Primary Sources has released their Catalogue 5 of Uncharted Americana. Primary source material is the type created at the time of an event, accounts and images. Rather than history books or later articles, they are contemporary sources, often personal letters, photographs, diaries and such. Contemporarily written material gives you the views of eyewitnesses at the time, not from later recollections or through the lens of history. Here are a few of the 25 items described in this catalogue.
We begin with a letter written during the height of the Civil War by a Confederate officer's f...
We have received a new catalogue from Type Punch Matrix. I can only say it is a catalogue as it has no title, number, or description. Providing a description isn't easy as there is a variety, but I...
“He who goes gently goes safely. He who goes safely goes far.” That quote graces the cover of Shapero Rare Books latest catalogue. Appropriate to that quote, the title is Travel 2022. T...
Langdon Manor Books has issued their Catalog 13 of The Extraordinary History of the Every Day. Indeed, it's the “every day” aspect of people's lives that often makes them extraordinary....
Zephyr Used & Rare Books has published a Winter Farrago - 2022. “Farrago” is not a word used in most people's everyday vocabulary but it refers to a mix of things, usually a confusi...
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 187 of Rare Americana. It's filled with much uncommon material, books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, documents, letters and s...
