Dear Harry,
in those cases it imay preferable for the amateur to use a digital camera
with some macro equipment to copy big formats. I will order the digitization
of the atlas in Goettingen via the "Digi-book of desire"-service of the
library ( http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=2&L=1 ), but I think
it will take about 3 months for processing this order. I will report to the
list when the book is online at (
http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/dms/colbrowse/?tx_goobit3_search%5Bextquery%5D=ISWORK%3A1&DC=zoologica )
.
Here in europe there seems to be a time consuming discussion to establish a
BHL-Europe that shall mirror the american one and bundle all books
digitalized in europe with stable links and (hopefully) sophistocated search
functions better than in Gallica. I have heard that there shall be a new
computer centre established somewhere in europe for this project. That
sounds that it will take a considerable time before start, but there are
already a comittee and conferences..... but fortunately also money from the
EC. It seems also that some books are already digitized, but not put online
yet, in awareness of BHL-Europe. Maybe somebody else do have a more direct
contact to the project and can report the list about it.
Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] d'Orbigny
Dear Bernd,
The impediment to digitization may reside in the
format of the Atlas, which is in folio.
My copy (from Harland Enterprises) measures 29.4
by 42.6 cm. That's a bit large for almost all scanners.
Harry
At 05:55 AM 1/5/2010, you wrote:
>Dear Harry, dear Carole,
>
>as far as I know the atlas or the plates are not available in the web yet.
>I
>will try to convince Francisco Welter-Schultes from animalbase to copy or
>scan them, as this volume seems to be located at the Goettingen
>Universitaetsbibliothek. Thanks for the complete bibliography!
>Bernd
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:00 AM
>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] d'Orbigny
>
>
>Dear Bernd and Carole,
>
>Bernd's link,
><http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97592c>,
>takes you to Tome Second (volume 2 of 2). Here is Tome Premier (volume 1 of
>2):
>< http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97589g.r=d%27Orbigny.langEN >
>
>The two title pages indicate "1853" as the date
>of publication. That is not true for most of the
>contents, Here is a full collation of the work
>in question [d'Orbigny, A. 1841-1853. Mollusques.
>Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de
>l'île de Cuba 1, 2, Atlas (all plates)] from
>Malacolog 4.1.1 (Gary Rosenberg's W. Atlantic marine mollusk database)
>
>d'Orbigny, A. 1841b. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 1: 1-240, pls. 1-10?. Arthus Bertrand,
>Paris. [Stated date: -- --- 1853; true date: -- --- 1841.]
>d'Orbigny, A. 1842a. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 1: 241-264. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. [Stated
>date: -- --- 1853; true date: -- --- 1842.]
>d'Orbigny, A. 1842b. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 2: 1-112, pls. 10-21?. Arthus Bertrand,
>Paris. [Stated date: -- --- 1853; true date: -- --- 1842.]
>d'Orbigny, A. 1844. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 2: 113-128. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. [Stated
>date: -- --- 1853; true date: 1844.]
>d'Orbigny, A. 1847. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 2: 129-224, pls. 22-25?. Arthus Bertrand,
>Paris. [Stated date: -- --- 1853; true date: pre May?]
>d'Orbigny, A. 1853. Mollusques. Histoire
>Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de
>Cuba 2: [iv] + 225-380, pls. 26-28?. Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
>
>Here's another version from Dick Petit:
>d'Orbigny, A. (1841-53) Mollusques. In: R.
>Sagra, Histoire physique, politique, et
>naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. 2 vols. and atlas.
>[Issued as of 1853 but published in parts
>earlier as follows: French edition, 1, 1-208,
>pts. 1-14 (1841); 209-264, pts. 15-17 (1842); 2,
>1-112, pts. 1-7 (1842); 113-380, pts. 8-24
>(probably 1853); Atlas (1842). Spanish edition
>title page dated 1845; pp. 149 onward probably 1846 as imprinted.]
>
>At Malacolog:
><http://www.malacolog.org/bibliography.php?mode=search&autstr=*%25Orbigny*&year=&yearend=&title=&titvol=&pubstr=&showspecies=y&submit=Search>,
>you can see what species (if any) were named in
>each of these installments (as well as
>d'Orbigny's other magnum opus, Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale ...)
>
>Now, the problem: The Atlas.* I cannot find an
>online digital version at Gallica or anywhere else.
>
>Harry
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