Rare Book Monthly

Articles - April - 2019 Issue

Herding Cats

eCats:  Interesting and Unpredictable

eCats: Interesting and Unpredictable

Anymore it seems like every aspect of the rare paper category is in flux.  On line listings work but the responses are a little slower and the prices a bit more negotiable.  Printed catalogues are holding their own but the numbers are down just a tad.  eCatalogues are coming into their own and are perhaps, for the very minimal cost in time and money involved, showing worthwhile traction.  Their success seems assured but the timing of it a function of collector and institutional recognition.  So, hey guys!  Wake Up.  The flow of these catalogues is picking up and many compelling sellers are issuing them.

 

Here are the most recent 25 posted eCatalogues.  If you haven’t started to issue them, today is the day to start.

  

William Reese Company

Magicians & Theatricians

93 items in Americana and Literature, illustrated

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W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

List Five : ALIVE! Sideshows & Human Oddities, 1839-2007

Books, photography, and ephemera

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Canon, Civil, Common & Ecclesiastical Law

E-List 30 Items

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Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Special List 327: Cartography

34 items on cartography, with full-color illustrations

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

Catalogue 93: Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera on Law and Related Fields, 15th to 20th Centuries

Catalogue: 123 Items

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Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Special List 326: Voyages & Travels

107 items on voyages & travels, with full-color illustrations

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

Recent Acquisitions: Canon, Common, Roman and Scots Law, 30 Items

E-List 30 Items

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Patrick McGahern Books

Catalogue 264

Canadiana & Arctica

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

Part III: 50 Items on Display at the 2019 New York Antiquarian Book Fair

E-List 50 Items

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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2019

A selection of items exhibited at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

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Modern First Editions Ltd

Seventeenth Century Play Quartos and Much More

March Miscellany of Rare Books & Manuscripts

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Hordern House Rare Books

New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2019

Offering of 57 items

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

Part II: 50 Items on Display at the 2019 New York Antiquarian Book Fair

E-List 50 Items

Catalogue Link

Asia Bookroom

"Tweets" from 19th Century Japan

A general catalogue of our inventory of 19th century Japanese Kawaraban.

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Anniroc Rare Books

Solitudinem: An apogee of lonely awe.

Spanning medieval Jewish history to American classics - a meditation on loneliness

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Asia Bookroom

New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2019

In this catalogue we offer a small excerpt of our display at the 2019 New York Antiquarian Book Fair

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Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Special List 325: Three Portuguese Golden Age Prose Masters: D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, Duarte Ri

34 items on, or authored by, three Portuguese Golden Age Prose Masters: D. Francisco Manuel de Mello

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

Part I: 50 Items on Display at the 2019 New York Antiquarian Book Fair

E-List 50 Items

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William Reese Co.

361 Western Americana

Illustrated catalogue consisting of 143 items.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: English and American, 1673-1986

E-List 30 Items

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Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Special List 324: Ten Recent Acquisitions

Illustrated list with 10 recently acquired items.

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Michael Laird Rare Books

Florilegium issued on the occasion of the California Book Fair 2019

Antiquarian Bibliography, Art and Architecture, Fine and Historic Bookbindings, Manuscripts

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd

A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Civil, Common & Roman Law

E-List 30 Items

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Hordern House Rare Books

52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair

54 items

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Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Special List 323: Spanish & Portuguese Golden Age Literature

Illustrated list with 33 items.

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Rare Book Monthly

  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
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