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: jameslowe@covad.net
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: info@martayanlan.com
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: info@oldprintshop.com
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: early@childlit.com
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: ferado@aol.com
Name of proprietor(s): Dennis John Ferado
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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