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Neil Armstrong Signed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company Stock Certificate.

Cincinnati, Ohio:, May 7, 1974.

Printed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company stock certificate boldly signed in full by American astronaut Neil Armstrong. One page, printed on recto and verso, the certificate is entitled “For...

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Mankiw, N. Gregory [Paul A. Samuelson]

Monetary Policy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

First edition of this collection of essays on monetary policy. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by editor Gregory Mankiw to fellow economist Paul Samuelson on the half-title page,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135064

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Frank, Philipp [Albert Einstein]

Einstein: Sein Leben und seine Zeit [His Life And Times].

Munchen: Paul List Verlag, 1949.

First German edition of this classic work by Frank, a famed contemporary of Einstein. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Albert Einstein on the slip to the title page and inscribed by the author on the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133215

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks carved with ornate patterns and hand-painted miniatures to the verso of each board with depictions of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145313

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Portrait.

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Portrait of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, boldly signed by him. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11.75 inches. Rare and desirable signed and uninscribed by Armstro...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-117764

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Schouler, William [Ulysses S. Grant] [Jesse R. Grant]

A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War.

Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co., Publishers, 1868.

First edition of this detailed account of Massachusetts’s political leadership, military organization, and social contributions during the American Civil War. Octavo, original publisher’s green...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149393

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Machiavel, Nicholas [Machavielli]

Machiavel’s Florentine History.

London: Charles Harper and John Amery, 1674.

Rare second English edition of Machiavelli s Florentine History, the first edition to appear after Thomas Bedingfield s translation in 1595 of this political and historical account of Florence. Sextod...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149757

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Treatise On Money. Volume I: The Pure Theory of Money.

London: MacMillan & Company, 1930.

First edition of the first volume of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition with light rubbing and toning. Ownership signature to the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151441

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Auletta, Ken. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman.

New York: Random House, 1986.

First edition of this account of the Lehman Brother takeover, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Signed...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146519

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Arrow, Kenneth; Eric Maskin; Amartya Sen; Joseph Stiglitz and Partha Dasgupta

The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series).

New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

First edition of this work which explores Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists on the front free endpaper, “Kenne...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150198

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Paine, Thomas

Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America.

London: Printed and Sold By All the Booksellers, 1792.

Rare early printing of Thomas Paine’s landmark work. Duodecimo, bound in half-calf over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within tooled bands, morocco spine label, a...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149923

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Slocum, Joshua

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

First edition of Slocum’s classic 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 fron...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152147

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Jackson, Andrew

Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States.

:, 10 December 1832.

Rare broadside containing the entirety of President Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the people of the United States in the wake of the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Dated December 10, 1832, one...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148260

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.

First edition of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149342

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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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Burchard, Peter [Julia Child]

One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw & His Brave Black Regiment. [Glory].

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965.

First edition of this work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Cary Elwes. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, insc...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150397

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Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro

Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes Por el Capitan Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa En los anos de 1579. y 1580.

Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1768.

Rare first edition of Sarmiento’s account of his 1579–1580 survey of the Straits of Magellan. Octavo, bound in full contemporary marbled calf with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149745

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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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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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[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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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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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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