BIBLIO, the independent marketplace for antiquarian and rare books, has announced the public launch of its new The Auction & Book Sales Archive (ABSA). ABSA offers information on the provenance, identification, scarcity, and value of antiquarian books and manuscripts. It provides access to millions of curated rare book and manuscript auction [...]
The Papers of Roger Brooke Taney Do you have in your collection any correspondence to or from Roger Taney? Those who are collectors of Andrew Jackson certainly know the name! He supported and served Andrew Jackson during Jackson's presidency. To most history students he is most famous as the man [...]
Autographs and Manuscripts: A Collector’s Manual Edmund Berkley, Jr. Editor Herbert E. Klinghofer and Kenneth W. Rendell, Co-editors (New York) Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1978) xviii, 565 pages [including, Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Glossary, and Index] ISBN: 0-684-15622-9 Cloth, Dust Cover [new] This classic manual now out of print is once [...]
Manuscript Preservation is always a challenge Paper does not last forever. One of the most significant challenges is acidic degradation. Libraries and archive collections are a valued resource for our history and culture, containing the wealth of human knowledge and artistic expression. They contain some of the earliest writings ever [...]
How to Weed Your Attic Elizabeth H. Dow At the closing dinner of the Manuscript Society’s most recent annual meeting, trustee Elizabeth H. Dow gave us a capsule version of her latest book, How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History, coauthored with Lucinda P. Cockrell. [...]