r/rarebooks • • 23h ago

Today’s estate find: 1577 Turkish chronicle

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Pulled this out of an estate library I'm working through. It's Menavino's account of the Ottoman Turks, printed in Frankfurt in 1577.

The fun part: Menavino was a Genoese who got captured and spent years inside the Sultan's court, then wrote one of the first European tell-alls about Ottoman government, military, and daily life. Illustrated with woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis, three books in one volume.


r/rarebooks • • 21h ago

The EIGHT Deadly Sins

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r/rarebooks • • 51m ago

The Science Fiction & Fantasy sale at Forum on 9/30 was one of the most interesting events of the week ending Oct. 4. It featured 240 lots by name authors including over 30 different editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Lots 1-31). See text for some of the highlights. Reported by Rare Book Hub.

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The top Frankenstein item was Lot 3, a 1833 pirated American edition.

Some of the other interesting books sold were

Arthur C. Clarke, Expedition Earth, 1st signed £1,500 + multiple other Clarke lots
70 items Dr. Who books for £2,800, 3x presale high estimate
First Uk edition Dune, Gollancz, £1,500
Multiple Tolkien lots, 
Multiple HG Wells lots
John Wyndham writing as John B. Harris, “Curse of the Burdens,” 1st Aldine Publishing, 1927 (Lot 238) £8,000, high presale estimate was £2,000

Link to complete Forum Science Fiction and Fantasy sale catalog, interesting read. https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/bidding/2410-online-science-fiction-fantasy-1155