Autograph letter signed to Dr. Le Baron Russell. Washington, December 3, 1863

In this deeply moving letter Walt Whitman discusses his experiences caring for wounded soldiers at the height of the Civil War. The letter reflects Whitman’s generosity of spirit, his veneration of democracy and Americanism, and the profound impact of the war on him. Whitman begins:

$80,000

The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard. London: Printed for the author and sold by C. Rivington, 1731

FIRST EDITION. Philip Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary is one of the most important books in the history of horticulture.

$12,000

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

Typed letter signed to Frederick Bernays Wiener, Esq.. Washington, D.C: Office of the Solicitor General, 1965

Marshall thanks Wiener “for agreeing to serve on the Resolutions Committee for the meeting of the Bar in memory of Mr. Justice Frankfurter.”

$2,200

The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, 1902

The Hound of the Baskervilles, the third Sherlock Holmes novel, is widely regarded as the best of the series.

$10,000

Fear God and Take Your Own Part. New York: George H. Doran, 1916

First edition, first printing. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. In this collection of essays Roosevelt urges the United States to abandon its neutral position and enter the war raging in Europe.

$9,500

The Jewish Manual; Or, practical information in Jewish and modern cookery, with a collection of valuable recipes and hints relating to the toilette. Edited by a Lady. London: Boone, 1846

FIRST EDITION. The first Jewish cookery book in English, this book is a landmark in Jewish social history.

$15,000

A Christmas Carol and the other Christmas Books. London: Chapman and Hall [and Bradbury and Evans], 1843-1848

FIRST EDITIONS of all five Dickens Christmas books, including the first issue of A Christmas Carol.

$37,500

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall, 1837

Dickens’s first great success, the Pickwick Papers transformed him from an little-known journalist into England’s most famous writer.

$3,000

The Ethics of the Dust. Ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallization.. Orpington and London  George Allen, 1894

The Ethics of the Dust presents an imagined conversation with and series of lectures to the young ladies of Winnington Hall, the finishing school Ruskin supported.

$1,100