Authors starting with S from Bauman Rare Books

1886. SAINT-AMAND, Imbert de. The Memoirs of the Empress Marie Louise from the French. London: Remington, 1886. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, ornately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $400. Second edition of this revealing account of the Courts of Austria and France by Napoleon's second wife. "This historical study contains many hitherto unpublished details concerning the life of Napoleon's second wife, and is invested, b... more information

1732. (SAINT-HYACINTHE, Themiseul de). Le Chef d'Oeuvre d'un Inconu, Poëme heureusement découvert & mis au jour, avec des remarques savantes & recherchées, par M. le Docteur Chrisostome Matanasius. The Hague: Husson, 1732. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary full sheep gilt, blind armorial stamp on center of each upper board, raised bands, tan morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $1500. Sixth edition of the popular "Masterpiece of an Unknown," first published i... more information

1581. FIRST EDITION. SAINT-JULIEN, Pierre de. De l'origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquite des estats de Bourgongne, deux livres. Paris: Henri Thierry for Nicolas Chesneau, 1581. Small folio, full 18th-century polished armorial calf gilt, pp. (32), 647, (34). $4500. First edition, illustrated with six superb folding double-page plates comprising woodcut city maps of Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Macon, and Chalon-sur-Saone, and a view of Tournus, in a fine 18th-century armorial binding. Pierre de Saint-Julien... more information

1783. SALANDRI, Pellegrino. Poesie Scelte dell'Abate Pellegrino Salandri, Segretario Perpetuo della Reale Accademia delle Scienze e Belle Lettere. Mantua: Alberto Pazzoni, 1783. Octavo, contemporary full crimson close-grain morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, green morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $550. First edition of this collection of sonnets and lyrics by "one of the best sonneteers of the 18th century," beautifully bound in contemporary Italian morocco-gil... more information

1929. SIGNED. SALE, Charles (Chic). The Specialist. St. Louis, Missouri: Specialist Publishing, (1929). 12mo, contemporary full brown polished morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $250. Handsomely bound eleventh printing of this enormously popular work, inscribed by Sale on the title page, "Your rural friend, Chic Sale." The comic wisdom of a rural outhouse builder, written in dialect by a well-known vaudeville actor. Over time, The Specialist sold over 1,000,000 copies. With three ... more information

1809. FIRST EDITION. SALT, Henry. "Pagoda at Ramisseram." FROM: Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt. London: William Miller, 1809. Original hand-colored aquatint, measuring 25 by 18-1/2 inches; beautifully framed; entire piece measures 34-1/2 by 28 inches. $4500. Splendid, large hand-colored aquatint of the Ramanathaswamy temple, Plate IX from Salt's folio views of India, Egypt, Ceylon, Abyssinia, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, engrav... more information

1809. FIRST EDITION. SALT, Henry. "A View at Lucknow." FROM: Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt. London: William Miller, 1809. Original hand-colored aquatint, measuring 25 by 18-1/2 inches, beautifully framed; entire piece measures 34-1/2 by 28 inches. $4500. Splendid, large hand-colored aquatint prospect of the famous Asafi Mosque, Plate VI from Salt's folio views of India, Egypt, Ceylon, Abyssinia, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. En... more information

1809. FIRST EDITION. SALT, Henry. "Ancient Excavations at Carli." FROM: Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt. London: William Miller, 1809. Original hand-colored aquatint, measuring 25 by 18-1/2 inches, beautifully framed; entire piece measures 34-1/2 by 28 inches. $4500. Splendid, large, hand-colored aquatint of the ancient Buddhist Hall of Worship at Karli, Plate XIV from Salt's folio views of India, Egypt, Ceylon, Abyssinia, the Cape of Goo... more information

1954. FIRST EDITION. SANDERSON, Fred H. Methods of Crop Forecasting. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1954. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $150. First edition. "The first book to present a survey and critical appraisal of crop forecasting methods, with a discussion of the relations between the different approaches and an evaluation of their relative merits." Published as Volume XCIII in the Harvard Economic Studies series. Interior fine, two faint scratche... more information

1926. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SANTAYANA, George. The Works of George Santayana. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, original blue paper boards and beige cloth spines, gilt Triton emblems, paper labels, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $1500. The first collected edition of Santayana's works. The Triton edition signed by Santayana, number 419 of 940 sets. With previously unpublished facsimile material and prefaces written by the philosopher and poet express... more information

2005. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SARFATI, Lise. The New Life La Vie Nouvelle. (Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2005). Oblong quarto, original debossed black cloth, original dust jacket. $250. First edition, casebound, signed by Magnum photographer Sarfati on the page opposite the title page, with 50 exhibition-size four-color plates printed on heavy matt stock. In this beautifully produced photobook, The New Life, French photographer Lise Sarfati uses "color to bring texture and heat to" her images of "... more information

1943. FIRST EDITION. SAROYAN, William. The Human Comedy. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1943). Octavo, original pictorial red cloth, original dust jacket. $600. First edition of Saroyan's first full-length novel, illustrated by Don Freeman, the basis for the movie starring Mickey Rooney. A fine copy. A sentimental novel about a teenage boy on the homefront during World War II. Saroyan's "rhapsodic impressionist writing is at its best in the evocation of mood and the creation of character" ... more information

1936. FIRST EDITION. SARTON, George, editor. Osiris. Bruges: Sanctae Catharinae, 1936-1956. Twelve volumes. Quarto, original oversized tan paper wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened. $4800. First edition of the first twelve volumes of this important journal focusing on the history of science from ancient mathematics to alchemy in the Middle Ages to Indian astronomy. This journal, edited by respected Belgian-American science historian George Sarton, tracks the history of science and mathematics from an int... more information

1946. FIRST EDITION. SARTRE, Jean Paul. L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme. (Paris): Les éditions Nagel, (1946). Small octavo, original paper boards, original printed dust jacket, uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5800. Limited first edition of Sartre's popular—and controversial—discourse on existentialism, the work that firmly established him as one of France's preeminent intellectuals, number 172 of 500 copies on fine vellum-paper. "Sartre must be ... more information

1724. FIRST EDITION. SAUNDERS, James. The Compleat Fisherman. Being a Large and Particular Account of all the Several Ways of Fishing now practiced in Europe; with abundance of curious Secrets and Niceties in the Art of Fishing, as well in the Sea, as in Lakes, Meers, Ponds, Rivers or Brooks; whether by Darts, Spears, Harpoons, Nets, Hook and Line, or any other way whatsoever. London: Mears, Tooke and Motte, 1724. 12mo, 20th-century three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edg... more information

1942. SIGNED. (SAVITT, Jan) LEWIS, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago: circa 1942. Photographic print (10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), mounted, entire piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $100. Large photograph of the Jan Savitt, leader of the Philadelphia-based Big Band the Tophatters. The photograph, of Savitt leading with the snap of his fingers, is from the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago, and was taken by Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important locatio... more information

1860. (BOXING). Original Boxing Lithograph. London: George Newbold, 1860. Print measures 41 by 29 inches. Handsomely framed, entire piece measures 45 by 33 inches. $4500. Original lithograph printed in color depicting the World Championship boxing match between Tom Sayers and John Heenan held at Farnborough on April 17, 1860, one of the most exciting and famed events in the history of pugilism. Although British champion Tom Sayers was slightly below the average height and weight specifications for boxers... more information

1647. (POMPADOUR, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, mistress of Louis XV) SCHERVELUS, Theodorus. Harlemum, Sive Urbus Harlemensis. Leyden, 1647. Small quarto, full 18th-century calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. $4000. With the arms of Madame de Pompadour on the front cover. A first edition of Schrevelius' history of the Dutch city of Harlem, with the arms of Madame de Pompadour and stamped with the smaller variant of her arms (Olivier 2399, fer 1). With engraved... more information

1910. SCHILLER, Friedrich. Works. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Francis A. Nicholls & Company, [circa early 20th century]. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $2200. Limited "Lyceum Edition" of Schiller's works, number 263 of only 750 sets numbered for sale in the United States, with numerous full-page illustrations throughout, including fu... more information

1926. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (SCHMIED, François-Louis). WILDE, Oscar. Deux Contes. Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1926. Quarto, original illustrated portfolio, contents loose as issued, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000. First printing of this illustrated edition of two of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, one of 162 copies, this one out of series and dedicated and inscribed to Schmied's frequent collaborator, on the dedication page: "J'ai tiré cet exemplaire pour le Docteur J.... more information