Spring2020.Pdf
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S Spring 2020 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 additional. Packages will be shipped by UPS or Federal Express unless another carrier is requested. Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. www.baumanrarebooks.com twitter.com/baumanrarebooks facebook.com/baumanrarebooks On the cover: Item no. 4. On this page: Item no. 79. Table of Contents 16 4 42 100 113 75 A Representative Selection 3 English History, Travel & Thought 20 Literature 38 Children’s Literature, Art & Architecture 58 Science, Economics & Natural History 70 Judaica 81 The American xperienceE 86 93 Index 103 A A Representative Selection R e p r e s e n t a t i v e S e l e c t i o n 4 S “Incomparably The Most Important Work In p The English Language”: The Fourth Folio Of r Shakespeare, 1685, An Exceptionally Lovely Copy i 1. SHAKESPEARE. Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, n Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true g Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio… The Fourth Edition. London, 1685. Folio, period-style full paneled calf gilt. $92,000. 2 Rare 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, first issue, with the 0 engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Droeshout in neat 2 facsimile, the ten-line poem by Ben Jonson and John Milton’s first 0 poem. The folios are “incomparably the most important work in the English language” (William A. Jackson). The “four folios of Shakespeare” are the first four editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays, which were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century. At that time, plays were not considered “serious literature”; they were to be performed and attended and often survived only in manuscript form. Hence, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works did not appear until seven years after his death, and 17 of the 36 plays included had never been published before (and might have been lost had the folios not been printed). This Fourth Folio “contains the additional seven plays that first appeared in the 1663 [third folio] edition [only one of which, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is now attributed to Shakespeare], as well as a good deal of correction and modernization of the text designed to make it easier to read and understand” (Folger’s Choice 6). It was the last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the 17th century—last to appear before the editorial onslaught of the next hundred years. It became the edition of choice for future editors. The Fourth was printed on Dutch Demy Royal sheets, a larger format than any of its predecessors, and the type “is in a larger font than the three earlier editions, and more liberally spaced” (Jaggard, 497). In addition to Ben Jonson’s famous epitaph, this edition also includes the unsigned Epitaph for Shakespeare, regarded as John Milton’s first published poem, written when he was a student at Cambridge and appearing for the first time in the Second Folio (1632). Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare supplied in facsimile. First issue, without Richard Chiswell listed in the imprint statement. For this fourth edition, Shakespeare’s text was cast off to three different printers, who typeset their sections simultaneously, thus shortening the time it took to bring the edition to market. When the work was finished, there was a shortage of 17 sheets from the second section, which were then hastily reprinted without the characteristic borders around the text. All of the relevant sheets in this present copy, however, are the original settings, with the page-borders. Although there is no accurate census of the number of folios still extant today, it is believed that copies of each printing number only in the hundreds. Two leaves of Titus Andronicus, [*Ccc6] and *Ddd, pages 299-302, bound out of order within the following play, Romeo and Juliet; two leaves of Romeo and Juliet bound out of order: *Eee3 follows *Eee4 and [*Eee6] follows [*Eee5]. Text complete. Title page skillfully remargined; marginal closed tear to leaf Y3. A clean and beautifully bound copy of one of the great rarities in English literature. 5 A R e p r e s e n t a t i v e S e l e c t i o n “I Have Done And Will Do My Utmost To Make The Book… One Which Will Have Its Place In Our Literature”: Rare And Important Signed Limited Edition Of Churchill’s Scarce Marlborough, “The Most Desirable Of First Editions”—Publisher George Harrap’s Copy, Together With An Exceptional Archive Of Six Letters Signed By Churchill To Harrap Regarding Marlborough’s Composition And Publication 2. CHURCHILL, Winston. Marlborough: His Life and Times. WITH: Six letters signed by Churchill to the publisher, George Harrap. London, 1933-38. Four volumes, plus portfolio of letters. Octavo, original publisher’s deluxe full russet morocco gilt; letters housed in custom portfolio. $55,000. Signed limited first edition, one of 155 sets signed by Churchill in Volume I, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles, in handsome publisher’s deluxe morocco—the only signed edition of all Churchill’s works. The copy of publisher George Harrap, with his bookplate in Volume I and II, and with a trove of six signed letters from Churchill to Harrap regarding the composition and publication of Marlborough. Churchill wrote this history of his famous ancestor to refute earlier criticisms of Marlborough by Macaulay. “Though it was a commissioned work, Churchill would not have invested nearly a million words and ten years had it not had special significance for him. For he wrote about a man who was not only his ancestor... but also a supreme example of heroism in the two vocations which mainly interested Churchill and in which ultimate triumph seemed to have eluded him— politics and war making” (Wiedhorn, 110). “It may be his greatest book... Only in [Marlborough’s] pages can one glean an understanding of the root of the speeches which inspired Britain to stand when she had little to stand with” (Langworth, 164). 6 The correspondence included with this signed limited edition of Marlborough includes four typed letters signed “Winston S. Churchill” or “W. Churchill,” two with autograph postscripts, to George Harrap, S February 1, 1931, through May 6, 1936, three on one leaf each of Chartwell, Westerham, Kent letterhead, p and one on two leaves; an autograph note initialed, and signed “Winston S. Churchill” to Harrap, with r Harrap’s autograph note, January 19 [no year], on one leaf of Blenheim Palace letterhead; a typed letter i with autograph postscript signed “W” to General Sir Bindon Blood, June 15, 1934, on one leaf of Chartwell, n Westerham, Kent letterhead; along with an Associated Press black-and-white photograph of Churchill at g lunch with Harrap, 8 by 6 inches. Notable quotations from the letters include: “I grudge these speeches which make such inroads on my 2 time”; “I am happiest in the 18th Century”; “I have done and will do my utmost to make the book which your 0 long established firm is producing, one which will have its place in our literature”; “The personal relations of Anne and Sarah and of Anne and Marlborough, the extraordinary political struggles between the Whigs 2 and the Tories, and the three great battles of Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, should give us a very 0 good story… I shall have to be very careful to keep within two hundred thousand words”; and “Ding-dong on the India front!” Marlborough is “the only signed… edition in the Churchill canon and one of only two publisher’s leatherbound first editions… clearly this is the most desirable of first editions” (Langworth, 168-69). Issued simultaneously with the trade edition. Errata slips present in Volumes I-III, as called for. Cohen A97.1.a. Woods A40a. The copy of publisher George Harrap, with his bookplates in Volumes I and II. Interiors generally clean, spines sunned, light wear to slipcases, often not present. Letters fine. An exceptionally desirable signed association copy, with important extensive correspondence from Churchill. 7 A R e p r e s e n t a t i v e S e l e c t i o n “The Most Elaborate And Beautiful Of All 17th-Century English Treatises On Anatomy”: With 105 Magnificent Large Folio Anatomical Plates By Lairesse 3. COWPER, William. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life by the Best Masters in Europe. Leyden, 1737. Atlas folio (15 by 21 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked. $14,500. Second edition of Cowper’s splendid large folio anatomical atlas, one of the greatest of all artistic anatomies.