Menger’s Library

Overview

• Books (44 titles, 80 books) previously owned by Karl Menger (1840-1921)

Usage

• Only the digital archives or microfilm version of this material can be studied, in the main library reading room.
  *For using the microfilm, reservation is required.

Searching the Catalogue

• You can search this on UTokyo OPAC. The name “Menger’s library” will appear in the Collection field.
  If you would like to browse, select Menger’s library from the pull-down menu in the Collection field on Advanced Search of the UTokyo OPAC, then click the search button.

Catalogues

1. “Microfilmed edition of the Carl Menger library microfilm edition housed at Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo” [guide] Maruzen, [1994]
2. The catalogue is within the Okochi Thesis.

Digital Archives

• Digital Archive of Rare Books in European Languages (limited to terminals within the University of Tokyo).

References

1. OKOCHI Akio. ‘Forgotten Books from Prof. Carl Menger’s Library, Now in the Possession of the University of Tokyo‘ “Journal of Economics” 46(2), 1980.7
2. IWAMOTO Yoshihiro「メンガー文庫、ギールケ文庫の事務資料の調査について　(Menger bunko, Gierke bunko no jimu shiryo no chosa ni tsuite)」”Bulletin of the Center for Historical Social Science Literature” 16, 1996.3

Microfilms

• “Microfilmed edition of the Carl Menger library microfilm edition housed at Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo” 16 reels, Maruzen : Fuji film, [1994]
  

Related Collections

• The Carl Menger Library held by the Center for Historical Social Science Literature, Hitotsubashi Univ.
  See Document 1 and Document 2 regarding the association between this library’s Menger’s Library and the one held by Hitostubashi University.

Contacts

• About using the microfilm: Service Section
• About the original books: Resources and Historical Collections Office