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The bibliographer's manual of American history: containing an account of all state, territory, town and county histories relating to the United States

The bibliographer's manual of American history: containing an account of all state, territory, town and county histories relating to the United States

Lindsley Bradford, Thomas

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General Antiques & CollectiblesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9389265525
ISBN13: 9789389265521
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
America's past is scattered across forgotten pamphlets and town chronicles. Here is the map back to them. Thomas Lindsley Bradford's The Bibliographer's Manual of American History (Volume II) is an american history bibliography built for real work at the desk. Every title has a trail. It brings together state and county histories, town and territorial histories, and other united states local history publications, giving verbatim titles, sharp bibliographical notes, and two powerful routes in: an exhaustive index by titles and an index by states. For provenance hunters it doubles as a historical book price catalog, recording sale prices across four decades and capturing how rare local history books moved through the market. It is a practical ledger of scholarship and trade, designed for the librarian, the historian, the collector, and the bookseller. Compiled in the great age of nineteenth century bibliography, Bradford's bibliographical reference guide remains a touchstone for serious collecting and research. It serves as a genealogy research reference when family lines disappear into county boundaries, as a librarian reference tool for building and verifying holdings, and as an antiquarian bookseller handbook for identifying editions and judging scarcity. Casual readers will find it a surprisingly readable doorway into the making of local memory; antiquarian book collectors will value it as a dependable compass for acquisitions and cataloguing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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