Rare Book Monthly

Articles - September - 2007 Issue

Seventeen Booksellers' Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two

Seventeen catalogues are reviewed in Section Two this month.

Seventeen catalogues are reviewed in Section Two this month.


Seventeen new bookseller catalogues are reviewed in Section Two of AE Monthly for September. There is modern literature from Ken Lopez, literature and entertainment from Waverly Books. There is a collection of 19th century photography presented by Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, artistic books from the Veatchs, and cinema, firsts and the eclectic from James Pepper Rare Books.

Michael Graves-Johnston offers books about Ethiopia, Paul Orssich Spain, its neighbors and colonies. The Lawbook Exchange has legal works from the British colonial empire. Americana is offered by Michael Brown Rare Books and David Lesser Antiquarian Books, while the American West is the focus of Clark Rare Books and Gene W. Baade. The Arader Galleries offer a collection of Texana. Hordern House takes us to the Pacific Rim with Captain Cook. A variety of new acquisitions are offered by John Michael Lang Fine Books and John Waite Rare Books, while Bauman Rare Books presents a "Summer Miscellany."

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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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