Magnificent Books & Photographs 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop CATALOGUE 180 I 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop CATALOGUE 180 Magnificent Books & Photographs Prices in U.S. dollars 2 Federalist 450,000 77 Whitman. Leaves 270,000 Catalogue 180 4 Darwin. Origin 180,000 90 Whitman. MS 28,000 6 Darwin. Letter 22,500 94 Whitman. Two vols. 17,000 7 Darwin. Photograph 52,000 96 Whitman. MS 12,500 8 Darwin. Descent 9,500 98 Benese 35,000 10 Hamilton 75,000 100 Rubaiyat 68,000 e are pleased to offer this extraordinary group of landmark works 12 Goddard 45,000 102 Dickens 35,000 Wrepresenting mankind’s greatest achievements. 14 Malthus. Collection 125,000 103 Stevenson 25,000 18 Malthus. Population 7,200 104 Tolkien sold The tremendous run of classics of science includes the first edition of Euclid’s Elements of 20 Euclid 285,000 106 Brady 16,000 Geometry, the most important work in the history of mathematics, in an early binding. We are also 22 Mun 75,000 109 Wright 44,000 pleased to offer an inscribed presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, one of the 23 Godwin 4,500 110 English Liberties 20,000 most sought-after rarities in the history of science. Galileo’s Discorsi e Dimonstrazioni Matematiche, 24 Graham and Dodd 42,000 112 Jefferson 35,000 Intorno a Due Nuove Scienze (Two New Sciences), offered here in the rare first state, is the author’s 26 Lewis and Clark 175,000 114 Adams 17,500 most important work and the foundation of modern physics. 28 O’Sullivan 680,000 115 Samuelson 8,500 34 Defoe 175,000 116 Benjamin 15,000 Superb Americana includes a rare deluxe thick paper copy of the Federalist, one of a handful 36 Carroll 48,000 117 Benjamin 10,000 remaining in private collections. The official account of the Lewis and Clark expedition is here 38 Descartes 150,000 118 Alabama 25,000 in the rare original boards, with the edges untrimmed. 40 Spinoza 80,000 120 Machiavelli 80,000 42 Joyce 95,000 122 Blackstone 68,000 Photography of the American West offered here includes two extraordinary volumes. Timothy 44 Fitzgerald 47,500 124 Cookery 37,500 O’Sullivan’s celebrated Wheeler Survey photographs are rarely seen in the complete fifty image 46 Galileo POR 126 Battle of Concord 175,000 sequence. Andrew J. Russell’s The Great West, comprising fifty views made along the route of the 48 Astronomy 25,000 128 Paine 250,000 Union Pacific Railroad, is the author’s masterpiece. 50 Lincoln 7,000 130 Cantillon 75,000 51 Poe 48,000 132 Keynes 7,200 A highlight of economic thought is the collection of four newly discovered Thomas Robert 52 Lincoln 20,000 134 Emerson 22,000 Malthus letters on population, money, gold, and trade. Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la Nature 54 Frith 55,000 136 James 75,000 du Commerce, which Jevons called “the cradle of political economy,” is here in an outstanding armorial binding. Classics of philosophy include the first editions of René Descartes’s Discours 56 Underground RR 60,000 138 Ghost Dance 35,000 de la Méthode and Baruch Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. 58 Eisenhower POR 142 Muybridge 45,000 62 Turing 4,500 144 Sophocles 28,000 Literary classics range include the first editions of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Jonathan Swift’s 64 Tanner 75,000 146 Johnson 65,000 Gulliver’s Travels, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English 66 India 22,000 148 Central Park 135,000 Language, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. 68 Gibbon 48,000 150 Stith 22,000 70 Japan 45,000 152 Old West 150,000 Our superlative manuscripts include the letter by which President Dwight Eisenhower shared 72 Swift 95,000 156 Smith 300,000 atomic secrets and material with Israel, leading to its acquisition of the Bomb thereby helping 74 Tocqueville 62,000 158 Ramusio 95,000 to ensure the young nation’s survival. We are also pleased to offer a rare manuscript leaf from 76 Carey 42,000 162 Einstein 45,000 James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake featuring otherwise unknown textual variants. The Walt Whitman 77 Watson 4,800 164 Mather 35,000 poetical manuscript is an unpublished rarity. 78 Watson and Crick 95,000 166 Ali 16,500 80 Watson to Crick 45,000 168 Szyk 48,000 We thank our clients, both private collectors and librarians around the world, for their support 82 King James Bible 300,000 170 Boone 48,000 over the years. We look forward to continuing to help build some of the world’s greatest 84 Milton 175,000 172 Russell 350,000 collections. We welcome you to call on us to discuss the rewards of collecting. 86 McKoy sisters 28,000 446 Kent Avenue, Penthouse A, Brooklyn, NY 11249 USA 10400 Stevenson Road, Suite 100, Stevenson, MD 21153 USA tel. 410.602.3002 • fax 410.602.3006 • www.19thshop.com • [email protected] iii 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop Euclid (1482) Stephan & Jacob Loewentheil Thomas L. Edsall & Stacey Lambrow 446 Kent Avenue, Penthouse A 10400 Stevenson Road, Suite 100 Brooklyn, New York 11249 USA Stevenson, Maryland 21153 USA tel. 347.529.4534 • fax. 347.529.6779 tel. 410.602.3002 • fax. 410.602.3006 www.19thshop • [email protected] iv 1 rare thick paper copy of The Federalist “The Federalist stands third only to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself among all the sacred writings in American political history” – Clinton Rossiter HAMILTON, irst edition. This splendid example of The Federalist is one ALEXANDER, of a very small number of special deluxe copies printed on F thick paper. JAMES MADISON, and JOHN JAY. Upon receipt of his thick paper copy, George Washington wrote, The Federalist: A “When the transient circumstances and fugitive performances Collection of Essays Witten which attended this Crisis shall have disappeared, that work in Favour of the New [The Federalist] will merit the notice of posterity; because in it are Constitution. candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will be always interesting to mankind so long as they shall be connected in Civil Society.” New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788. The Federalist is the most important book in American political philosophy. It is the fundamental document left by the framers Two volumes. Near contemporary calf. A fine fresh, untouched copy. of the Constitution as an expository guide to their philosophy and intentions. “These men saw a strong central government as Printing and the Mind of Man 234. essential to the maintenance of a stable economy. Their conservative Grolier American Books 19. views regarding property rights have had a lasting effect on U.S. Constitutional law. As a commentary on the Constitution by men Provenance: contemporary ownership included among its principal architects, The Federalist has been used signature of James Stuart, slightly . as an interpreter of the constitution not only by laymen but by shaved, on first leaf of text. lawyers and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Seventy-seven of the eighty-five federalist papers were printed in newspapers between October 1787 and August 1788. The final eight papers first appeared in the second volume of The Federalist, published in two volumes in 1788 by John and Andrew McLean in New York. The work was originally known as The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century. Rare. The only other unrestored thick paper Federalist in an early binding to appear for public sale in the past thirty years was George Washington’s copy ($1,430,000 at Sotheby’s, 1990). This rare, deluxe thick paper Federalist is a cornerstone for any collection of great American books. 2 3 The Origin of Species inscribed by Charles Darwin the first edition to contain the word “evolution” DARWIN, CHARLES. ixth and final edition, first issue. A splendid and rare The Origin of Species presentation copy inscribed by Darwin on the half-title: S“From the author with best regards.” by Means of Natural Selection, or the preser- The Origin of Species is “certainly the greatest biological book ever vation of favoured races in written” (Freeman) and perhaps “the most important single work the struggle for life. Sixth in science” (Dibner). “Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture edition, with additions of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods and corrections. (Eleventh of thinking and our outlook on the order of natural things. The thousand.) recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had finally been established” (Printing and the Mind of Man). London, John Murray, 1872. Titled for the first time The Origin of Species (not On the Origin of Species), the sixth edition is the first to contain the word Original green cloth. Light wear to spine ends. A near fine, tight copy. Half “evolution” (pages 201 and 424). The sixth edition, “usually morocco case. regarded as the last … is again extensively revised and contains a new chapter, VII” (Freeman). The edition was first published in freeman 391. february 1872 with the designation “Eleventh thousand” on the title page. Subsequent printings were identified with increasing counts. The 1876 printing (18th thousand) contains a few minor final corrections, but the present 1872 first issue of the sixth edition represents the first appearance of Darwin’s final substantial alterations to his masterwork.