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JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 125 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 125 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 125 To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 64 inside front cover: item 18 inside rear cover: item 39 rear cover: item 8 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. An Early Anti-Absinthe Work (ABSINTHE) Balesta, Henri. Absinthe et Absintheurs. 94 pp. 12mo, Paris: Lucien Marpon, 1860. Yellow printed wrappers. Spine toned and with a few small splits, dampstain at gutter to frst few leaves. “Il va boire. Il boit. Il a bu. Le désir est satisfait, le rêve réalise” (p. 14). An early work on the ravages of absinthe, from a period when the drink was just becoming popular among the lower classes in France. “One of the frst people to get on the absinthe case was Henri Balesta, in his 1860 book Absinthe et Absintheurs. For the most part Balesta’s sensationalistic and cautionary work is taken up with case histories that might have come from nineteenth-century engravings and temperance tracts. A father introduces his little six year old daughter — who is already grieving for the death of her mother — to absinthe in order to comfort her, and inadvertently makes her an addict. After she dies from ab- sinthism, he hangs himself. Another absinthe drinker brings misery on his whole family, and fnally encounters a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter” (Baker, The Book of Absinthe). A scarce work, OCLC locating just two copies, both at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. $750 the redwood empire association images ADAMS, Ansel. Archive of correspondence to various recipi- ents relating to his work for the Redwood Empire Associa- tion. Five typed letters, signed (“Ansel” or “Ansel Adams”), on personal letterhead, 4 to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, 1 to Raymond Peterson of the Walter Mann Com- pany, 8 pp. total; 3 typed notes, signed, to Stuart Nixon; 1 p. typed rough draft, signed, of “statement on photography.” 3-¼ x 5-½ in. to 14 x 8-½ in, Carmel, California: September 10, 1964 – August 10, 1965. Near fne. An archive of signed letters and notes by Ansel Adams to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, regarding the plan- ning of an exhibit of Adam’s northern California images as well as the production of books, brochures, and prints. In 1964, the Redwood Empire Association, “a chamber-of-commerce-type group that encouraged tourism in northwestern California, commissioned an extensive portrait of that area with its majestic redwoods” (Alinder, Ansel Adams, p. 271). This archive traces the entire arc of the project, including the photographing of the Redwood Empire, planning of the exhibition and related printed matter, the making and marketing of edition prints (available at $7.50-$10 apiece!) copyright and usage of the prints, and plans for a book of the Redwood Empire images. Some highlights from the correspondence: Oct 24, 1964: “In spite of fog and smoke I am sure I secured some good images. Friday AM we spent at Bull Creek Flat, and yhen [sic] came on to Burney (Hat Creek). After a couple of days here we are returning to the coast and will work a bit north of Eureka, then porceed [sic] south… I hope for some really good results. In some way pictures appear …” May 29, 1965: “The fne prints are all fnished and will go out by Grayhound [sic] from Monterey Today or tomorrow …” July 24, 1965, to Raymond Peterson of the Walter Mann Company: “The picture of the Mendonico [sic] Temple Carving should be very rich and brilliant. The print, as usual, is as rich as I can make it, and you are requested to improve on it (as usual), but retain details in the high values … I have told [Mr. Nixon] that you have done so much of my work that we understand each other and the problems. Another engraver might tend to make this Carving plate too heavy …” July 26, 1965, Adams’ “rough draft of statement on photography”: “This exhibit represents part of a collection of photographs made over a number of years. The borders of the Redwood Empire reach from the Golden Gate to beyond the Oregon Line, and from the Pacifc to the eastern slope of the Coast Ranges, including the Sonoma and Napa areas. It is one of the beautiful and exciting regions of the West; certainly one of the dominant areas of California. In these photographs I have concentrated chiefy upon the Natural Scene. I would like to remind all photographers and artists that this area ofers an unlimited opportu- nity for creative interpretation in many directions …” July 28, 1965: “This exhibit IS going to be an event!! It will be really a BEAUT!!” August 8, 1965, “the exhibit turned out a fne and (I think) poetic statement about the country. I felt that you all wanted an expression of intrinsic beauty and interest — avoiding clichés and obvious ‘attractions.’ Such would not function well in an art exhibit — but not too many people are aware of this …” $3,500 2 | james cummins bookseller (ANTICOLONIALISM) “Bust the Cabora Bassa Dam. Support the Dam Busters Commit- tee.” Color printed poster. 22-½ x 32 in., Ladbrooke Grove, London: [n.d., early 1970s]. Mi- nor edgewear, very good plus overall. Hoover Institute Political Poster Database UK 3824; cf. Yale, Wallerstein collection, MS 1865 Box 2, for issue with ANC imprint. A striking image of the anti-colonial struggle in southern Africa, with an armed soldier and a map of Mozambique showing the transmission lines to South Africa and the routes of in- fltration from Zaire. The Cabora Bassa dam, designed to supply power to South Africa and built while Mozambique was still a Portuguese colony, was controversial from the outset and the project was condemned by repeated UN resolutions in 1969-71. This poster, with slogans in French and German, was produced for the Dam Busters Com- mittee; in institutional holdings, only the Hoover Institute reports a copy; an issue with the London address of the African National Council is recorded at Yale. $750 catalogue 125 | 3 BARGAGLI, Girolamo. Dialogo de Givochi che Nelle Veghie Sanesi si usano di fare. Del Materiale Intronato. Allillv Strissima, et Eccellentissima Signora Donna Isabella de’ Medici Orsina Duchessa di Bracciano. 288 pp. 8vo, Venice: Appresso Alessan- dro Gardane, 1581. Third edition. 18th-century vellum over boards with leather spine label stamped in gold, fore-edges decorated. Van der Linde II, p. 57; Brunet II, 666; Grasse II, 376. The third edition of Bargagli’s popular game book, with editions in Sienne in 1572 and Venice in 1574 preceding this. $1,100 (BINDING, Bartlett, Roger) The Holy Bible … 8vo, Oxford: Tho[mas] Guy, [1682]. Contemporary full black morocco, covers tooled in gilt to a cottage roof design with onlays of citron and red morocco, a.e.g., with visible fore-edge painting of fowers. ESTC R218545; cf. Nixon, Oldaker Collection, no. 6; Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 50-2. Provenance: Ann Bartlett (“her Book, 1699”), with another inscription, dated 1750. An English Restoration binding by the Oxford binder Roger Bartlett, with a visible painted fore-edge. The book was owned by one Ann Bartlett, perhaps a relation of the binder, who signed her name in 1699. It is interesting to note that at least two Bartlett bindings — A Companion to the Temple, 1676 (Doheny Sale, lot 1290) and The Occasional Ofces of Matrimony, 1679 (Oldaker Collection) — display painted fore-edges with the initials A.B., perhaps this same Ann Bartlett. $18,750 4 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 125 | 5 (BINDING, Cathedral) Histoire de la vie et passion de nostre sauueur Jesus Christ avec les fgures et quelques refections sur le prin- cipaux mysteres. Vol. 1: title page, 74 engraved leaves; vol. 2: title page, 57 engraved leaves. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: Jean Baptiste Loison, [c.1660]. Bound in 1823 in full black calf cathedral binding tooled in blind with roll border surrounding central blind- stamped cathedral motif, fat spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, stamped in blind in the rest, a.e.g., by T. Cunning- ham, Ashton-under-Lyne (his ticket on verso of fep), marbled endpapers. Slightest rubbing to the joints, near fne. Ramsden UK, p. 58. Provenance: John Lowe, Shepley Hall (bookplate in both volumes). The original work by Loison consisted of engravings printed on rectos only, and these have been mounted to larger sheets, and a letterpress title page has been added that reads thus: “This Work, of the Life, Miracles, and Passion, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Was Published in Paris about the year 1630, by Monsieur Jean Baptiste Loison; in two vols. was engraved by Monsieur Mathius, Michael Natalis, and Others; the most able engravers in France at that period, from the paintings of Martin de Voss; it was brought from Paris in 1802, by an English Connoisseur, was mounted on coloured paper and bound by order of John Lowe, of Shepley-Hall, Lancashire, 1823.” The BNF gives the date as c.1660.
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