Rare Book Monthly
Further Addicted: The Continuing Adventures Of An AE “Wants List” Junkie
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By Abby Tallmer
As followers of this The Collaborative Project (or TCP for short) may remember, when we last left off I, like other Æ staff members, had been blessed with a preview copy of the exciting new Æ MatchMaker. This software allows users to easily navigate the Æ Databaseand conduct a myriad of “Keyword” and other searches. When you find a book or imprint that interests you in your collecting subject area, you no longer have to cut and paste from the ÆD onto a cumbersome Microsoft word document or some such other 19th century method. Now, you can simply use Æ MatchMaker to click on any selected record in the ÆD and that record will be instantly and easily added to your “Provisional Wants List.”
At this point last month, I described in my article “An Addict Is Born: From Æ Database Dabbler To Totally Immersed ‘Wants List’ Junkie In Less Than 10 Easy Steps” the absolute glee I felt at using this software, which has made it much easier for me to pursue my very specific collecting interests in anti-slavery materials printed in the 19th century and either written by, or addressed to, a female audience. Through MatchMaker I had discovered the joy of simply clicking a button to add an entire bibliographic record to a growing list of books and imprints that I was, and am, searching for on various online internet bookselling sites like abe.com.
When we last ended off I had been using what to me was a crazy, antiquainted system of checking theÆ Database search by search and then cutting and pasting the “matches” into a word document, which I then planned to weed for duplications. And as I recall, I had a 150-odd page Microsoft word document of “matches” to be weeded against each other for duplication. I also still had many remaining “Keyword” Searches to perform as well as a remaining list of some 30 to 50 names which had come up in “matches” but which I had yet to check further. As previously noted, the work that took me more than a week under the old “cut and paste” system (and was nearly impossible for me to read and manage) is now accomplished more fully using Æ's MatchMaker technology in seconds. Further, it has been replaced by one document --- my “Provisional Wants List” -- holding all of my Æ Database record “matches” in a clean, clear, easy to manage list that I can do all kinds of things with: sort; name; rename; delete "matched" records I no longer want on my list; etc. And importantly, the Æ MatchMaker will simply not permit duplication of entries: it will allow you to input different editions or years of the same book or title, but not the same exact record more than once. This is a huge relief as weeding for duplication is no longer necessary.
Rare Book Monthly
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600. -
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Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.