Rare Book Monthly

Articles - February - 2020 Issue

Eight New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

Eight new catalogues reviewed.

Eight new catalogues reviewed.

This month we review eight new bookseller catalogues. Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts features important books and manuscripts including private press and fine bindings. Samuel Gedge Ltd. offers unusual and uncommon antiquarian books and ephemera. Primary Sources, Uncharted Americana has 25 thoroughly described and illustrated items and archives of original source Americana. David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books presents a new selection of rare Americana. Old West Books targets the American West.

 

James Tait Goodrich focuses on historic medical and scientific texts, along with presenting some pre-Columbian artifacts and early medical instruments. Medicine has come a long way. Shapero Rare Books has a selection of Russian literature. Librairie Clavreuil offers a very unusual catalogue. It contains 11 editions of the same book, Michel de Montaigne's Essays.

 

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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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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