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On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin First Issue W/ Signed Letter
$75000Includes a signed letter from Darwin to his property manager on December 4, 1865. Also included is a cut signature of Captain Robert Fitzroy, under whom Darwin served on the HMS Beagle.
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The Raven Folio by Edgar Allen Poe First Edition 1883.
$4000First edition folio richly illustrated by Gustave Doré.
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1550 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Third Collected Edition (Scarce Variant)
$40000The definitive edition of Chaucer’s collected works, edited by William Thynne, Henry VIII’s custodian and hunter of Chaucerian manuscripts. Chaucer is often referred to as the Father of English Literature and Poetry. 1 of 12 surviving copies.
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Emancipation Proclamations With Manuscript Orders Signed by E.D. Townsend and Lorenzo Thomas
$150000General Orders of the War Department, 1862–1863
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Up From Slavery First Edition Association Copy with Signed Letter from Booker T. Washington
$9500First edition of the deeply impactful autobiography with a typed signed letter from Booker T. Washington.
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Aesop’s Fables 1733 Richly Illustrated with 240 Engravings
$700Originally issued in 1722, this fourth edition continues the tradition of pairing classical fable with accessible moral instruction. A beautiful example of early 18th-century English bookmaking.
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Roman Missal Printed by Thielmann Kerver’s 1521 Finely Bound Folio – 1 of 2 Surviving Copies
$80000According to USTC and Worldcat, only one copy of this edition exists in libraries.
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First edition of Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie 1860
$2200First edition of Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie, the author’s second major contribution to the revival of occult philosophy in 19th-century Europe—an ambitious attempt to unify the history, rituals, and metaphysical underpinnings of magic from antiquity to modernity.
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Padovani’s Opus 1570 First Edition w/ unique manuscript content and direct association with the author’s collaborator.
$22000A remarkable association copy of Giovanni Padovani’s rare 1570 Opus de horologiorum solarium usu, owned and annotated by his collaborator Johannes Andrea de Muscis. With two leaves of manuscript notes bound in before the title—commenting directly on the use and correction of Padovani’s astronomical tables—and marginalia throughout, this copy documents one of the few surviving examples of direct scholarly engagement between author and assistant in 16th-century scientific literature.
