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Posted in Rare Books on Sep 5th, 2008
“Their Destiny As A Race Is Sealed.
They Will Soon Be Lost To Our Sight Forever”
In 1822, Thomas McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs under four presidents, commissioned artist Charles Bird King to paint the portraits of famous Indian leaders as they visited Washington.
Over the course of 15 years dignitaries from more than a score of tribes [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Aug 25th, 2008
“For 160 Days We Marched Through The Forest”
“Only a man of Stanley’s iron resolution and invincible resource could have carried through the awful marches and counter-marches in the tropical forests…” (DNB).
Stanley had already successfully completed three major expeditions in Africa by the time he accepted what would prove to be his most ambitious and most [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Aug 20th, 2008
“One Of The Classics Of Antarctic Literature”
Apsley Cherry-Garrard served as assistant zoologist on Robert Scott’s 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica. While Scott set out for the South Pole, Cherry-Garrard and two companions headed for the base of Mount Terror to collect Emperor Penguin eggs; it proved a journey so treacherous that he later titled his account [...]
Posted in Rare Books on Jul 25th, 2008
“A Human Panorama of Love, Courage, Cowardice…
Deceit And Folly”: Boccaccio’s Decameron
“Could there be stories without a moral, of human adventure and misadventure? The horrors of the plague provided Boccaccio with the incentive and the opportunity…Boccaccio creates a human panorama of love, courage, cowardice, wit, wisdom, deceit and folly… If he does not teach the art [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Jul 11th, 2008
“Passages Of Unearthly Beauty”
Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake “took longer to write… was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon [...]
Posted in First Editions, Rare Books on Jun 20th, 2008
“A Woman Must Have Money And A Room Of Her Own If She Is To Write Fiction”
Based on two lectures she gave at a women’s college in Cambridge in 1928, Woolf’s foundational essay on women and writing has become a classic feminist text. “Her aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable by its circumstances, [...]
Posted in Rare Books on Jun 8th, 2008
“Americans! In Your Congress At Philadelphia… You Laid Down The Fundamental Principles… Life, Liberty And Property”
John Adams’ highly contested Discourses on Davila was prompted by Jefferson’s firm declaration of “his faith in reason and democracy… as the sufficiency of human reason for the care of human affairs.” Alarmed by the fresh violence of the French [...]
Posted in Rare Books on Sep 1st, 2006
Natalie and David Bauman have been in the rare book business since 1973. Bauman Rare Books is one of the nation’s largest and best-known rare and antiquarian book sellers, with two locations, one in New York City on Madison Avenue and the other in Center City Philadelphia.
Rare Finds offers individuals interested in Rare Books, whether [...]