Whitmore Rare Books recently issued their Catalogue 29. Whitmore features literary masterpieces in the best condition likely to be found considering their age. There are works of both fiction and nonfiction, human stories and scientific discoveries. Some books are fairly recent, others go back several centuries. They differ widely, but all are significant books in top condition. These are a few of them.
The cover of the August 6, 1945, issue of Time featured the following quote on its cover - “My God what have we done.” That quote comes from the following manuscript, written onboard the...
The William Reese Company has issued a catalogue of New Acquisitions. It is catalogue #380 in their long-running series. Their focus is on Americana, and there is much of historic significance in t...
Libreria de Antano of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, published a catalogue for the recent 57th California Antiquarian Book Fair. The material is primarily from south of the border, the American-Mexican b...
Langdon Manor Books has released their latest selection of various sorts of material, Catalog 22 ALL Americans II. There aren't a lot of printed books here, but many personal items such as photogra...
The George S. MacManus Co. has published a catalogue of The American Revolution. What can be said of the American Revolution? A lot. Here are 100 books that tell much of the story. Many of the item...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has released their Catalogue 217 of Rare Americana. This is a new group of old items, mostly 19th century. There are books and various other forms of paper co...
The Lawbook Exchange will be exhibiting at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The show will be held at the Park Avenue Armory and continues until May 3. Here is a look at a few of th...
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
Forum, May 28:The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000
