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The Concert of the Century at Carnegie Hall

Bernstein, Leonard; HOROWITZ, VLADIMIR; STERN, ISAAC.

DELUXE LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 1000 copies. Illustrated with signed portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich and Isaac Stern. More

Price: $2,300 .

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Autograph Letter Signed

Davis, Jefferson.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, to Reverend J. T. Freeman. Davis writes to Reverend Freeman thanking him for a proposed endowment to support the former President of the Confederacy. The letter provides a poignant glimpse of the former leader's post-war plight. He tells of his personal loss and hardship, but at the... More

Price: $4,800 .

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Photographs and Letters, March-April 1932

EINSTEIN, ALBERT; HUBBARD, WILLIAM.

UNPUBLISHED CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS OF EINSTEIN AND LETTERS BY WILLIAM HUBBARD OFFERING AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THE SCIENTIST ON VACATION. More

Price: $7,500 .

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Commerce of the Prairies

Gregg, Josiah.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with only New York in imprint), complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest. The large folding map is the first to display the Staked Plains of Texas. Hailed as a.... More

Price: $4,900 .

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Illuminated Manuscript: Coronation of the Virgin Mary

Illuminated Manuscript.

Beautiful 15th-century leaf from a French Book of Hours with large miniature of the Coronation of Mary. More

Price: $4,300 .

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Illuminated Manuscript: Leaf with Miniature Depicting Job

Illuminated Manuscript.

Striking vellum leaf with large, colorful miniature of the classic scene of Job on the dunghill. More

Price: $3,900 .

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Illuminated Manuscript: Prayer to God, the Father

[illuminated Manuscript].

Large illuminated manuscript leaf (c1480) with a miniature of God. More

Price: $4,100 .

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De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]

LUCRETIUS. [TITI LUCRETII CARIl; TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS].

THE MAGNIFICENT FIRST TONSON EDITION OF LUCRETIUS’S CLASSIC; COMPLETE WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (ONE A LARGE FOLD-OUT). More

Price: $3,900 .

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Looking Forward

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO.

EXTREMELY RARE ADVANCE REVIEW COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 130 RECALLED ADVANCE COPIES, with manuscript corrections by the publisher on pages 36, 158 and 269 and canceled leaf 141/142. More

Price: $2,900 .

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Typed Letter Signed

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.

PASSIONATE AND IMPORTANT LETTER BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT DEFINING THE NATURE OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. More

Price: $11,000 .

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