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Rice, Nathan P. [William Thomas Green Morton]

Trials of a Public Benefactor, as Illustrated in the Discovery of Etherization.

New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859.

First edition of this work on anesthesia, inscribed by the first physician to use it. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with some of Morton administering ether on a sponge. Presentatio...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133508

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Freud, Sigmund

Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen.

Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1925.

First offprint edition of this work by Freud. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Freud. Association copy, inscribed by Freud to his niece Lucy Wiener on the front panel, “onkel Sigm....

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-102984

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[Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Kitty Oppenheimer; Norris Bradbury; Niels Bohr]

J. Robert Oppenheimer Photo Album Commemorating his Return to the Los Alamos Laboratory.

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Rare original photo album commemorating J. Robert Oppenheimer’s return to the Los Alamos Laboratory on May 18th, 1964. Square octavo, blue boards with white plastic comb binding, with 30 black a...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149178

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Churchill, Winston S

The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898.

First edition, first issue, of Winston Churchill’s first book, an account of his service with the Malakand Field Force in India, with frontispiece portrait of Sir Binden Blood and six maps, two of the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144078

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Schelling, Thomas C

Arms and Influence.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

First edition of this “exemplary text on the interplay of national purpose and military force” (Book Week). Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the ti...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150026

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Locke, John

The Works of John Locke [Including: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering the Interest, and Raising the Value of Money, An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Etc.]

London: Printed for A. Churchill and A. Manship, 1722.

Rare second edition of the collected works of John Locke, “the most worthy… of the indisputably great philosophers.” Folio, three volumes, bound in full speckled brown calf with gilt titles and toolin...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149219

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Kilpatrick, Andrew. [Warren E. Buffett]

Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.

New York: AKPE , 1994.

First edition of this early Buffett biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper and additionally inscribed by Andrew Kilpatrick on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146329

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[John F. Kennedy]

John F. Kennedy Inauguration Government Issued License Plate. [with] Inaugural Activities Program.

District of Columbia:, 1961.

Rare John F. Kennedy inauguration government issued license plate dated 1961. A superb relic from the Kennedy inaugural events in January 1961, presumably used during inaugural events and in the inaug...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150481

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Fisher, Irving

The Stock Market Crash—And After.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930.

First edition of Fisher’s important work tracing the causes and the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-107462

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.

New York: The John Day Company, 1941.

Second printing, published the same year as the first of Nehru’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jawaharlal Nehru on the title page. In near fine con...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124759

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Churchill, Winston S

Geschichte. [A History of the English-Speaking Peoples].

Bern, Switzerland: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1956-1958.

First Swiss editions of each of the four volumes of this set of Churchill’s classic history. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes, illustrated from maps and diagrams. Boldly signed in volume two by Winst...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133321

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McKinley, William

Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893, [1895].

First edition of this collection of speeches by the United State’s 25th president. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147248

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Drucker, Peter F

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Ro...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-44009

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Lutuli, Albert

Albert Lutuli Signed Photograph.

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Black and white photograph of Albert Lutuli, the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Signed twice by him and dated by him 2/11/1961. The portrait shows Luthuli holding the telegram whic...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-81123

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Kasner, Edward and James Newman [Madeleine L'Engle]

Mathematics and the Imagination.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

First edition of this classic work which famously contains the first appearance of the term googol, which the search engine name, Google, is a play on. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Newb...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133177

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Germains, Victor Wallace [Winston S. Churchill]

The Truth About Kitchener. To Which is Appended a Letter From General Von Ludendorff.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1925.

First edition of Germains’ defense of Kitchener’s role in the First World War, from the library of Winston S. Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author o...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138052

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Small octavo, bound in full leather, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, illustrated with full-page hand-painted miniatures. Some writings and age...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149160

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Trotsky, Leon

The Third International After Lenin.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1936.

First edition of this collection of writings and speeches by Trotsky. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “T...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-97388

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Livy

The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the Supplements Of the Learned John Freinshemius, and John Dujatius. From the Foundation of Rome to the middle of the Reign of Augustus. Faithfully done into English.

London: Awnsham Churchill, 1686.

An exceptional early English edition of Livy’s classic Roman History. Folio, bound in period calf, illustrated with four plates, including frontispiece woodcut portraits of emperors and Hannibal...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133257

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Washington, Booker T

Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.

First edition of Booker T. Washington’s landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. With a portion of a typed letter signed by Booker T. Washington tipped in to the pastedown. In ne...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-137020

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Heilbroner, Robert L

The Worldly Philosophers.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

First edition of this bestselling classic, which has went on to sell more than 4 million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the yea...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-115615

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Langley, Roger; Richard C. Levy [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.

First edition of this work about the neglected subject of intra-marital assault. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a typed letter signed to her, folded and pape...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147666

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1751.

Elegantly bound 18th century English Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, printed by Thomas Baskett and from the library of John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), Archbishop of Canterbur...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149524

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