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(DRED SCOTT.)
Dred Scott decision – “Important Decision of the Supreme Court:” in National Intelligencer. Washington: Gales and Seaton, March 7, 1857
This is the announcement of the Dred Scott decision, brought as breaking news by a leading Washington newspaper.
$2,800
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(CAPITOL ,WASHINGTON, D.C.)
United States Capitol. no publisher, c. 1870
This dramatic photograph of the United States Capitol shows the building in the 1870s, after the completion of the new dome and the extensions.
$2,500
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(AVIATION.)
Le Conquête de l’Air. Paris: Le Petit Journal, 1909
This spectacular color lithograph commemorates the Grande Semaine d’Aviation of 1909, the first international public flying event and a turning point in aviation history. The powered aircraft featured at the event dominate the center. Surrounding it are portraits of pioneering figures in flight (including Wright, Curtiss, Latham, Fournier, and Blériot) and vignettes from aviation history.
$2,500
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(IRVING, WASHINGTON)
Washington Irving. Mr. Bryant’s address on his life and genius. Addresses by Everett, Bancroft, Longfellow, Felton, Aspinwall, King, Francis, Greene. Mr. Allibone’s sketch of his life and works. With eight photographs. New York: Putnam, 1860
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the published to S. Austin Allibone, who contributed the sketch of Irving’s life and works. Allibone ewas a leading American editor, author, and bibliographer who is best known for his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. Other contributors include Longfellow, Bryant, Everett, and Bancroft.
$2,500
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SMITH, GERRIT
To the friends of the slave in the town of Smithfield. Peterboro, New York: [Smith], March 12, 1844
A fiery antislavery broadside by one of the Secret Six.
$2,500
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“The Celestial Railroad” in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New York: J. & H.G. Langley, January-December 1843
$2,400
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Gentle Boy: A Thrice Told Tale. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1839
$2,400
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(JERUSALEM.)
Bird’s Eye View of Holy Jerusalem. Odessa, 1902
This vibrant chromolithograph bird’s eye view was published in Odessa for the tourist market.
The foreground is dominated by the Dome of the Rock, behind the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem. In the background appear houses of the Old City and the holy sites. Captions in Russian describe selected sites. The title of the lithograph appears in the margins, in Russian, English and French.
$2,400
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A Fine Run of The Token; A Christmas and New Year’s Present. Edited by S.G. Goodrich. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1831-38
$2,400
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Twain, Mark
Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872
$2,250