Joseph Sabin Explained

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;" and published the American Bibliopolist, a trade magazine.^[3] His sons Robert T. Sabin and William W. Sabin also worked in the bookselling business.^[4]

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.^[5]

See also

• Books in the United States

Further reading

• • • • Book: Book Trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century . Adolph Growoll . 1898 . 1939 . Joseph Sabin . E. B. Hackett, The Brick Row Book Shop . 2027/mdp.39015033668214 .
    • Book: Frederick Richmond Goff. Joseph Sabin: bibliographer, 1821-1881. 1963. N. Israel . Amsterdam .
• Book: Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America . John Edgar Molnar . 1974 . Scarecrow Press . 0810806525 .

Bibliotheca Americana

• Book: Bibliotheca Americana: a Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time . Joseph Sabin . Wilberforce Eames . Wilberforce Eames . R. W. G. Vail . New York . 1868–1936 . 13972268 . + via Hathi Trust

Individual volumes via Internet Archive
Volume	From	To	Year
Volume 1	A [1]	Bedford [4280]	1868
Volume 2	Bedinger [4282]	Brownell [8684]	1869
Volume 3	Brownell [8685]	Chesbrough [12513]	1870
Volume 4	Cheshire [12516]	Costa [17013]	1871
Volume 5	Costa [17015]	Du Moulin [21221]	1873
Volume 6	Du Moulin [21222]	Franklin [25489]	1873
Volume 7	Franklin [25490]	Hall [29818]	1875
Volume 8	Hall [29820]	Huntingdon [33970]	1877
Volume 9	Huntington [33971]	LaCroix [38495]	1877
Volume 10	LaCroix [38497]	M’Clary [43005]	1878
Volume 11	McClean [43006]	Mémoire [47520]	1879
Volume 12	Mémoire [47524]	Nederland [52224]	1880
Volume 13	Nederland [52225]	Omai [57263]	1881
Volume 14	Omaña [57265]	Philadelphia [61980]	1884
Volume 15	Philadelphia [61982]	Providence [66280]	1885
Volume 16	Providence [66281]	Remarks [69511]	1886
Volume 17	Remarks [69513]	Ross [73344]	1888
Volume 18	Ross [73345]	Schedae [77522]	1889
Volume 19	Schedel [77523]	Simms [81225]	1891
Volume 20	Simms (W.G.) [81226]	Smith (Seba) [84187]	1892-1928
Volume 21	Smith (Seb. B.) [84188]	Solis Y Valenzuela [86498]	1929-31
Volume 22	Solis Y Valenzuela [86499]	Spiritual Manifestations [89519]	1931-32
Volume 23	Spiritual Maxims [89520]	Storrs [92256]	1932-33
Volume 24	Storrs [92257]	Ternaux-Compans [94853]	1933-34
Volume 25	Ternaux-Compans [94854]	Tucker [97361]	1934
Volume 26	Tucker [97362]	Vindex [99774]	1935
Volume 27	Vindex [99775]	Weeks [102461]	1936
Volume 28	Weeks [102462]	Witherspoon [104937]	1936
Volume 29	Witherspoon [104938]	Zwey [106413]	1936

External links

• Web site: Bibliographical Society of America Sabin Committee records, 1923-1948 . New York Public Library . Manuscripts and Archives Division . (collection guide)
• Correspondence and bills from J. Sabin & Sons, 1877-1878 (with Joseph W. Drexel) in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• Web site: Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 . subscription . . Product based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana

Notes and References

1. Book: Encyclopædia Britannica . 4 . 9th . 1889 .
2. Book: Trow's New York City Directory . 1872 . . . 998 .
3. Book: Anna H. Perrault. Ron Blazek. United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources. 2003. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1-56308-874-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=6GvdlpRu9-kC&pg=PA26. Sources of General Importance to U.S. History. registration.
4. Book: Donna Dennis. Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York . 2009. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-05373-1.
5. 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.