Rewards for the Serious Collector

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.