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	Rare Book Room

invictus

8-21-2007 9:19 AM

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books, rare books, reference

invictus says:

An awesome reference site with a good collection of scanned rare books.

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8-21-2007 10:46 AM

JohnWaterman

Superb. Thanks.

8-21-2007 10:51 AM

Hawkeye_84

Wow! This is great.

8-21-2007 7:54 PM

vampy2

Great thank you.

8-21-2007 10:31 PM

alonqexe

GREAT!

8-22-2007 6:03 AM

reidenschneider

may i suggest this site for bindings and project gutenberg for text.

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/hb.html

8-22-2007 6:58 PM

Lifestar

Fantastic clip Invictus!!! And thank you too reidenschneider, for the nice link to ancient books.

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