Rare Book Monthly Reviews - March - 2025 Issue

Mark Funke, Bookseller, Offers the Rare Book Collection of Dr. Felix Guggenheim

Mark Funke, Bookseller, Offers the Rare Book Collection of Dr. Felix Guggenheim

Mark Funke, Bookseller, has created an exceptional catalogue of The Rare Book Collection of Dr. Felix Guggenheim. Guggenheim was a German publisher and founder of the German Book Association in the 1930s. It enabled him to avoid confrontation with the Nazi regime despite being Jewish. The organization simply ignored the Nazis. He traveled to America in 1938 where friends warned him not to return. Instead, he went to Switzerland, brought his family there, then moved to Britain and finally the United States in 1940.
 
In America, he had many connections with the German exile community that ...

The Southern Confederacy at War from The George S. MacManus Co.

The Southern Confederacy at War from The George S. MacManus Co.

We are admittedly a bit late in reviewing this catalogue, but since most of the entries are around 150 years old, a few extra months is not that important. The catalogue is number 429 from The Geor...

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Antiquariat Kainbacher Presents Traveling in the Wide World

Antiquariat Kainbacher Presents Traveling in the Wide World

Antiquariat Kainbacher has published a catalogue of Unterwegs in der weiten Welt (Traveling in the Wide World). That's not an exaggeration as these trips go to places all over the Earth. They are o...

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Books for Cooks Features Recipes from All Over the World

Books for Cooks Features Recipes from All Over the World

Books for Cooks has published their Catalogue 6. Books for Cooks is an Australian bookseller, so you will find some titles dedicated to Australian cuisine. Perhaps better known is Australian wine w...

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Brave New World (and Old Paper) from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Brave New World (and Old Paper) from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Zephyr Used & Rare Books has issued a catalogue titled Brave New World. Whether the world is brave or new is subject to debate, but the items in the catalogue are old. There is a variety of typ...

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A New Collection from Old West Books

A New Collection from Old West Books

Old West Books has issued their Catalogue 68 March 2025 of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. If you turn the clock back between one and two centuries, you will match the vast majority ...

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Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books

Rare Americana from David M. Lesser Antiquarian Books

David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their Catalogue 208 of Rare Americana. Books range through three centuries, from Colonial times to the second half of the twentieth century. Howeve...

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  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.

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