Rare Book Monthly
Articles - October - 2006 Issue
13 New Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two
This month there are a lucky thirteen new bookseller catalogues reviewed in Section Two of AE Monthly. Aleph-Bet Books has almost 600 wonderful children's books waiting for the adult-child in you. Chapel Hill Rare Books offers a large selection of Confederate works from the Civil War, while David Lesser has more general, but unusual and uncommon 18th and 19th century Americana. Speaking of hard to find, Oak Knoll has a collection of short runs and limited editions, while Lion Heart Autographs has a catalogue of one-of-a-kind autographed items. William Reese offers early American legal thought, James Jaffe covers literature, poetry, art and photography, Charles Wood has material culture and English country estates, while Libreria de Antano is focused on Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Helen Kahn covers a lot of ground in ?he Ways of the World ?16th-20th centuries," as does Forest Books with its ?iscellany 2," and Antiquariaat Forum with a selection taken to the recent New York Antiquarian Book Fair. And then, there is Ian Brabner with a catalogue of strange but fascinating works. You may read all of these reviews in Section Two. Click here.
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
