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Pope John XXIII [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

Pacem in Terris: Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII. [Peace on Earth].

Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist Press, 1963.

Original printed pamphlet of Pope John XXIII’s 1963 Pacem in Terris. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the bottom of the title page. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149593

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Foote, Shelby

The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.

New York: Random House, 1958-74.

First editions of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91861

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photograp...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140892

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The Political Beacon: Or the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell.

London: Printed for the Editor, 1770.

First edition of this historical and cautionary work about revolutionary figure Oliver Cromwell. Octavo, original calf spine with paper boards. In good condition. Contains a dedication “To the S...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148879

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Foxe, John

[Foxe’s Book of Martyrs]. Actes And Monuments Of Matters Most Speciall And Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Universall Historie of the Same.

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers [Henry Lownes], 1610.

Rare sixth edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), a foundational text for English Protestant identity first published in 1563. Under Elizabeth I, copies of this work were placed in...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149721

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Mizner, Addison; Introduction by Ida M. Tarbell

Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner.

New York: William Helburn, Inc, 1928.

First edition of this scarce monograph on the works of Addison Mizner, with 185 striking large folio photogravures of Mizner’s iconic Florida buildings. Folio, bound in full red crushed levant morocco...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151934

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Kahneman, Daniel

Attention and Effort.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive science...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140270

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Slocum, Joshua

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

First edition of Slocum’s account of his fifty-five days at sea with his wife and sons aboard the 35-foot junk-rig The Liberdade. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt title to the front panel,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152088

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Des Ballons Aérostatiques, de la maniere de les construire, de les faire elever [Of Balloons aerostatic, the way to build them, elevate them].

Lausanne: J.P. Heubach & Cie, 1784.

First edition of this work, translated as, Of Balloons Aerostatic, the Way to Build Them, Elevate Them. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-111835

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Roosevelt, Theodore

The Wilderness Hunter: An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound And Rifle.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.

Finely Bound Standard Library edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s American big game epic. Octavo, bound in three-quarters red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and detailing to the spine...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150190

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Shestack, Jerome J. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Leadership and the Legal Profession in a Democratic Society.

: The Peter Gruber Foundation, .

Original offprint of Jerome J. Shestack’s Leadership and the Legal Profession in a Democratic Society. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper,...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151281

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[The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke].

London: Robert Barker, 1605.

Rare early 17th century printing of Robert Barker’s Geneva Bible. Small quarto, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, text in black letter, double colu...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149784

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of Mother Teresa, boldly signed by her, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches.

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140031

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

:, 1984.

Color photograph portrait of Mother Teresa with her hands clasped in prayer boldly inscribed, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece me...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145478

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Nixon, Richard M. and Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford Signed Presidential Proclamation of Pardon.

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Typescript reproduction of the final paragraphs of Ford’s 1974 Proclamation of Pardon granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor, for any crimes that he might hav...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134249

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed.

:, [1954].

Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of the founder of modern day Israel and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. One page, text in Hebrew, addressed to Eliahu Eliachar, a notable Sep...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-104802

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Churchill, Winston S

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.

First editions of Churchill’s second book. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Woods A2(a). In very good condition.

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144851

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Duke, Charlie [John F. Kennedy]

Charlie Duke Signed John F. Kennedy Photograph.

:, 2520.

Oversized photograph of President John F. Kennedy delivering his famous speech on September 12, 1962, about landing on the moon before 1970. Boldly signed by astronaut Charlie Duke in silver felt tip...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148673

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Glimpses of World History: Two Volume Set.

Allahabad: Printed by M.N. Pandey , 1934-35.

First editions of “one of the most remarkable books ever written” (The New York Times). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. In very good condition. Foreword by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. First...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-89875

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[Beecher, Henry Ward; Newman Hall; Dwight L. Moody; Charles Spurgeon; Henry van Dyke; et al]

19th and 20th Century American Clergymen Autograph and Signed Letter Collection.

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Extensive collection of over forty cards and letters signed by a number of prominent 19th and 20th century American Clergymen including Henry Ward Beecher, Henry van Dyke, Charles Spurgeon, and Dwight...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126098

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Albrizzi, Giambattista; Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Terrestre Ed Acquatico.

Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, c. 1750.

Fine hand-colored example of Albrizzi’s double hemisphere map of the World, one of the most elaborately decorated world maps to appear in mid-18th century Italy and a beautiful example of the It...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149274

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Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.

New York: R. Spalding, 1865.

Rare first edition of this Civil War publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which features the text of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, its first appearance in book...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117244

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Howard, Benjamin C. [Dred Scott]

A Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John H. Sanford. December Term, 1856.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857.

Rare first edition of the report of the Dred Scott decision which held that the U.S. Constitution was not intended to include citizenship for African Americans, published simultaneously in Washington...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145459

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Black, Charles L., Jr. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

St. John’s Law Review; “One Nation Indivisible”: Unnamed Human Rights in the United States.

St. John's University, New York: St. John's Law Review, 1991.

Original Winter 1991 offprint of the St. John’s Law Review containing Charles L. Black, Jr.’s “One Nation Indivisible”: Unnamed Human Rights in the United States. Octavo, original wr...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150835

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