Rare books, manuscripts, & rare bibles at Philadelphia Rare Books

Correspondence welcome in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, & French.

Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company - Early Printed Books, Substantive Manuscripts, U.S. and Latin Americana, Mexico & New World Languages, Hispanica, Histories & the History of Ideas, Travels, Cookery, Law, Religion, & Bibles (All Antiquarian)

WHAT'S NEW . . .	This index/welcome page updated 19 JANUARY 2012 . . . other pages, variously . . .
OurNEWEST ARRIVALS were updated 20 JANUARY 2012 — Click at top left!

~ PRB&M ~

~ YOU'LL BE WELCOME HERE AT THE ARSENAL! ~
~ OPEN BY APPOINTMENT, WITH PLEASURE ~
~ GENERAL “OPEN HOUSE” MOST SATURDAYS 12–4 ~

“RSVP” for a 2012 “OPEN HOUSE”!
The door above (sans snow?) will be open to all those seeking books,
snacks, and/or the company of other book-lovers
on ALL January's upcoming Saturdays . . .
If you want to be SURE of getting memos on Open Houses,
please tell us!

For a note on visiting,
click here.

BROWSE books by Language, Century, or TOPIC

ABAA Code of Ethics • About "SESSABKS" • TERMS, PRIVACY, & GUARANTEES • On COLLECTING
ADVENTURES in Bookselling • What we BUY • APPRAISALS

Come Here Often? IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE OCCASIONAL EMAILS HIGHLIGHTING NEW FEATURED BOOKS, WEB CATALOGUES, EVENTS, & OTHER SHOP NEWS, CLICK HERE.

WELCOME to the WINTER WEBSHOP . . .
Surely it's not too late to wish visitors a
very fine New Year?

As always! You can click the multi-colored link or the pictures to see
the illustrated description of our current . . .

NOTABLY NIFTY OFFERING

New pictures let regular visitors know when there's a new book or manuscript to click to.

If you would like us to send you the link directly
by e-mail, each time, we can do so . . . just ask!

Or reviewTHE GALLERY of Featured Books . . .

Then, whether with your own collecting
OR a beloved “giftee” in mind . . .

BROWSE @ PRB&M BY TOPIC . . .
OR LANGUAGE OR CENTURY . . .

The GREEN button below takes you to
our full, always-evolving
CATALOGUE of WEB CATALOGUES . . .

. . . with a mere Selection showing below . . .

POST-1820 AMERICANA — click here
PRE-1820 AMERICANA — click here
Illustrated Books (hm, giftable!) — click here
Or for CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY only — click here
PROVENANCE — click here

China — click here

Literature — click here

PLAYBILLS — click here
Natural History — click here Books about Books — click here

Children/Education/Children's Books — click here
Commerce/Finance/Trade — click here

Native Americana — click here
Medicine — click here Cookery — click here
Ireland/Irish — click here AND/OR here
Greek & Latin Classics — click here MEXICANA! — click here
Music & Dance — click here German Americana — click here
Bibles, Testaments, & Bible Scholarship — click here
General Religion — click here
Judaica/Hebraica — click here Rare Catholica — click here
Scotland/Scots — click here Manuscripts — click here
CHAPBOOKS affordable & giftworthy — click here

Women — click here

Human Rights — click here

Books in French — click hereBooks in Italian — click here
16TH Century Books — click here
Collected Presses & Typography — click here.
AND SETS! — click here.

See also!
BINDINGS • BINDINGS • BINDINGS
(most very giftable!)
— click here

Or for our ANTIQUARIAN
GENERAL MISCELLANY,
Just click the BOOKSHELF picture.

You can also CLICK!
to view QUANTITIES of our stock not yet
(and sometimes never to be) in our illustrated catalogues.
You can sort your finds by author, title, or date; and you can
ask just to seeOUR 25 NEWEST POSTINGS.

SEE THOSE
NEWEST POSTINGS
right from here . . .

Ready for a breather from book-looking? Read an
ADVENTURE in BOOKSELLING . . .
[CLICK HERE]

OR!

For the Tale (or Tail) of how
our subshop “SESSABKS” came to be,
Click here . . .

&

If you travel I-95 this Winter
think of visiting!
(At Exit 27, you'll be within a
quarter-mile of us.)
Please call or email for an appointment & directions . . .
Or, plan to come by on a Saturday afternoon.
For more on visiting, click here!