Titles starting with D from Bauman Rare Books

1965. SIGNED. COPLAND, Aaron. Dance Panels: Ballet in Seven Sections. London: Boosey & Hawkes, (1965). Quarto, original printed wrappers. $1200. First edition of the reduction for piano solo of Copland's ballet, inscribed by the composer on the title page, "For Stuart Wright, from Aaron Copland 1977." Copland composed his ballet Dance Panels in 1959, and revised it in 1962 for the German choreographer Heinz Rosen. Rosen choreographed the ballet's first performance, by the Bavarian S... more information

1984. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FREED, Leonard. La danse des fidèles [The Dance of the Faithful]. (Paris): Chêne, (1984). Oblong quarto, original slate gray cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $550. First and only edition of Magnum photographer Freed's celebration of Jewish culture in Europe, Israel and the United States, with 79 vibrant, full-page heliogravures, inscribed by Freed, "For Niomi and Leonard/Leonard Freed & Brigitte/1985." In La danse des fidèles Bro... more information

1974. FIRST EDITION. SEYMOUR, David (CHIM). David Seymour—"Chim" 1911-1956. New York: Grossman/Viking, 1974. Square quarto, original stiff photographic wrappers. $150. First edition, in wrappers, of a retrospective tribute to "Chim"-Magnum Photos co-founder David Seymour—with over 65 photogravures, featuring his powerful image of a child victim of the Holocaust on the cover. David Seymour, best known as "Chim" (from his original surname Szymin), revolutionized 20th... more information

1843. FIRST EDITION. (FLY FISHING) SCROPE, William. Days And Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed; With a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions To Sportsmen, Anecdotes, Etc. London: John Murray, 1843. Octavo, late 19th-century full red crushed levant morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. $1800. First edition, illustrated with 13 tinted lithographic plates, including vignette title page, frontispiece, and three vibrantly hand-colored... 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

1916. (NUYTTENS, Josef Pierre) BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Immortal Decameron. New Castle, Pennsylvania: C.B. Randall, 1916. Five volumes. Large, slim folio, publisher's full crushed blue morocco gilt, raised bands, white watered silk doublures, top edges gilt, uncut. $5500. Beautifully printed and illustrated English translation of The Decameron, one of only 140 sets signed by the publisher C.B. Randall—his own copy—with portrait frontispiece, nine original etchings and 11 large hand-painted i... more information

1876. FIRST EDITION. MARGRY, Pierre. Decouvertes et etablissements des Francais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: D. Jouaust, 1875 [i.e. 1876]-86. Six volumes. Octavo, original gray paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. $1200. First edition of this collection of "memoires et documents originaux" relating to the French exploration of North America (1614-1754). "Reports, journals and letters, many here first printed, illuminating French explorations and I... more information

1809. (JUDAICA—FRENCH). Printed document. Décret Impérial Concernant les Juifs qui n'ont pas de nom de famille et de prénoms fixes. A Bayonne, le 20 juillet 1808 [Imperial Decree concerning Jews without family names and fixed first names]. Paris: Chez Rondonneau, au Dépôt des Lois, [1809]. Quarto, one leaf printed on recto and verso, uncut. $6500. Scarce printing of this landmark decree responsible for most of the names now used by Jews from Central and Eastern E... more information

1809. FIRST EDITION. (OSTERMAN, Georgii) GLASVITS, Ludovicum de. Dedication Book to Georgii Osterman, Commander of the Austrian Infantry. No place, dated 1809. Folio, full rose velvet, marbled endpapers, spine stitched with heavy gold cord attached to a custom brass case holding large (5 3/4 inch diameter) red wax royal seal of the Emperor Francis; ten leaves on vellum. $1200. 1809 illuminated manuscript honors book with royal wax seal, dedicated to the Commander of the Austrian Infantry in the region of ... more information

1952. FIRST EDITION. WOLD, Herman. Demand Analysis. A Study in Econometrics. Stockholm and New York: Almqvist & Wiksell and John Wiley & Sons, (1952). Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. $400. First edition of this accomplished econometric analysis of consumer demand in Sweden. This upper-level work concentrating on econometric analysis of consumer demand, focusing on particular on the case of Sweden. It uses real world data and observations in conjunction with economic theory to ... more information

1933. FIRST EDITION. HABERLER, Gottfried. Der Internationale Handel. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. Tall octavo, original paper wrappers, uncut and partially unopened. $650. First edition of Haberler's innovative theory of the connections among the world's economies as well as the representation and analysis of international trade policy. With 35 economic models, including tables and graphs. Haberler was one of the first economists to argue that unrestricted international trade increases producti... more information

2003. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. TURNLEY, Peter and TURNLEY, David et al. Carnets de Guerre d'Irak. Desert Diaries. Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. (Santa Fe): Channel Photographics, (2003). Square quarto, original red laminated photographic boards. $450. First edition of this powerful record of the War in Iraq throughout early 2003, this association copy twice signed by award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley (on the page before the title page and on the title page), with 93 full-page photogravu... more information

1909. SIGNED. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: Constable & Company, 1909. Quarto, original full vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt, uncut, green silk ties. $600. Signed limited edition, number 76 of 250 copies signed by illustrator W. Lee Hankey, with full-color frontispiece, 39 mounted color plates, 14 black-and-white full-page illustrations, and 36 black-and-white in-text illustrations. "All Goldsmith's work is like a tapestry… threaded through wit... more information

1854. (SLAVERY) HILDRETH, Richard. Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854. Octavo, original dark brown decorative cloth, gilt-stamped spine. $265. Enlarged edition with added chapter on the legal basis of slavery. In a style variously described as solid, bold, copious, terse or caustic, Hildreth wrote numerous controversial pamphlets dealing primarily with slavery and abolition. Despotism in ... more information

1971. FIRST EDITION. McCULLIN, Donald. The Destruction Business. (London): Open Gate, (1971). Oblong quarto, original laminated stiff photographic wrappers. $450. First edition of McCullin's dramatic first photobook —"a series of iconic images of war, images that still have the power to shock" (Parr & Badger)—featuring 81 black-and-white photogravure plates. Through his award-winning coverage of wars throughout Africa and Asia, "Don McCullin is recognized as one of the gr... 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

1776. FIRST EDITION. BUTEL-DUMONT, Georges-Marie. Essai Sur Les Causes Principales Qui Ont Contribue a Detruire les Deux Premieres Races des Rois de France. Paris: chez la veuve Duchesne, 1776. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, black spine label, both boards gilt-stamped with arms of Turgot, marbled endpapers and edges. $2500. First edition of Butel-Dumont's inquiry into the demise of France after Charlemagne, with the gilt arms of a member of the Turgot family... more information

1840. FIRST EDITION. (JOHANNOT, Tony) LE SAGE, Alain René. Le Diable Boiteux. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, 1840. Tall octavo, late 19th-century full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, with green morocco inlays on covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $850. Illustrated edition of Lesage's renowned satire, the first illustrated by Tony Johannot, with dozens of charming in-text wood engravings. This copy extra-illustrated with 13 engraved portraits of Le Sage ... more information

1950. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HEATH, Dave. A Dialogue with Solitude. New York: Community Press / Horizon, 1965. Quarto, original gray cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $6000. First edition of Heath's seminal photobook, featuring 82 vibrant duotone plates, this scarce association copy signed by photographer Margery Lewis Smith, longtime partner of this book's dedicatee, renowned photographer W. Eugene Smith. Shortly after its publication in 1965, Dave Heath's Dialogue with Solitude was ... more information