Newly issued Catalogue 123 from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Antiquarian Bookseller of the Netherlands is now available. Copies may be downloaded directly from their website. The title is Travel, although it really seems broader to me. Having seen other Bestebreurtje catalogues, what surprised me was the quantity of English-language material, and Americana in particular. Bestebreurtje must have come across a collection on American slavery, as there is much material in this field, some of it quite obscure. We will focus primarily on this material because it is of serious int...
This month we review our first catalogue from John's Western Gallery. Johns, of San Francisco, is probably best known as one of the foremost Western Americana auction houses...
Helen R. Kahn Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts has released its Catalogue 67 of Adventure, Exploration, and Voyages and Travels. It is an extensive catalogue of travels from ...
The latest catalogue from the William Reese Company, number 242, has just arrived. It is titled South America, and covers works from four centuries pertaining to that contin...
This month we look at Catalogue 118b from Schoyer's Books of Berkeley, California. The title is Recent Acquisitions in Travel, Historia, & Varia. Schoyer's Catalogue 118a wa...
Hordern House has issued a brief, yet extensive catalogue of rare books, manuscripts and prints. It is brief in that only 24 items are offered, but each comes with a detailed...
Charles Wood Rare Books has issued "A Summer Miscellany" of sixty recent acquisitions. Wood specializes in fields such as books about architecture, book arts, furniture maki...
