Rare Book Monthly

Articles - June - 2003 Issue

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

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Dealer Address & Contact Info. Dealer Specialties and Additional Details
James E. Lowe Autographs, Ltd.
Telephone: (212) 759-0775
Email: [email protected]
Autograph Letters & Manuscripts, Historical Literary & Musical, Signed Photographs, Inscribed Editions, 19th Century Photographs

Additional Details: “We are probably one of the oldest autograph firms in the city, opened in 1969,” says proprietor James E. Lowe.
Martayan Lan
70 East 55th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Summer Hours: Mon.- Fri.., 9:30-5:30, & By Appointment
Telephone: (212) 308-0018
Fax: (212) 308-0074
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.martayanlan.com
Name of proprietor(s): Selma Martayan (Richard Lan)
15th – 18th Century Illustrated Books, Technology, Medicine, Architecture, Natural History, Americana, Atlases, Globes, Maps, & Prints
The Old Print Shop
150 Lexington Avenue (29th & 30th)
New York, NY 10016
Summer Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9-5
Telephone: (212) 683-3950
Fax: (212) 779-8040
Email: [email protected]
Website: oldprintshop.com
Name of proprietor(s): Kenneth M. Newman
American Fine Art Prints 1750 to 1950, Antique Maps, Scholarly Books on the Fine Arts, Illustrated Books & Atlases
Justin G. Schiller, Ltd.
1270 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 302
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020-1702
Summer Hours: Mon.-Fri., By Appointment
Telephone: (212) 332-7070
Fax: (212) 332-7028
Email: [email protected]
Website: childlit.com
Name of proprietor(s): Justin G. Schiller (Raymond W. Wapner, Gregory C. Gillert, Dennis M.V. David)
Early Children’s Books, Rare Juvenile Literature, Related Manuscripts, Original Artwork & Bibliographies
Time and Again Books
320 East 46th Street, #34G
New York, NY 10017
Summer Hours: By Appointment
Telephone: (212) 599-4542
Fax: (212) 599-4542
Email: [email protected]
Name of proprietor(s): Dennis John Ferado
Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction

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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