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Ballet

BRODOVITCH, ALEXEY.

FIRST EDITION of Brodovitch’s masterpiece; of profound influence in the history of photography and photobooks. More

Price: $6,000 .

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Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l’Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]

[BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS.

EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. More

Price: $13,500 .

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The Writings of John Burroughs

BURROUGHS, JOHN.

Autograph edition, number 43 of 750 copies signed by Burroughs. Beautifully bound in publisher's morocco. More

Price: $3,300 .

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UNPUBLISHED CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS OF EINSTEIN AND LETTERS BY WILLIAM HUBBARD OFFERING AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THE SCIENTIST ON VACATION.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

Machiavelli, Niccolo.

FIRST FLORENCE EDITION, possibly the first edition overall, of an essential Renaissance text. SCARCE. More

Price: $35,000 .

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TYPED LETTER SIGNED

ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR.

MAGNIFICENT WARTIME LETTER BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ON ACHIEVING LONG-LASTING PEACE. More

Price: $9,500 .

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Typed Letter Signed

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO.

POIGNANT SIGNED LETTER FROM ROOSEVELT ON HIS RESOLVE NOT TO LET POLIO DEFEAT HIM. More

Price: $8,500 .

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Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae [HAMLET SOURCE]

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. SAXO GRAMMATICUS.

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION (1514), EDITIO PRINCEPS, OF SAXO’S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DENMARK, CONTAINING THE STORY THAT BECAME SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET. More

Price: $23,000 .

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Autograph Letter Signed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Strong, impassioned, and revealing letter from Wright to his longtime friend, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford, defending his architectural philosophy after the appearance of Mumford’s article in the New Yorker evaluating Wright’s life and work. More

Price: $8,500 .

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