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Joseph Sabin

Joseph Sabin

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Joseph Sabin (9 December 1821—5 June 1881) was a Braunston, England-born bibliographer and bookseller in Oxford, Philadelphia, and New York City.[1][2] He compiled the "stupendous" multivolume Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, considered a "bibliophilic monument;"[3] and published the American Bibliopolist, a trade magazine.[4][5] His sons Robert T. Sabin and William W. Sabin also worked in the bookselling business.[6]

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At the sale of the library of the musicologist and rare book collector, Edward Francis Rimbault, in 1877, Sabin served as an agent for the banker and collector, Joseph W. Drexel, in his large purchase of portions of the 1877 auction, held in London from July 31 to August 7.[7]

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  1. [1]
    Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1889.
  2. [2]
    Trow's New York City Directory. J.F. Trow. 1872. p. 998. Nassau Street
  3. [3]
    Donald W. Krummel (2005), "Early American Imprint Bibliography and Its Stories: An Introductory Course in Bibliographical Civics", Libraries & Culture, 40 (3): 239–250, doi:10.1353/lac.2005.0050, JSTOR 25541929, S2CID 161647315
  4. [4]
    "Death of Joseph Sabin", New York Times, 1881
  5. [5]
    Anna H. Perrault; Ron Blazek (2003). "Sources of General Importance to U.S. History". United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 978-1-56308-874-2.
  6. [6]
    Donna Dennis (2009). Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05373-1.
  7. [7]
    A. Hyatt King, Catalog of the Music Library of Edward Francis Rimbault Sold at London 31 July-7 August 1877, with the Library of Dr. Rainbeau, reprint (Buren: Frits Knuf, 1975), p. viii.

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