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Things I'm looking at

Poetry

American Female Poets, by Caroline May, 1848/1853.

Google, two copies, less than perfect, w/ okay illustrations
Many reprints

Ballads of American Bravery (19xx)

Have modern reprint checked out; Google copy
for Fourth of July

The Bay Psalm Book (16xx)

Have cleaned up modern facsimile; Google has copy of older less clean facsimile
for Fourth of July

The enigma of the Bay Psalm book (1956)

Have hardcopy from library; needs difficult non-renewal clearnace
for Fourth of July

Works of Frances Quarles (1880)

Have hard copy matching Google books edition
Relatively Major poet of the Cromwellian period

Bibliography

Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue of American Publications, Including Reprints and Original Works from 1820-1848 by Orville Augustus, 1849

Google, two copies, serious problems
Clearly obsoleted reference work?

American Bibliography by Charles Evans, 13 vol. (1903-1934/41/55???)

The volumes we can do are still worthwhile and still used
Internet Archive has volumes 1-8

A Manual of Classical Bibliography by Joseph William Moss (2cd ed. 1837)

Google has copies with serious problems

English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey By Finley Melville Kendall Forster (1918)

Google has a less than perfect copy

Periodicals

Poetry -- Magazine (1915-1922)

Google has multiple copies
source of many poets

Esperantist -- Magazine (1903-???)

Google has copy of 1903 with many flaws
a lot of Esperanto stuff, originally written in Esperanto or translated (usually from English)

Mysteries

Google has a snippet copy of an English translation of Palle Rosenkrantz that should become available sometime, and full, PDF-less copies of two of his works in Danish.

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