Titles starting with N from Bauman Rare Books

1953. FIRST EDITION. WEEGEE. Naked Hollywood. By Weegee and Mel Harris. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, (1953). Quarto, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. $475. First edition of Weegee's dynamic follow-up to his Naked City, with over 130 black-and-white photogravures, in scarce original dust jacket. "Walker Evans once wrote that the photographer 'is in effect voyeur by nature.'" Few lived up to that definition better than Weegee (born Arthur Felig), the colorful tabloid... more information

1980. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. NAVASKY, Victor S. Naming Names. New York: Viking, (1980). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $200. First edition of Navasky's groundbreaking history of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyism, a scarce presentation copy inscribed by him within weeks of publication, "For Rebecca Silberstein—an old friend. With best wishes, Vict. S. Navasky, November 1, 1980." Kurt Vonnegut praised Victor Navasky's Naming Names as "a miracle of... more information

1847. FIRST EDITION. SIMPSON, Sir George. Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 1841 and 1842. London: Henry Colburn, 1847. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full polished calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $2600. First edition, with engraved frontispiece portrait and folding map tracing the author's route. Simpson, Governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in North America... more information

1834. FIRST EDITION. WEBSTER, W.H.B. Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean…. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Two volumes bound as one. Thick octavo, modern three-quarter black morocco gilt, raised bands, brown morocco spine label, uncut. $1250. First edition of Dr. Webster's account of the sloop Chanticleer's expedition, with five aquatint plates and two maps (one folding), handsomely bound. Dr. William Henry Bayley Webster "was the surgeon on board this British expedition... more information

1869. FIRST EDITION. (GARFIELD, James) (UNITED STATES CONGRESS). The National Currency Act, With Amendments, And the Laws Relating to Taxation of National Banks, And Schedule of Stamp Duties, 1864-'69. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Slim octavo, original flexible brown cloth, stitched as issued; pp. 70. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $1600. Scarce official 1869 publication of the 1864 National Currency Act, with printings of that law, amendments and related acts through 1869, an impo... more information

1819. PALEY, William. Natural Theology; or, Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1819. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, green morocco spine label, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. $500. Later edition of this argument for the design hypothesis, a profound influence on Darwin's Origin. "An admirably clear account of the a posterion ar... more information

1922. FIRST EDITION. SOWERBY, Arthur de Carle. The Naturalist in Manchuria. Tientsin, China: Tientsin, 1922-30. Five volumes in three. Quarto, original green pictorial cloth. Housed in custom calf-backed slipcase. $4600. First edition of this narrative of four expeditions into Manchuria, with three tipped-in colored plates, two folding maps, 86 (of 87) photographic plates, numerous in-text line cuts and a folding chart. China-born Arthur Sowerby began his career as a naturalist by collecting specimens fo... more information

1859. FIRST EDITION. (BRADBURY, Henry) MOORE, Thomas. Nature-Printed British Ferns. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859-60. Two volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter blind stamped green morocco, raised bands, contemporary marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2400. First octavo edition of Moore's authoritative two-volume work, profusely illustrated with 122 brilliantly colored plates of ferns produced by Bradbury's innovative nature-printing process. This first octavo edition of Nature-Pr... more information

1906. FIRST EDITION. FISHER, Irving. The Nature of Capital and Income. New York and London: Macmillan, 1906. Thick octavo, original pale blue cloth gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4200. First edition of this pioneering work on the growth of wealth, by "the United States' greatest scientific economist" (Niehans, 279). Considered "the father of monetary economics," Irving Fisher, during a mountain-climb in the Alps, encountered a cascade of water into a pool, which clicked ... more information

1928. FIRST EDITION. SYMONDS, Mary and PREECE, Louisa. Needlework Through the Ages. A Short Survey of Its Development in Decorative Art, with Particular Regard to Its Inspirational Relationship with Other Methods of Craftsmanship. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. Thick, square folio (11 by 11 inches), original half vellum gilt, top edge gilt. $950. First edition of this impressive survey of needlework from antiquity through the beginning of the 20th century, with beautiful color frontispiece and help... more information

1928. EINSTEIN, Albert. Neue Möglichkeit für Eine Einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenchaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter, 1928. Quarto, original orange paper wrappers. $1100. First offprint edition of one of Einstein's classic papers on the theory of distant parallelism, in original wrappers. In 1928, Einstein took a new approach to field theory, which he named "distant parallelism." "By early 1929, he... more information

1619. DODOENS, Rembert. A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants… And now first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte, Esquire. Corrected and amended. London: Edward Griffin, 1619. Small folio, contemporary full calf gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, red morocco spine label. $3500. Revised fourth edition in English of Dodoens' Cruydeboeck, with ornate woodcut border on title p... 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

1907. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DAVIES, William H. New Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. Small octavo, original green cloth; pp. 76, [2]. $1400. First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Mr. Edward Thomas, with William H. Davies' compliments." Edward Thomas did more than anyone else to help Davies. Thomas sent a copy of this book to W. H. Hudson, saying, "I enclose my East End Welsh poet's new book, not striking like the first, but I think you will like hi... more information

1817. (HEBREW BIBLE—NEW TESTAMENT). Berit hadashah 'al pi Mashiah: ne'etak mi-leshon Yavan li-leshon 'Ivri. London: A. Macintosh, 1817. Octavo, later full vellum. $450. Early edition of the London Jews' Society's New Testament in Hebrew. The London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews (commonly known as the London Jews Society) was founded in 1809. Soon thereafter the Society secretary, T. Fry, assisted by G. B. Collier and other scholars, prepared a fresh version of... more information

1784. [WILLIAMS, Charles Hanbury, editorial attribution]. The Newfoundling Hospital for Wit. Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection. With Several Pieces Never Before Published. London: J. Debrett, 1784. Six volumes. 12mo, contemporary full calf, rebacked, gilt- and blind-tooled spine, gilt-stamped centerpieces. $700. Englarged and corrected 1784 edition of this collection of poems, odes, satires, epigrams, elegies, and other miscellaneous writings. First pu... more information

1934. FIRST EDITION. CAMM, F.J. Newnes Television and Short-Wave Handbook. London: George Newnes, (1934). Octavo, original red and black cloth. $250. First edition, richly illustrated with 230 line drawings, diagrams, and photographs. This two-part book covers the elementary principles of building televisions as well as short-wave and ultra-short-wave radio telephony. The author was the editor of Practical Wireless, Practical Television and Practical Mechanics, as well as being the author of a number of ... more information

1981. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BOWLES, Paul. Next to Nothing. Collected Poems 1926-1977. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. Octavo, original half blue cloth, paper spine label. $425. Signed limited first edition, number 111 of 300 copies signed by Paul Bowles on a tipped in leaf. "An icon of individualism… Paul Bowles was idolized by writers of the Beat Generation" (New York Times). Living in Tangier from 1952 until his death in 1999, Bowles wrote with a view "that modern culture prove... more information

1980. FIRST EDITION. MEISELAS, Susan. Nicaragua. New York: Pantheon, (1981). Oblong quarto, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $1100. First American edition, with 71 dramatic color photographic plates by MacArthur Award-winner Susan Meiselas. Five years after the appearance of Carnival Strippers (1976), the photobook that prompted her acceptance into Magnum, Susan Meiselas "published her groundbreaking book on the Nicaraguan revolution" (Roth, 238). It was immediately praised as a work... more information