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THE FIRST PRINTED WORK ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. Politica. Oeconomica. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not before April 10, 1469.]THE FIRST PRINTED WORK ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. Politica. Oeconomica. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not before April 10, 1469.]. Sold for US$127,500 inc. premium
ONLY A HANDFUL OF SURVIVING COPIES. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. London and Paris: John Rodker, 1922 [1923].ONLY A HANDFUL OF SURVIVING COPIES. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Ulysses. London and Paris: John Rodker, 1922 [1923].. Sold for US$58,880 inc. premium
JOYCE'S ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT DRAFT FOR FINNEGANS WAKE. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Typed Manuscript Annotated with Joyce's autograph corrections and additions, being portions of Book I, Chapters 3 & 4, from the first typescript of Finnegans Wake, 8 pp, 270 x 209 mm, c.1923-24,JOYCE'S ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT DRAFT FOR FINNEGANS WAKE. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. Typed Manuscript Annotated with Joyce's autograph corrections and additions, being portions of Book I, Chapters 3 & 4, from the first typescript of Finnegans Wake, 8 pp, 270 x 209 mm, c.1923-24,. Sold for US$48,640 inc. premium
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, EXCEEDINGLY RARE. BUNYAN, JOHN. 1628-1688. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come.... Boston, N.E., Printed by John Draper for Thomas Fleet, 1744.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, EXCEEDINGLY RARE. BUNYAN, JOHN. 1628-1688. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come.... Boston, N.E., Printed by John Draper for Thomas Fleet, 1744.. Sold for US$38,400 inc. premium
PEANUTS COMIC STRIP FEATURING LUCY AS PSYCHIATRIST. SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,PEANUTS COMIC STRIP FEATURING LUCY AS PSYCHIATRIST. SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,. Sold for US$35,840 inc. premium
RARE BOSTON PRINTING OF AN INTOLERABLE ACT. [INTOLERABLE ACTS.] An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusett's Bay, in New-England. Boston: Printed by M. Draper, 1774.RARE BOSTON PRINTING OF AN INTOLERABLE ACT. [INTOLERABLE ACTS.] An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusett's Bay, in New-England. Boston: Printed by M. Draper, 1774.. Sold for US$33,280 inc. premium
JEFFERYS WEST INDIES, COMPLETE. JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The West-India Atlas: or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies. London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1780-[1782].JEFFERYS WEST INDIES, COMPLETE. JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The West-India Atlas: or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies. London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1780-[1782].. Sold for US$30,720 inc. premium
PEANUTS AND THE POSTAL SERVICE. SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,PEANUTS AND THE POSTAL SERVICE. SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,. Sold for US$28,160 inc. premium
THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, From Monday, May 29, to Tuesday, May 30, 1775, No. 8297, London: Printed by J. Miller, [1775], containing the first newspaper publication outside of America of the beginning of the American Revolution,THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, From Monday, May 29, to Tuesday, May 30, 1775, No. 8297, London: Printed by J. Miller, [1775], containing the first newspaper publication outside of America of the beginning of the American Revolution,. Sold for US$25,600 inc. premium
JOYCE'S FIRST EXTANT SOLO PUBLICATION. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. The Holy Office. [Trieste: Printed by L. Smolars, May/June 1905].JOYCE'S FIRST EXTANT SOLO PUBLICATION. JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. The Holy Office. [Trieste: Printed by L. Smolars, May/June 1905].. Sold for US$24,320 inc. premium

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RARE GEORGE N. GORDON MANUSCRIPT. GORDON, GEORGE NICOL. 1822-1861. Autograph manuscript signed on the lower cover ("George Gordon/West River"), lectures on exegesis of the Bible and an essay, "On the critical history of the original text of the scriptures,"
SHAKER MANUSCRIPT TRANSMISSIONS. 19th-Century Shaker manuscript of inspired writings, containing transmissions from Isaac Newton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, John Bunyan, etc.,
A GRAND CELEBRATION OF THE KABBALAH. FUCHS, ERNST, illustrator. 1930-2015. Sefer Yetsira. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1978.
THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY OF ANSON. ANSON, GEORGE. 1697-1762. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: John & Paul Knapton for the author, 1748.
JEFFERYS WEST INDIES, COMPLETE. JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The West-India Atlas: or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies. London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1780-[1782].
LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. LA PEROUSE, JEAN FRANCOIS GALAUP DE. 1741-1788. Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde.... Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V [1797].
CHINA IN THE 18TH CENTURY. STAUNTON, GEORGE. 1737-1801. An Authentic Account of An Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the Papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: W. Bulmer & Co. for G. Nicol, 1797.
BARROW, JOHN. 1764-1848. Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806.
MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES. HAKLUYT, RICHARD. 1552-1616. Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: R.H. Evans et al, 1809-1812.
FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written during Seventeen Years Residence in India London: for the Author by T. Bensley, 1813.
SALT'S VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA. SALT, HENRY. 1780-1827. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of That Country, Executed Under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814.
BRITISH INDIA. FITZCLARENCE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, EARL OF MUNSTER. 1794-1842. Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England.... London: John Murray, 1819.
PRESENTATION COPY OF BUCKINGHAM'S TRAVELS. BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK. 1786-1855. Travels in Palestine. through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan. London: Printed for Longham, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
ETHIOPIA. WADDINGTON, GEORGE. 1793-1869. AND REV. BERNARD HANBURY. 1793-1833. Journal of a Visit to some Parts of Ethiopia. London: John Murray, 1822.
HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF THE FIRST BURMESE WAR. MOORE, JOSEPH. Fl 1825. Eighteen views taken at & near Rangoon [First Series]. London: Thomas Clay, 1825.
RARE DENHAM PRESENTATION COPY. DENHAM, DIXON; AND HUGH CLAPPERTON Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824. London: John Murray, 1826.
FINE COPY OF CRAWFURD'S EMBASSY TO CHINA. CRAWFURD, JOHN. 1783-1868. Journal of an Embassy from the Govenor-General of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China. London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830.
FIRST ISSUE OF TANNER'S UNIVERSAL ATLAS. TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK. 1786-1858. A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. With a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c. Philadelphia: Published by the author, 1836.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATURAL HISTORY. SMITH, ANDREW. 1797-1872. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. London: Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849.
"APPARENTLY ONLY A FEW COPIES WERE ISSUED COLORED." ALLEN, WILLIAM. 1793-1864. Picturesque Views on the River Niger, Sketched During Lander's Last Visit in 1832-33. London: John Murray, Hodgson & Graves, and Ackerman, 1840.
AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE TRAVELS OF A PRINCE. SCHOMBURGK, ROBERT H. 1804-1865. And JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. 1791-1844. Translator. Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia, in the South of Europe and in Brazil, with a Voyage up the Amazon and the Xingu. London: David Bogue, 1849.
WALLACE'S FIRST TRAVEL NARRATIVE. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. London: Reeve and Co., 1853.
THE FINEST SCIENTIFIC TRAVEL BOOK EVER WRITTEN.... WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. The Malay Archipelago: : The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. London: MacMillan and Co, 1869.
WALLACE ASSOCIATION COPY. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. Island Life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras. London: Macmillan, 1880.
VERY EARLY PRESENTATION COPY FOR THOMAS CLEGG. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. 1813-1873. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857.
SOUTHWEST AFRICA. BAINES, THOMAS. 1820-1875. Explorations in South-West Africa being an Account of a Journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay... To Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.
RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF BATES'S CLASSIC. BATES, HENRY WALTER. 1825-1892. The Naturalist on the Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864.
DISCOVERY OF THE NILE, PRESENTATION COPY. The two important accounts of the discovery of the source of the Nile:
INDIA ALBUM. An album of 66 images of views and portraits, albumen prints, several signed and numbered in the negative,
PRESENTATION COPY FROM ISABEL BURTON. BURTON, ISABEL. 1831-1896. AEI Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel. London and Belfast: William Mullan and Son, 1879.
TWO PRESENTATION COPIES TO MAJOR J.B. POND. STANLEY, HENRY M. 1841-1904. The Congo and the founding of its free state, a story of work and exploration. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
CHINA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. WHITE, HERBERT C. 1896-1962. Peking the Beautiful. Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1927.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS, 1930s. 181 Silver gelatin print photographs, 1930-1934, most 4 x 5 inches, affixed to re-purposed logbook,
WORLD TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. 2 works, including David DuBose Gaillard's copy of Juan and Ulloa's Travels in South America::
GRAND TOUR PHOTO ALBUMS OF ASIA. 11 albums of photographic prints, of scenes in the Holy Lands, Asia Minor, and India,
GRAND TOUR PHOTO ALBUMS OF EUROPE. 4 albums of photographic prints, of scenes in Greece and Italy,
ZENGER IMPRINT, 1735. TENNENT, GILBERT. 1703-1764. The Espousals, or A Passionate Perswasive to a Marraige with the Lamb of God ... A Sermon upon Gen 24 49. Preached at N. Brunswick, June the 22nd, 1735. New York: Printed by J. Peter Zenger, 1735.
TEA TROUBLES. TOWNSEND ACTS. Manuscript Document signed by more than 60 townspeople including both men and women of Newburyport, Massachusetts, agreeing to refuse to sell, buy or consume Bohea or Indian Tea "until the Revenue Acts so justly complain'd of are repealed,"
RARE BOSTON PRINTING OF AN INTOLERABLE ACT. [INTOLERABLE ACTS.] An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusett's Bay, in New-England. Boston: Printed by M. Draper, 1774.
THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, From Monday, May 29, to Tuesday, May 30, 1775, No. 8297, London: Printed by J. Miller, [1775], containing the first newspaper publication outside of America of the beginning of the American Revolution,
ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRO-COLONIST USES OF "YANKEE DOODLE." STOCKTON, RICHARD. 1730-1781. Autograph Letter Signed ("Richd. Stockton") to his brother Samuel Stockton in London on the readiness and resolve of the American people preparing for war,
THE FIRST CONFIRMED REPORT IN MASSACHUSETTS OF THE VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE. [DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.] The New-England Chronicle, July 11, 1776, Vol VIII, No 412. Boston: Powars and Willis, July 11, 1776.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PRIVATEERING COMMISSION. HANCOCK, JOHN. 1737-1793. Document Signed ("John Hancock"), partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, being a privateering commission for Matthew Ritch and the Schooner Liberty,
JOHN GLADSTONE'S COPY OF ABBE RAYNAL. RAYNAL, GUILLAUME. 1713-1796. The Revolution of America. London: Lockyer Davis, 1781.
THOMAS JEFFERSON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826. Parallel calipers belonging Thomas Jefferson, 88 x 40 mm (closed),
PICART'S ILLUSTRATED OVID. OVID. 43 B.C.E.-17 A.D.E. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.
PARISIAN FASHION IN THE BELLE EPOQUE. BARBIER, GEORGE, LÉON BAKST, AND OTHERS. Journal des dames et des modes. Paris: Bureau d'Abonnement, July-December, 1912-1914.
LITHOGRAPHS BY MAYAKOVSKY AND BURLIUK. MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR; DAVID BURLIUK; NIKOLAI BURLIUK; AND VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV. Trebnik troikh: sbornik stikhov [Missal of the three: a collection of poems and drawings]. Moscow: G.L. Kuzmin and C.D. Dolinsky, 1913.
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