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exceptional New Acquisitions spring 2019 1 opening selection BaumanRareBooks.com 1-800-97-bauman (1-800-972-2862) or 212-751-0011 [email protected] New York 535 Madison Avenue (Between 54th & 55th Streets) New York, NY 10022 800-972-2862 or 212-751-0011 Monday - Saturday: 10am to 6pm Las Vegas Grand Canal Shoppes The Venetian | The Palazzo 3327 Las Vegas Blvd., South, Suite 2856 Las Vegas, NV 89109 888-982-2862 or 702-948-1617 Sunday - Thursday: 10am to 11pm Friday - Saturday: 10am to Midnight Philadelphia (by appointment) 1608 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-546-6466 | (fax) 215-546-9064 Monday - Friday: 9am to 5pm all books are shipped on approval and are fully guaranteed. Any items may be returned within ten days for any reason (please notify us before returning). All reimbursements are limited to original purchase price. We accept all major credit cards. Shipping and insurance charges are addition- al. Packages will be shipped by UPS or Federal Express un- less another carrier is requested. Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog twitter.com/baumanrarebooks facebook.com/baumanrarebooks 2 Exceptional New Acquisitions spring 2019 Opening Selection 4 Science & Medicine 18 Travel & Exploration 28 Women 38 Americana 50 Artist’s Books & Illustrated Books 68 Literature 78 {Mark Twain 80–85} History & Thought 93 Index 107 on the cover Item No. 6 • opposite Item No. 16 • top Item No. 25 3 Opening Selection “I don’t know where [Chagall] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.” —Pablo Picasso 4 Inscribed Across A Two-Page Spread By Marc Chagall To His Daughter’s Sister-In-Law With Splendid Original Color Drawing By Chagall 1. CHAGALL, Marc. Lithographe 1957–1962 (Volume II only). France, 1963. Folio, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $28,500. First trade edition, French issue, of the second volume of this catalogue raisonné, one of 500 copies printed on Grand Vélin d’Arches paper sets, richly illustrated, beautifully inscribed across the entire two-page half title spread by Chagall to his daughter’s sister-in-law, Swiss psychoanalyst Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer: “Zurich. Pour Marian en souveur. Marc Chagall” [“For Marian in remembrance.”], with a beautiful color drawing by Chagall depicting a pink dove, a green tree, a pink person, and an orange donkey. For Chagall, the medium of lithography did not come easily. Printer Fernand Mourlot ran a lithography press where such greats as Braque, Matisse, Picasso, Miró and Chagall came to have their designs printed and to learn about this still nascent printmaking process. “For many long months Chagall came and worked tirelessly, and his dissatisfaction allowed him to have only a few of his first attempts printed” (Sorlier, 45). Text entirely in French. Published simulta- neously with a signed limited edition of only 150 copies on Grand Vélin d’Arches. Published simultaneously in French, German, and English. Without slipcase. Sorlier, 229. This copy is wonderfully inscribed to Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer. She was the sister of Franz Meyer, director of Basel’s Kunstmuseum from 1962- 1980. More importantly, Franz Meyer was the husband of Chagall’s daughter, making Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer Chagall’s daughter’s sister-in-law. The original drawings by Chagall include both a dove and a donkey—two well- known motifs in Chagall’s work. Perhaps most prominently, Chagall featured donkeys in his 1911 “L’ane vert” (The Green Donkey), his 1968 “La reve de l’ane” (The Donkey’s Dream), and his circa 1977 “Child with Dove” (depicting a child with a dove on his shoulder standing on the back of a donkey). Fine condition. 5 opening selection 6 see item no. 2 7 opening selection First Edition In English Of Albinus’ Superb 1749 Anatomical Atlas, Among The Greatest Illustrated Anatomical Works Of The 18th Century, With Plates “Unsurpassed For Their Beauty And Scientific Accuracy” 2. ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body. WITH: The Explanation of Albinus’s Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles. London, 1749, 1754. Together, two volumes. Large atlas folio (201/2 by 27 inches), 20th-century three-quarter plum morocco; quarto, 20th-century three-quarter brown calf rebacked. $27,000. First edition in English of one of the most famous an- atomical atlases of the 18th century, with 51 superb atlas folio copper-engraved plates (measuring ap- proximately 18 by 26 inches), drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. Together with the scarce sep- arately published supplemental text volume, The Explanation of Albinus’s Anatomical Figures, anon- ymously translated from Albinus’ original Latin. “Albinus’ Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, based on his concept of the ‘ideal man’… is among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases. Albinus and his artist Jan Wandelaar used some ingenious methods to prepare the illustrations… Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illu- sion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoc- eros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at the Amsterdam zoo in 1741... Albinus and Wandelaar adopted the creature as a symbol of their atlas, which depicted the human body” (Norman Library 29). “The first 12 plates are some of the most beau- tiful plates in the history of engraving” (Norman, Medicine and the Life Sciences). The plates “estab- lished a new standard in anatomical illustration and remain unsurpassed for their artistic beauty and scientific accuracy” (Garrison-Morton, 5th ed., 399). This is the first edition in English, complete with 40 copperplate engravings. This copy has been bound with Albinus’ edition of Eustachius’ A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves (London, 1750), which contains 11 additional plates. The two works were often bound together, as the second work is considered a supplement to the first. The first edition of Albinus’ atlas, also with 40 engraved plates, was published in Leiden in 1747 in Latin; the second Latin edition was pub- lished in London in 1749 by the Knaptons, who published this first English translation later that same year. Choulant/Frank 27683. Contemporary ink owner signature to title page of Explanation. Atlas folio with closed tear to first title page repaired on verso; small closed tear to third title page, just affecting imprint. Text and plates generally quite clean, expert restoration to spine ends, binding sound and attractive. Quarto text vol- ume with occasional foxing. A near-fine copy of this scarce and desirable work. 8 Extraordinary Illuminated Leaf From A French Book Of Hours, Circa 1460, Featuring A Beautiful Image Of The Martyrdom Of St. Sebastian 3. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours. Savoy, circa 1460. Single vellum leaf (41/4 by 53/4 inches), illuminated in gold, black, white, gray, red, yellow, green, blue, and brown inks; window matted and framed, entire piece measures 13 by 10 inches. $10,750. Beautiful illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, circa 1460, featuring a domed miniature of the martyr- dom of St. Sebastian; a four-line initial; four lines of text from the Suffrages; and a lovely border. This beautiful illuminated leaf is from a Book of Hours from Savoy circa 1460. It comprises four lines from the Suffrages and a lovely domed miniature depicting the martyrdom of St. Sebastian by two archers. The verso is similar with one two line initial and 17 lines of red and black batarde script. This leaf appears to the be work of an artist in the circle of the Vienna Roman de la Rose Master, a Lyonnaise artist first identified in 1993 by Francois Avril. Fine condition. 9 opening selection “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.” —Song of Solomon 4:7 “To Visualize The Events Of The Bible In A Grand Style”: Magnificent Large Folio Extra Illustrated King James Bible, Cambridge 1660, With 128 Wonderful Double-Page Engravings After The Great Masters And Eight Large Maps Including A Double-Page Plan Of Jerusalem 4. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament. Cambridge, 1660, 1659. Two volumes. Large, thick folio (13 by 191/2 inches), contemporary full paneled black morocco gilt rebacked with original spines neatly laid down. $32,000. 10 Monumental 1660 Cambridge edition of the King James Bible, rich- Its illustrations were works of the best artists, and allowed those ly illustrated with engraved title page, 128 double-page engravings who could afford the book to visualize the events of the Bible in a by Visscher, Hollar, Lombart and others after Rubens, De Bruyn de grand style” (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford). “The fin- Vos, Tintoretto and others, eight folding maps (including a double est edition of the Holy Bible then extant” (Lowndes, 1367). The col- hemisphere by John Seller and a plan of Jerusalem), 13 engraved lation and number of plates vary greatly from copy to copy—the portraits of apostles and 12 small plates mounted on four sheets present copy is bound with the largest number of illustrations we of scenes from Revelations. Beautifully bound in nicely restored have seen offered. The most expensive of these Bibles were ruled contemporary paneled morocco-gilt. in red—as is this copy. Without the Volume II title page or sepa- The King James Version of the Bible (first published 1611) has ex- rate New Testament title page. Engraved general title page depicts ercised an incalculable impact on piety, language and literature Solomon (i.e., the restored Charles II) enthroned.