The Antiquariaat Forum has released a new catalogue entitled From Ptolemy to Stuyvesant. It is one of the more impressive book catalogues you will find, running 180 pages to describe and illustrate just 100 choice items. You will not find any recent material here. Some items qualify as incunabula, while the "new" material is from the 18th or 19th centuries. For those who collect seriously old and classic books, the Antiquariaat Forum is providing a wonderful selection. Here are a few of them.
We start at the beginning, Geographia, by Claudius Ptolemaeus, better kno...
The latest catalogue from Chapel Hill Rare Books is a bit of a departure from most that we have seen from them. Usually, their catalogues are filled with 19th century nonfict...
British bookseller Forest Books has issued its Catalogue 106 of Bibliography, Bookbinding and Reference. It offers over 600 books in the book arts field, and anyone who colle...
Warning! Notice! On the second page of this review there is a photograph of a most attractive, totally nude young woman. This photograph is a work of art (as is the woman). H...
Arriving in our mailbox a short time ago was List 18 from Plaza Books of Santa Rosa, California. Plaza specializes in books from south of the border. While anything from Tiju...
Oak Knoll Books has issued its 275th catalogue, in support of the antiquarian bookseller's 30th anniversary. That's a lot of years and a lot of catalogues, but the New Castle...
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has issued another one of its magnificent fifty item catalogues. A little while back, we looked at a catalogue of fifty superlative maps and atl...
The Arthur H. Clark Company has issued the 928th catalogue in its long-running series on the American West. Their catalogues do extend to many other books of Americana, and a...
Just arrived in our mailbox a few days ago is the latest collection of Books on the West from Gene W. Baade of Washington State. His books are generally the unusual. It is fi...
The latest collection of New Arrivals from Between The Covers Rare Books has just arrived. As always, it is an entertaining collection of serious, odd, and amusing books and ...
