Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

Rare San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway stock certificate signed by industrialist Claus Spreckels. Quarto, one page page partially printed in red, green, black, and accomplished in manuscrip...

True first editions of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs. Near fine in...

First English deluxe edition of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original publisher’s pigskin-backed buckram with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, illustrated with...

Rare color satin-finish photograph of the Apollo spacecraft over the lunar surface. Boldly signed around the Apollo spacecraft in black felt tip by seven moonwalkers: Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Gene C...

First edition of this Western novel, adapted into the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales by Clint Eastwood. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. One of only 75 copies of the true first edition. Nea...

Four rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants signed by 3 different Georgia Governors. Octavo, eight pages partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the coll...

Mixed early edition set of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes bound in one quarter modern calf over cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and five ra...

Rare second edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought, the first to name Locke as the author and to include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio, bound full paneled calf, m...

First edition of this classic work, “the most complete news report yet to come out of war time Germany” (Time). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William L. Shirer on...

First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

First edition of Almroth Wright’s anti-feminist treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Mrs. J. Freeman with the author...

First complete edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Duodecimo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Chairman Mao. Lin Biao’s calligraphic endorsement leaf intact after the frontis...

First edition of this classic text. Small octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, illustrated. In near fine condition.

First and early editions of these works on Britain. Octavo, original cloth, approximately 125 volumes, color and monochrome illustrations. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.

Finely bound editions of Churchill’s important biography of his notable ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in 2, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery,...

Rare third edition in English of The Morals of Confucius, the first published work to introduce English readers to Confucianism. Small octavo, bound in full period or period-style speckled calf with e...

Rare oleographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln by E.C. Middleton. With Middleton’s Warranted Oil Colors imprint to the verso of the frame dated 1864. Between 1861 and 1873, E.C. Middleton of Cinci...

First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To the Jackson Hole e...

Finely bound collection of the political works of English political theorist and economist Harold Laski. Octavos, 22 volumes, uniformly bound by Bayntun Riviere Bindery in three quarters morocco with...

Scarce Amicus brief issued for the historic 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in American schools to be unc...

First edition, early printing of this biographical narrative based on the real-life heroism of Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, basis for the classic film. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentatio...

First limited edition of President Gerald R. Ford’s address to the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan in 1980, inscribed by Ford to his son. Octavo, bound in full blue leather w...

First edition, the author’s edition. Octavo, original half leatherette, slipcase, illustrated with 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-...

Rare archive of autograph letters, photographs, and commemorative stamp folios from the collection of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Millard Bentsen. The archive includes a photo...