Rare Book Monthly Reviews - February - 2020 Issue

Important Books and Manuscripts, Including Fine Bindings and Private Press, from Phillip J. Pirages

Important Books and Manuscripts, Including Fine Bindings and Private Press, from Phillip J. Pirages

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts has released their Catalogue 75. Manuscript Material, Incunabula, and Books Printed from 1501 to Present, Including Fine Bindings and Private Press. It is filled with items meant for the best private and institutional collections. Pirages does not target a particular subject or type of book, but rather, concentrates on important material from across a wide spectrum. We can note that the manuscripts are not a lot of typical handwritten documents but professional scribal material, often illuminated, some predating the invention of printing. Here a...

Primary Source American Material from Primary Sources, Uncharted Americana

Primary Source American Material from Primary Sources, Uncharted Americana

Primary Sources, Uncharted Americana recently published their Catalogue 3. They offer catalogues with just 25 items, but each is extensively documented, described, and photographed. These items all...

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Antiquarian Books and Ephemera from Samuel Gedge Ltd.

Antiquarian Books and Ephemera from Samuel Gedge Ltd.

Samuel Gedge Ltd. has issued their Catalogue XXIX. Gedge offers books and ephemera, though mostly ephemera. There are many documents, letters, handbills and such, all very old. “Remarkable su...

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Medical and Scientific History from James Tait Goodrich Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

Medical and Scientific History from James Tait Goodrich Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

James Tait Goodrich Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts has issued their Winter 2019 Catalogue A-81, History of Medicine and Science, Pre-Columbian Artifacts, Medical Instruments and Antiques. While ...

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Western Americana from Old West Books

Western Americana from Old West Books

Old West Books has issued their Catalog 50 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. That is a milestone. Now located in Colorado Springs, they have been selling Western Americana since the...

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Eleven Editions of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne from Librairie Clavreuil

Eleven Editions of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne from Librairie Clavreuil

Librairie Clavreuil of Paris has published a catalogue of Onze Editions des Essais de Montaigne (11 editions of the Essays of Montaigne). That is literally what is found here, eleven separate editi...

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The Latest Selection of Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books

The Latest Selection of Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books

David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has published their Catalogue 172 of Rare Americana. This is their latest selection of material related to America primarily from the late 18th and the 19th c...

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Russian Literature from Shapero Rare Books

Russian Literature from Shapero Rare Books

Shapero Rare Books has published a catalogue of Russian Literature. There are names here that will be recognized even by those not terribly familiar with Russian writers – Tolstoy, Gogol, Pas...

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