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Albumen print on paper. Approx, 16 x 20 in. Very good condition. Archivally framed.
John Burroughs (1837-1921) was, after Henry David Thoreau, the greatest American nature essayist. He played an important role in the development of he American conservation movement. Burroughs is also remembered for his close friendship with Walt Whitman, whom he resembled in old age. "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral" (John Burroughs).

Mammoth plate albumen silver print. Approx. 16 x 20 in., original mount.Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs 105.
An iconic Yosemite photograph. This famous photograph shows Galen Clark standing at the foot of the colossal Grizzly Giant sequoia. Clark was the first European American to discover the Marisposa Grove of giant sequoias at Yosemite. Named Guardian of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove in 1866, Clark was instrumental in securing legislation to protect the trees. Camping beneath the Grizzly Giant in 1903 inspired Theodore Roosevelt to establish several other national parks, forests, and monuments, and in 1905 he created the U. S. Forest Service. Roosevelt said the Mariposa Grove was "a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build."
In the summer of 2022 the National Park Service and firefighters went to extraordinary lengths to protect the beloved tree during the Washburn fire. They delivered 15-20 gallons of water per minute… Leer más

Printed later by Clark. Gelatin silver gelatin print. 11 x 14 inches. Fine. Signed and inscribed by Edward Clark. Clark was one of the leading American magazine photographers of the twentieth century. In 1944 he joined Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, W. Eugene Smith, and Philippe Halsman at LIFE magazine. His photographs soon became among the most famous in America. In 1958 LIFE assigned Clark for a story on Senator Kennedy, considered a likely presidential candidate. When the photographer asked for a view of Kennedy with their four-month-old baby, his wife Jacqueline objected that they would awaken her. Kennedy invited Clark upstairs, with Jackie protesting, but this charming photograph was the result. Jackie requested 75 copies "of that marvelous picture" to give to family and friends. After Kennedy became president in 1961, the delightful photograph was displayed in the Oval Office.

Mammoth plate albumen print, mounted. Approx. 16 x 20 in. Framed. Fine condition.
This spectacular view shows Sentinel Rock towering above a rider on horseback in a well-lit clearing.
Charles Leander Weed is generally considered the first photographer to work in Yosemite. His 1859 trip there yielded approximately twenty 10 x 14 inch views and forty stereo images. For his 1864 photographic expedition to the Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees of Calaveras, Weed used a larger camera to produce these splendid mammoth-plate prints (more than twice the size of the 1859 views), as well as a new series of stereo views.
Weed exhibited his mammoth prints at the 1867 Paris International Exposition. Lawrence & Houseworth's 1870 Catalogue offered them for sale and observed, "This series of views, together with the stereoscopic collection, were awarded the bronze medal at the Paris Exposition, for their superior excellence."
Relatively little is known about Weed, who "remains a shadowy presence" (Palmquist). In… Leer más

Origjnal cloth and scarce dust jacket with light wear. Mounted clippings with some offsetting. A very good copy.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Inscribed and signed by Kinsey in the year of publication.
"The Kinsey report was a cultural event of enormous consequence" (Edward Laumann).
The best-selling Kinsey report helped to usher in a revolution in sexual knowledge and mores. It challenged conventional beliefs, discussed previously taboo subjects, and showed what to some were surprising levels of premarital and extramarital sex. The report suggested that homosexual activity, thoughts, and feelings were more widespread than many thought and existed on a continuum, the "Kinsey scale."
Kinsey "established a solid academic reputation for his biology tests and his research in taxonomy and evolution … Kinsey and his staff collected over 18,000 interviews, and published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953 … Dr. Kinsey's name suddenly became… Leer más

8 x 10 in. (image size 8 x 8 ¼ in.). Gelatin silver print. Fine
Signed by Watson and Crick in the white lower margin. The discovery of the structure of DNA was the cornerstone event in modern genetics and biology and one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.
When they published the discovery, Watson and Crick concluded with a classic understatement: "The structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest. . . . It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material."
This photograph was one of four similar poses made by amateur photographer Anthony Barrington Brown at the Cavendish Laboratory soon after the announcement.
No scientific discovery has ever had such far-reaching implications for the betterment of mankind. In 1962 Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for medicine.

Original brown cloth. Some chipping, two gatherings sprung. Morocco case.

John Greenleaf Whittier's copy of the first edition, with his ownership signature and bookplate. A fine association between two important figures in 19th-century American literature. The Quaker poet and abolitionist would later be best-remembered for his 1866 work Snow-Bound.
The present copy also includes a letter from Samuel T. Pickard, Whittier's nephew and eventual executor who was also the publisher of spurious excerpts from Hawthorne's diary in the 1860s.
Provenance: 1. John Greenleaf Whittier, bookplate and signature. 2. Samuel T. Pickard, inscription and accompanying Autograph letter signed to Miss H.D. Richardson. Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1 August 1904. 8 pp letter regarding Whittier's library, family copies, and this copy of Hawthorne's Snow-Image.

Two volumes. Original terracotta and blue cloth. A little wear and sunning. A very handsome set. Morocco case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST AND SECOND ISSUES. These are the fine Bradley Martin copies of both issues of the poem that brought Whittier his greatest fame.
Tipped in are two letters from Whititer to publisher James T. Fields, both dated 1866, discussing the reception of the book. In one the poet writes in part, "I am amazed at what thee say about the sale of 'Snow Bound.' It must be that each one who parts with his [money] for it finds he is humbugged & has a malicious satisfaction in getting his neighbor into the same predicament by recommending it."
A stellar provenance: Charles Albert Horne (bookplate in first series) – Frank Maier (bookplate in first series) – Frank Brewer Bemis (bookplate in both volumes) – Harold Greenhill (bookplate in both volumes) – H. Bradley Martin (bookplate in chemises of both volumes; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 31 January 1990, lot 2275).

FIRST EDITION of Benjamin Franklin's account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital established in the British colonies, co-founded by Franklin with his friend Dr. Thomas Bond. It remains a leading medical institution in Philadelphia.

Franklin's Account is "a record of one of his and Philadelphia's noblest civic achievements; and from its magnificent opening paragraph to its final moving appeal, it is, in Carl Van Doren's words, 'an example of homespun splendor hardly to be matched in the English language'" (Franklin Project).

"Franklin was a prime force in founding the institution, its first secretary, and later chairman of its trustees. In his Autobiography he wrote that he could remember no maneuver the success of which gave him at the time more pleasure than that of persuading the citizens and assembly to contribute matching funds to start the hospital initially" (Miller).

Written and printed by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the Account "describes the plan on which… Leer más

Original purple cloth. Spine faded. Half morocco case.
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his friend and fellow fireside poet James Russell Lowell "from his friend O.W.H."—an excellent New England literary association.
This volume contains a selection of Holmes's essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, which Lowell edited. The two shared commitments not only to poetry and writing (both were also members of the Dante Club) but also to abolitionism. Holmes wrote a poem to Lowell on his 70th birthday, beginning: "A health to him whose double wreath displays / The critic's ivy and the poet's bays."

7pp; 8 pp. Mimeographs, staples removed.This rare fanzine was printed in tiny numbers. We have found traces of the 1946 number on the Internet, but the 1947 number appears to be even more rare. Each number publishes the result of the author's survey of science fiction writers, editors, and aficionados concerning the likelihood of space travel for humans.
Very rare: not in WorldCat.

FIRST EDITION, second printing, first issue. Thomas Harned's copy, with his bookplate. Whitman's friend Harned was one of the poet's literary executors, alog with Horace Traubel and Richard B. Bucke.
David McKay at Rees Welsh, Whitman's new publisher following the Boston Leaves of Grass controversy agreed to publish this autobiographical work, which Whitman called "the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed." McKay took over the firm in 1882 and used his own name in the imprint for the second and subsequent printings.
The book includes "not only Specimen Days but also many of Whitman's other prose writings, including Democratic Vistas, his essay on the "Death of Abraham Lincoln," his various prefaces, and the prose stream from Two Rivulets. Surprisingly, Whitman also decided to include some of his early and long-forgotten fiction and pre-Leaves poetry. The book was another Whitman compendium, bringing between one set of covers a diverse group of writings, but this time… Leer más

Three volumes. 30 pp. Catalogue of American Poetry at end. Original purple muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, untrimmed. Labels worn, one joint split, spines worn and repaired. Foxing.

First edition. This important work, which contains the first mention of Poe's work in a book, is the earliest bibliography of American poetry. This set includes the work of nearly 200 poets up to 1829, with Kettell supplying biographical sketches for each writer, ranging from Cotton Mather to Francis Scott Key, Washington Irving, and Sarah J. Hale. The Catalogue of American Poetry at the end lists "Tamerlane, and other poems, by a Bostonian, Boston, 1827"—the first mention of any work by Poe in a printed book. According to Roger Stoddard, this catalogue is the beginning of the bibliography of early American poetry.

This magnificent, imposing album was made by a prominent late-Victorian hostess, patron of the arts, and gifted artist.Folio. Approx. 225 pages, heavy card. Brown morocco gilt-stamped "H.R.H.," metal lock and corner-pieces, gilt edges (rubbed at joints). Excellent condition.Helen Rose Huth was the wife of the banker Louis Huth. The Huths were major art collectors who displayed their art in the gallery built for the purpose at their home, Possingworth. Helen sat for both George Frederic Watts and James Abbott McNeill Whistler who painted the celebrated Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth. Whister required many sittings, and when she complained that Watts never treated her that way, Whistler replied, "And still, you know, you come to me!" After Louis Huth's death in 1905, she married Archibald Howe.The album, the product of vast labor, contains 50 watercolors (all but four by Mrs. Huth) comprising studies of flowers, landscapes, and other scenes in Possingworth, East Sussex, and… Leer más

A key navigational aid in taking man to the Moon and back to Earth. The astronauts of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, used this very star chart to find their way to the Moon and back in July 1969. Collins has extensively annotated this star chart and written on it, "During the flight of Apollo Eleven, I used this chart to help me locate stars. (The numbers were entered into the Command Module Computer) Michael Collins CMP."
5 x 10 in. This star chart shows dozens of stars and constellations for reference aboard the Command Module Columbia. Key stars are marked and named in orange and black ink, and the stars to be entered into the Apollo Guidance Computer are boldly numbered 1 through 45.
"With the advent of the digital computer that was introduced into the Apollo spacecraft, the star charts changed to accommodate the new system. The star charts were redesigned from the circular chart type to a more rectangular chart. The constellations were aligned on the ecliptic.… Leer más

Enormous color photograph of the Supreme Court at the height of the school desegregation movement. Completed in 1935, the magnificent neoclassical Supreme Court Building features the motto "Equal Justice Under the Law" on the west facade, which serves as the front of the building. This splendid, enormous color photograph was taken by famed LIFE magazine photographer Ed Clark. The standard work on Clark notes: "Black Church Leaders pray on the Supreme Court steps for integration to succeed" (Herrera, Frank, Ed Clark: Decades). "We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment" (Supreme Court of the United States, Brown v. Board of Education, 1954).… Leer más