ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH BY YOUSUF KARSH, INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY IN INK ON THE IMAGE. More about <b>Large Format Portrait Photograph of John F. Kennedy, signed by Kennedy</b>
Price: $8,500 .
RARE 1830 FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUNDATIONAL MORMON TEXT; ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. More about <b>The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the...
Price: $135,000 .
![Item #2766 Vpered (Vperyod) [Forward]. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV LENIN](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2766.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695409178)
Vpered introduced Bolshevik strategy and led to Lenin’s dominance during the Russian Revolution. A complete run with noted provenance. More about Vpered (Vperyod) [Forward
Price: $7,500 .
EXTREMELY RARE 1564 FIRST PRINTING of the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, one of the most important publications in the history of the Catholic Church; printed by Paulus Manutius and Aldus the Younger of the Aldine Press and the request of Pope Pius IV. More about Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici, et Generalis Concilii Tridentini sub Paulo III, Iulio...
Price: $25,000 .
Irma Boom’s Limited Edition SHV Centennial Book: A Watershed Moment in Book Design. More about SHV Think Book 1996-1896
Price: $4,900 .
![Item #2762 Proletarii [Proletarians]. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV LENIN](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2762.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694812008)
Complete run of one of the earliest and most important revolutionary Bolshevik émigré newspapers: Proletarii. More about Proletarii [Proletarians
Price: $8,500 .
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES, OF HOPKINS'S FIRST BOOK. VITA SACKVILLE-WEST'S COPY. More about Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Price: $5,000 .
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. More about Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
Price: $3,900 .
EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARIE CURIE: “To Mrs. Russell Tyson / with my friendship / M. Curie”. This photograph by Henri Manuel, c.1920, is the definitive portrait of Curie. More about Photograph Signed and Inscribed
Price: $35,000 .
CONTACT SHEET OF THIRTEEN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CECIL BEATON’S ICONIC 1956 PHOTOSHOOT WITH MARILYN MONROE. With annotations by Beaton in white ink above the images, and his stamp on the back. Likely unique. More about
Price: $12,500 .
Walt Whitman Albumen Photograph by Napoleon Sarony given to his caregiver and house mate Mary O. Davis. Signed by Davis. More about Albumen Photograph Given to Mary O. Davis
Price: $6,500 .
FIRST EDITION (1555) of Magnus's great work - the first large geographical-ethnographical description of Scandinavia and one of the most important sources on the customs of the Northern peoples and daily life in the 16th century. Magnficently illustrated with 472 fine woodcuts. More about Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus, earumqve diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus,...
Price: $24,000 .
ONLY KNOWN COPY TO INCLUDE FABRIC FROM THE WING OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL WRIGHT FLYER AND TWICE INSCRIBED BY ORVILLE WRIGHT: “This little piece of wing covering did its part in lifting the plane in this flight. O.W.” and “To John W. Dougherty / Orville Wright”. More about Edison Institute Dedication of the Wright Brothers Home and Shop in Greenfield Village, Dearborn,...
Price: $32,000 .
![Item #2747 Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm]. IGOR SHEVCHENKO, IVAN CHERNYATINSKYY](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2747.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692043912)
FIRST UKRAINIAN EDITION OF ORWELL’S CLASSIC POLITICAL ALLEGORY. More about Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm
Price: $3,000 .
FIRST EDITION, LEONARD GALE'S COPY, of perhaps the most important book documenting the earliest history of telegraphy. Gale's work with Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was critical to the success of the telegraph. With Gale's ownership signature on title page and front pastedown. More about The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: with the Reports of Congress, and a Description of all...
Price: $4,800 .
![Item #2743 The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club [Pickwick Papers]. CHARLES DICKENS](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2743.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689612817)
FIRST EDITION, A MAJOR ASSOCIATION COPY, BELONGING TO ANGELA BURDETT-COUTTS, AN IMPORTANT PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCE ON DICKENS. More about The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club [Pickwick Papers
Price: $6,500 .
LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY KELLEY, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES. More about Reconstructed History
Price: $3,900 .
ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING. More about Early Lightning Photograph (Massachusetts,1888
Price: $12,000 .
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCES IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the first twenty-four Sherlock Holmes stories to appear in The Strand Magazine; includes all of the stories that would later be collected in book form in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With..... More about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine
Price: $35,000 .
USED TO LAUNCH THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION, TWICE: This oscilloscope was used to design Pong, the birth of the video game industry, and the Apple II, the first personal computer with hi-res color graphics. More about Tektronix 465 Oscilloscope
Price: $135,000 .
STUNNING DEPICTION OF THE ICONIC FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. More about <b><p style="color:DarkRed;">Illuminated Manuscript Leaf with Miniature...
Price: $4,900 .
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR ANTHEM: The generally accepted first printing in the rare original wrappers of the February 1862 issue of the The Atlantic Monthly and the first printing of the August 1887 article by Julia Ward Howe in the The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine revealing an early account of the..... More about The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Price: $2,900 .
FIRST EDITION of Roche’s surreal, dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche’s hand. More about La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac’Adam
Price: $3,900 .
EXCEEDINGLY RARE DELUXE SET OF AVANTE-GARDE WORKS BY FOUR LITERARY MASTERS CONDITION. Each copy one of only 15 deluxe issues. Includes the deluxe issue of Duchamp’s important collection of aphorisms, “Rrose Sélavy”. More about “Biens Nouveaux”: <i>Rrose Sélavy; La Canne du Destin (The Cane of Destiny); Le...
Price: $9,500 .
FIRST EDITION: A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY. INSCRIBED BY DUCHAMP TO HIS GOOD FRIEND AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF SURREALISM, PAUL ÉLUARD. Inscribed in ink on the half-title: "Cher Eluard / Marcel Duchamp" More about Rrose Sélavy: Oculisme de precision, poils et coups de pieds en tous genres [Rose Sélavy:...
Price: $20,000 .
