Titles starting with L from Bauman Rare Books

1830. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. RUBINI, Giovanni Battista. L'Album di Rubini. 4 Ariette e 2 Duetti. London: Chappell, circa 1830s. Folio, contemporary full elaborately gilt-stamped brown morocco, gilt dentelles, watered silk doublures with brown morocco label, all edges gilt. $4200. First edition of this collection of six songs - four solo pieces and two duets - composed by famed Italian tenor Giovanni Rubini, inscribed by him on the title page to the student to whom he dedicated the work, Georgina Byrne... 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

1910. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DEBILLEMONT?CHARDON, Madame G. La Miniature sur Ivoire. Essai Historique et Traite Pratique. Paris: Librairie Renouard, circa 1910. Contemporary full turquoise morocco, raised bands, ornately gilt- and burgundy-decorated spine and borders, morocco doublures, all edges gilt; untrimmed. $800. First edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author, with 16 full-page plates. "This miniaturist is well known by her works, in which so much grace, freshness, skill, ... more information

1905. BASTIDE, Jean-Francois. La Petite Maison. Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1905. Royal octavo, contemporary full light brown crushed morocco, boards gilt-decorated in Louis XV style, raised bands, green morocco doublures, frame-like ornamentation in same style with dark blue and pearl-gray inlays and gilt tooling, gray silk endpapers, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt. Housed in custom chamois-lined marbled slipcase. $3000. Deluxe limited illustrated edition, number 5 of only 150 copies, with 16 deli... more information

1851. FIRST EDITION. GODEY, Louis A., publisher. Godey's Lady's Book (Volume 43). Philadelphia: (L.A. Godey), July-December, 1851. Octavo, mid-20th-century three-quarter red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $400. Six vintage issues of Godey's famous lady's magazine, with numerous fashion plates, beautifully bound. In 1830 Louis Godey and Charles Alexander launched The Lady's Book, modelled upon a popular English periodical ... more information

1882. FIRST EDITION. STODDARD, S[enaca] R[ay]. Lake George. Photographs. [New York], 1882. Small square quarto, original green cloth gilt. $1100. 1882 edition of Stoddard's photographic guide to Lake George, with 12 vintage albumen prints from glass negatives, memorable images of a lost era—"much of what we know about the social history of the period is preserved in his photographs." Like the "painters of the Hudson River School" and within a generation of American landscape ... more information

1863. MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. Square octavo, contemporary full teal pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $750. Illustrated edition, with 69 in-text wood-engravings by John Tenniel, illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, four wood-engraved section titles, and a chromolithographed additional title page in the style of a Persian illuminated manuscript. Handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by ... more information

1935. FIRST EDITION. SZECHENYI, Zsigmond. Land of Elephants: Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. London: Putnam, (1935). Octavo, modern three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, brown and black morocco spine labels, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $900. First edition in English of Szechenyi's hunting experiences in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, with 98 photographs and a map. Originally published in Hungary in 1934, this translation by Ralph Murray characterizes the da... more information

1818. FIRST EDITION. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1818. Octavo, late 19th century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, morocco-gilt doublures, top edge gilt. $4800. First edition, second state (as almost all known copies), of this rare title, beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf. "Nothing gives a higher idea of the energy of Shelley's mind than that…... more information

1766. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) [DICKINSON, John]. The Late Regulations, Respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of America Considered; in a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia to His Friend in London. Philadelphia printed, London Re-printed: for J. Almon, 1766. Octavo, modern full red straight-grain morocco gilt; pp. [4], 39. $1500. Second English edition of Dickinson's first important political work, published within months of the first American and English editions, a very scarce copy of h... more information

1818. FIRST EDITION. MASCALL, Francis. A Digest of the Law of the Distribution of the Personal Estates of Intestates. London: A. Strahan, 1818. Octavo, three-quarter tan morocco, rebacked, red and black morocco spine labels. $450. First edition. An excellent source for inheritance laws in late 18th and early 19th century England. Harvard Law Catalogue II, 69. Marvin, 503. Interior bright with only scattered light foxing. An extremely good copy. ... more information

1824. SOLOMON, Abraham. Laws of the New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street, London. A.M. 5584. London: E. Justins, 1824. Octavo, original brown paper-covered boards with printed paper label, recently rebacked and cornered in black cloth, recent endpapers. $1500. First edition of this collection of laws and codes for the New Synagogue of Leadenhall Street, London, founded in 1762. Sets out rules for membership and the election of honorary officers and the duties of these officers. With half-title. Small stain ... more information

1787. FIRST EDITION. NOBLE, Arthur. Laws of the State of New York, Passed by the Legislature of Said State, at their Tenth Session. New York: Printed by Samuel and John Loudon, Printers to the State, 1787. Folio, original half calf, paper boards. $1500. First edition, the author's copy, with his bookplate. An important association copy of the laws passed during the tenth session (January 21 to April 21, 1787). Included are acts relating to usury, "Oppressions by Arrests," Quakers and oath-t... more information

1781. CARLI, Comte Giovanni R. Le Lettere Americane Nuova Editione corretta ed ampliata colla Aggiunta della Parte III. ora per la prima volta impressa. Cremona, 1781-83. Three volumes. Octavo, original paper wrappers, uncut. $385. Second edition, in original wrappers. Published by Isidoro Bianchi and dedicated by him to Benjamin Franklin. "Confutes de Pauw's Recherches… sur les Americains, and ascribes the origin of the American natives to the Atlantides" (Howes C149). "American ... more information

1551. FIRST EDITION. MUZIO, Girolamo. Le Mentite Ochiniane del Mutio Iustinopolitano. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1551. Octavo, early 19th-century full vellum, paper spine label. $950. First edition of Muzio's critique of ex-Catholic Calvinist Bernardo Ochino, with wood-cut devices and historiated initials, written in Italian. A carefully-constructed defense of the Church and attack against the teachings of apostate Bernardo Ochino, whose writings about the battle between good and ... more information

1773. BEROALDE DE VERVILLE, Francois. Le Moyen de Parvenir [The Way to Succeed]. No place [probably Paris]: no publisher, 1773. 12mo, period-style full brown morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $950. Lovely 18th-century edition of this classic 17th-century Rabelaisian satire, The Way to Succeed, with engraved frontispiece. Two volumes beautifully bound in richly gilt period-style morocco. First published anonymously in 1610, and written by a c... more information

1800. FIRST EDITION. CUVIER, Georges. Lecons d'Anatomie Comparee. Paris: Baudouin, An VIII (1800-05). Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary half navy calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, marbled boards and endpapers. $2000. First edition of this founding work of modern comparative zoology, illustrated with seven large folding tables and 52 engraved plates. Cuvier (1769-1832) reorganized the comparative anatomy collections of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle-at the time the world's l... more information

1969. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (SMITH, W. Eugene) CAMERA INTERNATIONAL. The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: Twelve Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition. Paris: Camera International, 1991. Tall quarto, original photographic paper covers. $125. First edition, American issue, of this special publication of Camera International, serving as a catalogue of the 1991-92 exhibition of 12 contemporary photographers working in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith. From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Tur... more information

1950. FIRST EDITION. JACQUES, Serge and TAVRIGER, Michel. La Légende de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Paris: La Roulotte, (1950). Slim octavo, original cream paper boards, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $1000. Limited first edition of this documentary photo-essay on the famous Paris neighborhood, number 40 of only 50 copies, with 88 candid black-and-white halftones of people and events on a typical day. Pioneer of the modern photographic pin-up, Serge Jacques is credited with launc... more information

1976. FIRST EDITION. MISONNE, Leonard. Léonard Misonne. Ein Fotograf aus Belgien 1870-1943. Seebruck am Chiemsee, Germany: Heering-Verlag, 1976. Oblong quarto, original tan cloth. $250. First edition of this major posthumous retrospective of pictorialist work by Belgian photographer Misonne—"the 'Corot of photography"—with 48 exhibition-size sepia-tinted photogravure plates and title-page portrait of the photographer. When Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne abandon... more information