Member Catalogues
Our favorite 100 selections from the works we cataloged throughout the year
A wide selection of Modern Library editions displaying their wide range of binding and jacket styles
375 items acquired during the past year, representing interesting material in the philosophy, literature, early printing, trade bindings, military history, modern first editions, etc.
The books in this list are being exhibited at the Virtual Book Fair, Firsts Online, which takes place from 23 to 26 February, 2023.
132 Items: Books, pamphlets, broadsides, printed ephemera, maps, and manuscripts — cities and counties, Appalachia, agriculture, education, medicine, religion, freemasonry, politics, business, transportation, fossil fuels, Civil War, women, and other topics.
107 books: Americana, Bibliography, Bridges, Engineering, Exploration, Manufacturing, Medicine, Science, Scientific Instruments, Ships, Technology, Voyages
Art, architecture, bibliography, collecting, cartography, engineering, medicine, navigation, medicine, science, ships, technology, trains, transportation, travel, voyages
Highlights include a hymnal with the first appearance in English of "Silent Night"; a first English dictionary; a Navajo dictionary; Freud examines Da Vinci; a Japan travelogue; a forerunner of gay literature . . .
We are pleased to offer a selection of 20 fine press books from a recently acquired collection. Among the items being offered are 10 titles published by The Arion Press, two exquisite volumes of Shakespeare, an uncommon García Márquez collaboration with fabulous fold-out plates, and works illustrated by Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, Gaylord Schanilec, William Kentridge, and David Rathman.
E-List 30 Items
33 items, fully illustrated. Interactive PDF.
Cocktail books offer an intriguing insight into a particular aspect of popular culture - drinking and the people and the places that serve drinks. History, such as America's Prohibition laws, art movements, such as the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s, and the great drinking holes of the world can all be found in cocktail books from the past.<br /> <br /> So, ‘Belly up to the Bar’ and get recipes for your favorite drinks and maybe find some that are new. “Don’t blink! Your drink will be gone.” “Trust us, you can dance.”<br />
28 items, fully illustrated. Interactive PDF.
Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.
28 Highlights for Black History Month 2023