Three gilt-tooled leather volumes of L'Art du Menuisier, photographed in the shop.

Rare Books · Roswell, Georgia

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Rare books, fore-edge paintings, a Picasso in his own hand — on the shelf inside City Antiques, Historic Roswell, and sold directly from it by Sonny Ideker, Bookseller.

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700 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Roswell, GA 30076

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Every volume is photographed in its own light, described plainly, priced in the open — and sold from this shelf, not an algorithm's.

The Cabinet

Four pieces worth the drive, or flight.

218 fore-edge paintings

Paintings that hide inside the pages.

Fan the gilt edge of these books and a watercolor appears — cathedrals, harbors, golfers, even Wrigley Field — then vanishes when the book closes. We hold 218, from $45 to $19,995.

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De Antiquitate Judaica, De Bello Judaica. Translated from Latin: These titles refer to works by the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews (De Antiquitate Judaica) covers the history of the Jewish people from their beginnings to the Roman period, while The Jewish War (De Bello Judaica) details the Jewish revolt against Rome..

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700 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Roswell, GA 30076