Rare Book Monthly Reviews - January - 2016 Issue

The Arctic from Patrick McGahern Books

The Arctic from Patrick McGahern Books

Patrick McGahern Books recently issued their Catalogue 239 Arctic. This is a catalogue of books primarily about explorations, as for most people, there isn't much else you can do in the Arctic but explore it. However, there are a few books about the natives who somehow manage to survive in these intemperate lands. Curiosity long drove people to take on the immense challenge of the extreme cold and storms to see what was there, or be the first to reach the Pole. For others, it was a practical search, an attempt to find a fabled Northwest Passage shortcut to Asia. Whatever the reason, they he...

A Miscellany from The Brick Row Book Shop

A Miscellany from The Brick Row Book Shop

The Brick Row Book Shop recently issued their Miscellany Sixty-Nine. Eighty-Five Distinctive Books, Manuscripts and Ephemeral Pieces. The catalogue may be new, but the book shop is one of the oldes...

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Historic Documents from Stuart Lutz

Historic Documents from Stuart Lutz

Stuart Lutz Historic Documents has released a new catalogue of... historic documents. Lutz's catalogues don't come with titles so that is the best we can do. We'll identify it by the cover – ...

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Signed Historical Americana from Joe Rubinfine

Signed Historical Americana from Joe Rubinfine

Joe Rubinfine has published List 178 of American Historical Autographs. A few are simply autographs, a signature and little more, but most are found on letters and other documents. Often, they have...

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Importance and Condition Featured at Whitmore Rare Books

Importance and Condition Featured at Whitmore Rare Books

Whitmore Rare Books has released their Catalogue 12. Whitmore specializes in quality and importance of the books (and occasional other documents) that they offer. This is the place to look for some...

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Fine Books from the Veatchs Arts of the Book

Fine Books from the Veatchs Arts of the Book

The Veatchs Arts of the Book has issued a new catalogue in the book arts, Catalogue 83. In this latest edition, we find numerous printings from private and fine presses, exquisite bindings, books w...

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50 Fine Books from Shapero Rare Books

50 Fine Books from Shapero Rare Books

We are a little late here, but this is still a fine catalogue – 50 Fine Books. Autumn 2015. These books are all now a year more antiquarian. Shapero Rare Books specializes in exceptional book...

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All Sorts of Old Works on Paper from Samuel Gedge, Ltd.

All Sorts of Old Works on Paper from Samuel Gedge, Ltd.

Samuel Gedge Ltd. has issued their Catalogue XXI. Gedge offers all sorts of works on paper, and a few not. While there are, naturally enough, some books, including a group of first French translati...

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A Variety of Items for the Holidays from James Cummins Bookseller

A Variety of Items for the Holidays from James Cummins Bookseller

James Cummins Bookseller recently published Catalogue 130 for the just completing Holiday 2015 season. If it is too late to purchase one of these books or other paper items as a gift, it is never t...

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A Variety of Fine Books from the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books

A Variety of Fine Books from the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books

We recently received, slightly late, this fine catalogue from the Antiquariaat Forum and Asher Rare Books, Autumn Catalogue 2015. It takes awhile for mail to reach America from the Netherlands duri...

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    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.

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