Subject: FW: Bookwatch - please cross post as much as possible (fwd)
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> From: Dr SR Ditchfield[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 03:20 PM
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> Subject: Bookwatch - please cross post as much as possible (fwd)
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> AS A PARTICULAR AFICIONADO OF PRINTED HERITAGE - I WANTED TO BRING THIS TO
> THE ATTENTION OF LISTMEMBERS
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> Simon Ditchfield
> Co-list owner
> Director
> HERITAGE STUDIES AS APPLIED HISTORY
> University of York
> King's Manor
> YORK YO1 7EP
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> DC Mick Baldwin (West End Central Police Station, 27 Savile Row, London,
> W1; direct line 0171 321 8874) is investigating the theft of several
> hundred antiquarian books. While these books cover all subjects there is a
> significant proportion of science books. Titles include: Robert Boyle, A
> Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Oxford, 1669; Josephus
> Blancanus, Sphaera mundi, Modena, 1635; Kenelm Digby, The Closet, London,
> 1671; Roger Long, Astronomy in Five Books, Cambridge, 1742-84; Daniel
> Newhouse, The Art of Sailing by the Logarithms, London, 1701; Isaac
> Newton,
> The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, London, 1736; Isaac Newton,
> Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 2nd edition, Cambridge,
> 1713;
> Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 3rd edition,
> London, 1726; Christoph Scheiner, Refractiones coelestes, Ingolstadt,
> 1617;
> John Smith, The Sea-Mans Grammar and Dictionary, London, 1691. All library
> markings have been effectively removed and DC Baldwin wishes to ascertain
> where these books have been stolen from. If librarians or readers have any
> information, he would be grateful if they could get in contact with him.
> He
> would also like to know if any library with an antiquarian collection has
> a
> reader registered in the name of Jacques who is currently helping with
> enquiries.
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> __________________________________________________________________________
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> Dr Frank A.J.L. James,
> Reader in History of Science,
> Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology,
> Royal Institution of Great Britain,
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