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Trial and Error.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of the first president of Israel’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134391

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Woodward, Bob [Gerald R. Ford]

First edition of this definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies occupied Iraq. Octavo, original half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148407

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Pashayan Khan, Garabed

Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.

Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141034

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Sorley, Captain L.S. [Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]

History of the Fourteenth United States Infantry From January, 1890 to December, 1908.

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1909.

First edition of this military history of the Fourteenth Infantry; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue wrappers, illustrated with seven maps of battles, operations, an...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145966

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Makos, Adam with Larry Alexander

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II.

New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2013.

First edition, early printing of “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151342

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Smith, John Thomas

The Cries of London: Exhibited Several of the Iternerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times.

London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1839.

First edition of this collection of this work on the street cries of London. Quarto, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 30...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-71850

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Johnson, Alvin Jewett

Johnson’s Map of Florida.

New York: A.J. Johnson, 1863.

Rare 19th century example of Johnson’s famed Civil War era map of the state of Florida. One page, the hand-colored lithographic map depicts the state in full with color coding according to count...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138227

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Boswell, James. Edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle

The Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland 1763-1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766; Boswell In Search of a Wife 1766-1769; Boswell For The Defence 1769-1774.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951-1960.

The De Luxe Yale edition of the private papers of James Boswell. Tall octavo, 6 volumes, original publisher’s half vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt coat of arms to each fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149552

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Caesar, Gaius Julius; Aulus Hirtius

Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius].

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914.

The Medici Society limited edition of this seminal firsthand account of Rome’s conquest of Gaul. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, green silk ribbon ties, ful...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148857

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Greene, Robert

The 33 Strategies of War.

New York: Viking, 2006.

First edition of this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature. T Octa...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150371

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Burn, Richard and George Chetwynd

The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer.

London: Printed by A. Strahan , 1820.

Finely bound set of this monumental work. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in contemporary full calf, morocco spine labels. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-126858

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Amicis, Edmondo de; Translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Spain and the Spaniards.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1895.

Early American edition of this exceptional piece of travel writing translated from the original Italian; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, two volumes, publisher’s decorated...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145934

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Edwards, Jonathan

An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd.

Edinburgh: Printed by John Gray and Gavin Alston for William Gray, 1765.

Early example of “one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians,” American revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards’ biography of Reverend David Brainerd....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147998

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Robinson, James M. [Director] [Elaine Pagels]

The Nag Hammadi Library in English.

Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1977.

First edition of this collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Elaine Pagels on the half-...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149301

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Myers, William Starr; Walter H. Newton [Herbert Hoover]

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

First edition of this complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover’s four years as President. Octavo, original navy cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Hoover...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146699

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Darling, Jay N. [Herbert Hoover]

As Ding Saw Hoover.

Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State College Press, 1954.

First edition of “Ding” Darling’s editorial cartoons regarding President Hoover. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hoover on the front free endpape...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-102472

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Cothren, William [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers, 1854.

Second volume of the first edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145760

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Lewis, C.S

Beyond the Bright Blur.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc, 1963.

First edition of this selection from Letters to Malcolm. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in the original rice paper jacket, which is in good condition. Rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137526

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Blunden, Edmund

Undertones of War.

London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928.

First edition of Blunden’s moving narrative of life on the Western Front told in prose and verse,. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in thi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130487

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-129329

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Davis, Angela Y

Women, Race & Class.

New York: Random House, 1981.

First edition of this classic piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Boldly signed by Angela Davis on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151848

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Carter, Jimmy

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

First edition of the 39th President of the United States’ memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by President Carter to former four-term United States Senator...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-119599

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This I Remember.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly sig...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-138860

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Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online

Trial and Error.

Plan of Attack.

Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

History of the Fourteenth United States Infantry From January, 1890 to December, 1908.

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II.

The Cries of London: Exhibited Several of the Iternerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times.

Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Johnson’s Map of Florida.

The Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland 1763-1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766; Boswell In Search of a Wife 1766-1769; Boswell For The Defence 1769-1774.

Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius].

The 33 Strategies of War.

The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer.

Spain and the Spaniards.

An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd.

The Nag Hammadi Library in English.

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative.

As Ding Saw Hoover.

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Beyond the Bright Blur.

Undertones of War.

Ian Hamilton’s March.

Women, Race & Class.

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.

This I Remember.