Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bauman Rare Books

1933. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Hand-corrected manuscript for Looking Forward. No place,1933. 235 leaves measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto, with corrections in Roosevelt's hand on 22 leaves, other corrections throughout in pencil. Housed in a large black ring binder with individual leaves placed back-to-back in mylar sleeves. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $48,500.Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a “new deal” that was published in the month of his inauguration, with Roosevelt's handwritten corrections in ink on 22 pages.Published amidst the devastation of the Great Depression and in the same month as his inauguration, FDR's Looking Forward draws on major articles and speeches; it was an immediate best-seller. On publication the New York Times noted: ""As President Roosevelt takes up the task of translating into terms of action his conception of the 'new deal' there comes from the… Read More

1888. First Edition . WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacob Hood. London: David Nutt, 1888. Quarto, original full Japan vellum over beveled boards, uncut. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $48,500.Large-paper limited first edition, number 21 of only 75 copies on handmade paper, signed by Oscar Wilde and the publisher David Nutt. Extraordinarily rare.""Wilde's reputation as an author dated from the publication of The Happy Prince and Other Tales… He presents the stories like sacraments of a lost faith… Their occasional social satire is subordinated to a sadness unusual in fairy tales"" (Ellmann, 299). Wilde wrote these tales for his own children. He told Richard La Gallienne that ""It is the duty of every father… to write fairy tales for his children."" His children later wrote of their father's ""never-ending supply"" of fairy tales and tales of adventure,… Read More

1991. First Edition . Signed. HIRSCHFELD, Al. Hirschfeld: Art and Recollections from Eight Decades. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991). Oblong quarto, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $5500.First edition, signed and dated on the title page by Hirschfeld ""3/24/92,"" and additionally signed by 34 stars of stage and screen next to their caricatures, among them Frank Langella, Eric Bogosian, Kevin Kline, Jonathan Pryce, F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, Bernadette Peters, Uta Hagen, Eli Wallach, B.D. Wong and Jack Klugman.Al Hirschfeld's devotion to line comes from a fundamental aesthetic—respect for absolute simplicity: ""When I'm rushed I do a complicated drawing. When I have the time, I do a simple one."" Hirschfeld: Eight Decades provides a fantastic retrospective of this artist's prolific career, with an introduction by Alistair Cooke and an essay by Hirschfeld on his beginnings and his process. ""The… Read More

1819. First Edition . (NAPOLEON) ORME, Edward, editor. Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour… in the Last Long-Contested War, Terminating with the Battle of Waterloo. London: Edward Orme, [circa 1835]. Folio (11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary three-quarter red straight-grain morocco, marbled boards, uncut. $7800.First edition, second issue, of this vivid visual documentation of notable British victories, with 40 beautifully hand-colored aquatints, including extraordinary views of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s Russian campaign and the Battle of Trafalgar. Attractively bound.""The victory of Waterloo, obtained by the Duke of Wellington… is beyond a doubt one of the most glorious ever achieved by this, or any other country."" ""Edward Orme was, after Rudolph Ackerman, the most important publisher of illustrated books during the short golden age of the colored aquatint"" (DNB). Born in Manchester, Orme moved to London… Read More

1753. First Edition . HANWAY, Jonas. An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a Journal of Travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. ISSUED WITH: The Revolutions of Persia. London: T. Osborne, D. Brown, et al., 1754. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary full speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine labels. $5800.First edition of Hanway's engaging narrative of his ""perilous adventures"" in the Caspian mercantile trade through Europe, Russia and Persia, illustrated with engraved frontispieces in each volume, nine folding maps, 15 full-page engravings of views, persons and architecture, and numerous historiated headpieces.Following an apprenticeship with a London merchant, Jonas Hanway partnered with an English commercial firm in St. Petersburg. Here Hanway became acquainted with the Caspian trade, and offered in 1743 to travel into Persia with a caravan of woollen goods. En… Read More

1817. First Edition . (NAPOLEON) MUDFORD, William. An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher, Comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo… London: Henry Colburn, 1817. Folio (11 by 13 inches), contemporary full tan calf rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine neatly laid down, original marbled endpapers, marbled edges. $12,000.First edition of this beautifully illustrated history of the final battles against Napoleon's forces in the Netherlands, including his historic defeat at Waterloo. With double-page plate depicting the raging battle of Waterloo, engraved extra title page, a large folding map, a double-page map, and 26 full-page plates, all save the maps aquatint engravings with vivid hand-coloring. Handsomely bound in nicely restored contemporary calf-gilt.Mudford's work chronicles in detail and unabashedly celebrates the fall of Napoleon and the victory of the Allied… Read More

1630. First Edition . (WALES) DODDRIDGE, John. The History of the Ancient and Moderne Estate of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornewall, and Earldome of Chester… London: Printed by Tho. Harper, for Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1630. Small quarto, modern three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, gilt spine, marbled boards. $1500.First edition of this posthumously published political and fiscal history of Wales, Cornwall and Chester, derived from records held at the Tower of London, handsomely bound.Sir John Doddridge (1555-1628) was a member of the Society of Antiquaries and justice of the king's bench. ""In this treatise Sir John, with a great deal of industry and exactness, calculates the ancient and present revenues of the palatinate"" (Lowndes, 655). ""As a lawyer Doddridge was—rightly—immensely well respected. He was known as the Sleeping Judge, not because of any shortcoming on his part, but because of his habit of concentrating on… Read More

1658. First Edition . (VENICE) PARUTA, Paulo. (CAREY, Henry, Second Earl of Monmouth, translator). The History of Venice… likewise, the Wars of Cyprus… Wherein the Famous Sieges of Nicosia, and Famagosta, and Battel Lepanto are Contained… London: Abel Roper and Henry Herringman, 1658. Two parts in one volume. Small folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), 18th-century full speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, old red morocco spine label laid down. $6200.First edition in English of this 17th-century history of Venice, translated by Henry Carey, second Earl of Monmouth—the Duke of Sutherland's copy, with his armorial blindstamp to front cover, as well as earlier and later Leveson-Gower family bookplates.The second part contains the history of the Turkish conquest of Cyprus in 1570-71. Paruta (1540-98), a Venetian diplomat, authored another work, Discorsi Politici (1599), which Henry Carey also translated. ""Carey was five times elected a member of the House of Commons between 1620… Read More

1705. First Edition . (BEVERLEY, Robert). The History And Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts… By a Native and Inhabitant of the Place. London: R. Parker, 1705. Octavo, period-style speckled brown calf gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $16,000.First edition of Jamestown's Robert Beverley's history of Virginia—""after John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and of the life of its early settlers"" (Howes)—wonderfully illustrated with engraved armorial frontispiece and 14 full-page ""fine engravings"" (Sabin) after Gribelin.Robert Beverley's History of Virginia is ""the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America."" Beverley, who lived in Jamestown, was prominent in the colony's government. ""Following the fire that destroyed the statehouse in Jamestown on October… Read More

1794. First Edition . STEDMAN, Charles. History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London: Printed for the Author and Sold by J. Murray, et al., 1794. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tree calfboards sympathetically rebacked in speckled calf gilt, red and green morocco spine labels. $22,000.First edition of Stedman's massive contemporary two-volume History of the American Revolution—""the standard work on the subject""—containing 15 military maps and plans (11 folding, the largest nearly 20 by 30 inches), a handsome copy in contemporary tree calf boards.Philadelphia-born military historian Charles Stedman was a Loyalist who served ""with the British at Lexington and Bunker Hill, later became commissary to the army of Sir William Howe, and was with Cornwallis in the South"" (New International Encyclopedia 21:485). Taken prisoner by American forces, he was sentenced to be hanged as a rebel but escaped. At war's… Read More

1794. First Edition . (BOYDELL, John and Josiah). [COMBE, William]. An History of the River Thames. London: W. Bulmer for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794-96. Two volumes. Folio (measures 13 by 16-1/2 inches), contemporary full calf (Volume I expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down), raised bands, marbled endpapers. $23,000.First edition, first issue, of this wonderful visual record of the River Thames, with 76 lovely folio hand-colored aquatints by Stadler after Farrington of prospects along the banks—including three very large folding plates—and a large folding map by John Cooke of “The Course of the River Thames from Its Source to the Sea.” An excellent copy in contemporary calf.""The most important art publishers and dealers in our history are the two Boydells, John and his nephew Josiah, who, though their munificence was chiefly directed towards painters and engravers, also issued a few fine books with colored aquatint plates, notably the History of the… Read More

1867. First Edition . Signed. DUKE, Basil W. History of Morgan's Cavalry. Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing, 1867. Octavo, original green cloth. $6000.First edition, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and several full-page maps, presentation/association copy with two presentation inscriptions: the first, an autograph inscription from a Confederate commander to a participant in many of the same battles as Morgan, reads ""Genl. Wm. J. Hardee from M. Jeff Thompson""; the second, in an unidentified hand, passes the book along to a fellow Confederate officer: ""Presented to Wm. K. McConnell by Lt. Gen. W.J. Hardee, Selma, Ala. July 13th, 1869.""""This is a classic work about John Hunt Morgan's legendary cavalry exploits, written by Morgan's brother-in-law and a brigadier general in his own right… A focused military narrative of Morgan's operations, the work is valuable for Duke's eyewitness recollections… Read More

1925. First Edition . HAMBLY, W.D. The History of Tattooing and its Significance. With Some Account of Other Forms of Corporal Marking. London: H.F. & WItherby, 1925. Octavo, original red cloth gilt. $3200.First edition, with eight plates of photographic illustrations, 16 in-text illustrations, and a folding map.The author of this early anthropological account of the practice of tattooing was trained at Oxford and worked as the assistant curator of African Ethnology of the Field Museum in Chicago. In addition to discussing the history, technique and geographic distribution of tattooing, he discusses it in relation to religious beliefs and practices, magic, and its ""social and anti-social purposes."" Text with a few instances of faint foxing, cloth with very minor wear, mild toning to spine.

1720. First Edition . (NEW ENGLAND) NEAL, Daniel. The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs Of the Country To the Year of our Lord, 1700. To which is added The Present State of New-England. With a New and Accurate Map of the Country. London: Printed for J. Clark, 1720. Two volumes. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $6200.First edition of Neal's History of New-England, an account of the sufferings of the Puritans in England and their establishment of American settlements. With a splendid engraved folding map of the region.A minister and historian of the Puritans, Daniel Neal published The History of New-England, his first work, in 1720. ""The favorable impression produced by the volume in America led to his receiving in the following year, from the university of Harvard, an honorary degree"" (DNB). ""The history itself contains a variety of materials… Read More

1687. First Edition . (JAMES II) SANDFORD, Francis. The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II… And of His Royal Consort Queen Mary… The Whole Work Illustrated with Sculptures. (London): Thomas Newcomb, 1687. Tall folio (11-1/2 by 17 inches), period-style full paneled calf gilt, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine label, all edges gilt. $13,500.Rare first edition of this History of the Coronation of James II—""His Robes of Purple Velvet, Furred with Ermine, and the Crown of State on His Head""—a scarce fête book richly illustrated with 30 copper-engraved folio plates (29 double-page), including the rarely found Fireworks plate. From the library of Baronet Sir John Hynde Cotton, ""politician and Jacobite sympathizer"" (ODNB), with his armorial bookplate affixed to the verso of the title page.King James II's coronation on April 23, 1686 established a tradition ""long… Read More

1763. First Edition . (BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1763. Large, thick folio (13-1/2 by 20 inches), early full black morocco gilt skillfully rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $18,000.First Baskerville edition, one of only 1250 copies, an impressive folio production splendidly bound in early full morocco gilt. ""This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen"" (Herbert 1146). ""His most ambitious undertaking… widely acclaimed as his masterpiece"" (Art of the Printed Book, 26). ""Aesthetically, the highest point in English Bible printing so far was John Baskerville's folio printed at Cambridge in 1763… The Bible uses his types, paper and ink, and shows his characteristic 'machine-made' finish: very smooth and even in color… Read More

1904. (BIBLE). The Holy Bible. Boston: R.H. Hinkley (Merrymount Press), [1904]. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, original full black morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened. $4000.Fine 14-volume illustrated edition of the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611, containing both Testaments and the Apocrypha, with 56 engravings and photogravures after paintings by notable artists, handsomely bound.Unquestionably the most influential of English Bible translations, the Authorized Version's impact on piety, language and literature is incalculable. This edition presents the canonical and apocryphal books without verse numbers and with chapter numbers in the running heads only, allowing readers to experience undistracted the text that, ""if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"" (PMM 114). To enhance the classic text, each volume contains an engraved frontispiece and… Read More

1668. (BIBLE) (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge: John Field, 1668. Quarto, contemporary full paneled red sheep, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $3800.1668 Cambridge “Preaching Bible,” with engraved general title page, in handsome contemporary binding.""This edition [of the King James Version, first published 1611] is sometimes known as the 'Preaching Bible,' being well adapted for pulpit use; it is printed in small type, with a very full page"" (Darlow & Moule 548). Separate New Testament title page dated 1666. Includes Apocrypha. Bound with 1666 editions of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins' popular and influential metrical psalter, and of the Book of Common Prayer. Herbert 697. Wing 2277. Griffiths 1666:1 (BCP). Early family notations to endpapers, with last leaf of Psalms with ownership lineage pasted to (blank) verso. Text generally fine,… Read More

1862. First Edition . THOMAS, Jerry. How to Mix Drinks, Or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States… To Which Is Appended a Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, [and] Fancy Syrups… The Whole Containing Over 600 Valuable Recipes. By Christian Schultz. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1862). Octavo, original brown cloth. $9000.First edition, later state, of the first drink manual published in the United States, prepared by the bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, illustrated with numerous in-text wood-engravings, including a diagram of a still, in the original cloth.Jerry Thomas (to whom the famous Savoy Cocktail Book is dedicated) presents 236 recipes for social drinks ""apart from water and those of the breakfast and tea-table."" ""It struck us that a list of all the social drinks of America would really be one of the curiosities of jovial… Read More