Catalogues

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Music , Poetry , Religion , Bibliography

75 items on music, with full-color illustrations

Boston Book Company

Specialities : Art , Japan , Illustrated books , Erotica , Poetry

Boston Book Company

Specialities : Japan , Asia , Art , Prints and drawings , Poetry , Erotica , Illustrated books

What follows is a list of traditional Japanese ehon 絵本. Simply put, ehon are “picture books.” The term embraces many different approaches to book illustration, from those works that are primarily textual and simply enlivened by plates, to works that are really printed gachō 画帳 or gafu 画譜.

Shapero Rare Books Ltd

Specialities : Modern first editions , Poetry , Literature , Periodicals , Ephemera , Posters

The Seamus Heaney Collection of Ed & Mary Conley Downe, a comprehensive collection comprising first editions, broadsides, ephemera and periodical appearances, mostly signed by the author. Produced in partnership with Rick Gekoski.

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : History , Poetry , Literature

132 items recently catalogued, with full-color illustrations

Buddenbrooks, Inc.

Specialities : Poetry , Literature

Over 100 Books by Poets both Ancient and Modern

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Central & Latin America , History , Poetry

21 items on Central America, with full-color illustrations

Symonds Rare Books Ltd

Specialities : Incunabula , Manuscripts , Natural history , Science and technology , Travel , Poetry , History , Religion , Occult , Prints and drawings

We invite you to take a look at our selection of rare and interesting books on diverse subjects from the dawn of printing to the present day.

On this important occasion, we would like to show you presentation copies and autographs, including a page from the score of the main theme of Casino Royale (1967) by Burt Bacharach (n. 11) and a presentation copy by the great Italian Romantic Ugo Foscolo (n. 5) of his translation of Sterne’s Sentimental Journey (1814).

A wonderful leaf from a 1455 Gutenberg Bible (n. 21) is included in our selection of manuscripts and incunabula, which further features a breviary from the Abbey of St. Loup of Troyes (n. 14) and a wonderful printed border by Johann Zainer of Ulm (n. 19).

One of our best represented categories, Natural History will showcase an exceptional volume of the Historia Naturalis by Pliny (n. 43) and a rare floral book on Antigua by Lydia Byam (n. 37), inter alia.

The section on the History of Science highlights the complete Philosophical Collections (1679 - 82), which were edited by Robert Hooke and presented some of the most important discoveries of the 17th century for the first time (n. 50). Furthermore, there is the first book ever printed with embossed types for the blind, using a technology that predates the Braille alphabet.

The great occultist Aleister Crowley formed a special relationship with John Symonds, his literary executor. We are also proud to present unique Crowley items, including an unpublished drawing from Thelema Abbey of 1921 (n. 113) and the holograph manuscript of The King of the Shadow Realm (n. 110), the biography of Aleister Crowley by Symonds.

Art objects include a very rare, signed and dated, bronze cast of the death mask of Joseph Stalin (n. 115) and a fine contemporary portrait of Charles Dickens, aged about 49 (n. 117).

We hope you will enjoy browsing the history of ideas and experience the many wonders of the past.

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Literature , History , Poetry

Forty-Four Books About Women, with full-color illustrations

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Women , Literature , Poetry , History

Sixty-six book by women, with full-color illustrations