Catalogues

Antiquariaat Forum BV

Specialities : Old and rare books , Americana , Central & Latin America , Travel , Natural history , Asia , Botany , Manuscripts , Maritime

Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

Specialities : Asia , Americana , Africana

Books on missionary voyages

Antiquariaat Forum BV

Specialities : Old and rare books , Travel , Zoology , Religion , Science and technology , Medicine , Natural history , Americana , Asia , Atlases and maps , Middle East

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Economics , History , Religion , Illustrated books , Medicine , Americana

Sixty-two first works on a variety of themes, with full-color illustrations

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Literature , Modern first editions , Americana , Economics , Children's books , History , Philosophy , Sports and games , Art , Science and technology

With the holiday season approaching, we invite you to browse a fine selection of new acquisitions and meaningful gift suggestions. Highlights of the catalog include: an exquisite first edition set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas books finely bound by Zaehnsdorf, a fine first edition of Highlanders of Scotland inscribed by Queen Victoria to her son Prince Arthur, a complete first edition set of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia in the original dust jackets, J.R.R. Tolkien’s schoolboy copy of Mackail’s Latin Literature with Tolkien’s ownership signature, a rare first edition of Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece The Prophet, and a rare first edition of Roald Dahl’s The Gremlins inscribed by Walt Disney.

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Americana , History , Art , Economics , Music , Classics/Antiquity , Sports and games , Modern first editions , Literature

Browse an expertly curated selection of new acquisitions with the arrival of our new Fall 2019 catalog of fine rare books and historic documents. Highlights of the catalog include a rare first Latin edition of Galileo’s epoch-making Dialogo, The Bishop-Stockhausen copy of the extraordinarily rare first issue of Shakespeare’s Second Folio, a first edition of John Milton’s masterpiece Paradise Lost, the first and only printed pamphlet of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, an exceedingly rare first edition of The Diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch, a rare signed first edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s third book Why We Can’t Wait, and an extraordinary two-page Jack Kerouac autograph manuscript.

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Antiquity , Modern first editions , Travel , Science and technology , Americana , Children's books , Art

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new Summer 2019 Catalog of fine rare books and historic documents, from antiquity to modernity. Highlights of the catalog include a rare first edition in English of Sir Isaac Newton’s Two Treatises on the Quadrature of Curves, an exquisite Cyrillic document signed by Catherine the Great, an exceedingly rare first edition of the History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, a deluxe illustrated Ibarra edition of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a scarce first issue of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and a first edition of Catch-22 signed by both Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Americana , Art , Architecture , Photography , Literature , History , Philosophy , Autographs , Sports and games , Children's books

This holiday season, we invite you to browse a carefully curated selection of exceptional gifts with the arrival of our Holiday 2018 Catalog. Highlights of the catalog include a first edition of Pope Leo XIII’s first Papal encyclical inscribed by him to the Empress of Austria, a rare Military Commission signed by President Abraham Lincoln, a finely bound Manuscript edition of the Writings of John Muir, a signed first edition of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, a signed first edition of Leonard Cohen’s Let Us Compare Mythologies and a signed limited first edition of Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince.

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Natural history , Science and technology , Economics , Children's books , Religion , Modern first editions , History , Sports and games , Travel , Americana

We invite you to explore an exceptional selection of fine rare books and historic signed documents with the arrival of our new Fall 2018 catalog. Highlights of the catalog include a magnificent first edition of Saint Augustine’s monumental Of the Citie of God, an exceptionally rare Autograph Album Signed by Abraham Lincoln, one of the earliest obtainable examples of Homer’s landmark work The Odyssey, a scarce first edition of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, a rare Autograph Note Signed by Charles Darwin to fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, a rare second edition of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior signed by John von Neumann, and a rare first edition of Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends lengthily inscribed by him with a poem to his editor.

Raptis Rare Books

Specialities : Literature , Americana , First Editions , Modern first editions , Children's books , Antiquity

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our Summer 2018 Catalog featuring a fine selection of rare first editions and historic signed documents. Highlights of the catalog include a first and only Latin edition of the monumental Nuremburg Chronicle published in 1493, an exceptionally rare complete set in English of The Works of Aristotle bound by the Bookbinder to the King, a rare second edition of the first part of Don Quixote in English, a rare first edition of Alexander Hamilton’s Refute Against the Charge of Speculation, a first edition of William Faulkner’s 1929 masterpiece The Sound and the Fury, a first edition of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces inscribed by him to fellow author Richard Adams, a rare La Corona cigar partially smoked by Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill accompanied by a photograph of him smoking that very cigar, and a first edition of Lady and the Tramp signed by Walt Disney.