Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - July - 2010 Issue
Rare and Important Books from the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books
Ice formations in the Dobsina cave.
Item 160 is Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, the 1721 Dutch edition of John Oldmixon's "The British Empire in America." It contains a section on coffee and coffee plantations that was not included in the English edition, though you will need to read it in Dutch. It also includes eight folding maps, with the one of North America containing the misconception common during the late 17th/early 18th century - that California was an island. This book was one of the most thorough accounts of British America written to that time. €8,500 (US $10,478).
Item 115 offers a description of one of the more dramatic natural wonders in Europe, the Dobsina ice cave in Slovakia. Discovered in 1870, Jozsef Krenner published this illustrated description of the cave in 1874: A Dobsinai Jegbarlang. The cave stretches for miles, containing a 2-acre ice field large enough to be used for skating along with stalagtites and stalagmites of ice. €1,250 (US $1,540).
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
