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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, 1640
First collected edition of Shakespeare’s poems and the earliest obtainable edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Please inquire
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[BROWNING,] ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.
Autograph manuscript notebook, the working notebook for the verses later published in The Seraphim, and Other Poems.. No Place, 1835-1837
This extraordinary manuscript is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s heavily revised autograph working notebook for The Seraphim, and Other Poems, the book that first brought her fame.
$550,000
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies … the Second Impression. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632
This is an excellent example of the Second Folio, the second edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays. This is “incomparably the most important work in the English language” (Jackson, Pforzheimer Catalogue).
$475,000
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BARNARD, GEORGE N
Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign, embracing scenes of the occupation of Nashville, the great battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the campaign of Atlanta, march to the sea, and the great raid through the Carolinas. [New York: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck], [1866]
FIRST EDITION. George N. Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign is, together with Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book, one of the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War. Its 61 original mounted photographs include some of the most famous images of the war.
$390,000
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GARDNER, ALEXANDER
Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Washington, D.C.: Philp and Solomons, [1865-66]
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the most famous photographically illustrated American book of the nineteenth century.
$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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SPINOZA, BARUCH
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Continens Dissertationes Aliquot. Hamburg: Heinrich Künraht [i.e. Amsterdam: Rieuwertsz], 1670
First edition of this landmark of 17th-century thought, the Theological-Political Treatise. This is the rare first edition, readily identified by the misspelled “Künraht” imprint and the mis-numbering of page 104 as 304.
$120,000
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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
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(WOMEN’S HEALTH AND SEX.)
Aristoteles Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof.. London: J. How, 1684
First edition of Aristotle’s Masterpiece, “the most popular book about women’s bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s” (Treasures, Library Company of Philadelphia).
$60,000
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WHITMAN, WALT
Autograph letter signed to Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Camden, New Jersey, 9 August 1878
“The Good Gray Poet” to the Poet Laureate. Tennyson was the most important of of the many English literary figures who subscribed to the “Author’s Edition” of Leaves of Grass, privately issued by Whitman in 1876. Hearing that Whitman was “in great straits, almost starving,” Tennyson sent him five pounds virtually as an outright gift, rather than the more modest subscription price (Kaplan, Walt Whitman).
$60,000