1001 Adams, John | Adams congratulates John Trumbull on his monumental paintings for the Capitol rotunda

1002 (Articles of Confederation) | "The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'"

1004 Banneker, Benjamin | One of the great prizes of African Americana: a Banneker Almanack

1005 Bates, Katharine Lee | Complete autograph transcript of "America the Beautiful"

1009 (Captivity Narrative) | The Baldwin Massacre

1010 Curtis, Edward | "The North American Indian..." Volume Set 16

1014 Hancock, John, & Samuel Adams | Documents signed by these Massachusetts patriots

1016 Jefferson, Thomas | The first English edition of "Notes," with the famed map of Virginia

1017 Jefferson, Thomas | The former president writes to his grandson during a period of national threat

1019 (Louisiana Laws) | The first American laws in the West

1023 [Norman, John] | Among the earliest maritime charts of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts

1024 Rhode, Johann Christoph | "Theatrum Belli in America Septentrionali"

1025 Rocque, John | Map of North America

1026 Rogers, Robert | A cornerstone account of the French and Indian War, with distinguished provenance

1027 Smith, John | "One of the most important printed maps of America ever produced"

1028 Story, Joseph | First of this authoritative treatise on the Constitution

1029 Washington, George | The exceedingly rare first edition of Washington's will

1031 [Austen, Jane] | Lady Guilford's copy of this "perfect" novel in the original boards

1032 Austen, Jane | First American edition of Austen's most beloved book

1033 Blake, William | "The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Mauling Each Other, from Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy" (Bindman 649)

1034 [Brontë, Emily, and Anne Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell | An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels

1036 Carroll, Lewis | "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass"

1037 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A lovely example of "Tom Sawyer"

1038 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | A fine, bright copy of "Huckleberry Finn" in green cloth

1039 Dickens, Charles | "Oliver Twist," first edition, extensively extra-illustrated

1040 Dickens, Charles | "A Christmas Carol," first edition, first issue

1041 Dickens, Charles | "A Christmas Carol"—first edition, second issue, the Suzannet-Self copy

1042 Dickens, Charles — Hablot K. Browne (pseud. "Phiz," illustrator) | "Bleak House," first edition, with an original illustration

1044 Dickens, Charles | The author's copy of "Little Dorrit"

1045 Dickens, Charles | "A Tale of Two Cities," in the original monthly parts

1046 Dickens, Charles | "A Tale of Two Cities," first book edition, in the original cloth

1048 Dickens, Charles | "Great Expectations," first edition, fifth impression

1049 (Dickens, Charles) — A group of works from the author's library

1050 (Dickens, Charles) — Hablot K. Browne (pseud. "Phiz," illustrator) — A group of steel plates

1052 (Dickens, Charles) — Joseph Clayton ("Kyd") Clarke | A series of 649 original character-studies illustrating the work of Charles Dickens

1053 Eliot, George | The first work published with Eliot's identity revealed

1054 Eliot, T. S. | "Prufrock and Other Observations," first edition

1055 Gaskell, Elizabeth | "The Moorland Cottage," her second published work

1056 Hardy, Thomas | “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

1057 Hardy, Thomas | Collection of letters to James Murray, suggesting words for the Oxford English Dictionary

1058 Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The author's last letter

1059 Kerouac, Jack | "On the Road," first edition of the author's landmark novel

1060 Reade, Charles | "The Cloister and the Hearth," the first edition of this historical novel

1061 Reid, Thomas Mayne | The first edition of "No Quarter!"

1062 Salinger, J. D. | "The Catcher in the Rye," first edition of this contemporary American classic

1063 Shakespeare, William | "All's Well that Ends Well," from the Second Folio

1065 Shakespeare, William | A great tragedy of the 17th century stage as it was widely read

1066 Shakespeare, William | The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays