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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In near fine condition.
Price: $900.00 Item Number: 129422
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“THE DEBUT OF AN EXCITING NEW TALENT”: CHURCHILL’S FIRST BOOK, THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898.
First edition, first issue, of Winston Churchill’s first book, an account of his service with the Malakand Field Force in India, with frontispiece portrait of Sir Binden Blood and six maps, two of them folding and in color. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 129393
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First edition of Marshall Loeb and William Safire's Plunging into Politics; from the library of William Safire
LOEB, Marshall and William Safire.
Plunging into Politics: How to Become or Support a Candidate of the National, State, of Local Level.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1964.
First edition of Safire and Loeb's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt. Safire's copy with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 128605
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"There had been a heavy shower of rain, but the sun was already shining through the breaks in the clouds and throwing swiftly changing shadows on the streets, the houses, and the gardens of the city of Laurania": First edition of Churchill's only full-length work of fiction: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
First American edition (which precedes the British first) of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable in this condition, Churchill's only work of literature.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 129733
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First edition of Benjamin Netanyahu's A Durable Peace; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
NETANYAHU, Benjamin. [William Safire].
A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations.
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
First edition of Netanyahu's masterful tribute to Israel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire, an avowed and unabashed supporter of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 127073
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Lord Chesterfield's Letters; from the library of Alexander Hamilton and signed by his wife Elizabeth Hamilton
CHESTERFIELD, Lord. [Alexander Hamilton; Elizabeth Hamilton].
Lord Chesterfield’s Letters.
Eighteenth century printing of Lord Chesterfield's Letters from the library of Alexander Hamilton with his wife, Elizabeth's ownership signature. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Signed by Elizabeth Hamilton on the first page of text. In good condition. Rare and desirable, books from Hamilton’s library seldom appear on the market.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 129057
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYER, Sonia.
My Beloved World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 123476
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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other": First Edition of Memoirs of William T. Sherman; Inscribed three times by Him
SHERMAN, William T.
Memoirs of William T. Sherman.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
First edition of this memoir from one of the most well regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences ... Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Octavo, bound in publishers three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by General Sherman three times: on the front free endpaper of Vol. I, "Mrs. E.J. Lynch Presented by Gen. W.T. Sherman 1876 New York City"; on the front free endpaper of Vol. II, "Mrs. E.J. Lynch Presented by Gen. W.T. Sherman 18"; and the second free endpaper of Vol. II, “Mrs. Eleanor…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 103400
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First British Edition of STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1958.
First British edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Trevor Huddleston.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 127636
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"I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy": Rare first edition collection of Selected Presidential Addresses of Lyndon B. Johnson 1965; with a typed letter signed by Johnson's Special Assistant W. Marvin Watson
JOHNSON, Lyndon B. [.
Selected Presidential Addresses of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965.
[Washington, D.C.]: 1965.
Fine collection of the major addresses of the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, 8 volumes, original wrappers. Laid in is a typed letter on White House letterhead signed by Johnson's Special Assistant W. Marvin Watson which reads in full: December 10, 1965 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Finn: As historians begin to judge the events of 1965, much consideration will be focused on the words of the President speaking to the world on problems of our time and America's hopes for the future. Because of your proven interest in the affairs of this government, the President…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 127068
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RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY 'EL LIBERTADOR', SIMÓN BOLÍVAR TO JOSE FELIZ BLANCO
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
1829.
Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish on both recto and verso. The letter is dated May 13, 1828, and offers the recipient, Colonel José Félix Blanco, Bolívar's support in his struggle to maintain the security of Barinas (of which was made Governor in 1827) in the midst of heavy criticism from several officers including General José Antonio Páez. Bolívar notes that the offending officers have been dismissed in order to prevent the possibility of partial influence on the resulting hearings and regrets that he will be unable…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 126183
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RARE MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED BY 'EL LIBERTADOR', SIMÓN BOLÍVAR AS PRESIDENT OF GRAN COLOMBIA
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Signed Military Appointment.
1829.
Rare military appointment signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, partially printed on Bolivar's presidential letterhead, the document is dated September 16 1829 and appoints 2nd Lieutenant Vicente Tavares of the Carabobo Battalion provisional Captain in the Infantry. Signed by Bolívar in Guayaquil and countersigned by General Secretary José Domingo Espinar. The final battle in the war of independence, Bolívar's decisive victory at Carabobo on June 24, 1821 finally secured Venezuela's national independence after years of war against Spain and established the Republic of Gran Colombia. In very good condition. Double matted and framed…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 127168
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"The highest distinction of Venezuela": RARE Order of the Liberators Appointment signed by ‘El Libertador’ Simón Bolívar as President of Venezuela
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Signed Order of the Liberators Appointment.
1819.
Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Venezuela. One page, partially printed on Bolívar's presidential letterhead bearing his title, 'Supreme Head of the Republic, Captain-General of the Army of Venezuela and New Granada', the letter is dated January 18 1819 and appoints Lt. Col. Laurencio Silva to the Order of the Liberators, the highest distinction of Venezuela, created by Bolívar in 1813 and awarded for outstanding merit and benefits made to the community under his exclusive authority. Signed by Bolívar in the lower right portion of the appointment. The recipient of the appointment, Jose Laurencio…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 127430
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"But what does it matter what I suffer for you to enjoy? That I perish for a people to live" Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar to Ecuadorian independentista Manuela Garaycoa
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
Bogota: 1827.
Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish. Sent from Bogota, the letter is dated December 6, 1827 and reads in full, "A la Senora Manuela Garaycoa. Umd. siempre se eccele a si misma on bondades para conmigo y me prodiga elofios ques ellos solo, bastarian para saviar la codica del mas ambivioiso de gloria. Y que otra cora podria yo esperar de las Garaycoas de esas amigas fieles de esas Colombians constantes de esa Gloriosa sin rival? Yo les doy las gracias a todas y seame tambien permitido…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 126188
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First Edition of Statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin; Inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson
JOHNSON, Lyndon B.
Statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, Erected in Statuary Hall of the Capitol Building at Washington.
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1905.
First edition of this work on the statues of Sam Houston and Stephen Austin. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lyndon Johnson on the front pastedown, "To B. J. Hanacik, from his congressman, Lyndon B. Johnson, April 10, 1938." In near fine condition.
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 125327
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Rare Publisher's hand-corrected proof of Benjamin Disraeli's 1873 Inaugural Address; finely bound with a first edition of the corrected work
DISRAELI, Benjamin.
Inaugural Address of The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. Delivered on Wednesday, November 19, 1873, on the Occasion of His Installation as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1873.
First edition of Benjamin Disraeli's 1873 Inaugural Address bound together with the publisher's own hand-corrected proof correcting numerous literal and grammatical errors. Octavo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. The publisher's copy with numerous edits which are reflected in the first edition which is bound in before the proof. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 126116
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First edition of Georges de Scudéry's Curia Politiae: Or, The Apologies of Several Princes
SCUDéRY, Georges de.
Curia Politiae: Or, The Apologies of Several Princes: Justifying to the World Their most Eminent Actions, by the Strength of Reason, And the most Exact Rules of Policie.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1654.
First edition in English of Scudéry's great catalogue of eminent world leaders, published early in early in Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Small quarto, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece, with 11 engraved portraits including those of Emperor Charles the Fifth; Matthias Corvin, King of Hungary; Mahoment the Second, the Grand Seignior; James the First, King of England; and Henry the Eighth, King of England among others. With the final page issued by Thurloe appointing Moseley to print the work. In very good condition. Bookplates…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126839
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"First in War, first in Peace, and first in the Hearts of His Countrymen": Exceedingly Rare First Appearance in Print of Washington's Funeral Oration
[WASHINGTON, George].
A Funeral Oration in Honor of the Memory of George Washington. Late General of the Armies of the United States.
Philadelphia: Hall & Sellers, January 15, 1800.
Exceedingly rare first appearance in print of Washington's Funeral Oration, featured on the front page of the Wednesday, January 15 1800 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Folio, four pages, the headline reads, "A Funeral Oration in Honor of the Memory of George Washington. Late General of the Armies of the United States. Prepared and Delivered at the Request of Congress, at the German Lutheran Church, on Thursday, the 26th of December, By Major-General Henry Lee, One of the Representatives from the State of Virginia." Washington's eulogy was delivered by Major-General Henry Lee to both Houses of Congress and a crowd…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 126803
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"It is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict": Rare Original Program from the Ceremony for the Signing of the Israel-Palestinian Agreement; signed by Yitzhak Rabin, Abba Eban, Shimon Peres, Maya Angelou and many others
[RABIN, Yitzhak; Shimon Peres; Gad Yaacobi; Samuel R. Berger; Aharan Barak; Elie Wiesel; Abba Eban; Maya Angelou; et al.
Ceremony for the Signing of the Israel-Palestinian Agreement. September 13, 1993 The White House.
1993.
Original program from the ceremony for the signing of the 1993 Israel-Palestinian Agreement, signed by Yitzhak Rabin and a number of other world leaders and cultural figures present at the historic event. Octavo, original stiff wrappers with gilt Great Seal of the United States to the front panel. Signed on the front panel by Yitzhak Rabin (Prime Minister of Israel) and Gad Yaacobi (Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations); signed on the title page by Samuel R. (Sandy) Berger (National Security Advisor to President Clinton); Aharan Barak (President of the Supreme Court of Israel) and Elie Wiesel (writer, activist, Nobel…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 126308
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First edition of John Quincy Adams' The Jubilee of the Constitution
ADAMS, John Quincy.
The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse Delivered at the Request of the New York Historical Society, in the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1789.
New York: Published by Samuel Colman, 1839.
First edition of John Quincy Adams' powerful speech—“one of Adams' best”—delivered at the request of the New York Historical Society on the 50th Anniversary of Washington’s Inauguration. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece and half-title. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 126793
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Rare Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive
BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard [Jimmy Carter].
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive.
1981-1985.
Rare archive of autograph letters, photographs, and commemorative stamp folios from the collection of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Millard Bentsen. The archive includes a photograph of Bentsen with Jimmy Carter, inscribed by Carter to him, "Thanks & best wishes to my good friend Lloyd Bentsen - Jimmy Carter 2-21-80", two autograph letters and one typed letter signed by Lady Bird Johnson to Bentsen and his wife Beryl Ann thanking them for recent visits to the LBJ ranch, an autograph note signed by Kitty Dukakis regarding Lloyd Sr.'s passing, two commemorative stamp folios with autograph notes laid…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119532
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Rare first printing of the Second Acts of Congress; bound with an even more rare printing of the United States Constitution
Acts Passed at the Second Congress of the United States of America: Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, In the State of Pennsylvania, On Monday, The Twenty-Fourth of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One: And o the Independence of the United States, the Sixteenth. [Bound With]: The Constitution of the United States of America; As Proposed by the Convention Held at Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, and Since Ratified by the Several States.
Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and Joseph Swaine, Printers to the United States; Printed by John Fenno, 1791-c. 1793.
First printing of the Second Acts of Congress, bound with an even more rare printing of the Constitution. Octavo, original full calf, red morocco spine label lettered gilt. From the library of the first (and longest serving) Secretary of the United States Senate, Samuel Allyne Otis with his signature to the second page. Otis was a delegate from Massachusetts during the Second Continental Congress, and went on to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1784-85. He was elected to the position of Secretary on April 8, 1789, through political machinations orchestrated by John Adams, that saw front runner,…
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 126804
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The Sermons of Pope Benedict XVI; inscribed by him
RATZINER, Joseph. Benedikt XVI. [Pope Benedict XVI].
Heiligenpredigten. [Sermons].
Donauworth: Erich Wewel Verlag, 2005.
Rare German edition of Pope Benedict XVI's collected sermons. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his brother's former housekeeper and signed, "Benedictus PP XVI". In fine condition. Books signed by Pope Benedict XVI as Benedictus PP XVI are rare.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 126808
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Rare Declaration of Independence Engraved Copper Plaque
[KOPPEL, Charles; John Trumbull].
Declaration of Independence Engraved Copper Plaque.
1776.
Rare mid-19th century engraved copper plaque replicating John Trumbull's celebrated oil painting, Declaration of Independence. Engraved "The Declaration of Independence. Congress 4th July 1776 Philadelphia." Housed in the original elaborately carved frame with the original paper label listing the sitters' names. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 126940
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First South African Edition of Long Walk to Freedom; Signed by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, "NMandela 28.2.96." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 126733
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First Edition of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter; Signed by Theodore Roosevelt in the year of publication
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
First edition of Roosevelt's important collection of first-hand hunting accounts, including a lengthy description of newly created wilderness reserves. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt with tissue guard present, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the second preliminary leaf, "with regards of Theodore Roosevelt Dec 11th 1905." In near fine condition, crease to the front free endpaper. Trade editions are uncommon signed, especially in the year of publication.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 125172
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I Am Prepared to Die; Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
I Am Prepared to Die.
Kent: A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.
Second edition of Mandela's Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated on the front panel, "NMandela 25.3.05." In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 125089
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it": First Editions of Winston Churchills Masterpiece The Second World War
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell & Co, 1948-54.
First editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 125088
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Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs; containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, George; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; John Tyler; James Polk; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore; Franklin Pierce; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; James Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William H. Taft; Woodrow Wilson; Warren G. Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Autographs of the Presidents of the United States of America.
1783-1956.
Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt presidential seal to the front panel with white and blue morocco onlays, gilt arms and motto of George Washington to the rear panel with white and blue morocco onlays and his gilt signature in facsimile, centerpieces within quintuple gilt ruling with star emblems at each corner, blue…
Price: $80,000.00 Item Number: 125384
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Rare collection of 5 issues of War in Pictures; featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs
[BEATON, Cecil; Winston S. Churchill].
War In Pictures.
London: L. T. A. Robinson, 1940-1941.
Rare collection of five issues of War in Pictures featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs. Folio, the collection includes the August 1940, September 1940, January 1941, June 1941, and July 1941 issues of the popular WWII periodical. Each issue contains numerous large-format wartime photographs, many by Cecil Beaton including a large portrait of Winston S. Churchill captioned: "Winston Churchill 'The Hammer of the Hun' -a study of Britain's great war Prime Minister. His unfailing courage, wisdom and determination have confronted the Nazis with their first and most formidable opposition in Europe" and many other portraits and action shots by…
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 125681
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Scarce 1792 printing of An Act to extend the Time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States; signed by Thomas Jefferson
[JEFFERSON, Thomas].
Second Congress of the United States: At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. An Act to extend the Time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States.
Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1792.
Scarce printing of an early United States law providing for the funding of the national debt, signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. Folio, one page. The document, which also carries the printed signatures of President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, and House Speaker Jonathan Trumbull, was approved January 23, 1792. Individual acts and bills of the first Congresses were routinely printed for public consumption. A provision was made, however, to print a few copies of each act for dissemination to the states, and to have each copy signed by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. One of the…
Price: $82,000.00 Item Number: 125388
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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": First edition of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and consultant- from Herbert Hoover Samuel Blythe." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125711
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First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first book Whither Bound?; signed and inscribed by him to his son
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano.
Whither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.
First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first book, being the text of a lecture delivered by him at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on May 18, 1926. Octavo, original cloth. One of one thousand copies printed. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page on the occasion of publication (and within a month of the delivery of the lecture) to his son, "For my son Elliott Roosevelt This copy of his Dad's first book Franklin D. Roosevelt June 1926." Additionally signed by Roosevelt on the title page, "Franklin Roosevelt." Elliott was the fourth of Roosevelt's…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 125163
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Rare Royal military appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
VICTORIA, Queen.
Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.
1854.
Rare Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 13th June 1854 and appoints Francis Eastwood Newport Tuiley to the position of Captain of a Company in the 21st Regiment on foot. Signed by Queen Victoria in the upper left corner, "Victoria R." Retaining the white Royal paper seal. Countersigned by Palmerston. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The document measures 15.5 inches by 12 inches. The entire piece measures 30 inches by 26.5 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 125238
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First edition of Joseph Hall's An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1800, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence; inscribed by him
HALL, Joseph.
An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1800, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence.
Boston: From the Printing-Office of Manning & Loring, [1800].
First edition of Hall's famed speech tracing the history of the American Revolution. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards, original wrapper bound in at rear. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Ephraim Williams Esq. from his friend J. Hall." In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. Exceedingly rare.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 125043
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"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins": Rare Henry Kirke Bush-Brown Bust of Ulysses S. Grant as the first general of the united states army
BUSH-BROWN, Henry Kirke. [Ulysses S. Grant].
Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.
New York: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co., [c. 1885].
Attractive bronze bust of of Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army by famed American sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. The adopted nephew of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown was revered for his accurate realist sculptures illustrating American history. He produced three equestrian bronze sculptures erected at the Gettysburg battlefield depicting General George Mead (the victor at Gettysburg), General John F. Reynolds (killed in action July 1, 1863), and General John Sedgwick (the senior most Union casualty of the American Civil War). In addition, Bush-Brown made a bust of Abraham Lincoln, dedicated in 1912 as part of the…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 125381
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First edition of Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career; from the library of Woodrow Wilson with his ownership signature
BLACKBURN, Henry. [Woodrow Wilson].
Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career.
New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1886.
First American edition of Blackburn's biography of famed British illustrator Randolph Caldecott; from the library of Woodrow Wilson with his ownership signature. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, with one hundred and seventy two illustrations, frontispiece portrait of Caldecott. Signed by Woodrow Wilson on the title page. One of the most influential children's book illustrators of nineteenth century, British artist Randolph Caldecott published 16 picture books throughout his career, including The House that Jack Built (1878), John Gilpin (1878), The Three Jovial Huntsman (1880), and The Great Panjandrum Himself (1885). The Caldecott Medal, first proposed by Frederic G. Melcher…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 125249
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR-DATE LETTER FROM WASHINGTON TO ROCHAMBEAU ON A PROPOSED EXPEDITION TO PENOBSCOT
WASHINGTON, George.
George Washington Letter Signed.
April 10, 1781.
Highly important letter signed (“Go: Washington”), as Commander-in-Chief, 2 pages folio, “Head Quarters New Windsor April 10 [17]81”, to his French ally Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, the body of the letter in the hand of his trusted aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton; horizontal fold separation repaired, minor tears and chips along margins. In the spring of 1781, officials from Massachusetts approached Rochambeau with a proposal to attack the British post at the mouth of the Penobscot river— established in June 1779 to secure timber for shipyards in Halifax and to protect Nova Scotia from any American advance. On 6…
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