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Pope Pius XI. (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti)

Pope Pius XI Hand-Illuminated Benediction Signed.

:, c. 1930.

Rare hand-illuminated apostolic benediction signed by Pope Pius XI with a circular portrait of him. The blessing in elaborate script reads, “Most Holy Father, Margaret, Katherine, Regina, John,...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-88158

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Welcome to Christmas.

:, 1875.

Rare 19th century album on Christmas. Octavo, bound in full black morocco, elaborate ruling in blind and in gilt, silk moire endpapers, eight cardstock leaves, six in cream and two in grey, all hand l...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139519

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Document Signed as President.

:, 1870.

Autograph document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America. Octavo, one page, partially printed. The document reads in full, “I hereby authorize and direct the Se...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151389

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Dinsdale, Alfred

Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless.

London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1926.

First edition of the first book on television, a key work on the history of technology. Octavo, original stiff boards, frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird. Fine in a n...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119245

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[Charlie Kirk]

The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings.

San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2017.

Finely bound example of the Constitution of the United States. Octavo, bound in full leatherette, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the half-title page. Kirk sign...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150507

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Medieval Gregorian Chant Manuscript.

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Rare medieval Gregorian chant manuscript on vellum with the “S” for Sanctus in elaborately illuminated in gilt. One page with text and illustrations on both the recto and verso. In very go...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149450

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Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.

Japan:, c. 1930.

First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding pa...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-60076

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Bell, Daniel

The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas In the Fifties.

Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press, 1960.

First edition of this landmark in American social thought. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Adrienne Righ with appreciatio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-86124

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Reagan, Ronald and Nancy

Signed Family Photograph of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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Original photograph of President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan and their two children: Ronald Jr. and Patti. Signed by the Presidential couple below each of their portraits, “Ronald Rea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-88159

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White, Stanford

Stanford White Autograph Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of American architect Stanford White. Four pages, dated March 6th 1896 and addressed to Mrs. Frederick McMonnies, the letter reads, “The sketc...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95110

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Russell, Bertrand

My Philosophical Development.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1959.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which he summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117453

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"Anti-Vaccinator"

A New Year’s Gift to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Glasgow; 1st January, 1874: Being an Essay Shewing that the Delusive Practice of Vaccination is Ruinous to the National Health.

Glasgow: John Thomson, 1874.

First edition of this anti-vaccination work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt embossed to the front panel. Laid in is a 1901 circular, one sheet printed on both sides. In very good condition, bookpl...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129341

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Billings, John D

Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.

Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887.

First edition of Billings’ classic Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. In very good condition. First edi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132819

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Sloan Jr., Alfred P

My Years With General Motors.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of Sloan’s influential work, which has since become a classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, warmly inscribed in the year of publication by the author on t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137691

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Schola Italica Artis Pictoriae sive Tabulae insigniores in Romanis Pinacothecis Adservatae.

Rome: Petri Pauli Montagnani-Mirabili, 1806.

Rare first edition of Schola Italica Artis Pictoriae sive Tabulae insigniores in Romanis Pinacothecis Adservatae. Folio, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised b...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90342

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Palladio, Andreas

Traicté des Cinq Ordres d’Architecture desquels se sont seruy les Anciens Traduit du Palladio Par Le Sr. Le Muet.

Paris: F.Langlois , 1645.

First edition of Le Muet’s free translation of Palladio’s treatise and the second edition of Le Muet’s L’Art de Bien Bastir, first published in 1623. Two volumes bound into one...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96516

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Perón, Eva

Eva Perón Signed Photograph.

:, 1950.

Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and lengthily inscribed and dated by her in Spanish. Retaining the original mount. Double matted and framed, the entire piec...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116038

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Carter, Jimmy and Menachem Begin

Photograph Signed by Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin.

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Photograph signed by President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the front panel. The photograph is of Carter and Begin in The White House with their cabinets. The photograph is stampe...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123824

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Waugh, Evelyn

The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1952-1961.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, finely bound in full morocco by The Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146619

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishers, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist on monetary history. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Alan, some bedtime reading, Bes...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4119

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Solow, Robert M

Capital Theory and the Rate of Return.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1963.

First edition of the Nobel prize-winning economist’s De Vries Lectures on economics. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46014

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Langner, Lawrence [John Steinbeck]

The Importance of Wearing Clothes.

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1959.

First edition of this entertaining history of clothing and its impact on the human condition. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free e...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-111852

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne Signed Document.

Port of Liverpool:, 1854.

Rare original Naval “Oath of the Master and Mate” document signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Printed “Consul’s Certificate” accomplished in manuscript and signed in ink...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151822

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Yoshida, Hatsusaburo

Guide to the Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan (1931); Kumamoto-ken.

Kumamoto: O Aso Kokuritsu Koen Kyokai, 1931.

First edition of this photobook of the Kumamoto Prefecture. Quarto, original velvet bound, copiously illustrated with gravure photo pages with captions and text, occasional mounted gravure photos, all...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-86877

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