1 Blake, William | Likely the ﷺfinest known posthumous♔ printing of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"

2 Book of Hours | Use of Lyon, likely by the Master of the Alarmes de M🀅ars, c. 1500-1510

3 Breydenbach, Bernhard von | A very good c💜opy of the exceptionally rare first German-language edition of the first illus🧸trated travel book

4 Cervantes Saav🐈edra, Miguel de | The first two Brussels editions of the Spanish Quixote

5 Darwin, Charles | "☂the book … that initiated the mos🐼t cataclysmic change in human thinking within the last four hundred years"

6 Darwin, Charles | A rare leaf from The Descent of Man, Darwin’s ep🎉och-making treatise

7 Euclides | "Elementa geometriae,&q🌞uot; second edition, much rarer than the first

8 Galieli, Galileo | First edition of the foundat🉐ion of modern astronomy, overthrowing all that came before

9ꦓ Josephus, Flavius | First edition of Josephus inꦐ Latin, handsomely illuminated

10 Pacioli, Luca | A foundational text on "Divine Proportion" illustrated with desig💫ns afteꦬr Da Vinci

11 Shakespeare, William | The Third Folio, bound by Francis Be👍dford, with distinguished provenance

12 Shakespeare, William | The Fourth Folio🌊, an outstand♕ing copy, complete and unsophisticated

13 Smith, Adam✃ | "… led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part 💖of his intention."

14 𒁃Audubon, John James | The sumptuous Levy copy of Birds of America

15 Catherwood, Frederick | The scarce de🦹luxe 🅠issue of these celebrated views of the Mayan ruins

16 Catlin, George | A fine copy of the deluxe issue George Catlin’s magnum opus, with ꦜsuperb original coloring

17 🌞Kleist, Ludwig von, & Georg Emanuel Opiz | A scarce and stunning suite of milita✃ry color plates, with an original watercolor drawing

18 du Camp, Maxime | Fir🐻st edition of a pioneering photobook on Egypt, Palestine, and Syria

19 Rougé, Emmanuel de — Aymard de Banville | An exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel ph🦹otography

20 [da Gama, Vasco] — Manoel I, King of Portugal | Portugal's Renaissance Empire of Trade

21 George III Royal Proclamation of 1763 | The "Ind📖🌳ian Magna Carta"

22 Continental Congress | "The Union is much older than the Constitution. It w🌼as formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774"—Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address

23 (H🍰amilton, Alexander, James Mad𝓀ison, and John Jay) | Washington family copy of the first edition of The Federalist

24 The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights | The author of the Declaratiꦆon of Independence witnesses the Ratification of the Bill of Rights

25 Monroe, James | "It ﷺought n꧂ot to be suspected that we are trifling with the Go[vernmen]t of France, or gaining time by an idle correspondence."

26 Lincoln, Abraham | The "Authorized Edition" of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Preside♏nt Abraham Lincoln

27 Lincoln, Abraham | The abolition of slavery: "N♐either slavery nor involuntary s𓆏ervitude … shall exist within the United States"