Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

Rare 19th or 20th century flag of the American Confederacy’s first official national flag, known as the “Stars and Bars,” likely  made for reunions or parades. The flag features seve...

First edition of Nansen’s history of Arctic exploration, from the library of explorer Roald Amundsen with his signature. In the year this work was published, Amundsen became the first man to rea...

Autograph letter signed by the founder of modern day Israel and first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion regarding his controversial meeting with Angelica Balabanoff, a close associate of Benito Mussolin...

Signed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Lotos Club menu for a State Dinner held in her honor on May 14, 1996, featuring a reproduction of the oil-on-canvas portrait of her by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Addit...

Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher’s cherry-red three-quar...

First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth....

First edition of Gibbon’s memoirs, letters, and additional works, posthumously collected and published by his closest friend, John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. Quarto, bound in three quarters...

First edition of Le Coq de Villeray’s response to Voltaire’s Letters Concerning the English Nation, published in 1733. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, gilt title to the spine, raised bands,...

First edition of this collection of seventeen narratives written by Herzl during his years as a correspondent for the Viennese Neue Freie Presse. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over embossed boa...

Rare large format photograph of Buzz Aldrin’s footprint on the lunar surface, taken by him on July 20, 1969 as the second person to set foot on the moon. Signed by Aldrin’s co-astronaut Mi...

First edition of this provocative read read from the legendary investor. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Madeleine- Thank yo...

Letter signed by Marie ‘de Medici. Signed “Marie,” dated September 12, 1613. Letter to M. de Bouthwoud, the president of the Parliament at Rouen, ordering him in the name of her son to convene a...

Signed on the first free end page in pencil with his ownership signature, “J. A. Garfield, Hiram, Ohio, Sept. 1856.” Garfield’s personal bookplate, “Inter Folia Fructus, Librar...

Rare first edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. In very good condition with rubbing and bumping to both volumes.

Uniformly bound collection of The Annual Register, a long-established reference work, written and published each year beginning in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke. Octavo, 11 out of 43 origi...

Rare first edition of the report of the Dred Scott decision which held that the U.S. Constitution was not intended to include citizenship for African Americans, published simultaneously in Washington...

Rare original letter signed and entirely in the hand of Jane Addams, presented with an original photograph also signed by her. On Hull House letterhead, the letter reads, “My dear Mr. Miller, I...

First French edition of Thomas Paine’s classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism. Octavo, bound in contemporary one quarter calf over marbled boards. In very good condition. Fro...

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...

Rare bronze sculpture of an elephant, most likely used as an ink well, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. Ulysses S. Grant, a close friend of Sherman...

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust j...

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Daphne with love fr...