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Liber Chronicarum. [The Nuremberg Chronicle].

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.

First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, from the St. Petersburg library of William Tooke. Imperial folio, bound in three quarter calf over...

$125,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149818

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Winston S. Churchill. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]

Sail On, O Ship of State! The Longfellow Verse in Mr. Roosevelt’s Message to Mr. Churchill.

: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [1941].

Rare lithographic broadside signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the thirty-second President of the United States and Winston S. Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the Atlantic Con...

$125,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125419

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Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird. Original Harper Lee Drawing, Painting and Letter Collection.

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First edition of perhaps the most important American novel of the 20th century, inscribed by Harper Lee to a close college friend and with a scarce archive of drawings and letters exchanged between th...

$125,000.00 Item Number: RRB-1115260

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Smith, Adam

The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

London: For A. Milar, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell , 1759.

Rare first edition of Adam Smith’s first book, with a recorded “print run of 1,000 copies” (Sher, “Editions of Adam’s Smith’s Books,” 13). Octavo, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to...

$125,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150275

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Spencer, Herbert, [Charles Darwin]

The Study of Sociology.

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1873.

First edition, association copy of famed English philosopher Herbert Spencer’s classic work on the evolution of society; presented and inscribed by him to Charles Darwin. Octavo, original publis...

$110,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141586

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Dumas, Alexandre [Alexander]

The Count of Monte-Cristo.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

First edition in English of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the American first, the Richard Manney copy. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publ...

$110,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129384

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Newton, Isaac

Isaac Newton Document Signed.

:, January 25 [1698-1699].

Rare vellum manuscript signed by Sir Isaac Newton as Warden of the Royal Mint, in which he makes a case against his nemesis, coin counterfeiter William Chaloner, soon to be hanged for high treason. On...

$98,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149618

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Salinger, J.D

The Catcher In The Rye.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1951.

Early printing, printed in the year of publication of the author’s classic novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Decembe...

$98,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140488

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Carroll, Robert T. [Chip Kidd] [Michael Crichton]

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. [Inspiration For Jurassic Park].

New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1988.

First edition this standard modern textbook on paleontology, containing the very first drawings in the development of Knopf senior designer Chip Kidd’s design for the iconic dust jacket of Micha...

$95,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151651

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Cooke, William. [Alexander Hamilton]

The Bankrupt Laws.

London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, 1793.

Third edition of this important late-eighteenth-century legal treatise from the library of Alexander Hamilton, signed twice by him and additionally by his eldest son Philip Hamilton. Octavo, bound in...

$88,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151910

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[Jefferson, Thomas]

Second Congress of the United States: At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. An Act to extend the Time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States.

Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1792.

Scarce printing of an early United States law providing for the funding of the national debt, signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. Folio, one page. The document, which also carries the pr...

$82,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125388

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

The Road to Serfdom.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1944.

First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To M...

$82,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130745

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Washington, George; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; James Tyler; James H. Polk; James Buchanan; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore; James Buchanan; Franklin Pierce; Abraham Lincoln; William Seward; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; James Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; Grover Cleveland; William McKinley; Alexander Hamilton

Autograph Album of the Presidents and Cabinet Officials of the United States of America.

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Rare late 19th century folio album containing an extensive collection of Presidential autographs, letters, carte-de-visites, and portraits in addition to those of each Cabinet. Folio, bound in three q...

$82,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129509

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Salinger, J.D

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of this classic collection of two novellas by the author of The Catcher in the Rye. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “wit...

$82,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150612

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Calvin, John. Translated from the French by Thomas Stocker

Two and twentie Sermons of Maister John Calvin. In which Sermons is most religiously handled, the hundredth and nineteenth Psalme of David, by eight verses aparte according to the Hebrewe alphabet.

London: [Printed by Thomas Dawson] For John Harison and Thomas Man, 1580.

Scarce first edition in English of this collection of John Calvin’s sermons. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, mor...

$82,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149640

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Corbin, Jacques. [George Washington]

Le Code Louis XIII. Roy De France Et De Navarre. [From the Library of George Washington].

A Paris: Chez Pierre Billaine, 1628.

First edition of Corbin’s legal compilation of ordinances and judgments issued during the reign of Louis XIII of France, from the library of General George Washington. Folio, bound in full mottl...

$80,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149725

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Washington, George; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; John Tyler; James Polk; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore; Franklin Pierce; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; James Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William H. Taft; Woodrow Wilson; Warren G. Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower

Autographs of the Presidents of the United States of America.

:, 1783-1956.

Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound...

$80,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125384

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Lenin. [Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich]

Vladimir Lenin Signed Portrait.

:, 1922.

Rare printed portrait signed by the father of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin. One page, printed with a horizontal crease, inscribed by Lenin in the lower portion of the portrait, “VI Ulyanov (Len...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132168

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Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943.

First edition, early printing of Rands’s breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138297

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Popper, Karl R

The Open Society And Its Enemies.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1945.

First editions of Popper’s magnum opus. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Each volume is signed by Karl Popper on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition with the rare original dust jac...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130962

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Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943.

First edition, first issue with first edition stated on the copyright page of the author’s first major novel, as well as her first best-seller. Octavo, original red cloth. Association copy, insc...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121447

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac Autograph Manuscript Signed.

:, February 28,1964.

Autograph manuscript signed, being Kerouac’s answers to twelve typed questions from Robert Dodd, two pages, quarto, 28 February 1964. Kerouac candidly replies to a young man’s questions. Given a ninth...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-79098

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Journal of the United States In Congress Assembled: Containing the Proceedings From the Sixth Day of November, 1786, to the Fifth Day of November, 1787. Volume XII.

New York: Published by Order of Congress, 1787.

Rare first edition of Vol. VII of the Journal of Congress; containing the first official Congressional Journal publication of the proposed Constitution of the United States. Octavo, original boards. C...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129855

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Kerouac, Jack

Big Sur.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.

First edition of Kerouac’s poignant masterpiece of self-reflection. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack Kerouac on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket desi...

$75,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150040

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