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The Rare Books collection at the ETH Library contains around 75’000 valuable rare prints dating from the second half of the 15th century to the early 20th century with a focus on astronomy, mathematics, technology, architecture and natural sciences. The E-Pics Rare Books image database contains images of selected individual pages from these works.
Further images are being put online on a constant basis. The images can be downloaded for free in web resolution (1024x768) and as high-resolution JPGs and TIFFs. The licensing type and the terms of use are indicated for every image.