An exhibit featuring Baltimore city maps from the Sheridan Libraries' extensive collection of more than 215,000 maps. Part of the Baltimore Festival of Maps, the exhibit runs through August 18 on the M-Level of Homewood's Milton S. Eisenhower Library. More...
Most of the resources in History of Medicine are located in the Historical Collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Welch Medicial Library. Collections include journals, monographs, and rare books and manuscripts. For further information contact the librarian, Christine Ruggere, 410-955-3159.
We have many more than what's listed! Please search the library catalog or ask a librarian for more help.
Use a bibliography. To find them, go to the library catalog. Put the word "bibliography" in as a subject keyword, and put a word in as a title keyword or author keyword, such as "ecology" or "helmoltz."
Go to Special Collections on A Level. Browse their reference shelves to see what kinds of lists of materials they have, and ask them to help you find others. (Several of their reference sets are on the chart, below.)
The chart shows just a few examples of the library's tools and selected web sites for finding historical books. For others, please use the library catalog or ask a librarian.
Title
Dates of Coverage
Subject
Location
Academie Nationale de Medecine
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It currently holds 400 000 volumes, with 800 manuscripts et 113 incunabula, as well as extensive collections of archives and manuscripts.
The British Library receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. The collection includes 150 million items, in most known languages.
There are manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, stamps and related items, music scores, and patents. The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to the latest CD, DVD and minidisc recordings.
General Catalogue of Printed Books of the British Museum
All
Before 1955
The Museum holds 350,000 books, offprints, pamphlets, and many periodical publications. The link will take you to the information page for the Paul Hamlyn Library (puboic), the Museum's Central Library, and the Museum Archives, which document the history of the Museum.
The British Museum no longer holds the national collections of printed books, manuscripts, and journals. Contact the British Library instead for those.
This is a link to the digital resources of the National Libraries of Europe. It offers access to and free searching of the resources (books, music, journals, maps, and more, both digital and non-digital) of the 40+ national libraries of Europe. You can search by country, by subject, or by theme (e.g., portraits, children's literature, music collections).
This is an index of books printed before 1956, which are held in libraries in the United States. The index includes books from Europe and Latin America.
Z881 .A1 .C28 Quarto On B Level, facing the back wall, after call numbers ML - MT
Before 1857 and through 1962. With v. 7, the series is subdivided into two parts: v. 7a for scientists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1932-53; and v. 7b for scientists from other countries, 1932-62.
Nicknamed for Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796 - 1877), this set has bibliographies and "remains the standard and indispensable work for information about the life and works of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and other scientists of all nations." [Oak Knoll Press web site].
Q10 .P4 Sci Ref
Pure and Applied Science Books
1876-1982
Over 220,000 entries representing ~56,000 Library of Congress subject headings. Covers all disciplines of science and technology, including engineering, agriculture, and domestic arts. Also contains at least 5,000 titles published before 1876.
Q220 .P89 Sci Ref
RLIN (pronounced ARE-lin) [also known as "RLG's Eureka"]
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RLIN is the online catalog of the "Research Libraries Group," which includes the collections of major research libraries, archives and museums, historical societies, and international book vendors. It is updated daily. The RLIN catalog lists books, serials, archival collections, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, electronic resources, and more.
It includes records with Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean, and transliteration. There are also records for 19th-century imprints, 15th- to 18th-century imprints, and microfilm.
The Vatican Library has an online catalogue that can be searched, in English and Italian. There are also links to "Treasures of the Library" (in English) and "Vatican Secret Archives" (in Italian).
