Rare Book Monthly Reviews - January - 2014 Issue

Discovery and Exploration from Hordern House

Discovery and Exploration from Hordern House

Australian bookseller Hordern House has published a catalogue of Discovery & Exploration 1587-1863. This is a large catalogue though it contains only 24 items. Naturally enough, they are important ones. Extensive descriptions and illustrations are deservedly supplied. While most have some sort of Australian connection, that may be only part of the story. For example, the Kent, England, prison records from the late 18th century are primarily a British item, but the punishment some of the convicts suffered was to be transported to Australia. In those days, Austral...

Patrick McGahern Books Offers Spectacular Collection of North West Passage and Franklin Search Material

Patrick McGahern Books Offers Spectacular Collection of North West Passage and Franklin Search Material

Patrick McGahern Books of Ottawa has released a catalogue dedicated to a spectacular collection of a specific subject: The Bertram Plimer Franklin & North West Passage Rare Book Colle...

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Forty-Nine Years for The Pages of Yesteryear

Forty-Nine Years for The Pages of Yesteryear

The Pages of Yesteryear has issued their annual date-numbered catalogue. This one is number 49. It celebrates 49 years in the book business. This catalogue offers an eclectic mix of ...

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Antiquarian Books, Leaves, and Manuscripts from Phillip J. Pirages

Antiquarian Books, Leaves, and Manuscripts from Phillip J. Pirages

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts has issued Catalogue 65: Vellum Illuminated Manuscript Material, Printed Books from 1505-1799 (and Fine Modern Facsimiles, Early Documen...

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A Variety of Books, Manuscripts and Visual Arts from the William Reese Company

A Variety of Books, Manuscripts and Visual Arts from the William Reese Company

The William Reese Company has published their 308th catalogue: Rare and Fine Books & Manuscripts, Photographs & Other Visual Arts. This is sort of a catalogue of materia...

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Maps, Globes, and Atlases from Martayan Lan

Maps, Globes, and Atlases from Martayan Lan

Martayan Lan has released their Catalogue 49: Select Maps, Globes, & Atlases. Their specialty is cartography, and this catalogue also includes some sea charts and city views. Man...

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Antiquarian Works from Antiquates Fine and Rare Books

Antiquarian Works from Antiquates Fine and Rare Books

Antiquates Fine & Rare Books, the Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK based bookseller, recently issued Catalogue 6 – Antiquarian Books from the Sixteenth – Twentieth Centuries.&nbsp...

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Works Monumental and Small from the Veatchs Arts of the Book

Works Monumental and Small from the Veatchs Arts of the Book

The Veatchs Arts of the Book has issued their Catalogue 77. The Northampton, Massachusetts, bookseller features works in the book arts, books that are as much works of art as text an...

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A Variety of Subjects Offered by Raptis Rare Books

A Variety of Subjects Offered by Raptis Rare Books

Raptis Rare Books of Brattleboro, Vermont, recently released their fifth catalogue. Raptis does not title their catalogues, but they do provide a table of contents to describe the types of material...

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Books from the Polar Regions from Aquila Books

Books from the Polar Regions from Aquila Books

Aquila Books has published Catalogue 213. Aquila specializes in books relating to the polar regions, north and south, including adjacent areas such as northern Canada, Siberia, and Alaska. Long sou...

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Artists' Books, Private Press, Art, Illustration, Literature and More from The Kelmscott Bookshop

Artists' Books, Private Press, Art, Illustration, Literature and More from The Kelmscott Bookshop

Recently issued was Catalogue 8 from The Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books. Their listed categories are “Artists' Books, Private Press, Art & Illustration, William Morris & the Pre-Raphae...

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Mexico and Central America from Plaza Books

Mexico and Central America from Plaza Books

Plaza Books has released List 36. Mexico & Central America. Most items here pertain to Mexico though there are some from Nicaragua and Honduras. Some are in Spanish, others in English. A few go...

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Books and Manuscripts from James Cummins Bookseller

Books and Manuscripts from James Cummins Bookseller

James Cummins Bookseller has released Catalogue 121. It contains a mix of books and manuscripts, covering a variety of subjects. Cummins features material that is important, rare, and in top condit...

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English Verse 1751-1800 from Justin Croft and Simon Beattie

English Verse 1751-1800 from Justin Croft and Simon Beattie

British booksellers Justin Croft and Simon Beattie have issued Part III: R-Z of English Verse 1751-1800. This is the final catalogue of items from a large, very targeted collection of James O. Edwa...

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Signed Letters and More from Schulson Autographs

Signed Letters and More from Schulson Autographs

Schulson Autographs recently published their Catalog 156. Offered is a selection primarily of manuscript material rather than simply signed documents. There are many letters, some personal, others ...

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Artistic Works from Sophie Schneideman Rare Books

Artistic Works from Sophie Schneideman Rare Books

From Sophie Schneideman Rare Books we have received a copy of Catalogue 19. Illustrated & Private Press Books, Artists' Books, Bookbindings, Art. This is a selection of items that belong to the...

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Books and Ephemeral Items from Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books

Books and Ephemeral Items from Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books

Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books is now offering their Catalogue XVI (also known as 16). Samuel Gedge mainly offers items from England and Europe of several centuries ago, not so much full-length books...

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Thirty Works for The Lawbook Exchange's 30th Anniversary

Thirty Works for The Lawbook Exchange's 30th Anniversary

The Lawbook Exchange has published Catalogue 75. Celebrating Thirty Years 1983-2013. We will guess the fact the catalogue contains 30 items is not mere coincidence. This is not a typical Lawbook Ex...

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More Variety from Peter Harrington

More Variety from Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington released a catalogue for December 2013, for which we are only slightly behind. Offered are over 200 items, a mix of types and dates, nothing you can pin a real label on. Mostly, it...

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Sections from Diderot's Encyclopédie from Sotheran's

Sections from Diderot's Encyclopédie from Sotheran's

“The goal of an Encyclopédie is to assemble all the knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth, to demonstrate the general system to the people with whom we live, & to transmi...

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Rare Book Monthly

  • 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

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