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Constitucion Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Mexico: Ignacio Cumplido, 1857.

First edition of the Constitution of Mexico of 1857. Octavo, original printed wrappers as issued. In good condition, contemporary name and date to the front panel. Rare.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-65011

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[General William T. Sherman] [Ulysses S. Grant]

General Sherman’s Bronze Sculpture of an Elephant.

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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...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147816

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Kahneman, Daniel; Ed Diener; Norbert Schwarz

Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology.

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

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...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-44758

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Waugh, Evelyn [Daphne Fielding]

Scott-King’s Modern Europe.

London: Chapman & Hal, 1947.

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...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150292

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Baldwin, A.C.; R.B. Thurston; Timothy Williston

Liberty or Slavery; the Great National Question. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery.

Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857.

First edition of this important collection of three prize-winning antislavery essays published in Boston the same year as the infamous Dred Scott decision. Small octavo, original publisher’s bro...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151981

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Johnson, Lyndon B. and Hubert Humphrey

Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey Signed Inaugural Ceremonies Program.

:, January 20, 1965.

Original Inaugural Ceremonies Program from 1965 of Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, boldly signed by both on the front panel. Octavo, original wrappers, presidential seal in gilt, ribbon bound i...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133502

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Groves, Leslie R. [Tom Ferebee]

Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1962.

First edition of this work by the director of the Manhattan Project. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhatt...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146227

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Coase, Ronald H

Essays on Economics and Economists.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

First edition of this collection of articles by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ronald Coase on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3919

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Wilberforce, William

William Wilberforce Autograph Letter Signed.

Palace Yard, Westminster:, 11 February 1807.

An extraordinary autograph letter signed by William Wilberforce – the man who devoted his life to ending the British slave trade – written just eleven days after Parliament passed the Slav...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152120

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Roosevelt, Eleanor & Helen Ferris

Partners: The United Nations and Youth.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

First edition of this work which tells the dramatic story of the United Nations. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and inscribed by Helen Ferr...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-4553

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Bentwich, Norman

The Jews and International Relations: The Pursuit of Peace.

:, c. 1950.

Rare manuscript written by Mandatory Palestine’s first attorney general, British Zionist Norman Bentwich. 21 pages, type-written with copious corrections and revisions in Bentwich’s hand t...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-81253

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Churchill, Winston S

Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]

Stockholm: Skoglunds Bokforlag, 1939.

First Swedish edition and Churchill’s own copy of the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, in the publisher’s rare full morocco presentation binding...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146028

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Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon

World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph.

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Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-21058

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Bush, George Herbert Walker

George H.W. Bush Signed Souvenir Inaugural Address.

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Typed inaugural address signed by the 41st President of the United States with a rare full signature, “George Herbert Walker Bush.” One page, typescript, the souvenir inaugural address mea...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145237

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Young, Brigham

Brigham Young Signed Utah Southern Railroad Company Check.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Southern Railroad Company, 1872.

Rare original Utah Southern Railroad Company uncashed check signed by Brigham Young. Partially printed document signed “Brigham Young” as President and “George Swan” as Secreta...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148327

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Tucker, George; [Thomas Jefferson]

The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States; With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of his Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law.

London: Charles Knight and Co, 1837.

First British edition of this classic biography of the United States’ third president, published simultaneously with the American edition in Philadelphia. Royal octavo, original publisher’...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147403

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Key, Francis Scott

Francis Scott Key Autograph Document Signed.

:, c. 1801.

Rare autograph legal document signed by Francis Scott Key as defense attorney. One page, portion and draft handwritten legal document, docketed on verso, circa 1801. The document is signed by Francis...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151155

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Raleigh, Sir Walter. [Alexander Ross]

The History of the World, In Five Books. [with] The History of the World: The Second Part, In Six Books: Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight.

London: Printed for Robert White, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, G. Dawes and T. Sawbridge, 1677; London: Printed for John Saywell, 1652.

Rare 1677 printing of Sir Walter Raleigh’s renowned unfinished world history, written while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and first published in 1614; uniformly bound with a rare firs...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149130

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Buchanan, James M

The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan.

Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999-2002.

First editions of each of volume that comprise the collected works of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan’s papers. Each volume is signed and dated by James M. Buchanan. Octavo, orig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-2374

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Victor, Orville J

The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion, From its Incipient Stages to its Close.

New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, [1861].

Complete first edition set of one of the earliest histories of the American Civil War. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher’s full pebbled morocco decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all e...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133063

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Gorbachev, Mikhail [Lech Walesa]

Memoirs.

New York: Doubleday, 1996.

First edition of Gorbachev’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and additionally signed by Lech Walesa on the title page. Lech Wałęsa is...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150442

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Kirk, Charlie

The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas that Will Win the Future.

New York: Broadside Books, 2020.

First edition of this work by the best-selling author and founder of Turning Point USA. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the front free endpaper. This was signed in Palm Beach...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150617

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Posner, Richard

Economic Analysis of Law.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

First edition of the author’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Issued without a dust jacket. Signed by Richard Posner on the title page. In near fine condition, the text has some lig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3866

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Young, Brigham [Helen McQuilkin]

Brigham Young Signed Utah Southern Railroad Company Check.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Southern Railroad Company, 1872.

Rare original Utah Southern Railroad Company uncashed check signed by Brigham Young. Partially printed document signed “Brigham Young” as President and “George Swan” as Secreta...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148951

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