Mark Funke, Bookseller, has created an exceptional catalogue of The Rare Book Collection of Dr. Felix Guggenheim. Guggenheim was a German publisher and founder of the German Book Association in the 1930s. It enabled him to avoid confrontation with the Nazi regime despite being Jewish. The organization simply ignored the Nazis. He traveled to America in 1938 where friends warned him not to return. Instead, he went to Switzerland, brought his family there, then moved to Britain and finally the United States in 1940.
In America, he had many connections with the German exile community that ...
We are admittedly a bit late in reviewing this catalogue, but since most of the entries are around 150 years old, a few extra months is not that important. The catalogue is number 429 from The Geor...
Antiquariat Kainbacher has published a catalogue of Unterwegs in der weiten Welt (Traveling in the Wide World). That's not an exaggeration as these trips go to places all over the Earth. They are o...
Books for Cooks has published their Catalogue 6. Books for Cooks is an Australian bookseller, so you will find some titles dedicated to Australian cuisine. Perhaps better known is Australian wine w...
Zephyr Used & Rare Books has issued a catalogue titled Brave New World. Whether the world is brave or new is subject to debate, but the items in the catalogue are old. There is a variety of typ...
Old West Books has issued their Catalogue 68 March 2025 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. If you turn the clock back between one and two centuries, you will match the vast majority ...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 208 of Rare Americana. Books range through three centuries, from Colonial times to the second half of the twentieth century. Howeve...
Swann, June 12: Lot 3: Thomas McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 1848-1854. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 8: Invoice to the Town of Boston for advertising pre-revolutionary content in the Boston Post Boy, manuscript document, Boston, July 1768. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.
Swann, June 12: Lot 13: Clairac and Nicola, L'Ingenieur de Campagne; or, Field
Swann, June 12: Lot 81: Journals of Major Robert Rogers . . . of the Several Excursions he Made . . . upon the Continent of North America, London, 1765. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 99: Photograph albums and papers from the family of W.G. Fargo, photo albums containing 442 photographs, 1865-88. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 112: Isaac Leeser, Discourses on the Jewish Religion, 10 volumes, Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1866-1868. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 176: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston, 1845. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 190: Thomas Hariot, Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, 1590. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 200: Correspondence of a regimental cavalry commander in Wyoming and Utah, July 1865 to February 1866. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann, June 12: Lot 226: Maturino Gilberti, Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan / Aqui comienca el vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mechuacana, 1559. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Gros & Delettrez Livres & Manuscrits Arméniens Jeudi 12 juin 2025 Paris, Francis
Gros & Delettrez, June 12: BIBLE, Venise 1733, reliure arménienne
Gros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, manuscrit XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle
