Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bauman Rare Books

1861. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed. Washington, DC: 1861. Quarto (7-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches), one sheet ruled wove paper, Fremont's letter on recto, Lincoln's endorsement on verso. Window matted and framed, entire piece measures 15 by 17 inches. $25,000.An interesting Lincoln signed endorsement as President during the Civil War, on an autograph letter signed from renowned western explorer, military officer, politician, and Presidential candidate General John C. Frémont, writing as Commander of the Western Armies promoting Richard Corwine to Major, ""subject to the approval and confirmation of the President of the United States,"" with Lincoln's endorsement on the verso: ""Approved. A. Lincoln."" A prominent Ohio lawyer and Republican elector, Corwine and Lincoln corresponded before the Republican convention; Corwine was a member of the Ohio delegation that famously changed a number of its votes to put Lincoln over the… Read More

1861. First Edition . LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address of the President of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861. Special Session. Senate. Executive Document No. 1. [Washington: Government Printing Office], March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound; pp. 10. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $8800.Rare second printing of Lincoln's important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery.On the morning of March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was escorted with little fanfare to his inauguration. Anticipating violence, General Winfield Scott had stationed riflemen on housetops along the parade route, as well as platoons and cavalry in the streets. On the platform erected at the Capitol's east portico, ""Lincoln put on a pair of steel-bowed spectacles and began reading his inaugural address in a clear, high-pitched voice that carried well out to the crowd of 25,000. The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the… Read More

1862. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, January 22, 1862. One leaf, 17 by 13 inches, printed on one side and finished by hand, with embossed seal. Matted and framed, entire piece measures 23 by 19 inches. $21,000.Civil-War era document signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State William Henry Seward, appointing George S. Gideon to be the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia.The document reads, in part: ""The President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents greeting. Know ye, that, reposing special trust and confidence in the abilities & integrity of George S. Gideon, of Washington City, D.C., I have nominated and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him to be a Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia; and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to Law, and to have and to hold the… Read More

1863. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. City of Washington, July 7, 1863. Folio, single sheet (measures 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches folded) partially printed and accomplished in secretarial hand, signed. Framed with a portrait of Lincoln, measures 19 by 16 inches total. $49,000.Fine July 7, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union's powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for New York to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days after the date of this rare Civil War signed document. Handsomely framed with a portrait of Lincoln.""The summer of 1863 witnessed the great Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg during the same week in July, but little more than a week later it saw the eruption of the bloody riots in New York City"" (Wilson, Lincoln's Sword, 182). This important July 7,… Read More

1820. First Edition . (ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne. BOUND WITH: SAUVAN, [Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar]. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea. London: R. Ackermann, 1820, 1821. Thick folio (11-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), period-style full tan polished calf gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $19,500.First edition, first issue, of Ackermann's wonderful picturesque tour along the Rhine, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after paintings by Christian Georg Schutz (and large folding map), bound together with his equally beautiful illustrated tour along the Seine, with hand-colored vignette title page and 24 beautiful folio aquatint views of the river and surrounding countryside after drawings by Augustus Charles Pugin and John Gendall, for a total of 48 very finely and vividly hand-colored aquatint folio views. A lovely copy.In the… Read More

1796. First Edition . GODWIN, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. WITH: The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1796, 1797. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards. $10,500.First octavo edition of Godwin's revolutionary masterwork, the first edition with his extensive revisions—""his passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured"" (PMM)—a profound influence on Jefferson, viewed as Godwin's ""American born counterpart,"" this work uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's Enquiry signed on the title page by William King, an especially memorable association set from the estate library of King, Eighth Baron King and First Earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada Byron Lovelace,… Read More

1801. SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments… To Which Is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. London: Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full speckled calf gilt. $3500.1801 edition of Smith's pioneering first book, a work which he himself ranked above Wealth of Nations and which served as its foundation, both works demonstrating ""a greater unifying principle…Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself in economics in laissez faire"" (Spiegel), scarce in contemporary calf.The Theory of Moral Sentiments laid the foundation on which The Wealth of Nations was later to be built and proposed the theory which would be repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often ""led by an invisible hand… without knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society.""… Read More

1761. SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh, 1761. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, red morocco spine label, renewed endpapers. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $16,500.Scarce and important second edition of Smith’s first book, the first with Smith’s major additions and revisions at the core of “his central concepts of sympathy and the impartial spectator” (Tribe, 14), a work increasingly regarded as “one of the truly outstanding books in the intellectual history of the world” (Amartya Sen).Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, his first book, is ""one of the truly outstanding books in the intellectual history of the world"" (Amartya Sen). First published in 1759, it laid the foundation for Wealth of Nations and proposed the theory repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are… 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

1787. First Edition . ADAMS, John. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1787. Octavo, contemporary full speckled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $14,000.First edition of Adams' important work on a constitutional separation of powers, his reasoned yet impassioned ""rendition of the case for checks and balances in government"" (McCullough).While acting as America's minister in Great Britain, John Adams ""felt an urgency like that of 1776. Great events were taking place at home… A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours… By early January 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer. Titled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the… Read More

1780. First Edition . Signed. (ADAMS, Samuel). An Address of the Convention, for Framing a New Constitution of Government, for the State of Massachusetts-Bay, to their Constituents. Boston: Printed by White and Adam, 1780. Slim octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards; (i-v), 6-18. $7800.First edition of Samuel Adams' eloquent Address in support of the first Massachusetts constitution (also greatly crafted by Adams), advocating “the free exercise of the rights of conscience"" and a government elected to ""promote the supreme good of human society."" This exceptionally rare association copy is signed on the half title by Massachusetts Founding Father James Lovell, who was arrested and imprisoned in the Revolution before serving as a member of the Continental Congress where, as a self-taught cryptologist, he broke British ciphers intercepted from 1780-81. One of 1800 printed and distributed under Adams' supervision.One of the… Read More

1941. First Edition . AGEE, James and EVANS, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5000.First edition of Agee and Evans' powerful and pioneering documentary photobook on the Great Depression—""the epitome of the genre""—with 31 full-page photogravures, in very elusive original dust jacket.""In 1936, on a journalistic assignment, James Agee and Walker Evans shared the lives of three sharecropper families in the Depression-gaunt South. Their report on the experience… became one of 1941s unforgettable books"" (New York Times). A groundbreaking collaboration between novelist and photographer, ""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is regarded today as a classic of American literature… Evans' photographs—his only excursion into 'true' documentary—remain amongst the finest ever… Read More

1902. STRICKLAND, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman Conquest. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, (1902-03). Sixteen volumes. Octavo, publisher's deluxe full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, full purple and green morocco doublures with hand-painted portraits inset into front doublures, white morocco floral inlays set into rear doublures, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt; each volume housed in cloth slipcase. $22,000.Beautifully bound and richly illustrated ""Alexandra Edition"" of Strickland's detailed history, number 6 of only 7 sets copies printed on Japan vellum, with each of the approximately 250 illustrations printed in quadruple suite: one on Holland handmade paper and hand-colored, on on India paper, one on papier de Chine, and one on Japanese vellum, including portraits, scenes and views. Each volume bound in full morocco, with a hand-painted portrait of one of the queens set into the full morocco doublure inside the front… 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

1921. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed. No place, August 14, 1921. Single sheet of cream lined paper, measuring 7-1/2 by 11 inches; p. 1. $35,000.Rare heartfelt autograph letter of recommendation written and signed by Einstein in German, enthusiastically recommending his friend and colleague, physicist Prof. Dr. Paul Epstein, for an academic position.The autograph letter, dated ""14 VIII 21,"" written entirely in Einstein's hand reads (translated from the original German): ""Prof. Dr. Epstein is certainly one of the most prominent living theoretical physicists of the German-speaking world. Without a doubt, he would have been appointed to a German professorship a long time ago, had his Russian nationality not stood in the way. Among Epstein's numerous original scientific papers, two findings, which advanced the modern quantum theory in crucial ways, should be noted. After Mr. Sommerfeld, as the first physicist who, on the basis of special… Read More

1942. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed. Princeton, November 3, 1942. One sheet, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto only. $38,000.An exceptional typed letter signed by Einstein on precursors like Johannes Kepler's work to his Special and General Theories of Relativity,The letter, on letterhead from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, reads in full: ""November 3, 1942. Mr. Felix W. Cartier. Laconite, Minn. Dear Sir: Since the times of Kepler one has found approximation formulaes for the mean distances of the planets from the sun. It is sure that there are not precise laws behind those approximate relations. It may be possible to understand the irregularities of this kind with the methods of statistical mechanics. But hitherto nobody seems to have been able to do so. In any case there is no analogy between such regularities and the quantum laws in molecular physics. Very truly yours, [signed] A. Einstein. Prof. Albert Einstein.""Early in the… Read More

1946. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed. Princeton, April 3, 1946. Single sheet of gray letterhead, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches; p. 1. Matted and framed with a portrait, entire piece measures 19 by 15-1/2 inches. $9500.Original typed letter signed by Albert Einstein, thanking his friend, Dr. Isadore Held, for his birthday wishes as well as for sending a new book that Einstein found both ""extraordinarily enlightening"" and humorous. Text in German.The letter, typed on Einstein's personal letterhead with his name and Princeton address blindstamped at the top, reads in full translation: ""3 April 1946. Dear Mr. Held: I would like to express my sincere thanks for your birthday wishes and for the sending of the last work of this wonderful contemporary. I have already read quite a bit and find that it is extraordinarily enlightening. His penetration into the mentality of far-off times and attitudes toward thinking is most remarkable and his humor no less.… Read More

1942. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed. Princeton, New Jersey, January 13, 1942. One leaf of Institute for Advanced Study letterhead, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto only. Matted and framed with a portrait, entire piece measures 19 by 15-1/2 inches. $19,000.Wonderful typed letter signed by Einstein discussing planetary motion and the ""fundamental laws of nature.""The letter, written in German on letterhead from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, is dated January 13, 1942 and addressed Vaclav V. Kalcik of Crompond, NY. It reads in translation in its entirety: ""Dear Mr. Kalcik, I have looked at your manuscript and admired the extraordinary energy with which you have pursued your peculiar thoughts. Because I am overwhelmed with work, I cannot assure [you] to thoroughly follow your line of thought. But I have one thing to mention to you: It does not seem possible to me that anything fundamental about the laws of nature can be inferred… Read More

1911. First Edition . Signed. SPALDING, Albert G. America's National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball. New York: American Sports Publishing, 1911. Thick octavo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.First edition, presentation copy, of this essential baseball history, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication: ""To Mr. H.E. Doolittle with my compliments and Christmas Greetings. A.G. Spalding. Point Loma Calif., Dec. 25, 1911."" With over 100 full-page illustrations and four fold-out plates (two printed on both sides), including frontispiece and panoramic views of the Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Comiskey Park and Forbes Field.""History of the game by one of the pioneer giants"" (Grobani 6:9). Spalding transformed baseball ""from its dual origins as either a gentlemen's club or a rowdy working-class pastime into a popular,… Read More

1963. MALCOLM X and HALEY, Alex. Typed draft page annotated. No place, circa 1963. Single typed leaf measuring 8 by 13 inches; matted with photographic images and framed, entire piece measures 21 by 27 inches. $12,000.Exceptionally rare typed page from an early draft of The Autobiography of Malcolm X with a three-word autograph addition by Malcolm X and 125 autograph edits by Alex Haley, handsomely matted and framed with photographic portraits of the authors.The Autobiography of Malcolm X, ""a story of self-creation and redemption, reveals the complicated, compelling, still-evolving private man. Jailed for burglary, in the closed world of prison Malcolm Little found freedom in the power of the word. He read prodigiously; became a passionate convert to Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim movement; and walked out as Malcolm X… Each of these changes was a stage in a long intellectual journey, uncompleted at his death. 'If I'm alive when this book comes out, it will be a… Read More