New Rare Book Catalogues: Five Rare Books for Collectors

A selection of five of the latest rare book catalogues currently available from booksellers including:

Bernard Quaritch's May New Acquisitions list is a curated selection of 32 freshly catalogued items. "Amongst them you will find works on duelling, drawing, and dowries for spinsters; translations by painters, prodigies, poets, and priests; annotated grammars, histories, and armorials; as well as a manual for courtiers, a London guidebook for children, a Book of Common Prayer for Spanish Anglicans, beautiful bindings, classics galore, and much more besides."

Peter Harrington has released its first catalogue wholly dedicated to the literature of the natural world: Writing Nature – Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It. "Drawing inspiration from the poet Mary Oliver’s renowned poem Instructions for Living a Life, the collection is a vivid and timely tribute to writers who have paid attention to the natural world, been awed by it, and have spread the word – often with urgency and eloquence. Curated by Senior Literature Specialist Sammy Jay, this 129-item catalogue spans five centuries and a spectrum of voices, from sacred forests to scorched earth, from pastoral joy to ecological forewarning."

Fold The Corner Books's Forgotten Journey: A Peter Fleming Catalogue is a somewhat neglected writer now but wrote successfully on travel, often very wittily, in the 1930s in books such as Brazilian Adventure, One's Company, and News from Tartary before working in Deception operations in the Far East during World War II.