Collection of 7 photographs of New York City bridges. New York, 1893-1894

This collection of seven photographs show three iconic New York bridges and their environs.

$12,000

Peter Cooper, sixth-plate daguerreotype. [New York], c. 1850

A stunning sixth-plate daguerreotype of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union, with a young child believed to be one of his granddaughters.

$12,000

Calotype of Water Tower. Philadelphia, 1849

This important survival of American photographic history is a very early calotype of a water tower in Philadelphia. Paper photography from this era is a rarity and the image was created by two of America’s great photographic pioneers, the Langenheim brothers.

$11,000

Two 16 mm films of the first Russian and the first American to walk in space. No place, 1965

Films of the space walks of Aleksei Leonov and Edward White.

$9,500

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia: Gutekunst, April or May 1865

This impressive full-length portrait of Grant in uniform was made at war’s end to capture the triumphal hero at the height of his powers. This portrait shows Grant emulating the pose of Napoleon in David’s famous Napoleon in his Study (1812), a pose favored in military portraits of the time.

$9,500

Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday. No place, 1860s

This is a rare large format portrait of the famed general Abner Doubleday. Doubleday played a prominent role in the Union Army from the war’s outset. He was was second in command at Fort Sumter when the war started. He later commanded a division at Antietam, Gettysburg and other major battles.

$9,500

Avon C. Burnham’s Academy of Physical Culture and Institute for the Practice of the Swedish Movement Cure, southeast corner of Schermerhorn and Smith Streets, Brooklyn, N.Y.. New York, 1870

This is a spectacular mammoth plate view of Brooklyn’s first public gymnasium and health club.

$9,500

Panoramic Photograph of Cairo.. Cairo, 1870s

This splendid and unusually large panoramic photograph of Cairo combines elements of antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern world. In the distance the pyramids at Giza are visible, while a train races along the Nile River between Cairo and the pyramids.

$8,500

Opening day of the Suez Canal. Port Said , Nov. 16, 1869

This photograph depicts the harbor and canal on the day of the opening of the Suez Canal, the “greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century” (Smith). “Clearly, the canal’s opening festivities placed Egypt in a new way on the European cultural map” (Haddad, “Digging to India: Modernity, Imperialism, and the Suez Canal”).

$8,500

A collection of 58 outstanding photographs documenting the early days of the IDF. Eretz Israel, [1948-1949]

$8,500