Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts - Part 1, N11831, New York

Likely the finest known posthumous printing of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"

Use of Lyon, likely by the Master of the Alarmes de Mars, c. 1500-1510

A very good copy of the exceptionally rare first German-language edition of the first illustrated travel book

The first two Brussels editions of the Spanish Quixote

"the book ... that initiated the most cataclysmic change in human thinking within the last four hundred years"

A rare leaf from The Descent of Man, Darwin's epoch-making treatise

"Elementa geometriae," second edition, much rarer than the first

First edition of the foundation of modern astronomy, overthrowing all that came before

First edition of Josephus in Latin, handsomely illuminated

A foundational text on "Divine Proportion" illustrated with designs after Da Vinci

The Third Folio, bound by Francis Bedford, with distinguished provenance

The Fourth Folio, an outstanding copy, complete and unsophisticated

"... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."

The sumptuous Levy copy of Birds of America

The scarce deluxe issue of these celebrated views of the Mayan ruins

A fine copy of the deluxe issue George Catlin's magnum opus, with superb original coloring

A scarce and stunning suite of military color plates, with an original watercolor drawing

First edition of a pioneering photobook on Egypt, Palestine, and Syria

An exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography

Portugal's Renaissance Empire of Trade

The "Indian Magna Carta"

"The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774"---Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address

Washington family copy of the first edition of The Federalist

The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights | The author of the Declaration of Independence witnesses the Ratification of the Bill of Rights

"It ought not to be suspected that we are trifling with the Go[vernmen]t of France, or gaining time by an idle correspondence."