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ABAA Booknet -- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
Advanced Book Exchange -- Service for buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books; searchable and browsable
American Antiquarian Society -- Worcester, Massachusetts
Antique Books: Thibadeau-Benoit Method D-Lib Magazine, September, 1997
Antiquarian Book Exchange
Antiquarian Book Network -- UK
Archive of Watermark Images
-- Robert W Allison, Bates College
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library -- Yale University site provides a useful
Guide to the collections
Berkshire Antiquarian Book Fairs
Bibliocity -- "Rare & collectible books &c. from leading international
antiquarian booksellers"
Bibliofind -- "Worldwide marketplace for buying and selling old, used and rare books"; provides Search Form and will include, by the end of September, AB Bookman's for-sale listings
Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia -- Provides cumulative Table of Contents for Studies in Bibliography, searchable or browsable by author or volume
Bibliographical Society (London)
Bibliographical Society of America
Bibliographical Society of Canada | La Société bibliographique du Canada
Biblioklepts -- Christopher Reed's article on book theft from university libraries; March-April issue of Harvard Magazine
Bibliophile
Bibliophile Research Tools
BIBSOCAN - Internet Discussion Group on Bibliography -- Bibliographical Society of Canada
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts This Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Special Collections and Rare Book Library site features online Exhibitions, (including ABC books from the Jean Trebbi Collection) and a Newsletter
Book Arts Press at the University of Virginia
Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature -- Piet Wesselman, Wesselman Books, Amsterdam
Book Sales in America -- Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups
Bookbinding and Bookbinders in Bologna -- University of Bologna
Books & Book Collecting -- Steve Trussel
Books Go to War: the Armed Services Editions in World War Two -- Virtual catalog of an exhibition held at the University of Virginia, April 20 to September 10, 1996
Booksearch Online -- "Ultimate tool for buying and selling used, rare, and out-of-print books "
Briar Press Home -- Site devoted to promoting the art of letterpress
British Library's Treasures Digitisation Project
Buyer's Market - a Selection of Recent Acquisitions -- University of Virginia Library
Center for Book Arts -- New York
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress -- Provides links to Book-related organizations and programs and to Book Fairs and Literary Festivals
Christies International
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature -- University of Virginia
Colophon
-- 20th century artists' books; New York
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century -- University of Delaware Library, Newark
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts -- "Specializes in the treatment of art and historic artifacts on paper"
Conservation OnLine
Cornell Rare & Manuscript Collection
Cotsen Children's Library -- Princeton University collection is "one of the great concentrations of primary source material (20,000 items), principally in the form of illustrated books, but including prints, drawings, manuscripts, games, puzzles, hornbooks, and toys, among a great many other objects. These range from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries in a variety of languages from French and German to Farsi and Urdu." Provides information on October 30th Inaugural Conference Playing with Knowledge: Text, Toys and Teaching Children in Georgian England
Current ABAA Electronic Catalogs
Czech Avant-Garde: European Art and Photography in Book Design, 1922-1940 -- Exhibition in the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, of books and journals from the collection of Zdenek Primus
Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio
Descriptive Bibliography: An On-Line Tutorial -- Stephen Ramsay, Department of English, University of Virginia
Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of The Workes of Benjamin Jonson -- David L. Gants, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
Duke University Special Collections Library
English Short-Title Catalogue
-- University of California, Riverside
ExLibris Archives -- "Electronic news and discussion group for those interested in rare books and special collections"
First Books by American Writers: 1786-1984 -- Georgetown University Library, 1997
Friends of Dard Hunter -- "An international organization with a diverse membership whose interests center around handmade paper and related arts and crafts"
FYI France: Book - Dealers in France -- Jack Kessler
George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections -- Hightlights from this University of Florida site include Fore-edge Paintings, Eric Gill, John Buckland Wright and the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History
Graphion's Online Type Museum
Guide to the Book Arts and Book History -- Andrew K. Pace, Catholic University
Herbals & Early Gardening Books from the Doris and Marc Patten Collection -- Catalog of the collection includes images, listing by subject, author and title; Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University
Heritage Book Shop -- Los Angeles
Hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- National Library of the Netherlands
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts -- Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library; 100 medieval manuscript images arranged by country, author, call number or date
In Aedibus Aldi: the legacy of Aldux Manutius and his Press -- Brigham Young University
Information about the Book and Book Arts Community -- Oak Knoll Books
Interloc -- Provides a browsable database of over 2 million books for sale and a Missing/Stolen Book Alert
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
John Carter Brown Library -- "One of the outstanding libraries of the world in the field of the history of the Americas, North and South, prior to 1825, and of European history as it bears on the Americas"
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller -- New York
Knops Boekrestauratie -- "Conservation & Restoration of Books and Paper"
Latin Place Names -- "Contains most of the Latin place names contained in the imprint field of pre-1801 books in the catalogs of the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Huntington Library, and Brigham Young University, together with their modern English (AACR2R form) equivalent"; Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. See Also: Names of printing towns from the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue
Library Company of Philadelphia -- Their searchable on-line catalogueWolfPAC, (named in honor of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1911-1991, Librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1953-1984)
includes records for most of their Afro-Americana collection, and all of their 18th century British and American imprints
Library of Congress: American Special Collections
Lilly Library -- Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Indiana University offers an online exhibit Fine Art of British Bookbinding and also allows you to search the manuscript collection
Milne Angling Collection
-- "One of the largest collections of angling literature in the United States. In the 1960s, Helena & Douglas Milne donated their
collection of fishing books, periodicals, artwork and ephemera to the University of New Hampshire." Includes a helpful list of Fly Fishing Resources
The Most of Special Collections -- 21 categories of the most rare, important, peculiar, or deplorable items in the collections; Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library
Mr. Bland's Evil Plot to Control the World -- Miles Harvey, Outside Magazine, June 1997
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) -- Library of Congress
New York Public Library Rare Books
and Manuscripts Division
Newberry Library -- Chicago
Notes from the Special Collections -- Describes some of the major collections at Dartmouth
Packaging the American Word: A Survey of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Publishers' Bindings in the General Collections of the Library of Congress
Peter Verheyen's Book Arts Web
Pop Up World of Ann Montanaro
-- Exhibition of pop up books at Rutgers
RBMS [Rare Books and Manuscripts Section] Bibliographic Standards Committee Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger -- Developed for the 1997 workshop "Internet Resources for Rare Book Cataloging" by Eric Holzenberg, Librarian of the Grolier Club and and Laurence Creider, University of Pennsylvania Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)
-- Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association and maintained by Steve Ferguson, Princeton. Site highlights include Your Old Books: Frequently asked questions about rare books and book values, and Tables of content for all issues of Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship1986-1996
Rare Books Around the Net
Rare Books, Manuscripts Archives & Special Collections -- Indiana University, Bloomington
Repositories of Primary Sources -- Terry Abraham's excellent list of over 2000 sites with holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources
Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
Rosenbach Museum & Library -- Philadelphia
Serendipity Books
Serif - the Magazine of Type & Typography
Skin Deep -- Selections from J. Hewit & Sons bi-annual newsletter; includes introduction to the tanning process and procedures for identifying and treating various types of leather problems
Sotheby's
Special Collections on the Web
-- Maintained by Andrea Bean Hough, University of Houston
Syndicat national de la Librairie Ancienne (SLAM) -- France's professional association of antiquarian booksellers
Swann Galleries -- New York auction gallery offers first online auction catalog for June 19th
Swiss Association of Antiquarian Book Sellers
Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive -- Compiled and maintained by Daniel W. Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, II
Tiny Tomes: the Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books -- Over 150 images with descriptive annotations; University of Iowa Libraries
Toronto Centre for the Book
Turn of the Century Fantasy Illustration
University of Alabama MFA in the Book Arts Program
University of Idaho Book Arts
University of Iowa Center for the Book
University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project -- "Foreign Books in Oxford Libraries"
Williamsburg Imprints Program -- Virginia Imprints Before 1781
Yahoo! - Books: Antique, Rare and Used
Yale Library - Arts of the Book
Book Collectors' Site
Glenn Larsen's premier site for book collectors. Here you'll find the tools and
information you need as a collector of fine literature, rare, used, antiquarian, and collectible
books.
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- How to identify first editions
- Essentials of book collecting
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- Collectable authors & illustrators
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- Great books, award winners
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- Learning more on book collecting.
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News: Press releases and news items
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Collectable Authors & Illustrators - home page list.
Judi Fouts Patrick
Finders Keepers Out of Print Book Search for Libraries
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