Member Catalogues

Our new catalog--SUMMER MISCELLANY 2017--contains 85 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields, especially African-Americana, Botany, Japan, Ornithology, and Poetry. Highlights include THE FIRST COOKBOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN (1829); an 18th Century Illustrated Japanese Manuscript of Floral Arrangements; Latham's GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS with 193 hand-colored engravings; Ninagawa's study of Japanese pottery with 125 hand-colored plates; Randall Jarrell's THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a MANUSCRIPT VERSE; signed books and documents by Louis Armstrong, Charles Chesnutt, T. S. Eliot, Joel Chandler Harris, Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.

E-List 30 Items

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #186: This is the third catalogue to feature material from the OPTICS & MICROSCOPY library offered in the last science catalogues. Featured: Babbage, De Moivre, Desaguliers, Digby, Ercker, Huygens, Joblot, Kirby, Kircher, Lagrange, Newton, Niceron, Quetelet, Schott, Simpson on Laws of Chance, Struve, etc. Photos sent on request.46 items.

E-List 32 Items

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS: List of 20 fore-edge paintings from the private collection of Dr. Morgan Patterson of Kentucky.

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS: Contains 24 fine fore-edge paintings from a private collection.

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS: Offering 24 fore-edge paintings from a private collection.

List offering 7 highlights in the field of Fore-edge painted books.

Collection of 42 fore-edge paintings. Each is fully described and illustrated.

Collection of 42 fore-edge paintings. Each is fully described and illustrated.

Summer 2017

Books on Pirates, Sailing Ships, Navies and Naval Officers, Merchants, Whaling, Shipwrecks and more!

Recent Acquisitions for Summer 2017

An illustrated online catalogue of books, manuscripts, etc.travelling to Iowa City for display and adoption at the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (ALA) annual summer conference 2017 ~ Early Books, Press Books, Mexicana, Varia ~ rarities, "affordable treasures," and "THE STORIES WE TELL."

Book Arts & Fine Printing

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #185-A: We have recently acquired the optics & microscopy library of a private collector. This the second catalogue offering more highlights from this collection. [66 items]<br />

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #172: THIS is the first of a two-part catalogue featuring both recent acquisitions and highlights from stock. Many excellent bargains can be had with this selection. Item 6 is the first French work on the ophthalmoscope [Anagnostakis, 1854], Baillou [10] is an early study of rheumatism and arthritis, [13] Beddoes is a beautiful copy as is [25] Bernard. Anesthesia from 1847 is found in Bigelow [30], Blackmore [32] treats tuberculosis in 1724, [33] Blanco is the first description of the flora of the Philippines (owned by Howard Sprague Reed). Cesalpino [57] gives an important account of the discovery of blood circulation in 1571/1593. One of the great rarities in medicine is the first edition of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, 1722 [73]. Glisson [107] is the first printing of childhood Rickets in 1650. There is more medicine in the cabinet… [197 items]

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #171: Early printed books, bibliography, fine printing, Californiana, economics, Law, military, literature, Americana, philosophy, religion, poetry, bookbindings.