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To Commodore Francis Augustus Collier C.B., this plate representing H.M. brig “Black Joke,” Lt. Henry Dines (tender to H.M.S. Sybille) engaging the Spanish slave brig “El Almirante” in the Bight of Benin, Feby. 1st 1829.
- $1,900
- A rare 1830 aquatint of action on the high seas: HMS Black Joke captures a Spanish slave ship.
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- Curiosities - Miscellanea, France & Switzerland
Omnium Regum Galliae usquae ad praesentem iccones.
- $2,800
- Duchetti’s extremely rare 16th-century broadsheet with 63 small busts of French kings from Faramund to Henry III.
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Messages Under The Ocean
- $375
- A detailed look at the telegraph as the first global system of communication.
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- Curiosities - Miscellanea, Featured Maps & Views
Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, auctore R. P. Ignatio Gastone Pardies Societatis Jesu mathematico. Opus postumum
- $15,500
- One of the rarest sets from the Golden Age of celestial cartography.
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El Yndependiente Periodico de Politica, Administracion, Agricultura…. / Constitucion de 1837.
- $2,200
- A Spanish broadside celebrating the Spanish Constitution of 1837.
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They’ve got an invisible program to end an undeclared war backed by a silent majority.
- $850
- A sharp anti-Vietnam War protest broadside that captured the zeitgeist of the time, matched the moment, and pulled no punches.
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Studio Geografi di Giovan Batista Nicolosi.
- $575
- The wonderful and intriguing title page for Nicolosi's magnum opus, Dell’ Ercole e Studio Geografico.
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Mappa del Jazz.
- $2,400
- Charting an American pastime: an unrecorded pictorial map poster of Jazz.
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Der Mensch als Industriepalast.
- $2,000
- Seeing the human body like it had never been seen before.
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Diario del Gobierno de la Republica Mexicana. Tome VII, Num. 697 [&] El Exmo. Sr. vice-presidente interino de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos… Valentin Gómez Farías… sabed: …Sr. Presidente intorno D. Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna, para mandar en persona y como general en gefe las fuerzas del ejécito…
- $2,200
- Two rare official documents showcasing General Santa Anna’s pivotal role in the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War.
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Scenes on the Pacific Coast.
- $2,800
- Pacific Panorama: Keller's Visual Tapestry of the West Coast.
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LIFE. The New Portrait of Our Planet.
- $225
- Unveiling Earth's Hidden Depths: LIFE Magazine's Revolutionary Look at the Vast and Mysterious Terrain Beneath our Oceans.