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{"value"=>"2659", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1843-1932", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1843/1932"}
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{"value"=>"Sabin family papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"13 linear feet (23 boxes, 18 v.)"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span><span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Joseph Sabin (1821-1881), Joseph F. Sabin (1846-1926) and J. Percy Sabin (1872-1934) were the principal proprietors of the family firm of book, autograph and print dealers doing business in the U.S. and England from 1842 to 1934. Joseph Sabin compiled the Dictionary Catalogue of Books Relating to America, a bibliography of all books published in America or elsewhere pertaining to America. His son Joseph F. and grandson J. Percy continued the business of the firm and collected Americana and materials related to George Washington. Collection consists of correspondence, notes, financial records, and other papers that document the publishing and bookselling careers and personal lives of three generations of the Sabin family. Correspondence, 1859-1931, refers to both family and business matters. Correspondence concerning publication centers on the Dictionary Catalogue of Books Relating to America, published by the Sabin firm from 1868 to 1892. Business and financial records include daybooks, account books, ledgers, invoices, subscription lists, and address books. Also, manuscript descriptions of collections and items for sale by the firm, household account books, logbooks of the Sabin family yacht, sketch books, family photographs, and printed matter."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Sabin family papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Sabine family", "type"=>"famname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Sabin Family: Joseph Sabin (1821-1881), Joseph F. Sabin (1846-1926), and J. Percy Sabin (1872-1934) were the principal proprietors of the Sabin family firm of book, autograph, and print dealers doing business in England and the United States from 1842 to 1934. In 1842, upon the completion of his apprenticeship to an Oxford book dealer, Joseph Sabin set up his own sale and auction house. In 1848, he moved to the United States, working for a number of Philadelphia firms as an auctioneer and cataloger, and in 1856 established his own shops in Philadelphia and New York City. Successful and respected as a dealer, Sabin is best known for the bibliography that he compiled and wrote: The Dictionary Catalgue of Books Relating to America (1868-1892, Sabin, New York), also known as the \"Bibliotheca American\". The bibliography was an attempt to record all books published in America, or elsewhere, pertaining to America. Sabin left the firm to His son Joseph F. Sabin in 1879 to dedicate all his efforts to the bibliography, completing twelve volumes by the time of his death. (Publication of the work was subsequently completed by the Bibliographical Society of America, 1928-1936.) Joseph F. Sabin continued the business of the firm until his health failed in 1926, from which time J. Percy Sabin, his son, continued until his death in 1934. Both the younger Sabins dealt more heavily in rare prints and autograph letters than in books, specializing in and personally collecting Amercicana and Washingtonia; both were adept amateur painters and printmakers.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers of the Sabin family span the personal lives, and the publishing and bookselling careers of three generations of the family: Joseph Sabin (1846-1926), and J. Percy Sabin (1872-1934), and are comprised of correspondence, notes, and financial record. The business and family portions of the correspondence (1859-1931) are closely related; for many years, the Sabin family maintained two establishments, one in the United States and one in England. Correspondence between the two branches of the business often referred to both family and business matters. Many letters concern requests for particular books or editions, payment for merchandise delivered or expected, advertising matters, maintenance of business premises, and the commission of works for the Sabins' print publishing endeavors. Correspondents include not only individual customers, such as Horace Greeley, but also the representatives of many of the institutions served by the Sabins, including the Boston Atheneum, the J. Pierrepont Morgan Library, the Lenox Library, and the Library of Congress. Another aspect of the correspondence relates to the Sabins' activities as publishers, concerning the periodical Bibliopolist, and including subscription requests and correspondence with contributors; the correspondence concerning publication centers on the Dictionary Catalogue of Books Relating to America, published by the Sabin firm from 1868 to 1892. As the catalogue was issued in parts, a large portion of the correspondence concerns not only ordering the next available installment, but also the supply of missing sections or title pages.</p> <p>In addition to the correspondence, the Sabin papers contain business and financial records; bound volumes, 1843-1927, various years, include daybooks for the firm variously doing business as Joseph Sabin, Joseph Sabin and Son, Joseph Sabin and Sons, Joseph Sabin's son, Joseph F. Sabin, and J. Percy Sabin. Among the other bound volumes are cashbooks, account books, ledgers, invoice books, lists of subscribers to the Dictionary Catalogue of Books Redating to America, and address books. Unbound financial records include receipts, bills of lading, indices of prints for sale, invoices, drafts and cancelled checks and check stubs.</p> <p>Finally the Sabin papers contain a variety of other materials: the household account book of 1872-1873, of Jenne Sabin, wife of Joseph F. Sabin; various manuscript descriptions of items for sale by the film Joseph F. Sabin's descriptions of the Nathaniel Greene papers sold by the firm to the W. L. Clemments Library, as well as the George Bancroft Library sold to the Lenox Library; J. F. Sabin's sketch and composition books,1862-1864; and two versions of the catalogue of the Joseph F. and J. Percy Sabin collection of washingtonia, a portion of which is part of the Washington collection in the manuscript division of the New York Public Library. There are, in addition, firm letterheads, manuscript fragments, unattributed transcripts of letters, undated rare book catalogue clippings, three logbooks, 1907-1909, of the Sabin family yacht, the <em>Sabina</em>, and unsorted notes, possibly, relating to the <em>Dictionary Catalogue of Books Relating to America</em>. Finally, the Sabin papers include photographs of the Sabin family, homes, and yachts.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>December 1936, March 1937, Received from Mrs. J. Percy Sabin</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>10-30-85</p>"}
- date_start
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1843
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1843
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1932
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1843
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1932