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Cooper, James Fenimore
The Water Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas. Dresden: Walther, 1830
Rare true first edition of Cooper’s pirate romance. This nautical novel set in 17th-century New York was first published in a small edition in Dresden, where the author had settled in 1826. London and Philadelphia editions soon followed.
$15,000
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Celestial Rail-Road. Boston: James F. Fish, 1843
$15,000
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Irving, Washington
Manuscript From The Life of Washington. No Place, ca. 1859
This is a long, revised autograph manuscript for Washington Irving’s The Life of George Washington. This section of the monumental biography presents the growing schism between Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Hamilton, as Washington was considering standing for re-election for a second term. The manuscript, which includes most of chapter 16 of the final volume, opens with Washington reading Jefferson’s letter accusing Hamilton and his followers of using the new Constitution “only as a step to an English Constitution.” It concludes with Washington’s attempts at reconciliation, hoping that “there may be mutual forbearance and temporizing yielding on all sides. Without these I do not see how the reins of government are to be managed, or how the Union of the States can be much longer preserved.”
$15,000
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
The World as I See It. New York: Philosophical Library, (c.1949)
Signed and dated 1950 by Albert Einstein on the front free endpaper.
$13,500
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(ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN NEW YORK.)
A collection of four printed and manuscript items relating to the end of slavery in New York. New York, 1816-1840
This collection documents the struggle to end slavery in New York in the early nineteenth century.
4 items: $12,500
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(FORSTER'S COPY.) DICKENS, CHARLES
The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850
First edition. From the library of novelist E. M. Forster.
$12,500
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(GEORGE WASHINGTON & MOUNT VERNON.) Israel & Riddle, photographers
The Home of Washington, as it appeared May 14th 1859. Baltimore, H.E. Hoyt & Co., 1859
The earliest dated photograph of Mount Vernon, this is one of the very earliest known photographs of George Washington’s home.
$12,500
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Cooper, James Fenimore
Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820
$12,000
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(PHOTOGRAPHS) Christie, Manson & Woods
Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art and vertu known as “The Vienna Museum,” the property of Messrs. Lowenstein Brothers, of Frankfort-on-the-Main. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1860
This important volume is “the earliest photographically illustrated auction catalogue” (Gernsheim, Incunabula, 122). It contains 36 photographs on salted paper by Hermann Emden of Frankfurt.
$12,000
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
$10,500