On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.. London: John Murray, 1860

SECOND EDITION. On the Origin of Species is “certainly the greatest biological book ever written” (Freeman) and “the most important single work in science” (Dibner).

$19,000

The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blount, 1802

FIRST EDITION. “The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man … Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, Bowditch’s Navigator was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century” (Grolier/American).

$6,500

Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty … including an Account of the Mutiny …. London: George Nicol, 1792

First edition of the official account of the Bounty expedition. The story of the mutiny and Bligh’s subsequent voyage is one of the great tales in maritime history.

$16,000

Autograph Manuscript Signed, comprising his list of men recruited for the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and an account of his travels and the resulting expenses in that effort.. Various places, March-August 1863

This newly discovered manuscript documents the realization of Frederick Douglass’s dream that Black soldiers would fight for the cause of freedom in the Civil War.

$350,000

“Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction.” Offprint from: Nature. Vol 143. London: Macmillan, 1939

First edition, the scarce offprint issue, of this epochal paper on nuclear fission, the decisive paper leading to the race for the atomic bomb.

$19,500

Autograph letter signed to F. P. Church.. Washington, 1871

In this fine, boldly penned letter, Walt Whitman sends the manuscript of his poem “The Mystic Trumpeter” for possible publication in the January 1872 number of The Galaxy. Whitman would include the poem in the final edition of Leaves of Grass (1891).

$8,500

Original drawing, “3rd Stage Satellite Vehicle (landed),” signed and dated 1952.. Huntsville, Alabama, 1952

This is an original signed drawing of a space ship by Wernher von Braun. The father of the American space program, Von Braun made this drawing for the epochal series “Man will Conquer Space Soon.” This publication played a central role in inspiring a generation of American rocket scientists and convincing the American public of the possibility of space exploration.

$35,000

Molecular structure of nucleic acids.  A structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid.. Nature, 1953

The discovery of the structure of DNA, the cornerstone event in modern genetics and biology and one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.

$60,000

Yediot Ma’ariv. “The Face of the Mandate from Beginning to End, Illustrated Supplement for May 15, 1948.”. Jerusalem, May 15, 1948

Ma’ariv was the most widely read newspaper in Israel for the two decades following the newspaper’s founding in 1948. This photo supplement was printed on the day of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel and attached as a “Sabbath Supplement” to that day’s issue.

$1,200

A collection of three mammoth-plate views of Yosemite.. Bradley & Rulofson, 1872

collection of 3 prints: $25,000