05 Jan 2007

Asian Rare Books
ARB, Manila, Philippines.
Self-description: "We are now in our new home in Manila [the old home, till mid-2006, was in New York, US - ed.]. [...] We continue to provide written appraisals of books being donated for tax relief or other purposes and to advise on acquisitions of Asia related books."
Site contents: * Catalogues ("Please request our latest email booklists and let us know, broadly speaking, your areas of interest. Emailed booklist(s) will follow."); Contact Us; * Related Bookstores [an extensive list of bookshops specialising in Asia - ed.]; * Amazing Asian Links (General Academic and Collecting, China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Travel Related, Iran, Publications and Miscellany, Commercial).
URL http://www.asianrarebooks.net
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100