Rare Books
Johann Georg Altmann: L'état et les délices de la Suisse (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Ouresiphoites Helveticus (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Andreas Cellarius: Harmonia macrocosmica (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Andreas Cellarius: Harmonia macrocosmica (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Carl Friedrich Wiebeking: Theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Carl Friedrich Wiebeking: Theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Alois von Negrelli: Münsterbrücke in Zürich (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Evans Oliver, Thomas P. Jones, Thomass Ellicott, Cadwallader, Evans: The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Julius Schiller: Coelum stellatum christianum (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Pierre Dubois: Histoire de l'horlogerie depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Johannes Kepler: Tabulae Rudolphinae (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae: Briefe aus der Schweiz (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
Johann Georg Altmann: L'état et les délices de la Suisse (Copyright notice: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke)
![[Eruption des Vesuv vom 20. Oktober 1767], William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12191?maxsize=300)
![[Eruption des Vesuv zwischen 1760 und 1761], William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12192?maxsize=300)
![[Skizzen verschiedener Bogenbrücken], Carl Friedrich Wiebeking: Theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12195?maxsize=300)
![[Profile von Lech-Brücken nahe Augsburg], Carl Friedrich Wiebeking: Theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12196?maxsize=300)
![[Steine vom Krater des Vesuv], William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12197?maxsize=300)
![[Lavafluss beim Vesuv], William Hamilton: Campi Phlegraei](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12198?maxsize=300)
![[Maschine für den Transport schwerer Gegenstände], Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12200?maxsize=300)
![[Mahlsteinmühle], Evans Oliver, Thomas P. Jones, Thomass Ellicott, Cadwallader, Evans: The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12201?maxsize=300)
![[Orion], Julius Schiller: Coelum stellatum christianum](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12202?maxsize=300)
![[Planzeichnung der Rheinbrücke Schaffhausen], Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae: Briefe aus der Schweiz](https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/CIP/preview/image/ethbibad-v10/12205?maxsize=300)
Extent
- Approximately 65,000 volumes and monographs
- Approximately 10,000 journal volumes
Holdings
- Incunabula (fifteenth century)
- Old and rare books (sixteenth to the early twentieth century)
- Journals (seventeenth to the early twentieth century)
Relevance of research and Public
ETH Library's Rare Books comprise over 75,000 valuable books, illustrated volumes and journals from the second half of the fifteenth to the early twentieth century, specialising in mathematics, technology, architecture and the natural sciences.
Current activities, projects
- The holdings are being digitized systematically and rendered accessible to both researchers and the general public.
- Running and refining the online platforms external pagee-rara.ch and ETHorama
- External exhibition in cooperation with cultural institutions in Switzerland and abroad
Use of the archive / online presence
- Holdings can be searched on ETH Library's Search Portal
- Over 12,000 titles can be accessed online via external pagee-rara.ch.
- Over 11,000 images from old and rare books can be accessed in E-Pics Rare Books.
- Documents with geographical ties to Switzerland can be searched via the platform ETHorama.
- Apart from a few exceptions, works yet to be digitized are available for consultation in the Collections and Archives reading room.
Opening Hours
Reading Room Collections and Archives
Mon–Fri: 10.00–17.00
Individual guided tours on request