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This is the job of the national library. They keep every book printed in your nation for unlimited time. In the US that seems to be the Library of Congress, so
by kaybe 9y ago
This is the job of the national library. They keep every book printed in your nation for unlimited time. In the US that seems to be the Library of Congress, so they should have the book you miss.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoIt was a 'vanity press' book produced by an itinerant book publisher in the 1880's. And its listed! https://lccn.loc.gov/03003442 https://lccn.loc.gov/03003442 Still not the same in e-book form, as having the original bound pages from 135 years ago in my hands. But good to know.
- kaybe 9y agoDoes it have the plates? There is a long list of names at the end, maybe that's them. God sometimes I love the internet. I can only imagine how hard it was to do scientific research before, when the journals were all paper and you had to get the library to search articles for you. Now it takes me a few minutes to access anything. Or most of it at least. We have to work on that.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoDownloaded (finally) and looked thru all 1000 pages - no plates! Why wouldn't they scan those too? Just because its not amenable to OCR? Sigh.
- yaur 9y agoArchive.org has lots of old books which I've used in family history research. It looks like they have 3 distinct scans of the one you linked.