a pivotal moment in the fight for freedom

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1776. 16 Anno Regni Georgii III, cap 5. Complete volume. Full contemporary calf, red leather spine label, bookplate of Rt. Honourable Earl of Portsmouth. No document played a more decisive role in the debate over independence at the Second Continental Congress than the American Prohibitory Act.

$12,000
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Baskerville Book of Common Prayer

[BASKERVILLE PRESS]. The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod in London, 1760 [i. e., 1761]. FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. Large octavo, contemporary green morocco handsomely gilt with urn border on covers, neatly rebacked with original spine laid-down; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A beautiful copy.

$1800
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a beautiful copy in original cloth

BURTON, Richard F. The Land of Midian (Revisited). London: Kegan Paul, 1879. Octavo, original ochre cloth. First edition of Burton's second expedition through Midian (northwest Arabia). Although Burton failed to unearth the vast amounts of gold he believed were in the region, the expedition, sponsored by the Egyptian Khedive Ismail I, was a major geographical and archaeological success.

$3800
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the magnificent "Duncan Caesar":
a beautiful copy

(CAESAR, Julius). Duncan, William. The Commentaries of Caesar translated into English. London: Tonson, Draper, and Dodsley, 1753. Folio, modern full panelled calf gilt in antique style, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. First edition of the "Duncan Caesar", the most beautiful and celebrated edition of Caesar’s Commentaries in English, complete with 86 magnificent large folio engravings (on 85 sheets) of maps, plans, battles, and scenes depicting various soldiers and customs of the world.

$8500
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the tomb of King Tut

CARTER, Howard. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter.London: Cassell & Company, 1923-27-33. Thick octavo, original brown cloth. Three volumes. First editions of all three volumes of Carter's description of one the greatest archaeological finds of all time: the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.

$3800
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Churchill's masterpiece

CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War, London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., (1948-54). Octavo, modern full red morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines with lion devices. Six volumes. First editions of Churchill's most important work, handsomely bound. Fine condition.

$2800
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CHURCHILL, Winston. Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton, Butterworth, Ltd., 1937. One of Churchill's most enduring works, Great Contemporaries contains Churchill's candid and insightful portraits of some of the most influential and intriguing individuals of his time. Includes essays on Shaw, Chamberlain, Balfour, Clememceau, T.E. Lawrence, Hitler, and others. Light occasional foxing, genrally a fine copy.		$1300 (details)

CHURCHILL, Winston. CHURCHILL, Winston S. The People’s Rights. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1910). Octavo, original yellow wrappers. First edition, first state (wrappers issue) of Churchill’s early collection of political speeches. An early Churchill rarity and a notoriously fragile item.		$3400 (details)

Signed and inscribed by Winston Churchill

CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., (1948-54). Six volumes. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS of Churchill's greatest work, inscribed by Churchill on the half-title of volume one to a major figure in contemporary British politics: "Inscribed for John Dugdale by Winston S. Churchill, 1949, 'Across the Party Lines.'" Dugdale was Attlee's private secretary from 1931-1939 and a Labour M.P.

$12,500
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" (PMM 424)

CHURCHILL, Winston S. A Speech by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. August 20, 1940. [London]: [Baynard Press], 1940. Octavo, original printed wrappers, housed in half-morocco clamshell box.

$1600
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. War Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., (1941-46). Modern full red morocco, gilt-decorated spines with lion devices, gilt-ruled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Seven volumes. First editions, magnificently bound.		$4500 (details)

exceptionally rare

[CIVIL WAR]. [Robert E. Lee]. An Act to provide the appointment of a General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. General Orders No. 3; Richmond, February 6, 1865. Official broadside Confederate printing with seal on top left corner appointing Robert E. Lee "General in Chief" of the Confederate forces. A highly important piece of Confederate legislation. Extremely scarce.

$8000
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COPLAND, Aaron. "ON THE ART AND MEANING OF MUSIC." Typescript Signed, an essay titled Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit, written by the composer for Columbia University's bicentennial celebration. Signed on the last page. 11 1/4 pages, twelve 4to sheets. [Ossining?], circa 1954.		$4000 (details)

DAVIS, JEFFERSON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Reverend J. T. Freeman. Two pages, folded 8vo sheet with integral blank. Davis writes to Reverend Freeman thanking him for a proposed endowment to support the former President of the Confederacy. The letter provides a poignant glimpse of the fallen leader's post-war plight. Two pages, folded 8vo sheet with integral blank. Memphis, 25 November 1869.		$4800 (details)

DIO CASSIUS. [Greek Title]. Romanarum Historiarum libri XXIII, a XXXVI ad LVIII usque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1548. Folio, early calf boards, recently rebacked. First edition, the editio Princeps, of Dio Cassius's important Roman history. Scarce.		$4000 (details)

First edition, signed twice by Dwight Eisenhower

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Mandate for Change, 1953-56. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Illustrated. First edition, one of 1434 signed copies; this copy additionally inscribed by Eisenhower (...with best wishes from Dwight D. Eisenhower). A fine copy of Eisenhower's fascinating memoir of his first term in office.

$2600
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"One of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 234)

GODWIN, William. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Quarto, early three-quarters vellum over marbled boards. Two volumes. First edition of one of the most important political tracts of the 18th century.

$8000
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signed by Ulysses S. Grant

GRANT, Ulysses S. Vellum Document Signed. Washington, 1873. Partly-printed vellum document signed, “U.S. Grant,” as president. Military commission appointing H. Schuyler Ross a First Assistant Engineer in the Navy. Countersigned by George M. Robeson as Secretary of the Navy. Approximately 19 1/2x16 inches.

$3000
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beautiful copy in rare publisher's deluxe binding

GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885-86. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S DELUXE MOROCCO of Grant's important and fascinating memoirs, illustrated throughout with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and over forty maps.

$3800
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GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885-86. FIRST EDITION of Grant's important and fascinating memoirs. Two volumes; fine full calf bindings.		$1300 (details)

original cloth, unrestored, with the large folding map

GREGG, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies: Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies... New York, 1844. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Two volumes. First edition, first issue (with only New York in imprint). One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest.

$5500
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GRIFFITHS, Philip Jones. Vietnam Inc. New York : Collier Books, 1971. First edition, signed and inscribed by Griffiths. Vietnam Inc. played a crucial role in turning public opinion against the war and is one of the classic works of photo-journalism. Illustrated with reproductions of Griffiths 's vivid photographs of the war in Vietnam . Hasselblad 274. Spine creased, head lightly foxed, generally an excellent copy. Rare signed.

$1000
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the most widely-used infantry manual of the Civil War

HARDEE, William. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. Memphis: Hutton & Freligh, 1861. 2 vols in 1, as issued. Octavo, original cloth back boards, original label on front cover, with 58 lithographs (complete). First revised edition (1861) of the most widely used infantry manual of the Civil War. Confederate soldier Isaac Howard's copy.

$3500
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1544 editio princeps of Josephus

JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Opera. Basel: Froben & Episcopius, 1544. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Editio princeps of the original Greek texts of Josephus, printed in 1544 by the great Froben press. Magnificently bound in contemporary pigskin with elaborate blind-tooled images.

$13,000
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J.F.K.'s Pulitzer-prize winning Profiles in Courage

KENNEDY, John. F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First edition of Kennedy's third and finest book, for which he won the Pulitzer prize for biography in 1957. "Today the challenge of political courage looms larger than ever before." A fine copy.

$1500
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"One of the few 20th-century works in English to make epical figures out of contemporaries." — Britannica

LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom (The). London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Quarto, original cloth, original dustjacket, 54 black & white illustrations; 4 folding maps. First trade edition of Lawrence's remarkable memoirs of the Arab Revolt.

$1300
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First edition, first printing in original wrappers of Robert Goddard's famous explanation of the powerful potential of rocketry. $9000. [details]	First edition, a wide-margined copy, of the great anatomical atlas of Eustachius. $12,000. [details]	First edition, large paper copy, of Robert Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra. $7500. [details]	Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated and signed by Rackham. $3400. [details]	First edition of Chagall's Jerusalem Windows, with 2 original lithographs. $2000. [details]

one of the central documents of the Protestant Reformation

LUTHER, Martin. De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae. Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter, 1520]. Quarto, period-style binding of modern three-quarter pigskin over wooden boards. A-L4; 44 leaves. First edition of Martin Luther's revolutionary call to spiritual individualism. Extremely scarce: We can find no record of another copy being offered for sale in the last 30 years.

$48,000
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Important volume documenting the scientific advances of early America, in original boards

[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Volume I, parts I-III. Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. Quarto, original publisher's drab boards and paper spine. First edition of the inaugural volume of the Memoirs one of the United States's most important and influential intellectual societies.

$1450
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"Still remains the major source for photographs of the Civil War" (Allan Nevins)

MILLER, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: The Review of Reviews, 1911. Quarto, original blue cloth gilt. Ten volumes. First editions of all ten volumes of Miller’s famous photo-documentary of the Civil War. The Mathew Brady photographs represent the first instance of a comprehensive photo-documentation of a war.

$2200
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"The United States Constitution...is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated" -Printing and the Mind of Man (197)

MONTESQUIEU, Charles Secondat, baron de. The Spirit of Laws... Translated from the French... London: J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750. Fine copy of the first edition in English of one of the central works in western political thought. In contemporary speckled calf.

$11,000
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RAND, Ayn. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. New York: New American Library, 1966. Signed limited edition, #68 of 700 copies, signed by Rand on the limitation page. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Fine copy.		$2800 (details)

signed by Ayn Rand

RAND, Ayn. For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. First edition, first printing, signed by Rand on the half-title. Rand’s most concise explanation of her philosophy, collecting the main philosophical passages of her major novels, and adding a lengthy new essay (“For the New Intellectual”) in which she contextualizes and crystallizes her beliefs for her readers. Book fine, dust jacket very good with small closed tear to front wrapper.

$2500
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first edition, with Presidential Bookplate signed by Reagan

REAGAN, Ronald. Speaking My Mind, Selected Speeches. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First edition, first printing with Presidential Bookplate signed by Reagan affixed to front endpaper. An impressive selection of speeches selected by Reagan himself, beginning in 1951 with the California years and extending all the way through to the end of his second term as president.

$1500
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 48 photographic plates, of Roosevelt 's interesting collection of anecdotes about his hunting experiences. Contains evocative descriptions of the American countryside and well as exciting and informative details about the thrill of the chase.

$950
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SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volumes I-IV. New York:Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First trade edition of Sandburg’s monumental study of Lincoln, signed and inscribed by Sandburg on the title page of volume one in the year of publication. Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize for this much-celebrated work.		$2000 (details)

Shackleton's heroic expedition

SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. London , William Heinemann, 1909. Octavo, original decorated blue cloth, top edges gilt. Two volumes. FIRST EDITION, trade issue, of Shackleton's account one of the most celebrated Antarctic expeditions, complete with 2 frontispieces and 12 color plates, 194 plates, diagrams on letterpress, 3 maps and 2 panoramas (on one sheet) in pocket at end of vol.II.

$1500
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foundation of scientific management, PMM 403

TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Octavo, original cloth. First edition, scarce private first printing, "for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the compliments of the author" of Taylor’s masterpiece that transformed methods of factory production.

$2500
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essential Christian text

TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimus Florens. Apologeticus Adversus Gentes. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [not after 1494]. Folio, early vellum. First edition, the editio princeps, of Tertullian's masterpiece, one of the key texts of the early Christian Church.

$12,500
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signed by Harry Truman

TRUMAN, Harry S. Photograph, Signed by Truman as President. Silver print of President Truman and his daughter Margaret at the 1950 Army-Navy football game, SIGNED BY TRUMAN in the image (on the bottom left, beneath his picture). With a letter from Truman's secretary thanking Harry F. McGoniagal of Philadelphia's Evening Bulletin for taking the photograph. [1952]. Approximately 11x14 inches; signature slightly faded; matted and framed.

$2300
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