The bookselling firm of Peter Harrington has published their Catalogue 78. The common thread among items in this catalogue is not topic nor even that they are books (though most are). It is that they are recent acquisitions. Harrington offers a broad range of material, notable for its importance and condition. Subjects, however, can vary from novels to historical works to children's books, art and more. Here are a few samples from this latest issue.
We will start with the data. The interpretation came later. Item 43 is the Journal of researches into the Geology and Natural History of t...
Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued List 48: New Acquisitions. One Hundred Interesting and Rare Books on Travel. Actually there is a bonus here as there are 104 items (unless four ar...
We recently received the Summer List 2011 from the combined collections of the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books of the Netherlands. The descriptive subtitle for this collection is Travel a...
Recently arriving here was List 168 from Joe Rubinfine American Historical Autographs. This catalogue offers a selection of (naturally) one-of-a-kind documents from America's past, primarily ...
The Raab Collection has issued Catalog 68 of important signed documents. Most emanate from America, although there are a few of European origin. They all pertain to important personalities or event...
Yeoman's in the Fork, the Tennessee based bookseller, has just released their Catalog Two. This follows up, quite naturally, their first catalogue, released earlier this year. And, we are happy to ...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has published their 120th catalogue of Rare Americana. What Lesser offers is primarily ephemeral type publications - pamphlets and broadsides - naturally pert...
Simon Beattie Rare Books, Manuscripts, Music, Ephemera has published Short List 4, the fourth in his series of long short catalogues. These are the largest catalogues we receive in terms of dimensi...
Aleph-Bet Books has issued its Catalogue 98 of Children's Books and Illustrated Books. These works are primarily both, children's and illustrated books, and though 600 items are offered, each has a...
The William Reese Company has issued their Bulletin 22. Evidence. That title derives from the nature of the material offered. It provides written or pictorial evidence of some place or event. There...
Here we have a new catalogue that is certainly atypical for the genre. It wouldn't quite qualify for status as a miniature book, but it is the smallest we have seen in eight years of reviewing book...
