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Articles - December - 2022 Issue

Rewards for the Serious Collector

- by Announcement, Rare Book Hub staff

Highlights from 19th Century Shop's Catalogue 195

Highlights from 19th Century Shop's Catalogue 195

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.

Rare Book Monthly

  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
    Forum Auctions
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
    Forum Auctions
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000

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