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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

  • (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

  • Cooper, James Fenimore

    Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820

    $12,000

  • LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH

    Collection of six autograph letters signed with initials to Charles Sumner.. Cambridge, 25 December 1851 - 8 November 1870

    An important correspondence between Longfellow and his closest friend, Charles Sumner, the abolitionist senator from Massachusetts.

    $12,000

  • WATSON, JAMES D. & FRANCIS CRICK

    Signed photograph of Watson and Crick with their three-dimensional model of the double-helix DNA molecule. Anthony Barrington, 1953, printed later

    Signed by Watson and Crick in the white lower margin. The discovery of the structure of DNA was the cornerstone event in modern genetics and biology and one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.

    $9,500

  • (BROADWAY.) HARRIS SAM H

    Theater financial ledgers of Sam Harris, renowned Broadway producer. New York, 1924-1934

    This massive manuscript ledger charts the fortunes of the shows of Sam Harris, the famed Broadway producer and theater owner, from 1924 through 1934.

    $9,000

  • LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH

    Collection of eight autograph letters signed to Paul Hamilton Hayne. Cambridge, 1872-1880

    This is a fine series of letter from Longfellow, the most celebrated and popular poet in America, and Paul Hamilton Hayne, the most famous southern poet of his era. In the first letter Longfellow tells Haynes that the promised volume of poems has not reached him. He assures the South Carolina poet that “this is of no great consequence, as you know already my opinion of your writings.”

    $9,000

  • Lowell, James Russell

    Autograph manuscript “On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners.”. No Place, ca. 1869

    $8,250

  • WHITMAN, WALT

    Autograph manuscript signed “Walt Whitman on the Poets.”. No place, [1885]

    In this fascinating manuscript Whitman provides a newspaper with an article defending himself against attacks that he did not respect the great American poets of the day.

    $7,500

  • (WHITMAN, WALT.) Napoleon Sarony

    Bust portrait of Whitman wearing a hat. New York, 1878

    Boldly signed and dated 1879 by Whitman. Whitman observed of this delightful portrait, “It is one of my good-humored pictures. … This is strong enough to be right and gentle enough to be right, too: I like to be both: I wouldn’t like people to say ‘he is a giant’ and then forget I know how to love.”

    $7,200