3 Free eBooks - June 2014

It’s time again for the monthly post about eBooks that are freely available on the Internet. The three below are my favorites for June 2014.

Birds, Illustrated by color photography. Chicago: Nature Publishing Company. 1897. Fourteen volumes are available from Project Gutenberg here. The image of the kingfisher is from volume 1, no. 2.  I am slowly working my way through all the volumes. I’ve enjoyed the first 4 so far.

Cailliaud, Frederic. Voyage a Meroe. Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale. 1826. Two atlas volumes are available from the Internet Archive: volume 1 and volume 2. I just finished a Coursera course on The Art and Archeology…and was thrilled to find these books online. They have drawings of some things that have been degraded between 1826 and not - either through simple ravages of time or rising water from dams built on the Nile.

Versailles et les Trianons : vues photographiques. Versailles: Moreau. 1880. Available from the Internet Archive here. It’s been a draw for tourists for a long time….and people bought souvenirs in the 1880s like this book!