Links

General Reference

• The Universal Currency Converter
• Identifont
• Roman Numeral Year Dates
• Roman Numeral and Date Conversion
• Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar
• Buchmessen & Künstlerbuchmessen - Calendar of events of book fairs happening across the world
• Credo Reference - formerly Xrefer
• viaLibri - Resources for Bibliophiles
• Wikipedia - The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet
• CINOA - The only international federation for antique and art dealers
• Shin Hanga Date Translation
• Measuring Worth - Calculate relative worth over time

Magazines

• Sheppard's Confidential - Weekly News for the Antiquarian and Secondhand Book Trade
• Americana Exchange
• Book Source Magazine
• Fine Books and Collections

Biography

• Biography
• Notable Names Database

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
• Dictionary.com
• Glossary of Common Latin Terms
• Ancient Reference Abbreviations

Bibliography

• The Bibliographical Society (UK) - Organization interested in promoting the study and research in the fields of historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography plus the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting.
• The Bibliographical Society of America
• The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
• The Bibliographical Society of Canada
• Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - Organization for the discussion and elucidation of questions connected with books, more especially Scottish books.
• RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Resources
• Haldeman-Julius - Pocket Series and the Little Blue Books

Libraries

• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• California Digital Library Melvyl Catalog
• KVK Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
• American Antiquarian Society
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• The British Library
• Search The British Library
• Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• The Getty
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
• The Library Company of Philadelphia
• Library of Congress
• Search The Library of Congress
• National Library of Medicine
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek
• The New York Public Library
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• The Morgan Library and Museum
• The Swiss National Library
• The Karpeles Manuscript Library - the world's greatest and most important original manuscripts and documents
• The National Library of Scotland
• The National Library of Australia
• Online Computer Library Center
• The Cushing Memorial Library of Texas A&M University
• National Diet Library Japan
• State Library of Western Australia
• State Library of Tasmania
• National Libraries of the World Address List
• LibDex Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues
• National Library Catalogues Worldwide
• WorldCat
• Libdex
• European and Middle Eastern Libraries
• OhioLink Library Catalog
• Libraries of the University of Hawai'i System
• Copac academic and national library catalogue
• National Library of China

Book Arts

• The Book Arts Web
• Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) - The premier worldwide organization dedicated to type and typography.
• Bartkowiaks Forum Book Art - Organization that promotes international contemporary book art. It is a comprehensive yearbook in which printers and book artists present themselves and their works. In addition, it includes reports on events in the world of book art.
• University of Iowa Center for the Book
• British Association of Paper Historians - Organization for those interested in the history of paper and papermaking.
• British Printing Society - Organization for professional, hobby and part-time printers and those interested in printing.
• The Type Museum
• The Center for Book Arts
• Arts of the Book Collection - Yale University Arts Library
• Guild of Book Workers

Maps

• Map History / History of Cartography - THE Gateway to the Subject
• MapForum.Com - Specialist Antique Map Magazine
• Yale Map Collection
• The Ryhiner Map Collection
• Map Societies Around the World
• Brock University Map Library
• MAGIC - Map and Geographic Information Center
• Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
• Library of Congress Map Collection
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• International Map Trade Association
• The International Map Collector's Society

Ephemera

• The Ephemera Society of America
• Graphic Design in 1920-30 Travel Ephemera
• Cigarette Cards: ABCs - Tobacco Collection Ephemera
• American Time Capsule - Three centuries of broadsides and other printed ephemera
• American Left Ephemera Collection (University of Pittsburgh)
• Advertising Ephemera 1850-1920
• Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection (University of Washington)
• Florida Ephemera Collection
• John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera (University of Oxford)
• Phonograph Industry Ephemera
• Here Today, Here Tomorrow - Varieties of medical ephemera
• Central Pacific Railroad Ephemera and Collectibles
• State Library of New South Wales Objects and Ephemera

Bookbinding

• Etherington and Roberts Dictionary (Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books)
• The British Library Database of Bookbindings
• Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
• A Simple Book Repair Manual (Dartmouth College Library Preservation Services)
• Bookbinding: A Tutorial by Douglas W. Jones (The University of Iowa)
• Designer Bookbinders
• The Society of Bookbinders
• Einbanddatenbank

Dust Jackets

• Great War Dust Jackets
• NYPL Digital Gallery: Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947
• Classic Crime Fiction: Dust Jacket Artists and Illustrators
• Victoria University Library Collection: Hogarth Press Illustrated Dust Jackets
• Modern Library Dust Jackets and Bindings: 1917-1939
• The ModernLib ML Database (requires sign-up)
• Series Books for Girls
• University of Delaware Library: Vietnam War Literature Collection Dust Jackets 1931 - 1987
• Rare Books Collected by Author Robert Weinberg
• Nineteenth Century Dust Jackets

Literature

• The Manuscript Society - An international organization of persons and institutions devoted to the collection, preservation, use, and enjoyment of autographs and manuscripts.
• Author Anniversaries
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Literary Resources on the Net (by Jack Lynch)
• Internet Library of Early Journals - A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals
• American Authors on the Web
• Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)
• Lost Race Checklist

Incunabula

• The Bancroft Library Incunabula Database
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München - The largest collection of incunabula world wide
• Inkunabelkatalog INKA

Aldus Manutiu

• In aedibus Aldi: The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)

Latin Place Names

• RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File

Media

• Newslink
• Refdesk newspapers
• Online newspapers
• Arts & Letters daily

BLOG

• The Private Library
• BibliOdyssey
• BookFinder
• Tech Ramblings from the Rare Book Trade
• Fine Books & Collections
• Rare Book News
• PhiloBiblos
• Lux Mentis, Lux Orbis
• Philobiblon
• Library of Congress Blog
• Library Blog Buzz
• Antiquarian Books
• First Printing: The Antique Maps and Prints Blog
• Collecting Children's Picturebooks
• Guardian Unlimited Books
• Bibliophile Bullpen
• Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
• Hyde Collection Catablog
• The Book Blog
• Rare Book Review
• Archivalia
• El Bibliomano
• Rare Book Collections @ Princeton
• Shelf:Life - TheBookGuide's book news blog
• Boekendingen - berichten van boeken & dingen
• TheBookGuide
• Selling Books
• Not in WorldCat
• Mutterings of a Mad Bookseller
• Kansasprairiegirls
• Front Free Endpaper
• Ephemera - Exploring the world of old paper
• The Exile Bibliophile
• Breaking Bookselling News from BookThink.com
• Bookzing Book Description Blog
• bookn3rd - Book history, rare books, literature, grad school, and related subjects
• LS BUSINESS
• The Bookshop Blog - To Help You be a Better Bookseller
• Book Patrol - A Haven for Book Culture
• The Cutthroat World of Book Scouting
• BOOKSAGA - Adventures in the Book Trade
• biblioblography @ briancassidy.net
• Bookride
• Antique Maps - Map the Universe

Videos

• Bibliomania
• Why the ABAA?
• Guide to Collecting Rare Books
• Book Arts
• Book Repairing and Cleaning
• Bookbinding with Peter Goodwin
• What is Ephemera?
• Significant Occupations: Rare Bookseller
• Charlie Dickens Attends an Antiquarian Book Fair
• Slideshow: Rare Maps and Books
• What really makes a book valuable
• The Rare Book Room at RPTS
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Web Series
• Linda Fairstein tours the New York Public Library
• Chicago Bookman Discovers Typewriter Heaven
• Inlibris book appraisal
• Ransom Center's Rare Books Collection
• Ancient manuscripts restored
• Delving into the secrets of century-old books
• A genuine bibliophile describes his passion for books
• Book Obsessed - A Collector With Over 35,000 Books
• Historical Book Thief to be Sentenced

Great Books

• Great Books Lists
• Great Books Index - An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation
• Rare Book Room

Children's Books

• Children's Book Awards
• The Children's Literature Web Guide
• Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University
• deGrummond Children's Literature Collection (The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
• Lilly Library Chapbook Collection (Indiana University)
• Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books (Toronto Public Library)
• Social History of Children's Literature (Kay E. Vandergrift)
• 19th Century American Children's Book Trade Directory
• Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
• 19th Century Schoolbooks
• Northeast Children's Literature Collection
• International Research Centre: Children's Literature, Literacy and Creativity
• World of the Child - University of Delaware Special Collections
• Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
• The School Collection: Children's Literature at the Education & Social Science Library
• Greek Children's Literature
• South Asia and the South Asian Disaspora in Children's Literature - an annotated bibliography
• The Wizard of Oz Books - Collectible, Rare, First editions

Movable Books

• Pop-Up and Movable Books (University of North Texas Libraries)
• The POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro

Fairy Tales

• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
• Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and Stories

Dance

• An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals (Library of Congress)

King Arthur

• Arthuriana - Arthur Complete
• Sources for the Study of the Arthurian Legends

Mythology

• Encyclopedia Mythica

History

• The Centre For The History Of The Book (UK) - THE CHB was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text & its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text.
• HoBo (UK) - Formerly History Of The Book © Oxford, HoBo currently aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all UK seminars, lectures and conferences related to the history of the book.
• International Printing Museum - A living exploration of the printed word, with exhibits and displays covering more than 500 years of history.
• Early Book Society
• American Antiquarian Society
• Rare Book School
• Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
• Images of 11-17th century manuscripts - Bodleian Library Oxford University
• The International Dunhuang Project - An international collaboration based at the British Library with more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites freely available on the Internet

Canadiana

• Early Canadiana Online

Discoveries

• Discoverers Web

Religion

• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Hypertext Book of Hours
• Parallel Latin/English Psalter
• Internet Sacred Text Archive

Bible

• Bible Gateway
• ARTFL Project: Multi-Lingual Bibles - King James English, Luther German, Louis Segond French, Latin Vulgate
• The Online Bible - The Bible in every language
• Latin Vulgate Bible
• The Bible: Latin Vulgat
• The Holy Bible (Vulgate Translation) Concordance
• The New Testament (Rheims 1582)
• Gutenberg Bible Census
• Gutenberg Digital
• The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts - study the ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based

Classics

• The Perseus Digital Library - Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome
• An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts

Poetry

• Leeds Verse Database

Medieval

• The Labyrinth
• The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)

Illuminated Manuscripts

• DScriptorium - Digital images of Medieval manuscripts
• Paging Through Medieval Lives - Illumination and Calligraphy From Selected Collections
• The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) (The Bibliothèque Nationale de France) - 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts
• Bodleian Library Western manuscripts to c. 1500
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

Illustration

• Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century (University of Delaware Library)
• Manuscript images of the technology in the Middle Ages
• Liam's Pictures From Old Books

Miniature Books

• The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books (University of Iowa Libraries)
• Miniature Book Society
• Miniature Books - University of Missouri Special Collections
• UNT Libraries Digital Collections - Miniature Book Collection
• 4000 Years of Miniature Books IU Lilly Library Exhibition

Philosophy

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science and Medicine

• MedHist (Wellcome Library) - The guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet
• Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Richard S. Westfall)
• ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) Virtual Center
• Internet History of Science Sourcebook
• The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library
• Atomic Energy Collection (Oregon State University)
• Science in the 19th Century Periodical

Individual Authors

Kobo Abe

• Scriptorium

Hans Christian Andersen

• Hans Christian Andersen Center

W.H. Auden

• The W. H. Auden Society

Jane Austen

• Jane Austen Information Page

Paul Auster

• Definitive Website

J.G. Ballard

• Interviews, Articles, Bibliographies & Book Collection

Honore de Balzac

• Biography and Works

Samuel Beckett

• Samuel Beckett Apmonia

Saul Bellow

• Saul Bellow Society

Henri Bergson

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

William Blake

• The William Blake Archives

Boccaccio

• Decameron Web - A Comprehensive Reference and Research Site Dedicated to the Study of Cervantes' Works and Life

Jorge Luis Borges

• The Garden of Forking Paths

The Brontë Sisters

• The Brontë Sisters Web

Robert Burns

• Robert Burns Country (The Official Robert Burns Site)

William S. Burroughs

• William S. Burroughs Internet Database

Lewis Carroll

• Lewis Carrol Home Page

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• Biography and List of Works

Miguel de Cervantes

• The Cervantes Project
• Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America

Chaucer

• Chaucer Bibliography Online

Anton Chekhov

• Theatre Database

Wilkie Collins

• The Wilkie Collins Website (Paul Lewis)
• Wilkie Collins

Joseph Conrad

• The Joseph Conrad Foundation

Dante

• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
• The World of Dante
• The Devine Comedy

Simone De Beauvoir

• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Philip K. Dick

• Official Site

Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place
• The Dickens Page
• David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page

Denis Diderot

• Denis Diderot Biography

Alfred Doblin

• Berlin: The City as Body, The City as Metaphor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• FyodorDostoevsky.com

Roger Martin du Gard

• Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958)

Marguerite Duras

• Duras.iFrance.com

Umberto Ecco

• Porta Ludovica

George Eliot

• George Eliot (1819-1880)

T.S. Elliot

• What the Thunder Said

Ralph Ellison

• Ralph Ellison Webliography

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner: American Writer 1897-1962
• University of Virginia Library William Faulkner Collection

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary

Gustave Flaubert

• Biography and Literary Works

Anatole France

• Biography and Works

John Galsworthy

• John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

Elizabeth Gaskell

• The Gaskell Web

Federico Garcia Lorca

• Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Macondo

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Nikolai Gogol

• Theatre Database

Günter Grass

• Günter Grass (1927-)

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

• Biography and Works

Knut Hamsun

• Norland: A Knut Hamsun Resource Page

Gerhart Hauptmann

• Gerhart (Johann Robert) Hauptmann (1862-1946)

Ernest Hemingway

• The Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway

Herman Hesse

• Herman Hesse Portal

Victor Hugo

• The Victor Hugo Website

Aldus Huxley

• BRAVE NEW WORLD ? A Defence Of Paradise Engineering

Henrik Ibsen

• Ibsen.net

Henry James

• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites

James Joyce

• The Brazen Head

Franz Kafka

• The Kafka Project
• Das Schloss

Yasunari Kawabata

• Yasunari Kawabata's Unofficial Webpage

Nikos Kazantzakis

• Nikos Kazantzakis Files

Rudyard Kipling

• Rudyard Kipling fame
• Kipling Society

D.H. Lawrence

• DH Lawrence.org

T.E. Lawrence

• T.E. Lawrence Society

Halldor K Laxness

• Halldór Kiljan Laxness April 23, 1902 - February 8,1998

Giacomo Leopardi

• Leopardi.it

Doris Lessing

• Doris Lessing: A Retrospective

Sinclair Lewis

• Sinclair Lewis Society

Astrid Lindgren

• Astrid Lindgren.com

H.P. Lovecraft

• Scriptorium

Lu Xun

• Reference Archive

Naguib Mahfouz

• About Naguib Mahfouz
• World Literature Website

Andre Malraux

• Andre Malraux.com

Thomas Mann

• The Scriptorium

Herman Melville

• The Life and Works of Herman Melville

Czeslaw Milosz

• Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

Milton

• The Milton-L Home Page - Devoted to the life, literature and times of John Milton

Michel de Montaigne

• MichelMontaigne.de

Elsa Morante

• Biography and List of Works

Toni Morrison

• Anniina's Toni Morrison Page

Shikibu Murasaki

• Female Hero: Shikibu Murasaki

Robert Musil

• Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

• Zembla

V.S. Naipaul

• V.S. Naipaul: An Overview

Eugene O'Neill

• eOneill.com

Pablo Neruda

• Aspirennies.com

George Orwell

• George Orwell 1903-1950

Boris Pasternak

• Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)

Octavio Paz

• Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

Fernando Pessoa

• Poetry International Web
• Pessoa's Trunk

Harold Pinter

• Harold Pinter.org

Luigi Pirandello

• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Sylvia Plath

• Sylvia Plath Homepage

Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe Museum
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• A Poe Webliography

Ezra Pound

• Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Marcel Proust

• TempsPerdu.com

Thomas Pynchon

• Thomas Pynchon: Spermatikos Logos

Francois Rabelais

• Francois Rabelais@lalettre.com

Romain Rolland

• Romain Rolland Biography

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• The Rossetti Archive (The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Salman Rushdie

• Rushdie: An Overview
• Salman Rushdie

Jose Saramago

• Literatura

Jean-Paul Satre

• Satre Online
• Satre.org

Shakespeare

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• The First Folio of Shakespeare (The University of Chicago Library)
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Open Source Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw

• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

John Steinbeck

• John Steinbeck: The California Novels

Laurence Sterne

• Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace

Italo Svevo

• Biografia

Jonathan Swift

• Swift: An Overview

Leo Tolstoy

• Biography and Works
• Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910

Mark Twain

• Mark Twain in His Times (Stephen Railton)

Jules Verne

• JuelsVerne.ca

Walt Whitman

• The Walt Whitman Archive

Virginia Woolf

• Virginia Woolf Society

William Butler Yeats

• Yeats Society Sligo

Nineteenth-Century Literature

• 19th Century British and Irish Authors