Titles starting with E from Bauman Rare Books

1980. FIRST EDITION. SMITH, W. Eugene. W. Eugene Smith. Early Work. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, (Number 12, July 1980). Quarto, original stiff photographic wrappers. $125. First edition of one of the earliest posthumous collections of Smith's work, with 99 photogravures and numerous in-text images of his work from 1938-51, including many of his finest from WWII, as well as those from Country Doctor (1948) and Spanish Village (1951). "The life and work of W. Eugene Smith can be summe... more information

1826. FIRST EDITION. (ANONYMOUS). The Eccentric Traveller. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf rebacked, spines decorated in blind and gilt, red and brown leather labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $750. First edition, illustrated with vignette title pages and 44 full-page wood-engraved plates. In this derivative hybrid of Pilgrim's Progress and Don Quixote, "James, the Eccentric Traveller, sets out from the Castle of Carvanty, ... more information

1971. FIRST EDITION. ROBINSON, Joan. Economic Heresies. Some Old-Fashioned Questions in Economic Theory. (London): Macmillan, (1971). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $165. First edition of this attack on Keynesian orthodoxy, attempting to reexamine the theories of value, distribution, and accumulation so as to permanently reorient economic theory. In this work, economist Joan Robinson argues that the new Keynesian orthodoxy is simply neo-classical orthodoxy supported by differe... more information

1914. FIRST EDITION. MOORE, Henry Ludwell. Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause. New York: Macmillan, 1914. Octavo, original red cloth. $1500. First edition of Moore's classic work on economic cycles. The copy of Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Richard Stone. Once a student under Menger and a devoted follower of Leon Walras, Henry Ludwell Moore was the only American member of the Lausanne school of economics. The first econometrician, Moore focused primarily on economic estimation using applied sta... more information

1831. FIRST EDITION. BEETHOVEN, [Ludwig van]. Ouverture et Entr' actes d'Egmont composés par Beethoven. Leipsig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1831]. Octavo, 20th-century half red morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $4500. First edition of the full score of Beethoven's Egmont music, fully engraved. The copy of Charles Salaman, noted English composer. When commissioned to provide music for a performance of Goethe's Egmont, Beethoven "took it up with eagerness and excitem... more information

1649. FIRST EDITION. SOPHOCLES. Electra of Sophocles: Presented to Her Highnesse The Lady Elizabeth; With an Epilogue, Shewing the Parallell in two Poems, The Return, and The Restauration. By C.[hristopher] W.[ase]. The Hague: for Sam. Brown, 1649. 12mo, 18th-century full calf gilt rebacked, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4800. First edition of the first English translation of Sophocles, with engraved portraits of Charles II and Princess Elizabeth. Christopher Wase's Electra was the first Englis... more information

1970. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GOODWIN, Richard M. Elementary Economics from the Higher Standpoint. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. Octavo, original blue and green paper boards, original dust jacket. $750. First edition, presentation/association copy of this accessible work on economic analysis for the non-mathematician, inscribed by economist Richard M. Goodwin to Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen: "For Amartya who has I know a deep standing interest in these things, Dick G," with the additional ... more information

1871. LAMB, Charles. Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb. [London?]: [1871]. 12mo, mid-20th century three-quarter tan morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $325. Early edition of Lamb's previously uncollected essays, letters, tales and verse, handsomely bound by Root. These pieces, first published in 1864, "contain some of [Lamb's] finest qualities and peculiarities of his g... more information

1891. FIRST EDITION. GARRETT, Edmund. Elizabethan Songs in Honour of Love and Beauty. Collected and Illustrated by Edmund Garrett. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Boston: Little, Brown, 1891. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $400. First edition of this compendium of English verse. Profusely illustrated with 21 full-page tissue-guarded watercolor illustrations (reproduced by photogravure, six in sepia). Gift inscription and contemporary review pinned to front free endpaper. Book fine, s... more information

1929. (JUDAICA—PALESTINE) CHANCELLOR, Sir John Herbert (High Commissioner for Palestine). Minshar ["Manifesto"—Emergency Decree of the British High Commissioner Concerning the 1929 Riots]. Jerusalem: Press of the Greek Monastery, September 4, 1929. Broadside (measures 17 by 20 inches), printed on recto. Framed. $5500. Emergency decree in Hebrew issued by the British High Commissioner for Palestine announcing special power to be given to the Courts in conducting trials for those arreste... more information

1784. (ECONOMICS) DEMEUNIER, M., Editor. Encyclopedie Methodique Ou Par Ordre de Matieres; Par Une Societe de Gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes; Economie Politique et Diplomatique. Paris: Chez Panckoucke, 1784-88. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary half dark red polished calf gilt, marbled boards, renewed endpapers. $1350. First edition of this late 18th-century French encyclopedia of political economy, published at a time and place of dramatic political, economic and social upheaval, with fol... more information

2003. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ACKERMAN, Michael. End Time City. Zurich, Berlin, New York: Scalo, (1999). Oblong folio, original gray cloth, mounted cover photograph, original acetate dust jacket. $375. First edition in English, with text by Christian Caujolle and 73 photographs of the people of Benares by Ackerman, and signed and dated by him in the year of publication. This, Ackerman's first photobook, won the Prix Nadar, the prestigious French photobook award that has previously been won by such lum... more information

1935. GALSWORTHY, John. End of the Chapter. London: William Heinemann, (1935). Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. $350. First English edition, beautifully bound. Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga is "remarkable for a very sensitive and exact observation of life as well as for purity of style" (DNB). The final three novels, Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River, originally published separ... more information

1865. BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1865. Two volumes. Folio, early 20th-century full plum morocco gilt, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt. $1750. Limited edition, number 44 of only 75 copies printed, profusely extra-illustrated with nearly 100 steel-engraved and lithographic plates of Byron's famous contemporaries. The stunning plates are engraved by Finden, Robinson, Freeman, Scriven, Hopwood, and Wedgewood, among... more information

1854. (MEYRICK, Samuel Rush). Skelton, Joseph. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; After the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick…. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Two volumes. Folio, contemporary three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, dark brown morocco labels, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges gilt. $6000. Second edition, corrected by Meyrick, with 154 engraved folio plates. ... more information

1846. ROBERTS, David. Original lithograph plate, The Entrance to the Citadel of Cairo. [London: F.G. Moon, 1846]. Hand-colored lithograph on onionskin, measuring 12-3/4 by 20-3/4 inches, on original mount, measuring 16-1/2 by 23-3/4 inches. $4500. Beautiful original hand-colored lithograph of the entrance to the citadel of Cairo (with many Egyptians in colorful costumes in the foreground), from the superb large format first issue of Roberts' landmark work, Egypt and Nubia (only the first issue is hand... more information

1792. FIRST EDITION. NECKER, Jacques. An Essay on the True Principles of Executive Power in Great States. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1792. Two volumes. Octavo, later light brown buckram, black morocco labels. $1200. First edition in English, published in the same year as the French first edition. Jacques Necker, one of the most successful French financiers of the 18th century and finance minister to Louis XVI, played a critical role in the events leading up to the French Revolution. His dismissal fr... more information

1903. LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. London: J.M. Dent, 1903. Two volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three?quarter brown morocco, gilt?tooled spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt; uncut and partially unopened. $450. Lovely illustrated edition of Lamb's Essays of Elia, with over 150 full-page and in-text wood engravings after drawings by Charles E. Brock. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section among... more information

1853. LAMB, Charles. Essays of Elia. London: Edward Moxon, 1853. Small, thick octavo, late 19th-century full red straight-grain morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $300. Later edition of these popular Essays, handsomely bound by Bayntun of Bath. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works… They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conve... more information

2005. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BAUDELAIRE, Eric. États Imaginés/Imagined States. Arles, France: Actes Sud, Fondation HSBC Pour la Photographie, (2005). Quarto, original photographic wrappers. $125. First edition of Baudelaire's vision of Abkhazia, with 42 large beautiful color photogravures, inscribed by the photographer and dated "NYC 13/10/06" on the title page. Commenting on his photo chronicle of everyday life in the former Soviet state of Abkhazia, Baudelaire reflects, &quo... more information