On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:26 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
It would be great to see these on commons & wikisource; maybe a university library will have the facilities you need. It might be useful to ask at the en.wp Librarians WikiProject.
Yes, they may well be able to point you in the direction of one of those book scanners with the cradle to eliminate the need to open the book all the way out. This kind of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V-shaped-cradle.jpg