A new month brings a selection of Americana recently added to our shelves. Highlights include the first political cartoon in American history to visualize and satirize gerrymandering, and one of the earliest printings of the Gettysburg Address.

Literary legends, studies on investment and human nature, and classic texts of American natural history. Within this wide-ranging catalogue of sets you'll find the first octavo Shakespeare including the Poems, the celebrated Ibarra edition of Don Quixote, and the first edition of Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.

Within this catalogue of astronomy and astrology, you'll find a number of celestial wonders, from a lunar photo-mosaic assembled by the NASA Surveyor program to a first edition of Opus tripartitum de crisi,  the astrological and medical treatise by the Neapolitan physician Cesare Optatus. 

Extraterrestrial beasts, interstellar war, and plenty of plenty of critters that go bump in the night! Within our science fiction, fantasy, and horror catalogue you'll find first edition, first issue of Frank Herbert's incomparable Dune; a first edition of Lovecraft's first book of fiction, The Shunned House, with an H.P.L autograph; and Robert A. Heinlein's Destination Moon, inscribed to his editor.

From polyglot dictionaries to original work parading as translation, this catalogue is dedicated to the art and impact of translation. Highlights include Edith Wharton's Twelve Poems inscribed to longtime friends and translators, Paul and Minnie Bourget and a signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Lisbon publisher Livros do Brasil.