History, Law, and Politics Archives

Capitalism Socialism and Democracy.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1943.

First British edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Easily the n...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96733

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Nixon, Richard; Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George Bush; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush

Official Seal of the President of the United States Photograph Signed By Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

:, .

Rare photograph of the official seal of the president of the United States signed by seven American presidents. Color glossy photograph of the official seal of the president of the United States cover...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148492

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Leigh Fermor, Patrick [Xan and Daphne Fielding]

A Journey To Peru: July 27th-Sept 2nd 1971 (Three Letters From the Andes).

Kardamyli, Greece: Privately Printed, 1972.

An 88 page manuscript of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book “Three Letters From the Andes” with Leigh Fermor’s hand corrections throughout. Quarto, photocopy typescript. Privately printed in Kard...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148840

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Nostradamus, Michael

True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning.

London: Thomas Radcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson, 1672.

First edition in English of Nostradamus famous prophetical work. Folio, contemporary calf, copper-engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, morocco spine label. The predictions of th...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151294

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Newton, Sir Isaac [1642/43–1727]

Sir Isaac Newton Autograph Manuscript Fragment on the Newton Family Lineage.

:, ca. 1700-1708.

Autograph manuscript fragment on the Newton family lineage. [England, undated]. A single leaf bearing autograph text in the hand of Sir Isaac Newton on both sides. 2.25 x 0.75 inches (approx. 5.7 x 1....

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151722

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Churchill, Winston S. and Clementine [Edward Steichen]

Winston S. Churchill Signed Photograph with Autographed Notes.

:, 1941.

Portrait photograph of Winston Churchill, taken by Edward Steichen, signed as prime minister, “Winston S. Churchill November 1940.” With two portrait photographs of Churchill and a telegra...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142492

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Carlos II, King of Spain

Carta Executoria of King Carlos II of Spain for Diego Merino de Bargas of Tornavacas and His Sons Rodrigo, Francisco, and Luis Merino de Bargas.

Valladolid, Spain:, 1685.

Rare 17th century elaborately illuminated nobility patent of King Carlos II of Spain for the late Diego Merino de Bargas of Tornavacas, represented by two procurators, and his sons Rodrigo, Francisco,...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148310

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and The New. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. And With the former Translations dilligently compared & revised. [with] The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

London: Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printer to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties, 1692-1693.

Rare 17th century Holy Bible and Book of Common Prayer uniformly and exquisitely bound. Octavo, two volumes uniformly bound in full crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in s...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149744

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Keynes, J.M. [John Maynard]

Laissez-Faire and Communism.

New York: New Republic, 1926.

First edition of this work by one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “J.M. Keynes 17 Feb 1927....

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129838

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Popper, Karl R

The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

London: Hutchinson, 1959.

First edition of “one of the most important documents of the twentieth century” (Peter Medawar, New Scientist). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Karl Popper on the title page. Fine...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132736

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Sumner, Charles

The Anti-Slavery Enterprise: its Necessity, Practicability, and Dignity, With Glimpses at the Special Duties of the North. An Address before the People of New York, At the Metropolitan Theatre, May 9, 1855.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.

Rare first separate edition of one of the most famous speeches by Sumner, “the most outspoken foe of slavery in the U.S. Senate.” Octavo, bound in period-style half sheep over marble cover...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152036

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Johnson, Douglas Wilson [George S. Patton]

Topography and Strategy in the War.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1917.

First edition of this treatise examining the impact of physical terrain on military maneuvers and campaign outcomes in World War I. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece....

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147782

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Frank, Anne

Het Achterhuis: Dagboakbrieven van 12 Jun 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor. [The Diary of Anne Frank].

Amsterdam: Contact, 1947.

First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch. Small octavo, original publisher’s white and red paper-covered boards, illustrated with 2 photographic reproductions of the interi...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96773

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

King Charles II Of Spain. [Don Carlos]

King Charles II Of Spain Autograph Signed Manuscript.

Madrid:, May 28, 1699.

Rare elaborately illuminated nobility diploma signed by King Charles II of Spain, appointing Don Martin Damian Mendizabal the title of Marquis of Torre Gines. Quarto, bound in full red contemporary ve...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-107920

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Foxe, John

Acts and Monuments of matters of most speciall and memorable happenyng in the Church, with an Universall history of the same…Newly revised and recognized. [Foxe’s Book of Martyrs].

London: John Daye, 1583.

Fourth edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. The first English edition was published in 1563. Folio, 2 volumes bound into one i...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145220

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Taft, William H.; William R. Day; Joseph McKenna; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; Willis Van Devanter; Louis Brandeis; Mahlon Pitney; James C. McReynolds; and John H. Clarke

William H. Taft Supreme Court Signed Photograph.

:, c. 1921.

Large photograph of the 1920’s Taft Court, signed by nine justices. Large silver gelatin print depicting the Supreme Court in their black judicial robes. The justices are William H. Taft, Willia...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148414

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kennedy, Jacqueline and John

Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Postcard to John Kennedy, Jr.

:, .

Postcard from Jacqueline Kennedy to her son John F. Kennedy, Jr. It reads, “Dearest John, Every day we say where is John-John – Away!! – We ride in this cart & the horse has feathers – & we pl...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-65095

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Roosevelt, Theodore

The Foes of Our Own Household.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917.

First edition, third issue of Roosevelt’s call to arms rallying the United States to engage in World War I. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Theodore Roos...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140355

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dodge, W.C.; Andrew Johnson; Henry J. Raymond; et al

Civil War Political Pamphlet Collection.

: Various publishers, c. 1861-1865.

Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft. Octavo, 52 volumes, original wrappers. The colle...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135127

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

Early printing of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the dedication page, “Go the d...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145619

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Cruise Pamphlet Collection.

City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1939-1942.

First editions of ten botanical and zoological pamphlets published as a result of collections and investigations made during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Presidential Cruise of 1938 to the Galapo, si...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123500

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Douglass, Frederick

Frederick Douglass Autograph Letter Signed.

Washington, D.C:, November 30, 1888.

Autograph letter signed by Frederick Douglass to M. M. Rodgers. Octavo, one page on Lyons Parchment, the handwritten letter reads in part, “Since you have so much to desire a letter by my own ha...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145323

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hamilton, Alexander

The Works of Alexander Hamilton; Comprising His Most Important Official Reports; An Improved Edition of The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus.

New York : Williams and Whiting, 1810.

The first collected edition of the works of Alexander Hamilton, with an early printing of The Federalist. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf, three engraved portraits of Alexander Hamilton, James M...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129659

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1869.

First edition of one of the greatest travel narratives of the nineteenth century and one of the most important early contributions to the theory of evolution. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149865

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online