8 old books unexpectedly discovered by readers
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8 old books unexpectedly
discovered by readers
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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
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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
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There have been several requests for telephone directories like this one in Tallinn (1934)
Telephone directories
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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
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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?
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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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