Rare Book Monthly Reviews - November - 2022 Issue

The Bart Auerbach Collection from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

The Bart Auerbach Collection from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Riverrun Books & Manuscripts has created a spectacular catalogue of The Bart Auerbach Collection. It contains 500 items divided into three sections, Dedication Copies; Books, Letters & Manuscripts; and The Book Trade. A great number of the books contain author inscriptions.
 
Bart Auerbach spent over 60 years in the book trade. He wrote innumerable descriptions in catalogues, some while a bookseller, but most while working for the two largest auction houses in the world, Christie's and Sotheby's. If you use the Transaction History database on this site, you have undoubtedly r...

“Women” is the Latest Catalogue from Between The Covers Rare Books and James Cummins Bookseller.

“Women” is the Latest Catalogue from Between The Covers Rare Books and James Cummins Bookseller.

Between The Covers Rare Books, in conjunction with James Cummins Bookseller, has issued their Catalog 258 – Women. This catalogue includes items from Waiting for Godot Books, both their inven...

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A New Catalogue from Type Punch Matrix

A New Catalogue from Type Punch Matrix

Type Punch Matrix has published a new catalogue of... This one is hard to identify. It has no title, not even a number or date. The subjects are widely varied, generally a few of similar titles fol...

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Avant-Garde Illustration from Ursus Rare Books

Avant-Garde Illustration from Ursus Rare Books

Ursus Rare Books' latest catalogue (no. 356) is entitled Avant-Garde Illustration 1901-1986. That is a nice, concise title that sums up what you will find in this catalogue. There are famous names ...

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Seattle, LAX and Much More from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Seattle, LAX and Much More from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Zephyr Used & Rare Books' latest catalogue is Fall Mixture: Seattle & LAX Catalogue – 2022. We all know where Seattle is but LAX would seem to apply to Los Angeles, though it specific...

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  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    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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