Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2
12 June - 26 June 2025 • New York
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1001 (American Revolution) — Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, et al. | Archive of documents by British military commanders in the Southern Theater
1002 (American Revolution) — Benjamin Wilson | Wilson’s satire of the Stamp Act
1003 Catesby, Mark | The "most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life..."
1004 Clark, Matthew | A rare map of the Long Island and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas
1005 Clark, Matthew | A rare map of the Maine and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas
1006 Douglass, Frederick | Civil Rights champion on the false idylls of slavery
1007 (Franklin, Benjamin) | Catalogue of the famed library founded by Benjamin Franklin
1008 Gass, Patrick | The earliest account of the Lewis and Clark expedition
1009 (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"
1010 Humboldt, Alexander von, and Aimé Bonpland | One of the most celebrated pictorial records of the Americas
1011 Jeffreys, Thomas | A cartographical record of emerging colonial interests in the West Indies
1012 [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark] | Engraved map from the rarest of the early editions of the Lewis and Clark narrative
1013 Lincoln, Abraham | An uncommon souvenir of Lincoln and his cabinet
1014 Maudslay, Alfred Percival, and Goodman, J.T. | Biologia Centrali-Americana, with the text and plates
1015 Moll, Herman | The famous "Beaver Map"
1016 (New York Laws) — William Smith and William Livingston (eds.) | First digest of colonial New York’s statutes
1017 Paine, Thomas | A 1776 Philadelphia text of "Common Sense"
1018 Pike, Zebulon | The first government exploration of the southwest
1019 Reiss, Wilhelm and Alphonse Stübel | First edition, documenting one of the most important archaeological sites in Peru
1020 Rivero, Mariano Eduardo de, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi | A pioneering archaeological and ethnographic study of Ancient Peru
1021 Rodrigeuz Delgado, Don Augustin | Constituciones Synodales of La Paz, first edition
1022 (San Francisco) — Henry Firks | A rare view of the the Golden City
1023 (United States Army. Uniform and Dress) | First edition of the 1851 Regulations, signed by the commander of the Department of Texas
1024 United States Constitution | First English printing
1025 [Austen, Jane] | "It is a truth universally acknowledged..."
1026 [Austen, Jane] | "Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
1027 [Austen, Jane] | "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."
1028 Bemelmans, Ludwig | An extensively illustrated archive of letters to Elizabeth Weicker and Theodore Weicker, Jr.
1029 Bemelmans, Ludwig | Córdoba, Spain, Square of the Archangel
1030 Blake, William | Illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts, from the library of Lady Harriet Hesketh, a subscriber
1031 Blake, William | A complete suite of the "Job" engravings, beautifully matted individually
1032 Dickens, Charles | Bleak House, the author's copy
1033 Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities, in the original parts — the Kern copy
1034 Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities, first book edition, in the original cloth
1035 [Doves Press] — William Shakespeare | Hamlet, inscribed by Cobden-Sanderson
1036 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | Autograph psychical casebook from the heart of his spiritualist period
1037 (Eliot, T.S.) — Gérard de Nerval | A pair of exceptional association copies
1038 Fitzgerald, F. Scott | "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
1039 Fleming, Ian | Live and Let Die, first edition
1040 Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon, first edition in dust-jacket
1041 Hemingway, Ernest | "A handbook for conduct for the new generation..."
1042 Hemingway, Ernest — Leonard Brown | Draft of Hemingway's collected works with extensive revisions and manuscript notes by Hemingway
1043 Joyce, James — Robert Motherwell | The Arion Press Ulysses, limited edition signed by Motherwell
1044 (Keats, John) — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley | A remarkable association copy, owned by some of Keats' closest friends
1045 Kent, Rockwell — François-Marie Arouet Voltaire | Candide, hand-colored for presentation
1046 Melville, Herman | "The vast swells of the omnipotent sea…”
1047 Rackham, Arthur — Richard Wagner | Original ink and watercolor drawing from Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods
1048 Rand, Ayn | A complete draft of Rand's important first speech delivered at the Ford Hall Forum