Joseph Sabin

Joseph Sabin (1821-1881) was a Braunston, England-born bibliographer and bookseller in Oxford, Philadelphia, and New York City.[1][2] He compiled the "stupendous" multivolume 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]

Joseph Sabin
Born9 December 1821 
Braunston 
Died5 June 1881  (aged 59)
OccupationBibliographer 

At the sale of the library of Edward Francis Rimbault in 1877, Sabin served as an agent for Joseph W. Drexel.[7]

See also

References
  1. Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (9th ed.). 1889.
  2. Trow's New York City Directory. J.F. Trow. 1872. p. 998. Nassau Street
  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
  4. "Death of Joseph Sabin", New York Times, 1881
  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. 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. 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.

Further reading
  • American Bibliopolist, 1–9, NY: J. Sabin & Sons, 1869–1877
  • Joseph Sabin (1877), A Bibliography of Bibliography; or, A handy book about books which relate to books, New York: J. Sabin, OCLC 2017974, OL 7222810M
  • "Old Booksellers of New York: Joseph Sabin", The Bookman, 1, July 1895
  • Adolph Growoll (1939) [1898]. "Joseph Sabin". Book Trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. hdl:2027/mdp.39015033668214.
  • Charles F. Heartman (1925–26), "Joseph F. Sabin", American Collector, 1, OCLC 7401125
  • R.W.G. Vail (1937), "Sabin's Dictionary", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 31
  • Frederick Richmond Goff (1963). Joseph Sabin: bibliographer, 1821-1881. Amsterdam: N. Israel.
  • John Edgar Molnar (1974). Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810806525.
  • William S. Reese (1984), "Joseph Sabin", American Book Collector, 5 (1), ISSN 0196-5654
  • Joel Silver (22 March 1993), "Joseph Sabin and The American Bibliopolist", AB Bookman's Weekly (91)
  • Joseph Rosenblum (1997), "Joseph Sabin", in Rosenblum (ed.), American Book Collectors and Bibliographers

Bibliotheca Americana
  • Joseph Sabin; Wilberforce Eames; R. W. G. Vail, eds. (1868–1936). Bibliotheca Americana: a Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. OCLC 13972268. + via Hathi Trust
Individual volumes
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VolumeFromToYear
Volume 1A [1]Bedford [4280]1868
Volume 2Bedinger [4282]Brownell [8684]1869
Volume 3Brownell [8685]Chesbrough [12513]1870
Volume 4Cheshire [12516]Costa [17013]1871
Volume 5Costa [17015]Du Moulin [21221]1873
Volume 6Du Moulin [21222]Franklin [25489]1873
Volume 7Franklin [25490]Hall [29818]1875
Volume 8Hall [29820]Huntingdon [33970]1877
Volume 9Huntington [33971]LaCroix [38495]1877
Volume 10LaCroix [38497]M’Clary [43005]1878
Volume 11McClean [43006]Mémoire [47520]1879
Volume 12Mémoire [47524]Nederland [52224]1880
Volume 13Nederland [52225]Omai [57263]1881
Volume 14Omaña [57265]Philadelphia [61980]1884
Volume 15Philadelphia [61982]Providence [66280]1885
Volume 16Providence [66281]Remarks [69511]1886
Volume 17Remarks [69513]Ross [73344]1888
Volume 18Ross [73345]Schedae [77522]1889
Volume 19Schedel [77523]Simms [81225]1891
Volume 20Simms (W.G.) [81226]Smith (Seba) [84187]1892-1928
Volume 21Smith (Seb. B.) [84188]Solis Y Valenzuela [86498]1929-31
Volume 22Solis Y Valenzuela [86499]Spiritual Manifestations [89519]1931-32
Volume 23Spiritual Maxims [89520]Storrs [92256]1932-33
Volume 24Storrs [92257]Ternaux-Compans [94853]1933-34
Volume 25Ternaux-Compans [94854]Tucker [97361]1934
Volume 26Tucker [97362]Vindex [99774]1935
Volume 27Vindex [99775]Weeks [102461]1936
Volume 28Weeks [102462]Witherspoon [104937]1936
Volume 29Witherspoon [104938]Zwey [106413]1936

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