De Simone Company, Booksellers

For the Virtual Book Fair taking place June 4 - 7, 2020, institutional customers can place an order and all shipping and billing can be deferred until their workplaces get back to normal. For the Virtual Book Fair, all the items that are listed are Pennsylvania German Americana are from the 18th and early 19th centuries and include printed books, manuscripts and broadsides. The subject areas include Agriculture, Almanacs, Catechisms, Children’s Books, Commerce, Fraktur, Hymns, Illustrated Books, Mennonite History and Practice, Periodicals, Politics, Printed Music, School Books, and Travel. De Simone Company Booksellers specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The owner, Daniel De Simone, has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, and ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy. The business also deals in 19th-century Americana and fine books in all fields and languages. Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about library collections development and evaluation. He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation a 501c3, which support the Colorado Books Seminar (CABS). He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history book illustration and early bibliography.