Dear Bill,

I don't have a copy, so can't help you there-- but: I once spoke with a rare book dealer about uncut pages. These make a difference to the value of collectible books, but for scholarly books, he said to just go ahead and cut the pages--it makes no difference... well, we all know that our libraries will be worth much less than we paid for them...

best, Jonathan

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Bill Mak <bill.m.mak@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear list members,

I got hold of two books from our library: Kirfel's Die Kosmographie der Inder, and Billard's L'Astronomie Indienne, and found many of the pages uncut and stuck together. Before I "dissect" the books, may I check if someone could share a pdf copy, on-list or off-list.

Many thanks,

Bill M. Mak
Kyoto University

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