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 - https://www.calrbs.org
Bibliography References Cited and Consulted
Relating to Exploration
Arctic Biblio or AB Tremaine, Marie (Ed.), Arctic Bibliography, 1953, Vols. I-III [13298]
Beddie/Mitchell Beddie, M. K., Bibliography of Captain James Cook, Mitchell Library, 1970 [11658]
Conrad Conrad, L.J., Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration, 1999 [13138]
Cox A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935 [11638]
Haskell Haskell, Daniel C., The United States Exploring Expedition, 1968 [13424]
Headland Headland, Robert K., Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events, 1993 reprint of 1989 edition [13594]
Hill Silveira de Braganza, Ronald, The Hill Collection of Pacific, 2004, 2nd Edition Revised/Enlarged [11651]
Howell 50 Howell, John, Catalog 50 California: Spanish Exploration To American Statehood, 1979 [11734]
Howgego I Howgego, Raymond John, Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800, 2003 [13595]
Howgego II Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 – 1850, 2004 [11644]
Howgego III Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850– 1940, The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions, 2006 [11645]
Howgego IV Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850– 1940, Continental Exploration, 2008 [13598]
Howgego V Ibid, Encyclopedia of Exploration Invented and Apocryphal Narrative of Travel, 2013 [13792]
Rosove Rosove, Michael H., Antarctica, 1772-1922, 2001 [11650]
Ross Ross, Chet, Lieutenant Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912 - A Bibliography, 2010 [11305]
Sanderson or NMM Sanderson, Michael, Voyages and Travel, National Maritime Museum, Vol. 1,1986 [13058]
Spence Spence, Sydney A., Antarctic Miscellany, 1980 [13139]
Stewart Stewart, John, Antarctica an encyclopedia, 1990 [13140]
Taurus Mackenzie, Julian [Ed], The Taurus Collection, 2001 [11646]
Relating to Western Americana
Adams Six Guns Adams, Ramon F., Six-Guns & Saddle Leather, 1969 [Revised and Enlarged] [13754]
Adams Herd Adams, Ramon F., Rampaging Herd, 1959 [13861]
Adams Burs Adams, Ramon F., Burs Under the Saddle, 1964 [13774]
Clifford Z80 Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, The Henry H. Clifford Collection, Part One Zamorano 80, 1994 [13072]
Clifford Calif Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, The Henry H. Clifford Collection, Part Two California and the West, 1994 [13074]
Cowan 64 A Bibliography of the History of California 1510 – 1930, 1964 [11712]
Cox A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935 [11638]
Bartlett Bartlett, Richard A., Great Surveys of the American West, 1962 [13822]
Fahey Fahey, Herbert, Early Printing in California, 1956 [13062]
Farquhar Yosemite Farquhar, Francis, Yosemite | The Big Trees and the High Sierra | A Selective Bibliography, 1948 [13591]
Fisher Fisher, Vardis, Gold Rush and Mining Camps of the Early American West, 1968 [13301]
Greenwood Greenwood, Robert, California Imprints 1833-1862 A Bibliography, 1961
Graff Storm, Colton, The Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana, 1968 [13075]
Currey-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 [13514]
Grabhorn Gold Rush Grabhorn, Jane Bissell, A California Gold Rush Miscellany, 1934 [13548]
Howell 50 Howell, John, Catalog 50 California: Spanish Exploration To American Statehood, 1979 [11734]
Kimes Kimes, William F. and Maymie B., John Muir, 1986 [13949]
Kruska Kruska, Dennis G., James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite, 2009 [13159]
Kurutz Calif Gold Rush Kurutz, Gary F., The California Gold Rush, 1997 [11713]
Kurutz Klondike Kurutz, Gary F., The Klondike and Alaska Gold Rushes, 2021 [13903]
Lada Lada-Mocarski, Valerian., Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published before 1868, 1969 [13973]
Reese BOW Reese, William S., The Best of the West, 2017 [13821]
Ricks Ricks, Melvin B., Melvin Ricks’ Alaskan Bibliography, 1977 [13829]
Rittenhouse Rittenhouse, Jack D., The Santa Fe Trail A Historical Bibliography, 1971 [13503]
Rocq Rocq, Margaret, California Local History, 1970
Sabin Sabin, Joseph, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present, 1967 [13153]
Starr Clio Starr, Kevin, Clio on the Coast, 2010 [13636]
Stillwell Stillwell, Margaret, Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800, 1961 [11750]
Tourville Tourville, Elsie A., Alaska, a bibliography 1570-1970 with subject index, 1974 [13975]
Volkmann Z80 A Complete Collection of The Zamorano 80, 2003
Wagner-Camp82 Becker, Robert, The Plains & the Rockies, Fourth Edition, 1982 [11727]
Wheat Gold Rush Books Wheat, Carl I., Books of the California Gold Rush, 1949 [13523]
White Plains & Rockies White, David A., News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865, 1996-2001
Wickersham Wickersham, James, A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724-1924, 1927 [13828]
Relating to Maps, Illustrations, Etc.
Harlow Maps Harlow, Neal, The Maps of San Francisco Bay, 1950 [13590]
Harrisse Harrisse, Henry, the Discovery of North America, 1969 [13988]
Henry Henry, John Frazier, Early Maritime Artists of the Pacific Northwest Coast 1741-1841, 1984 [13794]
Humphreys Humphreys, A. L.., Antiques Maps and Charts, 1989 [13987]
Joppien - Cook Joppien, Rudiger and Bernard Smith., The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Volumes I-III (catalogue and text), 1988 [13846]
Samuels Samuels, Peggy and Harold, Samuels’ Encyclopedia of Artist of the American West, 1985 [13150]
Skelton Maps Skelton, R. A., Maps, 1972 [13976]
Skelton Explorers Skelton, R. A., Explorers’ Maps, 1970 [13983]
Taft Taft, Robert, Artist and Illustrators of the Old West: 1850-1900, 1953 [13292]
Tooley Maps Tooley, R. V., Maps and Map-makers, 1982 [13978]
Tooley America Tooley, R. V., The Mapping of America, 1980 [13980]
Van de Broecke Van de Broecke, Marcel P. R., Ortelius Atlas Maps, 1996 [13981]
Wagner Cartography Wagner, Henry R., The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800, 1968 [13967]
Wheat Gold Rush Maps Wheat, Carl I., Maps of the California Gold Region 1848-1857, 1995 Reprint of 1942 Edition [13501]
Wheat Trans-Miss Maps Wheat, Carl I., Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West 1540-1861, 2004 Reprint of 1957-63 Editions [13547]
Other References
Ackley Ackley, Laura A., San Francisco's Jewel City, 2015 [13575]
Allen Allen, Charles Dexter, American Book-Plates, 1905 [13877]
Axe Axe, Ruth Frey., The Published Works of Henry R. Wagner, 1988 [13991]
BCC100 Magee, David, The Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Publications of the Book Club of California & a History of the Club, 1958 [13206]
BCC200 Harlan Robert, The Two Hundredth Book, A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California 1958-1993, 1993 [13207]
Gascoigne Gascoigne, Bamber, How to Identify Prints, 2004 [ ]
Glasiter Glasiter, Geoffrey Ashall, An Encyclopedia of the Book, 1960 [13437]
Greenwood Greenwood, Robert, California Imprints 1833-1862 A Bibliography, 1961
Grabhorn Heller, Elinor, Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915 – 1956, 1975 13525]
Grabhorn-Grolier Hoyem, Andrew, Grabhorn Press 1920-1965 and Beyond, Grolier Club, 2015 [13853]
Pearson Pearson, David, Provenance Research in Book History, 2019 [13851]
Poore Poore, Benjamin Perley, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881, 1885, OnLine Hathi Trust
Grabhorn-Magee Magee, David, Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1917 – 1960, 1961 [13550]
Streeter-Christies Christie’s, Auction Catalogue of Frank S. Streeter Library, New York, April, 2007 [13812]