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Cooper, James Fenimore
Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820
$12,000
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(PHOTOGRAPHS) Christie, Manson & Woods
Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art and vertu known as “The Vienna Museum,” the property of Messrs. Lowenstein Brothers, of Frankfort-on-the-Main. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1860
This important volume is “the earliest photographically illustrated auction catalogue” (Gernsheim, Incunabula, 122). It contains 36 photographs on salted paper by Hermann Emden of Frankfurt.
$12,000
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
$10,500
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BENJAMIN, ASHER
The American Builder’s Companion; or, a new system of architecture particularly adapted to the present style of building in the United States of America. Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806
First edition of the second book by Asher Benjamin, America’s first great writer on architecture.
$10,000
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WATSON, JAMES D. & FRANCIS CRICK
Signed photograph of Watson and Crick with their three-dimensional model of the double-helix DNA molecule. Anthony Barrington, 1953, printed later
Signed by Watson and Crick in the white lower margin. The discovery of the structure of DNA was the cornerstone event in modern genetics and biology and one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.
$9,500
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(D-DAY.) ASSOCIATED PRESS
Teletype covering the Normandy landings on D-Day. Associated Press, 5 and 6 June 1944
First announcement of the D-Day landings, perhaps the most important event of the 20th century.
$9,500
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SPACE WALKS
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
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SAMUELSON, PAUL
Economics: An Introductory Analysis.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948
First edition of the greatest and most influential modern economics text-book. Inscribed by Samuelson for Eric Roll. Roll, professor of economics and later chairman of S. G. Warburg & Co., wrote the classic History of Economic Thought (1938, 4th ed., 1973).
$8,500
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SCHWARTZ, Robert N. & TOWNES, Charles H
Interstellar and Interplanetary Communication by Optical Masers. Washington, February 27, 1961
PRE-PUBLICATION RARITY. “The classic paper published in Nature that started it all” (coseti.org), this is the founding work of optical SETI. This pre-publication form is dated more than a month before the article’s publication in Nature. For years SETI research focused on radio transmissions, but the development of powerful lasers has made Optical SETI (OSETI) a highly promising area of research. Townes’s prescient proposal is even the more remarkable given the very limited power of masers and lasers at the time this paper appeared.
$8,500
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(TREASURY.) Meredith, Samuel, Treasurer of the U.S
A Collection of Three Reports on the Treasury’s Receipts and Expenditures. Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1790-1793
A collection of rare Treasury reports on the finances of the United States during its earliest years.
3 items: $8,500