Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bauman Rare Books

1857. First Edition . (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin. C. Dred Scott v. Sandford. IN: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. December Term, 1856. Volume XIX. Washington, D.C.: William Morrison, 1857. Octavo, contemporary tan cloth, tan and black morocco spine labels. $5200.First edition of the complete report of the landmark Dred Scott decision that divided a nation, became “a prominent cause” of the Civil War, and ultimately generated the 14th Amendment, with complete opinions of all nine judges, including that of Chief Justice Taney.""The Dred Scott decision is erroneous,"" pronounced Lincoln in 1857, and it is ""based on assumed historical facts which were not really true… The court that made it, has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it over rule this"" (Basler 355-57). ""What troubled Lincoln most"" about Dred Scott ""was the Chief… 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

1911. First Edition . POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1911. 16mo, original brown boards, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers, original glassine dust jacket. $5200.First edition of Potter's gift to her devoted American readers, with color frontispiece and 26 color plates, in extremely rare original printed glassine dust jacket.A decade after her most famous creation, Peter Rabbit, debuted on the stage of children's literature, Potter had gained ""many American friends and admirers, some of whom were children's librarians. It is believed that The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes was written primarily for American children because they would be familiar with both chipmunks and bears. They would also be familiar with grey squirrels like Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody, who stored nuts for the winter months and met with various adventures while so doing"" (Linder, 208). ""The year 1911 appears on the front of the… Read More

1788. Signed. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Manuscript document signed. Philadelphia: March 12, 1788. Single sheet of vellum, 15-3/4 by 13-1/2 inches, writing on recto, with fragile paper seal, with later engraving of Franklin. Silk matted, floated and window framed, entire piece measures 22 by 32 inches. $34,000.Exceptional original manuscript document in a secretarial hand, a deed conveying to ""Peter Baker a certain tract of land called 'Baker's Delight' situate[d] in Antrim Township Franklin County,"" boldly signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of Pennsylvania, countersigned by Secretary Charles Biddle, and with the fragile paper seals of Pennsylvania present and intact.This rare official document, dated March 12, 1788, is boldly signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of Pennsylvania below the state's embossed seal. Franklin was not only the state's president, but also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, convened in Philadelphia on May 25 of this year.… 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

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

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

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

1814. First Edition . HEBREW BIBLE. Biblia Hebraica, Secundum Ultimam Editionem Jos. Athiae, a Johanne Leusden, Denuo Recognitum, Recensita Variisque Notis Latinis Illustrata, ab Everardo Van Der Hooght. Editio Prima Americana, Sine Punctis Masorethicis. Philadelphia: Printed by William Fry for Thomas Dobson, 1814. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full dark brown calf, raised bands, old red morocco spine labels. $28,000.Very rare first edition of the first Hebrew Bible published in America, of major importance in the field of American Judaica, handsomely bound.The publisher of this edition, Thomas Dobson, explained: ""In the year 1812, Mr. [Jonathan] Horowitz had proposed the publication of an edition of the Hebrew Bible, being the first proposal of the kind ever offered in the United States. The undertaking was strongly recommended by many clergymen… and a considerable number of subscriptions for the work were obtained by him… Horowitz, recently arrived from Amsterdam with a font of… 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

1802. First Edition . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare. Revised by George Steevens. London: W. Bulmer and Company for John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nichol, 1802. Nine volumes. Large thick folio (each volume measures approximately 13 by 17 inches), contemporary full burgundy morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spines, all edges gilt. $21,000.The monumental 1802 Boydell-Steevens edition of Shakespeare's Works, complete with two engraved frontispieces and the full complement of 94 fine full-page copper engravings after paintings by the leading English artists of the time. Edited by Boydell and revised by renowned 18th-century Shakespearean scholar George Steevens. Sumptuously bound in full contemporary morocco-gilt.""Boydell's gallery completely altered the course of English painting. Most painters earned their livings by painting portraits for the wealthy nobility, but when Boydell began to commission works from the best artists in… Read More

1896. Signed. HARTE, Bret. The Writings. WITH: MERWIN, Henry Childs. The Life of Bret Harte. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1896-1914); 1911. Together, twenty-one volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, covers, and full morocco doublures, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $9500.""Autograph Edition"" of Harte’s tales, essays and poems, number 336 of 350 sets signed and dated by him, illustrated with vignette title pages, 103 engraved plates—including one signed by Frederic Remington—and two-page color map of the Pacific coast, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt with morocco doublures. Together with a 1911 first edition of Merwin's biography of Harte uniformly bound with the rest of the set.With the success of The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (1870)—""Eastern critics went headlong into eulogies"" (Kunitz & Haycraft,… Read More

1998. First Edition . Signed. DAVIDSON, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. (Santa Fe): Twin Palms, 1998. Square quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket, original black cloth clamshell box. WITH: Gelatin silver print, measuring 5-1/2 by 8 inches, matted; total piece measures 11 by 10 inches. $6000.Signed limited first edition, number 9 of only 150 copies signed by Davidson, and one of only 50 to include a matted gelatin silver print of young men outside a tattoo parlor from the book, also signed by Davidson, in pencil on the verso, featuring 71 sheet-fed photogravure plates.In book form for the first time, this is the ""most memorable"" of Bruce Davidson's early photo essays, ""the grainy, cinematic record of the time he spent hanging out with a Brooklyn teen gang called the Jokers"" during the late 1950s (Roth, 196). Brooklyn Gang reflects Davidson's award-winning reputation as a ""poet of transition, drawn to places and moments on… Read More

1854. First Edition . (SLAVERY) (BURNS, Anthony). Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns. Boston: Fetridge, 1854. Slim octavo, modern half calf and marbled boards. $3000.First edition of a seminal pre-Civil War pamphlet on the 1854 arrest and Boston trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose return to his Virginia slave owner at the order of the Boston court sparked public fury and ""set Boston on its ear in the spring of 1854,"" inspiring Whitman to write his Boston Ballad and Thoreau to deliver his speech, Slavery in Massachusetts, to a July 4, 1854 antislavery rally.The trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, which ""set Boston on its ear in the spring of 1854….[was] nothing less than a pocket revolution"" (Von Frank, Trials of Anthony Burns, xii). The arrest and trial in Boston of Burns, whose Virginia slave-owner Suttle followed him there, was ""one of the most dramatic and famous incidents in the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave… Read More

1813. First Edition . BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale. London: T. Davison for John Murray, 1813. Thin octavo, original drab wrappers neatly respined; pp. (vi), 41, (1). Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000.First edition, scarce first issue on heavy watermarked paper, one of 12 copies requested of the publisher by Byron for personal distribution (second variant with Byron's name on the title page). The first of Byron's ""Oriental romances,"" including an early Westernized version of the vampire myth, in original wrappers.Byron's ""Fragment of a Turkish Tale"" became a publishing phenomenon, going through eight editions in its first year. The first of his ""Oriental romances"" or ""Turkish tales,"" The Giaour was followed soon after by ""The Bride of Abydos"" (1813), ""The Corsair"" (1814) and ""Lara"" (1814).… Read More

1923. BYRON. Poems of Lord Byron. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. Octavo, 20th-century full blue morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards with Cosway-style portrait on front board, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $10000.Handsomely printed edition of Byron's poems, beautifully bound by Asprey in a Cosway-style binding with a portrait of Byron inset on the front board. Cosway bindings (named in 1909 for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were the brainchild of John Harrison Stonehouse, managing director of London booksellers Henry Sotheran & Company, who in 1902 struck on the idea of embedding miniature paintings in the covers of richly-tooled bindings. He engaged the famous Rivière bindery to execute his idea in accordance with his own designs. Rivière brought into its employ Miss C.B. Currie with instructions to faithfully imitate Richard Cosway's detailed watercolor style of miniature painting. These delicate and… Read More