Shapero Rare Books' latest catalogue is Travel 2025 Part One. These are travels coming from Europe, primarily England, to the rest of the world. They are mostly from the 17th-19th centuries, when the world map had been mostly charted and countries delineated, but much of what was inside them, the geography and people themselves, was still unknown. Here they are, as experienced by early European visitors.
The catalogue is divided into four sections: 1. Africa. 2. Voyages, the Americas, Mountaineering and Polar. 3. Greece, Ottoman Empire, Middle East and Central Asia. 4. India, Southeast ...
Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller has issued Catalogue 249 Korean Books & Manuscripts. Hill says that because of time and the Korean War, “...printed Korean books and manuscripts have become very rar...
Langdon Manor Books has issued their Catalog 21. The best way to describe what you will find is to look at their description of the business: “Specialists in American Social Movements, American Per...
Zephyr Used & Rare Books is back with a new selection of uncommon material, mostly ephemeral, but also some books you don't run across every day, if ever. Advertising and promotional materials ...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 209 of Rare Americana. They're all here, heroes and scoundrels, Presidents and murderers. This is America and Americans mostly from...
Last month, we reviewed a catalogue of books that appeared in the noted Confederate bibliography “In Tall Cotton.” This month, we review The George S. MacManus Company's follow-up, In Taller Cotton...
Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
Sotheby's 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.