Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...