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Rarebooks.info was founded in 2001 with the aim of providing a comprehensive bibliography of books on rare books available for consultation on the internet. Rarebooks.info so far comprises many 100,000s of pages of key out-of-print bibliographies available for full-text search or browsing online. To date approximately 60 works are on line, and an annual scanning program adds reference works on a regular basis. Important reference books already available on line include Goff, Brunet, Sabin, Lipperheide, Goedecke, Lowndes, among many, many others. Subjects covered include incunabula, early printing, botany, hunting, maps and globes, costumes, classical literature, gastronomy, travel and voyages, music, Newton, angling and fishing, Americana, Bibles, magic, American Indians, etc. There are out-of-print and difficult-to-find sales catalogues, as well as more standard sources. These are not e-texts; they are scanned facsimiles of the actual books. It also offers a Reference Gateway, which provides bibliographic resources to books on books in more than 100 subject categories. Both the online facsimiles and the Reference Gateway are updated on an ongoing basis. Rarebooks.info offers a unique and unparalleled tool for researchers-students, librarians, professors, teachers, book professionals, and collectors. In addition to many individual subscribers, http://www.rarebooks.info/ counts among its subscribers the British Library, the Koninklijke Library in The Hague, Yale University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the Newberry Library, Dijon University, Enssib, and many other universities and libraries in Europe and the United States. A Board of Advisors of distinguished international scholars advises rarebooks.info on bibliographies and other matters.

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February 2007