Search Results: Authors starting with P from Bauman Rare Books

1922. First Edition . BAKST, Léon. L'Oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant. Preface d'André Levinson. Paris: de Brunoff, 1922. Large folio, original limp cream paper covers, uncut, custom chemise. $7500.Signed limited first French edition, number 308 of only 500 copies signed by both Bakst and publisher Maurice de Brunoff, with 56 mounted color plates (54 full-page costumes and sets for the Ballet Russes, with letterpress tissue-guards), and a portrait of Bakst by Picasso.A gifted painter, Bakst is best remembered for the sets and costumes he designed for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in the early decades of the 20th century. His exotic and sumptuous designs, in conjunction with Diaghilev's radical and provocative choreography, helped revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive dance. It was the Ballet Russes that first brought Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty (renamed Sleeping Princess) to the west in 1921, featuring scenery and costumes by… Read More

1767. PARLIAMENT. Anno Regni Georgii III… Septimo [The first Townshend Act, 1767] . London: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1769. Folio, disbound; pp. (i), 891-94; ll. 3. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5200.Very rare first printing of the Restraining Act of 1767, prohibiting New York from legislative action until it allowed the quartering of British troops, the first of the Townshend Acts, a series of punishing authoritarian measures that set the American colonies on the path to revolution. One of only 1100 copies printed. From the library of Malcolm Forbes, the owner-publisher of Forbes magazine and accomplished collector.Named for Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Townshend Acts consisted of a series of laws intended to raise revenue from the American colonies, tighten customs enforcement and assert imperial authority in America. The New York Restraining Act suspended the New York Assembly until it complied with the extremely unpopular Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1766, which… Read More

1928. First Edition . (BARBIER, George) VERLAINE, Paul. Fêtes Galantes. Paris: H. Piazza, 1928. Folio (9 by 12 inches), original illustrated self-wrappers; original slipcase. $9000.Beautiful limited edition, number 810 of 800 copies on Rives paper (of a total edition of 1200), illustrated by George Barbier with 20 full-page hand-colored pochoir plates in his characteristic Art Deco style.Associated with the early Symbolists, Verlaine ""wrote some of the finest and most musical lyrics in the French language"" (Harvey & Heseltine, 738). First published in 1869, Fêtes Galantes reflects the care for form and objectivity characteristic of Verlaine's early poetry. The designs in this splendid production are the work of Art Deco legend George Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set designer for the Ballet Russes and later created décors and costumes for music-halls, movies and the Folies Bergère through Max Weldy Studios. Renowned for his… Read More

1970. First Edition . OLIVER, Paul (series editor), et al. Eleven ""Blues Paperbacks"" [in hardcover]. London: Studio Vista, 1970-71. Eleven volumes. Small octavo, original boards, original dust jackets. $3500.First editions—scarce and desirable hardcover issues—of 11 of Paul Oliver's iconic music series on the origins and influence of the Blues from 1970-71, each volume richly illustrated. Though referred to as the ""Blues Paperbacks"" series, these 11 volumes are all in boards with scarce original dust jackets.This fascinating collection includes series editor Paul Oliver's own contribution, Savannah Syncopators, 1970, an authoritative study of the African sources of jazz and blues, based on the author's extensive field studies in West Africa. Tony Russell's Blacks Whites and Blues (1970) is a historical examination of the complex relationship between black and white folk music traditions, and the importance of the Blues to both.… Read More

1658. First Edition . (VENICE) PARUTA, Paulo. (CAREY, Henry, Second Earl of Monmouth, translator). The History of Venice… likewise, the Wars of Cyprus… Wherein the Famous Sieges of Nicosia, and Famagosta, and Battel Lepanto are Contained… London: Abel Roper and Henry Herringman, 1658. Two parts in one volume. Small folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), 18th-century full speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, old red morocco spine label laid down. $6200.First edition in English of this 17th-century history of Venice, translated by Henry Carey, second Earl of Monmouth—the Duke of Sutherland's copy, with his armorial blindstamp to front cover, as well as earlier and later Leveson-Gower family bookplates.The second part contains the history of the Turkish conquest of Cyprus in 1570-71. Paruta (1540-98), a Venetian diplomat, authored another work, Discorsi Politici (1599), which Henry Carey also translated. ""Carey was five times elected a member of the House of Commons between 1620… Read More

1789. First Edition . (PENNSYLVANIA). Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which Commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth Day of November. Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, 1789. WITH: Minutes of the Second Session of the Convention. [Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson], 1790. WITH: Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, [1790]. Folio, period-style full speckled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $8500.First editions of the minutes of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention that met at Philadelphia in 1789-90, which created a bicameral legislature and vested strong executive power in the governor, while providing for a separation of powers modeled on the Federal Constitution. Quite rare complete in all three parts. An association copy, this was the copy of Pennsylvania lawmaker William Beale, the son of legislator Thomas Beale, who was… Read More

1624. First Edition . METOSCITA, Petrus. Institutiones linguae Arabicae ex diversis Arabum monumentis collectae, & ad quammaximam fieri potuit brevitatem, atque ordinem revocatae. Rome: Stefano Paolini, 1624. Octavo, original stiff paper boards, old paper spine label with ink manuscript shelf numbers, uncut and unopened; pp. [xvi], 256. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000.First edition of Metoscita's (al-Matushi's) elementary grammar in Latin and Arabic to assist in the teaching of Arabic. A fine, uncut and unopened copy in the original stiff paper boards.Metoscita (al-Matushi), a Maronite from Cyprus, was one of the first pupils of the Maronite College in Rome and joined the Society of Jesus in 1597. He composed this elementary grammar in Latin to assist in the teaching of Arabic. On page 227 ""we find one of the first examples of a classical Arabic poem quoted and translated"" (Smitskamp). This book is dedicated by the publisher, Stefano Paolini, to Cardinal… Read More

1668. (BIBLE) (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge: John Field, 1668. Quarto, contemporary full paneled red sheep, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $3800.1668 Cambridge “Preaching Bible,” with engraved general title page, in handsome contemporary binding.""This edition [of the King James Version, first published 1611] is sometimes known as the 'Preaching Bible,' being well adapted for pulpit use; it is printed in small type, with a very full page"" (Darlow & Moule 548). Separate New Testament title page dated 1666. Includes Apocrypha. Bound with 1666 editions of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins' popular and influential metrical psalter, and of the Book of Common Prayer. Herbert 697. Wing 2277. Griffiths 1666:1 (BCP). Early family notations to endpapers, with last leaf of Psalms with ownership lineage pasted to (blank) verso. Text generally fine,… Read More

1723. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. London: John Baskett… and the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1723. Tall folio (10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full mottled calf expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, corners and spine panels with gilt device of the crown of King George I, raised bands, renewed endpapers, all edges gilt. $8250.Beautiful early 18th-century tall folio edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer— the treasury of ritual, prayer and Scripture that has indelibly shaped the piety and literature of the English-speaking world—with fine engraved frontispiece, handsome in nicely restored contemporary calf featuring the gilt device of King George I in the corners and spine panels.Born of Thomas Cranmer's desire for liturgical texts upon which all of Europe's Protestant, English-speaking churches could agree, the beautiful and dignified language of the Book of Common Prayer, first… Read More