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Wolfgang, you wrote:
"This is very strange. As you can see from the screen capture, there is no
download option on the page that I can access. Looks like google books
differentiates between users in different places
(continents?jurisdictions?). "

Ok. That rings a bell now. There was some legal injunction a year or two
ago. Apparently Google goes by the American copyright law which states that
when you scan an old book, which is itself out of copyright, you do not
acquire copyright in the scan. As I understand it, in Europe and some other
countries, you can claim copyright over the scan even though it adds no
creative content. Probably this particular book was scanned by some European
library (Oxford maybe? that's listed as the source). So Google checks your
IP address, and if it's in the EU you don't get to see all the books --at
least not until European legal authorities stop threatening to sue Google.
They've got a business presence in many European countries, so it's a real
risk for them.

Google has scanned or acquired scans of an enormous number of books and most
are only available in "snippet view" even here in the US. Those are books
that are under full copyright protection. Some publishers have then granted
rights to publish long excerpts from their copyrighted books. Those are the
"Limited Preview" books.

Has someone else provided you with a copy of Souchon? I don't think anyone
will sue me over a 125-year-old astronomy book. And I have no business
presence over there :-).

 -FER
PS: I just had a thought. Does Oxford have an online download service? If
they scanned it, then even under the more restrictive interpretation, they
can choose to make it available online.

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