Reference Links and Bibliographic Sources
Below are links to various other websites that relate to rare book collecting, handling and researching. Also listed are other useful sites on book related organizations, schools, fairs and others. Please let us know if you have a favorite book related site or others that you may be interested in.
This list will be updated periodically.
Book Collecting
Fine Books Magazine – www.finebooksmagazine.com
Handling Rare Books
IOBA – www.ioba.org
RBMS – www.rbms.info
Books on Books
The Book Club of California - http://www.bccbooks.org/
Bibliographical Society of America - http://bibsocamer.org/
Researching
World Cat - https://www.worldcat.org/
Mega Search Engine – www.ViaLibri.com
The John Carter Brown Library - http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/jcb-online/research-resource-guide
Useful Links to Other Sites
ABAA - http://www.abaa.org/
IOBA - http://ioba.org/
Book Fairs - http://www.bookfairs.com/
Rare Book School - http://www.rarebookschool.org/
California Rare Book School - www.calrbs.org
Bibliographic References Cited and Consulted
Relating to Exploration
Arctic Biblio or AB Tremaine, Marie (Ed.), Arctic Bibliography, 1953, Vols. I-III
Beddie Beddie, M. K., Bibliography of Captain James Cook, 1970
Conrad Conrad, L.J., Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration, 1999
Cox A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935
Haskell Haskell, Daniel C., The United States Exploring Expedition, 1968
Hill The Hill Collection of Pacific, 2004
Howell 50 Howell, John, Catalog 50 California: Spanish Exploration To American Statehood, 1979
Howgego I Howgego, Raymond John, Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800, 2003
Howgego II Howgego, Raymond John, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 – 1850, 2004
Howgego III Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850– 1940, The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions, 2006
Howgego IV Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850– 1940, Continental Exploration, 2008
Rosove Rosove, Michael H., Antarctica, 1772-1922, 2001
Sanderson Sanderson, Michael, Voyages and Travel, 1986
Spence Spence, Sydney A., Antarctic Miscellany, 1980
Stewart Stewart, John, Antarctica an encyclopedia, 1990
Taurus Mackenzie, Julian [Ed], The Taurus Collection, 2001
Wheat Trans-Miss Maps Wheat, Carl I., Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West 1540-1861, 2004 Reprint of 1957-63 Editions
Relating to Western Americana
Adams Adams, Ramon F., Six-Guns & Saddle Leather, 1969 [Revised and Enlarged]
Clifford Z80 The Henry H. Clifford Collection, Part One Zamorano 80, 1994
Clifford Calif The Henry H. Clifford Collection, Part Two California and the West, 1994
Cowan 64 A Bibliography of the History of California 1510 – 1930, 1964
Cox A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935
Fahey Early Printing in California, 1956
Greenwood Greenwood, Robert, California Imprints 1833-1862 A Bibliography, 1961
Graff Storm, Colton, The Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana, 1968
Curry-Kruska Currey, Lloyd W. and Dennis G. Kruska, Bibliography of Yosemite, the Central and the Southern High Sierra, and the Big Trees 1839-1900, 1992
Harlow Harlow, Neal, The Maps of San Francisco Bay from the Spanish Discovery in 1769 to the American Occupation, 1950
Holmes-Norris Holmes, Harold, A Descriptive & Priced Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets and Maps … the Collection of Thomas Wayne Norris …, 1948
Howell 50 Howell, John, Catalog 50 California: Spanish Exploration To American Statehood, 1979
Kruska Kruska, Dennis G., James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite, 2009
Kurutz Gold Rush Kurutz, Gary F., The California Gold Rush, 1997
Rittenhouse Rittenhouse, Jack D., The Santa Fe Trail A Historical Bibliography, 1971
Rocq Rocq, Margaret, California Local History, 1970
Sabin A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 1967
Samuels Samuels, Peggy and Harold, Samuels’ Encyclopedia of Artist of the American West, 1985
Stillwell Stillwell, Margaret, Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800, 1961
Taft Taft, Robert, Artist and Illustrators of the Old West: 1850-1900, 1953
Volkmann Z80 A Complete Collection of The Zamorano 80, 2003
Wagner-Camp Becker, Robert, The Plains & the Rockies, Fourth Edition, 1982
Wheat Gold Rush Books Wheat, Carl I., Books of the California Gold Rush, 1949
Wheat Gold Rush Maps Wheat, Carl I., Maps of the California Gold Region 1848-1857, 1995 Reprint of 1942 Edition
Wheat Trans-Miss Maps Wheat, Carl I., Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West 1540-1861, 2004 Reprint of 1957-63 Editions
Wickersham Wickersham, James, A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724-1924, 1927, Online
Other References
BCC The Book Club of California, The Hundredth Book, 1958, The Two Hundredth Book, 1993, and current publications listings
Gascoigne How to Identify Prints, 2004
Glasiter Glasiter, Geoffrey Ashall, An Encyclopedia of the Book, 1960
Greenwood Greenwood, Robert, California Imprints 1833-1862 A Bibliography, 1961
Grabhorn Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915 – 1956, 1975