Rare Book Monthly
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Virtually all Zubal customers visit electronically rather than in person. On any given day several hundred thousand books are for sale. That makes its active inventory about three times the size of the largest Barnes & Noble Bookstores. And as quickly as this material heads out the door a mountain of unprocessed material waits its chance to enter the selling ring. Few will ever penetrate the mysteries of the Zubal warehouses but everyday hundreds, even thousands of customers peruse the Zubal inventory online and many find the material they want at prices that are right. I could have stayed longer but managed to have most of a day there. It was unforgettable.
On Tuesday, the 16th, we visited Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Tom headed for an admission interview and I met Bruce Kinzer, Professor of History. Here I had the opportunity to discuss how the Æ could be effective and interesting to colleges, professors, and universities and received some valuable insight and perspective along with some suggestions about how to proceed.
On Wednesday, we visited Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Here I met Megan Adams, Social Sciences librarian and learned that educational institutions are increasingly looking for the ability to monitor the burgeoning population of databases that are quickly populating the net. In some sense, libraries have the same concerns as the websites do. Are the students using the database? And how are they using it?
In the afternoon we visited the University of Pennsylvania. This is a very impressive school.
On Thursday we visited Lehigh University in Bethlehem. This is an “engineering school” but is actually much more although an analysis of the databases available in their libraries show how strongly slanted to engineering they are. Of about 115 databases I saw listed only two looked to be obviously tied to American history. But Lehigh seems to be onto something. I doubt there are many colleges as technologically advanced and we, on the Æ, can see convergence ahead as the technical side of the world merges with humanities databases to empower both the left and right brainers. One senses the future is now.
On Friday Tom visited New York University. It’s located in Greenwich Village. For Tom, who goes to school in Haight Ashbury, this seemed very comfortable. The size of the liberal arts school means there are plenty of courses with the ability to experiment in different disciplines before declaring a major.
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.