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[HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, JAMES MADISON, & JOHN JAY.]
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution.. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788
George Washington family copy of the first edition. This is an important association copy of the central book of American political philosophy, signed and dated June 10, 1788 in the first volume by Dr. David Stuart, George Washington’s relation and political confidante.
$550,000
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DARWIN, CHARLES and ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
“On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection”in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology.. London, 1858
$325,000
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CELLARIUS, ANDREAS
Harmonia Macrocosmica Sev Atlas Universalis Et Novus. Amsterdam: J. Jannson, 1661
First edition, second issue of the greatest 17th-century celestial atlas. Cellarius’s Harmonia Macrocosmica is one of the most beautiful books of the Golden Age of Dutch cartography and a visual landmark in the history of man’s understanding of the cosmos. This 1661 issue is a variant of the edition of 1660, which is otherwise identical. The edition of 1708 omits text found in this edition.
$275,000
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(APOLLO 11.)
Star Chart, flown and used on the Apollo 11 mission, annotated and signed by Command Module Pilot Michael Collins.. NASA, 1969
A key navigational aid in taking man to the Moon and back to Earth. The astronauts of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, used this very star chart to find their way to the Moon and back in July 1969. Collins has extensively annotated this star chart and written on it, “During the flight of Apollo Eleven, I used this chart to help me locate stars. (The numbers were entered into the Command Module Computer) Michael Collins CMP.”
$275,000
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BIBLE
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated. London: by Robert Barker, 1613-1611
The Great “She” Bible, the “authorized version” or King James Bible, one of the greatest monuments of English literature.
$270,000
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PAINE, THOMAS
Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America . . . the third edition [bound with:] Large Additions to Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING sheets of Common Sense, here with the third edition title page and prefatory leaf. “It is not too much to say that the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, was due more to Paine’s Common Sense than to any other single piece of writing” (Streeter).
$250,000
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Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, … the city of New York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, in the year M,DCC,LXXXIX.. New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, Printers to the United States, 1789
$200,000
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DARWIN, CHARLES
Important Darwin family photograph album, assembled by Emma Darwin.. No Place, Ca. 1860s-1870s.
$175,000
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MILTON, JOHN
Paradise Lost. London: Printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thomson, H. Mortlack, M. Walker, and R. Boulter, 1668
First edition, the first complete issue, comprising the 1668 title page and the added preliminary matter. These preliminaries include “The Printer to the Reader,” a page of errata, “The Argument” (a book-by-book synopsis), and “The Verse,” in which Milton argues against the English practice of rhyming line endings in favor of blank verse, “Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in. longer works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter.” Milton’s defense of his use of unrhymed iambic pentameter prompted Samuel Johnson to write, “finding blank verse easier than rhyme, [Milton] was desirous of persuading himself that it is better.”
$170,000
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS
De Architectura. Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511
First illustrated edition of Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, a landmark in the history of architecture. This is the only work on architecture to survive from antiquity. It was Vitruvius (ca. 90-20 BC) who famously declared that a structure must be durable, useful, and beautiful. His terms for order, arrangement, proportion, and fitness for purpose have guided architects for centuries. Vitruvius served in the campaigns of Julius Caesar, and he was involved in the restoration of Roman aqueducts. In ancient Rome, architecture encompassed not just the design of buildings but also civil and mechanical engineering, construction, military engineering, and urban planning.
$95,000