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Panoramic Photograph of Cairo

by CAIRO

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This splendid and unusually large panoramic photograph of Cairo combines elements of antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern world. In the distance the pyramids at Giza are visible, while a train races along the Nile River between Cairo and the pyramids. The photograph is dominated by the Citadel and by the Muhammad Ali mosque, which famously has two soaring minarets. Muhammad Ali, the energetic governor of Cairo, razed most palaces and buildings in the 14th-century Mamluk citadel for this grand undertaking, begun in 1830 and completed in 1857. Cairo panoramic views of this size and scope are very scarce. Albumen print on paper, comprising multiple joined panels, overall image size 7 x 74 inches. Mounted on linen. Old folds, some wear, but generally in very good condition and with good contrast. Archivally framed.
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G. F. Watts

by Cameron, Julia Margaret

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This splendid portrait is inscribed and signed on the mount by Cameron: "G.F. Watts From Life not enlarged Julia Margaret Cameron."

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), the renowned English Victorian painter, was one of Julia Margaret Cameron's closest friends and art mentors. Watts painted Cameron's portrait in the early 1850s, and Cameron reciprocated with a number of photographic portraits in the years that followed.

Watts lived for many years with the family of Cameron's sister Sara at Little Holland House, where he was part of a long-lived artistic and literary salon. In the early 1870s Watts acquired a house at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, joining his friends Cameron and Tennyson there.

"How masterly … are her straightforward, truthful portraits, which are entirely free from false sentiment." "It is they which have made her work immortal in the annals of photography" (Gernsheim).

Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs 828.
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Opening day of the Suez Canal

Opening day of the Suez Canal

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THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. 13½ x 9½ inches. Albumen photograph mounted on paper, annotated in pencil "Port Said 16 Nov 1869" in the lower left. Excellent condition. This photograph depicts the harbor and canal on the day of the opening of the Suez Canal, the "greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century" (Smith). "Clearly, the canal's opening festivities placed Egypt in a new way on the European cultural map" (Haddad, "Digging to India: Modernity, Imperialism, and the Suez Canal"). The opening of the Suez Canal immediately transformed world trade. Connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea allowed ships to sail between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa. Trade between East and West grew at a record rate. "The construction and completion of the great Suez Canal . . . [was] one of the most remarkable engineering enterprises of the age, one that will be an infinitely . . . important boon to commerce" (W. H. Davenport Adams). "Men of the nineteenth century have pierced the… Read More
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Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, traduit de l’Anglois

Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, traduit de l’Anglois

by Cantillon, Richard

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Contemporary armorial calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. A few small spots. Fine. First edition of the book that is, "more emphatically than any other single work, the cradle of political economy" (Jevons). Published posthumously, Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was cited by Adam Smith, Condillac, Quesnay, Harris, Postlethwayt, and many others. It is "the most systematic treatment on economic principles before the Wealth of Nations" (Roll), and Cantillon is the "founding father of modern economics" (Rothbard). Born in Ireland, Cantillon was active in banking in Paris for years. A man among boys in business, he made a fortune from John Law's scheme. "Bankers fell like autumn leaves in Paris between 1717 and 1720, and as Higgs remarks, 'Their losses were probably very heavy in 1720 and much of them went into Cantillon's pocket'" (New Palgrave). He successfully defended himself in numerous lawsuits brought by victims of the Mississippi Bubble, but he eventually deemed it prudent to… Read More
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United States Capitol

United States Capitol

by (CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.)

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Fine Large-format Photograph of the Capitol. This dramatic photograph of the United States Capitol shows the building ca. 1870, after the completion of the new dome and the extensions. The view shows the east side of the building, as seen from the northeast. There are signs of construction evident in the image, and a number of people and two horse-drawn carriages are visible. The photograph was taken within a few years of 1867, when the cheek blocks beside the Senate steps were installed. The photograph shows the rails for a street car system, for which termini were constructed on the Capitol grounds. Thomas Jefferson insisted the legislative building be called the "Capitol" rather than "Congress House." The word "Capitol" comes from Latin and is associated with the Roman temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill. The name, which followed the example of Virginia's House of Burgesses' "Capitoll" authorized in 1699, signified the national aspirations for a republic steeped in the ancient… Read More
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Carey’s American Atlas

Carey’s American Atlas

by Mathew Carey

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FIRST EDITION of the first true American atlas, the earliest atlas of the United States engraved and published in America. This important volume contains several important state maps including the first American map representing Virginia after statehood. In the preparation of this atlas, Carey drew primarily on existing sources including Guthrie's Geography. Many of the maps were drawn by Samuel Lewis.
Several of the maps of the Southern states are particularly noteworthy. The map of Georgia contains the location of several Creek and other Indian towns as well as old trading paths to the interior of the state. The map of Tennessee, here in its second state, is the first separate American map of Tennessee and contains valuable information about early settlements, towns, roads, and Indian boundaries.
Unrestored examples in period bindings are very scarce. Thomas Streeter's great Americana collection contained only the 1800 edition. The Siebert collection had two badly defective copies, the second of… Read More
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Harmonia Macrocosmica Sev Atlas Universalis Et Novus
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Harmonia Macrocosmica Sev Atlas Universalis Et Novus

by CELLARIUS, ANDREAS.

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First edition, second issue of the greatest 17th-century celestial atlas. Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica is one of the most beautiful books of the Golden Age of Dutch cartography and a visual landmark in the history of man's understanding of the cosmos. This 1661 issue is a variant of the edition of 1660, which is otherwise identical. The edition of 1708 omits text found in this edition.
The 16th and 17th centuries were a period of revolutionary advances in science and art. One of the greatest syntheses of these two fields of human achievement is Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica (Harmonious Universe, or New and Universal Atlas). Cellarius uses his original dramatic charts of the stars and planets not only to describe the heavens but also to formulate a harmonic description of the universe incorporating the concepts of antiquity and new astronomical discoveries.
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An extraordinary collection of photographs of Central Park by its first official photographer
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An extraordinary collection of photographs of Central Park by its first official photographer

by (CENTRAL PARK) Prevost, Victor

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Pioneering photographs of Central Park. One of the earliest photographers to work in New York, Victor Prevost (1820-1881) studied photography in France under Paul Delaroche and with Gustave Le Gray. In 1850 Prevost came to New York and established a studio at Broadway and Bleecker. He achieved limited commercial success, giving up photography as a career in 1857. Prevost continued to take photographs of major construction projects in New York City, the most important of which are his images of the new Central Park. These images are among the earliest extant photographs of the construction of Central Park. The Olmsted-Vaux plan was accepted in 1858, and work began at once, but it was not until the 1870s that the immense project was completed. As a result, these very early photographs present an unfamiliar view of the park, with immature plantings, temporary structures, worker housing, all without the towering buildings that figure prominently in later images. Three of the photographs are signed in the… Read More
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Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art and vertu known as “The Vienna...
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Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art and vertu known as “The Vienna Museum,” the property of Messrs. Lowenstein Brothers, of Frankfort-on-the-Main

by Christie, Manson & Woods

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36 salt paper prints (approx. 11.4 x 17.8 cm), mounted, one of which is hand colored. Original red cloth gilt. Frayed at spine ends, light foxing and soiling. Very good.
FIRST EDITION. This important volume is "the earliest photographically illustrated auction catalogue" (Gernsheim, Incunabula, 122). It contains 36 photographs on salted paper by Hermann Emden of Frankfurt.
"Christie's interest in adapting photography also encompassed the illustration of catalogues. In 1860 they sold the private collection of the Lowenstein brothers of Frankfort-am-Main which was known as 'the Vienna Museum.' This auction was accompanied by what is believed to be the first photographically illustrated auction catalogue and, most significantly, the text actually refers to the thirty-six photographic illustrations by Hermann Emden of Frankfort, one of which was hand colored. Illustrated catalogues were very uncommon before 1860 and to have a photographically illustrated catalogue with a text making prominent… Read More
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. With the...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the King’s blessed Restoration

by CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, Earl of

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FIRST EDITION. A magnificent set of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, "the most valuable of all the contemporary accounts of the Civil Wars. … His characters are not simply bundles of characteristics, but consistent and full of life, sketched sometimes with affection, sometimes with light humor" (DNB).
"Since its publication at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Earl of Clarendon's history of the English Civil War has remained one of the most important sources for our understanding of the events which changed the course of British history… [It] chronicles in absorbing detail the intrigues and upheavals, the alliances and confrontations, the triumphs and the tragedies, of the 1640s and 1650s. In elegant and vital prose it brings to life the personalities who shaped the era, and the principles for which a nation was divided" (Oxford University Press).
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Henry Clay, half plate daguerreotype

Henry Clay, half plate daguerreotype

by (CLAY, HENRY.) Montgomery Simons, attr.

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A classic, characteristic daguerreotype portrait of Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser," a dominant force in American politics for decades. He represented Kentucky in Congress from 1806 until his death in 1852, with a few breaks for cabinet duty or a presidential campaign–he ran four times without success. A political moderate, he brokered the Compromise of 1850 that kept the United States intact.

A nearly identical portrait of Clay was copyrighted by Philadelphia photographer Montgomery P. Simons. Simons wrote to the Photographic Art Journal in 1853 to discuss this sitting:

"My likeness of Mr. Clay, which has elicited so many encomiums from the press, and which you have been pleased to criticise so favorably, as a valuable likeness, is still more valuable for having associated with it a pleasing and characteristic anecdote of that great statesman. This anecdote made such a strong impression upon my memory, as being a most elegant impromptu, that I am now able to give it to you verbatim, although… Read More
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Autograph note signed to Robert Watt with original albumen print photograph

Autograph note signed to Robert Watt with original albumen print photograph

by CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.

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Framed with the albumen photograph (41/2 x 31/2 in. oval) that accompanied the note. Light browning. A wonderful display piece.
Mark Twain the humorist. Samuel Clemens sent this delightful humorous note with the accompanying half- length standing portrait of the debonair author.
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"My Dear Mr. Watt: There is a trifle too much 'style' in the attitude for a plain man like me, but the photographer did it. Yrs truly Saml L. Clemens July 16/74."
Clemens, who had humble origins, could be quite vain. In his later years he famously wore brilliant white linen suits. Here he pokes fun at his appearance in the photograph, reminding his correspondent of his roots.
Watt was a Danish journalist and author who translated Twain's Sketches into Danish. He sent a copy of the unauthorized edition to Twain in May 1874 and asked the author for a photograph and a few lines.
Clemens replied with a long, friendly letter joking that "the sketches have a familiar look, but their meaning is hidden from me in… Read More
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Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de L'Esprit Humain

by Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas, Marquis de

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THE PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN. 8vo. Early half red morocco. Near fine. FIRST EDITION. A distinguished mathematician and friend of Voltaire, d'Alembert, and Turgot, Condorcet played a major role in promoting the Revolution's democratic principles. In the Esquisse (An Historical Outline of the Progress of the Human Mind), he traces the history of man through ten epochs, moving from savagery through the development of civilization and knowledge up to Descartes in the eighth epoch. The ninth epoch spans the Enlightenment from Descartes to the Revolution. For the tenth epoch, Condorcet predicts that equality of opportunity will prevail among all classes and nations and that man will improve intellectually, morally, and physically. "A belief in the ultimate perfectibility of man lies at the root of all progressive thinking about the human condition. The philosophes and Godwin had familiarized the reading public with this notion, but it was left to Condorcet to give it its finest and most durable expression. . .… Read More
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Coney Island Panorama

by (CONEY ISLAND.) STACY, CHARLES

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Gelatin silver print (9 x 48 in.). Light wear and fading. Framed.
This is a splendid panorama of Coney Island taken in 1907.
Beginning in 1824 Coney Island began to transition from carriage roads and steamship transport, with a relative lack of urban development, to a more vibrant touristic landscape. Due to its proximity to Manhattan, the island attracted a large number of visitors as early as the 1830s and 1840s. Between 1880 and WWII, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States drawing millions of visitors a year.
Dreamland dominates this tremendous panoramic view, which was taken from the Shoot-the-Chutes feature. Built in 1904, Dreamland was intend- ed to surpass Luna Park and Steeplechase Park. To the left of Dreamland Tower, Luna Park's central tower is visible in the distance. Dreamland was illuminated by one million lights and had a railway through a Swiss Alpine landscape, Venetian canals with gondolas, a recreation of the fall of Pompeii, a simulated… Read More
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Autograph manuscript signed headed “Extract from ‘Bravo,’

Autograph manuscript signed headed “Extract from ‘Bravo,’

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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One page, comprising about 400 words in Cooper's hand. Left margin rough, mild soiling at lower margin.
A passage from Cooper's The Bravo, A Venetian Story. Cooper likely wrote out this extended passage from The Bravo for an unknown admirer. Cooper identifies it at the foot of the page as "Chapter VI. vol. I. copied from proof sheet…" The manuscript varies in several places from the text of the novel's first publication in 1831.
In this manuscript Cooper describes the Venetian senator Gradenigo, one of the principal characters in this romance set in Renaissance Venice. Gradenigo, he writes, was "born with all the sympathies and natural kindliness of other men, but accident, and an education which received a strong bias from the institutions of the self styled republic, had made him the creature of a conventional polity … In short, he was an aristocrat; and no man had more industriously or more successfully persuaded himself into the belief of all the dogmas of his caste …"
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Precaution
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Precaution

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Two volumes, Complete with half-titles and errata leaf at end of volume 2. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Rebacked preserving original spines. Ligtly browned. Half morocco cases.
[Bound with:]
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph letter signed to Rev. Joseph Ransom. New York, 23 November 1845
One page, integral address leaf, affixed to front free endpaper. Minor separations and chipping.
First edition of Cooper's first novel. Precaution was influenced by the works of Jane Austen and the English domestic novel. "Playfully challenged by his wife's cousin to write a better book than the one he ewas reading aloud, Cooper, after a false start, produced Precaution (1820), an imitation of an English novel of manners which, though weak, brought him to the attention of the New York literary world" (ANB).
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COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph letter signed to Rev. Joseph Ransom. New York, 23 November 1845
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The Redskins; or Indian and Ingin: being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts

The Redskins; or Indian and Ingin: being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Two volumes. Original printed russet wrappers. Spines repaired, a few chips. Foxed. An excellent set. Half morocco case.
First American edition, in original printed wrappers. This is the conclusion of Cooper's Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, a series of novels examining the leasehold system in New York. Cooper saw attacks on the system as a threat to private property. "He was particularly incensed when tenants, disguised as American Indians, resorted to violence" in opposition to the landowners" (ANB).
This is an excellent example in the original wrappers. They correspond most closely to BAL's states A and E respectively, but with an ampersand in the imprint in place of "and;" BAL states there is no known priority and that "the wrappers may have been printed simultaneously."
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Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston

Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Two volumes. Original drab boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed. Wear to boards, browning, inner hinges repaired, losses to paper labels. A rare survival in original boards.
First American edition, fine and untrimmed in original boards, of Cooper's historical novel of the American Revolution. Cooper conceived of Lionel Lincoln as the first in a series of thirteen historical novels—the "Legends of the Thirteen Republics," as the often-lacking half-titles style it.
Writing to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Cooper visited Boston in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, visit battlefields, and consult primary sources. George Bancroft declared that in Lionel Lincoln Cooper had "described the battle of Bunker Hill better than it is described in any other work."
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The Water Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas
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The Water Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Three volumes. Half titles, colophon leaf in vol. 3 (a little spotting, damp staining in vol 3). Contemporary quarter green morocco gilt and marbled boards (rubbed at extremities). A very good, unrestored set.
Rare true first edition of Cooper's pirate romance. This nautical novel set in 17th-century New York was first published in a small edition in Dresden, where the author had settled in 1826. London and Philadelphia editions soon followed.
Cooper had attempted to have the work printed in Rome. The tale of the abduction of a woman by the mysterious pirate captain of the Water-Witch, who is actually a woman in disguise, was deemed "wholly unfit" by the Papal censors. The Water Witch was "the only genuine continental first" of all his novels (Spiller and Blackburn). This book, in both its content and its publication history, demonstrates the truly international scope of Cooper's career.
Provenance: Christie's New York, 21 September 1994, lot 56.
BAL 3845; Spiller and Blackburn pp. 6-7 and 62.
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Mercedes of Castile: or, the Voyage to Cathay

Mercedes of Castile: or, the Voyage to Cathay

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Two volumes. Original purple muslin, printed paper spine labels. Spines sunned, rubbed labels stating "Cooper" in an early hand. Faint damp stain at end of vol 2. Slipcase. An excellent set.
Fine first American edition of Cooper's historical novel about Christopher Columbus's first voyage. The Coopers had returned to America in the 1830s, but James continued to explore European influences and settings.
Lea and Blanchard published this work in the year that they issued Poe's first collection of fiction, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which appeared in an identical binding.
Provenance: Orlie B. Manville, with his curious early bookplate, Helen F. Mathies, George F. Clarke (bookplates).
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