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]

Cooke                                           Cooke, Alan and Clive Holland, Exploration of Northern Canada, 1978 [14176]

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 and Pacific Northwest

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]

Cooke                                           Cooke, Alan and Clive Holland, The Exploration of Norther Canada, 1978 [14176]

Cowan 64                                     A Bibliography of the History of California 1510 – 1930, 1964 [11712]

Cox                                               A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1935 [11638]

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]

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]

Farquhar Colorado                   Farquhar, Francis, The Books of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon; A Selective Bibliography, 2003 [14101]

Fisher                                           Fisher, Vardis, Gold Rush and Mining Camps of the Early American West, 1968 [13301]

Flake                                            Flake, Chad J. and Larry W. Draper, A Mormon Bibliography, 2004, 2nd Ed [Online]

Greenwood                                 Greenwood, Robert, California Imprints 1833-1862 A Bibliography, 1961

Graff                                            Storm, Colton, The Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana, 1968 [13075]

Grabhorn Gold Rush                Grabhorn, Jane Bissell, A California Gold Rush Miscellany, 1934 [13548]

Gudde75                                      Gudde, Edwin, California Gold Camps, 1975 [14098]

Howell 50                                     Howell, John, Catalog 50 California: Spanish Exploration To American Statehood, 1979 [11734]

Howes                                          Howes, Wright, U. S. Iana 1650-1950, 1962 [14086]

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]

Phillips                                         Phillips, P. Lee, Alaska and the Northwest Part of North America 1588-1898, 1898 [14120]

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]

Smith                                            Smith, Charles (Isabel Mayhew, Ed), Charles W. Smith’s Pacific Northwest Americana, 1950 [14036]

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                            Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, A Complete Collection of The Zamorano 80, 2003 [13073]

Wagner-Camp53                       Wagner, Henry R. and Charles L. Camp, The Plains & the Rockies; A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure 1800-1865, Third Edition, 1953 [11727]

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 [13854]

White Western                           White, David A., Western Trail Bibliographies, 2002 [14177]

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]

Manasek                                      Manasek, F. J. [Marti and Curt Griggs, Ed], Collecting Old Maps, 2015 [14019]

Polk                                              Polk, Dora Beale, The Island of California, 1991 [14085]

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 Reprint of 1937 Edition [13967]

Wheat Gold Region 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                       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]

Grabhorn-Magee                       Magee, David, Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn  1917 – 1960, 1961 [13550]

Gudde65                                      Gudde, Edwin, California Place Names, 1965 [14040]

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

Streeter-Christies                      Christie’s, Auction Catalogue of Frank S. Streeter Library, New York, April, 2007 [13812]