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Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876
$27,000
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(STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.) John A. Whipple
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston, 1853
This is a fine salt print portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by John A. Whipple, a leading early American portrait photographer.
$25,000
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FLORENCE
Armorial manuscript “Arme de Nobili Fiorentini.”. Florence, ca. 1530
This is a lovely Renaissance manuscript representing the great families of Florence at the height of the Renaissance.
$25,000
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SUE, EUGENE
Le Juif Errant [The Wandering Jew]. Paris: Paulin, 1844-45
First edition of Sue’s The Wandering Jew.
$24,000
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Autograph letter signed to Sophia Hawthorne. Andover, 22 June 1863
Harriet Beecher Stowe arranges a visit to Hawthorne’s Concord home. Stowe wrote this letter the year before Nathaniel Hawthorne’s death. She tells Hawthorne’s wife Sophia,
“Mr. Stowe & I have long desired to renew our acquaintance with you, but Concord is rather too far off for a card-case call & this leads me to say that on Sunday next we shall pass your house on our way to a friends’ with whom we pass Sunday, & we propose to ourselves then the pleasure of calling & seeing you & Mr. Hawthorne & your family once more.”
$22,500
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SAN FRANCISCO
Buildings of [the] Fair Heirs in San Francisco. Original photographs of the pre-earthquake real estate holdings of the heirs of James Graham Fair.. San Francisco, 1901-1905
A real estate tycoon’s San Francisco: this album documents approximately forty downtown San Francisco real estate holdings of the heirs of real estate, silver, and railroad magnate James Graham Fair. This album belonged to Fair’s daughter Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, first wife of William K. Vanderbilt II.
$22,000
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(HOLMES ,OLIVER WENDELL, Jr.)
American Mahogany Butler’s Desk from the Holmes family home at 296 Beacon Street, Boston. American, ca. 1830
Justice Holmes’s butler’s desk from the family home on Beacon Street.
$22,000
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THAXTER, CELIA
Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882
Presentation copy inscribed by the author and artist Celia Thaxter: “Mary Mapes Dodge with much love. Illustrated by Celia Thaxter 1882.”
$22,000
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DARWIN, CHARLES
Autograph letter signed to [Fanny Kellogg]. Down, Beckenham, Kent, April 13, 1879
Darwin discusses the hereditary transmission of behavior and a vivid example of the phenomenon from the opening chapter of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
$22,000
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949
FIRST EDITION. One of 760 numbered copies signed and dated by Einstein.
$18,500