History, Culture & Ideas
By Salt Marshes
RARE FIRST EDITION OF DOW’S MASTERPIECE, ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED EXAMPLES OF COLOR WOODBLOCK ILLUSTRATIONS. ONE OF ONLY 200 COPIES PRINTED. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. More
Price: $14,500 .
Autograph Letter Signed
AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER BY EINSTEIN TO HIS SON OFFERING LIFE ADVICE AND DISCUSSING FREUD, SHAKESPEARE, AND SCHILLER. More
Price: $60,000 .
Photographs and Letters, March-April 1932
UNPUBLISHED CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS OF EINSTEIN AND LETTERS BY WILLIAM HUBBARD OFFERING AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THE SCIENTIST ON VACATION. More
Price: $7,500 .
List of Displaced German Scholars
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. More
Price: $5,000 .
A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, Under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION: “One of the essential books for an Americana collection” (Streeter). More
Price: $16,500 .
An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
FIRST EDITION of one of the most important political tracts of the 18th century. More
Price: $8,000 .
Large Albumen Photograph
MAGNIFICENT LARGE ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF ULYSSES S. GRANT BY ABRAHAM BOGARDUS. More
Price: $6,800 .
Commerce of the Prairies
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 .
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics
FIRST REVISED EDITION, MEMPHIS ISSUE. The 1861 edition was issued in Memphis, Philadelphia and New York; no priority has been established. More
Price: $3,500 .
The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
THE RARE 1633 SECOND EDITION (FOLLOWING THE EXTREMELY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE SAME YEAR) OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS OF ENGLISH POETRY. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. More
Price: $9,500 .
Illuminated Manuscript: Leaf with Miniature Depicting Job
Striking vellum leaf with large, colorful miniature of the classic scene of Job on the dunghill. More
Price: $3,900 .
Illuminated Manuscript: Leaf with Miniature of the Raising of Lazarus
Lovely miniature, with vibrant blue border, depicting the Raising of Lazarus. More
Price: $3,500 .
Thirteenth Century Leaf: The Feeding of Thousands, Walking on Water, The Tradition of the Elders, The First Prediction of the Passion, The Transfiguration (among others)
EXTRAORDINARY LEAF (c. 1250) FROM AN ITALIAN POCKET BIBLE WITH MAGNIFICENT CONTENT AND INTRICATE SCRIPT. More
Price: $1,400 .
On Thermonuclear War
“THE CLAUSEWITZ OF THE NUCLEAR AGE” — FIRST EDITION OF HERMAN KAHN’S HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL COLD-WAR TREATISE ON NUCLEAR STRATEGY, WITH A WARM AND HUMOROUS INSCRIPTION TO A COLLEAGUE. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Kahn in ink on front free endpaper to fellow RAND employee Edward (Ted) Harris, a statistical physicist..... More
Price: $1,100 .
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Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays)]
THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF “SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION” AS A FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKS. More
Price: $7,500 .
Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860 [Cooper Union Address]. WITH: Carte-de-Visite of the Mathew Brady “Cooper Union” photograph
FIRST EDITION of Lincoln's historic Cooper Union Address, delivered on February 27, 1860 at the Cooper Institute in New York. The speech is largely credited to having launched Lincoln's Presidential bid. With silver print carte-de-visite of the Brady “Cooper Union” photograph. More
Price: $9,500 .
Photograph Signed
ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY CHARLES LINDBERGH. More
Price: $1,650 .
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De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]
THE MAGNIFICENT FIRST TONSON EDITION OF LUCRETIUS’S CLASSIC; COMPLETE WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (ONE A LARGE FOLD-OUT). More
Price: $3,900 .
Historie Fiorentine
FIRST FLORENCE EDITION, possibly the first edition overall, of an essential Renaissance text. SCARCE. More
Price: $35,000 .
Derriére le Miroir 139/140. Céramiques Monumentales de Miró et Artigas
SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 111 of only 150 copies printed on Velin de Rives and SIGNED BY MIRÓ. More
Price: $3,900 .
Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des Artistes de M. Serge de Diaghilew. Mai 1917. [Programme des Ballets Russes]
A BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL ARTIFACT BRINGING TOGETHER THE GREAT NAMES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE: THE PROGRAM FOR THE MAY 1917 SEASON OF DIAGHILEV’S “BALLET RUSSES” — A SEASON THAT INCLUDED THE PREMIERE OF THE BALLET "PARADE" (SCENARIO BY JEAN COCTEAU; CHOREOGRAPHY BY LÉONIDE MASSINE; SCORE BY ERIK..... More
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An Inquiry Into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations
FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE ORIGINAL BOARDS OF PLAYFAIR’S INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL DECLINE — A PIONEERING WORK IN THE USE OF INFOGRAPHICS TO PRESENT ECONOMIC DATA. More
Price: $7,600 .
Photograph Signed
LARGE (8 x 10 in ) PHOTOGRAPH OF RAND, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED in ink in the bottom margin: “To Carl Davis - / -Cordially - Ayn Rand / 8-25-78”. More
Price: $4,900 .
We The Living
FIRST EDITION OF RAND’S FIRST NOVEL, IN THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. More
Price: $11,500 .