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

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

Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America.. London: Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769

A very rare inscribed presentation copy of “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America” (PMM), inscribed by Benjamin Franklin: “To Mr. Livesy from his obliged Friend & humble Servant The Author.”

$375,000

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitaetstheorie. Leipzig: Barth, 1916

First separate edition, first printing (i.e. with the Metzger & Wittig imprints). A spectacular inscribed copy signed by Einstein and further inscribed by Einstein with a long note concerning gravitation, electromagnetic theory, and quantum theory.

$350,000

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

Leaves of Grass [with] Whitman’s own copy of his 1860 portrait. Brooklyn, New York, 1855

First edition, first issue, one of only 337 copies of the first issue, distinguished by its elaborately gilt-stamped cloth binding prepared in June/July 1855. Whitman reported that only 800 copies were printed; this copy is from the first group to be bound. The copies bound later did not have the extensive gilt stamping. Whitman paid for the book, supervised its production, and even set a number of pages in type.

two items: $160,000

United States flag flown to the Moon on Apollo 11. NASA, July 16-24, 1969

This American flag, flown to the Moon on Apollo 11, is one of the most sought-after relics of space exploration.

$150,000

A volume containing the first editions of all three of Spinoza’s principal works. Amsterdam, 1663-1677

Collections of all three Spinoza first editions bound together are virtually unobtainable in contemporary bindings.

$125,000

Practica auff das M.D.XLvj. jar, durch Doctorem Achillem P. Gasser L. zu Feldkirch gemacht. Nuremberg, J. Petreius, 1545

First edition of the only known copy of a landmark work of Copernicanism. Gasser’s Practica contains the first account of Copernican heliocentrism printed in a vernacular language. It is “as concise and accessible a summary of heliocentrism as one could wish for” (Danielson). This “enthusiastic hymn of praise to Copernicus” (Burmeister) was printed by the printer of De Revolutionibus.

$95,000

“Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid.” Offprint from: Nature Vol. 171 (April 25, 1953). London, 1953

FIRST EDITION, THE RARE OFFPRINT signed by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Raymond Gosling.

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