Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bauman Rare Books

1791. First Edition . SHERATON, Thomas. Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. In Three Parts. BOUND WITH: Appendix to the Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book. BOUND WITH: An Accompaniment… London: T. Bensley, 1791, 1793. Quarto, 19th-century full paneled calf rebacked, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $8500.First edition, magnificently illustrated with frontispiece engraving and 66 copper-engraved plates (seven folding). Bound together with the scarce Appendix, containing an additional 33 copper-engraved plates (four folding), and the Accompaniment, with a further 14 plates (eight folding).Plates include studies of furniture (tables, chaise lounges, beds, secretaries, bookcases, etc.), depictions of Doric and Corinthian columns, numerous perspective studies (including dome construction, cornices, creation and placement of furniture), and a splendid folding plan and layout for an entire room. Sheraton ""developed a skill and originality which… Read More

1962. First Edition . BUCHANAN, James M. and TULLOCK, Gordon. The Calculus of Consent. Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1962). Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $6200.First edition of this cornerstone of 20th-century economics and political theory, focusing on the concept of ""public choice"" in government.The Calculus of Consent ""is one among a handful of contributions to public choice that can truly be called a classic. It was one of the building blocks laying the foundation for what would become an immense research program falling under the heading of public choice… Perhaps the most important and lasting contribution of the book… is the introduction of a two-stage process for collective decision-making. In the first, the constitutional stage, the rules of the political game are chosen. In the second, the post-constitutional stage, the 'in-period' political game plays… Read More

1816. First Edition . [PUGH, Edward]. Cambria Depicta: a Tour through North Wales, Illustrated with Picturesque Views. London: E. Williams, 1816. Folio (9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), 20th-century three-quarter red straight-grain morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $6200.First edition of this wonderfully illustrated tour of North Wales, written in ""a lively and entertaining style,"" with 71 fine hand-colored aquatints. This copy richly extra-illustrated with the inclusion of 23 hand-colored aquatints from Compton's Northern Cambrian Mountains of 1820, for a total of 94 hand-colored aquatint plates. A handsomely bound copy.""The best of all the books on Wales is the Cambria Depicta of Edward Pugh, the drawings for which took ten years to complete. In the preface the author speaks of the multiplication of illustrations of the same scenes owing to the fact that most travellers, being ignorant of the language of the country, never left the… Read More

1865. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Octavo, original green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, brown coated endpapers. $2200.First edition, in original cloth.""On October 9, 1849, Thoreau set out… for a week's tour on Cape Cod, wishing, as he said, 'to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean.' Before he was done with the Cape, he would have a better view not only of the ocean and the shore but of early New England…"" The book makes use of essays from the 1849 trip as the thread of the narrative and weaves materials as well from his subsequent 1850 and 1855 trips. Filled with jokes and tall tales and digressions on the history of the Cape, ""Cape Cod is [also] Thoreau's exploration of salvation, of how, if at all, man is (to be) saved… The sense of being alone, the fate of bare unaccommodated man, the bleak emptiness of death is strongest in Cape… Read More

1738. (ZENGER, John Peter). The Tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer, Who was lately Try'd and Acquitted for Printing and Publishing a Libel against the Government. With the Pleadings and Arguments on Both Sides. London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1738. Quarto, period-style three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards, renewed endpapers; pp. 32. $16,000.Second English edition (first published in New York in 1736) of the landmark trial of John Peter Zenger that produced ""one of the famous decisions in legal history,"" pivotal to ""the creation of the Bill of Rights and freedom of the press… had a lasting impact on the development of a libertarian ideology in both England and America,"" soundly viewed as ""one of the famous decisions in legal history, establishing the epochal doctrine of the freedom of the press""—""one of the most important events of colonial times,"" a splendid copy, handsomely… Read More

1957. First Edition . SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random House, 1957. Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $13,000.First edition of this rare and important children's classic, in the scarce original dust jacket.""A turning point, not only in the career of Dr. Seuss but in the reading habits of American children, occurred in the late 1950's. Inspired by a thoughtful article by John Hersey in Life magazine, entitled 'Why do Students Bog Down on the First R?,' Seuss began to address the problem, which has since entered the popular parlance as the why-Johnny-can't-read syndrome. Hersey's contention was that the schools were filled with 'pallid primers' such as Fun with Dick and Jane, featuring 'abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls,' that real children found them uninspiring, and that many bookstores displayed more attractive… Read More

1754. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (GORDON, Thomas) (TRENCHARD, John). Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and other important Subjects. No place: no publisher, 1754. Four volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $6200.1754 edition of Trenchard and Gordon's famed essays, a major influence on the American Revolution—""ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and above Locke as an exposition of the social sources of the threats it faced"" (Bailyn). A direct and important influence on many of the founding fathers and major writings of the American Revolution, including writers such as Franklin, Dickinson, Livingstone, John Adams and Zenger, and such seminal works as the Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.""Trenchard and Gordon were the most… Read More

1767. BENEZET, Ant[hony. A Caution and Warning to Great-Britain, And Her Colonies, In A Short Representation of The Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes In the British Dominions… To which is added, An Extract of a Sermon, preached by the Bishop of Gloucester. Philadelphia: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1767. Slim octavo, later marbled wrappers; pp.(iv), 1-52. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5500.Rare 1767 American edition, the first published with an excerpt of leading British abolitionist Granville Sharp's 1766 Sermon on ""the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery,"" the first appearance of Sharp's Sermon in America, issued in Philadelphia a year after the virtually unobtainable first edition, also issued in Philadelphia, of Benezet's electrifying work that broke ground in recording slavery's relentless violence, ""set the tone for much of the debate… during the revolutionary period"" and documented… Read More

1823. First Edition . (RUSSIA) LYALL, Robert. The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow. London: T. Cadell, 1823. Large quarto, contemporary three-quarter brown calf rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $9800.First edition, with 23 plates, including 13 beautiful hand-colored aquatints (three folding, many views of Moscow), a large folding map of Moscow, and a mounted engraved portrait of the author, not issued with this work. A scarce and desirable presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by the author: ""To Dr. Hume, A Memorial of Gratitude and Friendship, from the Author.""Scottish physician Robert Lyall visited St. Petersburg in 1815 and became a colleague of the Tsar's physician Sir Alexander Crichton. From 1816-20 Lyall was attached to the residence of Countess Orlov-Chesmenska at Ostrov near Moscow. In 1822 he traveled ""in the double capacity of courier and physician, with the… Read More

1964. First Edition . Signed. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Knopf, (1964). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $18,000.First edition, first issue, boldly inscribed in red crayon by Dahl and his wife, actress Patricia Neal, the inscription likely in Neal’s hand, the signature in Dahl’s: “Dear Anette and Gerald, This book is for children over six. You qualify—just. With love from Pat and Roald. Christmas 1964.” With numerous in-text illustrations by Joseph Schindelman.""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is already a great classic work… one of the most enduring post-war children's books—and I think we will not see its like again… Dahl is undeniably special"" (Connolly, 102). It is in this famous work that the world was introduced to Willie Wonka. Inscribed copies of Dahl's books are uncommon, particularly with such a lengthy and highly personal… Read More

1852. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852-54. Three volumes. Small octavo, late 19th-century full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $4500.First edition, first state, of Dickens's history of England for children, with frontispieces by F.W. Topham, beautifully bound by Alfred Matthews.""Very sharp and very opinionated… the book bears a strong resemblance to his two historical novels, Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities; it is essentially history as theatre, with crowds, confrontations, clashes, battles, death scenes and sundry noises off. But it is also energetically written; Dickens's imagination simply pours into everything he writes or speaks, and so there are moments of great power"" (Ackroyd, Dickens, 584). First state, with first state ads in Volumes I and III and with no page number on p. xi in Volume I.… Read More

1907. Signed. TWAIN, Mark. Christian Science. With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907. Octavo, original red cloth. $13,500.First edition, first state, of Twain’s satirical diatribe on Christian Science—then a relatively new and rapidly growing religion in the United States—and the religion’s founder, Mary Baker Eddy, wonderfully inscribed by Twain, ""Only a very small minority can properly claim to be sane. Mark Twain,"" in answer to a question posed above in an unidentified hand: ""This book should live when the delusion is dead. Is there any danger that a majority of the race will become insane?""""A tour de force of penetrating wit and clean analysis, revealing both his skill in polemics and his disdain for obscure grandiosity and sham spirituality. The work's subject is a natural result of Twain's lifelong fascination with the supernatural"" (Le Master… Read More

1483. EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. Chronicon, id est temporum breviarium. (Venice: Erhart Ratdolt, 1483). Small folio, rebound in full old calf with contemporary blind-tooled calf front cover and later spine and spine label neatly laid down, evidence of clasps; ll. [181] of 182, without final blank only. $23,000.Expanded second edition of ""the ancient world's first systematic history,"" first published circa 1475-76, here enlarged to cover the years 1449-81, which includes a mention of Gutenberg as the inventor of printing for only the third time in print. A desirable copy of this scarce and finely printed incunable, with excellent early rubrication in blue and red throughout, two large and 14 smaller woodcut initials of varying sizes, all finely hand-colored, and a lovely freehand ""Laus Deo"" in red and blue ink on the colophon.This tabular chronicle of ancient history by the historian and theologian Eusebius of Caesarea (260-339) and is regarded as… Read More

1819. First Edition . BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians. London: Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. Octavo, modern three-quarter russet morocco, black morocco spine label, marbled boards. $6000.First edition of Burney's classic work, giving a firsthand account of Cook's last voyage, with two folding maps.James Burney ""sailed with Captain Cook in his second voyage, 1772-4… In 1775 he was in the Cerberus on the North American station, and was recalled to sail again under Cook in his third voyage. Consequent on the deaths of Cook and Clerke, he came home in command of the Discovery"" (DNB). ""Pages 202-270 contain an account of Cook's third voyage which includes some intimate details not to be found elsewhere"" (Holmes, 82). This compilation also contains Burney's ""important researches"" on the maritime discoveries of the… Read More

1642. First Edition . COTTON, John. The Churches Resurrection, Or the Opening of the First and fixt verses of the 20th CHAP. of the Revelation. London: Printed by R.O. & G.D. for Henry Overton, 1642. Slim quarto, 20th-century paper boards. $9800.First edition of this learned 17th-century American examination of the Revelation in light of the events of the English Civil War.""Chief among the guiding spirits of the first generation of the Massachussetts Bay Colony in New England was the Reverend John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston"" (Tuttle, 363). In addition to his long and influential preaching ministry from that pulpit, Cotton played a major role in translating the psalms as published in the Bay Psalm Book (1640)—the first true book printed in America. In The Churches Resurrection, Cotton ""describes a much more active role for New England in determining the shape of the last days. As he does in The Powring Out of the Seven Vialls, Cotton… Read More

1862. (CIVIL WAR) LINCOLN, Benjamin C. Civil War Diary, with related archive of letters and documents. No place, 1861-64. Diary 12mo, saddle-stitched, original parchment wrappers, containing 20 leaves with handwritten entries on 9 leaves for 18 pages, dated August 9, 1862-December 26, 1862, with a further 9 pages of financial notations, signed ""Benj. C. Lincoln, Co. G. 39th Mass Vols"" on front cover. Together with two autograph letters signed ""Benj C. Lincoln"" and ""Benny,"" 11 pages total, various sizes, Edwards Ferry Maryland and Camp Casey, Va., October 3 and November 2, 1862; an autograph letter (unsigned), two pages, Key West, July 29, 1864; as well as four letters and documents addressed to Lincoln, August 15, 1864-February 27, 1865. $8000.Interesting 1862 Civil War diary and related papers of Union officer and abolitionist Benjamin C. Lincoln, who would become an officer in the 2nd United States Colored Troops, in which he… Read More

1909. MILLER, Marion Mills, ed. The Classics in Greek and Latin. New York: Vincent Parke, (1909). Fifteen volumes. Royal octavo, later full patterned russet morocco, raised bands, front boards with large gold and black embossed motif, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $5500.""Roman"" edition, number 16 of only 100 sets signed by the editor in chief, illustrated with numerous plates, some hand-colored, beautifully bound.This beautifully printed, illustrated and bound collection of Greek and Roman classics, edited by Marion Mills Miller, includes the Iliad and the Odyssey, Greek and Roman drama, philosophy, oratory, poetry and history, with and extensive collection of modern essays by writers and scholars guiding the reader to the history, context and interpretation of the works. A beautiful set in fine condition.

1809. HAKLUYT, Richard. Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: R.H. Evans, et al., 1809-12. Five volumes. Thick folio (10-1/2 by 15 inches), contemporary three-quarter brown morocco rebacked, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $15,000.One of only 75 large-paper copies on Imperial paper(out of a total edition of only 325) of “this enormous work—the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans” (PMM). “The best and most complete edition… very scarce” (Hill).Building on a life-long interest, beginning with his Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America (1582), Richard Hakluyt was ""incited"" into documenting the accomplishments of English explorers ""by hearing and reading 'other nations miraculously extolled for their discoveries and notable enterprises by sea, but the English… Read More

1966. DYLAN, Bob. Collection of pirated editions of Tarantula. Various places: Various publishers, (1966-70). Octavo, original paper wrappers. $5800.Scarce collection of 10 pirated editions of Dylan's first book, an experimental fusion of poetry and prose—""wacky, serio-comic improvisations which both satirize and excoriate the American scene.""When the singer-songwriter's July 1966 motorcycle crash delayed Tarantula's planned publication, pirated editions began circulating, ""hawked on the street and under the counter… by self-appointed Dylanologists and hip rip-off artists"" (New York Times, contemporary review). ""Wacky, serio-comic improvisations which both satirize and excoriate the American scene… alternately violent, hilarious, sad and not infrequently obscure. In general, a ball while it lasts"" (Kirkus). Macmillan finally published the book in 1971; ""For Dylan to permit the release of the book… Read More

1926. First Edition . BATES, H.E. Collection of novels, short stories, compilations, and more. London, 1926-76. Eighty-eight volumes. Octavo and quarto, all in original bindings. $8800.Impressive collection of works by H.E. Bates, mainly first editions, all in original bindings, and including numerous signed and signed/limited copies.""H.E. Bates was a remarkable English novelist and short story writer who died in 1974, leaving behind a substantial body of work… more keenly observant of English country life than any since Thomas Hardy's"" (Publishers Weekly).Novels: The Two Sisters (1926): First edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, original dust jacket. Inscribed by H.E. Bates to Ben Foster. Bookplate of Ben Foster. Extremely good condition. Catherine Foster (1929): Signed limited first edition, ""author's edition,"" number 26 of only 50 copies signed by H.E. Bates. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. With limited edition… Read More