In 1820, John James Audubon proclaimed his intent to paint every species of birds in North America. When the project was completed in 1838, Audubon had documented 506 species.
That old saw that book collectors like to recite that "anything can be anywhere," can, quite honestly, waste a lot of your time. I think that's one reason that sites like AbeBooks and Biblio.com have
I must confess that parts of the Fine Books web site are a bit hard to use. I learned this myself tonight when I went looking for anything on our site written by Joel Silver. Joel, who is dir
The Fine Books & Collections Compendium is mailing in about 10 days, and following a practice we began some time ago, I contacted the American Library Association in an effort to include sp