Rare Book Monthly
Articles - November - 2009 Issue
15 Catalogues Reviewed This Month
A new collection of catalogues is under review this month.
This month we review 15 new book catalogues. Travel is the topic at Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books and Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books. A particular trip, Cook's last voyage, is the subject at Hordern House. Travel would also be a regular topic of the latest from the William Reese Company, America before 1700.
Autographs, inscriptions and signed documents are featured by David Schulson Autographs and the Raab Collection. James Cummins, Bookseller has a collection of inscribed works. Many strange and unusual books can be found in catalogues from Peter L. Masi Books and Garrett Scott, Bookseller.
Clark Rare Books has both newly acquired and on sale Americana. The Veatchs Arts of the Books also features new acquisitions. Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books offers books from the history of ideas. Librairie Thomas-Scheler presents European antiquities. James Pepper Rare Books features writers, actors, and a crook. Oak Knoll Books presents the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company.
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Sotheby’s
Year in ReviewSotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USDSotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USDSotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USDSotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBPSotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USDSotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD -
University Archives
Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
January 7, 2026University Archives, Jan. 7: Jefferson's Owned & Signed "Plutarch's Morals" Vol. 4. - 1st Time At Auction In Nearly 200 Years!University Archives, Jan. 7: Flown NASA Hasselblad 203S Space Camera On Endeavour STS-111, With Components, Data Module & Flown Film Magazine!University Archives, Jan. 7: One Of The Finest Lincoln Assassination Letters Extant, April 15, 1865 - Illustrated & Beyond Dramatic! 8pp.University Archives
Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
January 7, 2026University Archives, Jan. 7: Isaac Newton Highly Important Religious Manuscript With 85+ Words In His Hand, Ex-BonhamsUniversity Archives, Jan. 7: Marilyn Monroe Gorgeous Signed & Inscribed Photograph, PSA AuthenticatedUniversity Archives, Jan. 7: Rare Ernest Hemingway, 1 Of 10 Signed Presentation Copies Of "Farewell To Arms"University Archives
Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
January 7, 2026University Archives, Jan. 7: Ayn Rand 11pp Revised AMS "The Cold Civil War" For LA Times Newspaper- 900+ Words In Her Hand!University Archives, Jan. 7: Mary Todd Lincoln Calls Abe A "great & good man, who loved & served his country so well"University Archives, Jan. 7: Abraham Lincoln Gives Rebel Woman Pass To Visit Prisoner Of War Husband, Showing A Very Human Lincoln!University Archives
Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
January 7, 2026University Archives, Jan. 7: Babe Ruth PSA Type II Signed Conlon Photo, With Ruth Miniature Louisville Slugger, 16.25"University Archives, Jan. 7: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin Signed Photo - Prime Crew Apollo 11 - PSA AuthenticatedUniversity Archives, Jan. 7: Huge Abraham Lincoln Hesler Photo, Ca. 1880 - As If He Were In The Room!