Boffito Collection

Area:	Library
Start:	1 February 2006
Description:	In November 2003, thanks to the Region of Tuscany, the Library of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science received as a gift the scientific part of the personal library of Giuseppe Boffito (1869-1944), scholar of multiple interests and well-known historian of science. The collection, previously housed at the Collegio "Alla Querce" of Florence, is made up of approximately 3,000 works (monographs, pamphlets and periodicals) mainly dealing with historical-scientific topics and published between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In February 2006 the arrangement and the cataloguing of this important collection began, in order to make it available to scholars as soon as possible. The publication of the first catalogued section, related to miscellaneous material, is expected by the end of May, 2006.
Link:	biblioteca.imss.fi.it/LV2_1bin/LibriVision

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