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One caveat would be to also consider American Book Prices Current (thumb
drive and online versions, the latter being Mac compatible):
http://www.bookpricescurrent.com/Default.aspx . This is mostly useful
for books with maps (atlases, voyages, etc.), and is more expensive than
the AMPR (including the renewals), but the stick has over 1 million
records (and excludes items fetching less than $100 at auction). From
the home page:
American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books,
manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction.
Regions covered include North America and the UK, with sales from
such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, Holland,
Australia and France. ABPC is not just a transcribed record of
titles and prices, copied unquestioningly from the season's auction
catalogues. ABPC is the standard tool used by dealers, appraisers,
auction houses, scholars and tax authorities. It is, moreover, the
only work in English in which each listing of printed material has
been checked as to title, format, date of publication, edition, and
limitation. Sales of autographs and manuscripts are reported in a
separate database. For these reasons, ABPC is an essential tool for
buying, selling and evaluating books, serials, autographs,
manuscripts, broadsides, maps and documents, based on actual figures
realized at auction.
It is not as comprehensive for loose maps as AMPR, so the two would
complement one another.
Joel Kovarsky
On 5/13/2010 10:43 AM, Leigh Lockwood wrote:
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IMHO, Antique Map Price Record is a screaming bargain given its ~130,000
entries, attention to bibliographic accuracy, search capabilities, historic
prices (20+ years), and included blank and customizable database
specifically built for maps.
And this year it can be supplied on a thumb drive to run from any computer
without installing it (or it can be installed). It's fast, even on the
modest netbook with which I travel.
I am sure there is a place for all the price guides, but AMPR just keeps
getting better and better.
Best wishes to all,
Leigh
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