# De Simone Company

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- **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/de-simone-company
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/de-simone-company.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/de-simone-company/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com
- **Slug:** de-simone-company
- **Categories:** retail-ecommerce

## Overview

- **Tagline:** De Simone Company Booksellers specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, rare books, and fine books across fields and languages.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Description:** De Simone Company Booksellers deals in early Italian books and manuscripts, especially in gastronomy, wine and agriculture, social science, history, antiquarian bibliography, and illustrated books. The company also deals in 19th-century Americana and fine books in all fields and languages, and offers collection development and evaluation consulting to institutions.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

## Identity

- **Founders & leadership:** Daniel De Simone is the owner. He previously served as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress and as Eric Weinmann Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is an author and editor on book illustration and early bibliography and consults with institutions on library collections.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Website:** https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Founded:** Originally established in 1978; reopened as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

## Offerings

- **Problem solved:** Helps collectors and institutions acquire, evaluate, and develop collections of rare books, manuscripts, prints, and related materials.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Buying, selling, and evaluating rare books, manuscripts, and prints
  - Specialization in early Italian books and manuscripts
  - Institutional library collection development and evaluation consulting
  - Research and expertise in book illustration and early bibliography
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Products / SKUs:**
  - Early Italian books and manuscripts
  - Rare books
  - 19th-century Americana
  - Fine books in all fields and languages
  - Prints and ephemera
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Antiquarian and rare bookselling
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Customer base:** Collectors and institutions, including libraries and cultural organizations.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Ideal customer profile:** Institutions seeking advice on the development and evaluation of library collections, and collectors seeking early Italian books, manuscripts, rare books, and fine books.
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Use cases:**
  - Acquiring early Italian books and manuscripts
  - Building or evaluating institutional library collections
  - Buying rare books, manuscripts, prints, and ephemera
  - Researching book illustration and early bibliography
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

- **Customer outcomes:**
  - Access to specialized early Italian and rare books
  - Institutional guidance for library collection development and evaluation
  - Acquisition of books, manuscripts, prints, and related materials
Source: Brand's website (https://desimonecompanybooksellers.com) · 2026-11-08

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