Rare Book Monthly

Articles - October - 2016 Issue

Eleven New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

This month we review 11 new book catalogues. Dorothy Sloan Rare Books offers a massive catalogue on ranching, mostly in the American West. High Ridge Books has a collection featuring American maps and prints. The William Reese Company also focuses on cartography. Patrick McGahern Books features Canadiana, the Americas, travel and antiquarian books. David Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books offers rare American books, pamphlets, and ephemera.

 

Austrian bookseller Antiquariat Kainbacher covers natural history, nations, history and travel. Abby Schoolman Books offers a selection of spectacular handcrafted books from artist Timothy C. Ely. Sophie Schneideman Rare Books presents Part 3 of the Hugh Auchincloss collection of fine press books. Aleph-Bet Books has a new selection of 500 children's books. Jeff Weber Rare Books offers a variety of titles from the bookseller's cabinet. Peter Harrington has a late summer catalogue that also features a variety of books.

 

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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

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