Rare Book Monthly

Articles - June - 2003 Issue

Walking Tour Of New York’s Antiquarian Book Sellers-Part One: Midtown Manhattan

Book Store in NY City

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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Website: www.lioneartautographs.com
Name of proprietor(s): David Lowenhurst
History, Science, Art, Music & Literature

Rare Book Monthly

  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.

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