The collection of old books (with an edition date prior to 1901) and books from the first half of the 20th century belonging to the Library of the Higher Technical School of Engineering has been there for several years and for reasons of better custody and conservation, forming part of the Old Collection of the Library of the University of Seville. It occupies the numbers  A 321/1 to 232 .

It is therefore made up of 232 copies that correspond to some 113 book titles, some with several volumes, and the bound volumes of 2 magazine titles.

Most of the copies come from donations from individuals, the main one being that of the engineer DM Grosso Quiroga (83 titles), followed by that of DJ Mª de Amores Jiménez, first director of the School (5 titles).

Chronologically, the oldest book is from the end of the 18th century, a Table of logarithms dated 1795 ( Tables portatives de logarithmes ... by François Callet (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1795). Some 80 titles were published in the 19th century and the rest in the first half of the 20th century.

From the language point of view, there are many writings in French (62 titles) and Spanish (43 titles), followed by English (10 titles) and German (2 titles).

The themes of the books are varied. Among the technical books we highlight several dictionaries of engineering and industrial processes; forms and tables; geometry and calculus books; mechanics; gears; forging, foundry and iron working; geology and mining; electrical engineering; steam engines and engines; construction, industrial chemistry, milling, hydraulics and modern agriculture, etc. Those that deal with law and politics, didactics, history and biographies go beyond the scope of Engineering.

For some of the titles, the catalog records also include their electronic versions, digitized in recent years by large libraries (e.g. Gallica of the National Library of France...), by Google Books, etc., with the aim of facilitating your online consultation to interested users. We are working on locating more digitized titles to make them accessible from the Fama Catalog .

The two journal titles included are: Le Génie civil: revue gènèrale hebdomadaire des industries françaises et ètrangères (1925-1927. Sign A 321/213-218) and The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute (1930)1931-1935 (1936 -1938). Sign. 321/219-232).

Other serial publications are: American Trade Index (4 v.), Annuaire de la construction mecánique (2 v.), The Universal electrical directory… (1 v.) and Carnegie Scholarship memoirs (3 v.).

COMPLETE COLLECTION (Fama Catalog)

To conclude this brief bibliographic analysis, add that, already in the Engineering Library , we keep a Special Fund with some facsimile editions and titles of books prior to 1960-65 that, due to their age and obsolescence of content, have been removed from the General Library Fund.