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Rare Books Links
These are general sites, listed in alphabetical order, that may be useful for materials related to our collections. Links related to specific collections will be found on their respective collections pages.
Dictionaries and Glossaries:
- French Republican Calendar
- Latin dictionary
- Latin Place Names
- LEO- Online German-English Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary
Selected Digital Projects and Online Exhibitions
- Aberdeen Bestiary
- Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
- Alger Digital Repository
- American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution 1774-1776
- Archive of Early American Images
(John Carter Brown Library) - Archimedes Palimpsest Project
- Atlas of Early Printing
- Beadle & Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project
- Bodleian Library Western Manuscripts to 1500
- The Canterbury Tales Project
- CORSAIR
(Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts) - DScriptorium
(Brigham Young University) - Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
- La France en Amerique / France in America
(Bibliotheque Nationale de France & Library of Congress) - Furness Shakespeare Library
(Univ. of Pennsylvania) - Gallica Anthologie
1000 Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France - A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
(Library of Congress Online Exhibit) - Historic American Sheet Music
(Duke University) - Historical Book Arts Web
(University of Washington)
- A Hypertext Book of Hours
(Includes an English Translation) - I Hear America Singing
(Library of Congress sheet music) - Illinois During the Civil War 1861-1865
- llinois During the Gilded Age 1866-1896
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
(Johns Hopkins University) - The Lucile Project
(Sid Huttner, University of Iowa) - The Penny Illustrated Paper 1861-1913
(British Library) - Publishers' Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books
- Rose and Chess: Discover Two Reunited Medieval Manuscripts
- The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)
(University of Pennsylvania Special Collections) - Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Digitized manuscripts - The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
(Bodleian Library, Oxford) - Turning the Pages
(British Library)
Selected digital books - Victorian Women Writers Project
- World War I Sheet Music
(Brown University) - Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Journals & Listserv Archives
- Abbey Newsletter
- ExLibris Archives
- Internet Library of Early Journals
- Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
- Publishers' Trade List Annual Index
- Studies in Bibliography
- SHARP-L Archives
Sites for finding books
[NB: this does not constitute an endorsement of these sites]
- ABAA
- AbeBooks
- Alibris
- Bookfinder
- Books and Book Collecting (metasite)
- BooksPrice
- Chambal.com
- Midwest Book Hunters
- Periodyssey
- Seriesbooks.com
Rare Books-Related Organizations
- ABAA
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America - American Society of Appraisers
- APHA
American Printing History Association - BSA
Bibliographical Society of America - Caxton Club of Chicago
- Midwest Book Hunters
- Page Two, Inc.
Book arts directories - Rare Book School
- RBMS
Rare Book and Manuscripts Section, American Library Association - SHARP
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing - WESS
Western European Studies Section, American Library Association
Conservation
- Abbey Newsletter
- American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
- Caring for your family archives
(National Archives and Records Administration) - Caring for your Library Collections
(Library of Congress) - Chicago Area Conservation Group
- Conservation Online
- Conserve O Grams
(National Park Service Museum Management Program) - Graphic Conservation Company
[Chicago Area Conservators] - Guidelines for selecting a conservator
- Library of Congress Preservation Pages
- Misperceptions about White Gloves
- Northeast Document Conservation Center
- What "Archival" really means
Reference Sources
- American Libraries before 1876 Database
(Davies Project, Princeton University) - BAL Online
(Bibliography of American Literature: subscription required) - Bibliography on the Web
(Bibliographical Society of America) - Bibliomysteries site
(Listing of mysteries that are set in libraries, archives, and bookshops) - Book History Online
(National Library of the Netherlands) - The British Library
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Chronology of the ESTC period (1450-1640)
- Congressional History
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S.
(Cornell University) - Copyright Renewal Records
(Rutgers University) - Current value of old money
- Early modern women database
- EDIT 16
Italian 16th century books database - Eighteenth Century Resources
(Rutgers University) - ESTC homepage
(English books 1450-1640) - The Film Librarian
(Librarians in movies) - How to find out whether a copyright was renewed
(University of Pennsylvania) - LARGO
(Library and Archives Research in London) - Library of Congress Authority Files
- Library of Congress Classification Outline
- Library of Congress Main Page
- Music Library Association Sheet Music Collections
- Perspectives in American Literature
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
(Antwerp; dedicated to the history of printing) - Political Graveyard
(Find dead politicians) - Publishers' Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books
- Rare Books Bibliographies
(Subscription required) - Sheet Music Consortium
(UCLA) - Urban Legends Reference pages
- Victoria Research Web
- The Victorian Web
- Voice of the Shuttle
(Humanities Reference Site) - WATCH
Writers, Artists, and their Copyright Holders
(University of Texas, Austin) - Western European Studies Section
(Association of College & Research Libraries--site for Western European research resources) - When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
(University of North Carolina) - Wright American Fiction
(U.S. Fiction 1851-1875) - Your Old Books
