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First edition of Rothbard’s classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust j...

First German edition of this collection of economic essays rejecting socialism in favor of true individualism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Near fine...

First edition of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sara with love fr...

Autograph transcription of the first four stanzas of the American patriotic song My Country ‘Tis of Thee, which served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States before the off...

First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott’s landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display “the...

Royal Coronation edition of The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments used at the Coronation of King George IV on July 19th, 1821. Quarto, bound in full dark blue velvet, gilt arm...

First edition of the Wall Street legend’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his mother in the year of publication,...

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Army of the Potomac trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Mr. Lincoln’s Army and Glory Road are presentation copi...

Black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with young Prince Charles and Princess Anne waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, signed by Queen Elizabeth II, “Elizab...

Rare first edition of Mandela’s Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed and dated on the front panel, “Mandela 15.3.06.” In near fine condition. Uncommon...

Finely bound example of Cook’s Third Voyage, “one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century… considered typographically superior to...

Silver Gelatin Print of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Moroka, and Yusuf Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign Trial of 1952. Signed by both Mandela on the image and the photographer, Jurgen Schadeberg (signed and...

Original November 1984 offprint Harvard Law Review containing David L. Shapiro’s “Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case.” Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, Volume...

True first edition of Franklin’s famed autobiography, which preceded the first English edition by two years, in the scarce original wrappers. Octavo, original wrappers, with the original publisher...

First edition of Allais’ groundbreaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-...

First edition, first printing with the date of 1955 on the title page of this classic work. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Near fine in...

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Larta Blanca Norbert Wiener.” Near fine in a very goo...

Later printing of this classic collection of essays which deals primarily with women’s issues, such as property rights, voting and education in post-Civil War America. Octavo, original publisher...

First edition of Irving’s monumental biography of George Washington. Quarto, bound in half crushed red levant with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ban...

Rare nineteenth century oil painting after John Gadsby Chapman (New York/Italy, 1808-1889) depicting the birthplace of President George Washington in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Oil on canvas, the...

Rare ostrich egg engraved with a portrait of George Washington, the Washington Coat of Arms, the Great Seal of the United States, and the Masonic compass and trowel. Mounted on a decorative brass stan...

First edition of this comprehensive view of the history and function of Congress. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by co-author Abner...

Rare illuminated patent of Nobility signed by Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, historian and King of Arms to Charles III, King of Spain. Quarto, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine,...

First edition of this overview of Hollywood. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed on the front pastedown and endpapers by Walt Disney and 13 other Hollywood actors and actresses, including, Chi...