Old Maps.com becomes part of our family
Rare Book Hub is simply the latest effort to aggregate bibliographic and transactional history of collectible books and paper. Such efforts have long been necessary to focus and update the field’s understanding about books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera. Old Maps, for more than forty years, has provided perspective about collectible maps and Curt and Marti Griggs has accepted our offer to have their history and scholarship added to ours. One hundred and seventy-five years ago the world of collectible paper took wing when advances in literacy, printing, and papermaking turned random e...