Search Results: Authors starting with D from Bauman Rare Books

1669. First Edition . (VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da, and MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI). The Regular Architect: or the General Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture of M. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola. With A New Addition of Michael Angelo Buonaroti. Rendered into English from the Original Italian, and Explained By John Leeke… London: William Sherwin and Rowland Reynolds, 1669. Folio (measures 10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked; red morocco spine label, raised bands. original endpapers retained. $5500.First folio edition in English of Vignola’s 1563 classic, with 44 fine engraved copperplates of designs by Vignola and Michelangelo, in contemporary calf boards.Eight designs by Michelangelo are included among the 44 engraved plates. Vignola (1507-73), pupil and successor to Michelangelo, was the leading mannerist architect of his day in Rome and was ""another of the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance, as influential in France as Palladio was in… Read More

1720. First Edition . (NEW ENGLAND) NEAL, Daniel. The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs Of the Country To the Year of our Lord, 1700. To which is added The Present State of New-England. With a New and Accurate Map of the Country. London: Printed for J. Clark, 1720. Two volumes. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $6200.First edition of Neal's History of New-England, an account of the sufferings of the Puritans in England and their establishment of American settlements. With a splendid engraved folding map of the region.A minister and historian of the Puritans, Daniel Neal published The History of New-England, his first work, in 1720. ""The favorable impression produced by the volume in America led to his receiving in the following year, from the university of Harvard, an honorary degree"" (DNB). ""The history itself contains a variety of materials… Read More

1945. First Edition . Signed. (KENNEDY, Robert) KENNEDY, John F. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed University Press, 1945. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6800.First edition, second issue (one of only 250 copies privately printed for family and friends), of this tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed by Robert Kennedy to President Kennedy's beloved friend Dave Powers, ""For Dave, Bob Kennedy, Christmas 1965."" John F. Kennedy edited this collection of 20 essays (and also wrote the first, ""My Brother Joe"") memorializing his eldest brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., who won the Naval Cross and was killed in action in 1944. Privately printed for family and friends. There were 390 copies printed in the first issue with winged device on title page printed in red, and 250 in this, the second issue, with winged device on title page printed in black.… Read More

1797. First Edition . HUME, David. Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes. Two Volumes. WITH: Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland Respecting Trial For Crimes. Two volumes. WITH: Supplemental Notes to Mr. Hume's Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting Crimes. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute [and for E. Balfour for first two works], 1797, 1800, 1814. Five volumes altogether. Large quarto, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red and black morocco spine labels. $6500.First edition of Baron Hume’s groundbreaking authoritative Commentaries on the Description and Punishment of Crimes, the “standard work on Scottish criminal law” (DNB), together with first edition of his two-volume Commentaries on Trial for Crimes, and exceedingly scarce first edition of his Supplemental Notes. Rarely found together, a seminal five-volume work by the nephew of philosopher David Hume, laying “the foundations of our modern… Read More

1937. First Edition . JONES, David. In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e Gledyf ym Penn Mameu. London: Faber & Faber, (1937). Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. $5800.First edition, first printing, of this epic poem about the First World War, lauded by Yeats, Eliot, and Auden in its time, and increasingly recognized as one of the great works of modernism, with two illustrations and a map by the author. One of 1500 copies printed.Winner of the prestigious Hawthornden prize and lauded by Yeats and Eliot, In Parenthesis narrated the First World War from the perspective of John Ball, a private in an English-Welsh regiment, from his departure from Britain through the Battle of the Somme. Auden called In Parenthesis ""the greatest book about the First World War,"" while Graham Greene placed it ""among the great poems of the century."" Told in verse and prose and employing a number of modes of speech ranging from British dialects to military jargon,… Read More

1805. First Edition . (ENGLAND) (WALES) LOUTHERBOURG, P.J. de. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales… With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Several Places of Which Views Are Given. Engraved by William Pickett, and Coloured by John Clarke. London: Robert Bowyer, 1805. Folio (13-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in dark green straight-grain morocco, original morocco lettering piece on front cover. $8200.First edition of this splendid picturesque tour of the countryside of England and Wales, with 18 beautifully hand-colored aquatint folio plates.Born in Germany, de Loutherbourg arrived in England in 1771 after extensive travels on the continent. ""De Loutherbourg's landscapes and marine subjects are characterised by romantic feeling, and, although they have a tendency to staginess, are wholly free from vulgarity. His acquaintance with Alpine scenery and his knowledge of the continent generally did not impair his… Read More

1972. First Edition . Signed. VENTURI, Robert. SCOTT BROWN, Denise. IZENOUR, Steven. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, (1972). Folio, original full blue cloth, photographic onlay, original glassine dust jacket. $6000.First edition of this revolutionary book of architecture, signed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. With rare original glassine dust jacket.Architect Robert Venturi, city planner Denise Scott Brown, and architect Steven Izenour's manifesto expressed their critiques of the plainness of modernist architecture, and extolled the virtues of a different aesthetic in which architects were more receptive to the tastes and values of average people. ""The target of Venturi's attack is Mies van der Rohe's formula 'less is more', a phrase coined to denote a form of aestheticised functionalism. Venturi's response, illustrated by historic examples, is 'More is not less', or, in a particularly aggressive formulation, 'Less is… Read More

1990. First Edition . Signed. FORKER, Don. Sweet Seasons. Recollections of the 1955-64 New York Yankees. Dallas, Texas: Taylor, (1990). Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $6500.First edition of this history of the Yankees from 1955-64—an incredible span of ten seasons during which they played in the World Series nine times, winning the championship four times (1956, 1958, 1961, 1962)—with 16 pages of photographic images, signed by 53 players from those great Yankee teams including Mickey Mantle, Don Larsen, Bill ""Moose"" Skowron, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Enos Slaughter, Bobby Shantz, Tommy Byrne, Hank Bauer, Charlie Silvera, Andy Carey, Frank Crosetti, manager Ralph Houk, and many others.This fascinating history of the Yankees follows their remarkable ten seasons between 1955 and 1964, in the form of a player-by-player examination of the contributions of 32 of the most significant players on the teams from those years, signed by (at least) 22 of the… Read More

1676. (SHAKESPEARE) [DRYDEN, John, and D'AVENANT, William]. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A Comedy: As it is now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London: Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, 1676. Small quarto, 19th-century three-quarter crimson morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $12,000.Third edition of D’Avenant and Dryden’s Restoration adaptation of The Tempest, the Bard’s bewitching tale of shipwreck and sorcery. The Foyle copy.Almost certainly the last work Shakespeare wrote by himself (in late 1610 or early 1611)—and, uniquely, his sole wholly original plot—The Tempest consistently proves as enchanting and enthralling to audiences as Prospero's spells. Horace Howard Furness' judgment on the character of Caliban applies just as easily to the play as a whole: ""Shakespeare has risen, I think, to the very height of creative power… [and] has accomplished the… Read More

1948. First Edition . Signed. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Thick octavo, original tan linen, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut; custom slipcase in imitation of the original, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $6500.Signed limited first edition, number 1340 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of a facsimile of his D-Day message to Allied troops.Eisenhower's memoir provides an important and unique perspective on the difficult command-level decisions that decided the outcome of World War II. Included are numerous battlefield and theater maps (a number in color), as well as photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. Without original acetate and slipcase. Interior clean and fine, slight rubbing to spine. A near-fine signed copy.

1948. First Edition . Signed. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Thick octavo, original tan linen, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, original acetate wrapper, original slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,800.Signed limited first edition, number 455 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower at the bottom of his D-Day message to Allied troops; this copy additionally inscribed by him on the limitation leaf: ""For Brigadier General Frank Coffey—outstanding soldier in two World Wars, with best wishes and lasting regard to him and his wife, Louise, from their devoted friend, Ike Eisenhower.""Eisenhower's memoir provides an important and unique perspective on the difficult command-level decisions that decided the outcome of World War II. Included are numerous battlefield and theater maps (a number in color), as well as photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. Only light rubbing to slipcase edges; book and… Read More

1939. First Edition . Signed. THOMAS, Dylan. The Map of Love. Verse and Prose. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, (1939). Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom slipcase. $8800.First edition in book form, twice inscribed by Thomas, once beneath the frontispiece portrait by Augustus John: “As I was, or might have been, to Norman Unger from [line pointing at name beneath portrait],” and a second time on the front free endpaper: “ Norman Unger. Dylan Thomas 1950.”Among the works included in this collection of poems and lyrical prose, which had all appeared in periodicals and which here make up Thomas's third book, are ""When all my Five and Country Senses see,"" ""After the Funeral,"" ""Not from this Anger,"" and ""The Mouse and the Woman."" First issue, in fine-grained purple cloth with ""Dent"" blind-stamped on spine. Maud, 5. Norman Unger, the… Read More