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Age of Wonder
25 November - 9 December 2022 • New York
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![Newton, Isaac and A. Motte [translator] | "... perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make." — Einstein](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d0a599c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1353x2000+0+0/resize/150x222!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F09%2Fbd%2Fe0dc90d34c30863e2a558fa013d6%2Fn11124-cgxws-t1-02.jpg)
1001. Newton, Isaac and A. Motte [translator] | "... perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make." — Einstein

1002. Smith, Adam | "... led by an invisible hand ..."

1003. Mesmer, Franz Anton | Synthesizing the controversial ideas of "animal magnetism"

1004. Jenner, Edward | A remarkable letter by the father of immunology discussing vaccine matter

1005. Jenner, Edward | A second extraordinary letter by Jenner to Wollaston

1006. Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe | The invention of the stethoscope

1007. Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé | Original drawings by the inventor of photography

1008. De Quincey, Thomas | "a conclusive experiment on the profit of leaving of leaving off opium"

1009. Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé | The invention of photography—the true first issue

1010. Darwin, Charles, Philip Parker King, and Robert FitzRoy | "The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life"

1011. Poe, Edgar Allan | The culmination of Poe's efforts

1012. Jardine, William | A handsome set of The Naturalist's Library

1013. Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye | "How should we live?"

1014. Adams, Arthur | A charming collection of plates drawn from a landmark voyage

1015. (Darwin, Charles) | The first published portrait of Darwin, likely an artist's proof

1016. Melville, Herman | "And God created great whales."

1017. Dickens, Charles | "Fog up the river, where it flows among the green aits and meadows..."

1018. (Darwin, Charles) | The earliest obtainable photographic portrait

1019. Foote, Eunice Newton | The first true discovery of "greenhouse gasses"

1020. Dickens, Charles | "the ham (though it was good enough of itself) seemed to blow a faint simoom of ham through the whole Marshalsea.”

1021. Darwin, Charles and Alfred Russel Wallace | Darwin announces the theory of natural selection

1022. Darwin, Charles | The "most important single work in science"

1023. Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie Bisson | The Ascent of Mont Blanc

1024. Frith, Francis | Frith's monumental photographic record of the Middle East

1025. Darwin, Charles | His definitive statement on natural selection, and his legacy

1026. (New York) — Viele, Egbert L | "The most enduring 19th-century map of Manhattan"

1027. Cameron, Julia Margaret | J. F. W. Herschel

1028. Collins, Wilkie | The foundation of modern detective fiction

1029. Malm, Auguste Wilhelm | An inadvertent photographic work of art on whaling, and the only stuffed blue whale in the world

1030. (Darwin, Charles) — Julia Margaret Cameron | The rarest of Cameron’s portraits of Darwin

1031. Darwin, Charles | A fine series of letters on tailless dogs and rare carnivorous plants

1032. (Darwin, Charles) — Oscar Gustave Rejlander | One of his favorite portraits, signed by himself and the photographer

1033. Critcherson, George P., John L. Dunmore with William Bradford | The Front of the Glacier

1034. Collins, Wilkie | The author's annotated copy of the rare Moonstone dramatization

1035. (Darwin, Charles) | An exceptional group of photographic portraits, one of which signed

1036. Darwin, Charles | A letter regarding a bizarre inherited behavior

1037. (San Francisco) — Jackson, William Henry | A magnificent view of a vanished San Francisco and a major innovation in photography

1038. Morris, William | The second, and more elaborate, edition of the first book by the Kelmscott Press

1039. Wells, H. G. | A scarce and desirable leaf from one of Wells' major works

1040. Pia, Secondo | The Shroud of Turin

1041. Royds, Charles W. Rawson | The race to the end of the earth

1042. Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Bragaglia, Anton Giulio | Selected Carte Postale

1043. Carter, Howard | The Discovery of King Tut's Tomb

1044. (Darwin, Charles) | More than 100 items of Darwin ephemera, testifying to the ubiquity of his image