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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 05:09 PM
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Plant freaks and botanists, Rare book fans, Art connoisseurs (dial up caution)
Ms. Darkstar is working on the COOLEST project: digitizing rare taxonomic and illustrative field guides to plants from around the world and cataloging them. Some texts are over 500 years old! A staggeringly cool project, IMO.

Here is a link to her group's efforts:
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/browse.asp

Here are some samples:

1807
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QH117P571648&identifier=0003

1484
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=R1286043&identifier=0021

1648
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QH117P571648&identifier=0003

1834
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QK91C7721807&identifier=0276

Plenty more at top link. (sorry, you have to click....)
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 07:03 PM
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1. ok...maybe some night-timers
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 07:51 PM
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2. Pretty cool!
What language is the 1484 book and the 1648 book in? Looks a little bit like Latin.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 07:58 PM
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3. Oh, cool!!
I totally have a couple friends to send this to who will find it really fascinating! :)
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 08:11 PM
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4. Neat stuff
My son has a job scanning old books for archive.org. I think it is great that all these things are being made accessible to so many people.
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