Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

Rare 17th century elaborately illuminated nobility patent of King Philip III of Spain for the brothers Juan and Alonso de Rivera de la Cerda. Quarto, bound in full leather with gilt detailing, the pat...

First edition of this classic microeconomic statement of wage determination in competitive markets and major contribution to economic theory. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the...

First American edition of Harrer’s classic account, signed by Harrer and The Dalai Lama. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with over 40 photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed...

Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish on both recto and verso. The letter is dated May 13, 1828, and offers the reci...

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Foreword by Allan Nevins. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

Rare original black and white silver gelatin photograph of Albert Einstein. Signed “A Einstein 52.” Full-length group portrait showing Albert Einstein standing with Hadassah National Presi...

Rare early 19th century American terrestrial table globe published by Josiah Loring. The terrestrial globe measures 17 inches in diameter with a calibrated brass meridian ring and 17 inch mahogany hor...

First edition of President Clinton’s autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Boldly signed by Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nobel Prize-winnin...

First edition of the Dalai Lama’s first autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped d...

First edition of this landmark work on Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by legendary investors Warren Buffett and Burton Malkiel on the front free endpaper. Warr...

First French edition (preceding the first English edition) of the Wiesel’s classic first work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. In very good co...

Rare Shoulder Strap set of five Civil War histories printed by Twain’s publishing house in its short-lived but impressive decade of operation. Octavo, eight volumes bound in full tan sheep skin...

First editions of Popper’s magnum opus. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. In near fine condition with the rare original dust jackets in very good condition.

First edition of the Dalai Lama’s first autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jac...

First printings of over 200 orders of the War Department issued during the Civil War to Union Army commanders in the field, including an early appearance in print of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipati...

Rare four-language ship’s passport signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison as Secretary of State. One page, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, dated September 10...

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Office...

Color photograph of President Kennedy meeting with astronaut Wally Schirra and his family in the Oval Office, affixed to its original mount. Boldly inscribed, “To Commander Walter Schirra—and his fami...

First edition of Dr. King’s second book, of which Coretta Scott King noted, “If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is St...

First edition in English of Halley’s classic work, from the library of American Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler and subsequently Harvard University professor Owen Gingerich. Quarto, bo...

The complete writings of George Washington compiled by Jared Sparks. Large octavo, 12 volumes, uniformly bound in full modern calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

Rare first edition of Douglass’ second autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s brown cloth, with three engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece from the classic daguerreoty...

Rare first edition of this book of illegal recipes. Square quarto, original boards, illustrated with diagrams throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the publisher to Salvador Dali, “To [Salv...

First edition, deluxe issue of Armistead’s best known work, containing possibly the most extensive collection of nineteenth-century slave narratives and biographies. Octavo, original publisher...