Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

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...

Rare early 16th century Venetian printing of Aristotle’s pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Folio, bound in full vellum, illustrate...

First edition of Borchgrevink’s detailed account of the first expedition to establish a base on the main body of the continent. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles and explo...

First edition of this historical story of Black civil rights in the Jim Crow era. Octavo, original cloth, with 16 drawings and portraits, including Frederick Douglass and Abolitionist Wendell Phillips...

Rare United States Patent signed by Andrew Jackson as the 7th President of the United States. One page, partially printed, the patent is dated June 22, 1832 and is issued to inventor Henry Koon for a...

First French edition of Franklin’s complete works on electricity, based on the fourth and best British edition. Quarto, two volumes bound in one, contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved fro...

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 Gary Best Wishes...

First edition of American Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise’s historical account of the era of Herod I. Octavo, contemporary cloth over boards, lacking the front free endpaper, library bookplate to...

Royal Christmas and New Year Card with a mounted color reproduction of Sebastiano Ricci’s The Holy Family. Signed by Queen Elizabeth, “Elizabeth R” and Prince Philip, “Philip....

Royal 1964 Christmas and New Year Card featuring a black-and-white photograph of the Royal family. Signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, “Elizabeth R 1964″ and “Philip.” In ne...

First edition of this classic work of twentieth century philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Rorty on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

First edition of the official multi-volume record on the assassination of President Kennedy. Octavo, 12 volumes. In fine condition.

First edition of this memoir by the 44th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barack Obama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket d...

First edition of this notable military report of important maps and plates of Texas in 1850. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and detailing stamped in blind, two large folding maps...

Large black and white photograph of Apollo 11 Mission Control Capsule Communicator Charlie Duke, Fred Haise, and James Lovell, boldly signed by Duke with his famous words, “We copy you down eagl...

First editions of each volume of Churchill’s classic war speeches. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised band...

Rare first edition of Goepp’s criticism of Kossuth. Octavo, bound in full cloth. Deaccessioned from the Library of Congress with the library’s bookplate and stamp to the pastedown. In good...

First edition of this work by the legendary physicist and cosmologist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To The Fleet Ad...

First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and whit...

Fourth edition of George Sandys’ revered English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Folio, contemporary paneled boards, rebacked, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with t...

First South African edition, early printing of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, orig...

Royal 1961 Christmas and New Year Card featuring an color plate of Peter Paul Rubens’ The Holy Family with Saint Francis from the Royal Collection. Signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, “...

Rare original blueprint portfolio for Warren & Wetmore’s iconic “Hotel at Waikiki Beach”, later named the Royal Hawaiian. Folio, containing 30 sheets bound and bradded. In good c...

Portrait of “The Godfather of Soul” inscribed twice by James Brown to Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks. Digital color portrait of James Brown. Inscribed twice, first on the lower margin in b...