Rare books in the flesh
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Investing in Rare Books and Manuscripts
The lecture treats the rapidly escalating values of rare books and manuscripts both as financial and as scholarly investments. The text suggests new areas for collecting which may be pursued in today's market with an eye to an increasing intellectual and monetary return.
متن کاملSex in the flesh.
This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the "one-sex model." There are three reasons for this: a considerable amount of such evidence had long been available; stray observations do not discredit worldviews; and new supporting evidence for the one-sex model was also ava...
متن کاملBooks, books, books.
IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...
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When funds are limited, librarians and curators responsible for selecting rare books for conservation treatment must base their decisions not only upon physical condition, but also upon the ''value'' assigned to each physically deteriorated book. This article discusses the rationale for, and possible uses of, guidelines designed to facilitate conservation decisions by systematically evaluating ...
متن کاملRare and important medical books in the library of the Karolinska Institute
everyone knows about, gastric acid, on ferments which may play a role in protein digestion, on the cells which provide the lining of the stomach, and on that remarkable substance still known only as the "intrinsic factor", which is vital for the absorption from the intestine of the microgram quantities of the vitamin, B 12, which is necessary to prevent us developing Addisonian pernicious anaem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/457152a