The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788

First edition. This splendid example of The Federalist is one of a very small number of special deluxe copies printed on thick paper.

$450,000

The Federalist: a collection of essays written in favor of the new constitution. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788

FIRST EDITION. A splendid association copy from Grimké family library.

$275,000

Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, 1855

First edition, one of only 200 copies of the first issue of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

$270,000

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

Signed autograph manuscript drawing of the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission. [Cincinnati], n.d.

ICONIC DRAWING OF AN EPOCHAL MOMENT IN HISTORY.

Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon, illustrates key elements of the Apollo 11 moon landing in this rare drawing. He notes the rotation of the Earth, marks the “dark” side of the moon, and shows the direction of the Sun’s rays. A dashed line around the Moon indicates the command module’s path in orbit, and the curve at the lower left of the Moon shows the path of the lunar module approaching the landing site.

$175,000

History of the Indian Tribes of North America. With biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Philadelphia: Greenough [and] Rice & Clark, [1838-1844]

A handsome set, with original wrappers, of this landmark of American publishing history, “one of the most costly and important ever published on the American Indians”

$125,000

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, 1690

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the integral Eliz. Holt title-page). An excellent, fresh copy of this classic of philosophy, the first modern attempt to analyze knowledge. “Few books in the literature of philosophy have so widely represented the spirit of the age and country in which they have appeared, or have so influenced opinion afterwards” (Fraser).

$120,000

History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1814

FIRST EDITION of “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp-Becker). This is “the most important of all overland narratives. . . . American explorers had for the first time spanned the continental United States and driven the first wedge in the settlement of our new far western frontier” (Grolier 100 American Books).

$115,000

On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957

FIRST EDITION. With a long inscription from Kerouac to William Targ, noted bookman, editor, and publisher: “To William Targ From Jack Kerouac 12/9/68. How about a first edition of Compleat Visions of Cody to be published by Putnams 1969??? — or, maybe A Nest of Ninnies be better??? Regards, JK.”

$110,000

History of the Indian Tribes of North America. With biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Philadelphia: Rice & Clark; London: Gilpin, [1842-1844]

This is a gorgeous copy of this landmark of American publishing history, “one of the most costly and important ever published on the American Indians” (Field).

$110,000