As summer opens the year’s next chapter, we are delighted to welcome you to our June Catalyst––a gathering devoted to the art of illustration, imagination, and the enduring pleasures of the printed page. This month, we turn to books made for unhurried discovery: from the masterworks of the Golden Age Illustrators to deluxe limited editions; from the timeless enchantments of fairy tales to beloved classics reimagined through extraordinary visual artistry. Whether your tastes run to illustrative decadence, finely produced private press editions, or contemporary treasures, this Catalyst celebrates books that remind us summer is the perfect season for wonder, escape, and beautiful storytelling. Each of these has sparked our imagination, and we hope the same for you––that something here may be waiting to inspire your next collection.

Spring is in the air––a season for renewal, and for turning once more to the pleasures of the shelf. Whether refining a collection or filling a long-awaited gap, we invite you to explore a curated miscellany of some of our recent acquisitions, each selected for its ability to elevate and enliven a collection. From explorations in butter churning to the depths of Africa, from Apollo Astronaut signatures to hand-colored floral prints, this Catalyst has it all! We hope these selections ignite your own collecting imagination, just as they have ours.

Our September Catalyst features 25 of our newest arrivals that we think will spark the collecting imagination. The literature in this group spans multiple genres - from fiction to socio-political movements to music to philosophy. With signed literature, first editions, and collectible early printings, this group has a little something for every modern collector.

For this catalogue, we have selected over 60 of the most important and curious pieces of the late Dr. Martin Lockley's collection. Earlier this year, The Hermitage was honored to be welcomed into the home of Dr. Lockley by his wonderful family to help sort through his collection of natural history, paleontology, British history, archaeology, and so many other treasures. Dr. Lockley was a world-renowned paleontologist and co-founder of Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge. He revolutionized the paleontological world with his research in dinosaur tracking (i.e. ichnology).