The 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop offers in its Catalogue 195 a collection of 60 books, manuscripts, and photographs representing humankind’s greatest achievements. Highlights include:
Women in Literature, Art, and Science
- The newly discovered photographic archive of Emma Frances Johnston, a very rare intact collection of an English female photographer of the 1850s and 1860s
- A splendid Louisa May Alcott letter on Little Women
- A rare Caroline Herschel manuscript on her discovery of a comet
- A tender, poetic letter by Emily Dickinson
- Harriet Beecher Stowe’s earliest extant literary manuscript
Science
- Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity, a rare inscribed presentation copy
- Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the only known copy with a scientific inscription by Einstein
- Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
- Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric theory announced in the only known copy of a work printed by the printer of his De Revolutionibus
- An Apollo lunar lander lithograph signed by all 12 men who walked on the Moon and by scores of other major figures in the Apollo program
American History
- A tremendous letter by Frederick Douglass on the coming civil war and the end of slavery
- An early war-date letter by Abraham Lincoln accepting Southerners to fight in the Union army, offered with
- A fragment of the bunting from the Ford’s Theatre presidential box on the night of the assassination
- A superb deluxe thick paper copy of The Federalist
Photography
- A major family album of Carleton Watkins including unique photographs of Watkins in his “camera man” outfit
- Photograph of Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, the most famous photographic portrait of a nineteenth-century scientist
The printed catalogue, out in just a few days, is available at no charge on request. Or, to go to our website: https://www.19thshop.com/
Email info@19thshop.com for a copy.
