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Catalogue 135

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1] [ANONYMOUS] Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L’Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l’Isle de C***. Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770 xvi, 359, [iii]; 334; 360 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. First edition. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf. With the bookplate of the Vicomte de Noailles (engraved by Agry) in each volume. Upper joint of vol. III with short start at foot, otherwise a fine and fresh copy. OCLC records two copies in N. America (Princeton, UCLA), two in France, and one at Trinity College, Dublin. A satirical response to Rousseau’s Emile ou l’Education (1762). Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor, the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau’s dictum “le véritable précepteur est le père,” for the narrator’s father M. d’Erigny grew up poor and gained wealth through his friendship with a government minister; his child has been spoiled from infancy.

While M. d’Erigny is drunk, his mistress gets him to sign an colony to rescue him but falls afoul of the corrupt Intendant, order from her jeweler for 20,000 francs of precious stones and her health fails her. She dies, but not before she has made and skips out. The extravagance is discovered, and the father him her legatee. The narrator assists the colonial governor in becomes miserly in the extreme. The son, now 15 years old, prosecuting the Intendant and returns to France. He retires is entrusted to an unscrupulous précepteur, or tutor, who to a rural abbey and contemplates his experiences. Before involves the youth in a swindle and vanishes with the money. long he becomes the benefactor of a village community and This is a confessional, so we learn it all: the narrator soon sees it thrive. discovers love and devotes himself to pleasure, using the Only edition of this little-known work of fiction, set partly in family name to run up accounts everywhere before being the Americas. deceived and fleeced. M. d’Erigny is furious; Madame intercedes: his debts are paid, and he is sent off to exile in $5,000 a provincial town. He is befriended by a well-connected gentleman but repays this trust with deceit. Besotted with an actress, he forges a criminal denunciation of a rival, but his scheme is discovered and he is consigned to “une de ces maisons de force,” a private prison for the reform of licentious youth. To escape this close confinement, the narrator embarks with a flotilla of colonists bound for the island of C*** in the new world. His mother’s continued good influence follows him across the ocean, cushioning him from the worst excesses of a brutal colonial regime (amply detailed). Florainville, a mistress who has managed her money well, comes to the 2] ARNOLD, Matthew Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL. Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840

8vo. First edition. Publisher’s printed pink wrappers. Faint vertical crease at center, light edgewear. In custom red morocco pull-off case. Ashley I, p. 8: “holds a high place in the rank of modern poetical rarities”; Hayward 255; Smart, p. 1. Provenance: Dr. J.B. Clemens of New Jersey (two typed letters to Clemens, as prospective purchaser of the book, from Luthur S. Livingston of Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, dated 17 August and 7 September, 1905, loosely inserted); sold Parke- Bernet, New York, 8 January 1945, lot 57 for $400; exhibited: Grolier Club (1950s exhibition card describing this as “the only presentation copy known”); sold, Halsted B. Vander Poel (Christie’s, London March 3, 2004, lot 127). Arnold’s Debut, Inscribed The first edition of Matthew Arnold’s first work, his Rugby School prize poem on the conquest of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric I in 410 AD. Unusual for a prize poem, the work was published anonymously and was not identified as Arnold’s until Edmund Gosse made the attribution in 1888. One of the rarest literary debuts, of which Wise noted, “Alaric at Rome holds a high place in the rank of modern poetical rarities.” This copy inscribed on the front wrapper, “E. Armitage Esqr. from the Author.” The recipient, Edward Armitage, was a fellow pupil at Rugby. Arnold had entered Rugby in 1837, where his father was headmaster. The only other copy known to bear an inscription by Arnold (“Miss Ward, 1840”) is at the Morgan Library. It is difficult to take an accurate census of copies, as Wise muddied the waters with his facsimile — which he later passed off as genuine. OCLC locates 15 copies and ABPC lists two copies — one in 1979 at Christie’s London, and the present copy. $60,000

2 | James Cummins bookseller literature 3] 4] BARETTI, Joseph BLAKE, William A Journey from London to Genoa, Through There Is No Natural Religion. London: Pickering England, Portugal, Spain, and France. London: T. & Co, 1886 Davies … and L. Davis, 1770 12 lithographic facsimiles printed in light brown and vii, [i], 306; [ii], 320; [ii], 319, [1]; [ii], 311, [1], [12, index] pp. highlighted in black (3 with additional hand-coloring). 8vo. 8vo. First English edition. Contemporary calf, spines Privately printed large paper copy, one of 50 copies. gilt, contrasting lettering pieces (the spine numbering Near contemporary red morocco by Riviere, with original incorrect). Extremities rubbed, some toning to text. ESTC printed wrappers bound-in. Rear cover detached. Keynes T83926; Courtney, p. 99. 218.

A work suggested by Baretti’s friend Samuel Johnson; A privately printed lithographic facsimile of portions of “It was he that exhorted me to write daily and with all Blake’s There is No Natural Religion — a series of illustrated possible minuteness: it was he that pointed out the topics aphorisms, composed and printed by Blake around 1788 which would most interest and most delight in a future but not issued in his lifetime. publication. To his injunctions I have kept as close as I was This Pickering facsimile not to be confused with the able” (from the Preface). William Muir edition of the same year. Scarce, with the $800 last copy at auction appearing in 1997. $1,500

Catalogue 135 | 3 5] BLIXEN, Karen [Isak Dinesen] Vinter-Eventyr. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel / Nordisk Forlag, 1942

332 pp. 8vo. First edition. Original blue and white wrappers. Faint spotting to wrappers, faint creasing to spine, tiny tear to rear flap, but an attractive, near fine copy, in a custom cloth box. Henriksen 63. ‘Navigare necesse est …’ Signed with Blixen’s personal motto Signed on the half-title, with the motto Blixen adopted as a youth: “Karen Blixen.– Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse.” (To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary.) The famous quote is attributed to Pompey, who exhorted his sailors to undertake a journey to bring grain from Africa to Rome during a fierce storm. In her essay “On Mottoes of My Life,” Blixen writes that it was “the first real motto of my youth … It came naturally to me to view my enterprise in life in terms of seafaring, for my home stands but a hundred yards from the sea, and through all the summers of our youth my brothers had boats in the fairways between Copenhagen and Elsinore … No compass-needle in the world was as infallible to me as the outstretched arm of Pompey; I steered my course by it with unswerving confidence, and had any wiser person insisted that there was no earthly sense in my motto, I might have answered: ‘Nay, but a heavenly sense!’ and have added perhaps: ‘And a maritime!’” (Daguerreotypes and Other Essays (1984), pp. 5-6). This collection of short stories was originally written and published in Danish during the height of the Second World War, with the English edition appearing the same year, as Winter’s Tales. $2,250

4 | James Cummins bookseller literature 6] BOCCACCIO, Giovanni [The Decameron] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation. Framed in Ten Dayes of an Hundred Curious Pieces [bound with:] The Decameron. Containing an Hundred Pleasant Novels … The Last Five Dayes. London: Isaac Jaggard, 1625; 1620

Vol. I woodcut title border [McKerrow & Ferguson 212], vol. II border of six woodcuts, repeated throughout text. Collation: A6(–A1, blank) B-V6 2A8 2B-2N6(–N6, blank); π4(–π1, blank) ¶-2¶4 3¶2 B-2Z4 3A6. 4to. First complete English edition (second edition of the first volume, first edition of the second volume). Full modern brown morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son. Free endpapers rehinged, vol. I title expertly restored at margins, with a few small portions of woodcut border in facsimile, a few other leaves with small paper repairs, some light toning and occasional soiling throughout. In a custom brown morocco- backed slipcase. STC 3173 & 3172; Pforzheimer 71 & 72; Grolier, Wither to Prior 250; Lowndes 224.

The first complete edition in English of Boccaccio’s Decameron, the second edition of volume I, the first edition of volume II. The translator is unknown, though John Florio has been suggested. The Stationer’s Register records a 1587 translation by John Wolfe, but no copies survive. Boccaccio’s masterpiece was influential on the authors of Elizabethan England — at least fifty-four English plays, including several works by Shakespeare, have plots derived from The Decameron. The two volumes were first issued in 1620, both under the titleThe Decameron. When the first volume was reprinted in 1625, “No complementary edition of the second volume was published. Possibly because, when the present was called for, Jaggard was still able to supply copies of the first edition” (Pforzheimer). Three years after printing the first edition, Jaggard printed the First Folio of Shakespeare (1623). $12,500

Catalogue 135 | 5 7] (BROOKE, RUPERT) [SCHELL, Sherril, photographer] Portrait photograph of Rupert Brooke. [1913]

Vintage gelatin silver print half-length portrait of a seated Brooke leafing through a book, image mounted on card, signed in pencil, “Sherril Schell photographer.” 9 × 7-1/2 in. Small surface imperfection, else fine. Provenance: Frances Cornford (née Darwin).

A vintage portrait photograph of Rubert Brooke by the American photographer Sherril Schell, “… the photographer who would one day make [Brooke’s] appearance more familiar than his poems” (Hassall, Rupert Brooke, p. 384). Schell took 12 portraits of Brooke and the last, a profile view with Brooke’s shoulders bare, became the iconic image of the poet. It was used as the frontispiece to his 1914 & Other Poems (see next item) and provided the model for a memorial plaque in Rugby Chapel. In this image, Brooke, wearing a shirt, tie and jacket, stares directly into the camera while leafing though a book. From the collection of poet Frances Cornford, granddaughter of Charles Darwin and close friend of Rupert Brooke. $2,500

8] BROOKE, Rupert 1914 and Other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood], 1915

Photogravure frontispiece portrait in profile view by Sherril Schell. 63 pp. Small 8vo. First edition of the poet’s posthumous second book. Original blue cloth with printed spine label, dust jacket. A fine copy in faintly soiled dust jacket (small ink notation on pastedown; half-inch split at foot of front flap of jacket). Blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Keynes 6; Hayward 32; NCBEL, IV, p. 241. ‘But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold’ $4,000

6 | James Cummins bookseller literature 9] Following the first edition of 1853, the novel was serialized in 1860-1 in the New York Weekly Anglo-African with the BROWN, William Wells new title Miralda; or, The Beautiful Quadroon. The first Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine. A Tale of the American edition was published in 1864 as Clotelle; A Southern States. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867 Tale of the Southern States, number two in Redpath’s dime novel series Books for the Camp Fire. The fourth and final Frontispiece and four wood-engraved plates by J. Johnston. version, seen here, is Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine (1867); it 114 pp. 8vo. Second American edition (i.e. the fourth incorporates events from the Civil War in four new closing and final version ofClotel ). Original publisher’s cloth. chapters, “which delivered an updated message of courage Worn, cloth split at joints, spine lettering faded, first few and heroism to a post-emancipation audience” (Greenspan, gatherings sprung. In a custom morocco-backed slipcase p. 440). In this edition, Clotelle (now a Senator’s daughter) and chemise. Sabin 8590 (earlier editions); Work 471; and her lover Jerome marry in America (not France, as Blockson 101, no. 32; Greenspan, William Wells Brown in earlier versions), relative slaves are freed, Jerome signs (2014); Jackson, History of Afro-American Literature (1989), up for a black unit of the Union Army and dies following pp. 326–335. foolish orders, and Clotelle volunteers as an army Scarce 1867 edition of the first novel published by an nurse, crossing enemy lines to tend to prisoners of war African -American. This is the final version of a book in Andersonville Prison. “The logic of the finalClotelle , a that underwent a series of transformations following its novel fifteen years in the making that had migrated with original publication as Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter Brown over the ocean and that spanned the Civil War, (London, 1853). In early editions, the title character of this was the logic of his friends’ lives: It was time for black “melodramatic book about miscegenation” (Blockson) Southerners to come home, if only as aid workers or is the rumored daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally missionaries” (Greenspan, p. 441). Hemmings. A scarce novel in any of its iterations. The last copy of this William Wells Brown (1814-1884), African-American edition appeared at auction in 1997. abolitionist lecturer, novelist, and historian, was born into “Brown’s elusive and priceless novel marks an important slavery in Kentucky and escaped to Cleveland in 1834. state in literary history: the starting point of the modern He lectured in New York and Massachusetts and wrote a study of African-American literature. Any edition of this best-selling Narrative (1847) before traveling to Paris and novel has been very rare in the American bookmarket London in 1849. Brown wrote a memoir of his time in during the collecting life of this compiler” (Blockson). Europe — considered the first travelogue by an African American — and it was in London that he wrote Clotel. $7,500

Catalogue 135 | 7 2) Typed Postcard, Signed, dated June 30, 1947, replying to an inquiry from Pierce concerning agent Lou Schor, who was trying to start a science fiction radio series. CLARKE, Arthur C. Typed Letter, Signed, dated 2 March, 1952, 1 p., on his stationery as Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, complimenting Pierce on his article about communications satellites in Astounding, and referring to Clarke’s pioneering article in Wireless World for October 1945 “suggesting the use of satellites for TV relaying” CAMPBELL, JOHN W., JR. 1) Typed Letter, Signed, 1 p., Dec. 17, 1943, discussing Pierce’s article on heat rays, and a radio Campbell is building. 2) Typed Letter, Signed, 1 p., Feb. 2, 1944, discussing an article by Ehrenhaft in Astounding, with the quote, “I am, in brief, firmly convinced that thuroughly [sic] unscientific, illogical and fundamentally mistaken people can make basic discoveries of the first magnitude by mistake.” 3) Typed Letter, Signed, 3 pp., Oct. 24, 1944, discussing an oscilloscope Campbell is building, and discussing a story idea from Murray Leinster. 4) Typed Letter, Signed, 2 pp., Dec. 27 [1944?], about an 10] oscillator circuit. (CAMPBELL, JOHN W.) 5) Autograph note forwarding a Feb. 2, 1949, letter Science-fiction correspondence of John R. Pierce inquiring about television tubes to Pierce, with a carbon of Pierce’s reply. with Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and John W. Campbell, Jr. 1943-1957 6) Carbon of letter from Pierce to Campbell, April 2, 1949. 7) Typed Letter, Signed, 3 pp., Feb. 21, 1950, about Pierce’s CAMPBELL & HEINLEIN and the father of the article on perfect thinking mechanisms. Transistor, JOHN R. PIERCE 8) Typed Letter, Signed, 3 pp., April 5, 1950, about the Small and interesting archive of science fiction development of Dianetics and how he had used it. With a correspondence of physicist John R. Pierce (1910-2002), carbon of Pierce’s reply, April 12, 1950. inventor of the word “transistor,” director of research at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, and science fiction author 9) Undated, unsigned, typed letter to Pierce about an of short stories (under the pseudonym J.J. Coupling), article on electron multipliers. comprising: 10) Group of letters, November-December, 1950, starting HEINLEIN, Robert A. with a carbon of a reply to Campbell about a letter from an inventor that Campbell had forwarded, and 1) Typed Letter, Signed, dated October 29, 1957, one- including a suggestion that Campbell have the inventor, page, single spaced, asking for advice on technical Allan Rader, work up an article. A letter from Rader and matters concerning radio in Have Space Suit, Will Travel correspondence to him is included. (published September 1958) and mentioning Pierce’s earlier suggestions. With Pierce’s retained carbons of his letters. $4,750

8 | James Cummins bookseller literature 11] CAMPBELL, Alexander [Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments]. [Edinburgh, etc: 1815-1823]

56 leaves, closely written, with 4 autograph pages of verse songs dated 23 Nov. to 19 Dec. 1823 (loosely inserted, on verso of Als to Campbell, 18 Feb. 1822); and a loosely inserted receipt for one guinea for Albyn’s Anthology dated 1816. 4to and smaller. Old pink wrappers, edges worn, detached; printed bookseller description on upper wrapper, and an inserted manuscript title leaf. Some leaves stitched; disordered. Internally very good (small portion of last leaf split but present). Provenance: Andrew Myers, bought at Mendoza’s bookshop, Ann St., late 1960s.

Alexander Campbell (1764–1824), composer and writer, published several collections of Scottish songs, and while a teacher in Edinburgh “gave lessons in harpsichord and singing. Among his pupils were Walter Scott and his brothers, but the lads had no taste for the subject and the master had no patience” (ODNB). Campbell’s main project, long delayed, was Albyn’s Anthology, begun in the 1790s and published in 2 volumes 1816-18; a third volume was projected but never published. In later years, Campbell was dependent upon Scott and copied manuscripts for him. “At Abbotsford Campbell was known as the ‘Dunnie-wassail’ … He died from an attack of apoplexy on 15 May 1824 … His manuscripts were sold ‘under judicial authority’” (ibid). Campbell’s verse is rhymed and metrical. The collection opens with 15 pp. verses & drafts on smaller sheets, some dated March to September 1823, one on verso of a fragment of correspondence. The next section is written on slightly larger leaves (some out of order): Song 17 Oct. 1823, “Again, again, that soothing strain”; 19 Oct. 1823, “Some doat upon a damask cheek,” and three pages of fragments, 20/24 Oct. 1823; 31 Dec. 1823 , “Though in the sunless vale of years” (2 pp., docketed in pencil, “Alex Campbell Scotch Poet”); 18 June 1815, Lays, “Among the far-off highland fells”; with Song, 19 Oct. 1823 on verso; 15 Oct. 1821, Song, “The silent language of the eyes” (2 pp.);

Catalogue 135 | 9 10 Aug. 1819 (date struck through), Drinking Song, air “How happy could I be,” “What boots it to waste life in bustle?” (2 pp. with marginal additions); Undated, “Connubial Affection,” “At last she is mine own! Fate will it so” (2 pp. with extensive marginal additions); 7 May 1818 (date struck through), [Odes] “Those looks of languishment & love”; Ode XXXI To Cupid, “Tell me, my pretty Paphian boy!”; Ode XXXII To Venery, “O fairest of the Cyprian fair!”; Ode XXXIII To Hymen, “Connubial Pontiff! godlike Sire! / High Priest of consecrate desire,” (4 pp. with extensive revision and marginal additions; folded); Undated, A Scandinavian Ode, “Hilarity reigns in the hall,” with Chorus of Scalds and verses by the Chief Scald (5 pp.); upside down on conjugate, dated 21 March 1818, “The languid look that speaks so plain” and draft verse dated 9 Apr. 1818 on verso (2 pp.); 12 18 Sept. 1823, page of draft verse, with portion of essay on later years of Camoens on verso love”; Love-similies, “know ye not what love resembles?”; 14 Oct. 1823, Song (verse drafts); Song, Gaelic Melody, “Twas on a day of spring-time fair”; and “Sing to my love “Sure, many a maiden whose love-vows are plighted”; sweet roundelays”; “Now bid a long farewell ot care”; “To sing of love’s 20-22 Sept. 1813,The female Eremite [* “founded on delights when old”; “Oft with my dear one all the day”; fact, Catherine Jamieson was the name of the person He bending neck, so smooth & fair [“Roundel, published alluded to”], “Heart rending is my tale of woe, …” ballad before” in pencil note] (6 pp.); of a virgin’s resolve tested by the arrival of Lachlan of Undated, “Ospakar, a renowned Sea-King or Pirate Glenlyon, 65 quatrains on 13 leaves (rectos only, one verso [paragraph of prose, leading up to:] Song, “Come my with notes on the aurora borealis); manly boon companions!” (2 pp.) [cf. Scott, “Abstract of the 1 June 1822, In the manner of Goldsmith, 8 lines (with Eyrbyggja Saga,” and notes below] revisions), signed “A.C.”; on verso, To a Skull (2 pp.); “A Undated, “And should his face assume an air” (3 pp. draft vernal lyric” (4 pp., drafts); verses); An inanimate Beauty, 8 lines; 18 Feb. 1817, Ode, to the Nightingale, (8 pp., signed on Notes for Ospakar’s Song 2 pp.: 11. Thrandar, “before recto of last leaf “A.C.”). assuming the christian faith had been a Bersarkar ” There are three pencil annotations, “Alex Campbell Scotch [quoting Walter Scott, “Abstract of the Eyrbyggja Saga,” p. poet”; “Roundel, published before”; and one other less 510 in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, 1814]; legible; with an old ink slip pasted down, reading “Mr. with poem, “What is Love” on verso (2 pp.); Gubbins has had it suggested to him that the pencil notes are by Sir Walter Scott, who was intimate with the author.” To Cupid, “Tell me, my pretty Paphian boy,” (2 pp., another draft) Several of the verses have Scandinavian roots; and Campbell quotes Scott’s “Abstract of the Eyrbyggja Saga” The third section is written on larger 4to sheets of laid in his notes to Ospakar’s Song. paper (undated, generally a clearer hand): Fascinating survival of the manuscripts of a respected Song, “Ere the odorous peas blooms breathe scent to the figure of later 18th- and early 19th-century Scottish literary gales” (1-1/2 pp.) culture. 4 pp., four poems or songs: “Her modest witching looks of $22,500

10 | James Cummins bookseller literature 12] CICERO, Marcus Tullius M.T. Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Atticum ad Bruttum, ad Quintum Fratrem, Libri XX … [Venice: Aldus, 1513]

Aldine device (A2) on title-page and verso of final leaf, each with light pink watercolor wash, capital spaces with guide letters. Collation: 2A-2B8 a-z8 2a-2s8 2t4. 12mo. First Aldine edition. 18th-century vellum, citron and brown morocco spine labels, edges blue. Light spotting and staining to text, old repair to lower margin of r8 and s1, scattered early marginalia, now faded, last two leaves starting. Ahmanson-Murphy 113; Renouard 61:3; Adams C1907; Brunet II, 47-48.

First Aldine edition of Cicero’s letters to Atticus, Brutus, and his brother Quintus, which along with the Epistulae ad Familiares (Letters to Friends, first Aldine edition in 1502) completes the Aldine editions of the Roman statesman’s letters. The dedication is to Filippo Morè, secretary to the King of Hungary and ambassador to Venice. Brunet notes this edition is “peu commune.” $3,500 Conrad’s superb novel of the east, inscribed to a cherished and influential friend, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, 13] sometime M.P., rancher, author, aristocrat and socialist, upon whose knowledge of South America Conrad drew CONRAD, Joseph while writing Nostromo. “His appearance and South Lord Jim. London & Edinburgh: William American travels made him the model for Charles Gould Blackwood and Sons, 1900 in Nostromo, the greatest novel by his friend Joseph Conrad. (He had been prompt to hail the Polish-born novelist, and 8vo. First edition, one of 2,105 copies. Original green their friendship extended from 1897 until Conrad’s death decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing in 1924. The essay ‘Inveni portum’ is a moving obituary.) to extremities, spine discolored with gilt dulled; front He contributed elements to Etchingham Granger, the hinge starting but sound, Eugene Plunkett bookplate and central character in The Inheritors (1901), by Conrad and F. his notation of this book’s number in his library above, M. Hueffer” ODNB( ). and unobtrusive Henry Sotheran & Co. Bookseller label on front pastedown offset to facing flyleaf, ownership In 1899, Conrad had initially intended to dedicate the inscription above bookplate dated 1901, few penciled notes volume of stories containing “Heart of Darkness” to at rear. Smith 5; Cagle A5a(1); Keating 25; Connolly 100; Cunninghame Graham, but when published, as Youth and Wise 7. Other Stories, that book was dedicated to Conrad’s wife, INSCRIBED TO CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM Jessie. Conrad later dedicated Typhoon to Cunninghame Graham. “A particularly sustaining friendship was with First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Conrad on R. B. Cunninghame Graham, the aristocratic socialist and the front free endpaper: “To R.B. Cunninghame Graham, adventurer” (ibid). affectionately from the Author.” $45,000

Catalogue 135 | 11 14] 15] [COOPER, James Fenimore] CORMAN, Cid, editor The Water Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas. Origin. Dorchester, Mass; Kyoto, Japan; A Tale by the author of Pilot, Red Rover etc. etc. Boston; and Orono, ME: 1951-1985 etc. … In Three Volumes. Dresden: Printed for 81 vols. 8vo. Original staple-bound colored paper or card Walther, 1830 wrappers. Some shelfwear to first series, occasional soiling to covers, but overall near fine. xii, 207, [1 blank]; [4], 292; [4], 250, [1] pp. Half-titles to each volume present. Imprint leaf at end. Small 8vo. First Nearly complete set of Origin magazine edition, one of just a few copies to survive, the rarest A large, nearly complete set of this important magazine of Cooper’s works. Contemporary half calf and marbled of post-war poetry and poetics edited and published by boards, vellum spine label. Rebacked, preserving original Cid Corman (1924-2004), spanning four decades and spine. Some light foxing. Graf Yorck Klein-Oels Majorats- Bibliothek stamps on vol. I title. BAL 3845 (locating only comprising 75 issues plus six duplicates. Published in five one copy); Spiller and Blackburn no. 12, pp. 64-65. distinct series, Origin began in the 1950s by showcasing the work of Charles OLSON, Robert CREELEY, William BRONK, The Dresden Water Witch Robert DUNCAN, Denise LEVERTOV and Paul BLACKBURN One of the exceptional rarities in American literature, the among others. Corman continued to publish the magazine true first, Dresden edition ofThe Water-Witch. Only about over the following three decades, featuring work by ten copies of this edition are recorded as having survived. the likes of Louis ZUKOFSKY, Gary SNYDER, Michael The Water Witch was written in Naples and was first printed McCLURE, Clayton ESHLEMAN, Armand SCHWERMER, in Dresden in September 1830, a month before the English Theodore ENSLIN, and Ron SILLIMAN, as well as devoting edition, and two months before the American. It is the space to translations of the poets of Europe and Japan, only book by Cooper to be both printed and published Corman’s adoptive home. Of special significance is the first in Germany. The original contract between Cooper work of Lorine NIEDECKER (1903-1970), the Wisconsin and Walther dated in May of 1830 is in the Early American poet associated with the Objectivist movement whose Fiction Collection at UVA. compelling body of work is among the most undeserverdly obscure in 20th century American poetry. Corman and $12,000 12 | James Cummins bookseller literature Origin played a crucial role in reviving interest in the work of Neidecker; issue 2 of the third series, July 1966, is devoted to Niedecker, and her work appears in numerous other editions throughout the series. The set lacks only five issues from the first series, with the second through fifth series complete, and includes six duplicate copies of various issues. A breakdown of the set by series is as follows: *First series, 15 (of 20) issues, without issues 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19. With 2 duplicate issues (3 & 12). Spring 1951-Winter 1957. *Second series: 14 issues, complete. April 1961-July 1964. *Third series: 20 issues, complete. April 1966-January 1971. *Fourth series: 20 issues, complete. October 1977-July 1982. *Fifth series: 6 issues, complete. Fall 1983- Fall 1985 with four duplicate copies of issue four. $3,000

Catalogue 135 | 13 17] CRANE, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896

[ii], 233, [1], [4, catalogue] pp. 8vo. Later printing. Publisher’s beige cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, red, and black. Spine darkened, extremities rubbed with fraying to spine ends, light stain to front cover, chip from gutter of ffep, newspaper clipping taped to verso of ffep, offsetting onto flyleaf, fore-edge of first few leaves worn, lower corner of pp. 98-136 chipped away, not affecting text. Bookplate of Dora B. King. In a custom red morocco- backed slipcase and chemise. For first edition: Williams & Starrett 3; BAL 4071.

Inscribed on the flyleaf, “To F. H. King with good fellowship and esteem from Stephen Crane New York Oct 28.” Frank Hamilton King (1871–1941) was a prominent commercial artist, producing illustrations for the Sunday Herald and Life as well as a popular ad campaign for 16] Coca-Cola. He was a close friend of Stephen Crane and CRANE, Stephen photographed the author at the time of the release of The Red Badge of Courage. He was associated with the Lantern A Souvenir and a Medley: Seven Poems and a Club, the downtown New York literary club of which Sketch by Stephen Crane. With Divers and Sundry Crane was a member, and he illustrated a story by Post Communications from Certain Eminent Wits. East Wheeler included in the Lanthorn Book (1898). Aurora, NY: Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896 Signed copies of Crane’s masterpiece are rare; only two Small 8vo. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, copies have sold at auction in the past forty years. The uncut. Yapped edges mostly gone, else a fine copy. BAL most recent copy, which sold for $16,800 at the Neville sale 4074. in 2004, was also a later printing. In 2001, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller offered a signed copy of the 1896 printing for This comprised No. 1 of The Roycroft Quarterly; its original $45,000. cost was twenty-five cents, and it appeared in May 1896, the year following the publication of The Red Badge of Courage. $15,000 $900

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Catalogue 135 | 15 18] CRESPIN, Jean, editor [Poetae Christiani veteres:] Vetustissimorum Authorum Georgica, Bucolica, & Gnomica Poemata. [Geneva:]: Jean Crespin, 1569-1570

Woodcut title borders. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials and ornaments. Text in Greek and Latin. 16mo. First thus. Modern blind-ruled calf. Adams P-1691. Provenance: Signet Library (inscription to verso of front free endpaper).

Anthology of Greek and early Christian poetry by Hesiod, Theocritus, Bion, Moschus and others, edited by Jean Crespin and first published by him in Geneva in 1569-70. $1,500

19] DE MORI, Ascanio Prima Parte Delle Novelle di Ascanio de’ Mori da Ceno [all published]. Mantua: Francesco Osanna, 1585

Printer’s woodcut device on title-page, headpieces and initials. [viii], 139, [1] pp. Collation: *4 A-R4 S2. 8vo. First edition. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Staining to covers, early repair to front hinge, some worming to first few gatherings, light stain at fore-edge. Passano (1878), p. 436; Parenti, p. 357; Krieg, MNE, II, 51; Olschki, Choix, 12789.

A collection of fifteen stories by the Italian poet and statesman Ascanio De Mori (1533-1591). The title-page identifies this as the “prima parte” — though no other parts were issued. Following the example of Masuccio and Bandello, each story is dedicated to a famous personage, including members of the Gonzaga and Medici families. $2,500

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20] 21] DICKENS, Charles DICKENS, Charles The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 London: Bradbury & Evans 11, Bouverie Street, 1850 Portrait frontispiece engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise (first state, with Chapman and Hall imprint), 39 Illustrated by H.K. Browne. xiv, [ii], 624 pp. 8vo. First etched plates by H.K. Browne. 624 pp. 8vo. First edition, edition. Bound in full tan polished calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., “sister” at p. 123, line 17 (corrected text “visiter”). Bound in by Bayntun, Binders, Bath. Fine. contemporary morocco, gilt spine and covers, a.e.g. With a front wrapper from Part 11 of the Parts issue tipped in at $2,000 front. Provenance: Stephen Williamson (bookplate). Smith 5; Gimbel A41 & H1112. 22] EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the complete suite of 24 engraved portraits of the novel’s principal characters which comprise DICKENS, Charles “Heads from ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ from drawings by Miss Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, La Creevy” by Kenny Meadows (London: Robert Tyas, 1853 [1839]. Kitton, Dickens and His Illustrators, pp. 233-4). $1,500 Frontispiece, vignette title-page, and 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne (“Phiz”). 8vo. First edition. Half crimson morocco and cloth, t.e.g., by Morell, London. Fine, some foxing to the plates. Smith, pp. 81-4. $1,250

Catalogue 135 | 17 23] Bound at the end are a short poem in honor of the author of Old World Idylls, by Francis F. Browne, editor of The Dial, DOBSON, Austin dated 14 Feb. 1889, and a letter from Edmund C. Stedman Old World Idylls and Other Verses. London: in New York, who thanks Browne for copies of The Dial Kegan Paul, Trench, 1887 with notices of Dobson. Stedman was a poet and critic, and co-editor of the Library of American Literature (1888-1890). Extra-illustrated with india proof portrait inserted A handsome binding and testimony to the transatlantic before the text, with a proof of Dobson’s bookplate, Als appeal of Dobson’s verse in the 188os and 1890s. and holograph poem by Dobson, holograph poem by Francis F. Browne, Als on Dobson from E.C. Stedman to $2,500 F.F. Brown. 8vo. Copy no. viii of 50 large paper copies, signed by the author; with presentation from Andrew Lang to W.I. Way. Full red morocco gilt, boards seme with gold points above a field of lilies, upper board with title banner, spine tooled with climbing flowers, date at foot, turn-ins elaborately gilt with similar floral motifs, morocco pastedowns, silk flyleaves, by Riviere. Book label of Estelle Doheny. Joints repaired preserving original spine. Fine. Provenance: Zeitlin, 1932. Superbly Bound, with Dobson Als and Poem Large paper copy with presentation from Andrew Lang to W.I. Way. The last leaf bears a pencil note concerning the extra-illustrations, signed W. Irving Way. Way was a principal in the Chicago publishing firm of Way & Williams. Finely bound volume of Dobson’s best verse, with an autograph letter, signed, from Dobson in an elaborate aesthetic hand, conveying an unpublished poem for Mr. Way, “The presentation,” in two quatrains. Like the letter, the poem is dated 2 Jan 1889 with a note that it was a discarded introduction to Portraits in Porcelain.

18 | James Cummins bookseller literature 24] GINSBERG, Allen Collection of material related to the recording and marketing of First Blues (John Hammond Records, 1983). V.p., chiefly New York and Boulder, CO: ca.1971-1986

Condition generally very good, with some signs of use and prior folding. Provenance: Hank O’Neal.

A collection of autograph, printed, and audio material concerning the production of the 1983 John Hammond Records release of Allen Ginsberg’s rock ‘n roll album, First Blues. The collection was assembled by Hank O’Neal — photographer, author, record producer, and Executive Vice- President of Hammond Music Enterprises — and includes autograph letters, notes and postcards from Ginsberg to O’Neal, drafts and proofs of the linear notes (“The Ginsberg Gallimaufry”), lyric and chord sheets, fourteen cassette tapes of early mixes and unreleased tracks, and an extensive file of press clippings assembled and annotated by Ginsberg. Ginsberg’s frequent letters and postcards to O’Neal exhibit an intense interest in the publicity and press coverage surrounding the album’s release. Ginsberg started work on First Blues as early as 1971, following a jam session with Bob Dylan, who praised Ginsberg’s ability to improvise lyrics. Ginsberg recorded with Dylan shortly thereafter and again in 1976 with Dylan and members of his Rolling Thunder Review. John Hammond’s attempt to release the record on CBS in the mid-’70s went nowhere, as label executives feared the album was too controversial (some song titles: “Everybody Sing (Gay Lib Rag)” & “You are My Dildo”). More tracks and overdubs were recorded in 1981 following the formation of Hammond Music Enterprises, and the album was finally released in 1983. A full cataloguing of the collection is available on request. $30,000

Catalogue 135 | 19 25] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852

Frontispiece and 6 engraved plates by Baker from designs by Billings. vi, [7]-256 pp. 12mo. First edition, first issue with no ads. Original blind stamped blue cloth. Faintest traces of rubbing to the spine, one small patch of soiling. Gilt titles fresh. Very nice, clean copy. BAL 7606.

A very nice copy of Hawthorne’s most famous children’s book, with “The Gorgon’s Head,” “Three Golden Apples,” etc. $3,000

26] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel Grandfather’s Chair: A History for Youth. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841

viii, [i], [9]-140 pp. 12mo. First edition. Publisher’s blue-gray cloth, printed black title label on front cover (gilt titling mostly worn away). Tear to cloth at head of spine, rear free endpaper removed. Peirce family biographical material tipped in at front. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. In a custom blue morocco pull-off box by Stikemen. BAL 7590; Clark A6.1. Peirce Family Copies [Boxed with:] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather’s Chair. vii, [i], [9]-158 pp. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Publisher’s light brown cloth, printed black title label on front cover (gilt titling mostly worn away). A few stains to covers, overopened at title-page, foxing rear endpapers removed. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. BAL 7591; Clark A7.1. Both volumes with contemporary gift inscriptions to James Mills Peirce (1834-1906), later a mathematician who, like his father Benjamin Peirce, taught at Harvard. The elder Peirce inscribed Grandfather’s Chair to his son; while James later gave Famous Old People to his younger brother Charles: “Master Charles Peirce from his brother.” This is of course Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the philosopher, logician, and founder of pragmatism. $4,500

20 | James Cummins bookseller literature 27] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 iv, 322 pp. 8vo. First edition, with 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at back dated March 1, 1850, “reduplicate” in l. 20, p. 21; “characterss” l. 5, p. 41; “Chatechism” l. 29, p. 132, and “known of it” l. 4, p. 199. Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g., with the original publisher’s brown cloth covers bound-in. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. Light rubbing to joints. BAL 7600; Clark A16.1; Grolier, Hawthorne, no. 21. Grolier, American 100, no. 59.

A finely bound copy of the first edition of the great novel of the Puritan American conscience. $5,000

Catalogue 135 | 21 28] 29] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel HEMINGWAY, Ernest Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Scribner’s, Co., John B. Russell, 1837 1940

Publisher’s circular device on title-page. [4, ads], [5]-334, [2], [x], 471, [1] pp. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s beige cloth. [16, catalogue] pp. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown Repaired tear to ffep, not affecting signature, else near embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt to spine. Light wear fine in first state pictorial dust-jacket (few marginal tears and staining to covers, cloth split at rear joint, foxing to panels, spine panel faded with some wear to ends). throughout. In a custom blue morocco pull-of case, gilt, by Hanneman A18a; Grissom A.17.1.a. Stikeman. BAL 7581; Clarke A2.1; Wilson 129. Provenance: First edition, Signed (“Ernest Hemingway”) on the Henry R. Cleveland (bookplate and pencil inscription on title, Burlington 1837); Agnes Neustadt (bookplate). ffep and with the author’s calling card pasted to recto of publicity leaf. First edition of Hawthorne’s second book, and although it was not the dismal failure that Fanshawe had $7,500 been, it attracted hardly any notice when it was issued thus in 1837. Now, of course, it is one of the most famous collections of short fiction in American literature. Vincent Starrett said of the story “Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”: “it comes close to becoming a detective story in the purest sense” and Edgar Allan Poe said the story is “vividly original and managed most dexterously” (see Queen’s Quorum, p. 10). $5,000

22 | James Cummins bookseller literature 30] HOMER Iliad. Odyssey [title in Greek]. Glasquae [Glasgow]: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1756-1758 xi, [i], 312; [iv], 336; [viii], 297, [1]; [iv], 336 pp., with half-title and blanks as called for, but without rare general title-page (issued in 1758) in the first volume of the Iliad. 4 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco lettering pieces in two, the rest richly gilt with small thistle and floral tools. Joints and tips expertly repaired, scuffing to covers, occasional foxing to text, margins of endpapers browned, still a crisp, clean copy. Gaskell 319. Provenance: Thomas Thornton (heraldic Thorn Ville bookplate); M. Rockingham (heraldic bookplate).

One of the great productions of this or any press. “The great Homer, in double pica and all the majesty of a folio page, was produced by Robert and Andrew Foulis in 1756 and 1758 … For beauty as well as for accuracy these splendid volumes can hardly be surpassed … [of them] it is said, ‘one of the finest monuments of Greek typography which our nation possesses’ …” (David Murray, Robert & Andrew Foulis and the Glasgow Press, pp. 16-17). $6,000

Catalogue 135 | 23 31] Notre-Dame de Paris is more commonly known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the title under which the HUGO, Victor first English translation by Frederic Shoberl appeared in Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1833. Set in 15th-century Paris, the novel introduces a 1831 memorable cast of Romantic characters; some, such as the hunchback Quasimodo and the gypsy girl Esméralda, have Title vignettes by Tony Johannot. [viii], 404; [iv], 536 pp. so permeated our culture that they’ve reached the status of 2 vols. 8vo. First edition, third issue. Bound to style in archetypes. Hugo hoped that his novel would reverse the the early 20th-century in red half morocco and embossed sad neglect of Gothic architecture in his country, much of paper over boards, smooth spines stamped in gilt and blind which had fallen into ruin or been brutally altered. Indeed, to cathedral design, t.e.g., the rest uncut, by René Aussourd Hugo created a depiction of Notre-Dame “so erudite and (signed in gilt at foot of spine and on front free endpaper). familiar that it caused a revolution in architectural taste. Slight rubbing to extremities, expert paper repair to lower The success of this darkly moving novel was immediate, outside corner of vol. I half-title, and repairs to a few other paper faults throughout. In a custom gilt-ruled full brown establishing Hugo as the premier historical novelist of his morocco slipcase and chemise by R. Patron. Carteret I, p. time” (Oxford Companion to Literature in French). 402. In a fine retrospective French romantic binding by René First edition, third issue, of Hugo’s first great success Aussourd, recalling the work of Simier or Thouvenin. as a novelist, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in a fine Aussourd studied under his uncle Charles Meunier and retrospective binding by René Aussourd. Though styled was first gilder at Chambolle-Duru before starting his own the “Troisème Édition” on the title-page, this is in fact the business in 1912 (Devauchelle III, p. 243). third issue of the first edition. The entire edition consisted $15,000 of four separate issues of 275 copies each, with each issue designated as a separate edition on the title-page.

24 | James Cummins bookseller literature 32] Edition. Publisher’s blue cloth with printed paper spine labels (BAL binding variant B with 2-line blurb for Astoria [IRVING, Washington] on p. 2 of catalogue). Maps with closed tears at mounting Bracebridge Hall or, The Humorists. A Medley, By neatly repaired, some soiling to binding, spine labels chipped, minor sporadic foxing, else very good. with Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.New York: Printed by 12-page catalog inserted at the end of volume I. Previous C.S. Van Winkle, No. 101 Greenwich Street, owner’s inscription on endpapers. BAL 10151; Wagner- 1822 Camp 67:3; Wheat 423,424; Graff 2160; Howes I85; Streeter Sale 2092. 316 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First American edition. Bound in full American olive-green calf, boards stamped in blind with The third of a trio of books written by Irving upon his basket-weave pattern, spines richly gilt. Fine. BAL 10109; return to America after almost two decades spent living in Langfeld & Kleinfield, pp. 23-24; Wright I 1380. Europe. A Tour of the Prairies (1835), Astoria (1836) and The Rocky Mountains — all studies of the American West — IN a contemporary AMERICAN BINDING were written in part to counter the charge that Irving had $1,500 become too Europeanized. The Rocky Mountains is based upon the journals of the 33] French-born United States Army officer Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878) and his explorations of IRVING, Washington the Rockies. Irving writes in the Introduction: “I have The Rocky Mountains: or, Scenes, Incidents, and occasionally interwoven facts and details, gathered from various sources, especially from the conversations and Adventures in the Far West; Digested from the journals of some of the captain’s contemporaries, who Journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the Army were actors in the scenes he describes. I have also given of the United States, and Illustrated from Various it a tone and coloring drawn from my own observation Other Sources. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & … However, the work is substantially the narrative of the Blanchard, 1837 worthy captain …” (p. 8).

Engraved folding map in each volume. 9, [1], [xi]-xvi, [17]- $1,000 248, [12, catalogue]; vii, [i], [9]-248 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First

Catalogue 135 | 25 34] 35] JAMES, Henry ( JOCKO) Henry James … Bibliography [Proof sheet of The Gorilla, or The Wild Man of the Woods. A checklist of the works of Henry James, Sr]. N.p: Comic Serio Drama in One Act (Scene Africa). after 1882 Ca.1850s

Printed broadside, laid down on card, docketted “No. 1. Manuscript, pen and ink, some insertions, cross-outs, edits, Slip 5.” at upper right. 8vo. Small tears from margin, faint etc. [ii], 20 pp. with 1-paragraph addition to p. 5 on blue creases. In custom cloth box. paper laid in. 4to. Plain wrappers. Worn, title-leaf detached, pages brittle. Inscribed by Henry James, Jr: “I know of no other work of my father’s than those mentioned here. H. James.” An unpublished one-act play about “Jocko the Ape from Brazil,” a popular theater stock character of the 19th A printed list of 14 book and periodical appearances by century. A precursor to man-ape characters such as King Henry James, Sr (1811-1882), father of the novelist Henry Kong and Tarzan, Jocko developed from French sources of James and philosopher William James. The elder James the 1820s. In early versions of the story, Jocko is a monkey was an iconoclastic thinker; his writings reflect his kidnapped from Brazil by a Portuguese trader. The ape unorthodox religious opinions, including an embrace of saves the man’s child from shipwreck during the Atlantic Swedenborgianism. crossing but dies in the process. $1,500 In this adaptation of the story, set on a plantation in Brazil, Jocko is a malevolent and mischievous character. He attempts to kidnap a child (a reversal of the original version of the story) and is killed in the process of trying to escape. $2,000

26 | James Cummins bookseller literature 36] 37] JOHNSON, Samuel MCKAY, Claude The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems. Critical Observations on Their Works. London: London: Grant Richard, 1920 H. Baldwin, et al, 1800-1801 Frontispiece portrait. 40 pp. 8vo. First edition. Original 4 vols. 12mo. A new edition. Corrected. 19th-century wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. Wrappers speckled calf, black and red spine labels, gilt decorated chipped at edges, minuscule portion of label missing, spine spines. Contemporary owner signatures in each volume C. chipped with 2-inch loss from foot. S. Cumming Winton College (Bournemouth), December Publisher’s Copy 5th 1804. Fine. Courtney and Smith 143. Inscribed on the half-title: “From Charles C. Grant The masterpiece of 18th-century criticism Richards. Oct: 12th 1920 (a present to him from himself).” The first edition, titledPrefaces, Bibliographical and Critical, $1,500 to the Works of the English Poets, was published in ten smaller volumes between 1779 and 1781 to accompany a 56 volume set of the poets’ works. $750

Catalogue 135 | 27 38] 39] MCKAY, Claude MEREDITH, George Banjo. A Story without a Plot. New York: Harper Poems. London: John W. Parker and Son, [1851] & Brothers, 1929 [ii-vi (lacking half-title)], 159, [1] pp., with four-line errata 326 pp. 8vo. First edition. Decorated paper boards in slip tipped-in at end. 8vo. First edition of the author’s red and blue, black cloth spine. Head a little chafed, spine first book. Publisher’s green embossed cloth, spine titled lettering faded, otherwise very good. Without dust-jacket. and ruled in gilt. Spine dulled, small closed tear to cloth at rear joint, light dampstain to rear endpapers. Forman, ‘This souvenir of the docks’ Meredith 1; Hayward 270; An Appendix to the Rowfant With a fine inscription on the front pastedown beneath the Library, p. 76. Provenance: Frederick Locker-Lampson ownership inscription of Ida Louis Lassiter: “For one who (inscription on title-page from the author and his bookplate has been in Marseille — this souvenir of the docks. Claude and notes); Hodgson & Co (sale 1926, sold £14 to Quaritch). McKay.” Meredith’s First Book, Inscribed to Frederick Locker- $850 Lampson Presentation copy of George Meredith’s uncommon first book, inscribed on the title-page to the bibliophile Frederick Locker-Lampson (at the time Frederick Locker, he added the Lampson surname in 1885 upon the death of his father-in-law). With Locker-Lampson’s pencil marks scattered throughout and a lengthy note on the front free endpaper, reading: “At page 101 you will find a poem called Love in the Valley, & at the end of the vol: you will find the same poem revised & amplified. It came out in a mag: twenty-

28 | James Cummins bookseller literature five years after the first volume was given to the Public. viii, 216 pp. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green wave- Tennyson & I both very much admired this poem, as you grain cloth, spine titled in gilt (Carter’s variant A). Front will see in my ‘Patchwork,’ & we were both sorry, very cover stained and with fraying to cloth at lower edge, sorry, he tampered with it.” The magazine reprinting of ink shelfmark stamp to ffep. Hayward 271; Tinker 1551; “Love in the Valley” is included at the rear of the volume. Forman, Meredith 8. This copy is listed in An Appendix to the Rowfant Library Presentation Copy to Dante Gabriel Rossetti at page 76, where it is catalogued as having an inserted Presentation copy, inscribed by Meredith to Dante Gabriel portrait. The portrait has since been removed, likely taking Rossetti on the title-page: “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from the half-title with it. his friend, George Meredith” and with corrections in In a letter to Edward Clodd, Meredith said of this volume: the author’s hand. The Hayward exhibition copy, also “I wrote verse before I was nineteen; some of it, which inscribed and corrected, had a note in Merdith’s hand I wish could be suppressed, and has not been reprinted, apologizing for “Errata ennumerable.” was published in the 1851 volume which I brought out at Meredith’s novel Evan Harrington was serialized in Once a my own risk, losing £50 or £60 on the venture.” Meredith Week in 1860, and it was through contacts at the magazine apparently did try to suppress the volume, later destroying that the author met Rossetti. Meredith’s frequent London some 300 copies. commitments in 1862-3 led to him spending Thursday $1,750 nights at Rossetti’s Chelsea home (where Swinburne was also a guest). Around this time, Meredith served as a model for Jesus in Rossetti’s “Mary Magdalene at the gate of 40] Simon the Pharisee.” MEREDITH, George “Modern Love” — “the most painfully personal of his works” (ODNB) — is a 50-sonnet sequence which documents Modern Love and the Poems of the English the breakdown of Meredith’s first marriage. Roadside, with Poems and Ballads. London: $7,500 Chapman & Hall, 1862

Catalogue 135 | 29 41] (MINIATURE, PRINTED ON SILK) PINDAR Ta Tou Pindarou Olumpia. Ex Editione Oxoniensi. Glasguae [Glasgow]: R. & A. Foulis, 1754

158 pp. A-K8. Greek text printed on silk. 32mo (3 × 1-3/4 in). Contemporary dark green straight-grained morocco, covers tooled with gilt filet border and small floral tool at corners, flat spine divided into five panels, titled in one, the rest with small circular tools, a.e.g. Slightest rubbing to covers, else fine. In custom morocco pull-off case and chemise. Gaskell 274; Brunet IV, 660; ESTC T134376; Mikrobiblion 192. Foulis Press Miniature Pindar on Silk The first volume of the miniature four-volume Foulis Press edition of Pindar’s Odes (printed 1754-1758), this copy one of only a handful printed on silk. It is complete in itself, the first volume being the only one of which some copies were printed on silk. As such, it is issued without the general title page (π1). Gaskell notes silk copies in the British Library and the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Additional silk copies are located at the Canterbury Cathedral Library and the Lilly Library. Only a handful of copies have sold at auction in the past 35 years. A near flawless copy of what is perhaps the only miniature book printed on silk. $5,500

30 | James Cummins bookseller literature 42] MITCHELL, Joseph My Ears Are Bent. New York: Sheridan House, [1938]

Illustrated with photographs. 284 pp. 8vo. First edition of the author’s first book. Green cloth. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Very good in very good dust-jacket (spine panel faded, short split at top of front spine fold). Provenance: from the files of Lee Furman, publisher.

Evidentiary Copy of Joseph Mitchell’s elusive first book, decidedly uncommon in dust- jacket. This copy, from the files of Sheridan House publisher Lee Furman, is an evidentiary copy of a previously unknown second state dust-jacket, with publisher’s reviews on the front flap and a publisher’s ad on the back flap. $2,250

43] [MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS, Nicolas- Pierre-Henri de] The Count of Gabalis: Or, the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, Exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences … Done into English by P.A. Gent. London: Printed for B.M. Printer to the Cabalistical Society of the Sages, at the Sign of the Rosy-Crusian [i.e. J. Magnes, R. Bentley, and R. Harford], 1680.

[viii], 183, [1], 11, [1] pp. 12mo. First English edition. Contemporary Restoration red morocco, covers stamped in gilt with all-over design of drawer handle and small floral tools, a.e.g. Rebacked to style. Bookplate and inscription of Hugh Morriston Davies. ESTC R14099; Wing V386.

The first English edition of this influential satire of occult philosophy by the Abbé de Villars, first published anonymously in Paris in 1670 and here translated by Philip Ayres. Authors inspired by The Count of Gabalis include Charles Baudelaire and Alexander Pope — whose sylphs in “The Rape of the Lock” are borrowed from this work. $3,000

Catalogue 135 | 31 44] MORRIS, William Love is Enough; or The Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality. London: Ellis and White, 1873

[vi], 134, [2, ads] pp. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue-green cloth, front cover stamped in gilt with title and floral design. Spine cloth worn and split, loss at tail end, front joint cracked. In custom green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Buxton Forman 37. Presentation Copy from William Morris to John Ruskin Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “John Ruskin, from his friend William Morris.” An extraordinary presentation copy, inscribed by William Morris (1834-1896) to his spiritual mentor, John Ruskin (1819-1900), of whom he said, “Ruskin is the first comer, the inventor.” Morris first read Ruskin while at Oxford in the 1850s and described the discovery of Ruskin’s works as a “revelation.” Morris would gather his friends to read aloud from The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Modern Painters, and The Stones of Venice. Of the chapter “‘On the nature of Gothic architecture” from the latter work, Morris wrote, “To some of us when we first read it … it seemed to point out a new road on which the world should travel.” The work inspired Morris’s tour of the Gothic cathedrals of France in 1855 and his decision to forgo the church for the study of architecture. Ruskin had articulated modern British society’s harmful separation of labor from intellect — it would fall to Morris, in his varied artistic and political projects, to reunite artisanship, creativity, and labor under the mantle of the Arts & Crafts movement. “Morris always insisted that Ruskin came at the right time and that he was the prime mover in the turning of the tide away from a blind faith in materialist progress and towards a perception of the damage to society this implied” (MacCarthy, William Morris, pp. 69-70). $12,500

32 | James Cummins bookseller literature 45] NABOKOV, Vladimir Lolita. Paris: Olympia Press, 1955

188, [2]; [3]-223, [1] pp. 2 vols. 12mo. First edition. Green printed wrappers, price “Francs : 900” on back wrappers. Spines toned, lower portion of spine of first volume worn with small loss. Very good. Morocco-backed slipcase, cloth chemises. Juliar A28.1, issue a. first edition, inscribed: The Nabokov Cousins This copy with ownership signatures of composer and cosmopolitan Nicolas Nabokov on the flyleaf of each volume. The first volume is inscribed & dated by his first cousin, the author, “Vladimir 1.X.1955.” Copies of Lolita inscribed in the year of publication are rare. $50,000

Catalogue 135 | 33 46] 47] O’BRIEN, Flann [pseudonym of Brian PETRARCH, [Francesco], Henry Boyd O’Nolan] (translator) At Swim-Two-Birds. London: Longmans, Green The Triumphs of Petrarch: Translated into English and Co, [1939] Verse, with an Introduction and Notes. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 316 pp. 8vo. First edition, second binding. Publisher’s grey cloth. Near fine in very good dust-jacket with Graham lxviii, 216, [2] pp. 12mo. First edition. Contemporary Greene blurb, unclipped, priced 3/6 (spine panel and edges green morocco, covers gilt with single rule border, flat a bit toned, with some minor loss at head). In a custom spine divided into six compartments, lettered in one, the green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. O’Keeffe A1; rest richly gilt, edges marbled. Slight wear to tips. Early Burgess 99. ownership signature (K.M.M.) to flyleaf, bookplate of Clara A modern classic, published on the eve of the war. It found H. Gould. favor with readers such as James Joyce but sold poorly. The First edition of Henry Boyd’s translation of Petrarch’s copy here with an attractive dust-jacket and with the book Trionfi, here titled The Triumphs of Petrarch. Boyd (1748/9– in the second binding, issued circa 1941-2. 1832) was born into a farming family in Dromore, Co. $7,500 Antrim and later educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His translation of the entire Divine Comedy, the first complete rendering into English, was published in 1802 and was instrumental in the rediscovery of Dante in the 19th century. $1,000 34 | James Cummins bookseller literature 48] 49] PIOZZI, Hester Lynch [Thrale] [SCOTT, Sir Walter] British Synonymy; or, An Attempt at Regulating Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since … Three the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation. Volumes in Two. New York: Van Winkle and London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Wiley, 1815 1794 292; 248 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First American edition. [iv], viii, 423, [1]; [iv], 416 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, later red with half-titles. Bound in old but later brown mottled calf, morocco and calf spine labels. Rebacked, preserving spines, edges red. Very nice copy. Rothschild 1552; Alston, III, 524; some spotting and staining to text, paper toned. Previous Fleeman, 94.4PBS/1a; Hazen 3254; Courtney 173. owner’s signature to flyleaves. Todd & Bowden 77Ri; PMM 273; Shaw & Shoemaker 35881 (3 locations). “An ambitious work, recalling in its preface her own Welsh The Rare First American Edition origins, it specifically addressed itself to those who, like her husband, found English taxing … Its discriminating This first of the famous Waverley Novels was published definitions and characteristic excursions offer real anonymously, and Scott did not officially acknowledge insights into an eighteenth-century mind, and the kind writing it until the 1820s. With this novel, Scott virtually of entertainment wholly absent from a dictionary of invented a new literary form, leaving behind the extreme synonyms” (ODNB). artificiality of the Gothic novel and rooting his fiction in fact. As PMM summarizes, “Walter Scott became the Dr. Johnson gets frequent mention, and his poem on the creator of the historical novel almost by accident.” coming of age of Sir John Lade is printed complete for the first time on pp. 359-60. There were Boston and New York printings of Waverley in $750 1815; Todd calls this Van Winkle & Wiley ed. “Apparently the first American edition.” $3,000

Catalogue 135 | 35 50] Scott introduces the example of Wordsworth to contrast with Cunningham’s own poetry, which Scott believes errs Scott, Walter, Sir in the opposite direction, towards an overabundance of Autograph Letter, Signed (“Walter Scott”), to poetic language. He finds in it “a redundancy of fancy which Allan Cunningham. Abbotsford, [Scotland]: 14 outstrips the colder comprehension of most of your readers October 1828 and which leads to an expenditure of ornament, which like too many rich trappings on a fine horse rather divert the 2 pp. pen and ink on bifolium with integral address leaf, attention from his genuine points of natural excellence.” red wax seal. 4to. Creased from prior folding, small piece Scott belatedly concedes that authors should refrain from cut where opened at seal, not affecting text. Provenance: criticizing each other (“of a surety criticism is a thing to be Sotheby’s, 25 July 1978, lot 448. Grierson, ed. The Letters of eschewed betwixt two authors”) and admits that it is only Sir Walter Scott, XI, pp. 10-12. his own loss of poetic inspiration that has turned him to scott on wordsworth such criticism (“I am almost in the predicament Dryden Scott writes to the poet Allan Cunningham, offering a speaks of when he says—the damnation of a poet is the strong opinion on the defects of Wordsworth’s poetry: generation of a critic”). “Wordsworth fails in receiving the universal suffrage he Cunningham (1784-1842) was a former stonemason’s merits because his poetry is too subtle and metaphysical apprentice with a talent for imitating old Scottish airs. in the idea & too blunt in the expression. He thinks like The inclusion of some of his originals in Robert Hartley a profound philosopher often when he uses the language Cromek’s collection Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song of common even vulgar life.” This critique goes right to led to a friendship with Scott. the heart of Wordsworth’s poetic vision and the Romantic $5,500 project as expressed in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads — “to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men.”

36 | James Cummins bookseller literature 51] SHAKESPEARE, William The Works of Shakespear. In Eight Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the Former Editions, by Mr. Pope. Dublin: Printed by and for Geo. Grierson … and for George Ewing …, 1726

Wood-engraved head- and tailpieces and initials. Lacking subscriber’s list called for in ESTC. 8 vols. 8vo. First Irish edition of Shakespeare. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Expertly rebacked to style, red morocco spine labels, text exceptionally clean and crisp. Jaggard, p. 498; ESTC T63759. Provenance: John Congreve (1801-1863, armorial bookplate in each volume). ‘The first edition of Shakespeare’s works published in Ireland’ (Jaggard) A rare complete set of the first edition of Shakespeare’s works printed in Ireland. Published in 8 volumes by George Grierson and George Ewing, this piracy reprints Pope’s 6-volume 4to edition of 1725, including Rowe’s Life and the “Index of the Characters, Sentiments, Speeches and Descriptions.” It also includes the text of Sewell’s supplementary volume 7 — volume 8 in this edition. Jaggard notes that the edition “appears to have met with poor encouragement, only 162 subscribers offering the needful support.” This was not Grierson and Ewing’s first attempt to print Shakespeare in Ireland. Grierson’s 1721 edition of Hamlet is believed to be the first printing of any Shakespeare work in Ireland; Grierson also printed editions of Othello and Julius Caesar that year. In 1723 Ewing issued an edition of Macbeth. All early Irish editions of Shakespeare are rare. We find no complete copies of this set at auction on ABPC or Rare Book Hub and fewer than 20 copies in institutions. The Eccles copy of the 1723 Macbeth brought over $31,000 in 2004. With Irish provenance from the library of Mount Congreve, County Waterford. $25,000

Catalogue 135 | 37 52] 53] Synge, John Millington Synge, John Millington Poems and Translations. [Preface by W.B. Yeats]. Deirdre of the Sorrows [Preface by W.B. Yeats]. New York: Printed for John Quinn, 1909 New York: Printed for John Quinn, 1910

4to. One of 5 printed on pure vellum of 50 copies total, [viii], [1]-90, [91] pp., with [9] added pages of corrections. first American edition. Full ivory vellum titled in gilt. Fine. 4to. One of 5 printed on pure vellum of a total of 10 Green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Wade 244; surviving copies. Full ivory vellum titled in gilt. Fine. Green Quinn 9981; Colbeck II:828. Provenance: Julia Quinn, sister morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Wade 246; Quinn sale (and heir) of John Quinn, and by descent. 9982a. Provenance: John Quinn, to his sister Julia, and by descent in the family. One of 5 on Vellum, Quinn Family Provenance One of 5 copies on vellum, with the corrections One of 5 copies on vellum of the first American edition, printed privately for John Quinn, and following the first Deirdre of the Sorrows was left unfinished at Synge’s death edition by the Cuala Press in 1909. The preface by Yeats is in 1909. The play was completed by Yeats, who also dated ten days after Synge’s death. Yeats wrote, “The whole contributed a Preface, and was first published by the Cuala book is of a kind almost unknown in a time when lyricism Press in 1910. This is one of five copies on vellum of the has become abstract and impersonal.” first American edition, privately printed for John Quinn in an edition of 50. In comparing his printed edition (which $12,500 follows the Cuala Press printing) to Synge’s manuscript, Quinn noted an abundance of errors. An inserted 9-page printed errata at the rear of this copy is prefaced with a note by Quinn that he had destroyed all but 10 copies (the five on vellum and five on paper) and that a corrected edition is in preparation. “It is clear however, from the Quinn Sale catalogue, item 9982a, that this new edition never got beyond the proof stage, and it is not known exactly how many copies of the original issue had the corrections inserted” (Wade). $12,500 38 | James Cummins bookseller literature 54] (TENNYSON, ALFRED) EDWARD VII, King of England Autograph Letter Signed (“Albert Edward”) as Prince of Wales, to Alfred, Lord Tennyson. London: February 2, 1892

2 pp, bifolium. 12mo. On Osborne stationery with crown emblem and mourning borders, folding crease, fine, with original transmittal envelope. Thanking Tennyson for memorial poem following the death of his son Albert Edward (1841-1910) the Prince of Wales and future King Edward the VII, offers his thanks to Tennyson for the memorial poem following the death of his son, Prince Albert Victor: “The beautiful Poem dedicated to the beloved son we have lost has deeply touched our hearts — but what has greatly enhanced its value in our eyes is that you have sent a copy of it to the Princess & myself written in your own hand. You may be assured that we shall always greatly prize it & that the verses emanating from so distinguished a pen will ever remain a solace for us in our grief. Believe me, Very sincerely yours, Albert Edward.” The poem in question is “The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale,” which ends with the oft-quoted lines: The face of Death is toward the Sun of Life, His shadow darkens earth: his truer name Is “Onward,” no discordance in the roll And march of that Eternal Harmony Whereto the worlds beat time, tho’ faintly heard Until the great Hereafter. Mourn in hope! Tennyson wrote the poem in his capacity as Poet Laureate, a title he held from 1850 until his death in September of 1892, seven months after the date of this letter. He had maintained a close relationship with the royal family, especially with Queen Victoria, to whom he also sent a copy of the memorial poem. “Tennyson was deeply shocked by this event. Remembering that he had not felt inspired to celebrate in verse the young man’s coming of age, he immediately, though feeling far from well at the time, set about a poem of consolation for the bereaved family … The [return] letters from the Queen, the Prince of Wales and Lord Lorne, the Queen’s son-in-law, show how deeply the poem was appreciated” (Dyson and C. Tennyson, eds., Dear and Honoured Lady: The Correspondence between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson, p. 137) . $2,000

Catalogue 135 | 39 55] (TENNYSON, ALFRED) THACKERAY, William Makepeace Autograph Letter, Signed (“W M Thackeray”), to Alfred Tennyson. Onslow Square, London: May 29, [1857]

1 p., bifolium. 8vo. Written on the blank verso of the final page of an Autograph Letter, Signed, of BAYARD TAYLOR to Thackeray, 3 pp., Gotha, May 26, 1857. Old folding creases, a few faint smudges, centerfold strengthened. ‘welcome the writer if he comes to knock on your door’ A warm letter from Thackeray to his friend Tennyson, writing in part to recommend the American poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor, and mentioning Tennyson’s poems and family. Written on the blank final page of a letter from Taylor to Thackeray, the letter reads, in full: My Dear A.T. Cast your i [sic] over this letter, and welcome the writer if he comes to knock on your door. He is one of the noblest young men I ever knew, & the most interesting — a pote [sic], a traveller, a writer of no ordinary distinction, and a devotee of A.T. I’m very sorry we did not meet when you were in London. I was away lecturing. I’ve done lecturing. I should like my daughter to have seen you & to have Thackeray enjoyed a long friendship with Tennyson and heard you — not the naughty poem but the nice was a frequent guest at Farringford, Tennyson’s home poem. Mr. Thoby gives me famous accounts of your on the Isle of Wight. “When Thackeray died, his two little boys and I send very kindly regards to their daughters came to live at Freshwater, under the care of mother & to you my dear Alfred from Julia Margaret Cameron, and Tennyson took them under Your Old friend his wing. Anne particularly became part of the family, W M Thackeray regarding Tennyson as her second father” (Palgrave, Literary Dictionary of Tennyson, p. 302). Taylor in his letter tells Thackeray, “I thought I should wait until reaching London to tell you how I rolled in the Polar $2,500 snows last winter and … drank your health on the Arctic Circle, but this morning the thought came into my head, that … I might run across to the Isle of Wight and shake the hand of Tennyson … Would not a line from you be the pass-word to his encampment, which, I have heard, is strongly guarded against foreign intruders?” Thackeray’s reply to Taylor is included in his Letters (ed. Ray), where his letter to Tennyson is noted as untraced.

40 | James Cummins bookseller literature 56] 57] TENNYSON, Alfred TENNYSON, Alfred Autograph Manuscript, being 6 lines from Idylls of Autograph Quotation Signed (“A Tennyson”). the King March 7, 1883

12mo. Some finger soiling and mat toning, old mount 1 p., bifolium, blindstamped Farringford, Freshweater, Isle marks to verso of integral blank. Note inked to verso in of Wight stationery. 12mo. Old folding creases, fine. unknown hand: “F.L. to M.J / 1 January 1873.” Final lines of ‘In Memoriam’ Six lines from Idylls of the King The final lines of Tennyson’s great work, “In Memoriam,” Six lines in Tennyson’s hand from his famous Arthurian written in the poet’s hand and signed: poem cycle, Idylls of the King. “— One far-off divine Event / To which the whole Thereafter — as he speaks, who tells the tale — Creation moves. / A Tennyson / March 7th / 1883.” When Arthur reach’d a field of battle, bright $2,500 With pitch’d pavilions of his foe, the world Was all so clear about him, that he saw The smallest rock far on the faintest hill, And even at high noon the morning star. In the last line, “at high noon” is a variant of the published version, which reads “in high day.” $3,500

Catalogue 135 | 41 58] THOMAS, Edward Last Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1918

8vo. First edition, unrecorded variant without the publisher’s ads at the back. Original boards, printed spine label, dust-jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, bottom corner a little bumped, otherwise a fine, unopened copy in the extremely rare dust-jacket, (chipped at the head of the spine and slightly rubbed and dust- soiled). Eckert, pp. 245-246.

The bibliographer observes that this volume is “said to be rare.” $4,500

59] Virgil The Aeneid of Virgil. Translated by Mr. Pitt. London: printed by R. Dodsley and sold by Hitch, Hinchliffe, Clements, Crownfield and Thurlbourne, and Leake, 1740

viii, 294, [vi], [295-] 623 pp. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. First complete Pitt edition. Contemporary calf rebacked with elaborate gilt spine laid down. A fine, crisp copy with wide margins. Foxon P412; Lowndes 2784 (“A work of the very first excellence”). Provenance: Armorial bookplate by William Haskoll with Oglander family motto “Servare Munia Vitae.” Scarce first edition of Pitt’s Aeneid The very scarce first complete edition of Christopher Pitt’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, which Johnson cited along with Dryden’s famed translation as one of the “two best translations that perhaps were ever produced by one nation of the same author” (Lives of the Poets). Pitt had published the first book, and then the first four books, separately in 1728 & 1736. Following this first its republication in 1763 with a scholarly apparatus by Joseph Warton made it one of the most widely read translations of its era. The present, complete first edition is scarce. We trace no copies at auction after 1963, and as of this writing we find no other copies in the trade. “Pitt engaging as a rival with Dryden naturally observed his failures, and avoided them; and, as he wrote after Pope’s Iliad, he had an example of an exact, equable, and splendid versification … If the two versions are compared, perhaps the result would be, that Dryden leads the reader forward by his general vigour and sprightliness, and Pitt often stops him to contemplate the excellence of a single couplet; that Dryden’s faults are forgotten in the hurry of delight, and that Pitt’s beauties are neglected in the languor of a cold and listless perusal; that Pitt pleases the criticks, and Dryden the people; that Pitt is quoted, and Dryden read” (ibid). $2,250

42 | James Cummins bookseller literature 60] works by Kipling, Hardy, Yeats, and Barrie among others, and early in his career he collaborated with his friend WELLS, H.G. Robert Louis Stevenson on four plays. The First Men in the Moon. London: George Henley encouraged Wells to develop a series of time Newnes, 1901 traveling stories into what became The Time Machine, Wells’s first success and what remains his most important 12 inserted plates by Claude Shepperson. vi, [ii], 342 pp. scientific romance. Henley serialized the work and 8vo. First English edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, even secured a generous publication agreement with stamped in gilt, black endpapers (Currey’s priority A). Heinemann. “In making friends with Henley he had made Spine darkened, ends frayed, nick to rear joint, short closed tear to blank margin of penultimate plate. Currey, the contact that was to launch his career” (MacKenzie, p. 518; Hammond B7; Wells 18. Provenance: W.E. H.G. Wells, p. 105). Henley (presentation inscription from Wells); Sotheran’s The First Men in the Moon was the first Wells novel to be (bookseller’s ticket); Eugene Plunkett (bookplate and filmed; it was produced by Gaumont Films and released in penciled inventory number on front free endpaper). 1919. A scarce title inscribed. Inscribed to Wells’s Literary Mentor W.E. Henley $17,500 Presentation copy of the first English edition of The First Men in the Moon, inscribed by Wells to his literary mentor, the poet and editor W.E. Henley: “To W.E. Henley, with affection, from H.G. Wells.” W.E. Henley (1849-1903), author and influential editor of The National Observer and other papers, “had a gift for finding and encouraging new talent” ODNB( ). He published

Catalogue 135 | 43 bibles & other 61] (BIBLE, ENGLISH) devotional works The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Birmingham: John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763

[1146] pp. Folio. The third variant of the Subscriber’s list, with the most names, ending with that of the Hon. Charles York, Esq, Attorney General. Bound in full dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide Greek key and drawer handle border with floral cornerpieces, narrow gilt filet-bordered rectangles tooled all over with drawer handle and sunburst tools and semé off small dots, with central gilt-stamped L with crown, spine with six double raised bands, titled in one compartment, stamped with owner’s name (“Frederic Powys”) in another, and the rest richly gilt, a.e.g., pink endsheets, by Staggemeier and Welcher, with their circular pink paper label on front pastedown. Front joint and headcap with conservation repairs of the highest quality, light foxing to text. Nixon, p. 184; Gaskell, Bibliography of John Baskerville, 26; Ramsden p. 135. Provenance: Frederic Powys (his name tooled in gilt to spine, Lilford Library booklabel). Baskerville’s Masterpiece, in Staggemeier & Welcher Binding The 1763 edition of Baskerville’s Bible has always been recognised as his masterpiece and is one of the high-points in the history of printing in Britain. This beautiful and monumental binding can be closely dated because Thomas Powys, formerly MP for Northamptonshire, was created Baron Lilford in 1797, and Staggemeier & Welcher are recorded in partnership on Villiers Street as of 1799. By 1810, Welcher was in business alone at that address. The Hon and Rev. Frederic Powys, whose name appears on the spine, was the third son of the first Lord Lilford; he married in 1807. Whether the binding was commissioned for his taking holy orders or on the occasion of his marriage can only be conjectured. A landmark of printing, in a splendid binding. $25,000

44 | James Cummins bookseller bibles & other devotional works 62] Arabic fount of an outstanding elegance and beauty … based directly on Arab or Turkish calligraphy acquired by (BIBLE, PSALMS IN ARABIC AND LATIN) Savary while serving in the Ottoman Empire” (Roper). Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis et Prophetae. The first book printed by Savary in Rome was dated 1613; Ex Arabico Idiomate in Latinum Translatus. in 1615 he returned to Paris and brought his type and his translators with him. Rome: Ex typographia Savariana. Execudebat Stephanus Paulinus, 1614 $5,500

Engraved French royal arms on title-page, arms of Savary de Brèves on imprint leaf. Text in double columns in Arabic 63] and Latin. Collation: (*)6 A-3M4 3N6. [12], 474, [1, imprint] pp. Small 4to. Old calf, boards ruled in blind, finely (BIRGIVI MEHMET EFENDI) ALI SADR EL- rebacked in period style. Internally clean and fresh. A few KONEVI annotations (Latin, Hebrew, Arabic) at Psalm 102, slightly [Kitab Sharh Birkiwi Muhammad Efendi. faded. Old gift inscription in Latin on back flyleaf. Darlow & Moule 1641; Schnurrer 324; Smitskamp 33; Roper, Early Commentary on Birgivi]. Incipit: Marhum wa- Arabic Printing in Europe, pp. 144-5, in Sprachen des magfurun lahu afdal ‘ilman … Muhammad al- Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution (2002). Birkiwi. [Ottoman Turkey: later 18th or early ‘of an outstanding elegance and beauty’ 19th century C.E.]

The Arabic Psalms have been translated from the Syriac Text in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, 15 lines in fine naskhi Peshitta; the Latin text is a translation from the Arabic. hand in black and red, fully vocalized, within gilt borders, Scholar-diplomat François Savary de Brèves (1560-1628), on glazed laid paper. 125 numbered leaves, plus 1 index French ambassador at Constaninople from 1584 to 1606, leaf. 12mo. Quarter leather and patterned paper boards. Six leaves remargined at gutter (1, 2, 115, 116, 125, 126), revived the printing of Arabic upon his arrival in Rome catchword erased from 125; short tear at top margin of in 1608, commissioning “the design and production of an

Catalogue 135 | 45 index leaf, occasional smudging. Still very good overall. Cf. Princeton, Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1644; Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 655 ( no. 10); Orientalischen Handschriften, XIII, 3 (30, 31).

Commentary on the Vasiyetname or testament of Mehmet Birgivi, a guide to proper conduct for Muslims. Imam Birgivi (928-981 A.H., 1522-1573 C.E.), Turkish Sufi and scholar, was also author of the well-known Tariqat al-muhammadiyya (Path of Muhammad). “Since the seventeenth century, it has been a major source and inspiration for the Salafi reform movement” (Ibrahim Kalin, Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy). The text follows the chapter organization of the Tariqat (composed in Arabic), and the colophon notes that the root text was composed in 980 and the Commentary in 1114, by ‘Ali al-Qunawi. The colophon is incomplete as a catchword has been erased at the foot of the leaf and the chapter index begins at leaf 39. A late eighteenth-century or early nineteenth century manuscript copy of this devotional work. $1,500

64] (BOOK OF HOURS) Abbreviated Psalter Miniature [Book of Hours]. Germany: ca.15th century

Ink on vellum and paper, 14 lines per page, with rubrication in red. 118 leaves, including numerous 2-, 3-, and 4-line initials in red. [2] blank, [6] antiphon, [2] ruled blank antiphon, [66] text, [18] antiphon, [1] text, [11] antiphon, [12] blank leaves. Loose insert at the end. 3 × 2-3/16 inches (76 × 56 mm). Early blindstamped calf with MR and sacred heart monogram on covers, lacking one clasp. sung in the Office of the Dead following the Requiem Handsome miniature abbreviated psalter, comprising: before burial (1) Requiem Aeternam: Introitus, Graduale, Tractus, (7) Prayer with musical notation (later hand) ending with partial Offertorium (8) Loose insert at the end referencing Saint Frances of (2) Office of the Dead: readings from the Book of Job Rome and Ignatius of Loyala (3) 44-48v Penitential Psalms The main body of the text is written in a late gothic hand (4) 67v-76 15 Gradual Psalms in 14 lines; the antiphonal in the final section is of a later (5) 76v Here begins the good prayer... hand in 4-line staves, later 16th century.. (6) Antiphonals (Líbera me (“Deliver me”)), traditionally sold

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Catalogue 135 | 47 65] birthplace of Jesus, Matthew makes no mention of either the manger or the shepherds. (GUTENBERG BIBLE) NEWTON, A. Edward The centrality of this narrative to Christianity and hence its A Noble Fragment. Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg importance to world civilization hardly needs emphasizing. Bible, 1450-1455. With a Bibliographical Essay The recounting of the narrative in this leaf from the first by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, printed book––the appearance of which likewise marks 1921. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, the birth of a new era of human culture––makes for an and Peter Schoeffer, 1455] exceptional literary and cultural artifact. It is not likely that another example of this leaf will appear on the market again. Newton’s text in two columns, [6] pp. of text, with title- This “greatest of all printed books” (PMM), the Gutenberg page and one initial letter printed in red. Leaf from the Bible was the first book printed from movable type in the Gutenberg Bible tipped in, Folio 218 (Luke 1:12 - 2:9), Western hemisphere. Only forty-eight copies of it are known, with large red initial “F” on verso at beginning of second most of which are incomplete. This leaf was removed from chapter, manuscript chapter numeral “II” in alternating red and blue, text capitals rubricated throughout, manuscript the imperfect Mannheim Court Library-Munich Royal headline in red and blue, some mostly marginal spotting, Library-Robert Curzon (Lord Zouche)-Sabin copy after it old dampstain at extreme upper margin, but fine. Folio. was acquired by the New York bookseller Gabriel Wells at Leaf: (390 × 283 mm). Edition limited to 600 copies, Sotheby’s, 9 November, 1920. Wells broke up the copy in designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin 1921 and offered the leaves separately, bound along with Rudge. Original full black blindstamped morocco by A. Edward Newton’s eloquent essay. Every copy, leaf, or Stikeman & Co., front cover lettered in gilt. Some rubbing fragment of this Bible represents a rare tangible piece of at joints, touch of fading to boards. In original slipcase. cultural history, and an immense achievement in the art and Goff B-526B; GKW 4201; Hain 3031; not in Norman Census; craft of printing. “Its printers were competing in the market PMM 1; Pellechet 2265; Oates 14; Proctor 56; BMC I 17; De hitherto supplied by the producers of high-class manuscripts. Ricci, p. 34. Provenance: Nelson Doubleday (bookplate). The design of the book and the layout of the book were The Birth of Christ: A Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible therefore based on the book-hand and manuscript design of UNQUESTIONABLY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SINGLE the day, and a very high standard of press-work was required, LEAVES OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, BEING LUKE’S ACCOUNT OF and obtained, to enable the new mechanical product to THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND INCLUDING THE BIRTH OF compete successfully with its hand-produced rivals. Standards CHRIST. Among the four evangelists only Luke and Matthew were set in quality of paper and blackness of ink, in design provide a narrative account of Christ’s nativity, with Luke’s and professional skill, which the printers of later generations being by far the more in-depth, providing most of the details have found difficult to maintain” — PMM. that have come to be associated with the birth of Jesus. Our The present leaf opens with the final word of Luke 1:11 leaf includes the announcement by the angel Gabriel of the (“incensi”) and into verse 12, which describes the reaction coming of John the Baptist to Zachariah, the husband of of Zachariah to the appearance of the angel Gabriel: “et Elizabeth; Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she is to Zaccharias turbatus est videns et timor inruit super eum” give birth to the Son of God (the Annunciation); the visit of (“And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear Mary to Elizabeth (the Visitation); Mary’s song of praise; the fell upon him”). The leaf ends with another angelic visit, this journey of Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem time to the shepherds outside of Bethlehem, Luke chapter in accordance with the census; the birth of John the Baptist; 2, the first part of verse 9 (with the remainder of the verse in the birth of Jesus in a manger––there being no room at the brackets): “et ecce angelus Domini stetit iuxta illos et claritas inn––and his being wrapped in swaddling clothes; and the Dei circumfulsit” [illos et timuerunt timore magno] (“And, lo, appearance of an angel to a group of shepherds in a nearby the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the field. None of these events is duplicated in Matthew’s Lord shone round” [about them: and they were sore afraid]). account— though an angel does appear to announce the coming of Jesus, it appears to Joseph, not Mary, and is not $150,000 identified as Gabriel; and while Bethlehem is named as the

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Catalogue 135 | 49 americana 66] CARDOZO, Isaac N. A Discourse Delivered in Charleston, (S.C) on the 21st of Nov. 1827, Before the Reformed Society of Israelites, for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to its Purity and Spirit, on their Third Anniversary. Charleston: James S. Burges, 1827

18, [2] blank pp. 12mo. First and only edition. Modern wrappers. Custom chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Some pale foxing to title, otherwise clean. Rosenbach 289 (locating one copy, in a private collection); OCLC (USC, Presbyterian College); American Imprints 28385; Singerman 0442.

A rare pamphlet from the the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States –– the Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston, South Carolina — recording an address by one of the movement’s leaders and a patriarch of an important southern African-American family. The Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites formed in 1824 when it split off from the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) synagogue in Charleston. The Society sought to implement a number of reforms it deemed crucial to engaging the rising generation, and in the process posited a distinctly American form of practice. As described in an 1826 circular published within the Charleston Mercury, the Society’s principal aims were: “First: To introduce such a change in the mode of worship, that a considerable portion of the prayers be said in the English language … Secondly: To discontinue the observance of such ceremonies as … owe their origin only to Rabbinical institutions … Thirdly: To abolish the use of such portions of the Hebrew prayers as are superfluous and consist of mere repetitions … Fourthly: To follow the portions of the Pentateuch which are to be said in the original Hebrew, with an English Discourse, in which the principles of the Jewish faith, and the force and beauty of the moral law, may be expounded to the rising generation….” These and other reforms — including the use of music during services — created a considerable rift within the Jewish community in Charleston, splitting many families along generational lines. Ultimately the stresses proved to be too much for the Society to withstand, and it ceased to be active by the mid-1830s. Its impact, however, was significant: “its mother congregation KKBE — which most of the Society’s members joined again — adopted key elements of Reform in the 1830s and 1840s.

50 | James Cummins bookseller americana By 1852, the congregation used both Hebrew and English in prayers; also added were a choir and an organ … The Torah was read in a three-year cycle, and only one day of the New Year was celebrated. All of these were Reform elements” (Hieke, “A Discussion of the ‘German’ Dimension of Reform Judaism in … Three American Southern States,” in Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, vol 2, p. 67). The present address was delivered on the third anniversary of the Society by Isaac Cardozo (1786-1855), who served as Vice- President of the group from 1828-1832. Cardozo invokes the “spirit of reform in all existing institutions [which] is abroad” and reminds the group of its origin as “a society that was instituted mainly for effecting the observance of order and decorum in Hebrew worship: for adapting it to the feelings and propensities of the enlightened Israelite of the present day; and for endeavouring to bring about by argument and petition, what neither necessity nor persuasion could before accomplish,” before he goes on to defend the mission from various criticisms. Apart from being a leader within Charleston’s Sephardic 67] Jewish community, Cardozo was also the patriarch of an important southern African-American family. He had six CHASE, Owen children with his common-law wife Lydia Weston, a free Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and black woman from a prominent Charleston family — one of Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, a number of openly mixed-race households in antebellum of Nantucket … New York: Published by W.B. Charleston. One of their sons, Francis Cardozo (1836-1903), became the first African-American to hold a state-wide office Gilley … J. Seymour, Printer, 1821 in the United States, serving as Secretary of State in South 128 pp. 8vo. First edition. Contemporary sheep. Carolina from 1868 to 1872. Another son, Thomas, served as Front joint and portions of spine expertly repaired, free State Superintendent of Education from 1873 to 1876. endpapers supplied, loss from lower inner corner of pp. 125- RARE: OCLC reports only two instiutional copies, and A.S.W. 6 not affecting text, toning and light staining throughout. Rosenbach, in his American Jewish Bibliography, located only Howes C318, “c”; Hill 281; Forster 17; American Imprints 4964; Sabin 12189; Huntress 205C. Provenance: William one copy, in a private collection. Macy (signature on several pages and rear pastedown); $50,000 Samuel Barlow Coffin (bookplate).

A wonderful association copy belonging to the Macy and Coffin families. This is the first edition of Owen Chase’s first- hand account of the wreck of the whaleship Essex and the ensuing tale of survival and cannibalism on the open seas. On November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, under the command of Captain George Pollard, was 1,200 miles east of the Marquesas when it was attacked and sunk by a large sperm whale. The whale rammed the Essex twice, and by Chase’s account did so deliberately; the second attack crushed the ship’s bow and she quickly sank. Twenty men

Catalogue 135 | 51 escaped on three whaleboats rigged with makeshift masts. Melville would later base a character in his long poem Clarel Their ensuing struggle to survive at sea with little water on Captain Pollard. His copy of the Narrative contains many or food is one of the most extraordinary and harrowing interesting annotations, including his opinion that the men shipwreck accounts. could have quite easily survived had they sailed directly to Three of the men chose to remain on uninhabited Tahiti, and that the Narrative was certainly written with help: Henderson Island (100 miles northeast of Pitcairn Island) and “There seems no reason to suppose that Owen himself wrote were later rescued. The other men, afraid of encountering the Narrative. It bears obvious tokens of having been written cannibals on the Marquesas, voted to set course for the for him, but at the same time, its whole air plainly evinces western coast of South America, some 2,000 miles away. that it was carefully and conscientiously written to Owen’s dictation of the facts.” With insufficient supplies for the crossing and men beginning to suffer and die from dehydration and starvation, the This copy of the Narrative in contemporary American sheep survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. The men and with the signature of William Macy and the bookplate on Pollard’s boat were forced to draw straws to chose who of Samuel Barlow Coffin. Both the Macys and Coffins were among them would be sacrificed to feed the rest. In perhaps among the first English families to settle in Nantucket the story’s most gruesome detail, it was the 17-year-old Owen in the early 17th century, and both families were heavily Coffin, who was sailing under the care of his cousin Captain involved in the island’s whaling industry. The Coffin name Pollard, who drew the black spot. repeats throughout the story of the Essex: Owen Coffin, the young man killed and eaten after drawing lots on Pollard’s After more than 90 days at sea, the survivors were rescued whaleboat; Zimri Coffin, captain of the Dauphin, the ship that off the coast of South America. In all a total of seven men rescued Pollard and his remaining crew; William Coffin, Jr, were cannibalized and eight survived — the three left on ghostwriter of Chase’s Narrative. Henderson Island and five men, including Owen Chase and Captain Pollard, on two whaleboats. $25,000 Owen Chase, first mate of the Essex, began his account of the ordeal shortly after his return to Nantucket. It was finished 4 months later with the help of ghostwriter, William Coffin, Jr., a fellow 20-something Nantucketer who had attended Harvard. Coffin was later the ghostwriter of Obed Macy’s history of Nantucket, and may have ghostwritten an account of the Globe mutiny. “His published literary career appears to have begun, however, with the narrative of the Essex disaster” (Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea, p. 203). Chase’s Narrative remained the only known first-hand account of the shipwreck until the discovery in 1960 of a notebook by cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, containing his recollections of the events written years later in 1876. Herman Melville read the Narrative in the 1840s, having acquired his copy in quite extraordinary circumstances. While whaling on the Acushnet he gammed with the Nantucket whaleship Lima; on board was Owen Chase’s son, who gave Melville a copy of the Narrative. Melville wrote in his copy: “The reading of this wondrous story upon the landless sea, & close to the very latitude of the shipwreck had a surprising effect on me.’’ One effect, of course, was to use the example of a seemingly deranged or vindictive whale attacking a whaleship as inspiration for Moby-Dick.

52 | James Cummins bookseller americana 68] (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC) BÁEZ, Buenaventura Autograph Letter, Signed (“Buenaventura Baez”), as President to Colonel Joseph W. Fabens, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic. Santo Domingo: May 17, 1870

2 pp. pen and ink, in Spanish, on “Residencia del Ejecutivo” letterhead, affixed at left margin to sheet and mounted with 1869 1 peso note from Banco Nacional de Santo Domingo. 4to (10 × 8-1/4 inches). Fine.

A fascinating unpublished letter from Buenaventura Báez, President of the Dominican Republic, concerning the proposed annexation of his country by the United States. Baéz (1812-1884), who served five non-successive terms as president, was a staunch proponent of annexation, seeing it as a solution to his country’s financial troubles. Presidents Johnson and Grant were also in favor of annexation, in the present situation … it would be very useful that you talk part because they wanted to establish a military base in to the Secretary [of the Treasury] about the Hartmont loan Samaná Bay, and in part because, Grant especially, they with the purpose of removing the inconveniences that lead were goaded by unscrupulous speculators. Congressional us to avoid accepting it.” opposition to annexation was lead by Charles Sumner, who sensed irregularities in the proposed treaty and who feared Annexation was ultimately rejected by Congress in June of encumbering the nation in the midst of Reconstruction. 1870, falling short of the two-thirds necessary leading Báez to accept the onerous terms of the predatory Hartmont loan. Baéz writes here to Col. Joseph Fabens just one month Báez’s term ended in 1873, but he again served as president in before the final Congressional vote on annexation. Fabens 1876 until being deposed in 1878. Baéz autograph material is (1821-1875), Minister Plenipotentiary of Santo Domingo, scarce on the market. was a fierce supporter of annexation, and it is clear from this letter that he was in recent communication with $4,500 President Grant and Senator Sumner on the issue. “I am highly satisfied to know the good reception that you received from his Excellency President Grant … I am very pleased with the flattering result of your talk with Mr. Sumner …” Baéz pleads his country’s case and asks that in the event of further delay in ratification of the treaty of annexation that Fabens intercede on his behalf with Hartmont of London in negotiating a loan to rescue his bankrupt country: “It would be useless to exaggerate the need the country has of seeing ratified the Treaty of Annexation and to end our present provisional status, which is being extended further than we had anticipated … In the unexpected case that the Treaty will be postponed for a longer period of time, this Government would find itself in the absolute impossibility of maintaining

Catalogue 135 | 53 69] [DUTTON, Anne] Meditations and Observations Upon the Eleventh and Twelfth Verses of the Sixth Chapter of Solomon’s Song … By a Sinner sav’d to be an Heir of Heaven, that deserves to be a Firebrand of Hell. London: Printed by J. Hart … and sold by J. Lewis … and E. Gardner, 1743 iv, 5-64 pp. Collation: A-H4. 8vo. First edition. Stab-sewn self-wrappers. Edges rough, small holes and closed tears to first and last leaf. ESTC N35160 (3 copies: Oxford, Boston Athenaeum, Wesleyan); Whitebrook, Ann Dutton: A Life and Bibliography (1921), no. 13. Provenance: Jonathan Edwards (autograph inscription on title-page). Jonathan Edwards’ Copy A rare work by the British Baptist Anne Dutton (1692-1765), with only three copies located in ESTC. Dutton was a prolific author — producing more than 50 works of poetry, theology, hymns, and autobiography, as well as a large output of letters. She was an important figure in the various Evangelical revivals that swept through Britain and America in the 1730s and ‘40s. She corresponded with George Whitefield — with whom she aligned her theology — and her numerous published letters were a popular source of religious consolation and guidance. Mediations and Observations was published anonymously, though Dutton claimed the work in her autobiography. Dutton was “perhaps the most theologically capable and influential Baptist woman of her day. As a female writer in an era which did not foster such self-expression, her pioneering spirit served as a role model for other Baptist women” (ODNB). This copy inscribed at the head of the title-page by the American Congregational minister Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): “Jonathan Edwards Book.” An important association, linking two leading figures in the trans-Atlantic religious revivals of the 18th century. $3,000

54 | James Cummins bookseller americana 70] of European and American eighteenth-century moral philosophy — preferred the term ‘heart’ to avoid a false EDWARDS, Jonathan polarity between ratiocination and emotion and to express A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in the simultaneity of feeling and choosing. Affections might Three Parts. Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, provoke bodily symptoms, but only the mind could have 1746 ideas; and affections were different from passion, which overpowered the rational exercises of the mind … Religious [ii], vi, 343, [9] pp. 4to. First edition. Contemporary Affections was the valedictory of Edwards’s evangelical paneled sheep, covers stamped in blind. Binding rubbed, a career” (ANB). clean, crisp copy with some light foxing to text and soiling $1,500 to margins at last few leaves. Evans 5767; ESTC W29564; Johnson 97. ‘the valedictory of Edwards’s evangelical career’ 71] Edwards’s most important work, written in response (GETTYSBURG) to Charles Chauncy’s Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England (1743), which denounced affections Publisher’s order book for “The Battle of as “passion,” and necessarily profane. Gettysburg.” New York: John B. Bachelder, “Edwards was thus pushed to publish in 1746 what has [ca.1870] been regarded by many historians as his most important Approximately 80 pages accomplished with name, work, the Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, an attempt rank (when applicable) and address, along with order to ground the graciousness of God’s Elect in an integrative number and cost, on ledger leaves with heading “Battle understanding of the soul’s actions. Where scholastic of Gettysburg” and publication information. Folio. anthropology had divided the soul into ‘faculties’ of Contemporary red pebbled morocco over beveled boards, ‘understanding’ (perception and speculation) and ‘will’ titled “Gettysburg” in gilt on covers and spine, brass (choice and action), Edwards — part of a broad stream corner-pieces and clasp (lacking rear clasp and strap), a.e.g. moiré endpapers. Scuffing to covers, ffep worn, some

Catalogue 135 | 55 staining to wear, accomplished leaves sprung, Meade’s signature by itself on separate detached leaf.

The publisher’s order book for the lithograph print of James Walker’s panoramic painting, “The Battle of Gettysburg: Repulse of Longstreet’s Charge, July 3, 1863.” Walker’s canvas, which measured 7-1/2 by 20 feet, was a minutely detailed reconstruction of the dramatic concluding moments of the Battle of Gettysburg, showing General Meade and the Union Army’s stand against Pickett’s charge. Walker completed the canvas in 1870 and toured it across the country to great acclaim — Generals Meade and Longstreet among its admirers. The artist and publisher John Bachelder, the preeminent 19th-century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg, had produced his own detailed topography of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. This work was the basis for Walker’s historical painting. Bachelder marketed lithographic repoductions of Walker’s painting, the print available as an artist’s proof chromolithograph for $100, chromolithograph for $50, plain uncolored for $10, proof for $15 and hand- colored for $25. The present order book records some 80 pages of subscribers to the print and includes the 72] signatures of General Meade (ordering 1 artist’s proof), General Abner Doubleday, General Joseph Hooker, KENNEDY, Robert F. General A.F. Deveraux, General Charles Hamlin (son Typed Letter, Signed (“Bob”), letter of thanks of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin), R.N. Bachelder of on his last day as Attorney General to Francis the Washington War Department, and scores of other Worthington. Washington, DC: 2 September soldiers. 1964 With a 3 pp. autograph letter signed, 30 August 1863, by Benjamin Piatt who served at Gettysburg in De 1 p. on Attorney General stationery. 8vo (9 × 7 inches). Trobraind’s Brigade, Birney’s Division, under the Light crease from prior folding. command of General Daniel Sickles. Piatt declines an Bobby Kennedy writes on his last day as Attorney General, invitation from publisher John Bachelder to an October giving thanks to his colleague Francis Worthington at 1865 event at the Gettysburg battlefield to which the the Department of Justice: “On my last day as Attorney officers of the Army of the Potomac were invited. Piatt General, I want to thank you for your excellent service to briefly recounts his experience at Gettysburg within the this Department during my tenure …” letter, noting the spot in Bachelder’s 1863 print where we was when his horse was shot out from underneath $1,000 him. And with a manuscript note, September 28, 1880, of outstanding accounts. $3,500

56 | James Cummins bookseller americana 73] 74] LAUSSAT, Pierre Clémente de MONROE, James Mémoires sur Ma Vie, à Mon Fils, Pendant les Three Autograph Letters, Signed, two to his Années 1803 et Suivantes que J’ai Rempli des nephew James, the third to his nephew’s mother-in- Fonctions Publiques, Savoir: à La Louisiane … à law. Washington, DC: 16 July 1814-18 June 1824. La Martinique … à La Guyane Francaise. Pau: A 9 pp. total, pen and ink on paper. Creased from prior folding, Vignancour, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1831 some tears along creases, light dampstaining to one letter. In green cloth chemise. Angus Davidson, Miss Douglas of New 636, [2 errata] pp. Half-title. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, York, A Biography (New York, 1953), pp. 38-39. mostly unopened. Some light rubbing and wear to wrappers, some minor neat restoration to same. Beers, A series of three letters from James Monroe, written as French and Spanish Records of Louisiana, pp. 20-24; Howes Secretary of State and President, concerning his nephew L142, “d”; Monaghan 940; OCLC 9766781; Siebert Sale 695. and namesake James, son of his brother Andrew Augustine “One of the rarest items of Americana in the Monroe (1759-1826). nineteenth century” “James Monroe (1799-1870) was the promising young son A very rare account of the Louisiana Purchase, privately of Monroe’s unsuccessful elder brother Andrew. The young printed for the family of Laussat (1756-1835), who served James ‘had run wild on his father’s ill-managed, decaying as the last French Governor of Louisiana and oversaw its plantation in Virginia and had little schooling; then his transfer to the United States in 1803. Monaghan describes this uncle (who at that time combined the offices of secretary as “one of the rarest items of Americana in the nineteenth of state and secretary of war) sent him, at his own desire, century.” Roughly a third of the volume is taken up with the to the West Point Military Academy and, determined, in transfer, which took place bewteen March 1803 and April spite of the boy’s earlier disadvantages to turn him into a 1804, the rest being about his duties in Martinique and French useful citizen, wrote him letters giving him much good Guyana. advice, both moral and practical. He felt evidently, that the $32,500 boy required stern discipline, and thought it necessary to conceal his real affection for him beneath a tone of austerity,

Catalogue 135 | 57 almost of harshness. His bark, however, was worse than on a farm in Virginia. A fascinating letter, going into some his bite. That real affection existed, real interest in the boy’s detail about the economics of the proposal: “I think that the welfare and true kindliness of heart towards him, is shown time has arriv’d, when some plan ought to be adopted, with by the great amount of time and trouble and the meticulous a view to his future status in life, and on this subject, I will thought which the distinguished statesman, busy with more communicate to you, freely, my sentiments … I do not think important affairs devoted to his young nephew’s career” that [James] ought to remain longer, than a year most, in the (Davidson, p. 38). army. The peaceful state of the country does not require In the first letter, dated 16 July 1814, Monroe writes it, and the duties of the military profession, would occupy as Secretary of State to his nephew James, then newly to [sic] much of his time, as to prevent the adoption of any enrolled at West Point. Monroe has arranged with Major fixed plan, for the improvement of their property, for his own Partridge of Vermont to be sure that James is well supplied advancement in life, and for the education & advancement with books and necessaries. The letter continues on with of their children … In the city [New York], he would pass an Monroe dispensing practical advice: avoid debt, keep your idle life, which might lead to their ruin … If James leaves the good clothes clean and reserved for special occasions, work army, he ought, in my opinion, to retire to the country, on diligently at your studies, always strive to improve, etc. a farm, because there, he would have an occupation … To Monroe offers advice for handling a servant: “If a servant establish James with his family near us, on a good farm, with is allowed, he may make up the bed & sweep the room, a good house and other improvements … would require from clean your boots and brush your cloths. But you ought 10 to 12,000 dollars … such a farm is now for sale near me, at to take care of them, & might brush them. When I was a very low price … On this farm, with a few hundred dollars at College, I did almost every thing for myself, & I have additional, five hundred for example, I think that they might found the use of it thro’ life … by doing certain things, live, as well as they could in New York, for three thousand, such as having your wood at hand, ready cut up, making exclusive of home rent, which would probably amount to up your own fire, lighting your candles, brushing your five hundred more. The interest on £12,000 at 6 percent is coat, dusting your shoes, & the like, you keep your room £720, which, with the £500 added, make £1,220 a year. The more quiet & clean, have less noise, and are in all respects difference therefore between living in New York, & on a such more comfortable, than if you had to call a servant in on an estate [in Virginia], would be, at least £2,000 per annum, all occasions to do these things for you. I give these hints, which in five or six years would pay for the estate. At the end for your advantage.” Monroe, perhaps concerned that of that term, the estate, as may readily be conceived, would James will be seen as unfairly benefiting from his uncle’s be of much grater value, as it would be much improved … influence, warns in a postscript: “You had better not show We frankly own, that we should be happy to have them as our my letters to anyone.” neighbours, knowing him to be an honorable & estimable young man, and respecting highly as my whole family do, the In a second letter, dated 2 November 1821, Monroe writes as amiable and excellent qualities of your daughter.” President, advising James to visit his parents, help his indigent brother, and proceed carefully in his courtship of his future [with:] Pre-printed certificate completed in manuscript, wife, Elizabeth Mary Douglas: “… by withdrawing from N. appointing Hon. James Monroe as a member of the Fifth York, till the Lady returns there, & for some time afterwards, Ward Tippecanoe Club, New York, 10 June 1840. on a visit home & to your father, it will be shown, that you do [and:] 14 letters relating to the Douglas family of New York in not rest your future prospects & hopes entirely on her, or her the mid-19th century. family. I think the steps would raise you in her estimation, & $12,000 that of the family as well as of others.” The Douglas family was against Elizabeth’s match with James, despite his uncle’s high position. In a third, lengthy letter of 18 June 1824, Monroe writes to the mother of Elizabeth Mary Douglas, now married to his nephew James, with a plan to set up James and Elizabeth

58 | James Cummins bookseller americana American railroads, the first western railroad and the first rail common carrier, was incorporated in 1827. It ran west from Baltimore to the Ohio River and offered a faster alternative to the Erie Canal for transportation of goods from the Midwest to the East Coast. Philip Evan Thomas (1776-1861), who has been called the “Father of American Railways,” was one of the driving forces behind the construction of the B&O, and he served as the railroad’s first president, from 1827-1836. His inscription to canal engineer Nathan S. Roberts is on the title-page of the second work in this volume (Proceedings of Sundry Citizens of Baltimore). Roberts, one of the main engineers on the Erie Canal, is now best known for the “Flight of Five,” a series of locks which overcame one of the greatest natural barriers facing the Erie Canal. After the completion of the Erie Canal, Roberts worked in various capacities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, starting in 1826 as a consulting engineer. He continued with the Canal until the winter of 1830-1831, after which time he withdrew due to ill-health. Thomas was on the board of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and so it is possible that it was at this time that he got to know Roberts. 75] This sammelband, finely bound in full American tree calf with Roberts’ name stamped in gilt on the spine, comprises (RAILROADS, BALTIMORE & OHIO the following works: RAILROAD) I. WOOD, Nicholas. A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Sammelband of seven works on American Interior Communication in General; with Original Experiments, railroads. Baltimore & London: 1825-1829 and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Rail-Roads. 6 engraved folding plates at rear. [iv], 314 pp. London: 8vo. First editions. Contemporary American tree calf, Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. Early pencil notes on covers with gilt- and blind-roll border, flat spine divided pp. 95-6, plates foxed. Sabin 105054; Ottley 294; Dibner, into six compartments, with red morocco lettering piece in Heralds of Science 182; Thomson, Checklist 691 (for first one, the rest gilt with either large four-petal floral tool or American ed., 1832). One of the first works on railway gilt crosshatching, original owner’s name stamped in gilt at engineering. the base of the spine (“N.S. Roberts”), marbled endpapers, binder’s blanks with Masonic watermarks. Light rubbing II. [THOMAS, Philip Evan, et al]. Proceedings of Sundry to joint, other defects as noted below. Provenance: Nathan Citizens of Baltimore, Convened for the Purpose of Devising the S. Roberts. Most Efficient Means of Improving the Intercourse Between that City and the Western States. 38, [2] pp. Baltimore: Printed by A sammelband of seven works on early rail technology, William Wooddy, 1827. Early pencil note on p. 15. Inscribed four of the works concern construction of the Baltimore on the title-page, “Nathan S. Roberts. Presented by P.E. and Ohio Railroad, and one of the works is inscribed by the Thomas. President of [the] Baltimore & O[hio] Railroad. railroad’s first president, Philip Evan Thomas, to engineer Baltimore 19th Feb. 183[0].” Sabin 3059; Howes B84; Nathan S. Roberts. Thomson, Checklist no. 130 (“This meeting resulted in the The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, one of the earliest formation of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co.”)

Catalogue 135 | 59 III. ROGERS, John. Statements, Calculations and Hints, pp. [Baltimore: William Wooddy, Printer, 1829]. Light Relative to Rail-Roads, and Moving Power Locomotive Engines dampstain at top margin. The 1830 Fourth Annual to be Used Thereon. Engraved folding frontispiece, “Grand Report of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road discusses the Western Rail Road Engine and Train,” inscribed by the distribution of this paper and the resulting bids received. author in the plate “to Philip E. Thomas, Esq., President VI. [THOMAS, Philip Evan, et al]. Experiments on Rail of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company.” vi, 40 pp. Roads, in England, Illustrative of the Safety, Economy and Baltimore: Matchett, 1827. Foxing. Sabin 72700; Thomson, Speed of Transportation, which this System, as Now Improved, Checklist no. 168. is Capable of Affording. 16 pp. Baltimore: William Wooddy, IV. [THOMAS, Philip Evan, et al]. Third Annual Report of 1829. Foxed, dampstain to top margin. Thomson, Checklist the President and Directors, to the Stockholders of the Baltimore no. 296 (“Articles reprinted from various sources”). and Ohio Rail Road Company. Engraved folding map (“Map VII. [Drop-title:] To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Country Embracing the Various Routes Surveyed of the United States, in Congress Assembled. The Memorial of from the Balt. & Ohio Rail Road … Drawn by Lt. J. Barney, the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road U.S. Army,” 10 × 23-1/2 in.) and engraved folding elevation Company. Extra-illustrated with a relevant folding mounted (“Profiles of Two of the Principal Routes Surveyed for extract from contemporary newspaper. 2 pp. Stained. This the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road from Baltimore to memorial was presented to Congress on 28 January 1828 Williamsport, Drawn by C.R. Barney,” 8 × 34-1/2 in.) both and again the following year, requesting an appropriation engraved by John and Wm W. Warr, Philadelphia. 13, [1] to help fund construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail pp. Baltimore: Printed by William Wooddy, 1829. Small Road line. Though Congress responded positively, the closed tear to lower margin of title-page. INCOMPLETE, with petitioners were ultimately unsuccessful in raising any President’s letter to shareholders only, lacking pp. 15-105. money through government subscription. Thomson, Checklist no. 281. $7,500 V. [Drop-title:] Information in Relation to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, to Enable Persons Wishing to Become Contractors for Laying the Rails, to Make Their Proposals. 6

60 | James Cummins bookseller americana 76] ROCKEFELLER, Nelson A. Group of 5 Typed Letters, signed (“Nelson,” etc.), to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Executive Chamber, Albany: 1959-1966

8vo. Old folds, some light toning, else fine. With two envelopes.

A choice group of letters from Governor Nelson Rockefeller to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on personal topics including praise for photographs by Eisie in connection with several photo shoots, a trip out West, and gift of a book. With a typed note, signed (“Happy Rockefeller”) on Executive Mansion letterhead dated 30 August 1965, concerning the photos of her and Nelson, Jr., in Life magazine in the summer of 1965. $750

77] (ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.) HUNT, Thomas A Historical Sketch of the Town of Clermont. Hudson, NY: Privately Printed. The Hudson Press, 1928

Frontispiece, folding map at back, illustrated throughout. [12], 149 pp. 8vo. First Edition. Gray boards , without paper spine label, top edge gilt, stain on back board. In a brown half morocco slipcase, with chemise, by European Bookbinders. INSCRIBED TO ELEANOR FROM FDR INSCRIBED BY FDR on the ffep: “To my wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt descendant of the Chancellor and reared on these acres, from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A powerful association of the future President and First Lady. FDR uses his wife’s full given name and proudly notes her famous ancestor Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), who served as chancellor of New York State — the highest judicial post at that time — from 1777-1801, and kept the title as an honorific for the rest of his life.

Catalogue 135 | 61 Hunt’s book is exactly the sort of antiquarian history that FDR relished, mixing genealogy with the major political and military events in this region of Columbia County, in the Catskills. Eleanor Roosevelt was not a direct descendant of the Chancellor, but the great-great granddaughter of one of his brothers, Philip Livingston (1741-1787). $12,500

78] WEBSTER, Noah A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. [New Haven]: From Sidney’s Press for Hudson & Goodwin, Book-sellers, Hartford and Increase Cooke & Co., Book- sellers, New Haven, 1806 xxiii, [1], 408 pp. 8vo. First edition. Contemporary sheep, rebacked in calf with black morocco spine label. Covers scuffed, some toning and foxing to text, with ring stains to last leaf. Skeel 577; Sabin 102347. Provenance: J. Yeager, Engraver, Philadelphia (bookplate); Samuel H. Fischer (bookplate).

The first edition of Webster’s first dictionary, and the first truly American dictionary, notable for the inclusion of many words in common usage but omitted from earlier lexicons, and for its concise, effective definitions. A landmark in the history of lexicography and in the evolution of the American language, predating Webster’s two-volume unabridged dictionary by 22 years. With the bookplate of Philadelphia engraver Joseph Yeager, active 1809-1845. $1,500

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79] volumes. First volume in recent full panelled calf gilt in period style; second volume in contemporary panelled calf COOKE, Edward tooled in blind. Second volume with some rubbing and A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, spotting, manuscript marginalia throughout. Handsome set of an important work. Hill 372; Borba de Moraes, p. perform’d in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710 and 1711 206; Howes C733; NMM 1:99; Sabin 16303 citing the second containing … A Description of the American edition; Streeter sale 2427; Wagner Spanish Southwest 77. Coasts from Tierra del Fuego in the South to The source of Robinson Crusoe California in the North, (from a Coasting Pilot, The first edition of this account of Cooke’s voyage on the a Spanish Manuscript). An Historical Account Dutchess was rushed into print in a single volume, with the of All Those Countries … With a New Map and account of the voyage home compressed into a final chapter Description of the Mighty River of the Amazons. in order to beat to the market Captain Woodes Rogers’ Wherein an Account is Given of Mr. Alexander account of the same voyage. A second edition appeared the Selkirk, His Manner of Living and Taming Some same year, with the final chapter expanded into an entire Wild Beasts During the Four Years and Four second volume. This set comprises the single volume first edition, and volume two from the second, the material of Months He Liv’d Upon the Uninhabited Island of which is here published for the first time. Juan Fernandes. London: Printed by H. M. for Cooke’s account was not only the first published but is B. Lintot and R. Gosling, A. Bettesworth and superior to Rogers’ account in content, as well: it includes W. Innys, 1712 a profusely illustrated translation of a Spanish manuscript Folding map of the world as frontispiece (California as describing the west coast from Tierra del Fuego to island) and 19 plates, the folding plan of Cusco soiled, the California, and a large number of maps and plates besides. Amazon plate with short marginal tear near hinge and It also contains the first appearance of the account of small mark on one fold, else very good; second volume Alexander Selkirk’s ordeal, credited as being the source of with two folding charts and 7 engraved plates and maps Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. (most folding). [xxiv], 456, [10 index], [2, ads]; [viii], xxiiv, $6,000 328, [8, index] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition of both

Catalogue 135 | 63 browning to a small number of words and loss to a few others, a handful of neatly repaired tears throughout including to folding plates, three columns discretely colored on plate of Amphitheater of Verona, plate of Clock of Strasbourg trimmed at top and bottom borders as usual, some scattered light foxing; still a clean copy in an attractive binding. Pforzheimer 218; STC 5208. The First Grand Tour, One of the Great English Literary Curiosities Coryate (1577?-1617), son of the rector at Odcombe, Somerset, was educated at Oxford but left without taking a degree and found a position in the house of Henry, Prince of Wales, as something of an unofficial court jester. In 1608 he undertook a journey across the continent, much of it by foot, which established precedence for the Grand Tour which became a matter of ritual for the well-to-do British in generations to come. Coryate’s idiosyncratic account remains an important work of early English literature; 80] “intended to encourage courtiers and gallants to enrich their minds by continental travel, [it] contains illustrations, CORYATE, Thomas historical data, architectural descriptions, local customs, Coryats Crudities; Hastily Gobled up in Five prices, exchange rates, and food and drink” (ODNB). Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, “There probably has never been another such combination Rhetia Co[m]monly Called the Grisons Country, of learning and unconscious buffoonery as is here set forth. Coryate was a serious and pedantic traveller who Helvetia aliàs Switzerland, Some Parts of High in five months toilsome travel wandered, mostly on foot, Germany, and the Netherlands; Newly Digested over a large part (by his own reckoning 1,975 miles) of in the Hungry Aire of Odcombe in the County of western Europe. His adventures probably appeared to his Somerset, & Now Dispersed to the Nourishment contemporaries as more ridiculous than exciting, but at of the Travelling Members of This Kingdome. this remove his chronicle by its very earnestness provides London: printed by W[illiam] S[tansby for the an account of the chief cities of early seventeenth century author], 1611 Europe which is at least as valuable as it is amusing” (Pforzheimer). Coryate’s narrative is preceded by an Engraved title by William Hole featuring portrait bust of impressive number of panegyrics by London literati, author surrounded by emblematic figures, four additional including Jonson, Chapman, Donne, Campion, Harington, engraved plates (2 folding) and 2 engravings in text also Drayton, and many others. These were solicited by Corayte by Hole, full-page woodcut badge of the Prince of Wales. probably as a way of demonstrating to potential booksellers 472 leaves. [196], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655, that there would be ample interest in the work. The 1 1 [51] pp. [pi ] [2pi ] a-b⁸ 2b⁴ c-g⁸ h-l⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸(D1 + [chi]3 panegyrics, however, mock as much as (or more than) they signed: D1, D2, unsigned) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ [3E]¹ (signed Eee3) pay tribute, and “during the winter of 1610-1611, this baiting [3F]¹. Letterpress title: “Three Crude Veines are Present in of Coryate was apparently the talk of all literary London” This Booke …” With errata leaf and apology for errata leaf; (ibid). separate title for “Posthuma fragmenta poematum georgii coryati.” 4to (209 × 145 mm). First edition. Nineteenth The present copy is complete, with the errata leaf, a leaf century full crimson morocco gilt by W. Pratt, a.e.g. preceding and apologizing for the errata leaf, and all plates Expert marginal restoration to titles and several leaves and illustrations. “Perfect copies with the plates intact are not at front, some repairs to text in panegyrics resulting in common” (Pforzheimer).

64 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics “In May 1608 Coryate sailed from Dover to Calais and made his way to Paris, which he found even filthier and smellier than London. At Fontainebleau he was befriended by members of Henri IV’s garde écossaise and saw more of the royal household than would normally have been permitted to chance visitors. He journeyed on to Lyons, through Savoy to Turin, Milan, Mantua, and Padua. His description of how Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in apparently the first mention of ‘umbrella’ in English literature. Table forks, almost unknown in England, were in general use in Italy; Coryate acquired one, imitated the Italian fashion of eating and continued to do so frequently when he came home. “Arriving in Venice on 24 June 1608 Coryate presented two letters of introduction to the English ambassador, Sir Henry Wotton, who, perhaps impressed by the letter which mentioned that Coryate was remotely related to the earl of Essex, did him many kindnesses. These included rescuing him in the ambassadorial gondola from a threatening crowd of Jews who objected to Coryate preaching Christianity to their rabbi. Later he was to risk reprisals for antipathy to Roman Catholic rites and, during his Eastern travels, for proclaiming against Islam. After six weeks of intensive quest and recording of information, he left Venice on 7 August by boat to Padua, then walked to Vicenza, Verona, and Bergamo. 81] “Coryate arrived in Zürich by boat and reached Basel on foot DE DÉCHY, Maurice at the end of August. While in Switzerland he heard the story Photographs of the Caucasus. 1884-1898 of William Tell. Coryate’s admirable rendering appears to be the earliest in English. Arriving in Strasbourg by boat he then 38 vintage platinum print photographs (printed circa got lost, alone and on foot, in the Black Forest, but the sole 1900), mounted on card, captioned in pencil and signed threat of armed violence experienced in Europe was from and dated beneath the image by the photographer. Sizes a German peasant, who resented Coryate picking grapes vary, all approximately 7 × 5 inches. Generally fine, images from a vineyard. He was hospitably received in Heidelberg not faded, heavy spotting to one mount, slight warping and walked to Mainz. After a detour to visit Frankfurt’s fair to mounts. In a custom black half morocco slipcase and he sailed down the Rhine, with a brief stop at Cologne, and chemise. continued by water down what was the temporary truce line A fine group of ethnographic and mountaineering between the armies of Spain and the United Provinces. After scenes from the Causasus Mountains by the Hungarian calling on the English merchants established at Middelburg photographer and mountaineer Maurice de Déchy (1851- he was entertained by the English garrison at Flushing. 1917). A wide-ranging selection of views encompasing scenes Thence he embarked on 1 October and landed in London on from Chechnya, Dagastan, Georgia and the breadth of the 3 October 1608. With the rector’s permission Coryate hung Caucasus Mountains; images include Mount Elbrus (several his shoes in Odcombe church” (ODNB). views), Mount Adyr, Mount Chikhildi, Mount Kasbek and $20,000 numerous passes, valleys, glaciers and gorges; ethnographic scenes including Tatar, Digor, Karachai, Daghestani and Khevsuri people and villages; mountaineering scenes

Catalogue 135 | 65 including camping beneath Katchou pass (with a note that the guide Maser of Tyrol died in 1900) and “en route pour la découverte du col Djiper (1885)” with de Déchy identified as one of the mountaineers. Douglas Freshfield, in his classic Exploration of the Caucasus (1896), summarizes de Déchy’s activities in the Caucasus: “… M. de Déchy, a Hungarian gentleman, took up the task of exploration. In 1884, 1885, and 1886, he made three extensive journeys in the range. In 1884 … he climbed Elbruz and a fine peak near the Mamison Pass. In the course of his wanderings he made the first passage by travellers of several native glacier passes and collected a considerable amount of scientific information with regard to the glaciers and the snow region. He also took a very large number of most valuable photographs of the scenery and people, thus making himself the pioneer in Caucasian photography. I am indebted to him for some of the most interesting illustrations in these volumes” (Freshfield, p. 19). De Déchy returned to the Caucasus again in 1887, this time with Freshfield. Fourteen of De Déchy’s photographs were reproduced in Freshfield’s Exploration of the Caucasus, including “Ice-Lake at Klukhor Pass,” one of the images in the present group. He also contributed an entire chapter, “The Sources of the Kuban” (vol. II, chapter XXI). These beautifully printed platinum prints are in a fine state of preservation and exhibit the wide tonal range and delicate shading characteristic of the process. $12,500

66 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics 82] 83] DONOVAN, Edward (INDIA) HODEK, Eduard, and Lala DEEN Natural History of the Insects of India, Containing DAYAL, photographers Upwards of Two Hundred and Twenty Figures and Photographs of the Indian Tour of Archduke Franz Descriptions … London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842 Ferdinand of Austria, January to March 1893

58 hand-colored plates. 102 pp. Printed by J. Davy Queen 193 original albumen prints, ranging in size from 180 Street (now Shorts Gardens), Seven Dials. 4to. A New × 260 mm to 239 × 290 mm, mounted on card, most Edition. Publisher’s orange cloth, spine neatly laid down. captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; Nissen ZBI 1143. approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. Oblong 4to. Morocco-backed $4,500 cases stamped in gilt “Indien” on spine and upper covers. Some occasional bowing of boards, photographs fine and well preserved (with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal, lightly faded and some soiling to the mount). Regina Höfer, Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este (Vienna, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, 2010). Archduke Franz-Ferdinand — Big Game Hunting in India 1893 Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914). This official voyage of the Archduke, lasting from

Catalogue 135 | 67 December 1892 to October 1893, had explicit diplomatic, ethnographic, and scientific aims, as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth, the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) before arriving in India in mid- January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal, returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia, the Pacific Islands, Japan, Canada, and the American West, before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre. The Archduke’s stay in India included diplomatic engagements, military reviews, and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam’s Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting, hawking, pigsticking, bagging some 20 tigers, and leopard, antelope, sambhur, black buck, and just about every other beast of the chase work as a pioneer of photography in India (only a few bear (in Ceylon he had hunted elephant). Franz-Ferdinand his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer). was a devoted hunter, whose lifetime game bag exceeded Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel 200,000 animals; on the world tour, his entourage included Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd. a huntsman and his taxidemist, Eduard Hodek (1858–1929), A spectacular visual record of 1890s India, the opulence of who was also the Archduke’s photographer and boon the court of Hyderabad, and sporting episodes in the life of companion. The itinerary of the Archduke’s travels permits Franz Ferdinand. the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. (A detailed list of the photographs is available.) $80,000 An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels, and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde, in two volumes, 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896, Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war. The photographs document a wide range of subjects, both formal and informal, with views of the Archduke’s activities, grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad, military reviews, sporting and equestrian events, topographical vistas, palace scenes, as well as ethnographic and hunting images, including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905), noted court photographer to the Nizam, and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his

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Catalogue 135 | 69 84] the execution of 26 Christians in Japan on February 5, 1597. The so-called Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan — six (Japan, the 26 martyrs) Froes, Luis Franciscan missionaries, seventeen Japanese neophytes and Relatione della Gloriosa Morte di Ventisei Posti in three Japanese Jesuits — were executed by crucifixion in Croce per Comandamento del Re di Giappone, alli Nagasaki on the orders of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. The bodies 5. di Febraio 1597. de’ quali sei Furono Religiosi were left hanging for months outside the busy harbor to serve as a warning to other converts and missionaries. di S. Francesco, tre della Compagnia di Giesù, & The grim spectacle became a common motif in Japanese Dicisette Christiani Giapponesi, Mandata dal textiles during the following decade. P. Luigi Frois alli 15. di Marzo al R.P. Claudio Persecution of Catholics resumed again in 1613 and Acquauiua … e Fatta in iIaliano dal P. Gasparo culminated in 1640 with the destruction of the mission. Spitilli di Campli. Bologna: Her[itiers] di The Twenty-Six Martyrs were canonized in 1862 and a Gio[vanni] Rossi, 1599 museum and monument to the martyrs was erected in Nagasaki in 1962. Woodcut IHS device on title-page, decorative initials and woodcut illustration of crucifix. 119, [1] pp. Collation: Froes (1548-1597) arrived in Kyoto in 1565 following a A-G8 H4. 8vo. Second edition, first Bologna edition. Later decade spent in Goa and South East Asia. He remained drab paper over flexible boards. Light toning and foxing in Japan until his death, working as a missionary and to first few leaves, small wormholes at lower margin translator, and writing his History of Japan (not published throughout, a few holes filled in, paper repair at margin of until 1926) and a series of detailed letters on Japan and the B2, natural flaw to lower corner of H1. Cordier 204n; Pagès state of the mission. 80; Howgego F82; James Ford Bell F1177 (Rome edition); This is the second edition; the work was published three EDIT16 CNCE 42948; Alt-Japan-Katalog 547. times in 1599, first in Rome, followed by this Bologna The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan printing, and again in Milan. A French translation was A rare work by the Portuguese Jesuit Luis Froes, addressed published in Rouen in 1600. to the general of the order Claudio Acquaviva and relating $9,000 70 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics 85] 86] (JUDAICA) LETO, Giulio Pomponio An Act to Oblige the Jews to Maintain and Provide Romanæ historiæ compendium … [Paris]: Jean for Their Protestant Children [1 Anne, st. I, c. 30]. Dupré, [7 May 1501] London: Charles Bill, Executrix of Thomas Woodcut illustration on title-page, large printer’s woodcut Newcomb, 1702 device on last leaf. [62] ff. Collation A-I6 K8. 4to. Eighteenth- century calf, gilt spine, red edges. Light wear to joints, 453-4 pp. 4to. Contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, closed tear to inner margin of textblock. Goff L27; Moreau manuscript spine label. 1501/854; Provenance: Nicolas Mallary of Rouen (signature “To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and on title-page, possibly Nicolas Maillard, ca.1486-1565, cf. allowed for the children of Jewish parents, who shall turn Bietenholz, P. et al. Contemporaries of Erasmus, pp. 369- Protestants …” The law was enacted in response to the 370); Macclesfield North Library (bookplate, shelfmark case of Jacob de Mendez Berta, who refused to support 11.B.17, embossed stamp to first two leaves). his 18-year-old daughter Mary after her conversion. Roman history from the younger Gordian II to Justin III in The testimony of Mary and her Protestant supporters is the early 7th century, first published in 1499. recorded in the Journals of the House of Commons, after $3,500 which it was resolved that a bill (i.e. the present Act) be written to address her case. The law remained in effect until the middle of the 19th century, though it was enacted expressly for Mary de Mendez Berta’s benefit and does not seem to have been enforced thereafter. In bound collection of Acts from the reigns of William III (years 13 & 14) and Queen Anne (years 1-5). $3,500

Catalogue 135 | 71 87] LIVERMORE, Jesse L. How to Trade in Stocks. The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price. New York: Duell, Sloan, Pearce, [1940]

With 16 color charts. vii, [iii], 133 pp. 8vo. First Edition. Original blue cloth. Stamped S.P. Poyner on ffep. 88] First edition of the only book written by Jesse L. (LONGITUDE ACT) Livermore, widely believed to be the subject of Edwin Lefevre’s fictional biography and investment classic An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for Such Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. One of the most Person or Persons as Shall Discover the Longitude flamboyant figures on Wall Street in the first half of the at Sea. London: J. Baskett, Assigns of T. 20th century, Livermore made and lost several fortunes Newcomb, H. Hills, 1714 and was even blamed for the stock market crash of 1929. Intrigued by Livermore’s career, financial writer Edwin [ii], 355-357, [1] pp. 4to. First edition. Contemporary Lefevre conducted weeks of interviews with him during blind-stamped reverse calf, red morocco spine label. Wear to lower corner of front board, some sporadic toning and the early 1920s. Then, in 1923, Lefevre wrote a first-person foxing to text. Horblit/Grolier 42a; ESCT N53213. account of a fictional trader named “Larry Livingston,” who bore countless similarities to Livermore, ranging ‘Nothing is so much wanted and desired at Sea, than from their last names to the specific events of their trading the Discovery of the Longitude’ careers. Although many traders attempted to glean the The first publication of the Longitude Act, which secret of Livermore’s success from Reminiscences, his encouraged the discovery of a method of quickly and technique was not fully elucidated until this work was accurately determining a ship’s longitude. “An early example published in 1940. How to Trade in Stocks offers an in- of a means adopted by a government for encouraging depth explanation of the Livermore Formula, the trading scientific discovery and progress” (Horblit/Grolier). The method, still in use today, that turned Livermore into a Act established the Longitude Board, tasked with evaluating Wall Street icon. proposals for measuring longitude and awarding prizes. The $7,000 top prize of £20,000 was reserved for any method that could

72 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics measure longitude within one half of a degree. Subsequent 89] Longitude Acts — there was a series of such acts throughout the 18th century — added various other incentives. LYALL, Robert, M.D. The problem of accurately determining longitude had The Character of the Russians and a Detailed confounded navigators and scientists for centuries. History of Moscow … London: Printed for T. The common method of calculating longitude by dead Cadell in the Strand, and W. Blackwood, reckoning relied on estimates of speed and direction and Edinburgh, 1823 was therefore subject to cumulative errors. The need to more accurately determine longitude was brought to the With half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one fore by the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, in which four British folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings warships and some 1,500 men were lost off the Isles of Scilly (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow after losing their bearings during a storm. and two wood-engravings in text. Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode. 28, [ii], cliv, [ii], 639, [1, errata]. 4to. First The Navigation Act lead to the development of the lunar edition, with half-title. Neatly rebound to style in half distance method in 1763 by Nevil Maskelyne and the calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. Signed on front invention of the marine chronometer by John Harrison in free endpapers by famous Russian Lepidopterist Andrei 1773. Harrison received more prize money under the Act Avinoff. A handsome copy, some foxing, crease in title- than anyone else, and the marine chronometer eventually page. Abbey, Travel 227. came into wide use in the 19th century. $7,000 The act was issued separately and as part of the collected acts of Parliament. It is found here in a contemporary bound volume of Acts from the 10th and 12th years Queen Anne’s reign. $12,500

Catalogue 135 | 73 entertaining compendium of conundrums, problems, parlor tricks, and “interesting facts” — it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d’ amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards, magic squares, magic lanterns, feats of artificial memory, and proto-spiritualist conjuring through “palingenesy,” by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar, plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities, including chapters on arithmetic (“To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them, &c.,” “A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter”) and amusing “secrets” (“To make people in a room have a hideous appearance”). $1,350

91] (NAVAL) CALHOUN, George A. Illustrated manuscript logbook of the Pacific 90] cruise of the U.S.S. Narragansett. Various places: (MAGIC) DESPIAU, M.L. December 24, 1871 to September 4, 1872

Select Amusements in Philosophy and With 5 manuscript maps (one large folding), 7 albumen Mathematics; Proper for Agreeably Exercising photographs, and numerous ink views. 359, [36] pp. in the Minds of Youth. Translated from the French purple brown ink. Signed on several dozen pages as examined by Captain Richard Worsam Meade and signed … with Several Corrections and Additions, by Calhoun in several places. Folio (12-1/2 × 7-1/2 inches). Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds Original sheep reinforced with calf. Custom chemise and at Play, the Whole Recommended as an Useful quarter morocco slipcase. Some scuffing to boards, mostly Book for Schools, by Dr. Hutton, Professor of minor toning and spotting to tipped-in maps, some fading to photographs and to text in spots, but overall excellent Mathematics, at Woolwich. London: Printed for condition. In a custom navy half morocco slipcase and G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, chemise. Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by South Pacific cruise and the beginning of Western- W. Glendinning, 1801 Samoan diplomacy xix, [i, errata], 397, 3 (publisher’s ads) pp. 8vo. First English An outstanding, extensively illustrated logbook of the edition. Contemporary half leather over gray paper- diplomatic and research expedition undertaken by the covered boards. Covers worn, joints cracked but sewing U.S.S. Narragansett to the South Pacific in 1870-73. Kept by sound, lacking spine label, text block roughly trimmed, midshipman George A. Calhoun (1849-1897), the logbook occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. covers the period December 1871-September 1872, during Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom slipcase which time the Narragansett visited several island groups in and chemise. Toole Stott 240. the South Pacific, including the Hawaiian, Samoan, Phoenix, The first English edition of this quite unusual and very Marshall, and other island chains. In addition to providing crucial surveying information, the expedition marked the

74 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics signing of a treaty of “friendship and protection” with Chief Maunga of Pago Pago, island of Tutuila, Samoan islands, granting the United States exclusive rights to build a naval station in Pago Pago harbor. Several entries in the logbook record activity almost certainly related to negotiations of the treaty, which was signed on February 17, 1872. The entry for February 15, for example, notes: “One of the principal native chiefs came on board to pay his respects to the Commanding officers.” This chief would have been Maunga, of whom a photograph with his wife and child, taken by one of the expedition’s members, is tipped-in to the log across from the entry. On February 18 — the same day Meade arrested Bully Hayes — the log notes: “American Consul paid an official visit to the ship,” which by now was in the neighboring port of Apia. The next day the log records that, “English Consul paid an official visit to the ship” and later that same day, “German Consul paid an official visit to the ship.” Undoubtedly the newly signed treaty — which gave an immense advantage to the United States over its chief rivals — was discussed on all three occasions; shortly after, the German Consul sent a letter of protest to Chief Maunga. Though Meade’s treaty would eventually die in the United States Senate, it laid the foundation for later, successful treaties which established beginning of diplomatic negotiations between the Samoan an American presence in the region which lasts to this day. Island and neighboring chains and the three great foreign “The diplomacy connected with the [Samoan] islands may be powers competing for influence in the region–– the United considered to have begun in the year 1872, when Commander States, Germany, and Great Britain. The logbook also records R.W. Meade of the U.S.S. Narragansett, anchored at Pago- an encounter with the notorious American pirate “Bully” Pago, on the island of Tutuila, and on his own initiative Hayes. concluded with the native chief of the bay an agreement by which the exclusive privilege of establishing a naval station in The journal begins with the Narragansett at anchor in the harbor of Pago-Pago was granted to the United States” Honolulu on December 24, 1871 and ends with the ship at (Keim, Forty Years of German-American Political Relations, pp. sea between Ebon Atoll and the Duff Islands on September 114-115). 6th. In between is a daily record, dutifully kept by Calhoun, of the weather, sailing conditions, ship movements, onboard Among the numerous illustrations in the logbook are activity, court marshals, etc. Commanded by Richard drawings of the ship itself; a number of manuscript maps Worsam Meade III (1837-1897), the Narragansett originally and plans; a series of inked views of islands made from set out from Sandy Hook in New York Bay to the Pacific on aboard ship; and a group of photographs of islanders March 21, 1871, and completed its journey on April 2, 1873, encountered by the crew. Among those in the first category is when it arrived at Panama, having spent 419 days at sea a magnificent ink drawing of the ship, with the American flag covering 52,073 miles. The log is signed in numerous places and pennant colored in red and blue, 12 × 16-1/2 inches; and by Captain Meade as “examined and approved,” and at the highly detailed pen and ink plans of the berth deck and of the end of the journal he adds: “This journal has been excellently ship’s hold, each 11-3/4 inches (300 mm) in length. kept in every respect and I commend Mid[shipma]n Calhoun The maps include the Hawaiian Islands, 4-1/2 × 7-3/8 inches, very highly. Richard W. Meade, Comdr.” labeling nine islands and including the names of dozens of The achievement of the Narragansett with perhaps the towns and villages, as well as an inset enlargement of the longest-lasting ramifications was Commander Meade’s islands of Lehua, Kauai, Niihau, and Kaula; on the same sheet

Catalogue 135 | 75 appears a highly detailed plan of Honolulu harbor, 7-1/4 × 4-7/8 surrounded with the exception of a channel, by coral reefs, inches. Several manuscript maps on tracing linen have been some of which are visible at low tide … There are no facilities tipped-in as well, including “Apia … Island of Opulu, Samoan for docking, there is only a small ship yard capable of building Group,” 8-3/4 × 7-1/2; a folding “Plan of Leone Bay, Tutuila vessels of about 100 tons … The want of a dock of sufficient Samoan Group,” 13-1/2 × 15-1/2 inches; and a large folding plan size to hold large vessels is severely felt and building one is of “Pango Pango, Tutuila Samoan Group” approximately spoken of by business men of Honolulu … Excellent water 14-1/2 × 21 inches. Also present is a large folding map at delivery on board from water boats at the cost of 1 cent per front, “Track Chart, Cruise of the U.S.S. Narragansett from gallon. Provisions and fruits are quite cheap and of good Oct 17th 1870 to April 4th ’73. Original chart drawn by quality, meat at 8 cents and vegetables at 5 c per lbs.” etc. Midn. George A. Calhoun U.S.N.,” being a contemporary On Apia: “The firm of Gottfried and Co. of Hamburg do reproduction, “photographed at Lima Peru Feb 1873.” an extensive business in copra and cocoanut oil and all the The original ink views sketched by Calhoun comprise: German vessels in port belonged to them. One American, “Morotoi Island. Northern End”; “Diamond Point”; and two English and six German vessels were in the harbor during “Oahu Island,” on pages 17, 18, and 19, respectively; as well our stay.” On the village of Leone, on the island of Tutuila: as a group of 18 views across two tipped-in sheets, recto and “Leone is the largest and principal village on Tutuila and the verso, including: the passage between Aunuu and Tutuila, chief of this district seems to be held in respect by the other Cape Matutula, Cockscomb Point, West Cape, Pyramid chiefs, the houses are more commodious and better built Rock, Sail Rock, Upolo, Tutuila, the entrance to Pago Pago, than those in the villages at Pago Pago and the natives seem Sail Rock Point, Apia, Ofu, Tau, Phoenix Island, and others. more intellectual and robust.” A compelling group of photographs taken by the ship’s At the front of the log are several pages of charts assistant surgeon, H.C. Eckstein, have been tipped-in to documenting the ship’s dimensions, provisions, and costs; a several places as well: “Maunga, chief of Pango Pango, meteorological table; and a tipped-in abstract of the cruise wife and child,” 4-1/2 × 3 inches; “War Dance,” Samoan listing ports sailed from and anchored at, number of days Islanders, 4-1/2 × 3 inches; “Pango Pango Harbor. Tutuila spent at sea and in port, and total distances sailed for the I. Samoan Group,” 3 × 3 inches; “View in Apaiang Island. entire journey, October 1870-April 1873. Gilbert Group,” showing a group of islanders, a canoe and a One of the more notable departures from the typical thatched hut, 4-3/4 × 3-1/4 inches; and “View in Ebon Island. activities of the Narragansett is recorded on February 18, Marshall Group,” 4-3/4 × 2-7/8 inches. Also present is a 5-1/2 × 1872, when Commander Meade seizes the ship of and arrests 4 inch portrait portrait photograph of George A. Calhoun, the notorious South Seas swindler, blackbirder, and pirate mounted to board and loosely inserted, being a leaf detached William Henry “Bully” Hayes (1829?-1877): “Sent an armed from Calhoun’s Naval Academy album, with a portrait of a boat which boarded and took temporary possession of the classmate on the verso on the verso. American Brig ‘Leonora,’ late English brig ‘Pioneer’ Captain Inserted in several places between the daily log entries are W.H. Hayes. Capt. Hayes was brought on board and detained several four-page descriptive pieces by Calhoun on: Honolulu on suspicion of having been engaged in unlawful acts in (page 16), “Naval Etiquette in a Foreign Port” (50), Apia the Micronesian and other islands.” Hayes, who had been (86), Pago Pago (88), the Phoenix Islands (122), Baker and operating nefariously in the South Seas since at least the early Howland Islands (132), “Essay on Deviation Tables” (208), 1850s, had lately taken possession of the Leonora from his and several islands in the Gilbert (299) and Marshall groups business partner under suspicious circumstances, and it was (317). These essays cover navigational points, local trade, on these grounds that Meade made the arrest. However, none and more. The essay on Honolulu notes, for example, that of Hayes’ men could be induced to provide evidence against the port “serves principally as a station for the U.S. Mail him, and on February 21 Calhoun reports: “The investigation Steamers plying between Australia and San Francisco, and in the case of the Brig ‘Leonora’ having been completed a depot for the seaports from the surrounding islands. The Captain Hayes was allowed to resume command of her.” harbor at Honolulu which is capable of holding two-hundred $17,500 vessels is formed by an indentation of the coast, and entirely

76 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics 92] a third in the National Maritime Museum (the latter two copies were extended at a later date into the early 17th (ROYAL NAVY) century). Admiralli Angliæ a tempore Edwardi Secundi Despite its title, the manuscript opens with the an[n]o 1307 ad an[n]um D[o]m[in]i 1590. appointments of Thomas de Coleton in 1264 during the reign of Henry III and William de Leiburn in 1286 during Manuscript pen and ink on paper (pot watermark) in neat the reign of Edward I. The final entry is for Charles secretary hand. [9], [1, blank recto with docketing on verso] Howard, appointed by Elizabeth I in 1585 and who several ff. Folio (12-1/4 × 8 inches). Disbound, first two leaves loose, years later led the English to victory against the Spanish some light soiling and edgwear. Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps; H.P. Kraus. Armada. 16th-Century Manuscript List of Lord High Admirals $12,000 of the British Fleet A late 16th-century manuscript listing of Admirals and 93] Lord High Admirals of the British fleet from the reigns of Edward II to Elizabeth I. [SAINT GERMAN, Christopher] The manuscript comprises 115 entries, each 6-10 lines in The Dyaloges in Englishe betwene a Doctour of length with transcriptions of the letters patent associated Divinitie and a Student in the Lawes of England with each appointment. It was compiled during the Newelly Corrected and Imprinted with New reorganization of the admiralty office by John Hawkins, Addicions. London: [Richard Tottell], 1554 [i.e. just 2 years after the English victory over the Spanish 1565?] Armada. We locate three other copies of this document: two at the British Library in the Harliean collection Title within woodcut historiated border [McKerrow & (6843.30) and the Cottonian manuscripts collection, and Ferguson 48]. Collation: A-Y8 Z4. 12mo. Earl blind-ruled

Catalogue 135 | 77 calf, rebacked. Title-page cropped with some loss to border, some light spotting and staining. Vatican Library Duplicate stamp. ESTC S116343; STC 21571.5; Beale T473.

ESTC notes that the publication date of this edition “may be false; actually published in 1565?” A scarce edition of a “treatise commonly known as Doctor and Student, surely the most remarkable book relating to English law published in the Tudor period, and quite unlike any book to have come from the pen of an English lawyer before …” (ODNB). ESTC notes two variants of the last line of A2r — one reading “will doe” as in this copy, the other reading “wyll dooe.” $4,000

94] SMITH, Adam An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776

[xii], 510; [iv], 587, [1, ads] pp., with half-title in vol. II only (as issued),without integral blank in the rear of vol. I. 2 vols. 4to. First edition. Early nineteenth century grey- green paper-covered boards. Rebacked and retipped with calf, light crease to lower corner of vol. I title, a clean, crisp copy. Grolier English 47; Kress 7621; Rothschild 1897; Sabin 82302; PMM 221; Goldsmiths’ 11392; Tribe 9; Vanderbilt, p. 3. Provenance: H. D. Boswell (early signature). ‘the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought’ Handsome copy of a cornerstone book of Western economic theory. “Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centures to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work. The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM). $150,000

78 | James Cummins bookseller travel, history & economics private press, illustrated & fine bindings

95] ADAMS, Ansel and Mary AUSTIN Taos Pueblo. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1977

12 black-and-white photographs by Adams, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. Folio. Limited signed facsimile edition, no. 756 of 950 copies, signed by Adams. Quarter leather and cloth, light scuffing to spine, else fine in slipcase (sunned). Cf. Roth 101, pp. 58-9 & Reese, The Best of the West, no. 242 (for first edition). Provenance: photographer Richard Corman (gift inscription on flyleaf).

Facsimile edition of Adams’s first book, published by the Grabhorn Press in 1930 and now extremely difficult to attain in its first printing. “Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West” (Reese). $2,500

96] AESOP The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton of Wesmynster in the Yere of our Lorde mcccclxxxiii. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930

Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 8vo. No. 160 of 200 copies (175 for sale). Full brick-red morocco. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. Fine. Grabhorn Bibliography 142. $1,250

Catalogue 135 | 79 97] (BINDING, CHIVERS) HOOD, Thomas The Serious Poems. London: Newnes, 1901

Illustrated by H. Granville Fell. 8vo. One of 25 copies on Japan vellum signed by the illustrator. Full burgundy morocco gilt, upper board with vellucent painting of mermaid holding an inlaid mother-of-pearl shell, spine tooled in art nouveau style, t.e.g., by Chivers. Spine faintly toned. Fine. Bound with a Mermaid, by Chivers $1,500 two compartments, the rest richly gilt, silk doublures and endsheets,all edges gilt and gauffered, fore-edges decorated with six miniature watercolors after paintings by 98] Turner, Hunt and Martin, by Fazakerley of Liverpool. Fine. (BINDING, FAZAKERLEY) HUNT, William A stunning Fazakerley binding in absolutely fine condition, Holman each fore-edge decorated with three brilliantly executed miniature watercolors of the following works: Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite (vol. I) “Rome,” after J.M.W. Turner; “The Lady of Shallott,” Brotherhood. London: Macmillan and Co., after William Holman Hunt; “Venice,” after Turner Limited, 1905 (vol II) “Lake Geneva,” after Turner; “Isabella and the Pot of Forty photogravure plates, illustrations to text. 2 vols. Basil,” after Hunt; “The Flight into Egypt,” after John Martin. 8vo. First edition. Full red morocco, covers tooled in $15,000 gilt to panel design, spine with raised bands, lettered in

80 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 99] (BINDING, FRENCH, PUBLISHER’S DELUXE) MICHELET, Jules Jeanne d’Arc. Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1888

Ten etchings after Bida. 4to. First edition thus. Publisher’s deluxe binding, full maroon morocco, covers stamped with large gilt plaque, with colored onlays at corners, spine similarly decorated in gilt and colored onlays, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. The binding fine and bright, with just the slightest rubbing to extremities, some foxing to text and plates. Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (booklabel). $600

100] (BINDING, GOSDEN) LATHY, T. P The Angler; a Poem, in Ten Cantos. Comprising Propoer Instructions in the Art, with Rules to Choose Fishing Rods, Lines, Hooks, Floats, Baits, and to Make Artificial Flies.London: Printed for J. H. Burn, 1820

Portrait frontispiece, numerous woodcut head- and tail- pieces. 234 pp. 8vo. Second edition. Contemporary straight-grained morocco, blind-tooled angling emblemata on front and back covers, gilt backstrip, a.e.g., by Gosden. With a fore-edge painting by Gosden depicting a gentleman fishing along a river bank with a bridge in the background. Extremities and backstrip a little rubbed, fore-edge slightly faded. In a red morocco-backed clamshell box.

“One of the worst cases of literary appropriation on record” (Westwood & Satchel, p. 131). This is in reality Lathy’s plagiarized verson of a long angling poem attributed to Dr. Scott of Ipswich; nevertheless Lathy managed to sell the copyright to Gosden for £30. A fine copy in deluxe edition binding by Gosden with a fore-edge of an angling scene. $2,000

Catalogue 135 | 81 101] 102] (BINDING, KELM) SMYTH, Paul (BINDING, ROSPIGLIOSI) Thistles and Thorns: Abraham and Sarah at [Empty covers]. Rome: ca.1650-80s

Bethel. The University of Nebraska at Omaha: Folio (13-1/2 × 21 inches). Full brown morocco, tooled Abattoir Editions, 1977 in gold to a panel design with double filet strapwork, border filled with floral tools, edged with dog’s tooth roll, Thirteen wood engravings by Barry Moser. 100 pp. printed outer panel in compartments with semé of teardrop and in red and black in Bembo hand-set type on Gutenberg floral tools, middle panel with quarter fans in corners, Laid paper, with printed and signed binder’s statement with central panel of compartments diapered and semé, tipped-in on rear blank. Small 4to. Number 168 of 253 unidentified arms of a Cardinal, spine in six compartments copies, signed by the printer, Harry Duncan, and with raised bands, gilt with small floral tools. Spine artist, Barry Moser. Tan French morocco, front cover repaired with loss to two compartments, some wear to with onlaid portrait cast in Gutenberg Laid pulp colored corners. In a custom brown cloth clamshell box. Foot, with burnt umber pigment, after a clay relief by Elizabeth Henry Davis Gift I, pp. 323-336. Solomon of a Moser engraving, cover design repeated as line cut on the front free endpaper . Fine in beige cloth box. The Pope’s Bookbinder In a Daniel Kelm Binding Empty covers from a binding by the Rospigliosi atelier of Rome, active from the early 17th through the early An early example of Barry Moser’s book illustration work 18th centuries and patronized by a long procession of in a stunning binding by Daniel Kelm. The front cover Church officials and foreign dignitaries. Foot lists more reproduces in relief the Moser illustration on page 79. than 90 known bindings by the Rospigliosi workshop $3,000 (Henry Davis Gift, pp. 333-6), including bindings for Pope Paul V, Scipio and Paolo Borghese, Popes Innocent X, XI and XII, Pope Alexander VII, several Cardinals, members

82 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings of the Chisi, Altieri and de Medici family and Queen Christina of Sweden. The bindery was named by A.R.A Hobson (French and Italian, pp., xl-xliii) after patron Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-1669), who became Cardinal in 1657 and Pope Clement IX in 1667. The bindery was most active in the 1650s-1670s, around the time this binding was made. Led by the brothers Gregorio and Giovanni Andreoli, the workshop was named official Vatican bindery when Gregorio was granted the lifetime title of bookbinder to the Vatican Library in 1665. $2,000

103] (BINDING, ROULSTONE) [IRVING, Washington] The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-V]. New-York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819 iv, [5]-94; [97]-169, [1]; [171]-210, 203-242; [243]-301, [1], [ii], [303]-335, [1]; [337]-443, [1] pp., with two examples of printed slip warning against unauthorized printings tipped-in to No. II. 8vo. First edition of parts I-V. Contemporary full red College Library, including one signed binding, has greatly straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt and blind facilitated the identification of his bindings (cf. French, with wide double-fillet border compartments and Greek “John Roulstone’s Harvard Bindings,” in Bookbinding in key and feather and trefoil rolls, corner compartments Early America). In the present example, which is unsigned, stamped with gilt diamond and floral tool, smooth spine the cover border tooling (Greek key and feather) and divided into five compartments, lettered in one, the rest cornerpieces match that on Roulstone’s signed binding gilt with small floral tools, board edges and turn-ins of a syllabus of the lectures of Francis Nicholls presented gilt with Greek key and floral rolls, marbled endpapers, to Harvard by Ward Nicholas Boylston (ibid, p. 91, fig. a.e.g. Some spotting and light staining to text, else fine, 30). French suggests that Roulstone apprenticed, or was in custom red cloth slipcase and chemise. Papantonio, at least influenced, by English émigré and fellow Boston Early American Bindings 37; BAL 10106; Blackburn, 15-23. bookbinder Henry Bilson Legge. The theory would Provenance: Norris Marshall Jones (letterpress bookplate); account for a similarity of design and tooling and the Horatio Robinson (presentation inscription, “Presented to Horatio Robinson from his friend, Norris Marshall pronounced “Englishness” of Roulstone’s work. Jones. May 12th 1820”); Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Roulstone was active for more than twenty years and Potter (red morocco booklabel); Michael Papantonio (Early achieved a certain level of success. In addition to his work American Bookbindings, no. 37). for Harvard, he bound for the Boston Athenæum and a Early American Binding by John Roulstone number of private citizens, and when he died in 1826 of consumption, his estate was valued at $13,000. French A fine early American morocco extra binding by the praises Roulstone as “well known in his community and Boston bookbinder John Roulstone (c. 1777-1826, fl. 1802- very likely the best binder of his time and place” (p. 117). 1825). Roulstone was one of only four early American binders to sign his bindings (Lightbody, Legge, and Potter The present example, which includes first editions of the others), and his commission work for the Harvard parts I-V of Washington Irving’s Sketch Book (a further two

Catalogue 135 | 83 parts were later published in 1820), is a fine example of Roulstone’s “extra binding” work — full straight-grained morocco, richly tooled in gilt, with board edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. It was formerly in the American binding collection of Michael Papantonio, who mentions this book specifically in his “The Dealer as Collector”: “About 1940 I sold a copy of Washington Irving’s Sketchbook bound in red morocco by John Roulstone. I felt that I could not afford to keep it. In the early 1950s I was called in to look at a collection in a New York apartment, and among the books there was the Sketchbook. Needless to say it became part of my collection.” All but six of Papantonio’s early American bindings are now at the American Antiquarian Society. The Sketchbook was purchased privately in 1999 from Ximenes, who had been instrumental in selling off the remains of Papantonio’s collection after his death. The binding is decorated with the following tools, as identified by French: Rolls: T87 (Greek key and feather), T95 (trefoil and bead), T86 (circle and star), T100 (cemicircle) Stamps: T118 (diamond and flower) $15,000

104] (BINDING, RUBAN) THOINAN, Ernest bound-in, by Pétrus Ruban. Minor surface wear at extremities, else fine. Brenni 523. Provenance: Phiroze K. [pseud. of Antoine-Ernest Roquet] Randeria (bookplate).

Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l’Histoire a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de progression of binding styles, and a useful biographical Livres de la Ville de Paris et d’une Étude sur les dictionary of binders. This copy in a fine rococo binding by Styles de Reliure. Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard et Pétrus Ruban (1851-1929). Guillemin, 1893 $3,500

32 plates (1 folding), numerous illustrations in text, with additional suite of 47 double-page photogravures by Jules Jacqueneau of historic bindings bound-in at rear. vii, [i], 416, [2] pp. 8vo. First edition, no. 9 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. Full dark purple crushed morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide double filet border with curling leaf and floral tools at corners, spine with raised bands, wide gilt turn- ins, silk doublures and endsheets, t.e.g, original warppers

84 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 105] (BINDING, THE FRENCH BINDERS) Caerimoniale episcoporum iussu Clementis VIII Pont. Max. reformatum. Omnibus ecclesiis praecipuè autem Metropolitanis, Cathedralibus, & Collegiatis perutile ac necessarium. Ad SS. D. Dominum N. Urbanum VIII. PP. Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici …, 1633

Engraved title, numerous small and large engraved vignettes, head-and tail-pieces, one full-page engraving; text printed in black, running headlines and chapter headings in red, numerous large decorated initial capitals. Folio. Full red crushed morocco, covers decorated with single black and gilt fillets, including a central diamond in black and gilt with a gilt-rolled frame, spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt, lettered in two, others with simple frame of black and gilt fillets, wide gilt turn-ins with large gilt cornerpieces, a.e.g., gilt-stamped on the turn-in of the inside front cover, “French Binders, Garden City NY,” and on that of the rear cover, “H. Hardy Relieur 1934 G. Pilon Doreur.” Very slight rubbing to extremities, still near fine, with some toning to text. In a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (red morocco booklabel); Carl C. Kalbfleisch (brown morocco booklabel). Bound by The French Binders, 1934 Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders, successors to The Club Bindery, and signed on the rear turn-in by two of the firm’s most distinguished binders, Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. The French Binders traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery, founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine bindings for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland, where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery (1909-1913), the Booklover’s Shop (1914-1917), and finally, The French Binders (1918-1920s), as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City, New York. Henry Hardy worked for all incarnations of the bindery, starting with The Club Bindery; his brother-in-law, Gaston Pilon worked with Chambolle-Duru in Paris and came over to America to join the Rowfant Bindery. Both Hardy and Pilon were named Officers of the French Academy in 1933, the highest recognition given by the French government to naturalized Americans (see Martin Antonetti’s essay in Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery) . $3,000

Catalogue 135 | 85 odd moments of the necessary freedom. Please take the spirit for the deed. It has been a true labor of love in spite of its shortcomings.” Corrected galley of a portion of the book’s MS dealing with Richard Harding Davis, on which Bradley has written in pencil: “David — This is the only place where I allowed my thoughts freedom [.] It comes at the end, The other episodes are all told briefly, and they refer to printing and designing conditions at the time. Please do not let this get beyond the “Three Musqueteers.” As you will see — it was fun making the typish decorations — or illustrations.” On the proof are minor corrections in red, a greater correction (changing “our author” to “Mr. Davis,” and “Ave.” to “Avenue” which did not prevent the final printing of the word as “Avenus.”) The most profound, and poignant, change, however, is the one referred to, above: Bradley has eliminated the words “and you are feeling a bit crestfallen …” after the words “But presently we see you on a Fifth Ave. bus.” 106] Typed note by Bradley, presumably to Silve, reading, in BRADLEY, Will part, “I must tell you that as a result of the uplift your enthusiasm about the Davis episode gave me I have been Memories 1875-1895: Happenings Here and There able to get a new note into the rest of the MMS. This has Along the Trail, or “The World Went Very Well been made possible by the additional paper. I am glad the Then.” A Victorian Tale Gleaned from Memories edition is limited to the Typophiles. It was a story written and Told for the Edification of Fellow Typhophiles for them. It will of course be copyrighted. It is grand By wb. Pasadena: The Castle Press, 1949 to have that cover! I shall try to follow your suggestion and put a little punch into the design. And “our author.” Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and line drawings. Thanks for catching this …” 8vo. First edition, one of 300 copies printed for The Typophiles. Original gray-green Fabriano paper wrappers, Printed post card to Typophile members concerning stitched, with 4 pp. Supplement laid in, fine. In custom the celebration of Bradley’s 80th birthday at the regular folding chemise and cloth slipcase. Wednesday luncheon, July 7. Signed by Will Bradley, With His ALS and Corrected Carbon of a letter from Silve to Bruce Barton dated June 23, Proof 1954, concerning plans for the celebration of Bradley’s 86th birthday. On May 20, Bradley had received the AIGA gold Delightful recollections, enhanced by a photographic medal for his contribution to the graphic arts. frontispiece of the youthful Bradley, with luxuriant sideburns, under which he has written the date 1885 and A unique and fascinating little archive, revealing the signed his name. WITH BRADLEY’S CORRESPONDENCE TO development of Will Bradley’s autobiographical sketch and DAVID SILVE, OF THE TYPOPHILES, comprising: his reluctance to reveal his emotions. ALS, dated “Friday” to “Dear David”: “Just an advance copy. $750 Will send more soon as supplement is ready. Also will send Typophile assignment as soon as you give directions where and when to ship. Not much to have waited so long to see—but mine best under circumstances that gave me only

86 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 107] 108] [COMBE, William] (EMBROIDERED BINDING) DAVENPORT, Sam Syntax’s Description of the Cries of London Cyril as They Are Daily Exhibited in the Streets. English Embroidered Bookbindings. London: London: Harris & Son, 1821 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company,

Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece and 16 hand-colored 1899 woodcut illustrations. [1], 17 leaves. Single illustration on 52 full-page plates. Small 4to. First edition. Recent full each leaf above two four-line verses, printed on one side black velvet embroidered with intricate flower and bird only with printed sides facing each other. 8vo. Second design on both covers, spine titles gilt, in decorative cloth edition (first printed 1820). Original printed wrappers, box with clasps. Brenni no. 793; Mejer no. 290. Provenance: spine repaired, covers a bit worn and soiled, slight internal Phiroze K. Randeria (bookplate). foxing — still a well preserved example of this title. In a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. Moon 766; An attractive example of a modern embroidered binding, Osborne Collection, p. 630. on the definitive work on the subject. with 16 Hand-Colored Plates $850 Rare in any condition. OCLC records only 3 copies of this second edition, and only three of the first. $1,750

Catalogue 135 | 87 109] GOODEN, Stephen Aesop’s Fables. London: Published by George Harrap, 1935-1936

A suite of proofs of the 12 engravings by Stephen Gooden for this book. All plates measure 6-3/8 × 4-11/16 inches, except for the engraved title-page (9-7/8 × 7-1/2 inches) and final tail-piece (7-3/16 × 4-3/4 inches). One of 12 sets of proofs pulled before the copper plates were steel-faced, each plate being in the final state, and each signed by Gooden at lower right corner. Fine, in cloth portfolio, with tissue guards. Campbell Dodgson, 104-115. Gooden’s Aesop, one of 12 sets of Proofs A rare and desirable suite of plates for what is widely considered Gooden’s magnum opus, his Aesop’s Fables, published by Harrap in 1936 in a limited edition of only 533 copies. $12,500

88 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 110] (KNOWLES, JOHN) GINSBURG, Max Original cover art for the 1982 Bantam Books edition of A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Ca.1982

Oil on canvas, signed “Max Ginsburg” (lower left). 40 × 24 inches. Framed.

The original cover art for the 1982 Bantam Books edition of A Separate Peace, John Knowels’ classic coming-of-age novel set in a fictional New England boarding school during the outbreak of World War II. A Separate Peace was first published to great acclaim in 1959 and has since become a mainstay of high school required reading lists. For generations of readers, Ginsburg’s cover is the image most closely associated with the novel — the main character, Gene Forrester, stands in the foreground while ghostly images of him and his friend Phineas climb a tree, with the Devon campus (based on Exeter) in the background. Ginsburg modelled both boys after a friend of his son, then a boarding school student of the same age as the characters in the novel. $24,000

111] (LEAF BOOK) HEANY, Howell, Dr. Lotte Hellinga & Dr. Richard Hills Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum. A Leaf Book … Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992

With an original leaf (o2) from De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1495) inserted in a mylar folder at rear, 19 pages of facsimile woodcuts and with printed “A Note to the Standing Order List” laid-in. 40 pp. Folio. Limited first edition, no. 27 of 138 copies. Original maroon morocco-backed boards by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Fine.

The ca.1495 Wynkyn de Worde printing of De Proprietatibus Rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus was the first English book printed on English paper — the paper made by the country’s first papermaker, John Tate. $1,000

Catalogue 135 | 89 112] 113] MUIR, John (OLD STILE PRESS) NOEL, Roden Heaven on Earth. Explorations into the The Waternymph and the Boy. [Llandogo, Wilderness. Austin: Press Intermezzo, 1998 Monmouthshire: Nicholas McDowell at The Old Stile Press, 1997] Wood-engraved illustrations by Charles D. Jones. 8vo. One of twenty-six lettered copies specially bound With two-color linocuts by J. Martin Pitts printed from for the Lone Star Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers the blocks on Hahnemühle Ingres. Folio. No. VIII of ten in conjunction with the 1999 Bookbinding Exhibition. copies specially bound by Delure (from an edition Gatherings guarded and sewn on leather supports, riveted of 225 copies); signed by the artist and the binder. Full to shaped redwood boards, exposed spine, copper device polychrome leather binding in earthtone and watery hues, on upper cover, pastepaper flyleaves by Laura Wait. Cloth inlaid and layered, and worked in blind. Fine. Cloth folding folding box. Fine. case. Superb example of contemporary American binding design One of Ten Copies in a Binding by Paul Delrue and execution, by Laura Wait. Striking binding by Delrue on this illustrated edition of $750 verse by Roden Noel (1834-1894). $2,000

90 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 114] 115] PETRARCH, Francesco PUCCINI, Giacomo The Triumphs of Francesco Petrarch … Translated Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (“Giacomo by Henry Boyd. Boston: Little Brown and Puccini”). Ca.1895 or later Company, (1906) Leaf measuring 20 × 7 inches. Framed with a portrait of Six full-page engravings after 15th-century originals, the composer and glazed. large initials illuminated in burnished gold leaf. Printed Three Bars from La Bohème, Signed in Humanistic Type in black and light blue on specially watermarked paper at the University Press, Cambridge. The three opening bars from Mimi’s first aria in La Bohème, Large 4to. No. 22 of 100 copies for America (of 200 total). signed by Puccini, and with the notations “La Bohème” Publisher’s full crimson morocco, covers blocked in blind and “mi chiamano Mimi,” also in his hand. in imitation of Renaissance roll-tooled binding, raised $6,000 bands, spine lettered in gilt. Slight wear at head of front joint, offsetting from plates. Provenance: Laurence Lande (bookplate).

Trionfi, or the Triumphs, a work in terza rima partly inspired by Dante, describes the allegorical processions or “triumphs” of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time and Eternity. With an introduction by Guido Biagi, Librarian of the Laurentian Library, Florence. $1,250

Catalogue 135 | 91 116] magnum opus … is both a highly idiosyncratic volume and a notable landmark in the history of color printing from SAVAGE, William wood, anticipating Baxter by about ten years” (Ray). Practical Hints on Decorative Printing, with Undertaken as a way of showcasing a variety of oil-less, Illustrations Engraved on Wood, and Printed in color inks that Savage himself had invented, production Colours at the Type Press. London: published of the edition proved an immense task, and more than for the proprietor by Longman, Hurst, Rees, seven years would pass from the time Savage announced the work in 1815 until it was completed in March 1823. To Orme, and Brown [et al], 1822 stave-off impatient subscribers, Savage published the first Complete with color-printed dedication to Spencer half as part I in 1818. In what was at the time an innovative (mounted), engraved color-printed decorative title measure, Savage destroyed the blocks after finishing the (mounted), 51 wood engraved plates, mostly color-printed edition — having offered to do so as an enticement to and including 6 ink specimen plates and 9 defaced prints subscribers — drawing strenuous criticism for creating an (several mounted), 6 color-printed headpieces, and 2 leaves artificially scarce edition. The resulting volume remains of type specimens. Letterpress title-page in red and black an impressive feat of decorative printing. “The volume within decorative border. [10], vi, 100, [4], [103]-118, [4 index] contains eighteen samples of Savage’s coloured inks, and it pp. Folio. First and only edition, large paper copy. says much for the care bestowed on their preparation that Modern half-brown calf, spine gilt. Slipcase. Some mostly they remain bright to this day … The prints in chiaroscuro marginal foxing but an excellent copy. Abbey, Life 233; Burch, Colour Printing and Colour Printers, pp. 116-120; were produced by from two to nine blocks … The colour Ray, England 99. prints proper were produced by impressions from two … up to as many as twenty-nine blocks” (Burch). Large paper copy $12,000 One of only 100 large paper copies, of a total of 227 copies printed, of this pioneering work of color printing. “Savage’s

92 | James Cummins bookseller private press, illustrated & fine bindings 117] STEIG, William “The Executive Ego.” Collection of finished drawings and sketches for Fortune magazine.[1953]

Together 35 original drawings, various sizes. Some minor soiling, generally near fine.

A set of original satirical drawings of modern office life by Steig, published to accompany an article in the January 1954 issue of Fortune magazine, “How Hard Do Executives Work?” by William H. Whyte Jr. The drawings show business executives attached to and compelled into motion by a series of absurd technological contraptions, with captions excerpted from the article. The collection includes finished and published ink drawings; unpublished variations in ink; and pencil sketches; viz: A series of 8 original ink drawings, 8 × 7-1/2 to 7 × 13 inches, with captions excerpted from the article in the margins and differing from those in the published version, editorial dockets, comprising 8 of the 9 drawings published with the article. A series of 5 original ink drawings, 5 × 4 to 10 × 7-1/2 inches, being variants and unused drawings for the above, several with captions. A series of 22 original pencil sketches by Steig, approximately 5-1/2 × 8-1/2 inches, being preliminary studies for the above, several with captions. $6,500

Catalogue 135 | 93 118] YEATS, John Butler Original ink drawing incorporating a self-portrait of the artist delivering a lecture. 317 W 29, [New York], December 10, 1917

Approximately 7 × 7 inches on the lower half of an Autograph Letter, Signed (“J B Yeats”), 1 p., 4to, to Dorothea K. Chace, Secretary of the Art Students’ League. Old folding creases. [With:] SLOAN, John. Autograph Letter, Signed (“John Sloan”), 1 p., 4to, New York, November 4, 1917, on embossed personal stationery, old folding creases. The two letters framed and glazed together on either side of a double-sided frame Self-portrait of Yeats lecturing before the Art Students’ League An original ink drawing by John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), the Irish artist and father of poet William Butler Yeats, drawn large at the bottom of a letter to New York Art Students’ League Secretary Dorothea K. Chace. Yeats acknowledges receipt of a check for $25, a fee for a lecture he had given on the 24th of November as part of a weekly series held by the League. The drawing depicts Yeats himself animatedly delivering the lecture while balanced somewhat precariously at the edge of a small platform; an audience consisting of a cross-legged bespectacled gentleman and three women listen attentively. Yeats writes: “I have lectured several times in America, but never before [?] really at my ease, being always in mutual dread of my audience ­— but this time I was at … by Charles A. Winter … I feel that much ground would home. Such an inner voice kept assuring me that I was among be covered by these two[,] one in the Philosophy of Art or my own people. I had however one [?] — lest I should fall off Spiritual side [i.e. Yeats] the other on the technical practical that small & high platform — I was most careful not to be side.” Yeats delivered his lecture on November 24, 1917, with carried away with any kind of oratorical flow, lest I be carried Sloan providing the introduction. away over the edge of the platform — a step too far backward $3,000 or forward or on one side would have brought a collapse not on the programme.” Yeats spent the last fourteen years of his life in New York, where he became close to the American painter and founding member of the Ashcan School, John French Sloan (1871-1951). The accompanying letter from Sloan to Chace conveys his recommendation of Yeats for the lecture. In part: “Answering your inquiry as to my suggestions for talks of interest to the League membership I advance these two. First, a talk by John Butler Yeats (father of the Irish Poet W.B. Yeats) a portrait painter and philosopher … Second — a talk

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119] ANDREWS, William Loring Jean Grolier de Servier Viscount D’Aguisy Some Account of His Life and of His Famous Library. New York: The De Vinne Press, 1892

Frontispiece and 13 plates, most in color, engraved vignette on title and in text. 68, [2] pp. Title page in red and black. 8vo. One of 140 copies on handmade paper. Original blue cloth with illustration of a 16th-century binding stamped in gilt to upper cover, gilt medallions stamped to lower cover, golden decorative endpapers with woodcut illustrations in gilt of the Paper-Maker, Printer, Illuminator and Binder. Touch of rubbing to extremities, paste soiling at bookplate, but a very fine copy. Provenance: Dean Sage (bookplate).

An exquisite production of the De Vinne Press and Andrews on the famous French collector and namesake of the Grolier Club, of which the author was a founding member. One of 140 copies on handmade paper; there were 10 additional printed on Japan paper. From the library of another early Grolier member and notable collector, Dean Sage. $750

120] ANDREWS, William Loring Roger Payne and His Art: A Short Account of His Life and Work as a Binder. New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1892

11 color plates. 36 pp. Title-page in red and black. 8vo. One of 120 copies on Holland paper. Original navy cloth lettered in gilt, rose endpapers. Minor rubbing to boards, small private library label to front pastedown, a fine copy. $750

Catalogue 135 | 95 121] [ANDREWS, William Loring] A Choice Collection of Books from the Aldine Presses. New York: Privately Printed [at the De Vinne Press], 1885

2 plates. 24 pp. 8vo. No. 2 of 50 copies. Later quarter- morocco with original wrappers bound-in. Light soiling to wrappers. Provenance: William P. Wreden (bookplate). Presentation copy to E.C. Bigmore Number 2 of 50 copies signed by Andrews on the title-page, additionally inscribed by him on the first blank: “Mr. E.C. Bigmore with regards of WmL Andrews April 20/85.” Bigmore was the co-compiler, with C.W.H. Wyman, of the landmark Bibliography of Printing (1880-86). $750

122] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall Poems. London: Printed for the Author, 1797

Engraved title, signed “W. Poole del et sculp.” [x], 117, [3 blank] pp. 8vo. First edition of the author’s first book. Modern quarter morocco, uncut. Scattered light spotting but mostly clean internally, Grimsby Public Library and a small stamp on the title-page and last leaf of text. Jackson 1; Lowndes, p. 642; Windle & Pippin A1.

The first and only edition of the first book by the future bibliographer and founder of the Roxburghe Club, written at the age of 21 while he was an undergraduate at Oxford. According to Dibdin, there were only 500 copies printed, the majority of which were later destroyed or suppressed by the author. “My only consolation is that the volume is exceedingly rare,” he wrote. With corrections at page 111, line 6 of which Windle says he has seen no copy uncorrected. No correction at p. 5, line 17. $750

96 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 123] 124] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure Classics: Being, in Part, A Tabulated Arrangement of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle addressed from Dr. Harwood’s View, &c. With Notes from to Richard Heber, Esq. London: Printed for Maittaire, De Bure, Dictionnaire Bibliographique Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. and References to Ancient and Modern Savage, 1809 Catalogues. Glocester: Printed by H. Ruff, for Title vignette. iv, 87, [1, ads] pp. 8vo. First edition. Circa Payne, Faulder, Egerton, Evans, Robinsons, 1914 full crushed brown morocco, gilt, a.e.g., the rest Mawman, et al, 1802 uncut, by the Booklover’s Shop (signed in gilt on front and rear turn-ins “Bound by The Booklovers Shop Cleveland. 63, [1, errata] pp. 8vo. First edition. In original boards Hardy Maillard Pilon”). Small paper repair to margin of uncut, some loss to head of spine, front joint cracked but title, else fine. Jackson 16; Neuburg 5; Windle & Pippin holding. In quarter brown morocco drop box. Jackson 3; A11a. Provenance: Henry Alden Sherwin (morocco Neuburg 1; Windle & Pippin A3a. Provenace: J.R. Abbey booklabel). (bookplate). Fine Copy in Booklover’s Shop Binding Abbey Copy, Uncut in Boards An amusing work; Dibdin’s best known. The real action The first edition was sold out within 6 weeks according takes place in the footnotes, so copious and detailed that to Lowndes. This work was one of his more financially they overwhelm the main text. This copy finely bound successful publications and helped establish his by Henry Hardy, Leon Maillard, and Gaston Pilon of the bibliographic reputation. Later editions were greatly Booklover’s Shop bindery in Cleveland. (See item 105 for a expanded. history of the bindery.) $850 $1,500

Catalogue 135 | 97 125] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. London: Printed for the Author, by J. McCreery, 1811 ix, [iii], 275, [1] pp.; [vi],281-782, [2] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, one engraved plate, a few illustrations and decorative borders in the text. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 48 engravings. 2 vols. 4to. Second edition greatly enlarged. ONE OF 18 LARGE PAPER COPIES, PRINTED ON THICK PAPER. Full contemporary russia calf, by C. Lewis. Covers with triple gilt filet border, repeated in each spine compartment, bands tooled with a similar design; coat of arms of John Trotter Brockett; doublures with a wide triple gilt border. One hinge expertly repaired, one other cracked and slightly weak. Overall, though, a lovely set. Jackson 18; Windle & Pippin A11b. Provenance: John Trotter Brockett, sold at the auction of his library in 1823 (lot 1102), bought by Pickering for £33.12s; Holbrook Jackson; Elkin Mathews Catalogue of the library of Holbrook Jackson (catalogue 9, 95); Arnold Yates. One of 18, Holbrook Jackson Copy The extremely rare large paper copy, with the engraved portrait of the young author in a clerical habit, engraved by Freeman after the drawing by J.J. Masquerier. Of this plate only 25 were printed and the plate destroyed; engraved frontispiece to Vol. II after the drawing by Edrige. Extra-illustrated with 48 engraved portraits, including Joseph Ritson, Hans Holbein, Alexander Pope, Michael Mattaire, Joseph Ames , Johann Gutenberg, William Herbert, Voltaire, William Caxton, etc. $6,500

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126] 127] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Bibliomania; or Book-Madness; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. London: Printed for the Romance. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Author by J. McCreery, and sold by Messrs. Covent-Garden, 1842 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Illustrated. xiv, 618, 63, [1], xxxiv pp. Bensley, Printer. 8vo. 1811 “New and improved edition, to which are now added preliminary observations, and a supplement including a Frontispiece portrait, woodcut illustrations, head and key to the assumed characters in the drama.” Bound in tail-pieces, additional title-page for second volume. 2 vols. full green pebbled morocco, a.e.g., by Hayday. About fine. Imperial 8vo. Second edition, one of 18 large paper Bookplates of F.T. Wilson and Stuart Schimmel. Jackson copies of this rewritten and greatly enlarged edition. 20 (“This edition contains a reprint of the original, 1809, Original orange boards, uncut. New spine labels, portrait edition as well as that of 1811, with supplementary matter”); foxed at margins, some rubbing and spotting to the text. Windle & Pippin A11e. Very good. Cloth slipcase. Jackson 18, which states that only 25 copies of the portrait were pulled; Neuburg 6; Windle & bound by hayday Pippin A11c. A nice copy of this classic work, now with a key as to who is With the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin in clerical garb who in the text. engraved by Freeman after J. J. Masquerier, with manuscript $900 notation: “Private plate, destroyed, after 28 impressions taken.” $2,500

Catalogue 135 | 99 128] 129] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall editor. Rastell, John The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days’ The Pastime of People, or, The Chronicles of Divers Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts Realms: & most especially in the Realm of England and subjects connected with early Engraving, … Now First Reprinted and & Systemtically Typography and Bibliography. London: Printed Arranged with Facsimile Woodcuts of the Portraits for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. of the Popes, Emperors, &c, and the Kings of Shakespeare Press, 1817

England. London: 1811 Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc., some With 16 full-page woodcuts engraved in facsimile from tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. First edition, the 16th-century edition by John Nesbit. Folio. One of 500 with half-titles and errata. Contemporary straight-grained regular copies of an edition of 512. Full contemporary red morocco by Charles Smith, covers gilt ruled with gilt spotted calf, gilt rules, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Some side-pieces along central panel, spines in six compartments flaking and rubbing to binding but internally clean and with elaborate gilt scrollwork, gilt turn-ins, blue silk with wide margins. Jackson 30; Windle & Pippin A19. doublures with gilt cornerpieces duplicated on silk free endpapers, a.e.g. Foxed, minor rubbing to boards, an With a note by Dibdin attractive copy. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson 40; Hart 186; Autograph pencil statement by Dibdin on front binder’s Bigmore & Wyman, pp. 169-70. Provenance: R.P. Hooper blank: “The Blocks with which this book/was printed, (bookplate). were broken to pieces in the execution of the Work/T.F. Bound by Charles Smith Dibdin/Dover: Sep 25/40.” Dibdin’s lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles $750 Smith, one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-’30s, with his “13 Church St Soho” ticket in volume 1. $3,000 100 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 130] 131] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Thomas Frognall The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days’ The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days’ Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and subjects connected with early Engraving, and subjects connected with early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography. London: Printed Typography and Bibliography. London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817 Shakespeare Press, 1817

Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc., some Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. First edition, announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted with half-titles and errata. Nineteenth-century green before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. First edition. morocco gilt, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed, else fine. Windle & Original drab boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Old Pippin A28; Jackson 40; Hart 186; Bigmore & Wyman, pp. clean repairs to the joints of vol. I; joints of vol. III a bit 169-70. rubbed. Ownership signature of Mary Curteis, Dec. 29, 1817, on pastedown in each volume; bookplate of Charles $1,750 Sarolea and his signature on title-page; small morocco label; printed label of Claude Smith on flyleaf. Very good. Cloth slipcases. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson 40; Hart 186; Bigmore and Wyman, pp. 169-70. $2,250

Catalogue 135 | 101 132] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall Typographical Antiquities: Or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames … Considerably augmented by William Herbert … And now greatly enlarged … by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. London: Printed by William Savage … for William Miller …; John Murray; Longman, et al, 1810- 1819

With 14 mezzotint portraits and 24 engraved plates, numerous engravings and illustrations in text, some in black and red. xx, [2], 95, [1], cxxxviii, 390; [4], [vi], [32], XII, 33-[400], X, 400-614, [2 half-sheet], [4] ad; [4], [iv], 615, [1], [2]; [4], ii, [2], 623 pp. Half-sheet instructions to binder at back of vol 2, titles and half-titles in red and black, chapter heads in red. 4 vols. Large folio. First Dibdin edition, one of 65 large paper copies. Original brown boards with printed paper labels on spine, uncut, most gatherings unopened in vols. 2-4. Occasional light spotting and dust-soiling, some offset as usual, some wear to spine labels but a fine set overall in the original binding. Bigmore & Wyman I, 7 (“the great storehouse for the History of English Printing”); Jackson 26; Windle & Pippin A15. Large Paper Copy in Original Boards A superb large paper copy in original boards of this finely printed and richly illustrated survey of printing in the British Isles, including chapters on Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson. The first Dibdin edition, being his enlargement of Joseph Ames’s account of English printing to 1600 which was originally published in 1749. This copy retains the very scarce half-sheet “Directions for boarding and binding” at the back of volume 2, which Windle & Pippin note in only one other copy. $7,500

102 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 133] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany. London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821

Extra-illustrated with 2 original drawings, 152 plates, including portraits and views; and plates on India, mounted, of inserted vignettes. 3 vols. Large 4to. First edition, Large paper copy. Early full navy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65. With 2 Original Drawings by George Lewis First edition, large paper copy, of Dibdin’s “amusing account of his travels, with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries of Europe” (oDNB), profusely illustrated with over 100 beautiful engraved plates (folding, full-page and in-text). Two original drawings by illustrator George Lewis are bound opposite the engravings based on them (Vol. I, p. 17 and Vol. II, p. 163) — one, fully realized in ink, and one a full original painting finished in gold. $8,500

Catalogue 135 | 103 134] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany. London: Printed for the Author, by William Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821

[v], xxv, [vii]. 62, lxxix, [i]; [iv], 555, [1]; ]v], 662 lxii pp.Half-titles to Vols. II & III, and with the full complement of 83 copper- engraved plates after drawings by G.R. Lewis, plus the 64 engraved plates on India paper which are mounted in the text; and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with all 52 plates from Lewis’s A Series of Groups, Illustrating … People of France and Germany, 1823. 3 vols. 4to. First edition. Full contemporary russia by J. Clarke. Covers with an outer gilt dog-tooth border with triple gilt fillets; spine in six elaborately gilt-tooled compartments, raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Holbrook Jackson copy. Jackson 48; Windle & Pippin A38a. Provenance: Robert Ray (Pymme’s Library bookplate); Holbrook Jackson (bookplates); Elkin Mathews (letter from Percy Muir to Mrs. Arnold Yates, apologising for delay in sending the books); Arnold Yates. “It is a picked copy” Tipped in are 2 Als from Dibdin to Robert Ray, the first, dated 15 May, 1821, presenting this book: “As a trifling mark of respect & esteem, I forward your copy of my ‘Tour’ — 48 hours before the day of publication … It is a picked copy … and I will venture to affirm, enough in these volumes on the score of art to make them very desirable in the choicest cabinet. I have risked everything upon them — and the utmost success will not assure me a thousand pounds. The Engravngs and Drawngs alone cost £4,000 …” The second letter refers to the extra plates, which were issued at a later date. The set then passed to Holbrook Jackson and was included in Elkin Mathews’ catalogue of his library (Catalogue 119, 1951). $4,500

104 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 135] 136] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall & G.a. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall crapelet (notes and translation) A Roland for an Oliver; Or, Brief Remarks upon Lettre trentième concernant l’imprimerie et la the Preface and Notes of G.A. Crapelet, attached librairie de Paris, traduite de l’Anglais, avec des to his Translation of the Thirtieth Letter of The Notes, par G.A. Crapelet. Paris: Crapelet, 1821 Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour. London: 1821 Printer’s device on title. [4], viii, 71 pp. 8vo. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Contemporary paper-backed [4], v, [1], 31, [3] pages, including half-title and final blank. boards, title inked in contemporary hand to upper cover. 4to. First edition, one of only 36 copies. Bound in Some toning to margins of boards, chipping at joints, contemporary citron morocco gilt by Charles Lewis. hinges strengthened, scattered light foxing but a clean copy About fine. Jackson 51; Windle & Pippin A40. Provenance: overall. In custom clamshell box. Jackson 50; Windle & Philip Hofer (bookplate); Eric H.L. Sexton (ball-point pen Pippin A39. inscription to first blank).

Dibdin’s treatment of the Paris printing and bookselling One of only 36 copies printed of this reply to the French scene in his Bibliographical Tour provoked this translation printer Crapelet’s harsh criticisms of Dibdin’s chapter on and annoyed response (in the preface and footnotes) Paris in his Bibliographical Tour of 1821, (see previous item). from the great printer Crapelet, who took exception to This copy in a fine contemporary binding by Charles numerous aspects of Didbin’s account, including the praise Lewis, and with distinguished collector’s provenance, reserved for Crapelet himself. Dibdin published a response bearing the bookplate of Philip Hofer and with his to Crapelet’s pamphlet the same year (see next item). inscription penned to the first blank: “To Eric H. L. Sexton, The half-title reads: “Voyage Pittoresque en France et en with warm regards from his fellow collector, 7 November Allemagne, Relatif a la Bibliographie et aux Antiquités par ‘58. P.H.” le Rev. Th. Frognall Dibdin.” $7,000 $750

Catalogue 135 | 105 137] 138] (DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL), LESNÉ, (DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL) LEWIS, Maturin Marie George Lettre d’un Relieur Français. Paris: A Series of Groups, Illustrating the Physiognomy, L’Imprimeries de Crapelet, 1822 Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany. London: for the author, by John 28 pp. Royal 8vo. First edition, one of 32 Large Paper Copies. Original rose boards, uncut. Spine quite rubbed, And Arthur Arch, Cornhill; R. Triphook, Old some foxing. Provenance: Marshall Lefferts (1848-1928, Bond Street; and J. Major, Fleet Street, 1823 famous American collector of English literature and Americana, small leather bookplate). Jackson 53; Windle & Engraved dedication leaf and 52 engraved plates numbered Pippin D10. 1-60. [8], 15, [1], 8 pp. 4to. First edition. Contemporary calf. A few stray spots but clean internally, some rubbing ONE OF 32 ON LARGE PAPER and minor scuffing to binding. Jackson 56. Provenance: A large paper copy of the French bookbinder Lesné’s Max Salomon (circular bookplate). irritated response to Dibdin’s Bibliographical Tour of 1821, With the rare advertisement regarding the feud specifically to the latter’s comments on English binders between Dibdin and Lewis having something to teach their French counterparts. This copy features the rare “Advertisement” by Lewis Dibdin also drew unfriendly responses from the printer regarding the bitter feud between him and Dibdin over Crapelet (publisher of the present volume as well) and payment for these illustrations. Lewis had accompanied Licquet, the librarian at Rouen. Dibdin and provided the illustrations for his Bibliographical $1,750 Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany (1821). This volume features illustrations that were left out of that edition, engraved and issued in parts by Lewis

106 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography himself, who provides letterpress explanation of the plates as well. Dibdin left them out of the Tour because he did not think very highly of them, and Lewis received payment only after arbitration. “These etchings were made from his own drawings by Lewis, apparently in an endeavor to obtain further reward for his labors when he accompanied Dibdin on his Tour. The unhappy quarrel over payment is set out from Lewis’s viewpoint in an Advertisement … which he was persuaded, or decided on his own, to suppress. It is now very uncommon” (Jackson). $1,000

139] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall The Library Companion; or, The Young Man‘s Guide, and The Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square, and J. Major, Fleet-Street, 1824

[4], li, [1], 400; 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. First edition, large paper issue, one of 100 copies. Contemporary purple calf, spine gilt, gilt and blind rule to covers with gilt cornerpieces, marbled edges and endpapers. A few stray spots, minor rubbing and fading to extremities, old dampstain to back cover volume one. Jackson 63; Windle & Pippin A50a. Provenance: John, Duke of Bedford (1766- 1839); armorial bookplates). Duke of Bedford’s large-paper copy $1,500

140] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall The Library Companion; or, The Young Man‘s Guide, and The Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square, and J. Major, Fleet-Street, 1824 li, 400, 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. First edition, large paper issue, one of 100 copies. Boards, printed spine labels. Spines worn with minor losses. Book labels of Michael Sadleir. Very

Catalogue 135 | 107 good set. Cloth folding box. Windle & Pippin A50a. Dibdin presenting the book to Rawlinson laid in: “Finding Sadleir’s Copy, Large Paper, in Boards that I have no copy of the Bibliophobia upon small paper, I shall be forced to compel you to put up with a Large paper Tipped in at vol. I are eight pages of undated advertisements copy of that capricious but orginal performance. It was at the front endpapers, and an advertisement for the fourth written ‘calamo currentisimo.’ [sic] Yours Ever TFD.” edition of Dibdin’s Greek and Latin Classics opposite the title- page. A choice copy in original condition. Rawlinson is included on the subscriber’s list of Dibdin’s Tour of Northern England and Scotland (1838). $1,500 $1,350

141] 142] [DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid Trade. In a Letter addressed to the Author of the and Depressed State of Literature and the Book “Bibliomania.” By Mercurius Rusticus. With notes Trade. In a Letter addressed to the Author of the by Cato Parvus. London: [William Davy for] “Bibliomania.” By Mercurius Rusticus. With notes Henry Bohn, 1832 by Cato Parvus. London: [William Davy for] Henry Bohn, 1832 102 pp. With the errata slip tipped in at B1. 8vo. One of 100 Large Paper Copies. Original boards, printed paper 102 pp. with errata slip tipped in at B1. 8vo. First edition, label to upper cover, manuscript spine title. Some minor One of one hundred large paper copies. Contemporary wear to boards but a remarkably clean copy. Jackson 82. half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, blind-tooled Provenance: Grege Johannis Platt (armorial bookplate by dentelle; stain on top of the spine, small scrape on exterior J.D. Batten dated 1892). margin of first cover, some light spotting on first and last pages. Jackson 82; Neuburg 19; Windle & Pippin A60. Large paper presentation copy with Als Provenance: Baron Northwick (bokplate), Robert S. Pirie A large paper presentation copy, inscribed: “John Rawlinson (bookplate). Esq. / From Mercurius Rusticus.” With an amusing ALS of $750

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143] which was shown to him and saying that neither he nor his friend Thomas Greville would be interested in purchasing it. [Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] The volume bears a clipped signature of the Rev. Dr. Bandinel Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid at front, and elsewhere a note in his hand on the price paid by and Depressed State of Literature and the Book the Duke of Marlborough for the Decameron in 1812, and the Trade. In a Letter addressed to the Author of the price at which Longmans bought it for the Earl of Spencer in “Bibliomania.” By Mercurius Rusticus. With notes 1814. by Cato Parvus. London: [William Davy for] $2,000 Henry Bohn 4, York Street, 1832.

102 pp. Title mounted, extra-illustrated with 144] approximately 170 portraits and views (mostly engraved, a few woodcut, 14 hand-colored taken from Ackerman’s [Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] History of Oxford) inserted at the appropriate place in the Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid text; 4 letters, 3 sketches of views; cut signature and note by Dr Bandinel. 8vo, extended to 4to. First edition. Rebound and Depressed State of Literature and the Book in half calf over marbled boards, t.e.g. Jackson 82; Neuburg Trade. In a Letter addressed to the Author of the 19; Windle & Pippin A60. “Bibliomania.” By Mercurius Rusticus. With notes The Life and Times of Dibdin: Extra-Illustrated by Cato Parvus. London: [William Davy for] Engraved portraits include Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin Henry Bohn, 1832 (Windel & Pippin E4a), Thomas Hearne, John Duke of 102 pp. With the errata slip pasted to last page. 8vo. First Roxburghe, Earl Spender, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Horace edition, ordinary paper copy. Later half brown morocco, Walpole, James Brindley, Thomas Grenville, Sir Richard Colt a.e.g. Internally clean, boards rubbed. Jackson 82; Windle & Hoare, Duke of Devonshire, et. al. Pippin A60. Provenance: Vernon Watley (bookplate). Two of the autograph notes are from George John Spencer, $450 one dated 21 August 1824 to William Ford, the Manchester bookdealer and acquaintance of Dibdin, returning a paper

Catalogue 135 | 109 145] 146] DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: Printed for the Author by C. Scotland. London: Printed for the Author by C. Richards, 1838 Richards, 1838.

42 full-page engraved or lithographed plates, numerous 44 full-page engraved or lithographed plates, numerous additional small mounted illustrations, several on India other small mounted illustrations, many on India paper, and paper, and woodcut illustrations in text. [xvi], [10], 436; [4], woodcut illustrations to text. 3 vols. 4to. First edition, one [437]-814; [2], [815]-1090, xxx, [2] pp + 18 page publisher’s of 100 large paper copies. Contemporary diapered calf, catalogue. 3 vols. 4to. First edition, one of 100 large large gilt fillets on panels and spines; vol. I spine repaired, paper copies. Original drab boards by J. Mackenzie, vol. II & III front joints cracked, damage to vol. III spine, Westminster, with printed paper spine label, yellow sporadic foxing to plates. Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65. endpapers, uncut. Some restoration to spines, internally Provenance: Christopher Turnor, Stoke Rochford Library clean and crisp. Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65. (bookplate); Robert S Pirie (acquired from Quaritch). Large Paper Copy in Original Boards $875 $2,000

110 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 147] 148] Dibdin, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: Printed for the author by C. Scotland. London: Printed for the Author by C. Richards, 1838 Richards and sold by James Bohn, Laing and Forbes, John Smith and Son and E. Charnley, Illustrated with 40 engraved plates and numerous text vignettes. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition. Late nineteenth- 1838 century full black morocco, spines gilt with contrasting With 41 plates and 2 not called for in list. 2 vols. Tall lettering pieces, a.e.g., by Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow. Some 8vo. First edition. Original drab terracotta boards by J. toning to plates. Near fine. Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin Mackenzie, Westminster, with printed paper spine label, A65. yellow endpapers, uncut. Front joint of vol. I split. With two With Dibdin Als: ‘I have made it quite a Lady’s ad pamphlets loosely inserted. Custom half morocco folding Boudoir book’ box. Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65. Dibdin writes, 27 August, [n.y.]: In Boards Dear Mr. Hill, $1,750 I am in your debt in more senses than one, and I beg leave, under this impression to beg your acceptance of a copy of the new edition of my Tour … I have made it quite a Lady’s Boudoir book. Health and Happiness … Very much & truly, your Obliged T.F. Dibdin. $1,250

Catalogue 135 | 111 149] 1787; and the Eleven following Days. [London]: T. (DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL) [TURNBULL, and J. Egerton, 1787 William Barclay D.D.] [4], 102 pp. 8vo. One of 12 large-paper copies. Contemporary calf rebacked. Some small and expert Notes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin’s Tour restoration at bound margins, a very clean copy internally through Scotland. [Edinburgh]: 1838 with wide margins. Dibdin, Bibliomania (1842) pp 401-402; Sabin, Handy Book, p 150. 16 pp. 8vo. First and only edition. Original self-wrappers with original red side-stitch. A few faint smudges to title One of 12 large-paper copies and last page, ink note in margin of one page, pencil notes In the 1842 edition of Bibliomania Dibdin refers to the at head of title. Jackson 90; Windle & Pippin D19. present catalogue of the “very curious collection of One of approximately 10 copies printed Richard Wright, M.D.; the strength of which lay chiefly in publications relating to Drama and Romances. It is, in Very rare. Jackson thought that “only six copies of this my humble opinion, a most judicious, as well as neatly vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin were struck off,” but printed, little catalogue; and not more than a dozen copies Windle & Pippin correct that to an estimated ten copies. of it, I think, were printed upon large paper. Secure this $3,000 volume, Lisardo, if you wish to add to your riches in English bibliography … My copy of this catalogue is upon 150] large paper, beautifully priced by a friend who ‘hath an unrivalled pen in this way’….” This copy is likewise on (DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall) large paper and neatly priced in ink in a contemporary A Catalogue of the Library of Richard Wright, hand. M.D. … Which will be Sold by Auction, by T. and $1,750 J. Egerton, Booksellers … On Monday, April 23d,

112 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 151] carte blanche to do the needful in his way … Purchased by Pickering for £150/0/0 … Proofs of the whole of the (DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL) plates of Dibdins Tour in France and Germany … unique Catalogue of the Greater Portion of the Valuable set, folio, bound in Red morocco by Lewis, Purchased by Publications of the Revd T.F. Dibdin, D.D. Pickering for £93/0/0.” Purchased for Joseph Walter King Eyton, Esqr. … Signed twice by the collector, and inscribed to Mr. by Messrs Pickering and Thorpe, At the Sale of the Charlton, 2nd July, 1842 Library of Sir G.H. Freeling, Bart. By Messrs Evans With the signature of a Dibdin descendant, 1933. On Tuesday June 7 and following Day, 1842. Elgin $1,000 Villa, Leamington: 1842

With a watercolor coat of arms. 21 leaves in ink in a minute 152] hand, rectos only, with a clipping from the Times tipped to last leaf; the remainder of the notebook is blank. Small 8vo. (GOSFORD LIBRARY) Half black calf. Worn, spine perished, front board hanging. Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Internally clean and very good. Custom morocco backed folding box. Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford, K. P. … 21 April 1884 and ten days following. London: Mad about Dibdin Messrs Puttick and Simpson, 1884 Manuscript account of the Dibdin portion of the sale of the books of G.H. Freeling, including a Bibliographical vii, 175 pp. 3363 lots. 8vo. Twentieth century red cloth and Decameron, two volumes extended to ten, and the black leather label, preserving printed wrappers. Wrappers supplement extended to two, 12 volumes in all, extra- backed, small repair to lower corner of front wrapper and title page margin. illustrated with portraits, prints, drawings, autograph letters, in full blue morocco by Lewis: “Charles Lewis had The library of the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) was

Catalogue 135 | 113 sold by private contact to James Toovey, the London Hand-colored Grolier device on title-page. 46 leaves. 8vo. Bookseller, who sold the French books in Paris in 1882 at No. 133 of 150 copies. Printed at the De Vinne Press. auction, the Aldines by a special catalogue produced by Bound in full red morocco, gilt by Alfred Matthews, Toovey and the remainder of this fine library in this sale. original wrappers bound-in. Hinges It included the extensive collections of Country Histories, the First Grolier club Publication Genealogies, natural history, Irish topography and history, $3,000 drawings and engravings, the classics, a First Folio, the first volume of the Mazarine Bible, a fine collection of Large Paper copies, including Robinson Crusoe (1820), manuscripts, 154] fine bindings and printings. The total given for the eleven days’ sale was £11,318. ROGERS, Horatio $375 Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books. Providence [Rhode Island]: Sidney S. Rider, 1878 153] Frontispiece and 11 plates. [vi], 255 pp. 4to. Edition of 250 (GROLIER CLUB) copies. Contemporary half-morocco and marbled boards. A Decree of Star Concerning Printing; Scattered light foxing, minor rubbing to boards, a near fine Made July 11, 1637. Reprinted from the First copy. Edition by Robert Barker 1637. Introduction and Describes the libraries of John Carter Brown, Joseph J. Notes by Members of the Club. [New York]: The Cooke, John R. Bartlett, Royal C. Taft, Alexander Farnum, Grolier Club, [1884] C. Fiske Harris and the author’s own. $225

114 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 155] 156] (ROXBURGHE CLUB) [MAIDMENT, James] (ROXBURGHE SALE) KER, John, 3rd Duke Roxburghe Revels and Other Relative Papers; of Roxburghe Including Answers to the Attack on the Memory A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Duke of the Late Jospeh Haslewood … with Literary of Roxburghe, arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Productions. Edinburgh: Printed for Private Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall; Which Will Circulation, 1837 Be Sold at Auction at His Grace’s Residence in St. James Square, on Monday, 18th May, 1812, and Title printed in red and black. ix, [i], 144 pp. 4to. First edition, one of 50 copies. Bound in early “Roxburghe” the Forty-one Following Days … by Robert Evans roan back and red pebbled cloth boards. Light rubbing. Bookseller, Pall-Mall… [with:] A Supplement to Windle & Pippen B12. the Catalogue … The Books May be viewed at the The Roxburghe Revels of the title refers to a manuscript Sale [and with:] The Prices. London: Printed detailing the extra-bibliophilic activities (i.e. eating and by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. drinking) and literary pretensions of the Roxburghe Club. James’s, 1812 The Revels were compiled by member Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) and were purchased for £40 at the sale of his 17, [3], iv, 284 (i.e. 283); iv, 21; 73 pp. 8vo. First edition. library by the bookseller Thorpe who gave the manuscript Modern boards. Dibdin, Biblioliographical Decameron, III, to the editors of the Athenaeum. A series of virulent articles pp. 49-69. followed, attacking Haselwood and the Club. In this Roxburghe’s godson’s copy volume, Maidment reprints excerpts from the Athenaeum On the first two blanks is a 2-1/4 page manuscript note by articles, a biography of Haselwood, and Haselwood’s Roxburghe’s godson George N. Hamilton, copying from writings on early London theaters. Dibdin’s “Observations the General Evening Post an article about the bidding war on the Attack on the late Joseph Haslewood” appears on over a Boccacio between Earl Spencer and the Marquis pp. 77-84. of Blandford, which the latter won at a price of £2,260, $2,500 and ending with: “N.B. The Duke of Roxburghe left my

Catalogue 135 | 115 Father by will half of all his personal property, in which was included his celebrated library. His house in St. James Square which contained this library formed part of the personal property. The Duke was my godfather.” Hamilton includes a few prices and notes within the catalogue as well. “A new era in British book-collecting may be said to start with the Roxburghe sale (1812). For the first time in the history of bibliophily, the four- figure limit was reached in an auction sale for a single printed book. From being the hobby of a scholar or the whim of an eccentric commoner, the collecting of rare books became, once more, as in Harley’s and Sunderland’s days, the favourite pastime of the wealthy nobleman … John, third Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), had found in the family library a certain number of valuable books … Round this nucleus he built a handsome and extensive library … mainly devoted to incunabula, French chivalry- romances, early English and Italian literature, Shakespeare and the drama. The sale was a most sensational affair and the total of £23,341 was Two Illuminated Print Books in the Property of Henry Yates an extraordinary one for the time. Dibdin has scribbled Thompson. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 3 June reams of enthusiastic literature on the smallest incident of 1919. Numerous plates. each daily session” (De Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Catalogue of Twenty-Six Illuminated Manuscripts and Eight Manuscripts 1530-1930, pp. 71-72). Fifteenth Century Books … The Property of Henry Yates $1,500 Thompson. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 23 March 1920. Numerous plates. Catalogue of Sixteen Illuminated Manuscripts and Fifteen Early 157] Printed Books. The Property of Henry Yates Thompson. London: [THOMPSON, Henry Yates] Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 22 June 1921. Numerous plates. Sales Catalogues Relating to the Library of Henry Catalogue of the Livy of the Batard de Bourgogne. London: Yates Thompson. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, Sotheby’s, 23 June 1931. Plates. and Hodge & Sotheby’s, 1912-1941 Catalogue of the Remaining Portion of the Renowned Library of 4to. Blue quarter morocco, original wrappers bound-in. the Late Henry Yates Thompson, Esq. London: Sotheby’s, 18 A collection of 7 sale catalogues bound into a single August 1941. volume, relating to the library of Henry Yates Thompson Loosely inserted in this volume are two Typed Letters, (1838-1928), including: Signed, of Yates Thompson, to a Mr. Walker, 1919, Catalogue of Valuable & Rare Books and Splendid Illuminated regarding catalogue production; a typed list of the prices & Other Manuscripts … London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Thompson paid for several of the manuscripts; and Hodge, 28 March 1912. Plates. contemporary newspaper accounts of the sales. Yates Thompson, heir to a banking fortune and a one-time Catalogue of Two Valuable Illuminated Manuscripts the Property owner of the Pall Mall Gazette, was the foremost collector of Harry Yates Thompson. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and of illuminated manuscripts of his generation. Hodge, 25 June 1914. $750 Catalogue of Twenty-Eight Illuminated Manuscripts and

116 | James Cummins bookseller bibliography 158] documents and pieces relating to British History. There are manuscript notations and some prices. TURNER, Dawson $550 Catalogue of the Manuscript Library of the Late Dawson Turner, Esq. London: Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, 6 June 1859 et seq 159]

Facsimiles of signatures. 308, [1]pp. 8vo. First edition. (TURNER, ROBERT SAMUEL) Original green cloth. Some typical fading into brown and Bibliotheca Turneriana. Catalogue of the First rubbing. Bookplate of Charles Francis Wyatt. Portion of the Library of the late Robert Samuel With the presentation notation that it was given to the Rev. Turner, Esq. Member of the Philobiblon Society. Charles Francis Wyatt, Broughton Rectory, Oxford “by Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, G. B. to whom it was presented by Messrs. P[uttick] and Wilkinson & Hodge … Monday, the 18th of S[impson], June 1859. The first portion of Dawson Turner’s June, 1888 and Eleven following Days. London: collection was sold in 1853, this, the second portion of his collection is often considered the most important. Dryden Press, J. Davy and Sons, 1888 A number of the works were purchased by the British iv, 226 pp. 2999 items. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter Museum and Thomas Phillipps. This portion of his fine red morocco, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. collection include the original manuscript of Cowper’s translation of the last nine books of the Iliad, Defoe’s This copy priced in ink in a contemporary hand, listing original manuscript of The Compleat Gentleman, Mary the price of this first portion of the sale as £13,370.13.10. Shelley’s manuscript of “The Trial of Love,” the challenged A second part, with a separate catalogue, took place on receipt signed by Milton and his wife for payments on November 23rd and the days following. Paradise Lost which was then determined a copy (clippings $350 regarding the controversy tipped-in), a collection of Godwin’s literary manuscripts, correspondences of Dibdin, Isaac Newton and Napoleon, and the vast collection of

Catalogue 135 | 117 160] straw-colored cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Minor toning to spines, Fine set. Bookplates of (WILLETT, RALPH) Barnet Kotler. Merly Library. A Catalogue of the Well Known $2,750 and Celebrated Library of the late Ralph Willett … Which Will Be Sold by Auction, by Leigh and 162] Sotheby on Monday, December 6, 1813, and 16 Following Days. London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813 (WRENN LIBRARY) WISE, Thomas J., Editor [ii], 119 pp. 2906 lots. Priced. 8vo. Modern cloth. Fine. Provenance: H.P. Kraus, Reference Library (sold 21 Nov. A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry 2003). De Ricci, p. 88; Jackson 33; for Willet, cf. Alan G. Wrenn compiled by Harold B. Wrenn Edited by Thomas in The Book Collector (Winter: 1963), pp. 439-48. Thomas J. Wise. Austin (Texas): The University Library of Ralph Willett (1719-1795), heir to a West India of Texas, 1920 sugar fortune, and notable collector of incunabula, Caxtons, and botanical drawings. Illustrated in volume I with frontispiece portrait of Mr. Wrenn. 5 vols. Royal 8vo. Printed by E. T. Heron & Co., $1,000 London. First edition, one of 120 copies, this one unnumbered and unsigned. Original beveled brown buckram, slightly mottled. Wrenn bookplate printed as 161] part of the front pastedowns as usual.

WISE, Thomas James Contains entries for nearly 100 spurious 19th-century The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, pamphlets forged by editor Thomas J. Wise, as well as Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected numerous copies of 17th-century plays “improved” with leaves torn by Wise from copies in the British Museum. by Thomas James Wise. London: Printed for The Wrenn Library is now part of the collection of the Private Circulation Only, 1922-36 Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Illustrated. 11 vols. 4to. First edition, one of 50 copies $1,750 printed upon English Hand-made paper. Original

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