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First edition of the greatest and most influential modern economics text-book. Inscribed by Samuelson for Eric Roll, who has also signed the volume. Roll, professor of economics and later chairman of S. G. Warburg & Co., wrote the classic History of Economic Thought(1938, 4th ed., 1973).
Paul Samuelson was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the "father of modern economics."
"His Economics … has educated millions of students, teaching that economics, however dismal, need not be dull" (New Palgrave). The book has gone through nineteen editions, and sold four million copies in forty languages. Through this work Samuelson exerted a profound influence on American perspectives on economics and on national policy.
Provenance: Eric Roll, professor of economics, director of the Bank of England, and chairman of S. G. Warburg & Co. His works include the classic History of Economic Thought (1938, 4th ed., 1973).Original green cloth.… Read More

14 pp. Mimeograph, printed rectos only, stapled. Light browning. Very good.
PRE-PUBLICATION RARITY. "The classic paper published in Nature that started it all" (coseti.org), this is the founding work of optical SETI. This pre-publication form is dated more than a month before the article's publication in Nature. For years SETI research focused on radio transmissions, but the development of powerful lasers has made Optical SETI (OSETI) a highly promising area of research. Townes's prescient proposal is even the more remarkable given the very limited power of masers and lasers at the time this paper appeared.
Charles Hard Townes, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is most famous for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he received the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum… Read More

This is an excellent example of the Second Folio, the second edition of Shakespeare's collected plays. This is "incomparably the most important work in the English language" (Jackson, Pforzheimer Catalogue).
The First Folio, published in 1623, was such a success that just nine years later the collection was printed again. The Second Folio venture was undertaken by a group of booksellers and rights holders, some of whom had been members of the First Folio syndicate. The massive book includes 36 plays, half of which had not been printed prior to the First Folio, as well as commendatory verses and dedicatory epistles by contemporary admirers of Shakespeare. One of these, John Milton's "An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare," was Milton's first appearance in print.
For almost four centuries Shakespeare's transcendent genius has been recognized. In 1623 Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, "He was not of an age, but for all time." In 1840 Thomas Carlyle called Shakespeare,… Read More

Shaw is pictured in three-quarter view with artful shadow play down the right side of his face. Sternberger was a 'master of light and shadow' according to contemporary museum directors. This was in large part due to the simplicity of his portrait technique. Sternberger drew a stark contrast to the darkness of Shaw's right side with the luminescence of his beard and hair.
George Bernard Shaw was a legendary playwright, critic, photographer, and co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was also notoriously difficult. When Sternberger arrived at Shaw's house for a session, Shaw refused to agree that he would even allow the sitting. He refused to view Sternberger's portfolio and swore he would purchase no prints.
After a terse exchange, Sternberger rose to leave. Putting a hand on the photographer's shoulder, Shaw relented saying, "All right, I am sorry. I will look at your portraits. But let me warn you, even if you should persuade me to sit for you – which is by no means certain… Read More

In this portrait Shaw examines the stamps which Sternberger had designed for the Belgian Royal Family, featuring the Royal children. Shaw was a philatelist, and the offer of the stamps was part of Sternberger's method to gain access to Shaw.
Sternberger was a 'master of light and shadow' according to contemporary museum directors. This was in large part due to the simplicity of his portrait technique. In the profile image, Sternberger drew a stark contrast to the darkness of Shaw's right side with the luminescence of his beard and hair.
George Bernard Shaw was a legendary playwright, critic, photographer, and co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was notoriously difficult. When Sternberger arrived at Shaw's house for a session, Shaw refused to agree that he would even allow the sitting. He declined to view Sternberger's portfolio and swore he would purchase no prints.
After a terse exchange, Sternberger rose to leave. Putting a hand on the photographer's shoulder, Shaw relented… Read More

Signed by John Sherman. Ohio Republican John Sherman was one of the most powerful American politicians of the second half of the nineteenth century. He served in the House of Representatives (1855-61) and U.S. Senate (1861-77) before becoming Secretary of the Treasury in the Hayes administration (1877-81). When Garfield was elected president, Sherman returned to the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1897. Sherman was the younger brother of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.
Sherman is most famous for the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the first major federal action to curb the power of the great monopolies. The act was intended to prevent monopolies from using their power to restrain trade. "The purpose of the [Sherman] Act is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market. The law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends to destroy competition itself"… Read More

Two sixth-plate daguerreotypes, cased together. Left: nurse and child ("Bradford & Ellen Sherwood his nurse"), right: parents ("Jonathan P. Harrison & his wife Caroline Denny Harrison"). White family's cheeks are hand-tinted and the baby's dress is hand-colored. Some spots, edges tarnished.
A tremendous pair. Jonathan P. Harrison (born 23 December 1829) and his wife Caroline Denny Harrison (born c. 1834) are in one portrait, while their son Bradford (born c. 1853) and his black nurse Ellen Sherwood are in the other.
The Harrison family moved from Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore to Texas in the 1850s to pursue ranching and farming opportunities. According to the U.S. Census, in 1860 the family lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, with Jonathan reported as 29 years old, Caroline 26, and Bradford 7, indicating a date of 1853 for this photograph.
The Harrisons and Dennys were prominent Maryland and Texas families. Jonathan served with the 1st Texas Cavalry during the Civil War. Identified… Read More

SIXTH EDITION of the most important book in the history of economics. One of 2000 sets. The sixth edition is the first to have been published after Smith's death in 1790.
"The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few worked in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry" (ONDB).
Smith's Wealth of Nations has been the bible for generations of laissez-faire economists and political philosophers and is the cornerstone book of free-market theory. His individualistic view of political economy is neatly summarized in a famous quotation from the Wealth of Nations: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their… Read More

Broadside. 16 ½ x 12 in. Old folds, light wear, soiling.
FIRST EDITION. Gerrit Smith, one of the wealthiest men in New York, devoted his prodigious wealth and energy to the antislavery movement for decades. He provided financial backing for every aspect of the struggle, funding abolitionist societies, newspapers, and political parties, paying attorneys' fees, providing land and money to indigent Blacks and escaped enslaved families, and more. As one of the Secret Six he provided the financial backing allowing John Brown to make his raid on Harper's Ferry.
Frederick Douglass dedicated My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) to Smith, writing, "To honorable Gerrit Smith, as a slight token of esteem for his character, admiration for his genius and benevolence, affection for his person, and gratitude for his friendship, and as a small but most sincere acknowledgement of his pre-eminent services in behalf of the rights and liberties of an afflicted, despised and deeply outraged people, by ranking… Read More

Original printed wrappers bound in modern full red buckram. Very good.
FIRST EDITION. This is the catalogue of the pioneering Stainforth library of women's literature, the first major auction devoted to the literary works of women writing in English from the mid-16th century to the Victorian era.
Francis John Stainforth (1797-1866), an Anglican clergyman, spent decades assembling the largest private library of Anglophone women's writing built in the mid-nineteenth century. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge conducted the sale over six days in 1867. The catalogue lists 7,122 titles in over 8,000 volumes written and edited by more than 2,800 authors, almost all women.
"When we think of 19th-century private libraries in Britain, we usually envision a gentleman's library like the one Jane Austen's brother Edward kept at Godmersham Park. Shelved in an English countryside estate, the library contained works mostly in English and Romance languages written by men in the genres of biography, history,… Read More

16 mm Kodak film.
Riveting films of the space walks of Aleksei Leonov and Edward White as follows.
1. Russian Cosmonaut Lt. Col. Aleksei Leonov Walk in Space March 18th 1965
[opening frames title]. 16 mm Kodak film. Black and white. Running time 7:06. Film can lettered in manuscript "First Walk in Space / Russian Cosmonaut Lt. Col. Aleksei Leonov / Walter Clark Copy."
2. [Space walks.] 16 mm Kodak film. Color. Running time 8:28.Film can signed "W. Clark." As follows:
2a. Russian Cosmonaut Lt. Col. Aleksei Leonov Walk in Space March 18th 1965
[opening frames title]. Running time 5:09. Color opening frame followed by black and white footage tinted blue. Approx. 90 seconds of footage from the latter part of the Leonov walk above are edited from this version.
[followed on same reel by:]
2b. American "Walk in Space" Major Edward White Major James McDivitt June 4, 1965 [opening frames title]. Running time 3:19. Color.
Provenance: 1) Dr. Walter Clark. Clark was the head of the Kodak Harrow Research… Read More

ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE CENTURY. Spock's book helped to revolutionize child-rearing in post-war America. Within one year of its first publication the book sold 750,000 copies, and it has since sold more than 50 million copies in ten editions and more than 40 languages. "When it appeared in 1946, the advice in Dr. Spock's now classic book was a dramatic break from the prevailing 'expert' opinion. Rather than force a baby into a strict behavioral schedule, Spock, who had training in both pediatrics and psychiatry, encouraged parents to use their own judgment and common sense" (NYPL Books of the Century).
The New York Times noted that "babies do not arrive with owner's manuals … But for three generations of American parents, the next best thing was Baby and Child Care … Dr. Benjamin Spock … breathed humanity and common sense into child-rearing." Spock's critics believed that his "permissive" approach to parenting had helped to create a generation of self-centered narcissists—the baby boomers and… Read More

40 x 32 in. Silver print. Minor conservation by Paul Messier. Flush-mounted to masonite, a little bowed original box frame. A splendid display piece.Steichen made this celebrated photograph for a fundraising campaign for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies during the first dark days of Nazi Germany. The photographer recalled in his memoir, "This job came at a time when we were getting the news of Hitler's early humiliation of the Jews; they were made to wear arm bands, their stores were labeled, their windows were smashed. I wanted one picture as a sort of answer to this. I asked for a white-haired, strongly-built woman and a huge Bible. She was brought to the studio dressed just as I photographed her in 'The Matriarch.' She couldn't understand my language, and I couldn't understand hers, so my communication with her was all in sign language; but she seemed to grasp it. I hoped that the whole composition would have a certain majesty and, above all, the strength of something invincible" (Steichen,… Read More

First separate edition. This is Stein's lecture delivered on the occasion of being awarded the Society's Huxley Medal.Original wrappers. 4to. pp. (179)-202, 7 leaves of plates, 2 folding maps. Old owner's inscription along spine giving the work's author and title, edge fading, else very good.

"Here are extraordinary people as no other would portray them-great minds of the modern age revealed as no other photographer could" (Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London).
This is a splendid 16 x 20 in. gelatin silver print of a recently rediscovered photograph of Frida Kahlo taken in Mexico City in 1952. Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera had become intimate friends of photographer Marcel Sternberger and his wife Ilse by that time. The couple held Sternberger's work in such high regard that Rivera said it was "the first time [I've] seen the real me" and above his bed in Kahlo's lifelong house La Caza Azul hangs a portrait of Frida by Sternberger.
Marcel Sternberger was one of the leading portrait photographers of the 20th century. His subjects included giants of the day such as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and George Bernard Shaw. His portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reproduced as the face of the American dime. His photographs appeared in… Read More

6 pen and ink and gouache on heavy card. 9 x 12 ½ in. A note on the verso of one states, "I have left the extra 3 cm on the top of this picture, should you want to include it when it is finally framed." Very good condition.
These delightful views depict scenes at the Strand Theatre (now the Novello Theatre), then presenting Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, in London's West End. They range from views of the boxes and theater-goers to the box office to backstage scenes.
The box office advertises the original production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, which ran at the Strand from 1982 to 1985.
Provenance: Anthony Peek, longtime manager at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Three pages. Typed identification at head of first page, mounting remants on verso of second leaf. Very good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe arranges a visit to Hawthorne's Concord home. Stowe wrote this letter the year before Nathaniel Hawthorne's death. She tells Hawthorne's wife Sophia,
"Mr. Stowe & I have long desired to renew our acquaintance with you, but Concord is rather too far off for a card-case call & this leads me to say that on Sunday next we shall pass your house on our way to a friends' with whom we pass Sunday, & we propose to ourselves then the pleasure of calling & seeing you & Mr. Hawthorne & your family once more."
She jokingly adds about the proposed early summer visit, "Only, should there chance to be a driving snow storm we should perhaps not undertake the visit — & of course must lose the call. Your whole region is to me terra incognita known only in your husband's descriptions, so I ardently hope the sun may shine & the skies prove propitious. In such a case we hope to look in upon… Read More

Salted paper print from a calotype negative (6 ½ x 5 inches). Tipped onto later mount. Excellent condition.
This is a fine salt print portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by John A. Whipple, a leading early American portrait photographer.
When she sat for this portrait in 1853, Stowe was at the height of her fame. Her Uncle Tom's Cabin had become a runaway best seller in the United States and Great Britain when it was published in 1852. The book invigorated the abolition movement and moved many Northerners who were on the fence to active opposition to slavery. Stowe visited Lincoln at the White House in 1862, and the president is said to have exclaimed, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."
John A. Whipple (1822-1891) was one of the pioneers of American photography. He came to Boston as a young man in 1840, he was one of the first in the United States to learn Daguerre's process. That year he became the first American to produce the chemicals for Daguerre's process. "He was instrumental in… Read More

Ten volumes in five. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary half calf. Light rubbing, some foxing. A very good, untouched set.
First edition of Sue's The Wandering Jew. This is the rare first edition in book form, preceding the far more common illustrated and popular editions that soon followed.Sue's Le Juif Errant, a classic of French nineteenth-century popular fiction, was written at the height of the age of Balzac, Dumas, and Hugo.
According to Sue's novel the Huguenot Rennepont family lost its wealth during the French Catholic persecution. What little remained was entrusted to the Jewish banker Samuel who, with his heirs, turned the money into a fortune over 150 years. The terms of the arrangement called for the descendants to meet at a certain address in Paris in 1832 to divide the inheritance. This book is the story of the seven remaining members of the family and the efforts of the Jesuits to eliminate them and claim the fortune for themselves. The old Jewish banker appears at the novel's end… Read More

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).… Read More