The Double Helix. In Atlantic Monthly. Boston, January and February 1968

FIRST EDITION of The Double Helix, preceding the publication in book form in late February 1968. Signed by James Watson on the front cover of each issue.

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East Front of the Capitol. Washington, c. 1864

This photograph by Alexander Gardner shows the Capitol as it was during Lincoln’s presidency. Scaffolding, cranes, ladders, and other construction equipment are visible. The East Front of the Capitol was the site of Lincoln’s inaugurations in 1861 and 1865.

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Original drawing of Walt Whitman. no date, no place, 19th century

This original pen and ink drawing of Walt Whitman is mounted at the front of an 1888 edition of Leaves of Grass. The likeness of a jaunty, casual, Whitman wearing his trademark slouch hat takes its cue from the famous 1855 Hollyer engraving, but here we see an older Whitman with a full beard.

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Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837

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View of Rome from the Tiber River with Castel Sant’Angelo and Saint Peter’s Basilica. Rome, ca. 1870

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The Deerslayer: or, the First War-Path. A Tale.. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841

First edition of the final novel in Cooper’s Leatherstocking series, considered by many to be called Cooper’s greatest work and hailed by D. H. Lawrence as “a gem of a book.” This final installment in the saga of the life of Natty Bumppo is a prequel, relating an episode from the famous protagonist’s youth. Spiller and Blackburn state that this edition predates the first English edition; BAL remains non-committal on priority.

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“The Ocean” in The Salem Gazette. Salem, Massachusetts: Ferdinand Andrews and Caleb Foote, 26 August 1825

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Of Population. An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind. Being an Answer to Mr. Malthus’s Essay on that Subject. London: Longman, 1820

FIRST EDITION. In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus published his Essay on the Principle of Population in response to William Godwin’s ideas about the “perfectibility of society” advanced in Political Justice (1793). This is Malthus’s reply.

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Peter Parley’s Universal History, on the Basis of Geography. Boston: American Stationers’ Company and John B. Russell, 1837

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Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863

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