Search Results: Authors starting with C from Bauman Rare Books

1890. (CONSTANTINOPLE) (ISTANBUL) FETTEL, Constantine J. Panorama de Constantinople [cover title]. (Constantinople: C.J. Fettel, 1882). Oblong folio (15 by 13 inches), original half red morocco, gilt-decorated red cloth, accordion-fold (leporello) panorama of ten vintage albumen prints (each measures 10-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, for a total panoramic view of 8-3/4 feet); mounted on card stock, with cloth hinges. $5200.Rare exceptionally large photographic panorama of Constantinople from 1882, by Constantine J. Fettel, with ten mounted vintage albumen prints linked together to offer a wonderful accordion-fold panoramic image of the city spanning nearly nine feet in length—an exceptional view of majestic mosques, churches and palaces—in original gilt-stamped cloth binding.This splendid gilt-stamped Panorama album of Constantinople contains an exquisite accordion-fold panoramic view of the city, dated 1882 on the rear board. Created by the Mideast studio of Constantine J. Fettel, the album displays… Read More

1935. First Edition . FORESTER, C.S. The African Queen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. Octavo, original beige and green cloth, original dust jacket. $5000.First American edition of Forester's beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston's 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, in scarce dust jacket.""I recommend Forester to every literate I know,"" Hemingway once said. Born Cecil Smith in Egypt, C.S. Forester grew up in England to become one of its most popular authors with his adventures of Horatio Hornblower and, in The African Queen, an unlikely romance between a Cockney boat pilot and a headstrong missionary that produced one of Hollywood's most legendary films, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in his only Oscar-winning role. ""The cornerstone item in any serious Forester collection"" (Smiley, 39). Published the same year in England with a ""happier, if not entirely satisfying… Read More

1891. First Edition . COWLES, Calvin D., compiler. An Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-95. Three volumes. Large folio (16 by 18-1/2 inches), original red cloth rebacked and recornered in modern red morocco. $11,500.First edition of this superb atlas, with 175 double-folio plates, containing 821 colored maps and charts, 106 tinted lithographs after original photographs, and 209 line drawings of equipment, uniforms, insignia, and flags.""The most important work in the literature of the Civil War, the O.R. is the official government compilation of Civil War records, orders, dispatches, messages and correspondence relating to the military operations of the war… The monumental task of compiling records of the Civil War began with a joint resolution of Congress on 19 May 1864 and was continued by many individuals under the supervision of 16 successive secretaries of war"" (Eicher 863). This… Read More

1813. First Edition . (ALBANIA) (GREECE) (TURKEY) HOBHOUSE, John Cam. A Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia. London: Printed for James Cawthorn, 1813. Thick quarto, contemporary three-quarter calf neatly rebacked, marbled boards. $9500.First edition of Hobhouse's classic account of his travels through Albania and Turkey with his close friend, Lord Byron. Illustrated with two folding maps, 17 splendid hand-colored aquatint plates (including seven double-page views of Athens, the Acropolis, the Parthenon, Constantinople, the Seraglio, etc., and seven costume plates heightened in gold), engraved frontispiece, one engraved plan, two plates of facsimile letters and two plates of Greek music.""This famous account of the tour Hobhouse made with Byron in 1809 and 1810 is an important source for that period of the latter's life as well for the intellectual movement prior to the outbreak of the Greek insurrection. On his return, Hobhouse embarked on a long… Read More

1787. First Edition . (CONSTITUTION) CAREY, Mathew, editor. The American Museum, Or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical. Volume II, Numbers I-VI. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, July-December, 1787. Thick octavo, original marbled boards rebacked and recornered to style in calf gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (i), (1-3), 4-11, (12-15), 16 (17), 18-103, (104-107), 108-199, 203, 201-206, (207-211), 212-311, (312-315), 316-415, (416-419), 420-518, (519-523), 524-600, 1-15, (16-17), 18-22. $18,500.First edition of a true American classic: Mathew Carey's American Museum for 1787 (Volume II: Nos. I-VI), containing in the September issue the first serial printing of the U.S. Constitution and featuring the first serial printings of the first six Federalist papers issued outside of New York City, in original marbled boards.As Mathew Carey foresaw in the Preface to this volume's July issue of The American Museum, its ""good effects… are likely… Read More

1926. First Edition . Signed. (LINCOLN) SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1926). Two volumes. Octavo, original half white cloth, printed paper spine labels, top edges gilt, untrimmed, original plain paper dust jackets. $4000.Signed limited first edition of Sandburg's first biography of Lincoln, number 112 of only 260 copies printed, signed by Sandburg on the limitation page.""For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face"" (Preface). ""The most popular Lincoln biography yet written…"" (Monaghan 2877). Profusely illustrated. Second state,… Read More

1671. First Edition . (JEFFERSON, Thomas) STEPHANO, Carolo (ESTIENNE, Charles). Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum. Oxford: Gul. Wells & Rob. Scott, 1671. Small folio (8 by 12 inches), contemporary full dark brown calf rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine panels neatly laid down, raised bands. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $80,000.A superb Presidential association copy—Thomas Jefferson's personal copy with his characteristic ownership markings of an important historical dictionary based on Estienne’s famous 16th-century Dictionarium, “the first French encyclopedia.” This is an early reissue of editor Nicholas Lloyd’s Oxford 1670 edition, in Latin, an updated and improved edition of Estienne’s work that was “superior to any of the previous editions.” From the renowned Americana collection of Mrs. Philip D. Sang, in contemporary calf. Rare and desirable. This volume was in Jefferson's final ""Retirement… Read More

1950. First Edition . Signed. CHAGALL, Marc. Verve. Contes de Boccace. Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve, 1950. Folio, original lithographic dust jacket over boards. $5800.First edition of this exceptional volume of 26 Chagall heliogravures, accompanied by 26 tipped-in color prints from a medieval miniaturist, boldly signed by Chagall on the half title. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and friend of Chagall.The art critic Stratis Eleftheriades, under the nom de plume Tériade, published the art journal Verve in Paris from 1937 to 1960. He commissioned famous artists of the day, from Matisse to Picasso and Chagall, to provide works for the journal, with numerous lithographs appearing for the first time in his publications. This volume is particularly notable for the unusual medium (for Chagall) used: ""New washed drawings in India ink, which are quite unrelated to anything he had done before. Using black diluted in every possible… Read More

1613. MONTAIGNE. Essayes Written In French… Done Into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio. London: Melch, Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613. Folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked and recornered, gilt ornamental lozenges, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $16,000.Second edition in English of Montaigne’s seminal masterpiece, with the important Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest (circa 1611), a work profoundly influenced by Lucretius, who is quoted almost a hundred times in the work, a splendid folio volume in contemporary calf boards. ""Montaigne startles the common reader at each fresh encounter, if only because he is unlike any preconception we bring to him… His scope and capaciousness sometimes approach Shakespearean dimensions… Montaigne's [is]… the first personality ever put forward by a writer as the matter of his work. Walt… Read More

1869. Signed. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed. WITH: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Kent, United Kingdom, November 24, [1869] and New York: D. Appleton, 1870. Single sheet of unlined paper, measuring 5 by 8 inches folded; pp. 4. Housed in a custom cloth portfolio. WITH: Octavo, original purple cloth. Housed together in a custom clamshell box. $125,000.Very rare and desirable signed autograph letter from Charles Darwin to American publisher D. Appleton's London agent, Charles Layton, agreeing to a second American edition of the Origin of Species, with a slightly raised price, but requiring that Appleton also commit to an American edition of The Descent of Man. Accompanied by the second American edition of Origin of Species in original cloth.The letter, written entirely in Darwin's hand and dated ""Nov. 24th. Beckenham [Kent],"" reads in full: ""Dear Sir, I am much… Read More

1998. Signed. SCHULZ, Charles M. D-Day Snoopy print inscribed. WITH: Schulz archive. Santa Rosa, California, 1998, 1976-2000. Framed print, measuring 20-1/2 by 12 inches. WITH: Typed letter signed, measuring 7-1/2 by 11 inches; photographic print, measuring 16 by 11 inches; autograph letter signed (Mrs. Jean Schulz) and envelope, measuring 5 by 3-1/2 inches; pp. 2; and three Snoopy calendars. $9800.Extraordinary archive of items sent from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and family to Shulz's World War II army buddy, Father Victor Gibson, including a beautiful limited edition—possibly unique—hand-colored framed print of Snoopy listening to Eisenhower's D-Day speech inscribed: ""For Vic with friendship—Sparky [Schulz's nickname]—""; the typed letter that accompanied the print and in which Schulz also apologized for his inability to attend a veterans' reunion, signed by Schulz as Sparky; a photographic print depicting Schulz's Army Company in… Read More

1968. First Edition . Signed. SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Treasury. WITH: Typed letter signed. [New York]: (United Feature Syndicate, 1968); Sebastopol, California, October 14, 1968. Quarto, original gray cloth, original dust jacket; Single leaf of Peanuts stationery measuring 6-1/2 by 7 inches. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $11,000.First edition on this wonderful collection of Peanuts comic strips, inscribed by the cartoonist with a scarce full-page sketch of Lucy: “For Addie with every best wish—Charles Schulz,” and accompanied by an original typed note on Schulz’s own Peanuts stationery empathizing with a Mrs. Peppard over an illness, expressing regrets that they did not meet at a hockey game at which Bobby Hull played, offering her this Peanuts, and expressing kindest regards, signed by Charles Schulz.The Peanuts Treasury collects hundreds of black-and-white daily and Sunday strips from Schulz's classic comic. Accompanying this copy is a typed signed letter written on… 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

1866. Signed. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed. Down, Beckenham, Kent: Dec 17, [1866]. One leaf of black-edged mourning stationery, measuring 4-1/2 by 7 inches, penned on recto for one page; floated, matted and framed with an early photographic card; entire piece measures 17 by 14 inches. $39,500.Fine unpublished 1866 autograph letter written by Charles Darwin, answering the questions of an anonymous correspondent concerning editions of his landmark work, On the Origin of Species, boldly signed by him with his full name ""Charles Darwin"" (he often used ""C."" or ""Ch."" instead of his full given name). Beautifully framed with an early photgraphic card.The letter reads, in full: ""Down Beckenham Kent, Dec. 17th. Dear Sir, Four editions of the Origin have appeared; that published last month is considerably added to & can be procured through any bookseller. I am glad to hear that you are interested in the subject.… 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

1855. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857. Nineteen parts (20 numbers). Octavo, original pictorial blue paper wrappers (several sympathetically respined or repaired). Housed in custom chemise and slipcase. $5200.First edition, first issue, in the original serialized parts, with cover design and illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.Little Dorrit ""is a wonderfully rich novel—rich in ideas, rich in characterization, rich in incident, and written in a richly imaginative prose… many critics regard it as Dickens' masterpiece"" (Watts, 108). ""So it is that in Little Dorrit Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government, against its financiers, against its artists, and even against its ordinary citizens… In Little Dorrit, money itself is seen to be a faithless and corrupt delusion. Even when the Dorrits become rich, they cannot… Read More

1802. First Edition . BELL, Charles. The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings. BOUND WITH: A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves. London: Printed by C. Whittingham… for T.N. Longman et. al., 1802, 1803. Tall quarto (9-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary three-quarter brown calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine and red and black morocco spine labels laid down, marbled boards, endpapers and edges; [i-v] vi-vii, [1-3] 4-87 [1]; [4] [1-3] 4-49 [3]. $17,500.First editions of two seminal early works by Scottish surgeon Bell—Anatomy of the Brain (1802) and Series of Engravings (1803), with Anatomy wonderfully illustrated with 12 stipple-engraved anatomical plates (11 hand-colored)—-""engraved by Thomas Medland after Bell's own drawings… probably Bell's most beautiful work on neuroanatomy and one of the most beautifully illustrated in the entire literature""—and nine copper-engraved plates… Read More

1865. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. $6200.First edition in original parts of this Dickens favorite. A very nice copy in original wrappers, complete with all advertisements, handsomely boxed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.With Our Mutual Friend, ""Dickens has for the first time given serious consideration to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always an equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected."" But in Our Mutual Friend ""there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death… it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens' temperament exploring… Read More

1975. First Edition . Signed. SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975). Oblong folio (11-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches), original aluminum-covered boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9800.First edition, presentation copy of this celebration of Peanuts’ silver anniversary, wonderfully inscribed on the half title with a sketch of Snoopy, "" For Charlton Heston with friendship and every best wish—Charles M. Schulz."" With an additional typed letter signed by Schulz to Heston, remarking that ""I think you and Snoopy would do well as a team in an olympic chariot race.""In this treasury of his classic comic strips, Schulz reflects on his life and career, stating, ""It really does not matter what you are called, or where your work is placed, as long as it brings some kind of joy to some person someplace. To create something out of nothing is a… Read More

1924. First Edition . Signed. DARROW, Clarence. Plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, 1924, In Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. on Trial for Murder. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, [1924]. Octavo, original red- and black-printed front wrapper, plain rear wrapper. $6500.First edition, “authorized and revised” by Darrow from the trial speech, of his passionate defense of teenage murderers Leopold and Loeb, a presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication by him to the widow of his friend and legal colleague famed for a plan on permanent government ownership of the rails, ""To Marie Plumb from a long time friend and admirer of her and her husband Glenn Plumb with the best wishes of Clarence Darrow Oct 9, 1924,"" in fragile wrappers.""A tragedy of three young lost lives, a dead 14-year-old victim and the imprisonment of two teenage killers, unfolded in Chicago in 1924. The murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold… Read More