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For some reason, Google gives me only a snippet view of
Appleton's Hand-book of American Travel, Southern Tour, although it was published in 1876. (Anything that old, in my prior experience, either isn't visible because they've not scanned it, or it's fully visible because it's in the public domain.) Can someone not in the USA check and see if it's visible in your country, and if so, can you identify a place in which sketches europe "been spared" "an idea of"
all appear on the right side of a page?
Background: I have a falling-apart copy of Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1876, Appleton), and the internal binding papers have become visible. On one side, the binding is clearly composed of an advertisement for Appletons' American Cyclopædia. On the other side, only the right edge of a page is visible, and all I can see is the rightmost dozen or so characters of each line. Google found the Hand-book when I searched for the above words, and it fits the context (Appleton published both books in the same year), but I'd like to know more than what a Google snippet gives. Nyttend backup ( talk) 13:50, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
The Imaginary Cities exhibition emerged from a British Library collection of 65,000 19-th century books that were digitised with funding from Microsoft and now reside in the public domain ...
These images can currently be found on Flickr Commons, where the public is invited to contribute to their curation, discovery and reuse through tagging and sharing.
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For some reason, Google gives me only a snippet view of
Appleton's Hand-book of American Travel, Southern Tour, although it was published in 1876. (Anything that old, in my prior experience, either isn't visible because they've not scanned it, or it's fully visible because it's in the public domain.) Can someone not in the USA check and see if it's visible in your country, and if so, can you identify a place in which sketches europe "been spared" "an idea of"
all appear on the right side of a page?
Background: I have a falling-apart copy of Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1876, Appleton), and the internal binding papers have become visible. On one side, the binding is clearly composed of an advertisement for Appletons' American Cyclopædia. On the other side, only the right edge of a page is visible, and all I can see is the rightmost dozen or so characters of each line. Google found the Hand-book when I searched for the above words, and it fits the context (Appleton published both books in the same year), but I'd like to know more than what a Google snippet gives. Nyttend backup ( talk) 13:50, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
The Imaginary Cities exhibition emerged from a British Library collection of 65,000 19-th century books that were digitised with funding from Microsoft and now reside in the public domain ...
These images can currently be found on Flickr Commons, where the public is invited to contribute to their curation, discovery and reuse through tagging and sharing.