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Iudaeae seu Terrae Israelis Tabula Geographica in qua Locorum in Veteri et Novo Testamento celebratissimorum Situs accurate descripti arte facta a Tilemanno Stella Sigenesi [Holy Land Map].

Amsterdam:, c. 1680.

Hand-colored engraved map of Judea, or the Land of Israel. One page, the map shows Judea with borders in color. The hand-colored title cartouche is flanked by Moses with the Ten Commandments on the le...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145576

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Michener, James A. [Lech Walesa]

Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1990.

First edition of this memoir of Michener’s travels in Poland and Rome. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by James Michener on the title page and signed by Nobel Peace Prize wi...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150419

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[Walesa, Lech]

The Berlin Wall: An Historical Artifact.

Montana: Hyman Products, Inc, 1989.

Rare authentic cut from the Berlin Wall. Fragmented piece of the Berlin Wall within a soft pouch, with an informative booklet. Boldly signed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa on the verso. Lech...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149858

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Powers, Richard

The Overstory.

New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2017.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “the best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period” (Ann Patchett). Octavo, original boards. Boldly...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151356

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Aquinas, Thomas

Summa Theologica Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, Divinae Voluntatis Interpretis: Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum.

Parisiis: Sumptibus Maturini Henault, 1638.

Early printing of Aquinas’ seminal work. Folio, bound in full leather with a red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, woodcut engraving of Aquinas in prayer to the title page. In very good cond...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90390

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Pavlov, Ivan

The Work of the Digestive Glands.

London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1902.

First edition in English of Pavlov’s best-known work, A Printing and the Mind of Man selection. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Translated by William H. Thompson. Presentation...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136462

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Lovell, Jim; Jeffrey Kluger [Tom Hanks]

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.

First edition, early printing of this work, the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise. Octavo, o...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150341

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Balfour, Arthur James

A Fragment on Progress. Inaugural Address Delivered on his Installation as Lord Rector.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892.

First edition of Balfour’s Inaugural Address delivered on his installation as Lord Rector . Octavo, bound in full calf with Balfour’s signature stamped in gilt to the front panel. Presenta...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117521

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Windsor, Duke of [King Edward]

A King’s Story.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.

First edition of King Edward’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the his official let...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144116

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Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

First edition of this photographic record of Muhammad Ali’s career. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs by Howard L. Bingham of or concerning Muhammad Ali. Inscribed on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149114

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

The Last Days of Pompeii.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

First edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149376

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Yefremyan, Z.S. [Armenia]

Patkerazharp Bnashkharhaki Bararan. [Illustrated Geographical Dictionary].

Venice: A. Ghazaryan, 1903-05.

Rare edition of volume one of this Armenian geographical reference work. Thick quarto, written in Armenian, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within ra...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149427

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Hansen, James R. [Ryan Gosling] [Neil Armstrong]

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

First edition of the authorized biography of the first man to touch the moon, basis for the 2018 starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151037

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Lader, Lawrence [Margaret Sanger]

The Margaret Sanger Story.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955.

First edition of the biography of the founder of the American birth-control movement. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Sanger on the half-title page...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-5040

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Alexander, William

Picturesque Representations and the Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions.

London: Printed for James Goodwin, c. 1829.

Finely bound example of Alexander’s profusely illustrated work on t19th century China. Octavo, original full straight-grain morocco richly decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133048

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Gillon, Diana And Meir. [Winston Churchill]

Vanquish The Angel.

London: Constable , 1955.

First edition of this novel, inscribed by both authors to Winston Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145911

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Inscribed Democracy in the World Presentation Copy.

:, March 12, 1966.

Copy of David Ben-Gurion’s undelivered speech for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Unable to attend, Ben-Gurion sent the text of the speech, which was then published by the C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145288

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Bojaxhiu, Mary Teresa [Mother Teresa]; Terence Cardinal Cooke; [Pope John Paul II]

Mother Teresa and Terence Cardinal Cooke Signed ‘Visit of Pope John Paul II’ New York Times Front Page Souvenir.

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Souvenir printing of The New York Times October 3, 1979 front page commemorating Pope John Paul II’s visit to New York, signed by Mother Teresa and Terence Cardinal Cooke. One page, featuring a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146993

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World War II Photographic Album of American Serviceman in India: Taj Mahal, Calcutta, etc.

:, 1940s.

Twelve inches wide, contains roughly 200 photographs of life in India, ca. 1943, with visits to the Taj Mahal, much in Calcutta, documenting life in the barracks, street life including contortionists,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109234

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Lloyd George, David

David Lloyd George Signed Photograph.

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Large photograph signed by Prime Mininster David Lloyd George and by the photographer, taken by the Vandyk Studio of London. The photograph measures 14 inches by 11.25 inches. Framed. The entire piece...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139570

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Arendt, Hannah

The Life of the Mind. Volume One: Thinking; Volume Two: Willing.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

First editions of “the most intriguing…and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Fine in fine dust jackets. First e...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145761

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Mandela, Nelson

The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Yearbook 2003-2005.

South Africa: The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, 2005.

First limited edition of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Yearbook 2003-2005. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated with color photographs. Boldly signed by Nelson Mandela on the limitati...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148504

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Collins, Max Allan; [Tom Hanks]

Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg.

New York: Dream Works, 1998.

First edition of this novel, based on the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Academy Award-win...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150826

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Riis, Jacob A. [Theodore Roosevelt]

Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen.

New York: The Outlook Company, 1904.

First edition of Riis’s campaign biography of President Roosevelt. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt titles and decoration to the front panel, beveled edges,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145330

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