Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bauman Rare Books

1950. First Edition . Signed. CHAGALL, Marc. Verve. Contes de Boccace. Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve, 1950. Folio, original lithographic dust jacket over boards. $5800.First edition of this exceptional volume of 26 Chagall heliogravures, accompanied by 26 tipped-in color prints from a medieval miniaturist, boldly signed by Chagall on the half title. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and friend of Chagall.The art critic Stratis Eleftheriades, under the nom de plume Tériade, published the art journal Verve in Paris from 1937 to 1960. He commissioned famous artists of the day, from Matisse to Picasso and Chagall, to provide works for the journal, with numerous lithographs appearing for the first time in his publications. This volume is particularly notable for the unusual medium (for Chagall) used: ""New washed drawings in India ink, which are quite unrelated to anything he had done before. Using black diluted in every possible… Read More

1769. BYRON, John. Viage del Comandante Byron al rededor del Mundo, Hecho Ultimamente de Orden del Almirantazgo de Inglaterra… [BOUND WITH, AS ISSUED]: Resumen Historico del Primer Viage Hecho al rededor del Mundo, Emprendido por Hernando de Magallanes. Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1769. Small quarto, early full limp vellum, spine lettered in ink, remnants of ties, endpapers renewed. $7200.Second and expanded Spanish edition—issued the same year as the first—of Byron's account of his 1764-66 circumnavigation of the world in the Dolphin, with folding map (measuring 14 by 19 inches) of the Strait of Magellan not present in English editions (hand-colored in outline) and engraved frontispiece depicting the ""giants"" of Patagonia. This second edition also incorporates the account of Magellan's circumnavigation of 1519-22, completed by Captain Juan Sebastian del Cano after Magellan's death, making him the first captain to complete a circumnavigation,… Read More

1766. First Edition . GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins for F. Newberry, 1766. Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century full tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $6200.First edition, first issue, of Goldsmith's best-known novel, beautifully bound by Bedford. The Vicar of Wakefield has long charmed readers ""in part due to the imaginative glow that Goldsmith so effortlessly casts over the action… and to his flexible and easy style"" (Baugh, et al., 1061). As celebrated as the novel itself is the account which grew up around it regarding Dr. Johnson's hand in seeing it published. ""Boswell tells the story that Johnson was one morning called in by Goldsmith, whose landlady had arrested him for his rent. Johnson found that Goldsmith had a novel ready for press, took it to a publisher, sold it for 60 pounds, and brought back the sum, which enabled Goldsmith to… Read More

1815. BELLASIS, George Hutchins. Views of St. Helena. London: Printed by John Tyler, 1815. Oblong folio (19-1/2 by 14 inches), later half red morocco, morocco label to front board, marbled endpapers. $6800.First edition, large paper copy, with 6 splendid hand-colored folio aquatint plates by Robert Havell after drawings by George Bellasis. This work, on what was then surely the most remote outpost of the British Empire, was produced in 1815 in response to Napoleon's intended exile to the island and the newfound interest it generated; Plate 3 represents ""St. James's Town,"" and includes ""The Briars, the intended residence of Bonaparte."" Bellasis sketched scenes from the island when he spent 8 months there after being forced to disembark due to illness in November, 1804. Each view is accompanied by text leaf. With list of subscribers. Abbey I: 309. Tooley 87. Prideaux, 236. Early (1821) gift inscription and owner signature on title page.Plates fine,… Read More

1728. First Edition . CELLINI, Benvenuto. Vita di Benvenuto Cellini, Orefice e Scultore Fiorentino. Colonia [i.e., Napoli]: Pietro Martello [i.e., Berenstadt], 1728. Quarto, contemporary full marbled sheep, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $3500.Scarce first edition of Cellini's famous autobiography in the original Italian, in handsome contemporary gilt-decorated sheep.""His banishment from Florence when he was 16, for brawling in the streets, set the pattern. At 23 he was condemned to death for skirmishing (which did not stop him from continuing to fight anyone who offended him); at 27 he turned soldier, defending a castle against an overwhelming enemy; at 30 he killed a man, and was saved from trial and execution only by the intervention of the Pope; at 34 he was once more forced to fly from the law after wounding an enemy, and he spent much of his 38th and 39th years in prison"" (Parker, 1). Cellini was considered one of the… Read More

1916. First Edition . FREUD, Sigm[und], Prof. Dr. Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse. Leipzig und Wien: Hugo Heller, 1916-17. Three volumes. Octavo, original tan paper wrappers; housed in a custom clamshell box. $25,000.First edition in original wrappers of all three volumes of one of Freud's most popular works, the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, inscribed in Volume II on the front wrapper to Rudolf Reitler, a friend and colleague of Freud who was instrumental in the development of psychoanalysis as a discipline and the first person after Freud himself to perform analysis on patients: ""Herr Dr. R. Reitler mit herzlichen Gruss. Verf[asser]"" [Dr. R. Reitler with warm regards. The Author.].One of Freud's most popular works, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis was for Freud himself not so much an introduction as it was a culmination. Twenty-some years earlier, Freud had begun a series of publications that announced the development of a new field,… Read More