How to find old books: - identifying and locating older editions - tracing the publication history of a writer or a work - researching the printed output of a time period

Can't find it in WorldCat?

The following resources help you identify older material, verify or correct a citation, and sometimes locate obscure material.

• Guide to Spanish Literature : Primary literature

• Guide to Latin American literature : Primary literature

• Catálogo colectivo del patrimonio bibliográfico español

  A union catalog of Spanish material printed between the 15th and 20th centuries, including holding information in approximately 500 libraries.

• The NUC Catalogue indexes books printed before 1956. Includes books printed in Europe and Latin America.
  B Level (North end) :  Z881.A1C28 QUARTO
  
  
• DigiSpain: digital libraries of rare books in Spain
  
• The British Library (Museum) Catalogue indexes books before 1955. General Reference on M Level Z921.B86 1959 . Online catalogue now available.
  
• Manual del librerohispano-americano. (Palau) Bibliographical data on 381,897 Spanish and Spanish American   imprints since the introduction of the printing press til the early 20th century. Alphabetical by author, or by title of anonymous works. General Reference on M-Level. Z 2681 .P16 
  

Other Catalogues
 

• Bibliografia de la literatura hispanica. A comprehensive bibliography of Castilian, Basque, Galician, and Catalan literature, and literature of the Spanish American countries up to independence. A work in progress, with volumes covering general literature, bibliographies, and Castilian literature from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the Siglo de Oro (A - Francisco Pacheco) General Reference on M-Level : Z 2691 .S5
  
•  Bibliografía madrileña, ó Descripción de las obras impresas en Madrid D Level: Z 174.M18 P4.
  
•  Short-title catalogues of Spanish, Spanish-American and Portuguese books printed before 1601 in the British
   Museum. Special Collections Reference (A Level): Z 2682 .B7 1966
  
•  Catalogue of books printed in Spain and of Spanish books printed elsewhere in Europe before 1601 now in the
   British Library. D Level : Z 2682 .B68 1989
  
•  A short title catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese books, 1601-1700, in the Library of the British Museum.
   D Level : Z 2681 .G56 1974 QUARTO
  
•  Short-title catalogue of eighteenth-century Spanish books in the British Library. D Level : Z 2682.B695 1994
  
•  Bibliografia de autores españoles del Siglo XVIII. Extensive listing of 18th century works, both manuscript and
   printed. D Level : Z 2682 .A64 1981
  
•  Catalogo de obras en lengua catalana impresas desde 1474 hasta 1860 Libraries Service Center :  PH 1801.Z9 A2 Q
  
• Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries. Herbert Adams.  Special Collections Reference (A Level): Z 1014 .A36 1967

Need to find the text online?

• Google Books now has the complete page images from thousands of books, most of them "old". Use the Advanced Search for more precision.
  Try searching on a phrase from the book you're looking for. Or keywords that will easily identify it.
  
• Many texts are online in various e-text archives, like Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
  
• See the page on E-Texts in Spanish Literature for more.
  
  
  Special Collections on A Level is your best resource for help with rare books.