For three decades we have been one of America’s leading dealers in important books and manuscripts of all ages in literature, American history, science, economics, philosophy, and photographs. We work with leading collectors and libraries around the world building important collections. Many of the most important books, manuscripts, and photographs to surface in the world in the past three decades have passed through our hands.

We have long provided the White House–under both Republican and Democratic administrations–with books for presentation by the president to visiting heads of state. Recipients of books from our stock have included Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, Calderón, Berlusconi, the Sultan of Brunei, Netanyahu, Chirac, Rabin, Gorbachev, Blair, Mitterrand, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and many others.

In recent years we have placed with our clients a wide range of great books and manuscripts, including the first editions of Machiavelli’s The Prince, the King James Bible, Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, the only Poe short story in private hands, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Shakespeare’s Poems, the Bill of Rights, Hawthorne’s corrected page proofs of The Scarlet Letter, Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, Einstein’s own copy of his Special Relativity paper, highly important Mathew Brady photographs, the greatest signed Lincoln photograph extant, and many other outstanding rarities.

Please call to discuss the rewards of collecting and ways in which we might work together to build a collection of enduring value.

Stephan Loewentheil

Thomas L. Edsall