Rare Book Monthly
Articles - December - 2008 Issue
16 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month
Sixteen bookseller catalogues are reviewed this month.
Sixteen new catalogues are featured in the Review section of AE Monthly for December. Very early works are featured in Leo Cadogan Rare Books' first catalogue, and in the latest from Samuel Gedge Rare Books. Librairie Thomas-Scheler offers works from the 15th-19th century, while the Lawbook Exchange is focused on legal works from the 16th and 17th centuries.
ReadInk features "objects of obscure desire" including much about popular culture in their first catalogue. There is more in the fields of literature, film and sports from Waverly Books. Seth Kaller offers important American documents, while the Raab Collection presents history in signed documents. David Schulson has European and American signed documents.
Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has a new collection of weird science, religion, poetry and other strange works. Paul Orssich has Spanish and Portuguese related material, Hordern House special books focused on Australia and the South Seas. Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books' topic is Dutch maritime history.
Gem and jewelry books are offered by the Twelfth Street Booksellers. The William Reese Company presents nine great works of American natural history. The Oak Knoll Press has its latest items in the field of "books about books."
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