Rare Book Monthly Reviews - July - 2021 Issue

Items from the Dietrich American Foundation from the William Reese Company

The William Reese Company has published a catalogue of Offerings from the Dietrich American Foundation. The foundation was started by H. Richard Dietrich Jr., heir, businessman, and collector of American art, books, maps, and other Americana. Dietrich was only 25 years old and still in business school when his father died in 1962. He had to leave school to run the family business, the well-known Luden's Cough Drop Company. He had already been a collector for several years at the time, but he now found himself with more money. The following year he set up the Dietrich American Foundation. Th...

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Counterculture from Type Punch Matrix

Type Punch Matrix has issued a catalogue with the unusual title of brian cassidy bookseller @. This needs an explanation. Type Punch Matrix is a book dealer founded by a pair of already well-establ...

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Avant-Garde Application and Illustration from Ursus Rare Books

Ursus Rare Books has issued a catalogue of Avant-Garde Application & Illustration. The great majority of works herein, not surprisingly, come from the early to mid-twentieth century. That was a...

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Progressive to Radical Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lorne Bair Rare Books has released their Catalog 35. While there is no further title or stated description, it won't take long to discover its subject matter. It contains material relating to vario...

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A Goulash from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Zephyr Used & Rare Books presents their latest collection: The Goulash Connection. This is not about Hungarian delicacies, or ghosts and goblins. It simply means a variety of things, a miscella...

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Old Books from Old West Books

Old West Books recently released their Catalog 55 July 2021. These books, naturally are about the old American West. They have had many new acquisitions of late so you will find items you have not ...

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Rare Book Monthly

  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.

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