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ABAA membership is a privilege extended only to those booksellers who have demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism, ethics, and expertise in the trade. Our more than four hundred members hail from an impressively diverse array of backgrounds. Some have spent their entire careers in the book business, while others have been lighthouse keepers, poets, helicopter pilots, and professional musicians. Some members own brick-and-mortar shops, some operate internet-only businesses from their home or office, some fashion livelihoods from exhibiting at book fairs. Many combine these retail strategies, or add services such as appraising and collection development. A few earn additional income and professional prestige from research and writing. But all our members share an appreciation for the printed page and for the scholarly and ethical practices which exemplify professional bookselling. ...

B. & L. Rootenberg Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Sherman Oaks, CA
http://www.rootenbergbooks.com

Science, Medicine, Technology and Natural History. We also maintain high-quality Rare Books and Manuscripts in diverse subjects including Travel and Exploration, Literary Classics, Economics and Philosophy, Americana, and Modern First Editions, many Inscribed.

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  • Les nouveaux oracles divertissans. [With:] Curieux traité de la phisionomie. [And:] Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes
    Les nouveaux oracles divertissans. [With:] Curieux traité de la phisionomie. [And:] Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes

    by VULSON, Marc de, sieur de La Columbière

    Paris : Quinet , 1696


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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  • Mystères des sciences occultes
    Mystères des sciences occultes

    by ENCAUSSE, Gérard Anaclet Vincent (“by an INITIATE”)

    Paris : Librairie Illustrée , 1894


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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  • Harraden's Illustrated Manual of Magnetic Healing
    Harraden's Illustrated Manual of Magnetic Healing

    by HARRADEN, L.A.

    Jackson, Michigan : the Author , 1900


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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  • Influence de Nostradamus dans le gouvernement de la France
    Influence de Nostradamus dans le gouvernement de la France

    by TORNÉ-CHAVIGNY, Henri


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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  • Moeurs et pratiques des démons.
    Moeurs et pratiques des démons.

    by GOUGENOT DES MOUSSEAUX, Roger


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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  • La magie au dix-neuvième siècle.
    La magie au dix-neuvième siècle.

    by GOUGENOT DES MOUSSEAUX, Roger


    offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

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Bookseller interviews

James Gray Bookseller

James grew up in a house full of books. As a child he turned his closet into a little library, reading whatever he could get his hands on, no matter the reading level. After studying anthropology he found work as an archeologist unsatisfying. While he was searching for a career path he could enjoy, he happened to purchase a lexicon which started him down the road of collecting. Quickly gathering more books than he wanted, he turned to selling. In 1991, he became a full time antiquarian bookseller. James Gray Bookseller operates out of Princeton, MA and specializes in Early Printed Books and Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Books of Hours. ABAA Member since 2015. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on November 17, 2018 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Rose City Book and Paper Fair 2025

The Paris Review

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Peruse the Stacks

Peruse the Stacks

A miscellany for the Portland fair with standout Arkham House titles, several scarce occult works a...

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A selection of Paris Reviews, with several signed by editors, and a few by contributors.

View A selection of Paris Reviews, with several signed by editors, and a few by contributors. Online >

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