Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice: A novel, London: T. Egerton, 1813.
First edition.
Three volumes, a rare and choice set bound in contemporary
calf, and with all half-titles present.
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. On the Tendency of Species
to Form Varieties.
London: 1858. First publication of the theory of evolution
by natural selection.
René Descartes. Specimina philosophiae. Amsterdam: 1644. First
Latin edition of
Descartes’ Discours [1637], containing the first
appearance of the famous phrase “Cogito, ergo sum.”
William Faulkner. Soldier’s Pay, New York: 1926. First edition
of the author's first novel.
In a fine, unfaded dust jacket that has been
minimally restored.
Thomas Jefferson. Autographed Letter Signed as President, Feb. 23, 1803.
On Barbary pirates' tribute demands, planning a limited Mediterranean war.
Isaac Newton. Extraordinary Archive of Original Autograph Manuscripts.
The greatest scientist on the mysteries of divinity. Ten pages of manuscript
from six distinct manuscript works. Unique and highly important.
Original watercolor by Beatrix Potter. ca. 1893.
Ayn Rand. Gollivud: Amerikanskii kino-gorod (Hollywood: the American
City of Movies), Moscow/Leningrad: 1926. The second book written by Ayn
Rand, published after he
left Russia for America.
William Shakespeare. Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare, London: 1640.
First collected edition of Shakespeare's Poems and the earliest obtainable
appearance of the Sonnets.
Mary Shelley. Valperga, London: 1823. First edition of Mary Shelley’s
second work, the first after Frankenstein. Three volumes.
John Steinbeck. Uncredited, Commissioned Manuscript of the Inaugural
Address
of Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, Delivered
at the Capitol,
Washington, D.C., January 20, 1965. Four legal-size pages
in black ink, with typed transcription.
Jonathan Swift. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World… London:
1726. First edition. Two volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver,
five engraved maps, and an engraved plate.
Andy Warhol. A Gold Book, NY: 1957. Folio, original gold paper-covered
boards.
One of 100 signed copies with 13 illustrations in photolithography
on gold paper and six hand-colored illustrations on white paper with colored
tissue guards. With color photo of Andy and Henry McIlhenny, whose copy
this was.
Walt Whitman. [Mss verse: "The Dead Emperor."] Camden, NJ:
March 9, 1888.
Original manuscript of eight lines of Whitman's poem commemorating
the death of Kaiser
Wilhelm I. Signed by the poet.
John G. Whittier. [Handkerchief] “Little Eva Song. Uncle Tom’s
Guardian Angel.” [Boston]: 1852.
Textile advertisement of Whittier’s
verses and sheet music composed for Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Such advertisements
are rare survivors.
Orville Wright. The Stability of Airplanes. 1914. From Orville Wright’s
personal library, identified with his library inkstamp.
