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Anderson, Erica; Eugene Exman. [Albert Schweitzer]

Le Monde D’Albert Schweitzer.

Paris: A. Michel, 1955.

First edition of this work on the Nobel laureate. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. Jean Marie Dubernard upon leaving Lamb...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120738

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Downs, Laura Lee [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

First edition of the second edition of this scholarly work about the historical theories of women and gender. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147660

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Hazlitt, Henry

Economics In One Lesson.

New York: Laissez Faire Books, 1986.

Signed limited edition, one of only 200 numbered copies of the author’s seminal work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edg...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149556

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The Massachusetts Centinel. Wednesday, October 21, 1789.

Boston: Russell, Benjamin, October 21, 1789.

Number II, of Vol. XII of “the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution”, Benjamin Russell’s Massachusetts Centinel, issued on Wednesday, October...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116337

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Hooker, Richard

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie. [Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity].

London: Printed by William Standbye, [1622].

Early printing of this important work by the influential English theologian. Quarto, quarter morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, red morocco spi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130372

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Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt [W.E.B. DuBois]

The Negro Church.

Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1903.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition, lacking the front panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Exceptionally rare, without any record of this title appearing at auction in the...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133316

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von Braun, Wernher

Wernher von Braun Signed Time Magazine Cover.

Havana: Time Magazine Latin American Edition, 1958.

Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover signed by legendary German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. Quarto, the cover is from the February 17, 1958 issue and features a reproduct...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138504

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Webster, Pelatiah

Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects: Published During the American War, and Continued Up to the Present Year, 1791.

Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1791.

First edition of these influential essays concerning the finances and government of the fledgling United States by Webster, who took a strongly-laissez-faire position economically, and was a proponent...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133510

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Callender, James Thomson

The American Annual Register, or, Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Bioren & Madan, January 19, 1797.

First edition, first issue in book form of Callender’s searing exposé. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good co...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125974

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Hughes, Langston

Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

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Three original autograph poems by Langston Hughes. Quarto, three pages, one typed and two handwritten in green ink for Marshall Bean. Each boldly signed by Langston Hughes. The first, “Personal...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148255

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Mill, John Stuart

The Subjection of Women.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

First edition of Mill’s classic work defending the rights of women, publisher’s presentation copy, with a blind stamp to title, “Presented by the Publishers.” Octavo, original...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144100

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Herzl, Theodor. Translated by Lotta Levensohn. Preface by Stephen S. Wise [David Ben-Gurion]

Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1941.

First edition in English of Herzl’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. A gifted copy accompanied by a slip from the first prime minister of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, laid in, “Wi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149223

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Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph.

:, 1928.

Autographed photograph of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, signed and dated February 2, 1932. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 13 inches.

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-94958

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Brown, William J

The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island.

Providence: Agnell, 1883.

Very rare first edition of the narrative of William J. Brown, born in 1814 the son of a free Black man and Native American woman in Providence, Rhode Island. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130502

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Hine, Lewis W

Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Men and Machines.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1932.

First edition of Hine’s only book published in his lifetime, a landmark photobook in its celebration of “the dignity of labour and… the American skyscraper” (Parr & Badger). Small quarto, original...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96378

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Olmsted, Frederick Law. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Kimball

Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise 1853-1895.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

First edition of the second volume of the autobiography of one of the foremost figures in American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded fr...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129463

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Barton, Clara

The Story of My Childhood.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1907.

First edition of the founder of the American Red Cross, American Civil War nurse Clara Barton’s childhood memoirs. 12mo, original publisher’s full red sheep with gilt titles to the spine a...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-122994

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Thomas, Isaiah

The History of Printing in America.

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810.

First edition of this work by the famed printer. Octavo, bound in contemporary sheep, morocco spine labels, illustrated with five engraved plates (four folding). Gift inscription of Thomas’s gra...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133261

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Human Work.

New York : McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904.

First edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ground breaking work and what she considered “her greatest work” (New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-89123

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117889

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Aristotle

Aristoteles de Animalibus.

Venetiis: Octaviani Scoticiuis, 1525.

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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133419

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Collins, Mrs. Jane S

Free At Last.

Pittsburgh: Murdoch, Kerr & Co, 1896.

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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137487

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Borchgrevink, Carsten E

First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900.

London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901.

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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148927

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Caro, Robert A

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, The Passage of Power.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-2012.

First editions of each volume in Robert A Caro’s ground-breaking biography of President Lyndon Johnson, each signed or inscribed by Caro. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth,...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147878

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Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

Le Monde D’Albert Schweitzer.

Writing Gender History.

Economics In One Lesson.

The Massachusetts Centinel. Wednesday, October 21, 1789.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie. [Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity].

The Negro Church.

Wernher von Braun Signed Time Magazine Cover.

Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects: Published During the American War, and Continued Up to the Present Year, 1791.

The American Annual Register, or, Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796.

Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

The Subjection of Women.

Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph.

The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island.

Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Men and Machines.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise 1853-1895.

The Story of My Childhood.

The History of Printing in America.

Human Work.

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.

Aristoteles de Animalibus.

Free At Last.

First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, The Passage of Power.