1 Blake, William | Likely the finest known posthumous printing of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"

2 Book of Hours | Use of Lyon, likely by the Master of the Alarmes de Mars, c. 1500-1510

3 Breydenbach, Bernhard von | A very good copy of the exceptionally rare first German-language edition of the first illustrated travel book

4 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | The first two Brussels editions of the Spanish Quixote

5 Darwin, Charles | "the book … that initiated the most cataclysmic change in human thinking within the last four hundred years"

6 Darwin, Charles | A rare leaf from The Descent of Man, Darwin’s epoch-making treatise

7 Euclides | "Elementa geometriae," second edition, much rarer than the first

8 Galieli, Galileo | First edition of the foundation of modern astronomy, overthrowing all that came before

9 Josephus, Flavius | First edition of Josephus in Latin, handsomely illuminated

10 Pacioli, Luca | A foundational text on "Divine Proportion" illustrated with designs after Da Vinci

11 Shakespeare, William | The Third Folio, bound by Francis Bedford, with distinguished provenance

12 Shakespeare, William | The Fourth Folio, an outstanding copy, complete and unsophisticated

13 Smith, Adam | "… led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."

14 Audubon, John James | The sumptuous Levy copy of Birds of America

15 Catherwood, Frederick | The scarce deluxe issue of these celebrated views of the Mayan ruins

16 Catlin, George | A fine copy of the deluxe issue George Catlin’s magnum opus, with superb original coloring

17 Kleist, Ludwig von, & Georg Emanuel Opiz | A scarce and stunning suite of military color plates, with an original watercolor drawing

18 du Camp, Maxime | First edition of a pioneering photobook on Egypt, Palestine, and Syria

19 Rougé, Emmanuel de — Aymard de Banville | An exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography

20 [da Gama, Vasco] — Manoel I, King of Portugal | Portugal's Renaissance Empire of Trade

21 George III Royal Proclamation of 1763 | The "Indian Magna Carta"

22 Continental Congress | "The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774"—Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address

23 (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Washington family copy of the first edition of The Federalist

24 The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights | The author of the Declaration of Independence witnesses the Ratification of the Bill of Rights

25 Monroe, James | "It ought not to be suspected that we are trifling with the Go[vernmen]t of France, or gaining time by an idle correspondence."

26 Lincoln, Abraham | The "Authorized Edition" of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln

27 Lincoln, Abraham | The abolition of slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States"