Search Results: Titles starting with N from Bauman Rare Books

1910. First Edition . Signed. SPINK, Alfred H. The National Game. A History of Baseball, America's Leading Out-Door Sport. St. Louis: The National Game Publishing Company, (1910). Octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt. $4800.First edition of one of the earliest comprehensive histories of professional baseball, written by a man ""familiar with all its curves and tangents,"" inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: ""To R. J. Stirk, with the very kindest and best wishes of the author, A.H. Spink. Chicago, Feb. 15, 1921.""This classic work includes dozens of photos, many full-page, biographical profiles, statistics and box scores from the earliest days of professional baseball through the 1909 season. Alfred H. Spink began as a journalist, went on to work as secretary and press agent for the St. Louis Browns, and founded The Sporting News in 1886. The sportswriters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is named for him. Smith 693. Grobani… Read More

1825. ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Royal octavo, 19th-century full red morocco, elaborately decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $5200.Second edition of this compendium of British sports, with 50 hand-colored engravings (different from those in the first edition) depicting hunting, angling, horse-racing, and other diversion, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt.""Henry Alken was the premier sporting illustrator of his time. He worked in colored aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank"" (Ray, 32). Alken's equestrian illustrations ""are the result of the most attentive observation during many years entirely devoted to the pleasures of the field"" (DNB). While this work has the same title as an 1821 folio by Alken, it is often regarded as a first edition since it contains different plates. These plates include: two… Read More

1750. First Edition . (BARBADOS) HUGHES, Griffith. The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books. London: for the Author, 1750. Folio (9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full calf rebacked in calf-gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp. [20], v, [1], 314, [15]. $5500.First edition of this important work on the flora and fauna of Barbados, with folding map of the island by Thomas Jefferys and 30 folio engraved plates, 12 after renowned botanical artist G.D. Ehret, one of the greatest botanical painters of the 18th century.""The book is handsomely printed, and the plates are finely executed from drawings by Ehret"" (Sabin). ""Not a great deal is known concerning Griffith Hughes… While rector of St. Lucy's parish in the north of Barbados, he brought out his Natural History of the island. At that time he was a member of the Royal Society and obviously a competent botanist. The book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731-[47]), which… Read More

1817. First Edition . JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: J. Jenkins, [1817]. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full olive straight-grain morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked, all edges gilt. $21,000.First edition, first issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, with vignette title page and 55 vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt.""As a record of naval events spanning a period of over 20 years Jenkins' Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all"" (Roger Quarm, National Maritime Museum). Jenkins' work ""is worthy of its theme; nor could one desire a… Read More

1900. SHAKESPEARE. The New Century Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright. Boston: Dana Estes, 1900-01. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, silk boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $4800.Limited “Edition de Grand Luxe” of the ""New Century"" edition, number 184 of 500 copies, “copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text,” with over 220 engraved plates.This edition was designed as ""a complete edition de luxe, in the best sense of the term—first-class and faultless in every detail of mechanical execution, copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text, and amply furnished with explanatory and critical matter in keeping with its outward elegance and beauty."" The text is the Cambridge edition, in its latest revised form (1891-93) by William Wright,… Read More

1891. First Edition . GISSING, George. New Grub Street. A Novel. London: Smith, Elder, 1891. Three volumes. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped green cloth. Housed together in a custom clamshell box. $5200.First edition of the most famous and ""best work"" by Gissing, whose singular perspective on the work of writing and ""the sterling originality of his art, have secured his place in the history of the English novel,"" in original cloth.New Grub Street, Gissing's ""finest novel,"" is widely seen as the ""most significant work of fiction about the business of writing fiction. Q.D. Leavis… singled out New Grub Street as his 'best work'… [and] in an unpublished piece written in 1948, Orwell called it 'Gissing's masterpiece'"" (Matz, George Gissing's Ambivalent Realism). ""The continued relevance of Gissing's work… is undoubted, and his finest interpreters now… Read More

1830. First Edition . KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A New Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter plum morocco gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards and endpapers. $4500.First edition in English of the chronicle of Kotzebue's second voyage to the Pacific, providing detailed information on the northwest coast of North America, with engraved frontispiece in each volume and three maps (two folding). A handsome copy of this scarce narrative in contemporary morocco and marbled boards.Kotzebue's expedition involved transporting Russian reinforcements to Kamchatka, ""but exploration was also intended, and a number of scientists were on board, including the physicist H.F.E. Leny and the physician and naturalist Johann F. Eschscholtz. The expedition sailed to Brazil, then went by way of Cape Horn to Chile, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Tonga, Navigator's Islands,… Read More

1744. First Edition . SMITH, William. A New Voyage to Guinea: Describing the Customs, Manners, Soil, Climate, Habits, Buildings, Education, Manual Arts, Agriculture, Trade, Employments, Languages, Ranks of Distinction, Habitations, Diversions, Marriages, and whatever else is memorable among the Inhabitants. London: John Nourse, [1744]. Octavo, early 20th-century full green morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $6800.First edition, with frontispiece and five engraved plates of plants and animals, of this rare 18th century work on West Africa.Smith was commissioned by the Royal African Company in 1726 ""to take exact plans, drafts, and prospects of all their forts and settlements; as also of the principal rivers, harbours, and other places of trade of the coast of Africa""; sailing to Africa on the Bonetta with Captain James Livingston, they ""made landfall near Cape Verde on 22 September… On his first day, finding himself floundering through deep mud along the… Read More

1877. First Edition . (NEW ZEALAND) BARRAUD, C.D.; TRAVERS, W.T.L. New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. Elephant folio (16-1/2 by 21 inches), modern three-quarter black morocco, raised bands; section of original red cloth cover with gilt title and vignette mounted to front pastedown. $11,500.First edition of one of the finest color plate books dealing with New Zealand, with 30 striking elephant folio lithographs—24 of them printed in color and mounted—of scenery throughout New Zealand. This copy extra-illustrated with a fine large hand-colored wood engraving by Samuel Calvert entitled ""Haunt of the Lyre Bird"" dated 1879 bound in at rear.""From his youth Barraud had displayed artistic talent, and for the first 26 years of his life in New Zealand he travelled widely in his spare time over a large area of the North and South Islands, sketching in the various provinces, and recording his impressions… Read More

1747. First Edition . PENN, William. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ. Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1747. Two volumes bound in one. 16mo, contemporary full American sheep, raised bands. $6500.First American edition of this scarce William Penn polemic, written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1669—an excellent copy in contemporary American sheep binding.""The most popular of all the religious pieces of William Penn"" (Lowndes, 1822). ""In 1669, while imprisoned in the Tower of London for publishing an unorthodox work, he composed the first draft of his famous No Cross, No Crown (1669), directed against luxury, frivolity, vicious amusements, and economic oppression"" (DNB). In this work he expounded the Quaker-Puritan morality with eloquence, learning, and flashes of humor, condemning the worldliness and luxury of Restoration England and extolling both Puritan conceptions of ascetic… Read More

1926. Signed. FROST, Robert. North of Boston. New York: Henry Holt, (1926). Octavo, original half olive cloth, uncut. $4000.Later printing of Frost’s second published book, signed and inscribed by him with a line from his poem ""Fire and Ice"": ""Some say the world will end in fire. Robert Frost.""This volume represents a pinnacle of Frost's career, containing such classic poems as ""Mending Wall,"" ""The Death of the Hired Man,"" ""Home Burial,"" and ""The Wood-pile."" Of it, Frost wrote, ""I had some character strokes I had to get in somewhere and I chose a sort of eclogue form for them. Rather I dropped into that form. And I dropped to an everyday level of diction that even Wordsworth kept above… I think I have made poetry. The language is appropriate to the virtues I celebrate"" (Thompson 428). The line Frost has inscribed here is the first line… Read More

1817. (WALES) [COMPTON, Thomas]. The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or a Tour Through North Wales, Describing the Scenery and General Characters of that Romantic Country, and Embellished with a Series of Highly-Finished Coloured Views, Engraved from Original Drawings. London: Thomas Clay, 1820. Folio (measures 10 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards sympathetically rebacked and recornered in brown calf, raised bands. $9800.Second and enlarged edition, with 39 magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates of views of North Wales—nine more than the 30 found in the first edition—with descriptive text, handsomely bound.""The Views, which were taken during two Tours in the summers of 1814 and 1815, faithfully represent… striking and beautiful scenes, which are so profusely spread over this interesting portion of the Island, and have been selected… as exhibiting the most characteristic features of the country"" (Preface). Abbey's copy includes an unnumbered,… Read More

1929. SURTEES, Robert. The Novels. London; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929-31. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $4500.Lovely limited-edition set, number 31 of only 976 sets produced, richly illustrated with over 100 hand-colored plates after John Leech, Henry Alken, ""Phiz,"" and others, and hundreds of black-and-white in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound in morocco with gilt sporting emblems by Stikeman.Surtees' novels ""deal mainly with the characteristic aspects of English fox-hunting society, but his vivid caricatures, the absurd scenes he describes, the convincing dialect, and perceptive social observation distinguish him from other writers of this genre"" (Drabble, 950). This lavishly illustrated set is notable for the magnificent color plates after originals by Leech, ""a pencil draughtsman without rival… Read More

1933. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932-33. Five volumes. Octavo, modern full green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $5500.Third edition of the Clarendon Austen, illustrated with over 40 plates from contemporary sources, and with reproduction title pages from the first editions, handsomely bound.Includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. This text of this edition is based on the collation of the early editions by R.W. Chapman; the Clarendon editions were the first to use ""contemporary illustrations"": ""An undated memorandum in the Press's files states 'The publishers are bitterly opposed to any imaginative illustrations, and would cheerfully have no illustrations at all. But they would be in favour of a few objective illustrations"" (Gilson E150). First issued in 1923 in a limited large-paper edition; this third edition set includes addenda and… Read More