Walking Tour Of New York’s Antiquarian Book Sellers-Part One: Midtown Manhattan
Book Store in NY City
Dealer Address & Contact Info.
Dealer Specialties and Additional Details
Roger Gross Ltd.
225 East 57th Street (2nd & 3rd)
New York, NY 10022
Summer Hours: By Appointment
Telephone: (212) 759-2892
Email: rogergross@earthlink.net
Website: rgrossmusicautograph.com
Name of proprietor(s): Roger Gross
Classical Music-Related Autograph & Book Material
Additional Details: “We at Roger Gross are one of the few book sellers in the world to specialize in classical music-related autograph and book material,” says proprietor Roger Gross. “Some of the autograph and book material we carry includes material relating to composers, opera, dance, and performing arts. We carry signed photos, letters, scores, musical quotations and manuscripts, along with out-of-print historical books on related subjects.”
Hayden & Fandetta
PO Box 1549
Radio City Station
New York, NY 10101-1549
Summer Hours: By Appointment
Telephone: (212) 582-2505
Name of proprietor(s): John-Peter Hayden Jr., David J. Fandetta
Rare & Antiquarian Books on Antiques, Gardens, & Interior Design
Additional Details: “We’ve been open since 1988,” says John-Peter Hayden Jr., half of the team (with David J. Fandetta) that makes up the firm of Hayden & Fandetta. “We do shows [book fairs] throughout the U.S. and Europe all year long, in order to get the books to where they have to go….We sell 18th, 19th and 20th century books about antiques, flowers and gardens, and the history of interior design. We keep a substantial inventory of the most important and definitive reference works on French, Italian and Spanish furniture; Sevres, Meissen and Chinese Export porcelain; glass and metalwork; fashion and jewellery; textiles and wallpaper; as well as modern and period works on the Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism movements. Color plate flower books, related material on gardens and garden ornament, illustrated books, and Art Deco books with strikingly illustrated
dustwrappers are also kept in stock.”
H.P. Kraus 16 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Summer Hours: Mon.- Fri., 9:30-5, Appointment Recommended
Telephone: (212) 687-4808
Fax: (212) 983-4790
Email: hpkraus@hpkraus.com
Website: hpkraus.com
Name of proprietor(s): Mary Ann Folter, (Kit Currie, Roland Folter, Joshua D. Lipton)
Illuminated & Text Manuscripts, Incunabula, Early Science, Early Americana, Early Printed Books, Bibliography
Additional Details: “H.P.Kraus is the oldest walk-in rare book shop in New York,” says Joshua D. Lipton, Cataloguer. “The
collector interested in European history to the Enlightenment and in the development
of printing will find numerous examples of early books and manuscripts in the best possible condition, along with reference books about them. Prices range as high as six figures, but the bulk of the stock sells for less than $2000.”
Lionheart Autographs
470 Park Avenue South , PH
New York, NY 10016
Summer Hours: Appointment Recommended
Telephone: (212) 779-7050
Email: lionheart@lionheartinc.com
Website: www.lioneartautographs.com
Name of proprietor(s): David Lowenhurst
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
Sotheby’s Book Week December 9-17, 2025
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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