Rare Book Monthly Reviews - December - 2009 Issue

Important Letters and Signed Documents from Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books

Important Letters and Signed Documents from Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books

By Michael Stillman

Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books has issued Catalogue 23 of autographs, manuscripts and documents. It is divided into two sections: Americana and world figures, and literature. It is filled with interesting and important letters and other documents from notable names in world events and literature. You will find documents and letters from Washington and Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Leon Trotsky, Thomas Edison, Raoul Wallenberg and others. From literature, we find Hemingway, Twain, Carroll, Steinbeck, Kipling, Sinclair, Kerouac, Borges,...

Renaissance Medical Works from Thomas-Scheler and Alain Brieux

Renaissance Medical Works from Thomas-Scheler and Alain Brieux

By Michael Stillman

A very special catalogue has just been issued for those who collect in the field of early medical and anatomical books. The title is Precurseurs et Novateurs. Medicines et Me...

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American Paintings and Manuscript Documents from Questroyal Fine Art

American Paintings and Manuscript Documents from Questroyal Fine Art

By Michael Stillman

"I discovered a dirt road that weaved through towering trees and thick brush with a sky unmarked by telephone lines. I had never seen anything like it. This was the fertile g...

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Old Maps from George Ritzlin Antique Maps

Old Maps from George Ritzlin Antique Maps

By Michael Stillman

We recently received Catalog 29 from George Ritzlin Antique Maps and Prints. George and Mary Ritzlin are map experts from Evanston, Illinois, and while this is the first of t...

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Africa from Christison Rare Books

Africa from Christison Rare Books

By Michael Stillman

This month we review our first catalogue from Christison Rare Books. The title is Catalogue 35 Africa & bits from beyond. This is not the first catalogue we have received wit...

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Items for the Boston Book Fair from Kevin F. Kelly, Bookseller

Items for the Boston Book Fair from Kevin F. Kelly, Bookseller

By Michael Stillman

Kevin F. Kelly, Bookseller, printed a catalogue especially for the recent Boston Antiquarian Book Fair. This is a varied collection, impossible for this reviewer to categoriz...

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Historic Printed and Manuscript Material from Bruce N. Johnson

Historic Printed and Manuscript Material from Bruce N. Johnson

By Michael Stillman

Bruce N. Johnson Historic Documents recently issued their Catalogue 21, and no further title is needed since the firm's name describes its contents. There are some books here...

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Musical Works from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Musical Works from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

By Michael Stillman

This month we review our first catalogue from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians of Lloyd Harbor (Long Island) New York. This is Catalogue 64, Rare Printed and Manuscript Music...

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Fine Antique Maps from Martayan Lan

Fine Antique Maps from Martayan Lan

By Michael Stillman

Martayan Lan has presented their Catalogue 43 of Fine Antique Maps and Atlases. This is a fabulous collection, including some of the earliest obtainable maps of the New World...

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Antiquarian Americana from Kaaterskill Books

Antiquarian Americana from Kaaterskill Books

By Michael Stillman

Kaaterskill Books has issued their 11th catalogue of Americana. It is difficult to use any more limiting terms to describe this catalogue beyond the title, as all sorts of ma...

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New Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

New Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

By Michael Stillman

The William Reese Company has issued its 272nd catalogue, New Acquisitions in Americana. These are all works pertaining to North America that Reese has not offered in any pre...

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Western America from Old West Books

Western America from Old West Books

By Michael Stillman

Old West Books has issued Catalog 26 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. Old West features materials from the aforementioned time and place, with a section on t...

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Rare and Antiquarian Books and Ephemera from Samuel Gedge Ltd.

Rare and Antiquarian Books and Ephemera from Samuel Gedge Ltd.

By Michael Stillman

Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books has issued their Catalogue VII. Offered are books and ephemera that are rare and antiquarian, but their subjects are varied. There are many one-o...

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Film, Literature and More from James Pepper Rare Books

Film, Literature and More from James Pepper Rare Books

By Michael Stillman

James Pepper Rare Books has issued Catalogue 187, the latest presentation from this southern California bookseller. Literature, film, art books, and detective and mystery sto...

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Pocket and Other Maps from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books

Pocket and Other Maps from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books

By Michael Stillman

Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has issued a new catalogue entitled The World In Your Pocket. We will let them explain the meaning of this somewhat obscure title: "Between the...

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  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Chiswick Auctions
    Books & Works on Paper
    12th March 2026
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.

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