1767 LAW Heineccius & Estor Elementa Juris Civilis

1767 LAW Heineccius & Estor Elementa Juris Civilis Holy Roman Empire German Johann Gottlieb Heineccius was an early 18th-century German jurist and philosopher. Heineccius viewed law as a rational scie

1744 LAW 1ed Heineccius Jurisprudence Juris Civilis Justinian Institutes ROMAN Johann Gottlieb Heinecke was an 18th-century German philosopher known for his studies in jurisprudence and ancient Roman

Item/Description: Oil painting, cityscape at night. Signed lower right. Signed and titled in verso: United Nations, New York. Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen was an American Impressionist painter, as we

1855 HUNTING Adventures Big Game Hunters Wild Beasts Traditions Techniques Frost “Wild Scenes of the Hunters Life; or the Hunting and Hunters of All Nations,” by John Frost embarks on a compre

1830 INDIANS 21st US Congress Acts LAW Sioux America Military Andrew Jackson “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Andrew Jackson Laws c

1902 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Double Barrelled Detective Sherlock Holmes RARE “How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!” ? Mark Twain, The D

1835 GOLD GILT King James Holy Bible Oxford Old/New + Book Common Prayer 2v SET An absolutely stunning 19th-century King James Holy Bible printed in Oxford. While 1800s Oxford Bibles are readily avail

1910 White Slave Trade Human Trafficking Crime Kidnapping Prostitution Justice A rare book dedicated to creating awareness of kidnapping and enslaving young girls into prostitution. This 1910 edition

1966 CHINA 1ed English Mao Zedong Little Red Book Communism Tse-tung Quotations Mao Zedongs Quotations, better known as Little Red Book, was a collection of writings and speeches from the Chairman of

1846 DEATH PENALTY 1ed Defense of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Anti Abolition Slavery This book combines two works, “An Essay on the Ground and Reason of Punishment” by Tayler Lewis and “A Defence of

1892 EGYPT Exploration 1ed Osorkon II Festival Bubastis Archaeology Hieroglyphs This book is the 10th memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Edouard Naville was one of the most iconic and premier Egypt

This exceptional folio lithograph is from John James Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. It was part of the Imperial Folio Edition published between 1845 and 1851. The color on this

1856 Saint Thomas Aquinas Complete Works SUMMA Catholic Bible Theology 7v SET “The truth can be perceived only through thinking” ? Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-ce

1957 Atlas Shrugged TRUE 1st printing Ayn Rand Objectivism Dystopian Philosophy “If you dont know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” ? Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged “Atlas Shru

1856 History of BUCCANEERS America PIRATES Freebooters Sir Henry Morgan Maritime “The History of the Buccaneers of America” is a detailed chronicle of 17th-century piracy and the audacious fre

1940 Ernest Hemingway 1st ed For Whom the Bell Tolls American War Novel Classic “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Spanish Civil War. It presents an intric

1838 ENORMOUS Vatican ART Folio Frescos Sculptures FAMED Il Vaticano Pistolesi The artwork found in the Vatican museums are some of the most iconic and prized pieces of art in the world. In the early

1893 BRONTE Novels Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Shirley Feminism Villette 10v “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” ? Charlotte Brontë Famous novels of

1865 Civil War Illustrations by Alonzo Chappel ABE LINCOLN Battle of Antietam Evert Duyckincks “History of the War for the Union” was a 19th-century history of the American Civil War filled wi

1866 Odd People INDIAN Tribes Comanche Patagonia GIANTS Fuegian Dwarfs ESKIMOS Thomas Maybe Reid was an American writer who served as a soldier in the Mexican-American War. While much better known for

1837 Banditti & Robbers 1ed PIRATES of Caribbean Buccaneers China Abruzzi RARE Charles MacFarlanes “Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers” is a fascinating 19th-century history of bandits

1867 CIVIL WAR 1ed Blue Coats Union Generals Soldiers Spies Portraits The Blue Coats attempts to present a complete picture of the various phases of the life of a soldier, his battles, marches, suffer

1844 Harper Library United States Poland Navigation MAPS 14v Voyages RARE LOT The Harper Family Library consists of hundreds of volumes of iconic and important history books – a set designed for sch

1920 The Sleeping Beauty Illustrated Rackham ART Fantasy Fairy Perrault Disney “Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.” ? Arthur Rackham A beautiful and famed printing