Rare Book Monthly Reviews - July - 2022 Issue

A Variety of Antiquarian Books from Amanda Hall Rare Books

A Variety of Antiquarian Books from Amanda Hall Rare Books

Amanda Hall Rare Books has issued their Catalogue 45. This is a thick catalogue with detailed descriptions and illustrations for each item. These are readily classified as antiquarian books, mostly 18th century and older, often by a few centuries. Many of the books are in French though other languages (including English) are well-represented. The subjects of the material are widely varied, but they are presented in groups for convenience. They are: America, art, children's books, devotional works, education, English novels, fables & emblem books, French fiction, fine & private print...

A Wide Range of Rare Books and Manuscripts from Voewood Rare Books

A Wide Range of Rare Books and Manuscripts from Voewood Rare Books

Voewood Rare Books celebrates the fourth, not of July, but Catalogue Four. They are a British bookseller so they wouldn't celebrate that other fourth anyway. What is in this collection? Well, that'...

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Manuscripts, Hand-Drawings, Religious Charts, Printed on Silk, Spiritualism and Other Oddities from Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Manuscripts, Hand-Drawings, Religious Charts, Printed on Silk, Spiritualism and Other Oddities from Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has issued their Catalog 42: Shake Up Open Your Eyes. Scott specializes in the unusual, the odd, the downright strange. One thing we can say about a Scott catalogue is th...

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Literature from James Cummins Bookseller and Between the Covers Rare Books

Literature from James Cummins Bookseller and Between the Covers Rare Books

James Cummins Bookseller and Between the Covers Rare Books is offering their second catalogue of Selections from Waiting for Godot Books. This one features Literature. Waiting for Godot Books was t...

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Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books

Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books

David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 189 of Rare Americana. Lesser's catalogues focus on 18th and 19th century Americana, primarily pamphlets, broadsides, documents, ma...

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Masterpieces of Soviet Avant-Garde Book Design from Ursus Rare Books

Masterpieces of Soviet Avant-Garde Book Design from Ursus Rare Books

Ursus Rare Books has created a catalogue of Masterpieces of Soviet Avant-Garde Book Design. That sounds like an oxymoron. The Soviet Union was hardly a place noted for encouraging original thought....

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  • 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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