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Member Catalogues

Features new acquisitions in the fields of Utah & the Mormons, Native & Western Americana, Maps & Photographs, and Illustrated Books & Wordless Novels. Catalogue 48 also features some fantastic original artworks for sale, and an exciting Charles Bukowski archive.

November 12, 2014

This 172-item catalogue (with index) offers a wide variety of American, English, and Continental books, manuscript items, and ephemera. Highlights include the first edition of the Exceptiones Legum Romanorum (1500), Giunta's illustrated edition of the Decretum Gratiani (1514), the manuscript record of a nineteenth-century English law society and first editions of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution (1833) and Cowell's Institutiones Juris Anglicana (1605).

November 12, 2014


A short list of some Catalonia-related material inspired by the unofficial Catalan self-determination referendum, much of it from the Spanish Civil War.

November 10, 2014

An online-only illustrated catalog. 33 items to demonstrate the proposition that daily life presents small instances of wonder: A kitten saves a family from a fire. Images in sawdust and resin hold images on glass. The patient application of postage stamps is the medium of an artist who once sent the Smithsonian a nail found in the stomach of a hog.

November 7, 2014

A wide range of items, spanning a range of over 2000 years. Available for download is a PDF of catalog 52 in both high and low resolution. The one available here is low resolution, go to Biblioctopus.com for a high resolution download. If you would like to receive an email notification of future catalog downloads, please submit your information through the contact form on Biblioctopus.com<br /><br /><br /><br />

November 7, 2014

A selection of 32 interesting and uncommon books relating 19th and early 20th century photographic methods. The earliest book on the list is a first edition of Robert Hunt's Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography (1841). Included are several trade catalogues, manuals on daguerrotype, calotype, collodion, albumen, ferrotype, and dry plate processes, books treating chemistry and other scientific aspects of photography, and two of the first American scientific books to be illustrated with real photographs.

November 6, 2014

Sheet music, with an emphasis on the labor movement, drag performers and the complicated dance around ethnicity.

November 6, 2014

How and when did food production move from the kitchen to the factory? The items in this catalogue seek to illustrate this transformation. Included are printed and manuscript materials produced by and for the food industry: handbooks, trade catalogues, advertising art, labels, photographs, and ephemera. We've divided the catalogue into the primary activities that occur 'between farm and table', stopping just short of the home or restaurant kitchen.

November 6, 2014

Each of the books on this list come from the personal library of American computer pioneer Willis Ware (1920-2013). Some have his bookplate to the front pastedown, others may include an inscription or have items laid in that help further illuminate the advanced thinking of this leader in the technological revolution. In the late 1940s, Ware helped John von Neumann build a machine that would become a blueprint for computer design in the 20th century, and later played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age.

November 4, 2014

Over 100 colonial American history items, plus about 50 other titles, including several on witchcraft.

October 30, 2014

A collection of medical history, domestic & popular medicine, and medical biography.

October 30, 2014

A Catalogue of Significant and Unusual Imprints Relating to America

October 30, 2014

A Catalogue of Significant and Unusual Imprints Relating to America

October 30, 2014


Handbills, flyers, broadsides and other single-sheet communications

October 29, 2014