Rare Book Monthly Reviews - February - 2004 Issue

Essential Works in Science and Medicine<br>From the 19th Century Shop

Essential Works in Science and Medicine<br>From the 19th Century Shop

By Michael Stillman

The 19th Century Shop has issued a catalogue of “Science, Medicine & Mathematics” (Catalogue 99). It is a collection of major scientific works not to be believed. Here’s a note of caution. When there are items of such magnitude of importance as some herein, it is hard not to mention them. However, we have limited space. Therefore, the many books that are more modestly priced but still of great significance cannot now be described.

Where do we start? How about Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. This is a 1713 second and rarest edition of ...

Heritage Book Shop&#146;s California<br>Book Fair 2004 Catalogue

Heritage Book Shop&#146;s California<br>Book Fair 2004 Catalogue

By Michael Stillman

The Heritage Book Shop issued a catalogue for the recent California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Los Angeles. You’re likely to meet all kinds of collectors at a bo...

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Winter Sale Catalogue<br>From Oak Knoll Books

Winter Sale Catalogue<br>From Oak Knoll Books

By Michael Stillman

What could be better than a new book catalogue? How about a sale book catalogue? Oak Knoll Books has just issued its winter sale catalogue, and the discounts are substanti...

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Continental Books from<br>Bernard J. Shapero

Continental Books from<br>Bernard J. Shapero

By Michael Stillman

Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books of London has issued a catalogue of “Continental Books.” The “continent” here is, of course, Europe, so that unlike the catalogue, the books th...

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South & Central America<br>From Flo Silver Books

South & Central America<br>From Flo Silver Books

By Michael Stillman

Flo Silver Books has issued their Catalogue 69, “Mexico, Central, and South America: Art & Archaeology + Discovery & Conquest of the New World: Cortes, Diaz del Castillo, Ga...

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    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, 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, 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, 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.
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