The Open UniversitySkip to content
 

Between the market and the Academy: Robert S Whipple (1871-1953) as a collector of science books

De Renzi, Silvia (1998). Between the market and the Academy: Robert S Whipple (1871-1953) as a collector of science books. In: Myers, Robin and Harris, Michael eds. Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade. Publishing pathways. Winchester: St. Paul Bibliographies, pp. 87–108.

URL: http://www.oakknoll.com/detail.php?d_booknr=53864
Google Scholar: Look up in Google Scholar

Abstract

A biographical sketch of Robert Whipple including a profile of his book collection and the way he assembled it. This chapter also looks at the broader picture of the entry of science books into the antiquarian book market; the framework and network of collectors with whom Whipple was in contact and the dealers who supplied Whipple with his books.

Item Type: Book Section
ISBN: 1-884718-81-7, 978-1-884718-81-6
Academic Unit/School: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology > History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Item ID: 21772
Depositing User: Silvia De Renzi
Date Deposited: 16 Jun 2010 10:32
Last Modified: 02 May 2018 13:12
URI: http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21772
Share this page:

Actions (login may be required)

Policies | Disclaimer

© The Open University   contact the OU
http://oro.open.ac.uk/21772/
oro.open.ac.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-26
25627
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:KFR27SYRJFEUP437U3JLJF2ZOCQHTXMF
<urn:uuid:ecfc1dac-ce7d-4521-86ff-aed70cd1d454>
2018-06-24T01:28:25Z
137.108.200.18
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:TUODPEKVBJNGVJNHRJST2N3TXZRAWXTZ
<urn:uuid:e4ceef0e-da7c-4e9a-9ba6-36651eccd5b2>
http://oro.open.ac.uk/21772/
response
<urn:uuid:5181e8d2-0cef-4039-bc7d-592b5a0cab30>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-159-200-107.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-26
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf