Rare Book Monthly

Articles - February - 2011 Issue

Twelve New Catalogues are Reviewed This Month

Twelve new catalogues are reviewed this month.

Twelve new catalogues are reviewed this month.

This month we review 12 new catalogues in the second section of AE Monthly. The William Reese Company offers a collection of Americana which appeared in Printing and the Mind of Man. Helen R. Kahn also offers a collection of Americana, while Joe Rubinfine is focused on signed material that tells the history of Florida.

 

The Arader Galleries present a selection of rare books. The Manhattan Rare Book Company has 181 books and a portrait of a Martian. Aleph-Bet Books features 600 children's books, while Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books offers decorative bindings, private press works, and other fine books.

 

Garrett Scott, Bookseller, has a new collection of eccentric and normal books. Leo Cadogan Rare Books is focused on antiquarian European material. The Lawbook Exchange has newly acquired material; Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, a new miscellany; and James Pepper Rare Books more from the world of film and literature.

 

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Rare Book Monthly

  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
  • 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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