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WHITMAN, WALT
Leaves of Grass. Boston: Osgood, 1881-82
First printing of the 7th edition of Leaves of Grass
$1,500
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WHITMAN, WALT
Good-Bye My Fancy. 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass. Good-Bye My Fancy. 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass, 1891
FIRST EDITION. This form of Good-Bye My Fancy is not in Myerson.
$1,200
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Lowell, James Russell
Autograph Letter Signed With Initials to John Sullivan Dwight. Elmwood, 16 July 1845
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
John Greenleaf Whittier’s copy of the first edition, with his ownership signature and bookplate. A fine association between two important figures in 19th-century American literature. The Quaker poet and abolitionist would later be best-remembered for his 1866 work Snow-Bound.
$1,200
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GILES, HERBERT
Chinese Sketches. London: Trubner, 1876
FIRST EDITION. Sinologist Herbert A. Giles began his distinguished career was a British diplomat in China. There he wrote these literary and historical sketches to show that, contrary to prevailing Western views, “the Chinese are a hardworking, sober, and happy people, occupying an intermediate place between the wealth and culture, the vice and misery of the West.” Giles later became professor of Chinese at Cambridge for thirty-five years.
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(PANIC OF 1873.)
Extra. Senseless Panic. New York: New York Daily Bulletin, September 24, 1873
The Panic of 1873 was set off by the failure of Jay Cooke & Co., the leading American banker of its day. Because of financial crises in Europe , the Credit Mobilier scandal, and related problems, the firm declared bankruptcy on September 18, 1873. The bank’s failure set of a chain of events including the failure of many insurance companies and banks and the ten-day closure of the New York Stock Exchange starting on September 20. Within two months 55 railroads had failed. The downturn, which lasted for the rest of the decade, was known as the Great Depression until the 1930s depression took that name.
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(HAYMARKET AFFAIR)
Haymarket Affair in The Chicago Daily News. Chicago: Daily News, May 5, 1886
The Haymarket Affair in Chicago was the most important event in American labor history. This dramatic Chicago newspaper reports on the events at the Haymarket, police actions, rioting, efforts to catch the bomb thrower, the roundup of anarchists, the discovery of the printed flyers for the mass meeting, and the reaction of Chicago businessmen.
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
“Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption” [and] “Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Trägheit der Energie” in Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 20. Leipzig, 1906
FIRST EDITION of “On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption” and “The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy.”
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Grandfather’s Chair: A History for Youth [and] Famous Old People. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841
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MACQUER, PIERRE JOSEPH
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry. London: Millar and Nourse, 1758
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Macquer’s Elémens de chymie-theorique (1749) and Elémens de chymie-pratique (1751), translated by Andrew Reid from the 1756 editions. The theoretical section lays out the principles of chemistry, and the practical section presents a course of chemistry including engravings of apparatus.
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