Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bauman Rare Books

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

1690. (SHAKESPEARE) [DRYDEN, John and DAVENANT, William]. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A Comedy. As it is now Acted At Their Majesties Theatre in Dorset-Garden. London: Printed by J. M. for H[enry] Herringman, 1690. Small quarto, 20th-century full navy morocco, all edges gilt. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. $9500.Fifth edition of the Restoration version of The Tempest by William Davenant and John Dryden, handsomely bound in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.After the end of the Puritan interval under Cromwell, the restored London theatre depended upon Shakespeare as a source of dramatic materials; but Shakespeare's plays, as he originally wrote them, did not suit the tastes of the newer audiences. Standards of versification and behavior had changed, and to meet the needs of contemporary audiences playwrights refurbished Shakespeare in adaptations that often proved enduring. The motivating force behind this Restoration Tempest was Sir William Davenant, the poet… Read More

1676. (SHAKESPEARE) [DRYDEN, John, and D'AVENANT, William]. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A Comedy: As it is now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London: Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, 1676. Small quarto, 19th-century three-quarter crimson morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $12,000.Third edition of D’Avenant and Dryden’s Restoration adaptation of The Tempest, the Bard’s bewitching tale of shipwreck and sorcery. The Foyle copy.Almost certainly the last work Shakespeare wrote by himself (in late 1610 or early 1611)—and, uniquely, his sole wholly original plot—The Tempest consistently proves as enchanting and enthralling to audiences as Prospero's spells. Horace Howard Furness' judgment on the character of Caliban applies just as easily to the play as a whole: ""Shakespeare has risen, I think, to the very height of creative power… [and] has accomplished the… 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

1948. Signed. SEUSS, Dr. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. New York: Random House, (1948). Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8000.Later edition of this much-loved Seuss title, inscribed on the dedication page by Dr. Seuss: ""For Michael Brennan, Best Wishes—Dr. Seuss.""The story of an over-hospitable moose ""is told in verses which march in double-quick time. The pictures are scenes of happy confusion"" (New York Times). Later edition, bound in blue paper boards, with seven-line copyright notice omitting lithographer, and without radiating white lines on front wrapper. Younger & Hirsch 77. Book with a couple spots of faint soiling, paper clip mark to first two pages, and dampstain to front board. Price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of wear to extremities. An extremely good inscribed copy.

1960. First Edition . Signed. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Harper & Row, (circa 1960). Octavo, original half taupe cloth, brown paper boards, original dust jacket. $5500.Later printing of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, inscribed by the author, “To The Russells, with best wishes, Harper Lee.”Harper Lee's portrayal of life in a small Alabama town captured the essence of the South at one of its most trying times. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is ""an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood"" (Jonathan Daniels). First issued in 1960. This copy is forty-ninth printing. Book fine, bright dust jacket with only lightest wear to spine ends and a half-inch closed tear at rear flap fold. An about-fine inscribed copy.

1883. First Edition . BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month search for gold was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton's report that ""there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked,"" a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. ""The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in"" (Rice,… Read More

1822. First Edition . (SAMS, William). A Tour through Paris. London: William Sams, [1825]. Tall folio (11 by 15 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands. $5800.Second edition of this vividly illustrated tour of the streets and inhabitants of early 19th-century Paris, with 21 finely hand-colored folio aquatint plates.The vibrant plates feature ""Street Characters""—scenes of everyday city life rather than stately monuments, such as jugglers, vendors, dancers, porters, stilt-walkers, itinerants, fishmongers, flower sellers, soldiers, water-carriers, and the wealthy on promenade. Plates watermarked ""J. Whatman/ Turkey Mill/ 1825."" First published in 1824 in an oblong format under the title A Tour of Paris, beginning in 1822 with four parts with a total of 16 plates; the fifth part with the remaining five plates was issued in 1824. The present edition was issued shortly thereafter, with a new title and letterpress text reset to conform with an upright… Read More

1694. First Edition . PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus. Traduction Entière de Petrone, Suivant le Nouveau Manuscrit Trouvé à Bellegrade en 1688. Cologne: Pierre Groth, 1694. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, covers with arms of the Comtesse de Verrue stamped in gilt as centerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $8800.First edition in French (with the original Latin on facing pages) of of Petronius' Satyricon, illustrated with 9 copper-engraved plates, bound in contemporary French morocco-gilt for Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, the Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736)—one of the greatest bibliophiles of her time—with her coat-of-arms as gilt centerpieces on all four covers. Also from the renowned De Bure and Hoe collections, with Jean Jacques de Bure's ownership signature and Robert Hoe's morocco bookplate.The Satyricon was composed in Latin in the first century A.D. Classical scholars… Read More

1664. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $14,500.The complete text of Shakespeare's great historical tragedy, Julius Caesar, from the rare and important Third Folio, on 11 original leaves (one leaf supplied from another copy of this edition). Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the first complete edition of Shakespeare's plays. The Third Folio is believed to be… Read More

1664. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $13,500.Sixteen original leaves from the rare and important Third Folio, containing the complete text of Shakespeare's historical drama, Richard III (with two leaves supplied from another copy of the same edition). Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the… Read More

1683. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. London: Printed for H. Heringham and R. Bentley, at the Blew Anchor in the New Exchange, and in Russell Street, in Covent Garden, 1683. Slim quarto, 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, all edges gilt; pp. (4), 88. $65,000.Exceptionally rare and desirable 1683 quarto edition of Hamlet, Shakespeare's most famous tragedy.""Shakespeare's standard play is Hamlet… the truest mirror of Shakespeare's personality and the ripest production of English literary art"" (Baugh, 527-8). Few dispute Samuel Johnson's declaration that ""Shakespeare is above all writers,"" or a view of Hamlet as ""theatre of the world, like The Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost or Faust, or Ulysses, or In Search of Lost Time… The phenomenon of Hamlet, the prince without the play, is unsurpassed in the West's imaginative literature"" (Bloom, Shakespeare, 383-4). The… Read More

1803. First Edition . SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'Économie Politique, ou Simple Exposition de la Manière dont se Forment, se Distribuent, et se Consomment les Richesses. Paris: [Printed by] Crapelet [for] Deterville, 1803. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full marbled calf rebacked, raised bands, original red morocco title spine labels, later green morocco volume spine labels, gilt seal of the ""Society of Writers to the Signet"" on front and rear covers. $15,000.First edition of this important contribution to the study of market economics, in the original French, in contemporary marbled calf boards.Say was among the first to divide the field of economics into the areas of production, distribution and consumption, to discuss the role of the entrepreneur, and to incorporate those ideas into a framework of laissez-faire liberalism. Of additional importance was his emphasis on utility as the determinant of value. ""Say is usually ranked with Smith… Read More

1795. First Edition . BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Trois Trios Pour le Piano-Forte, Violon, et Violoncelle. Composés & Dediés à Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Charles de Lichnowsky par Louis van Beethoven. Oeuvre 1re. Vienna: Artaria, [1795]. Oblong quarto, three separate parts neatly respined, pp. 65, 21, 17. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. $60,000.First edition, earliest issue, fully engraved, of Beethoven's Opus 1, the earliest compositions Beethoven considered to be ""worthy of publication with an opus number and to proclaim his name"" (Thayer), one of the earliest and rarest Beethoven first editions, one of very few complete copies extant. The jewel in the crown of any important music collection.As the manuscript of these trios is lost, the first edition is the primary source. After his first trip to Vienna in 1787, Beethoven returned to the Austrian capital in the early 1790s to study with Joseph Haydn. In March 1795 he had his public… Read More

1896. HAMLIN, Augustus C. Two manuscript maps detailing ""Stonewall"" Jackson's flank attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville. WITH: The Battle of Chancellorsville. Maps: No place, circa 1890s. (Book: Bangor, Maine: by the Author, 1896). Two maps on one folio leaf of oilcloth and one quarto leaf of paper; map on oilcloth measures 16 by 10-3/4 inches, accomplished in red, brown and black ink with green watercolor; map on paper measures 8 by 10-1/2 inches, accomplished in black, blue and red ink, entitled ""Map No. 3 Time 10 PM to 12 M May 2, 1863. (Book: octavo, original cloth). $15,000.Remarkable set of two spectacular hand-drawn and hand-painted maps documenting ""Stonewall"" Jackson's daring flank attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville where he would be mortally wounded, finely and meticulously accomplished by the nephew of Abraham Lincoln's Vice President: artist, author, and Harvard-educated Union military surgeon Augustus C.… 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

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

1949. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter twice signed ""Papa"" to Peter Viertel. Finca Vigia, Cuba, 29 September 1949. Quarto, two sheets of Hemingway's ""Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba"" stationery, each leaf measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches, typed in black ink, single-spaced, on one side of each leaf for two full pages of typed text, heavily annotated in pen by Hemingway. $42,000.Extraordinary typed and heavily annotated letter from Hemingway in Cuba to friend and fellow author and screenwriter Peter Viertel in Malibu, California, a long, lively letter discussing his writing progress, a proposed trip, hunting and shooting pigeons, drinking, baseball and a new whore in town, with over 150 words of additional notes written in the margins and on the verso of the second page in blue ink by Hemingway. Twice signed as 'Papa.'.The letter, on Hemingway's Finca Vigia stationery, addressed to Peter Viertel in Malibu, CA, reads in full [with… Read More

1944. First Edition . Signed. KENNEDY, John F. Typed letter signed with autograph postscript. WITH: As We Remember Joe. Hyannisport and Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 6, 1944 / 1945. Single leaf of letterhead, measuring 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches; p. 1. Book: octavo, original maroon cloth. Housed together in a custom clamshell box. $25,000.Exceptional typed letter by John F. Kennedy to a close family friend, Richard Flood, requesting that Flood write a short essay on Joe Kennedy for the tribute book, We Remember Joe, signed by JFK and with signed autograph postscript reading: ""If you have any ideas on this—give me a call—Best Jack—Did [illegible] come through?"" Together with a first edition, first issue copy of the book.The letter, typed on Hyannisport stationery to family friend Richard Flood (a Harvard friend and classmate of Joe and a longtime friend and political campaigner for Jack), reads in full: ""October 6, 1944. Dear Dick: For some time I have… Read More