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.