None of the above.
From the front matter of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 11, 2007.
April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013
Wait, what?
Throughout The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (1704). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 3, 2009.
April 29, 2013
Candidate for top useless Google book: Joseph Furttenbach’s Meschanische Reissladen (Augsburg, 1644) about the use, storage, and care of drafting instruments, all of the illustrations of which are on folding plates that remain folded. Below you can just look at what you’re missing! (Yes there are some books you read primarily for the pictures.)
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April 29, 2013
Color glitch. Submitted by an anonymous finder.
Throughout Historica et Memorabilia: Merckwürdige Sachen und Geschichte (1707).Original from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Digitized July 28, 2011.
April 29, 2013
“Ghostwrist.” Submitted by asfaltics.
From p. 686 of Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, v. 59 (1921). Original from the University of Chicago. Digitized April 13, 2012.
April 29, 2013
Printing error.
From p. 51-52 of The Bermondsey Murder: A Full Report of the Trial of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning (1849). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 19, 2006.
April 29, 2013
Ahem.
Throughout Dante: An Elementary Book for Those who Seek in the Great Poet the Teacher of Spiritual Life by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1918). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 8, 2007.
April 29, 2013
Handwritten tables.
From the back matter of Epitome of the Art of Navigation: or, A Short, Easy, and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator by James Atkinson and William Mountaine (1765). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 3, 2008.
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April 29, 2013
![Tear.
From p. 10 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/114c183dfbc8fa73e3031a710e794ee7/tumblr_mm0rvb2EMd1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Tear.
From p. 10 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.
April 29, 2013
![Map left folded.
From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e976caeb0c37d332b8c259ac9beddb09/tumblr_mm0segoHjO1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Map left folded.
From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.
April 29, 2013
Employee holds plates closed.
Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.
April 24, 2013
Torn circulation slip.
From the back matter of The Devotional Life of the Sunday School Teacher by James Russell Miller (1913). Original from Princeton University. Digitized March 19, 2008.
April 24, 2013
Glue.
From the front matter of Rigby’s Reliable Candy Teacher: With Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and Sherbet Sections by Will O. Rigby and Fred Rigby (1920). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 2, 2007.
April 23, 2013
Reader connects gazes.
From p. 378 of Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological Standpoint, Classified and Annotated Bibliographies for the Interpretation of Savage Society edited by William Isaac Thomas (1909). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 27, 2007.
April 23, 2013
Motion, distortion, correction, hand of employee.
From p. 306-308 (?) of British Education: or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain by Thomas Sheridan (1756). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized April 26, 2006.
