  • <b>London, King Street: 27 May 2015</b>
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, MAINZ. Price realized: $5,390,000. Oct 1987, NY.
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> LEONARDO DA VINCI, Codex Hammer. Price realized: $30,802,500. Nov 1994 NY
    <b>London, King Street: 27 May 2015</b>
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> THE FORBES COLLECTION, Price realized: $40,900,000. Mar 2002, New York.
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> ANDRE FRANQUIN, SPIROU ET FANTASIO. Price realized: €157,500. Apr 2014, Paris, France.
    <b>London, King Street: 27 May 2015</b>
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> THE GREAT HOURS OF GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA. Price realized: £1,217,250. Jul 2011, London.
    <b>CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL PRICES:</b> THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK. A Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin. Price realized: $13,605,000.
  • <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Bartolus, Super Prima Parte Infortiati (Venice, 1478). See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Philadelphia, 1771-73). First American edition. See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book<br>Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Blackstone, The Great Charter (Oxford, 1759). First edition. See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium (Venice, 1491). In a remarkable binding. See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Darrow, Autograph Letter, Signed (February 26, c.1930). See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales (London, 1671). Extra-illustrated on 138 leaves. See at the 2015 NY Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Gratian, Decretus Gratiani (Venice, 1514). With 130 woodcuts. See at the 2015 NY ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Gregory IX, Decretales (Nuremberg, 1482). Koberger imprint with exquisite initials. See at the 2015 NY Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Holmes, Flirtatious Autograph Letter, Signed (Boston, December 4, 1897). See at the 2015 NY Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Jodocus, Vocabularius (Strasburg, 1500) [&] Formulare Registrorum (Leipzig, 1506). See at the 2015 NY Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Story, Commentaries on the Constitution (Boston, 1833). First edition. See at the 2015 NY Antiquarian Book Fair Booth C26.
    <b>Lawbook Exchange: </b>Catalogue 79 - March 2015. Recently Acquired Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
  • <b>Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books: </b> Selection of Manuscripts
    <b>Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books: </b> Selection of Miniatures
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    <b>Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books: </b><br>St. Paul’s epistles, manuscript on vellum, illuminated by the Simon Master, c. 1150-75
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  • <b>Shapero Rare Books:</b> Latest catalogue: 50 Fine Books 2015
    <b>Shapero Rare Books:</b> M. Catesby,<br>The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London, 1729-77).
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Rare Book Monthly

Book Catalogue Reviews - February - 2008 Issue

Travel from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

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Travel from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books.


By Michael Stillman

From Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books of the Netherlands comes their latest catalogue: Travel. This includes books from what were far away lands to most Europeans over a century or more ago. One of those lands was America, and we note an unusually large number of American works in this the Dutch bookseller's 133rd catalogue. We will focus primarily on these items since we usually do not see such material in a Bestebreurtje catalogue, but Dutch and other European collectors will, as always, find plenty of interesting works within the latest collection. Now for a few samples of the 200+ items available.

One of the earliest major American agitators against slavery was Anthony Benezet of Philadelphia. Benezet studied the slave trade in the Americas and wrote about what he discovered in Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. Benezet's work was particularly influential in England, where it was published (London). Offered is a "new edition" from 1788. Item 11. Priced at €1,100 (Euros or approximate US equivalent of $1,613).

Item 61 is another strong attack on slavery by the Ohio abolitionist congressman Joshua Giddings. The title of this 1858 book is The exiles of Florida: or, the crimes committed by our government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws. Giddings minces no words in his indictment of the United States government for chasing slaves who escaped to Florida, both while it was still under Spanish dominion and after being acquired by the U.S. However, Giddings not only focuses on the wrongs done to former slaves, but to the miserable treatment of the native Seminoles, who were brutally beaten into submission despite their determined efforts to resist encroachment into their lands. €160 (US $234).

For those interested in early mining in the American Southwest, item 6 is The Silver Country or the Great Southwest. This work covers not only mining but other physical features, agriculture, climate, topography and more about Mexico and the territory acquired in the Mexican cession - California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Written by Alexander D. Anderson and published in 1877. €175 (US $256).

Item 64 was an attempted modification to the discovery of the headwaters of the Mississippi by Willard Glazier, then President of the American Geographical Society. Henry Schoolcraft had finally discovered the great river's source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota in 1832, but Glazier concluded that it actually began in a smaller lake above it, which he modestly named "Lake Glazier" (it is now known as "Elk Lake"). He announced his discovery in Headwaters of the Mississippi…and a full account of the discovery and location of the true source in a lake beyond Itasca. While it is true that Elk Lake drains into Itasca, and a couple of small streams drain into Elk Lake, Lake Itasca is still recognized by most as the source of the Mississippi River. This is an 1894 edition of a work first published in 1893. €125 (US $183).

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