Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bauman Rare Books

1760. First Edition . Signed. STERNE, Laurence. Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Nine volumes. WITH: The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Seven volumes. WITH: A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Two volumes. WITH: Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne to His Most Intimate Friends. Three volumes. London: R. and J. Dodsley et al., 1760-67, 1766-69, 1768, 1775. Twenty-one volumes in all. Small octavo, 20th-century full speckled calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, burgundy and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $28,000.First editions of the principal works and letters of Sterne, with three volumes of Tristram Shandy signed by Sterne as is called for in first edition copies. Beautifully bound in full mottled calf gilt by Riviere and Son. A splendid first edition collection.Tristram Shandy's huge popular success made Sterne, a Yorkshire parson, the toast of the London literary world. When some volumes were pirated, Sterne began… Read More

1892. Signed. WALLACE, Lew. Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Two volumes. Octavo, original vellum boards, yapp edges, uncut. $3200.Limited “Garfield Edition,” number 131 of only 350 copies, profusely illustrated with 20 photogravures and numerous marginal line drawings, adorning virtually every page. With an autograph letter signed by Wallace laid in.""The romance Wallace is most famous for, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, is second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin as the most popular American fiction of the 19th century and, indeed, in its various cinematic versions""—most famously, the 1959 epic starring Charlton Heston, with its dramatic chariot race—""is one of the most popular works of all time"" (ANB). Ben-Hur ""offers much to inspire an artist's pencil… To Mr. Arthur B. Turnure of New York City belongs the credit of conceiving the plan of making a new edition… with marginal… Read More

1866. First Edition . CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1866. Octavo, mid-20th century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. $14,500.First authorized English edition of Carroll’s cherished romp through the realm of nonsense, illustrated with 42 engravings by John Tenniel, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son, with original cloth-gilt at rear.""More than a flare of genius,"" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ""was the spiritual volcano of children's books"" (Darton, 260). ""Historians of children's literature universally agree that [its] publication… marks the liberation of children's books from the restraining hand of the moralists"" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). A mesmerizing masterpiece of comic nonsense, Alice also demonstrates Carroll's gift for recognizing ""the child's inner fears, wishes,… Read More

1953. Signed. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Typed manuscript inscribed. Taliesin West, February, 1953. Eleven pages, each 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typed and inscribed on the rectos. $8800.Original 11-page typed manuscript on ""The Language of Organic Architecture,"" inscribed by its author, Frank Lloyd Wright, to his friend, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford, ""For Lewis, F.L. Wright."" With Mumford's annotation in the top right corner, ""Feb 1953."" The distinctive type face and spacing of the text invite the possibility that Wright typed this himself.""The Language of Organic Architecture"" is perhaps the most succinct elucidation of Wright's architectural philosophy. It lays out nine terms (but really principles) that defined what he termed ""Organic (or intrinsic) architecture,"" which he considered ""the free Architecture of idea DEMOCRACY."" Wright's ""nine-word… Read More

1811. First Edition . (JEFFERSON, Thomas) DAUBENTON, Louis-Jean-Marie. Advice to Shepherds and Owners of Flocks, on the Care and Management of Sheep. Translated from the original French of M. Daubenton [by James Bowdoin]. Boston: Joshua Belcher, 1811. Slim octavo, contemporary full mottled brown calf gilt, marbled endpapers, black morocco spine label. $78,000.Thomas Jefferson's personal copy of this guide to sheep farming—one of Jefferson's primary agricultural interests—containing Jefferson's characteristic and distinctive ownership mark, presented to Jefferson by the widow of the book's translator, James Bowdoin, Jefferson's minister to Spain, with the inscription: ""President Jefferson with Mrs Bowdoin's respectful compliments. 24 May 1812."" Second edition in English, with three illustrated plates appearing for the first time in this edition, in contemporary mottled calf.This volume was in Jefferson's final ""Retirement… Read More

1883. First Edition . BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month search for gold was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton's report that ""there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked,"" a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. ""The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in"" (Rice,… Read More

1795. First Edition . BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Trois Trios Pour le Piano-Forte, Violon, et Violoncelle. Composés & Dediés à Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Charles de Lichnowsky par Louis van Beethoven. Oeuvre 1re. Vienna: Artaria, [1795]. Oblong quarto, three separate parts neatly respined, pp. 65, 21, 17. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. $60,000.First edition, earliest issue, fully engraved, of Beethoven's Opus 1, the earliest compositions Beethoven considered to be ""worthy of publication with an opus number and to proclaim his name"" (Thayer), one of the earliest and rarest Beethoven first editions, one of very few complete copies extant. The jewel in the crown of any important music collection.As the manuscript of these trios is lost, the first edition is the primary source. After his first trip to Vienna in 1787, Beethoven returned to the Austrian capital in the early 1790s to study with Joseph Haydn. In March 1795 he had his public… Read More