Shapero Rare Books has created a new catalogue titled Present Perfect. That may sound like a tense from verb conjugation, but I suspect it has more to do with gift giving for the recent holiday season. These books would make perfect presents for the discerning collector, which includes yourself. Here are a few.
We begin with a photobook, one that has been described as the most influential work of its genre. It's one of the best known too, and appealing to both French and American collectors. You know it will be of interest in both France and America when the title has the word “American...
Rulon-Miller Books has published their Catalogue 171. Winter 2025. It has no further title, which makes it unclear what is inside...until you read Rob Rulon-Miller's introduction. He explains that ...
Kelmscott Bookshop Rare Books & Book Arts has published a new catalogue, Catalog 21. Artists' Books & Private Press, Literature, Books on Books, History and More! Kelmscott Bookshop, as you...
The Lawbook Exchange has issued its Catalogue 109, American Law 1719-2000. That cuts a wide swath. From colonial times to the dawn of the 21st century, from a backwater colony to the most powerful ...
Primary Sources Uncharted Americana has issued their Catalogue 8. Primary Sources focuses on obscure and unique items in the field of Americana. They then describe them thoroughly, as it can be har...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 207 of Rare Americana. Their catalogues and format look the same as their predecessors. What changes is the material inside. This m...
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Sotheby's Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
Sotheby's Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
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.
