This month Section III of AE Monthly includes 16 presentations from dealers in North and South America, Europe and Australia.  These catalogues neatly fit between the world that was, the printed catalogue, and the world that will be – fully interactive illustrated color presentations immediately accessible anywhere in the world.

Among the catalogues this month are six recent releases from the William Reese Company

Catalogue 293:  Literary Miscellany:  The Secular and the Sacred

Bulletin 26:  American Views

Catalogue Two Hundred and Ninety Two:  96 American Manuscripts

Catalogue Two Hundred and Ninety-One:  The United States Navy

Bulletin 25:  Broadsides

Catalogue Two Hundred Ninety:  The American Revolution 1765 – 1783

From ten other dealers –

Cameran Treleaven Aquila Books:  Charles Van Sandwyck Books and other Things

Michael Buehler Recent Acquisitions:  Fourteen Appealing Possibilities

Maria Hoogma Fragmenta Selecta Catalogues 111:  Rare and Scholarly Books on Epigraphy, Papyrology & Palaeography

Gustavo Breitfeld      South America:  A Selection of scarce imprints mostly from small provincial presses

Claudia Schulson       New Arrivals:  Forty Possibilities

Darren Keyes            London International Antiquarian Book Fair Exhibition List:  Short title catalogue of books on exhibit

Laurens Hesselink     Catalogue III:  Twenty-five Autographs, Drawings, Manuscripts, Printed Books and Views

Simon Beattie            English books and music before 1800:  Some recent acquisitions

Darren Keys              Hordern House March Acquisitions:  March 2012

Cameron Treleaven  Aquila Books Winter 2012:  Rare Polar Books and Ephemera

The world every day becomes an increasingly electronic place.  We talk by video-phone for free with people around the world.  We pay our household bills increasingly without using a postage stamp.  We run our businesses and plan our days using programs that only a few years ago did not exist.  So its not surprising we are also issuing and receiving electronic catalogues.  The world changes and these dealers are changing with it.  These presentations are all worth a thorough reading.