Primary Search: An Easier Way To USE the AE Database
- by Bruce E. McKinney
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Search by Place of Publication.
One of the most interesting ways to use our database is to enter a location in the City or Town where Printed field to see what you find. Let’s try Worcester. By itself with no other information entered there are 1,342 matches. To identify ways to collect in the Americana field this is perhaps the very best tool ever created. Books are collected by author and subject but rarely have books been so easily identified by their place of printing. Collecting by place of printing offers unusual opportunities for developing personal expertise. There are so many places and so much history imbedded in the types of material printed, the sequence of publication and the subjects printed that collectors can randomly choose areas and be reasonably certain that few others are pursuing these same goals.
Looking over the Reports.
This is the SEARCH RESULTS page for a search using Rondout in the Place of Publication and 1846 in the Year Printed field. I didn’t use the author, Abraham Bevier, because as you can see from the records, the bibliographers had his name wrong for many years. If you never had any idea that such a book existed you might never find it. But a careful place by place search in the county or state you’re interested in will uncover many gems that people never know about. Of course, you may need to study some old maps to identify the place names used many years ago. What was Rondout then is Kingston, New York now and a search of Kingston will not uncover Rondout. There is plenty of information here but intelligence and determination are essential to get the best results. This is chess, not checkers. Click on the left image to see the SEARCH RESULTS .
Different searches will yield different results. The number of records found appears in the blue band at the top of your screen. We put 35 records on a screen so a number larger than 35 is going to have multiple screens. A NEXT RECORDS button is found at top and bottom of the screen or once you go forward both PREVIOUS RECORDS and NEXT RECORDS buttons. To return to the preliminary results page click on the BACK BUTTON and to begin a new search click on any title on the results page to reach the following options: Back to report, Go to Primary Search or Go to Home.
Over the next four months we will add several hundred thousand new records. Master these searches now and discover the majesty of American history in its details!
Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s Book Week December 9-17, 2025
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
