Member Catalogues
Opera Scores from the Collection of Jerome Holover
A collection of over 50 historically interesting pieces of 18th and 19th-century correspondence.
Catalog 60 is packed with Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books, many are signed including an early printing of Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Newbery Winners which are scarce in the first edition such as Ann Nolan Clark's Secret of the Andes and Virginia Sorenson's Miracles on Maple Hill. This catalog also features nice, first editions and early printings of Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books. A few highlights of illustrated books from this catalog are a signed limited edition of N. C. Wyeth's Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and Jessie Willcox Smith's Seven Ages of Childhood in dust jacket!
A Collection of Works by and about the Composer, Libretti, and Scores
E-List 37 Items
16 items fully illustrated and described in areas of literature, art, cartoon art, photography, science, women's history, Jewish history, cinema and television, popular music.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #187: Features 173 antiquarian books of recent acquisition in the fields of early printed books, Americana, literature, fine printing, Voyages & Travel, Photography, etc. Essentially a broad range of what is on the bookseller's shelf. INCLUDING: Aesop 1668h, Hans Christian Andersen, IN SPAIN, 1864, Francis Bacon, WORKS, 1740, J. Bradbury, TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, 1817, DeLoss Mcgraw (1985), Robinson Jeffers, GRANITE & CYPRESS, 1974, etc.
List of early printed books in alchemy, chemistry, pharmacy, etc
List of 18th century antisemitic law publications and law books
Catalogue #25 (September 2017), "Herbs & Herbals," contains 65 items including a number of significant British and American herbals. Highlights include the following: John Gerard's landmark HERBAL (London 1636), with over 2,800 woodcuts of plants; Hill's BRITISH HERBAL (London 1756) with an allegorical frontispiece and 75 copperplate engravings; Abraham Munting's DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA (Amsterdam 1681), containing 24 engraved plates of plants, all contenders in the author's search for the identity of the true "Herba Britannica" as discussed by early herbalists; and Constantine Rafinesque's MEDICAL FLORA (Philadelphia, PA 1828: 1830), complete with 100 plates of plants printed in green ink.
Seasonal miscellany featuring Nicolay & Hay's Lincoln with a signed document by John Hay laid in, a 1701 medical work by Thomas Willis, a strong selection of works by William Osler, military and world history, etc.
E-List 30 Items
English and American books, pamphlets, broadsides and manuscripts on and in shorthand of various sorts.