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Member Catalogues

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a copy of Hémard’s classic Code Civil in a lavish checkerboard binding by his publisher, René Kieffer - a rare piece of pro-divorce propaganda from seventeenth-century England - a handsome first edition of Tapping Reeve’s landmark Baron and Femme, the first American treatise on family law

April 13, 2026

Children's books and illustrated books, mostly recent arrivals with a selection of items from our inventory

April 12, 2026

Twenty-six newly catalogued books and autographs

April 9, 2026




We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a contemporary account of a notable 18th-century English murder extra-illustrated with related contemporary unrecorded items - an unrecorded 1888 Des Moines, Iowa wanted broadside - a rare illustrated 1922 exposé of the Parisian underworld

April 6, 2026

Our new catalog—SPRING MISCELLANY 2026--contains 35 items including Early Baseball, Cookery, Illustrated Books, Signed Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, James Thurber, William Wordsworth, and more

April 6, 2026

Contains antiquarian and secondhand books from the 17th-20th centuries. The catalogue has a mixed content, but stronger in botany, flowers, gardens, decorative arts, ornamentation, specimens of bookbindings, illustrated books, albums with original photographs (including Egypt), religious works, the history of Switzerland (and surrounding countries), etc.

March 31, 2026

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a 1557 edition of the Basilika with manuscript critical annotations by a 16th-century scholar - Fronsberger’s treatise on the military code of the Holy Roman Empire, featuring 6 grand folding plates by Jost Amman - a rare complete set of the Corpus Juris Civilis from the press of Charlotte Guillard

March 29, 2026

Catalogue 435: The American Revolution contains 100 items about the founding of the United States, in celebration of America's 250th Anniversary.

March 26, 2026

Original musical autographs & manuscripts; first & early editions of printed music; rare musical literature; music-related iconography

March 24, 2026

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a vivid, very rare, print of James MacLaine, the "Gentleman Highwayman," in action - an unrecorded printing of a landmark pre-Comstock obscenity law - an incomparable archive of tontines and related material

March 23, 2026

Modern Finance & Economics in 250 items published between 1821 and 2020.

March 20, 2026


We are pleased to offer a preview of our latest catalogue, which will be mailed in the next few weeks. Highlights include: - a 1496 Nuremberg imprint of an important law dictionary - a 1481 Speyer imprint with an impressive ten-line initial - a 1500 Haguenau imprint of a landmark work on law and economics - a c.1473 Strasbourg imprint with a bookplate designed by Picasso

March 16, 2026

A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA

March 14, 2026