Searching for Older Printed Material

Searching for older printed material

Exercises for searching OxLIP databases – answers and searching tips

(N.B.: These tips are for guidance only; there are often several ways of searching which will produce the same result)

Find one or more records on ESTC for the following items:

(Give the ESTC number(s) of the item(s) from the Record ID field at the end of the record)

1.ESTCT89763 (Advanced Search: Title Word: oxford sausage And Imprint Place: dublin; Limit: Date: only 1766)

2.ESTCT48734 & ESTCT48735 (Advanced Search: Title Word: streamlet And Author Word: dudley; Limit: Date: only 1791)

3.ESTCS120366 (Command Line: tw iuuenilia and auw wither and ipw dragon, i.e. Title Word and Author Word and Imprint Word)

4.ESTCR226327 (Command Line: tw vacancy throne and cw lords and pyr 1689, i.e. Title Word and Corporate Word and Date of Publication)

5.ESTCT133318 (Command Line: tw naturalis and auw pliny and ipw johnson and iyr 1776, i.e. Title Word and Author Word and Imprint Word and Imprint Year)

Find a record on CERL HPB for the following items:

(Give the Record ID number from the end of the record)

1.STNG145542560-E (Advanced Search: Title Word: inquiry wealth nations And Imprint Place: leipzig; Limit: Date: from 1776 to 1778 (N.B. this record is incorrectly coded with eng, not ger, therefore limiting by language does not work))

2.STNG132803960-E (Advanced Search: Title Word: guia pecadores And Imprint Word guillemin; Limit: Language: French. Alternatively, Command Line: tw guia pecadores and ipw guillemin; lim lg fre, i.e. Title Word and Imprint Word; Limit: Language)

3.FRBC017946806-E (Command Line: auw veneroni and tw maitre and pyr 1696 and ipl paris, i.e. Author Word and Title Word and Publication Year and Imprint Place)

4.CIMG931221034-E (Advanced Search: Author Word: brechtel And Title Word buechensmeisterey)

Find one or more records on OLIS via Telnet for the following items:

1.ESTC, S1728 (tw=faerie queene aw=spenser dtw=1609. To see the full record with the format and ESTC number reference, select Full display and press return)

2.Balliol. (tw=piedra aw=Gutierrez plw=Toledo. Select Full display and forward to see the note about the title woodcut of SS. Cosmas and Damian. When #item is highlighted, type 1 and press return, then select Notes display and press return to see the copy specific note about the lack of title woodcut)