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![<b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Ronsard, Pierre de. <i>Les Amours.</i> 1553. [Suivi de:] <i>Continuation des amours.</i> 1557. In-8. Vélin. Troisième édition des Amours et deuxième édition de la Continuation](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5dbcd51f-94f6-46e8-b471-c61f9d7a479d.png "<b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Ronsard, Pierre de. <i>Les Amours.</i> 1553. [Suivi de:] <i>Continuation des amours.</i> 1557. In-8. Vélin. Troisième édition des Amours et deuxième édition de la Continuation")
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28 October 2024Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Gide, André. Les Cahiers d'André Walter, 1891Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbô. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1863. Édition originaleSotheby’s, 28 Oct: Scève, Maurice. Microcosme. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1562. Maroquin vert de Lortic fils. Rarissime édition originale.Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, 1855. Édition originale, imprimée par Whitman lui-même et reliée sur ses instructions. Avec un exemplaire de "Calamus", Boston, 1897Sotheby’s
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28 October 2024Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: García Lorca, Federico. Poema del cante jondo. Madrid, 1931. Édition originale. Exemplaire offert par Lorca au journaliste basque Pedro Mourlane MichelenaSotheby’s, 28 Oct: Ronsard, Pierre de. Les Amours. 1553. [Suivi de:] Continuation des amours. 1557. In-8. Vélin. Troisième édition des Amours et deuxième édition de la ContinuationSotheby’s, 28 Oct: Vivaldi, Antonio. L’Estro Armonico... Amsterdam [1712]. Édition originale. Rares partitions de 12 concertos, gravées sur cuivre -
Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 31: William Shakespeare, Second Folio, 1632. $120,000 to $180,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 175: Agostino Nifo’s De Regnandi Peritia ad Carolum VI, 1523. $25,000 to $35,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 263: Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia: Sive, 1647. $15,000 to $20,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 32: William Shakespeare, Poems, 1640. $15,000 to $20,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 230: Ernest Hemingway, in our time, Limited First Edition; One of 170 Copies Printed, Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 43: Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors, El Octavo Libro and El Noveno Libro, 1526 and 1542. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 25: John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, 1645. $7,000 to $9,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 259: William Griffith Wilson, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered, 1939. $15,000 to $20,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 242: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960. $10,000 to $15,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 69: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote in Spanish, Ibarra's Academy Edition, 1780. $6,000 to $8,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 9: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, The Historie of Guicciardin, 1599. $6,000 to $9,000.Swann, Oct. 24: Lor 103: Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, Libro de Entrentenimiento de la Picara Justina, 1605. $6,000 to $8,000. -
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A Superb Extra-illustrated Copy of Nicolay and Hay’s Work About Lincoln. $50,000 – 70,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
The First Volume of De Bry's Great Voyages, Thomas Hariot's Description of Virginia. $50,000 – 70,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
An autographed cabinet card of Custer as lieutenant colonel. From his last sitting. $800 – 1,200.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
The Congressional Committee, Lincoln's Funeral Springfield Illinois, 3 May 1865. $4,000 – 6,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
A remarkable ninth plate daguerreotype of an interracial couple. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
What may be the earliest known images of an identified plantation and enslaved African Americans posed with their owner. $20,000 – 30,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
Through Tickets to All Principal Points West Via Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad For Sale at This Office. $500 – 700.Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
15th New York Infantry / Regiment of Engineers GAR regimental colors. Ca 1880. $1,500 – 2,500.
Rare Book Monthly
Articles - January - 2005 Issue
All Books and All Knowledge: Coming Soon to <i>Your</i> Computer
A targeted Google search finds an OCLC (worldcatlibraries.com) listing.
For those of us deeply involved with old books, the expired copyright material is the most interesting. This material can be freely copied and made available in full to anyone. That is just what Google, with the assistance of some prestigious libraries, is doing. The old books are currently coming from the university libraries of Oxford, Stanford, Harvard and Michigan, and the New York Public Library. Each has vast collections, parts of which are being made available for scanning. Google is underwriting much of the cost of this process. It will then make these listings available through its search engine. In fact, some already are and the number will be regularly increasing, though that number is as yet very small. A Google search for an old book may now not only find information about that book, or copies for sale, but the entire text of that book available to be read online. For more common books, where reprints are available for sale or copies may be found in numerous libraries, this is still a great convenience. For obscure books, perhaps only held at a handful of major libraries, it means these texts, previously only available to a few privileged scholars in the right location, will now be available to everyone.
For Google, this is an interesting expansion. Previously, they were strictly in the business of helping you find information. As long as someone else posted the information online, they would help you find it. Now Google has moved into the business of also providing information. This is a major step for them, and a plus for us searchers, provided, of course, it's all incremental, that they don't turn around and limit the amount of material posted by others.
Just how many books will be scanned and digitized at this point has not been stated. According to Harvard University's website, they will initially make 40,000 out of 15 million volumes available to Google. The University of Michigan does not appear to have put such limitations on the project, and Google is already busy scanning their books. However, scanning is apparently a hand process, so, at least using their current technology, we will not see millions of books posted online for a while yet. It is relatively slow, but it is a start.
The second group of books are those still under copyright. Google cannot post them as the literary rights are still privately held. This should ultimately prevent absolutely everything from becoming available online. However, Google is making some of these books at least partially available. For those books where the publisher offers permission, Google will search their text for matches to your search terms. However, Google will not make the full text available. It will make the page on which your search terms appear, and two pages forward and two pages back, available. If you want more, you will have to buy the book. Google will offer ads to booksellers on these pages, and will split the revenue they earn when someone clicks on one of these ads with the publishers.
