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Articles - May - 2013 Issue

15 Bookseller Catalogues Reviewed for May

15 new catalogues are reviewed this month.

15 new catalogues are reviewed this month.

This month we have 15 new bookseller catalogues to review. The William Reese Company has a selection of works pertaining to travel and voyages. Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books is focused on trips that went to the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. You will need a map to take you where you are going, and Cohen & Taliaferro have some historic ones, including some of the very first maps to display the New World.

B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts focuses on a variety of subjects - science, medicine, natural history, Americana, and early printed books. Variety and miscellany are also the word at Sotheran's, Knuf Rare Books, and James Cummins Bookseller. Forest Books offers a selection of 19th century medical books, while Librarie Thomas-Scheler features six centuries worth of books and manuscripts.

Almagre Books features material from the American Southwest and Latin America. David Lesser Antiquarian Books presents rare Americana. Old West Books focuses on the American West, while Joe Rubinfine features manuscripts from the American Revolution.

Finally, two booksellers present us with essentially single item catalogues. The Raab Collection has the reading copy of President Benjamin Harrison's inaugural address (and a few other Harrison items). Ian Brabner, Bookseller, offers an orderly book from an American revolutionary soldier.

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    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.

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