Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bauman Rare Books

1762. First Edition . KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Elements of Criticism. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell… A. Millar, London, 1762. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $6000.First edition of Lord Kames' comprehensive philosophical and aesthetic treatise, desirable in unrestored contemporary calf.The Elements of Criticism is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and ""the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719"" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus und der Romantik in England II, 115). ""In Elements of Criticism (1762) Kames sought to propound the fundamental principles of criticism drawn from human nature"" (ODNB), and the work ""became a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century, not least in America"" (Yolton, et al., Dictionary of… Read More

1955. First Edition . Signed. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. WITH: Eloise in Paris. WITH: Eloise at Christmastime. WITH: Eloise in Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-59. Together, four volumes. Slim folios, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jackets. $12,000.First editions of all four of Thompson's popular ""book for precocious grown ups"" and its sequels published in her lifetime: Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime and Eloise in Moscow—the rare first book inscribed on the front free endpaper, ""For Gil Golding from the author—Kay Thompson."" A desirable set.""While still on tour with the Williams Brothers sometime around 1950, [singer] Thompson had arrived late to a rehearsal one night and playfully apologized to the crew in a high little girl voice, identifying herself as a six-year-old named Eloise. The character became a recurring joke, and Thompson played the part of the mischievous child… As the… Read More

1673. (CHINA) NIEUHOFF, John. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, Delivered by Their Excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his Imperial City of Peking… Englished by John Ogilby. London: by the Author, 1673. Tall folio (11 by 16-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in modern brown morocco, raised bands, green and brown morocco spine labels, renewed endpapers. $15,000.Second edition in English, splendidly illustrated with frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, double-page engraved map, 18 full-page folio copper-engraved plates (including one double-page plan) and 94 in-text copper engravings.Nieuhoff, a Dutch official, traveled extensively throughout the East, visiting China, Dutch South Africa, Sumatra, Java, Amboyna, Formosa, Malacca, India, Ceylon, Persia, and St. Helena. This is his important first-hand account of his visit to China as an ambassador in 1655-1657, first printed… Read More

1774. CARE, Henry. English Liberties, or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance: Containing Magna Charta, Charta De Foresta… Compiled first by Henry Care, and continued, with large Additiions, by William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq. Providence, Rhode-Island: Printed and Sold by John Carter, 1774. Small octavo (5 by 7-1/4 inches), contemporary full brown blindstamped sheep, raised bands; pp. viii, (1) 2-350, (6). Housed in a custom clamshell box. $13,500. 1774 American edition of Care's immensely influential English Liberties, preceded only by the 1721 Boston edition, issued not long after the Boston Tea Party and the same year as the First Continental Congress, with printings of the Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act (1769)—""a second Magna Charta""—and foundational texts on jury trials, ""principally designed for America,"" containing printing of the preface to the 1721 edition proclaiming ""when liberty is once gone, even… Read More

1796. First Edition . GODWIN, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. WITH: The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1796, 1797. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards. $10,500.First octavo edition of Godwin's revolutionary masterwork, the first edition with his extensive revisions—""his passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured"" (PMM)—a profound influence on Jefferson, viewed as Godwin's ""American born counterpart,"" this work uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's Enquiry signed on the title page by William King, an especially memorable association set from the estate library of King, Eighth Baron King and First Earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada Byron Lovelace,… Read More

1613. MONTAIGNE. Essayes Written In French… Done Into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio. London: Melch, Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613. Folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked and recornered, gilt ornamental lozenges, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $16,000.Second edition in English of Montaigne’s seminal masterpiece, with the important Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest (circa 1611), a work profoundly influenced by Lucretius, who is quoted almost a hundred times in the work, a splendid folio volume in contemporary calf boards. ""Montaigne startles the common reader at each fresh encounter, if only because he is unlike any preconception we bring to him… His scope and capaciousness sometimes approach Shakespearean dimensions… Montaigne's [is]… the first personality ever put forward by a writer as the matter of his work. Walt… Read More

1844. First Edition . Signed. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe, 1844. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $17,500.First edition, presentation copy, of the second series of Emerson's essays including such important works as ""Experience,"" ""The Poet,"" and ""Nature,"" usual mixed first and second printing but composed almost entirely of first printing sheets, inscribed in the year of publication to his close friend and trusted adviser: ""Abel Adams from his friend, R.W.E. 15 October, 1844.""""Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating,' these essays are as readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as a hundred years ago. Their ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its… Read More

1953. First Edition . FRIEDMAN, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. (Chicago): University of Chicago Press, (1953). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $6500.First edition of the work containing the first appearance of Friedman's pivotal essay, ""Methodology of Positive Economics,"" hailed as ""the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of methodological writing in 20th-century economics,"" in very scarce dust jacket.""The most famous methodological piece within 20th century economics is Milton Friedman's 'Methodology of Positive Economics.' This piece is taken to advocate prediction-ism as the most important goal for and criterion of the success of economic theories"" (Eric Schliesser, ""The Stigler-Kuhn Correspondence and the Philosophial Prehistory of Prediction in Chicago Economics""). It ""remains the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of… Read More

1982. First Edition . Signed. ROTHBARD, Murray. The Ethics of Liberty. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, (1982). Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $7200.First edition of Rothbard's ""second magnum opus… a pillar of the Rothbardian system"" in its bold pursuit of principles introduced in Man, Economy and State, inscribed in the year of publication by Rothbard, the father of libertarianism: ""To L— & L— F— Warmest regards to two genuine and uncompromising radical (i.e. genuine) libertarians. Murray Rothbard.""""Following his revered teacher and mentor, Ludwig von Mises, Mises' teachers Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk and Carl Menger… Rothbard was one of those rare individuals who did contribute to ethics as well as economics."" Building on principles introduced in his first book, Man, Economy and State (1962), Ethics is a ""pillar of the Rothbardian system… his second magnum opus.… Read More

1863. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Small octavo, original recased green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, edges gilt, original brown endpapers retained. $2000.First edition, in original cloth with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait.Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau. It was published the year after Thoreau's death and includes a eulogy delivered at his funeral by Emerson, here included as a preface. After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau became more of a naturalist, taking trips to Cape Cod and Canada and using his experiences as material for an article entitled ""Excursion to Canada"" in Putnam's Monthly in 1853. ""He toured Cape Cod on foot late in 1849, spent a week in Canada in 1850, went in 1853 on his second journey into Maine. Four of his posthumous books derive…from these expeditions: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape… Read More

1747. First Edition . (QUAKERS) H[UME], S[ophia]. An Exhortation to the Inhabitants Of the Province of South-Carolina… Philadelphia: Printed by William Bradford, [1747]. Octavo, contemporary brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $12,500.Very rare first edition of this pioneering and electrifying work by Quaker minister Sophia Hume, famed across England and America for her eloquence, printed with the aid of Philadelphia Quakers and issued by the publishing house of William Bradford, who arrived in America with William Penn in 1682 and whose firm published Paine’s Common Sense, scarce in contemporary calf.Sophia Hume, born in South Carolina, was the granddaughter of Mary Fisher, one of the first Quakers to preach in New England. Raised Anglican, Hume moved to England where she converted and joined the Society of Friends. ""Like many other women converted during the Great Awakening around 1740, she was accused… Read More

1850. First Edition . FARADAY, Michael. Experimental Researches in Electricity… From the Philosophical Transactions. Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth Series, Thirtieth Series. WITH: Bakerian Lecture. London: [R. and J.E. Taylor], 1850-57. Nine papers bound in two volumes. Quarto, modern marbled paper wrappers. $6800.First appearances of nine papers from Faraday's important Experimental Researches in Electricity bound in two volumes, the 23rd through the 30th Series—laying the foundations for the origins of Field Theory—along with his 1857 Bakerian lecture, extracted from the journal Philosophical Transactions where they originally appeared, with all related engraved plates and illustrations.The electrical research of Faraday, ""one of the greatest physicists of the 19th century and one of the finest experimenters of all time… was the starting point for the revolutionary theories of Clerk Maxwell… Read More

1784. First Edition . CAVENDISH, Henry. Experiments on Air. ISSUED WITH: Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on Air. In a Letter from Richard Kirwan. ISSUED WITH: An Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks. ISSUED WITH: Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer, by R. Kirwan. BOUND WITH: Experiments on Air [Part II]. Read June 2, 1785. EXCERPTED FROM: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 74. [London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1784-85]. Small quarto, modern marbled wrappers; pp. 119-53, 154-69, 170-77, 178-80, 372-84. Housed in custom portfolio. $7500.First edition of Cavendish's experimental proof that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen and therefore not a separate element unto itself, with a folding plate. As issued in Philosophical Transactions for the year 1784.""Cavendish was the first to prove experimentally that hydrogen ('inflammable air') and oxygen ('dephlogisticated air'), when mixed in the proper proportions and fired,… Read More

1639. DAVENANT, John. Expositio Epistolae D. Pauli ad Colossenses. Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1639. Folio (7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full speckled calf, gilt armorial centerpieces of Sir Robert Shirley, raised bands, later vellum spine label with manuscript lettering. Housed in a custon clamshell box. $6000.Third edition of Davenant's most important and influential theological work, bound in contemporary calf with the gilt arms of royalist conspirator Sir Robert Shirley—the Pirie copy, with his bookplate.John Davenant (1572-1641) was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621. Educated at Queens College, Cambridge, he was elected a fellow there in 1597, and served as its President from 1614 to 1621. From 1609 onward, he served as the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, from which he was called away by James I to represent the Church of England at the Synod of Dort in 1618, along with Samuel Ward, Joseph Hall and George Carleton. Davenant's An Exposition of the… Read More

1774. First Edition . (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (CONTINENTAL CONGRESS). Extracts From the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. Containing The Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies. Published by Order of the Congress. Philadelphia Printed: Boston, Re-printed: And Sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street, and Mills and Hicks in School-Street, 1774. Octavo, period-style full tree calf gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-3), 4-43, (44), 45-52. $11,500.Rare 1774 Boston printing issued quickly after the same year's first Philadelphia printing and mere months after the 1773 Boston Tea Party sparked Britain's Coercive Acts of March-June 1774, aimed at punishing the rebellious city, provoking the Continental Congress to meet that fall and issue the Extracts, America's bold step toward… Read More