Member Catalogues
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.
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
Catalogue 435: The American Revolution contains 100 items about the founding of the United States, in celebration of America's 250th Anniversary.
Original musical autographs & manuscripts; first & early editions of printed music; rare musical literature; music-related iconography
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
Modern Finance & Economics in 250 items published between 1821 and 2020.
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
A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
We are pleased to share the following list of 30 items. It includes: - an 18th-century copy of the standing orders of the House of Lords - a diary of a notable 17th-century English judge with interesting personal notes - the only known copy of a scholarly Scottish Style Book that circulated in manuscript
Approximately 75 books on the hsitory of science, astronomy, many signed by George E. Hale.
Approximately 64 fore-edge paintings, from a private collection. Fully illustrated.