Twelve New Catalogues Reviewed This Month
- by Michael Stillman
New catalogues for December
For December, we review 12 new bookseller catalogues as the holiday season heats up with new offerings. For those interested in travels as they were in another time, Shapero Rare Books has a catalogue they call “From the Mediterranean to the Himalayas.” Antiquariat Kainbacher offers a selection of “Reisen und Expeditionen,” which is German for “Travels and Expeditions.” If you're interested in the Far East of long ago, Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller features Japanese, Chinese, and Korean manuscripts and scrolls, most very old.
If you prefer to hang out in America, Primary Sources has a catalogue of “Uncharted Americana.” These are items of various types of works on paper related to important events in American history through the yes of regular folks who lived through them. David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books also has a selection of various types of paper of rare Americana, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
For those who focus on the book arts, so do the Veatches Arts of the Book, and they have just released their 100th catalogue. The Kelmscott Bookshop also offers much in the way of the book arts and private presses, as a bookseller named after the Kelmscott Press should, but they also offer material related literature, history, travel, illustrated books and more. Honey & Wax Booksellers has material in the book arts too, but lots more in a mix of uncommon items.
If you collect the most important books in the history of Western civilization, Clavreuil has what you are looking for – a selection of books all of which appeared in Printing and the Mind of Man. Whitmore Rare Books offers great literature and other types of written material.
W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera has a collection of art and illustration from one of the quirkiest, half macabre, half humorous, writer-illustrators ever, Edward Gorey. For the very bizarre, Garrett Scott, Bookseller, offers a catalogue called “The Sewage System is a Deception.” Scott specializes not so much in sewage systems but very weird printed items.
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