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Fine Books and Manuscripts
26 November - 10 December 2024 • New York
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1001 Adams, John | Adams congratulates John Trumbull on his monumental paintings for the Capitol rotunda
1002 (Articles of Confederation) | "The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'"
1004 Banneker, Benjamin | One of the great prizes of African Americana: a Banneker Almanack
1005 Bates, Katharine Lee | Complete autograph transcript of "America the Beautiful"
1009 (Captivity Narrative) | The Baldwin Massacre
1010 Curtis, Edward | "The North American Indian..." Volume Set 16
1014 Hancock, John, & Samuel Adams | Documents signed by these Massachusetts patriots
1016 Jefferson, Thomas | The first English edition of "Notes," with the famed map of Virginia
1017 Jefferson, Thomas | The former president writes to his grandson during a period of national threat
1019 (Louisiana Laws) | The first American laws in the West
1023 [Norman, John] | Among the earliest maritime charts of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts
1024 Rhode, Johann Christoph | "Theatrum Belli in America Septentrionali"
1025 Rocque, John | Map of North America
1026 Rogers, Robert | A cornerstone account of the French and Indian War, with distinguished provenance
1027 Smith, John | "One of the most important printed maps of America ever produced"
1028 Story, Joseph | First of this authoritative treatise on the Constitution
1029 Washington, George | The exceedingly rare first edition of Washington's will
1031 [Austen, Jane] | Lady Guilford's copy of this "perfect" novel in the original boards
1032 Austen, Jane | First American edition of Austen's most beloved book
1033 William Blake
Blake, William | "The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Mauling Each Other, from Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy" (Bindman 649)
1034 [Brontë, Emily, and Anne Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell | An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels
1036 Carroll, Lewis | "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass"
1037 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A lovely example of "Tom Sawyer"
1038 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A fine, bright copy of "Huckleberry Finn" in green cloth
1039 Dickens, Charles | "Oliver Twist," first edition, extensively extra-illustrated
1040 Dickens, Charles | "A Christmas Carol," first edition, first issue
1041 Dickens, Charles | "A Christmas Carol"—first edition, second issue, the Suzannet-Self copy
1042 Dickens, Charles — Hablot K. Browne (pseud. "Phiz," illustrator) | "Bleak House," first edition, with an original illustration
1044 Dickens, Charles | The author's copy of "Little Dorrit"
1045 Dickens, Charles | "A Tale of Two Cities," in the original monthly parts
1046 Dickens, Charles | "A Tale of Two Cities," first book edition, in the original cloth
1048 Dickens, Charles | "Great Expectations," first edition, fifth impression
1049 (Dickens, Charles) — A group of works from the author's library
1050 (Dickens, Charles) — Hablot K. Browne (pseud. "Phiz," illustrator) — A group of steel plates
1052 (Dickens, Charles) — Joseph Clayton ("Kyd") Clarke | A series of 649 original character-studies illustrating the work of Charles Dickens
1053 Eliot, George | The first work published with Eliot's identity revealed
1054 Eliot, T. S. | "Prufrock and Other Observations," first edition
1055 Gaskell, Elizabeth | "The Moorland Cottage," her second published work
1056 Hardy, Thomas | “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
1057 Hardy, Thomas | Collection of letters to James Murray, suggesting words for the Oxford English Dictionary
1058 Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The author's last letter
1059 Kerouac, Jack | "On the Road," first edition of the author's landmark novel
1060 Reade, Charles | "The Cloister and the Hearth," the first edition of this historical novel
1061 Reid, Thomas Mayne | The first edition of "No Quarter!"
1062 Salinger, J. D. | "The Catcher in the Rye," first edition of this contemporary American classic
1063 Shakespeare, William | "All's Well that Ends Well," from the Second Folio
1065 Shakespeare, William | A great tragedy of the 17th century stage as it was widely read
1066 Shakespeare, William | The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays