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1Coessens
What about collecting ephemera on the subject/athor you are interested in? More precisely, I'm collecting A.H. Layard. How should I go about finding the texts of obituaries, newspaper articles on his discoveries, letters written by Layard and/or his friends,...
2Steven_VI
A surprising amount of older journals and newspapers are now available on Google Books. A search there will probably yield some reviews, articles and obituaries - if your subject is Anglo-American that is.
Vialibri.net also lists some autograph dealers. Create permanent searches with notification in eBay.
Read all the academic secondary literature you can find (biographies, but also broader studies on 19th century archaeology and travel, ...) and track down the footnote references. It's also interesting to follow side-tracks: memoirs of fellow travellers, other archaeologists in the same region, ... That's what I'm doing at the moment for my Hector Berlioz collection.
Vialibri.net also lists some autograph dealers. Create permanent searches with notification in eBay.
Read all the academic secondary literature you can find (biographies, but also broader studies on 19th century archaeology and travel, ...) and track down the footnote references. It's also interesting to follow side-tracks: memoirs of fellow travellers, other archaeologists in the same region, ... That's what I'm doing at the moment for my Hector Berlioz collection.
3Coessens
Hartelijk dank hiervoor.
As said, I'm collecting in the field of archaeology in the near east (especially Mesopotamia and Syria). More precisely the publications between 1800 - 1900. The first English, French, German archaeologists. (who were most of the time diplomats or priests or something else) With this I'm trying to get a view of how these discoveries were received and accepted in the West at that time and what the political implications might have been. (Was archeology another way of establishing presence in a country?) I already collect along the line you suggest in your last paragraph. I'm putting a list together and collecting (auto)biographies of (famous) archaeologists in the region. (Mallowan, Layard, Woolley, Kenyon,...) These biographies I collect in all possible sizes and form.
I appreciate all comments and help in this wonderful forum.
Seasons greetings.
As said, I'm collecting in the field of archaeology in the near east (especially Mesopotamia and Syria). More precisely the publications between 1800 - 1900. The first English, French, German archaeologists. (who were most of the time diplomats or priests or something else) With this I'm trying to get a view of how these discoveries were received and accepted in the West at that time and what the political implications might have been. (Was archeology another way of establishing presence in a country?) I already collect along the line you suggest in your last paragraph. I'm putting a list together and collecting (auto)biographies of (famous) archaeologists in the region. (Mallowan, Layard, Woolley, Kenyon,...) These biographies I collect in all possible sizes and form.
I appreciate all comments and help in this wonderful forum.
Seasons greetings.
4benjclark
Ebay is a wonderful resource, with the fun of serendipity thrown in for good measure. Don't forget "creative" spelling, and things like postcards featuring sites, etc., especially in that early 1900 range. I've long believed that ephemera is one of the best ways to strengthen a collection. I even have a blog featuring book trade ephemera (one of my collecting areas):
http://exilebibliophile.blogspot.com
http://exilebibliophile.blogspot.com
