Titles starting with V from Bauman Rare Books

1803. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. VI Variations Pour le Pianoforte composées et dediées A Madame la Princesse Odeschalchi neé Comtesse de Keglevics. Oeuv. 34. Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, [1803]. Oblong quarto, modern half burgundy morocco, marbled boards; pp. 13. $6000. First edition, fully engraved. Composed in 1802, the variations struck even Beethoven with their originality: "Usually I have to wait for other people to tell me when I have new ideas, because I never know thi... more information

1860. FIRST EDITION. GALTON, Francis editor. Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860. WITH: Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861. WITH: Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3. London: Macmillan, 1861, 1862, 1864. Three volumes. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, uncut. $850. First edition, with 14 maps, many folding, and numerous in-text illustrations. Sir Francis Galton, best known as the founder of the school of eugenics, was also an accomplished traveler. In 1861 he agreed to e... more information

1925. FIRST EDITION. [MARINIS, Tammaro de]. Vendita all'asta della Preziosa Collezione Proveniente dalla Cessata Libreria De Marinis, 30 Novembre - 3 Dicembre 1925. Milan: Libreria Anticuaria Ulrico Hoepli, (1925). Octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt with wallet-style flap and leather ties. $325. Only edition of this richly illustrated catalogue to the sale of the library of renowned bibliophile Tammaro De Marinis, with folding frontispiece printed in color and 42 full-page plates depicting the... more information

1953. FIRST EDITION. MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRE, Charles. Versailles Patrimonie National, Temoin d'Art et de Grandeur, Haut Lieu de France, Mirror du Grand Siecle. [Paris]: (Editions G.P., 1953). Folio, original stiff paper boards, original glassine wrapper. Original cardboard folding case. $200. Original pictorial album of Versailles, with text by the chief conservateur of Versailles in 1953, and a suite of 14 folio plates of the palace, seven in brilliant color. Highlights include photographs of The Mirror... more information

2001. FIRST EDITION. FORSYTH, Frederick. The Veteran and Other Stories. London: Bantam Press, (2001). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $150. First edition of this story collection. "Each of the [five] stories in this volume is Forsyth in top form. The writing exceeds expectations, the stories are never less than compelling, and the suspense in each of them is nonstop" (Otto Penzler). A fine copy. ... 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

1964. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ROSTOW, Walt Whitman. View from the Seventh Floor. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, (1964). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $350. First edition, presentation copy, of this inside look at Rostow's work as chairman of the Policy Planning Council, inscribed: "To Anthony Hartley—to recall a lovely morning and to re-establish a treasured connection with The Economist. WW Rostow. 2 June, 1966. Wash., D.C." This work focuses on... more information

1834. HALLAM, Henry. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages. London: John Murray, 1834. Three volumes. Octavo, later full polished calf gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1300. Later edition of Hallam's classic history. "Hallam's works helped materially to lay the foundations of the English historical school …(State of Europe) was probably the first English history which, without being merely antiquarian, set an example of genuine study from original sources" (DN... more information

1781. FIRST EDITION. MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat. A View of the English Constitution. London: Sold by B. White, 1781. Slim octavo, period-style half polished brown calf, red morocco spine label, marbled boards, later endpapers; pp. 74. $1650. First edition of the first separate publication in English of Montesquieu's pivotal chapter on the separation of powers from his Spirit of the Laws—"by far the most discussed section of that work"—the influential Masères tran... more information

1910. FIRST EDITION. MASSIN, Charles. Villas de la Côte d'Azur. Paris: Ch. Massin et Cie., circa 1910. Folio, plates and text loose as issued in publisher's portfolio of half red cloth, printed paper boards, cloth ties. $1500. First edition of this early 20th-century survey of the villas of the Cote d'Azur, with 58 lovely folio plates, including half-tone photographic images of villa exteriors, gardens, and interiors, along with many architectural floor plans and elevations. Features e... more information

1966. SIGNED. THOMSON, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Octavo, original full black cloth, original dust jacket. $400. First edition inscribed by Thomson for tennis player Eleanor Means, "For Eleanor Means/ tennis champion/ whom/ I serve/ loyally/ Virgil T./ 1967." The autobiography of Thomson, the forward-looking, Pulitzer Prize winning musician whose ideas revitalized modern music. A few small closed tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Near-fine condition. ... more information

1930. FIRST EDITION. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Virgin and the Gipsy. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, original cream paper boards with orange phoenix device, uncut, original dust jacket. $1100. Limited first edition, number 49 of only 810 copies printed, in the scarce original dust jacket. The Virgin and the Gipsy is largely "preoccupied with themes of renewal and the need to break from inhibiting cultural and social environments. As in much of his work, this search is conducted through complex, ambiguou... more information

1862. FIRST EDITION. SEEMANN, Berthold Carl. Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Tall octavo, original green pebbled cloth gilt, expertly recased, uncut. $1750. First edition of this fascinating and sometimes gruesome account of the British mission to Fiji in 1862, illustrated with four tinted lithographic plates and four in-text wood-engravings of island views and native life, and a double-page map of the region. In 1... more information

1951. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. MICHENER, James A. The Voice of Asia. New York: Random House, (1951). Octavo, original cream cloth, blue spine label. $600. First edition, signed by Michener on the half title. "The destiny of the United States will be determined in large part by decisions we make regarding our relations with Asia." Upon enlisting in the Navy during WWII, Michener toured over fifty Pacific islands, inspiring this study of Japan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and other Asian countries.... more information

1704. HENNEPIN, Father Louis. Voyage Curieux du R. P. Louis Hennepin, Missionaire Recollect, & Notaire Apostolique. WITH: De La Borde, Sieur. Voyage Qui Contient un Relation Exacte de l'Origin, Moeurs, Coûtumes, Réligion, Cuerres & Voyages des Caraibes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles de l'Ameriqe. Leide: Pierre Vander Aa, 1704. 12mo, early full speckled brown calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, raised bands, all edges marbled. Housed in a custom... more information

1797. PALLAS, Peter Simon. Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans Plusieurs Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale; Traduits de l'Allemand par le C. Gauthier. Paris: Maradan, 1794. Nine volumes. Octavo (eight text volumes) and large quarto (atlas volume), contemporary full marbled calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $6500. Second French edition of Pallas' popular account of his travels through Russia and Central Asia, wit... more information

1981. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BOUBAT, Edouard. Vues de dos [Vues of backs]. (Paris): Gallimard, 1981. Quarto, original photographic boards. $125. First edition of this wonderfully playful photobook by French photographer Édouard Boubat, this association copy signed by Boubat's close friend of over three decades, award-winning Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley, featuring 44 full-page duotones, text in French by novelist Michel Tournier. Having witnessed the brutality of WWII, French photograph... more information