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Rigaud, John Francis. [Leonardo Da Vinci]

A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo Da Vinci. Faithfully Translated from the Original Italian, and Now First Digested Under Proper Heads.

London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1802.

First edition thus of English painter and Royal Academician John Francis Rigaud’s English translation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting, compiled from manuscripts written during...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147281

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First American edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within rais...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151813

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Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin Signed Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle Diagram.

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Rare Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle diagram. Oversized print diagram of the Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle, boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin in black felt tip toward the top, “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148456

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Adams, Henry [Editor].

Documents Relating to New-England Federalism. 1800-1815.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1877.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s work on the rise of Federalism in 19th century New England. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141021

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Marx, Karl. Edited by Freidrich Engels

Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.

Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1883-1885.

Rare early printing of one of the most influential books ever published. Octavo, original cloth over pebbled leather boards, all edges speckled red. In very good condition with ownership stamps, tape...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104806

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Caesar, Gaius Julius

Commentaires de César, avec des Notes Historiques, Critiques et Militaires [Caesar’s Comments, with Historical, Critical and Military Notes].

Paris: A Montargis, 1785.

First edition edited and translated by Lancelot Turpin de Crissé. Quarto, three volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine, engraved title pages, two port...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104356

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150365

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishers, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist on monetary history. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Alan, some bedtime reading, Bes...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4119

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Schulz, Charles M

Peanuts Treasury.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

First edition of this classic collection of Peanuts. Quarto, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Schulz on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Johnny...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148034

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Solow, Robert M

Capital Theory and the Rate of Return.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1963.

First edition of the Nobel prize-winning economist’s De Vries Lectures on economics. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46014

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Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.

Japan:, c. 1930.

First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding pa...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-60076

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Fowles, John [Harold Pinter]

The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition of Fowles’ classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by both John Fowles and Harold Pinter on the title page. Pinter wrote the screenplay for t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91873

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Habermas, Jurgen

Theory and Practice.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.

First edition in English of the philosopher’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by “For John Roper Jurgen Habermas.” Near fine in a near fine dust ja...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117642

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Radcliffe, Anne

A Sicilian Romance.

Philadelphia: Printed For Henry and Patrick Rice, 1795.

First American edition of Radcliffe’s classic 18th century gothic novel. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine. In good conditio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151221

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Watson, James C; Charles J. McDonald

Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.

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Rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants. Octavo, four pages partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the surveys are dated December 7th and 9th, 1826 and s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146848

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Minsky, Marvin L

Computation Finite and Infinite Machines.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Rare first edition of Minsky’s first book, the father of AI. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper, owners stamp to the half-title page. R...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151401

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Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

London: John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue of Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis in which he first uses the phrase “survival of the fittest” for the first time. First issue without publisher’s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151873

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Miller, Arthur

The Crucible.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition, early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Gerald Kramer, A...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138592

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Dickens, Charles. Illustrations by H.K. Browne

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48.

First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm. Octavo, 20 parts in 19, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149076

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Beard, Peter

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits.

Sante Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999.

First edition of this classic monograph. Quarto, original leatherette cover. illustrated throughout. Elaborately signed and inscribed by Peter Beard in the year of publication, with his left hand impr...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146133

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Wolfe, Thomas

Look Homeward, Angel.

New York: The Modern Library, 1934.

First Modern Library edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Beryl Burk, with be...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127273

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Fleming, Ian

Thunderball.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Richard Chopping. A bright example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151514

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Billings, John D

Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.

Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887.

First edition of Billings’ classic Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. In very good condition. First edi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132819

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Bell, Daniel

The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas In the Fifties.

Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press, 1960.

First edition of this landmark in American social thought. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Adrienne Righ with appreciatio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-86124

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