Rare Books

Cassell's Household Guide. Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy, and forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date (about 1900?). Estimate: 3,000 - 4,000 SEK
Culinary Manuscripts and Rare Woodcuts in Books, Maps & Manuscripts Auction
Stockholms Auktionsverk's upcoming auction features more than 300 items dating back to the 15th century including maps, travelogues, and numerous ti
Jane Austen's copy of Curiosities of Literature
Jane Austen's Personal Signed Copy of Isaac D'Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature: $150,000 Auction Estimate
Sotheby’s is offering an exceedingly rare piece of
a first edition of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1741) (est. £100,000-150,000)
£150,000 Estimate for Rare First Edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations at Auction
Significant J S Bach, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms musica
ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair logo
ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair and Firsts Online Book Fairs
Two important online book fairs return later this month, the 2023 ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair and Firsts Online.
[Anonymous]. Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers. Boston: George N. Thomson and E. Littlefield, 1839.
Origins of the Detective Story Explored in New Grolier Club Exhibition
The Grolier Club will unravel the history of detective literature in its new exhibition Whodunit?
Hemingway
Second Story Books Opens New Web Pages to Search Books by Collections
Second Story Books, the oldest used and rare bookstore in the Washington DC metro area, announces a unique way to build your library or collection:  Searching the collection of others for uniq
A page from the manuscript by Georg Hermann
Scholar Rescues Lost Masterpiece by Author Georg Hermann Who Died at Auschwitz
A long-lost manuscript by renowned 20th century German author Georg Hermann has been published over 80 years after it was written, thanks to the efforts of a Univ
A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes Held at Bury St. Edmunds for the County of Suffolk
Rare Witchcraft Trial Account Used as Precedent for Salem to Auction
A rare eyewitness account of the trial of two Suffolk women accused of witchcraft in the 17th cen
Antiquarian Books
Temporary Export Ban on £800,000 New Testament Once Owned by English Royal Family
The manuscript, valued at £800,000 and at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found, was previously unknown to scholars as it has been in private ownership for at least 300 years.
first edition, first impression of W.B. Yeats’s first book Mosada (1886
Spirit Contact at Séance Helps Solve Riddle of £125,000 W.B. Yeats’s Mosada Presentation Copy

Rare book dealer Peter Harrington’s cataloguing team credit a voice from beyond the grave in providing the clue to the recipient of a presentation