Rare Book Monthly Reviews - January - 2021 Issue

Catalogue Two from Voewood Rare Books

Catalogue Two from Voewood Rare Books

Voewood Rare Books has published their Catalogue Two. They don't issue a lot of catalogues, Catalogue One having come two years ago, but they are very special catalogues when they do arrive. This one contains 85 well-described and illustrated items that can reasonably be described as a variety. While technically only a couple years old, Voewood is the successor of the long-established Simon Finch Rare Books. Voewood Rare Books is located in an estate built early in the twentieth century in the English countryside, County Norfolk. It is a perfect setting for the finest of books. These a...

Ornithology from Shapero Rare Books

Ornithology from Shapero Rare Books

Shapero Rare Books has published a new catalogue entitled Ornithology. There are few subjects that attract as much collecting interest as the study of birds. The reason, and why many of the highest...

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An Interesting Mix from Honey & Wax Booksellers

An Interesting Mix from Honey & Wax Booksellers

Honey & Wax Booksellers has issued a new catalogue without a title or number. We will identify it by the quote on the inside front cover from civil rights activist Pauli Murray, “One pers...

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Law and the Western World from The Lawbook Exchange

Law and the Western World from The Lawbook Exchange

The Lawbook Exchange has issued their Catalogue 99. Law Related Books, Manuscripts, Broadsides, Pamphlets and Ephemera: America, Great Britain & Europe, 15th to 20th Centuries. That doesn't lea...

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Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary from Ursus Rare Books

Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary from Ursus Rare Books

Ursus Rare Books has published their Catalogue 348. 50 Illustrated Books Avant-Garde to Contemporary. That is a concise title that still fully captures what is found within its pages. We might add ...

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The American West from Old West Books

The American West from Old West Books

Old West Books recently published their Catalog 53, January 2021, of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. That description may be brief, but it still sums up the type of books you will fi...

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Sample Catalogues from Zephyr Used and Rare Books

Sample Catalogues from Zephyr Used and Rare Books

Zephyr Used and Rare Books has created a catalogue entitled Give the Lady What She Wants! Catalogue of Sample Catalogues. Some include actual product samples, while others allowed people to sample ...

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Peter Harrington Exhibits at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Peter Harrington Exhibits at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Peter Harrington issued a catalogue for the recent Sharjah International Book Fair. The Sharjah fair was unusual in that it took place in Sharjah, a real place, rather than in the virtual world som...

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Fine Books from Raptis Rare Books

Fine Books from Raptis Rare Books

Raptis Rare Books has issued a new catalogue in its series “for the collection of a lifetime.” Rather than having a title, they provide of table of contents of what can be found inside....

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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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