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Buzz Aldrin Signed Life Magazine: Anniversary Edition of Apollo 11.

New York: Life Magazine, 1969.

Rare original Life Magazine July 20, 1969 commemorative issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed on t...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148484

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Lanning, George; Samuel Couling

The History of Shanghai.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh/ Printed and Published for the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1921.

First edition of this early comprehensive English-language account of Shanghai’s transformation from a regional port into a major international city. Royal octavo, original publisher’s black clo...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150329

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Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr., Glenn, John H., Jr., Grissom, Virgil I., Schirra, Walter M., Jr., Shepard, Alan B., Jr., Slayton, Donald K.

We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.

First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of America’s manned space program. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mer...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144379

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Davis, John K

With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1919.

First edition of Captain John Davis’ expedition to Antarctica. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles and gilt illustration of the titular steamship, illustrated throughout, tipped-in rear map...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111886

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Lear, Moya Olsen

Bill and Moya Lear: An Unforgettable Flight.

Reno, Nevada: Jack Bacon & Company, 1996.

First edition of this autobiography of Bill and Moya Lear. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bob and Deloros Hope on the half-title page in the year of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117371

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Scott, Captain Robert Falcon

Scott’s Last Expedition.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913.

First edition of Scott’s diaries from his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Quarto, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine and front panel, top edge gilt, tissue...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148925

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Mitchell, Edgar

Edgar Mitchell Signed Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph.

:, February 1971.

Poster-sized photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing on the lunar surface of the Fra Mauro formation, the future landing site of the Apollo 14 mission. Color photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing at the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145298

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Johnstone, James [Translator]

The Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition Against Scotland.

Copenhagen: Printed for the author, 1782.

Rare first edition of this classic account of Haco’s campaign against Alexander III of Scotland in 1263, a campaign that culminated in the Battle of Largs and resulted in Håkon’s death. Sm...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146130

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Newby, Eric

The Last Grain Race.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1956.

First edition of the noted travel writer’s classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. Boldly signed by Eric Newby on the half-title page....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148373

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146311

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Vasi, Mariano; Antonio Nibby

New Guide of Rome, Naples and Their Environs.

Rome: Sold by Monaldini, English Library and Reading Room, 1843.

Finely bound edition of this revised version of Giuseppe Vasi’s original work, a 19th-century travel guidebook of the monuments and works of art of Rome for tourists visiting Italy. Small octavo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151176

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145919

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Viala, Pierre and Louis Ravaz; Raymond Dubois and Edmund Twight

American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.

San Francisco: Press of Freygand-Leary Co, 1903.

Rare first American edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz’s of ‘Les Vignes Americaines,’ translated in its entirety from the original French by Raymond Dubois and Edmund H. Twight....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147239

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Zeppelin, Ferdinand von

Ferdinand von Zeppelin Autograph Postcard Signed.

Friedrichshafen:, November 2, 1908.

Autograph postcard signed, in German, by Ferdinand von Zeppelin to Stuttgart publishers Levy & Müller thanking them for sending 6 copies of his book, ‘Zeppelins Kampf und Sieg,’ first...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145305

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Greenlaw, Olga S

The Lady and the Tigers.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.

First edition, early printing of this memoir from the official war diarist for the “Flying Tigers”. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149143

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Antique Postcard Collection Album.

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Rare folio containing hundreds of vintage postcards, most postdated between 1907 and 1917. From the collection of Ellen Warren. Folio, original cloth decorated in gilt with raised vignettes to the fro...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-116035

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Freeman, Frederick

The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.

Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.

First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130559

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Walker, R. J.; Jas. Shields

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting The Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. December 8, 1845. Document No. 12, 29th Congress, 1st Session.

:, 1845.

Rare printing of the 1845 annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States of America. Octavo, disbound. Contains numerous folding maps and public surveys of Indiana,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135884

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Long, William Simon

Five Thousand Miles Around the Southern Cross: A Popular Review of Life and Customs in Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ancient Yucatan, with a Survey of the Great Panama Canal.

Camden, NJ: The Long Photographic Art Studios, 1912.

First edition of this early twentieth century travelogue of Caribbean islands and Latin American countries. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, triple ruling stamped in bl...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148826

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Rosendahl, Commander C.E

What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.

First edition of this spirited defense of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150526

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Sample, Tim; Introduction by Stephen King

The New Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner.

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1996.

First printing of the second edition. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Inscribed by Tim Sample on the title page. Additionally signed by Stephen King, who wrote the introduction to this volume. I...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-19022

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Campbell, George

Log-Letters From “The Challenger.” [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881.

Finely bound example of Campbell’s account of the cruise of The Challenger. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138428

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Greely, Adolphus W

Three Years of Arctic Service: Volumes I & II.

New York: Scribners, 1886.

First edition of this narrative record of the harrowing Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Adolphus Greely to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145350

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