Search Results: Titles starting with S from Bauman Rare Books

1685. (CHARLES II) LILLY, William, et al. Sammelband of Almanacs for 1685, including Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, et al. London: J. Macock, et al., 1685. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, corners and spine panels tooled with Charles II's cipher, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $8500.Collection of ten English Almanacs published in the year of King Charles II's death, with numerous woodblock illustrations, bound for the king's personal library with his cipher on the spine panels and the corners of the covers.Includes: William Lilly's Merlini Anglici Ephemeris; John Gadbury's Ephemeris… with some further Remarques upon the late Triple Regal Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, not the Destroyer (as some have idly written) but great Advancer of Monarchy; both parts of Philoprotest's The Protestant Almanack, with a disquisition on ""Popish Fopperies""; Lancelot Goelson's Almanack; John… Read More

1929. First Edition . FAULKNER, William. Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1929). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $15,000.First edition of Faulkner's rare third novel, one of only 1998 copies printed.The first of Faulkner's works to be set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, this novel ""concerns the Sartoris family, which revels in a mythical history of clan heroism and nobility that is belied by their current desperation and recklessness"" (Encyclopedia of Literature, 994). In addition to introducing characters who would figure prominently in later novels, such as the Snopes family, Faulkner also takes up a number of themes in Sartoris that he would develop at length in later works: racism, innate brutality, deep-seated sexual obsessions and the disparity between a romanticized Southern past and a paltry present. Petersen A5.1. Hamblin & Brodsky 50. Book about-fine with faintest rubbing to front board;… Read More

1694. First Edition . PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus. The Satyr of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman Knight. With Its Fragments, Recover'd at Belgrade. London: Samuel Briscoe, 1694. Octavo, contemporary full dark brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $6800.First edition in English of The Satyricon, translated by William Burnaby, in contemporary calf.The Satyricon was composed in Latin in the first century A.D. Classical scholars often describe it as a ""Roman novel,"" without necessarily implying continuity with the modern novel. (It is one of the two most extensive examples of the Roman novel, the other being the fully extant Metamorphoses of Apuleius.) The Satyricon has also served as a reliable source for the reconstruction of lower class life during the early Roman Empire; Petronius' characters, most of them laypeople, talk about the theatre of ancient Rome, the amphitheater, and the circus. ""The adventures of a certain Encolpius and his companions in… Read More

1850. First Edition . HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $5500.First edition of Hawthorne's American classic, one of only 2500 copies printed, handsomely bound.""Since 1837, when he had written [the short story] 'Endicott and the Red Cross,' he had often been tormented by a symbol—a scarlet 'A,' worn by an adultress in that tale—which had, at last, worked its way into a full-length book"" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 349). The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and ""made Hawthorne's fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville's Moby-Dick"" (Bradley et al., 652). The novel ""glows with the fire of a suppressed, secret, feverish excitement… a fire… Read More

1765. (HAGGADAH). Seder Haggadah Lepesach. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and son-in-law, 1765. Quarto, period-style full red morocco with elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, black morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers; ff. 33. $9000.1765 illustrated Amsterdam Haggadah, with 14 half-page woodcuts and numerous historiated initials. Beautifully bound in period-style morocco gilt.With commentary and instructions in Yiddish, prepared by Solomon Zalman London. Title within typographical border. Yudlov 244. Yaari 155. Text expertly cleaned with expert paper repairs to top edges of several leaves, not affecting text. A very good copy of a scarce edition, beautifully bound.

1819. First Edition . (ROME) MERIGOT, James. A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity. Recently Executed from Drawings Made upon the Spot. London: Messrs. Robinsons, White, Faulder and Evans, circa 1821. Folio (14 by 20 inches), modern half red morocco, marbled endpapers, uncut. $8800.Imperial paper edition of Merigot's classic work on Rome, with 62 magnificent, finely hand-colored aquatint engravings—a lovely uncut copy.Although many books of a similar nature were released during the late 18th to early 19th centuries due to the rise of Neo-classicism among the British populace, this work was unique in its particular attention to the accurate depiction of the Roman ruins. Merigot visited each of the ruins and drew them in person, making this an important record both of Ancient Rome and also of the state of Roman ruins at the turn of the 19th century. First published in 1797-99; a second edition was issued by White and Cochrane circa 1805. This is the third edition,… Read More

1792. First Edition . (ITALY) SMITH, John. Select Views in Italy, with Topographical and Historical Descriptions in English and French. London: T. Chapman, 1792-96. Two volumes bound in one. Folio (11 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full red straight-grain morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $6800.First edition, profusely illustrated with engraved map of Italy and 72 beautiful engraved folio plates, splendidly bound in full contemporary morocco.Views include natural landscapes and ""magnificent remains of antiquity,"" after sketches by John Smith and others. With topographical descriptions in English and French. Smith earned recognition as a topographical draughtsman and watercolorist; ""the novelty and beauty of his work created much admiration"" (DNB). ""While staying in Derbyshire in 1775 Smith was introduced to George Greville, second earl of Warwick, an avid collector of art for Warwick Castle. Admiring some views of Matlock drawn by… Read More

1821. First Edition . WILLYAMS, Cooper. A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca and Gibraltar. London: John Hearne, 1822. Folio (13 by 16 inches), modern three-quarter brown speckled calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, $5500.First edition, with 36 vividly hand-colored aquatint views depicting land- and cityscapes throughout the Mediterranean, including Cairo, Alexandria, Caiffe, Rhodes, Mount Carmel, Syracuse, Lago, Minorca, Gibraltar, Mount Pelegrino, and the Rock of Scylla. ""In early life Willyams had imbibed a love of the sea, and in 1793 he started as chaplain of the Boyne to the West Indies, in the expedition under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Grey and Vice-Admiral Sir John Jervis… He published in 1796, with illustrations, An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies… In 1798 he served as chaplain of the Swiftsure (Captain Hallowell), a vessel in the squadron under the command of Nelson. He… Read More

1959. First Edition . Signed. BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959. Octavo, original ivory cloth, original dust jacket. $12,000.First edition of Sylvia Beach's memoir, ""particularly valuable for the many insights into Joyce's work and the authentic personal views it provides of the man himself"" (New York Times), signed on the half title by Sylvia Beach, in original dust jacket.It was in Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, that ""James Joyce's Ulysses was born."" In her memoir, Shakespeare and Company, Beach tells her story ""with simplicity, freshness and modesty. And in doing so she succeeds in bringing back that whole small—but intensely creative—world around her bookshop and that of her friend, Adrienne Monnier… which was the center of so much French literary activity."" Her book ""is particularly valuable for the many critical… Read More

1762. Signed. (BENEZET, Anthony). A Short Account of that Part of Africa, Inhabited by the Negroes… and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on… Second Edition, with large Additions and Amendments. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Dunlap. 1762; BOUND WITH: LAW, William. An Extract from a Treatise Called, The Spirit of Prayer. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1760; BOUND WITH: HARTLEY, Thomas. A Discourse on Mistakes concerning Religion, Enthusiasm, Experiences, &c. London Printed. Germantown reprinted: Christopher Sower, 1759 [i.e. 1760]; BOUND WITH: DELL, William. Christ's Spirit, A Christian's Strength. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown sheep, marbled boards, raised bands, black calf spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000.1762 greatly expanded and revised edition of the same year's first edition of Benezet's pioneering work—""the first practical manual for attacking the… Read More

1770. First Edition . (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BOWDOIN, James). A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770… with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. To which is added, an Appendix. Boston, Printed, by Order of the Town, by Messirs. Edes and Gill; And Re-printed for W. Bingley… London, 1770. [Actually printed in Boston by Edes and Gill in July, 1770]. Slim octavo, remnants of original wrappers; pagination: 2 preliminary leaves, [5]-48, [1]-83 (without half-title; without two leaves (pp. 7/8 and 77/78) which have been supplied in facsimile). Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $35,000.Extremely rare and important July 1770 Boston printing of this contemporary and influential account of the Boston Massacre, originally commissioned and ordered to be printed by the Town of Boston. Though the title page bears a London imprint, this edition was actually printed and sold in Boston to… Read More

1938. First Edition . ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley: Archetype, 1938. Large folio (13 by 17 inches), original ivory cloth. $12,500.Signed limited first edition, number 66 of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who ""realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,"" featuring 50 luminous mounted halftone prints including ""Half Dome.""To Ansel Adams, the open vistas of the American West were ""an event, an ephemeral, continuing drama. The protagonist of the drama is the light."" Adams photographed these ""snow-capped peaks and gemlike mountain lakes… so persuasively that it has seemed to most younger photographers of ambition that that book has been closed"" (Szarkowski, American Landscapes, 13-14). In the luminous images of Sierra Nevada, this superlative landscape photographer affirms his renown for elevating ""the act of photography to a religious experience.… Read More

1927. First Edition . Signed. MILNE, A.A. (words). FRASER-SIMSON, H. (music). SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrations). Songs from ""Now We Are Six."" London: Methuen and Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, (1927). Folio, original half mustard cloth, brown paper boards, mounted printed pictorial label, original dust jacket. Housed in a half morocco clamshell box. $18,500.First trade edition of this collection of songs based on Milne's beloved poetry for children, with music by H. Fraser-Simson and illustrations by E.H. Shepard. An exceptional presentation copy with a long personal and playful inscription by Milne: ""For Peter with care from A.A. Milne Christmas, 1927./ I'm singing./ Stand back all of you, and please hold tight,/ I'm going through these if I take all night./ And please don't say if I should sing flat,/ 'Was that a bicycle, or next door's cat?/ 'No, I think it's Peter singing./ 'Yes, it must be Peter singing./ 'That's what… Read More

1854. First Edition . SMITH, Gerrit. Speeches of Gerrit Smith. In Congress 1853-'4. Washington, D.C.: Buell and Blanchard, 1854. Octavo, original printed green self-wrappers, original stitching. $1850.First edition of nine major 1854 speeches by radical abolitionist Smith, together in print for the first time, featuring elemental works such as ""No Slavery in Nebraska,"" defying Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska bill and denouncing ""the federal government as a 'bastard democracy,'"" very elusive in fragile original wrappers.In the early 1850s Gerrit Smith, ""a man of enormous emotional complexity, religious fervor, antislavery commitment and wealth… embraced political abolitionism."" By then Frederick Douglass had become ""an outspoken supporter… [and] rejoiced in Smith's election to Congress as a radical abolitionist in 1852"" (Blight, Frederick Douglass, 207, 252). Once linked to… Read More

1780. First Edition . (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) BURGOYNE, John. A State of the Expedition from Canada, as Laid Before the House of Commons by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents… Written and Collected by Himself, and Dedicated to the Officers of the Army He Commanded. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. Quarto, modern three-quarter brown calf, marbled boards and endpapers; pp. i-viii, 1-140, i-lxii, [2]. $13,500.First edition of British officer Burgoyne's dramatic justification of his 1777 defeat by American Revolutionary forces at Saratoga. Intended to win the war for the British, it became ""the turning point"" in the war that ""brought France openly into the struggle. And it led to a change in the British command and a fundamental alteration in strategy"" (Wood, American Revolution), containing six large engraved folding maps and plans with handcolored details, two with hinged overslips… Read More

1930. First Edition . SCHABACKER, Richard W. Stock Market Theory and Practice. New York: B.C. Forbes, (1930). Large octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $9200.First edition, first printing of Schabacker's first book, his pioneering 1930 volume on the stock market, with 105 illustrations, charts and diagrams, three folding, including folding frontispiece of the financial district, an especially handsome copy in bright original dust jacket.Schabacker, the youngest financial editor of Forbes Magazine, fundamentally changed the direction of stock market analysis with this massive volume. ""The first to make technical analysis and charting an organized discipline"" (Linda Raschke), Schabacker achieved ""the finest work ever produced on conventional technical analysis."" Stock Market Theory and Practice and his later writings represent ""the highest order of analytical quality and incisive technical thought"" (Donald Mack).… Read More

1936. First Edition . LEAF, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. New York: Viking, 1936. Square octavo, original half tan cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.First edition of one of the most popular and enduring children's books ever written, in original dust jacket.""Leaf struck a vein of purest gold, producing an indisputable classic of children's literature"" (Kirkpatrick, 461). ""This is perhaps one of the finest 20th-century examples of the inspired wedding of a text and illustrations to make a children's book that as a whole is even greater than the sum of its parts—which are in themselves very fine indeed. The simple, delightful Leaf story about a Spanish bull who prefers the fragrance of flowers to the roar of the bull-ring is lovingly illustrated by Robert Lawson. The overworked word 'classic' is well deserved here. Children have adored The Story of Ferdinand… Read More

1920. First Edition . Signed. LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920. Octavo, original blue-stamped orange cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $7800.First edition of the first Doctor Dolittle title, with color frontispiece, two plates, and 30 in-text black-and-white illustrations, inscribed on the half title: ""Sincerely Yours, Hugh Lofting. Jan. 15 21."" The copy of Bertha Mahoney Miller, founder and editor of The Horn Book Magazine, with her posthumous bookplate.Author Hugh Lofting was ""creator of the most famous vet of all time (pace James Herriot)— and what a wonderfully sane loony Dr. Dolittle is. The books are absolutely irresistible and deathless—as well as being immensely stylish… Very much collected, as is right and proper"" (Connolly, Children's Modern First Editions, 189). Asked about the genesis of Doctor Dolittle, Lofting stated that… Read More

1798. First Edition . Kant, Immanuel. Der Streit der Facultäten in drey Abschnitten. Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolonius, 1798. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown leather, tan morocco spine label, marbled boards. $1350.First edition of this collection of three essays by Kant on the relationship between the faculties of philosophy, theology, law and medicine at the university.""Der Streit der Fakultäten first appeared in the autumn of 1798, published by Friedrich Nicolovius in Königsberg. The Conflict of the Faculties brings together three different essays Kant had written at various times. Sometime between June and October 1794, Kant wrote an essay on the prerogatives of the philosophical faculty in relation to the theological faculty of the university. Clearly it was at least partly an attempt to justify the manner in which he had circumvented the censors in publishing the Religion… After Wöllner's letter of reproof and Kant's subsequent promise not to… 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