charles Matthew Whish (1794-1833). Whish was a civil servant in the Madras Establishment of the East India Company. Fascinated by the culture of southern India, Whish collected manuscripts covering a wide range of subjects: vedic literature and ancient poetry in classical Sanskrit, as well as technical and scientific works. Whish was the first European to acknowledge the distinct achievements of the Kerala School of...
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Historic printed material published by the Wellcome Trust.
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
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Volume che comprende 101 tavole botaniche disegnate e dipinte a mano, tra fine XVII e inizio XVIII secolo, numerate ma prive di denominazione (con l’eccezione di tre tavole). Le tavole, arrivate alla biblioteca sciolte e prive di titolo e solo successivamente rilegate, presentano ripetizioni nella numerazione e carte di grammatura diversa quindi è ipotizzabile non siano state realizzate per un'unica pubblicazione. L’attribuzione a Bartolomeo Martini è stata fatta da P.A. Saccardo, anche...
Topics: University of Padova Library System, botanical illustration, botany
Issued in a limited edition of "only three thousand copies"
Topics: Erotic literature, Erotic art, Sex in literature, Pornography, Sex, Prostitution, Homosexuality,...
ll Sistema Bibliotecario Milano (SBM) è un network di 24 biblioteche di quartiere, un bibliobus e la biblioteca centrale "Sormani". http://www.comune.milano.it/wps/portal/ist/it/vivicitta/luoghicultura/Biblioteche/Sistema_Bibliotecario_Milano The Milan Public Library system (SBM) is a network that links 24 branch libraries, the bookmobile Bibliobus and the central library "Sormani"....
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Topics: Hopkins, Matthew, -1647, Witchcraft -- history, Witchcraft, England
La Roncioniana è la più antica biblioteca di Prato. È stata creata per volontà testamentaria dal nobile pratese Marco di Emilio Roncioni (1600 - 1677). Fu aperta provvisoriamente nel 1722. Dal 1766 ha sede nel Palazzo Roncioni, nel centro storico di Prato. La Biblioteca Roncioniana raccoglie più di 50.000 volumi. Conserva ricche collezioni di interesse generale e locale, raccolte di manoscritti risalenti al XIII-XX secolo e periodici storici del XIX secolo. The Roncioniana is the oldest...
Topics: Biblioteca Roncioniana, italian literature
Wellcome Journals.
Topic: Journals.
Wellcome Journals.
Topic: Journals.
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Cappelli, Adriano (1859-1942). Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane. Usate nelle carte e codici specialmente del medioevo .... Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1929
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Topics: Adriano Cappelli, paleografia, epigrafia, filologia, lingua latina, lingua italiana
Il contenuto riflette l'intento di documentare con criteri scientifici un insieme di vegetali aventi importanza farmacologica più che officinale in senso lato, senza trascurare tuttavia "cultivar" straordinarie, come quelle flore pleno e alcune entità il cui uso ornamentale si stava diffondendo nei giardini e negli Orti Botanici" (Da "Herbarium", a cura di Luigino Curti, Signum c1993). Etichette manoscritte sul dorso: "Erbario farmaceutico c.1730" e...
Topics: University of Padova Library System, medical plants, herbarium, Fra Giorgio da Venezia, botany
