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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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Tuchman, Barbara W

August 1914. [The Guns of August].

London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1962.

First British edition of Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barb...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150301

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Rand, Ayn

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism.

New York: The New American Library, 1964.

First edition of this collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s, groundbreaking philosophy. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on t...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150815

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Camp, Walter and Lilian Brooks

Drives and Puts.

Boston: L.C. Page, 1899.

First edition of this collection of golf short stories by the father of American football. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of a woman golfer by H.C. Ireland, vignette on title page, top edge gilt...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-82458

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An Essay on Civil Government In Two Parts: Part I: An Enquiry into the Ends of Government, and the Means of Attaining Them. Part II: On the Government and Commerce of England; with Reflections on Liberty, and the Method of Preserving the present Constitution.

London: Printed for R. Willock, At Sir Isaac Newton's Head, 1743.

First edition of this bold attack on the Whig administration of Robert Walpole. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all ed...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90461

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1876.

Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of Ulysses S. Grant as President. Addressed to the Attorney General of the United States Edwards Pierrepont the letter reads, “Elizabeth, N.J....

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-101208

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Reagan, Ronald; Nancy Reagan

Ronald and Nancy Reagan Signed 1980 Campaign Poster.

:, 1980.

Original Ronald Reagan campaign poster from the 1980 presidential election. Official campaign poster for Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, featuring a powerful black and white portrait of Reagan wit...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151307

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

When You Grow Up to Vote.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first book, published the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations by Manning de V...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124558

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Spratt, Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage

Travels and Researches in Crete.

London: John van Voorst, 1865.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, hand colored folding engraved maps, 14 tinted lithographed plates, 3 further plates (of inscriptions and coins), lithographed pla...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135308

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Thorp, Edward O

Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty One.

New York: Random House, 1962.

First edition of Thorp’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, with charts and illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Alfred Best Wish...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146421

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Hung-Ming, Ku

The Spirit of the Chinese People.

Peking: The Peking Daily News, 1915.

First edition of this collection of essays discussing the history and values of the Chinese people. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, frontispiece, title printed in English a...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151825

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Arrow, Kenneth J

Social Choice and Individual Values.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles and frontispiece in gilt. Boldly signed by Kenneth Arrow on the title page. In n...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140964

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Columbus, Christopher

The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant’ Angel: Escribano de Racion of the Kingdom of Aragon Dated 15 February 1493.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891.

First edition of the facsimile edition of Christopher Columbus’ letter to Luis de Santángel about his initial voyage to the Americas. Folio, half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spin...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147790

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Norton, Thomas. [John Calvin]

The Institution Of Christian Religion, Written In Latin By M. John Calvine, Translated Into English According To The Authors Last Edition; With Sundry Tables To Finde The Principall Matters Intreated Of In This Booke.

London: John Norton, 1611.

Rare 1611 edition of Calvin’s seminal work on systematic theology, regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology. Quarto, bound in three quarter calf with five raised band...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132719

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Samuelson, Paul A

Foundations of Economic Analysis.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century as published in Harvard Economic Studies as volume LXXX in the...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135729

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Edison, Thomas Alva

Thomas A. Edison Signed Photograph.

:, .

Large photograph of Thomas Edison, signed by him. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 20 inches.

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-15050

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Burger, Warren; William Rehnquist; William J. Brennan; Thurgood Marshall; Potter Stewart; Lewis Franklin Powell; William O. Douglas; Harry Blackmun; and Bryon White

Warren E. Burger Supreme Court Signed Photograph.

:, [1972-1975].

Large photograph of the Burger Court, signed by nine justices below their portrait. Large black and white photograph depicting the Supreme Court in robes seated or standing. The justices are Potter St...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147471

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Gunther, John

Inside U.S.A.

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1947.

First edition of this classic work, “riveting from start to finish” (Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, pullout map. Association copy, in...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148017

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 numbered copies of this classic autobiography. Octavo, bound in half morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, cartographic...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135598

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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...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-126733

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Lindbergh, Charles A

We.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Signed limited edition of Lindbergh’s autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century’s greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatl...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133274

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Samuelson, Paul A

Foundations of Economic Analysis.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.

Third printing of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original burgundy cloth with titles in gilt. Boldly s...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150265

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Rothbard, Murray N

The Ethics of Liberty.

Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.

First edition of Rothbard’s greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. Rare...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-120588

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Dew, Thomas R

Essays on the Restrictive System, Delivered to the Senior Political Class of William and Mary College.

Richmond, VA: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co., 1829.

First edition of one of the most consequential defenses of the Southern political and economic order to emerge from antebellum America, delivered from the lectern of the College of William & Mary...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151982

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