Rare Book Monthly
Articles - October - 2009 Issue
Book Collecting Clubs and Associations
The Philobiblon Club
To the extent that texts of talks become available, with the permission of the speaker, we'll provide electronic access and links to the speaker and or club as they wish. Thirty people may hear a talk in San Francisco and in time another 150 read it on line. As collecting becomes more specialized such talks will become important tools for the new collector and an enduring accomplishment for the person giving the talk.
And while this approach to open access is forward looking it also envisions that past discussions that are available in text will also be linked as the opportunity arises. Each year there are almost three hundred such talks across North America, almost all of which represent significant preparation in concert with decades of experience that too often is heard by only a few. In this way we hope to capture these efforts and to make them accessible to the interested as they become aware of their availability. The internet may be strengthening individual collecting. The clubs can turn it into their advantage. In truth most such lectures and discussions are unique, even timeless. They should not be lost.
For those clubs and organizations that have or someday will have the capability to film presentations we will provide video links.
Here is a list of some, certainly not all, of the clubs whose focus is the book as object. These are the book Collecting Societies that are members of or affiliated with FABS, the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies:
The Alcuin Society
John King
604 538-7092
antbook@dccnet.com
The Aldus Society
Ronald L. Ravneberg
614 457-1153
aldussociety@aol.com
The Ampersand Club
Robert Rulon-Miller
800 441-0076
rulon@rulon.com
The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Binnie Syril Braunstein
410 486-6178
bsbgc@aol.com
The John Russell Bartlett Society
Pamela A. Rakowski
64 Cathedral Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
401 751-5581
prakowski@provlib.org
The Bixby Club
John Neal Hoover
University of Missouri
Jefferson Memorial Library
St. Louis Mercantile Library
Room 265
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121
314 516-7245
jhoover@umsl.edu
The Manuscript Society
An international organization of persons & institutions
Anthony J. Mourek
mourek_manuscript@msn.com
Miniature Book Society
Mark Palkovic, President
Editor, Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series
417 Blegen Library, P.O. Box 210152
2602 McMicken Circle
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0152
513 556-1964 palkovma@ucmail.uc.edu
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.