The Massachusetts Historical Society started
collecting shortly after the Revolution, so I am not
sure if this will be of help.

Kathleen Simone
Massachusetts Historical Society

Catalogue of Books in the Massachusetts Historical
Library: An Annotated Edition of the 1796 Library
Catalogue of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Compiled by John D. Cushing, Mary E. Cogswell, Mary E.
Fabiszewski, Edward W. Hanson, and Brenda M. Lawson
(1997). Pp. lviii, 598, illus., index.
Cloth $85.00

http://www.masshist.org/catalogs.html


--- Jim Lyons <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am writing my Master's thesis on some of the
> collectors of a large
> ethnographical museum in the Netherlands. Has
> anybody got suggestions
> regarding literature not to miss about colonial
> collecting processes?
>
> >Daan van Dartel
> >
> =========
>
> March 12, 2003
>
> The numismatic (coins, tokens, medals and paper
> money studying and
> collecting) books of Q. David Bowers often have
> touched on collecting
> habits of the 19th century and sometimes before.
> Also, there have
> been books about book and document collecting in the
> 18th century and
> earlier.  But not being a book collector I can't
> give you a name.
>
> -Jim
> --
> Jim Lyons
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.jimlyons.com
>
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