Boffito collection: monographs and pamphlets

Area:	Library
Start:	1 June 2006
End:	28 February 2007
Description:	In November 2003, thanks to the Regione Toscana, the library of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science received a gift of the scientific part of the personal library of Giuseppe Boffito (1869-1944), scholar of multiple interests and well-known science historian. 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 the pamphlets (ca 2,200 items) and of the monographs (ca. 150 items) was begun, and they are now available to scholars and consultable via the library's online catalogue using traditional search methods. From the OPAC entry page (http://biblioteca.imss.fi.it/LV2_1bin/LibriVision), clicking on "Boffito Collection: pamphlets" and "Boffito Collection: monographs" accesses a list in short format ordered by author.
Link:	biblioteca.imss.fi.it/

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