Rare Book Monthly Reviews - January - 2021 Issue

Catalogue Two from Voewood Rare Books

Catalogue Two from Voewood Rare Books

Voewood Rare Books has published their Catalogue Two. They don't issue a lot of catalogues, Catalogue One having come two years ago, but they are very special catalogues when they do arrive. This one contains 85 well-described and illustrated items that can reasonably be described as a variety. While technically only a couple years old, Voewood is the successor of the long-established Simon Finch Rare Books. Voewood Rare Books is located in an estate built early in the twentieth century in the English countryside, County Norfolk. It is a perfect setting for the finest of books. These a...

Ornithology from Shapero Rare Books

Ornithology from Shapero Rare Books

Shapero Rare Books has published a new catalogue entitled Ornithology. There are few subjects that attract as much collecting interest as the study of birds. The reason, and why many of the highest...

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An Interesting Mix from Honey & Wax Booksellers

An Interesting Mix from Honey & Wax Booksellers

Honey & Wax Booksellers has issued a new catalogue without a title or number. We will identify it by the quote on the inside front cover from civil rights activist Pauli Murray, “One pers...

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Law and the Western World from The Lawbook Exchange

Law and the Western World from The Lawbook Exchange

The Lawbook Exchange has issued their Catalogue 99. Law Related Books, Manuscripts, Broadsides, Pamphlets and Ephemera: America, Great Britain & Europe, 15th to 20th Centuries. That doesn't lea...

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Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary from Ursus Rare Books

Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary from Ursus Rare Books

Ursus Rare Books has published their Catalogue 348. 50 Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary. That is a concise title that still fully captures what is found within its pages. We might add ...

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The American West from Old West Books

The American West from Old West Books

Old West Books recently published their Catalog 53, January 2021, of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. That description may be brief, but it still sums up the type of books you will fi...

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Sample Catalogues from Zephyr Used and Rare Books

Sample Catalogues from Zephyr Used and Rare Books

Zephyr Used and Rare Books has created a catalogue entitled Give the Lady What She Wants! Catalogue of Sample Catalogues. Some include actual product samples, while others allowed people to sample ...

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Peter Harrington Exhibits at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Peter Harrington Exhibits at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Peter Harrington issued a catalogue for the recent Sharjah International Book Fair. The Sharjah fair was unusual in that it took place in Sharjah, a real place, rather than in the virtual world som...

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Fine Books from Raptis Rare Books

Fine Books from Raptis Rare Books

Raptis Rare Books has issued a new catalogue in its series “for the collection of a lifetime.” Rather than having a title, they provide of table of contents of what can be found inside....

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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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  • DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800

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