Search Results: Titles starting with J from Bauman Rare Books

1774. First Edition . (CONTINENTAL CONGRESS). Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford at the London Coffee-House, 1774. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked, raised bands, marbled endpapers; pp. (2), 132. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $65,000.First edition, first issue, of the first official journal of the Continental Congress, one of the earliest publications of the American government, “a book of the greatest rarity.” Also presenting for the first time an attempt to design a seal to “represent emblematically a united nation” in America. An excellent copy in contemporary calf with half title.In response to the Coercive or Intolerable Acts, enacted by Parliament from March to June 1774, the colonies united together and sent delegates to the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia from September 5 through October 26, 1774. Their objective was to… Read More

1819. First Edition . Signed. (CONSTITUTION) UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Journal, Acts and Proceedings of the Convention… which Formed the Constitution of the United States. Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1819. Octavo, contemporary brown sheep, rebacked with original spine laid down, red morocco spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $10,500.First edition of the Journals, Acts and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, held May 14 to September 17, 1787, one of only 1000 copies, printed by order of Congress, breaking the ""seal of secrecy"" and revealing publicly for the first time ""the Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings, and the Foreign Correspondence,"" the first and earliest obtainable account of the Constitutional Convention. This exceedingly rare association copy contains the owner signature on the title page of Caesar Augustus Rodney, the nephew and namesake of Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence and prominent leader… 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

1710. First Edition . (DEFOE, Daniel) (DUNTON, John) (SOMERS, John). The Judgment of Whole Kingdoms and Nations, Concerning the Rights, Power, and Prerogative of Kings, And the Rights, Priviledges, and Properties of the People: Shewing, The Nature of Government in General, both from God and Man… London: Printed for, and Sold by T. Harrison, 1710. Small octavo (5 by 8 inches), contemporary brown blind-stamped sheep sympathetically rebacked and recornered; pp. (i-vi), (blank), 1-71 (1). $6800.Rare 1710 edition of Judgment of Whole Kingdoms and Nations, preceded only by the 1709 edition titled Vox Populi; Vox Dei, a powerful and influential argument against absolute monarchy that would later be published throughout the colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. This is the work of Daniel Defoe and John Dunton, though in the past it has been attributed to John Somers.This provocative work, which examines principles of limited monarchy and the right of resistance to tyranny, is based on… Read More

1958. First Edition . Signed. RAWLS, John. ""Justice as Fairness."" REPRINTED FROM: The Philosophical Review, Volume LXVII, Number 2, pp. 164-94. WITH: Typescript signed with annotation [""Justice as Reciprocity""]. Bruges, Belgium: St-Catherine Press, circa 1958. Octavo, staple-bound as issued, original cream self-wrappers; pp. 30. WITH: Folio (8-1/2 by 11 inches), stapled-bound as issued, original cream self-wrappers; pp. 28. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $18,500.First separate edition of Rawls' landmark paper on the relationship between justice and fairness, accompanied by a typescript of his expanded and retitled version of the same paper, signed on the first page by Rawls and with an annotation in his hand reading: ""* Longer Version of 'Justice as Fairness' Phil Rev Apr 1958.""John Rawls ""was arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century"" (Internet Encyclopedia of… Read More