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FRITH, FRANCIS.Photographs of the Holy Land and Egypt comprising: [I:] Sinai and Palestine; [II:] Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids; [III:] Upper Egypt and Ethiopia; [IV:] Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Supplementary Volume.. London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1863].
$72,000
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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Alexander Gardner.Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad. Washington, February 5, 1865
Perhaps the most delightful of the Lincoln family photographs, this portrait shows an impish Tad leaning on a table as his seemingly bemused father sits on Gardner’s studio chair. Thomas “Tad” Lincoln was the youngest of the Lincoln boys.
$65,000
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(GRANT, U.S.) Mathew BradyUlysses S. Grant. Washington, c. 1865
$52,000
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(DARWIN, CHARLES.) CAMERON, JULIA MARGARETProfile bust portrait of Charles Darwin, signed by Cameron. London: Colnaghi, 1868
The great Darwin portrait, Julia Margaret Cameron’s 1868 profile of Darwin is probably the most famous photograph of a 19th-century scientist. Darwin remarked, “I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been taken of me.”
$52,000
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DAGUERRE, LOUIS-JACQUES-MANDÉ ,LOUIS JACQUES MANDÉInk and wash drawings of Jewish subjects and of musical instruments, Signed by Daguerre. “Dessiné le 12 Novembre 1822 LJM Daguerre.”, 1822
A series of twenty-four fine drawings on a sheet signed by L. J. M. Daguerre, the inventor of photography.
$38,000
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WEED, CHARLES LEANDERThe Original Big Tree, 32 feet diameter. Charles Weed, 1864
Mammoth albumen print (15 ½ x 20 in.), mounted.
$37,500
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WHITMAN, WALTAutograph manuscript account of his brother George’s movements in the Civil War. No place, [1863]
Whitman’s brother fights in the war: the origin of the poet’s nursing service.
$35,000
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CURTIS, EDWARD S.Original glass plate interpositive prepared by Curtis for the printing of The North American Indian. Curtis, 1924
This is a splendid original glass plate made for Edward Curtis’s The North American Indian, the greatest photographic work on Native Americans. Curtis, one of the greatest American artists of his era, was the most celebrated photographer of North American Indians.
$35,000
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(APOLLO 11.) ARMSTRONG, NEIL and BUZZ ALDRINArmstrong and Aldrin raising the U.S. flag on the Moon’s surface. NASA, [1969]
Signed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two men on the Moon. This image was taken by the Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC, pronounced “dak”). The DAC made films through the Lunar Module Pilot’s window during the approach and landing of the LM and took stop motion photographs during the EVA at the rate of one frame per second.
$32,000
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(CLAY, HENRY.) Montgomery Simons, attrHenry Clay, half plate daguerreotype. [Philadelphia], c. 1848
A classic, characteristic portrait of Henry Clay, the “Great Compromiser,” a dominant force in American politics for decades.
$32,000
