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Articles - August - 2010 Issue

17 New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

New catalogues reviewed this month.

New catalogues reviewed this month.


For August, we have 17 new bookseller catalogues to review. This month we have first catalogues from Better World Books, which is focused on spare parts, human ones, that is, and Sophia Rare Books, which features science and mathematics. Jeff Weber Rare Books also presents science, along with astronomy. Sotheran's offers works on natural history.

Nautical books and the sea are featured by the Columbia Trading Co. and the Ten Pound Island Book Co. Just add some ice and you have Bjarne Tokerud, Bookseller's, catalogue - Arctic and Canadiana. Jonathan Potter Ltd. will help you find your way with a collection of antique maps. The William Reese Co. can show you what all this traveling was for - world trade.

The book arts are featured by the Veatchs Arts of the Book, while Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books has a collection of fine books and more. Librairie Thomas-Scheler has fine antiquarian books. The American West is the subject for Old West Books, the French and Indian War and American Revolution the topic for the George S. MacManus Co. James Pepper Rare Books features film and literature. Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller, has a collection of ephemera, while Garrett Scott, Bookseller, offers his usual catalogue of unusual, even strange old pamphlets.

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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.

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