Search Results: Authors starting with I from Bauman Rare Books

1685. (CHARLES II) LILLY, William, et al. Sammelband of Almanacs for 1685, including Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, et al. London: J. Macock, et al., 1685. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, corners and spine panels tooled with Charles II's cipher, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $8500.Collection of ten English Almanacs published in the year of King Charles II's death, with numerous woodblock illustrations, bound for the king's personal library with his cipher on the spine panels and the corners of the covers.Includes: William Lilly's Merlini Anglici Ephemeris; John Gadbury's Ephemeris… with some further Remarques upon the late Triple Regal Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, not the Destroyer (as some have idly written) but great Advancer of Monarchy; both parts of Philoprotest's The Protestant Almanack, with a disquisition on ""Popish Fopperies""; Lancelot Goelson's Almanack; John… Read More

1662. First Edition . CHARLES I. Basilika: The Workes of King Charles, The Martyr. With a collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers concerning the Differences Betwixt His said Majesty and his Two Houses of Parliament. London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, Book-seller to His Most Sacred Majesty, 1662. Thick folio (10 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp. (16), 120, (2), 458, (12), 733, (7). $10,500.First folio edition of the works of King Charles I—the enormously popular (and vainly suppressed) testament to the executed monarch's political principles and spiritual devotion—the first edition directly approved by Charles II, beautifully printed with three magnificent double-page copper-engraved plates, engraved frontispiece (by Hollar) and title page, in lovely morocco-gilt with the king's coat of arms stamped in gilt on the covers.In late 1647, with tensions between… Read More

1798. First Edition . Kant, Immanuel. Der Streit der Facultäten in drey Abschnitten. Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolonius, 1798. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown leather, tan morocco spine label, marbled boards. $1350.First edition of this collection of three essays by Kant on the relationship between the faculties of philosophy, theology, law and medicine at the university.""Der Streit der Fakultäten first appeared in the autumn of 1798, published by Friedrich Nicolovius in Königsberg. The Conflict of the Faculties brings together three different essays Kant had written at various times. Sometime between June and October 1794, Kant wrote an essay on the prerogatives of the philosophical faculty in relation to the theological faculty of the university. Clearly it was at least partly an attempt to justify the manner in which he had circumvented the censors in publishing the Religion… After Wöllner's letter of reproof and Kant's subsequent promise not to… Read More

1845. First Edition . LEESER, Isaac. The Law of God. Edited, and with Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor, 5605 (1845). Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spine and spine labels laid back down; housed together in a custom clamshell box. $22,000.First edition of the “first English translation of the Pentateuch in America,” the 1845 Hebrew-English Bible by one of the most prominent and influential figures in American Jewish history, in handsome full contemporary calf bindings. Named hazan (cantor) of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia in 1829, Leeser's ""contributions to every area of Jewish culture and religion made him a major builder of American Judaism."" The publication of his Pentateuch was the first time that any portion of the Bible was published in America under Jewish auspices. ""The translation of the Bible was Leeser's great… Read More