Martayan Lan is known as one of the premier map sellers in the world. Therefore, it was a bit of a surprise to receive their 38th catalogue. It is titled simply, Rare Books Catalogue. That it is. Not the usual collection of maps and atlases we expect from Martayan Lan, but an outstanding collection of rare, and generally very old and important books. The catalogue is broken down by subjects, with the following covered: travel, geography, voyages, astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, natural history, arts and humanities. This collection is appropriate for those ...
The 96th catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller is entitled Inscribed. This is a collection of just over one hundred works that have been inscribed, most often, though not n...
The latest catalogue from David Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books is headed The South, Slavery, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Afro-Americana. Lesser has a knack for finding mate...
The most recent offering from Between The Covers Rare Books is A Selection of Books from the Collection of Paul Keller. The late Paul Keller was a Florida collector who speci...
Bauman Rare Books recently issued a Summer Miscellany, a collection of almost 500 items that can best be described as, well, miscellaneous. There is no theme to this catalogu...
The William Reese Company takes a short break from its usual focus on Americana to offer a collection of Literature in its 247th catalogue. Offered are almost 800 titles of p...
Gene W. Baade has issued Catalogue 806 of Books On The West. With a very few exceptions, that's the American West, and most pertain to what we know as the "Old West." That ca...
