Rare Book Monthly Articles - January - 2025 Issue

Introducing Categories: Maps, our first!

Introducing Categories: Maps, our first!

From the beginning of the printed word, records about them have been kept. Their form soon coalesced into a common understanding that title, author, date and place published identifies most printings.  Since then, not much has changed, until now.   Until now, search logic was used to penetrate catalogues and databases with three or more of these:                   By author name             By title             By subject             And by date   And these identifiers still work fine. However, we’re in the earliest moments when collectible paper will dominate the field.  Searchi...

High Prices Highlight the 2024 Rare Book Hub Top 500 Prices Paid at Auction for Books and Related Collectibles

High Prices Highlight the 2024 Rare Book Hub Top 500 Prices Paid at Auction for Books and Related Collectibles

Another year has come to a close, which means it's time to look back at the year just past with the annual Rare Book Hub Top 500 highest prices paid at auction for books and related collectibles. I...

Trending Now - Books

Trending Now - Books

The reports of books' death have been greatly exaggerated. This is no doubt a difficult time for many booksellers, particularly smaller ones and those in the business of selling high-priced classic...

And the Word of the Year Is...

And the Word of the Year Is...

The Oxford University Press has named its Word of the Year. For not the first time, The Word of the Year is not a word, its a short phrase, a combination of two words. Those words are “brain rot.” ...

Rare Book Hub: New Services and New Rates

Our Rates for 2025-26   Rare Book Hub’s subscription prices go up on January 1st every two years. This is it.   Here is what we are providing:   Access to our Rare Book Transaction History ...

PI(E) Day Baking & Culinary Historian Contest March 14, 2025

PI(E) Day Baking & Culinary Historian Contest March 14, 2025

The team planning for Pi(e) Day 2025, invites book people everywhere to combine books and baking by joining Petite Pi(e) Day on March 14, 2025.  For the seventh year running The Great Library Pie ...

Magra, Good for Nothing...Or the Apocryphal Relation of Cook’s First Voyage

Magra, Good for Nothing...Or the Apocryphal Relation of Cook’s First Voyage

According to Captain Cook, midshipman James Magra was “good for nothing”, but Magra did at least one good thing: he published an apocryphal relation of Cook’s first voyage. Translated into French i...

January 1 is Public Domain Day

January 1 is Public Domain Day

January 1 is an important holiday. No, I'm not talking about New Year's Day. There is another holiday that happens on the same day – Public Domain Day. This the day on which works whose copyrights ...

Newly Discovered Manuscript Declaration of Independence to Be Auctioned

Newly Discovered Manuscript Declaration of Independence to Be Auctioned

For the first time ever, a manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence written in the hand of a key participant in the nation’s founding is set to appear at auction. This extraordinary docum...

Booksellers Take on Amazon with a Little Help from their Friends

Booksellers Take on Amazon with a Little Help from their Friends

There's a battle going on in France between booksellers and Amazon. An independent party, the government, may again be called on to render a verdict, though they are not nonpartisan. You know who t...

Case Auctions: A Potpourri January 25-26

Case Auctions: A Potpourri January 25-26

Case Auctions of Knoxville, Tennessee has prepared a fascinating auction catalogue in conjunction with their 2025 Winter Art Antiques Sale that occurs January 25-26. For those who have a yen to br...

Multiple Travel, Research, and Residence Grants offered by Libraries

Multiple Travel, Research, and Residence Grants offered by Libraries

Artist-in-Residence and Research Fellowship at University of Miami’s Kislak Collection (Deadline Jan. 24, 2025) The University of Miami's Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Early Americas, Exploratio...

HighBids.com: Two Chances to add to your Collections

Hi-BidsWin.com is offering Print History Tools of the Trade   As January arrives, so too two auctions at HighBidsWin.com will soon be gaveled down.   They are:   Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazi...

Shapero Rare Books' to End Listing on London Stock Exchange

Shapero Rare Books' to End Listing on London Stock Exchange

Scholium Group, the parent of Shapero Rare Books (and little other business besides Shapero Modern Prints), will be delisting its stock from the London Stock Exchange on January 6. Ten years ago, S...

The Rare Book Hub Monthly: 2024 in Review

The Rare Book Hub Monthly: 2024 in Review

Whew, what a year! While you were sweating inflation, the cost of living and the tight election we were posting monthly articles from the world of rare books including auctions, dealers, social med...

Six New Catalogues Reviewed for January

Six New Catalogues Reviewed for January

This month we review six new catalogues from six booksellers. Rulon-Miller Books features titles from various collector and bookseller collections they recently obtained. Kelmscott Bookshop focuses...

Rare Book Monthly

  • Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little
    Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents Auction
    January 22, 2025
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
  • RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
    RareBookBuyer.com
    Specialized in Purchasing
    Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
    RareBookBuyer.com
    We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
  • High Bids Win
    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Wooden Case Full of Craftools.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Ricardo Pistol Bit.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool saddle stamps.
    High Bids Win
    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool Set.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Tandy Pro Skiver with attachments.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool saddle stamps.
    High Bids Win
    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Stiching Horse.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Rare Vintage 3 Tier Tack Tray.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Hewit-Ecrace Green Calf. 10 sq. ft.
    High Bids Win
    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Adams Round Knife.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Mallet.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Midas Brass adjustable Swivel Knife.

Article Search

Archived Articles

Ask Questions