This month we review eight new bookseller catalogues. For those who like it cold, Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller offers a catalogue of the Arctic, Iceland, and Canadiana. Heading to a land not so far north, Langdon Manor Books features material from America's past, while Michael D. Heaston Rare Books & Manuscripts targets the American West. This next catalogue focuses on people who left their homeland for new places, not voluntarily but because they were exiles - Exile from Mark Funke Bookseller.
For those who like food and drink, particularly preparing it since everyone likes consuming it, there is a catalogue from Australia from Books for Cooks.Garrett Scott Bookseller features the strange and obscure. Librairie Michel Bouvier offers a selection covering many subjects while Zephyr Used & Rare Books has an “amalgam.”
Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.
