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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace": Rare Henry Shrady Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust
GRANT, ULYSSES S.] HENRY MERWIN SHRADY.
Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.
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Original bronze bust of Ulysses S. Grant by Henry Shrady, the famed sculptor of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the west front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mounted on socle and base, the entire piece measures 18.5 inches in height. In fine condition. An exceptional piece of Americana.
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 102885
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Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets
DODGE, W.C.; ANDREW JOHNSON; HENRY J. RAYMOND; ET AL.
Civil War Political Pamphlet Collection.
: Various publishers c. 1861-1865.
Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft. Octavo, 52 volumes, original wrappers. The collection includes first editions of: Memorial to the Hon. Secretary of War, or, How to Strengthen our Army and Crush the Rebellion, with a Saving of Life and Treasure [Dodge, W.C. Washington DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. From the collection of James W. Grimes (1816-1872), Governor of Iowa and United States Senator from Iowa with his ownership inscription]; Correspondence between John H. Gilmer and Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury [Richmond: V.L. Fore, 1869]; The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession. Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States [Johnson, Andrew. 1860]; Rebel Brag and British Bluster [Owls-Glass. New York: The American News Company, 1865. Sabin 58028]; Southern Hatred of the American Government, the People of the North, and Free Institutions [Garrison, William Lloyd. Boston: R.F. Wallcut, 1862. Sabin 88363]; The Rebellion and Our Foreign Relations. Remarks of Henry J. Raymond, Speaker of the Assembly, on the Conduct of our Foreign Affairs and the Action and Disposition of European Powers. [Raymond, Henry Jay. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1862]; A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System for the Army of the United States, as Drawn from the Extra Sufferings of the Late Lieut. Bowditch and a Wounded Comrade [Bowditch, Henry I. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863]; and 45 others mostly first editions. In good condition. Library stamps to most volumes. A rare and extensive collection offering unique insight into the lives and opinions of Civil War era Americans.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 135127
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Nineteenth Century Engraved Map of Asia by American cartographers Nathaniel and Simeon Smith Jocelyn
JOCELYN, NATHANIEL AND SIMEON SMITH.
Asia. [Nathaniel and Simeon Smith Jocelyn Nineteenth Century Engraved Map of Asia].
: c. 1825.
Rare hand-colored engraved map of Asia by American cartographers Nathaniel and Simeon Smith Jocelyn. One page, hand-colored. In very good condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 137394
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Rare Partially Printed Document Signed by Andrew Jackson as President and Martin Van Buren and Martin Van Buren as Secretary of State
JACKSON, ANDREW; MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren Signed Document.
: January 19, 1830.
Rare military document signed by Andrew Jackson as President and Martin Van Buren as Secretary of State. One page, partially printed on vellum, the document measures 10.5 inches by 5 inches. Countersigned by David Henshaw as Collector for the District of Boston and Charleston. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 116914
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"The craft that we call modern, the crimes that we call new, John Bunyan had 'em typed and filed in sixteen eighty-two": First separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Holy War
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
The Holy War.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd [1917].
First separate British edition of Kipling’s homage to John Bunyan which first appeared in Land and Water Magazine, December 1917, printed by Methuen and Co. to secure copyright protection. Small octavo, original wrappers with elaborate woodcut borders to the front panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A superior example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 121059
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Rare Supreme Court Ruling Document; signed by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
BURGER, WARREN E.
Warren E. Burger Signed Supreme Court Ruling Document.
Washington, D.C.: June 11, 1986.
Rare typescript Supreme Court ruling document signed by the 15th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren E. Burger. Two pages, typescript, signed by Burger on the first page. Decided on July 11, 1986, the document offers Burger’s opinion in the Richard Thornburgh, et al., Appellants v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists et al. regarding the legality of a minor seeking an abortion without parental consent. In fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 122766
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Rare first separate edition of Holbrook Working's New Concepts Concerning Futures Markets and Prices
WORKING, HOLBROOK.
New Concepts Concerning Futures Markets and Prices.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Food Research Institute Papers June 1962.
Rare first separate edition of Working’s notable treatise on futures markets. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 126437
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Rare illustrated French pamphlet on the Vostok Research Station; signed by the first human to journey into outer space Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
[GAGARIN, YURI].
Le Celebre Vostok: Premier Vasseau Cosmique Habite. [The Famous Vostok: First Inhabited Cosmic Vessel].
: Editions de l'Agence de Presse Novosti n.d..
Rare illustrated French pamphlet on the Vostok Research Station, signed by the first human to journey into outer space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with color photographs. Signed by Gagarin on the verso of the front panel. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141042
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"Mary Wollstonecraft started the demand of women for political liberty in England, Condorcet in France, and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in the United States": First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
GARRETT FAWCETT, MILLICENT.
Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack [1912].
First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s history of the women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher’s advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain’s largest women’s rights association, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134219