Sotheby’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, 1897
Sotheby’s Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé : le dernier chapiter 28 October 2024
Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: García Lorca, Federico. Poema del cante jondo. Madrid, 1931. Édition originale. Exemplaire offert par Lorca au journaliste basque Pedro Mourlane Michelena
Sotheby’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 Continuation
Sotheby’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.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24: 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.
All Books and All Knowledge: Coming Soon to <i>Your</i> Computer
- by Michael Stillman
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This concept is not exactly new. In fact, it looks remarkably like Amazon's "Search Inside the Book." Amazon offers this word search, displaying the page on which the term appears plus two pages forward and two pages back, on its site and through its A9 search engine. They were first, but as Microsoft has proven, being first doesn't always matter.
To see the earliest stages of what Google is doing, go to their website at www.google.com. Type in a subject of interest preceded by "books about" (without the quotation marks). At the top of the page, you will get up to three results from more recent (copyrighted) books. For example, I typed in "books about gerrit smith" and received three matches for books which mentioned this obscure abolitionist who knew Frederick Douglass and John Brown. When you click these links, it takes you directly to the page on which Smith's name appears, and lets you see the two preceding and succeeding pages. Since these are copyrighted works, that's all you get to see, not the whole text.
While the addition of full texts to its searchable database has gathered the most attention, there is another book-related project going on at Google. They have been adding OCLC listings to the material they search as well. OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a cooperative database of card catalogue listings from thousands of libraries. It's a way to find out in which libraries a book you seek is located.
This is also a work in progress, but some books are now showing up. However, finding these listings points to a weakness in the process. Google searches frequently return thousands if not millions of matches. Unless a match shows up in the first ten or twenty, it is unlikely to be seen. OCLC matches don't seem to show up very high. With a few exceptions, I found I had to search especially for them. OCLC matches show up with the URL (web address) www.worldcatlibraries.com, so if you type this in, along with the book or author, you have a better chance of finding the listing. To see an example of what you can find, go to Google and search the following: "innocents abroad worldcatlibraries" (without the quotation marks). This will provide a link to their site, and if you click it, it will take you to a form where you can enter your zip code to find the nearest library with a copy of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad." In my case, it located three libraries, and told me how far away they are (3, 5, and 30 miles).