Rare Book Monthly Articles - May - 2003 Issue

Analysis: Is the Internet Making the Book Fair Obsolete?

Analysis: Is the Internet Making the Book Fair Obsolete?

Or Is It Just Bad Weather, Military Karma And Economic Uncertainty? By Abby Tallmer At first glance, the answer to this question might be “of course not.” There are still book fairs and plenty of them, national and international, big and small. But let’s look further into what has actually happened at the book fairs attended by members of the AE staff over the past few months, most recently the New York Antiquarian Book Fair which I attended this past weekend. As seasoned book people will know, the New York Book Fair is traditionally one of the largest and most successful vehicles, i...

Shakers, Maine, and Everything Else A Visit with DeWolfe and Wood

Shakers, Maine, and Everything Else A Visit with DeWolfe and Wood

By Michael Stillman There are books everywhere. If the image of an old bookshop is shelf upon shelf of books, books in boxes, books in piles, room after room of books, then this is the quintesse...

Capturing Valuable Information:  The Key to Reselling

Capturing Valuable Information: The Key to Reselling

All these options begin by simply entering your books into your personal database. That is your first step. From there the world opens up to you. Now join me in a tour of the Collector’s Data...

The Collaborative Project Part II Using Databases and the New “Wants List” Software

The Collaborative Project Part II Using Databases and the New “Wants List” Software

By Michael Stillman Knowledge is power. That observation is as true today as it was when Sir Francis Bacon wrote it over four centuries ago. However, what there is to know has increased at least...

Westerly Women in America: A Journey Through the AE Database

Westerly Women in America: A Journey Through the AE Database

By Julie Carleton Introduction: For my part of the TCP project, I chose to collect Women’s Western Travel Narratives. I had an interest in this subject for several reasons. For one, this i...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By Bruce McKinney As a long term collector of Hudson River Valley material I have learned not to have my heart set on any particular acquisition. Buying on the net in particular is an uncertai...

Oregon Trail</i> Part II Finding Gems Along the Trail

Oregon Trail</i> Part II Finding Gems Along the Trail

Now that we’ve discovered this title, we do a specific “Primary Search” and come up with 28 records just for Palmer. With these, we learn a lot about Joel Palmer and his book. Particularly helpful ...

An Addict Is Born:   AE Database Dabbler To Immersed Wants List Junkie In Less Than 10 Easy Steps

An Addict Is Born: AE Database Dabbler To Immersed Wants List Junkie In Less Than 10 Easy Steps

The work that took me more than a week under the old “cut and paste” system (and was nearly impossible for me to read and manage) has now been accomplished more fully using the “Wants List” technol...

Dealers of South Americana:  An Interview with Alfredo & Gustavo Breitfeld

Dealers of South Americana: An Interview with Alfredo & Gustavo Breitfeld

When we started the interview Alfredo was at the counter dealing with a potential client, so his son Gustavo sat next to me on the bench and started chatting. (Even though they both protested thro...

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    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Book of Hours by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, Use of Sarum, in Latin, Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1450. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Albert Einstein. Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatino, on his research into General Relativity, 12 May 1929. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: John Gould. The Birds of Europe, [1832-] 1837, 5 volumes, contemporary half morocco, subscriber’s copy. £40,000 to £60,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Ian Fleming. A collection of James Bond first editions, 8 volumes in all. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.R.R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970. £7,000 to £10,000.
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    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
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    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FRANCESCO PETRARCH (b. Arezzo, 20 July 1304; d. Arqua Petrarca, 19 July 1374). $20,000-30,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF THE VITAE IMPERATORUM (active Milan, 1431-1459). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTI (GABRIELLO DI VANTE) (active Florence, c. 1452-c. 1520/25). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FOLLOWER OF HERMAN SCHEERE (active London, c. 1405-1425). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. An exceptionally rare, illuminated music leaf from a Mozarabic Antiphonal with sister leaves mostly in museum collections. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Exceptional leaf from a prestigious Antiphonary by a leading illuminator of the late Duecento. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF MS REID 33 and SELWERD ABBEY SCRIPTORIUM (AGNES MARTINI?) (active The Netherlands, Groningen, c. 1468-1510). $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Previously unknown illumination from one of the most renowned Gothic Choir Book sets of the Middle Ages. $6,000-8,000.

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