[Poster.] Nuzhno usilit’ i ukrepit’ internatsional’nye proletarskie sviazi rabochego klassa SSSR a rabochim klassom burzhuaznykh stran [“We Must Reinforce and Consolidate the International Proletarian Links of the Working Class of the USSR with the Working Class of the Bourgeois Countries” – Stalin]. Moscow, Izostat, 20 October 1940

This dramatic poster, similar in style to the Socialist Realist graphics found in USSR In Construction, exhorts the people to support MOPL, the International Organization of Helpers of Fighters for the Revolution. The figures represent international workers united with the Soviets in the heroic struggle for the Revolution. The poster was printed during the last year of Lissitzky’s life while he worked for the Soviet state with the sure knowledge that his friends and colleagues were the victims of Stalin’s purges.

$6,800

A collection of manuscripts and typescripts written by a member of the Revisionist Zionist movement.. Palestine, 1930-1943

$6,500

An enormous run of Goodspeed’s rare book and manuscript catalogues. Vols. 1-370 and 381-575. Boston: Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1899-1973

Founded in 1898, Goodspeed’s published its first catalogue in 1899. For decades to come the firm would be a dominant force in American bookselling. These catalogues are a witness to that golden age.

$6,500

Leaves of Grass: the original printed paper wrappers. [Brooklyn], [1855]

Although the green cloth bindings for the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass are familiar, the rare paper wrappers are little known. This set survived only because Whitman preserved them until his death in 1892.

$6,500

Autograph note signed to John H. Johnston. Camden, March 7, 1887

Whitman writes to his good friend and benefactor John H. Johnston, the New York jeweler, evidently congratulating him on the birth of his child: “Bless the dear baby, & all babies – Love to you & wife, Walt Whitman.”

$6,500

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: A. Millar , 1749

FIRST EDITION of the greatest English novel of the eighteenth century and one of the most influential works of fiction ever published.

$6,500

The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blount, 1802

FIRST EDITION. “The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man … Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, Bowditch’s Navigator was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century” (Grolier/American).

$6,500

Opticks: or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: William Innys, 1730

The Opticks and the Principia are the two pillars of Newton’s unparalleled scientific achievement. The Opticks has been called “an underpinning for the entire edifice of physics” (Scientific American).

$6,000

Letter from Sojourner Truth [on meeting Abraham Lincoln] in The Liberator.. Boston, December 23, 1864

Sojourner Truth meets with Lincoln at the White House. This issue of the leading abolitionist newspaper The Liberator prints the famous letter from Sojourner Truth to her friend Rowland Johnson recounting at length her meeting with Lincoln on October 29, 1864.

$6,000

East Front of the Capitol. Washington, August 31, 1864

This rare photograph shows the East Front of the U.S. Capitol during construction. Sawhorses and construction debris are visible in the foreground, while a number of figures, perhaps builders and the architect, stand at the head of the main stairs beneath Thomas Crawford’s pediment of The Progress of Civilization.

$5,500