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front cover: item 35 inside front cover: item 32 inside rear cover: item 33 rear cover: item 43 catalogue photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. thank you very much for your splendid gift of kelmscottiana 1 (ASHENDENE PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, signed [“C.-S.”] to Sydney Cockerell (“My dear Cockerell”). 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet of stationery. 8vo, London: 186, Strand, January 19, 1904. Faint creasing from prior folds. The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Sydney Cockerell, formely William Moriss’s secretary at the Kelmscott Press. “Thank you very much for your splendid gift of Kelmscottiana. It is really noble of you. I shall prize them, as you know, well and truly. I shall be much interested in reading some of the pamphlets, and am very glad to have the Sotheby catalogue of Morris’ books. I am relieved to hear that Gere’s two diaries are safe in Hooper’s hands.” Hooper is the engraver W.H. Hooper; Charles M. Gere’s illustrations for the Kelmscott News from Nowhere were engraved by Hooper. Gere’s most celebrated work was the illustrations to the Ashendene Press Dante done for Hornby. After Morris’s death in 1896, his collection of early books and manuscripts was purchased for £18,000 by Richard Bennett, who kept what he liked of the collection, consigning the rest to Sotheby’s. It is likely this sale, on December 5, 1898, to which Hornby refers (cf. De Ricci, English Collectors, pp. 172-3). [With:] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Wood engraving intended for the title page of The Early Italian Poets, 1861, issued as a Christmas gift by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Cockerell, 1907. [And:] Two Ashendene Press specimen leaves, one from the first canto of Lo Inferno, from the La Divina Comedia (1902-5) inscribed by Cockerell (“brought to Clifford Inn by CH SJ Hornby Nov 12 1901”). $1,500 2 (BIBLE) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and With the Former Transla- tions Diligently Compared and Revised. Unpaginated [1146 pp.]. Folio [500 x 320 x 90 mm.], Birmingham: John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. The third variant of the Subscriber’s list, with the most names, ending with that of the Hon. Charles York, Esq, Attorney General. Bound ca. 1820s in full straight-grained black morocco, spine gilt, boards gilt, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Gift inscription on title page dated 1822 slightly trimmed. Old repair to lower inner hinge. Rebacked, preserving the elaborate gilt spine. Very good example of the monumental Baskerville Bible. Nixon, p. 184; Gaskell, Bibliography of John Baskerville, 26; Ramsden p. 135. 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. $11,000

 | james cummins bookseller to his opposition to the embargo act (which Truxtun also opposed). Included as well is an Autograph Draft of a letter, thomas truxton — william s. biddle archive 1-H pp., from Truxton to “the Honourable Judges of the Court of common pleas” of 17 Oct. 1816, regarding his com- 3 pliance with the Court’s request for a statement of “property (BIDDLE, William S) Archive of Documents, Notes, and possessed by myself & sureties offered.” Also included is a Letters relating to cases handled by Attorney William S. copy in secretarial hand of a letter Truxtun wrote to Gover- Biddle for various clients, including cases involving Thomas nor Simon Snyder apologizing for not being able to “present Truxtun, High Sheriff of Pennsylvania Co.; notes challenging my application for the appointment of Sheriff of the City the Embargo Act of 1808; and other various cases, both civil & County of Philadelphia”; various indentures, depositions, and criminal. In all, approximately 58 pp. Various formats notes on trials, etc. etc. A fascinating and important archive (8vo, 4to, folio), [Philadelphia: 1816-1831]. Generally very relating to the lives and careers of two eminent Philadel- good, and enclosed in a custom linen clamshell box. phians. “William Shepard Biddle (1781-1835) was the first child of Charles and Hannah Biddle … William entered the Univer- $7,500 sity of Pennsylvania in 1794 and graduated with the class of 1797. He studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1801, eventually becoming one of its most distin- 4 guished members. He served as director of the Law Library (BINDING, Cockerell, Douglas) Cellini, Benvenuto. The Company of Philadelphia from 1809-1815. He first married Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. 11 Circe Deroncera [or Deroneray], and later married Elizabeth plates and 7 illustrations to text. 4to, London: Published by B. Keating, daughter of the honorable Joseph Hopkinson” Edward Arnold [Printed by C. R. Ashbee at the Essex House (Special Collections, University of Delaware Library). This Press], 1898. No. 89 of 600 copies. Full tan morocco, covers archive includes several documents relating to his client, with gilt-ruled border, spine with raised bands, titled in one the famous naval hero Thomas Truxtun, close friend of his compartment, a.e.g., by Douglas Cockerell, with his stamp father Charles Biddle, while Truxtun served as high sheriff dated 1901 on rear turn-in. Small irregularity to leather on of Philadelphia Co. Several of Biddle’s legal notes concern front cover, some spotting to covers, bookplate removed. the issue of fees charged to the County by Truxtun; another A Douglas Cockerell binding from 1901, the year he pub- group concerns Biddle’s defense of Truxtun in a lawsuit lished his seminal Bookbinding and the Care of Books. brought by Andrew Taylor against the sheriff for unlawful $2,500 arrest. Another fascinating group of Biddle’s notes relates

catalogue 120 |  5 (BINDING, English) [Edmunds, Henry, compiler]. Extracts from the several Treaties subsisting between Great Britain and other Kingdoms and States, of such Articles and Clauses, as relate to the Duty and Conduct of the Commanders of His Majesty’s Ship of War. En- graved frontispiece of anchor, trumpet, ropes, flags and cannon, engraved tailpiece on final leaf. [iv], xxxii, 292 pp. 4to, London: 1758. Third edition. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with wide fleuron border, gilt backwards-facing bird tool at corners, spine divided in 6 compartments, green morocco lettering piece in one, the rest gilt with small floral tools, a.e.g. Light offsetting to text. ESTC T82163. A beautifully bound example of this collection of naval treaties between Great Britain and Algiers, the Netherlands, France, Den- mark, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, et al, with several references to the American colonies. $1,750

bound by samuel welcher 6 (BINDING, Welcher, Samuel) More, James Esq. A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. Frontispiece portrait of John Moore, 2 partially colored folding maps (“Plan of the Action Near Coruña” & “Spain & Portugal with the March of the British Columns”), extra-illustrated with engraved view of the wooden monument erected by Spain at the site of Moore’s grave and an original ink and wash drawing if the same monumemt, dated August 18, 1809, both with black ink funerary borders. xii, 238, 89, [1] pp. 4to, London: 1809. Fifth edition, corrected. Full black straight-grained morocco, wide gilt and blindstamped borders composed of a Greek key motif and small floral tools on a stud- ded background, surrounding gilt-blocked arms and motto of the Moore family and the Order of the Bath on the front cover, and military tomb on rear cover, spine with double raised bands, lettered in two compartments, the rest gilt, wide turn-ins tooled in gilt, blue moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by Welcher (with his yellow label on verso of front free endpaper, “Bound by Welcher, 12, Vil- liers Strt. Strand”). Wear to front joint, just starting at lower end. A narrative of General Moore’s campaign against the French during the Napoleonic wars in Spain, in a fine binding by Samuel Welcher. Moore (1761-1809) was killed during the battle at Coruña, his army exhausted, badly outnumbered and short of supplies. He was celebrated as a national hero in England and Spain, where a monument was errected on the site of his grave in Coruña (depicted here in an engraving and original drawing). This was likely a family copy — the arms of the Moore family are stamped on the front cover, and an autograph euglogy on the death of John Moore MD (1729-1802), father of Sir John Moore, is affixed to the front flyleaf, followed by 11 pages of autograph transcriptions of encomiums on the life of Sir John Moore. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller 7 (BINDING, Zaehnsdorf) Crane, Walter. The First of May, a Fairy Masque. [1], 56 ll. illustrated by Crane on rectos only, on India paper, mounted to thick paper. Large folio (24 x 17-G in.), London: H. Sotheran & Co, 1881. Num- ber 31 of 200 copies on India paper, signed by Crane. Full citron morocco, covers with borders ruled in gilt, surrounding central panel dotted with small floral gilt tools and larger circular tool of fairy holding “The First of May” banner, endpapers imitating Renaissance brocade, a.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Light spotting to covers, rubbing to binding at spine, foxing, mostly to mounts. Massé, pp. 32-3. Proof copy on India paper of Walter Crane’s The First of May, with each sheet mounted to thick paper and the whole beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf. $3,000

catalogue 120 |  unrecorded breviary for the use of chartres, in contemporary gilt binding 8 (BONHOMME, Yolande, printer) Officium horarum canonicarum … secundum usum ecclesiae Carnotensis[i.e., Chartres] … impres- sum cum ceteris huius breviarii partibus … [from first colophon]. One full-page woodcut of Jesus bearing the Cross on verso of leaf P2 and printer’s device on verso of final leaf. ‡8[-1] a-o8 p2; A-O8; aa-ff8; gg6. 285 of 286 leaves; lacking first leaf ‡1. Printed in red and black in Gothic type, two columns of 39 lines. Small 8vo, Paris: Yolande Bonhomme, vidua … Theilmanni Kerver …, 15 February 1546 [from final colophon; first colophon reads 18 January 1546]. Contemporary (?Chartres) calf, covers tooled in gilt to panel design with wide outer border of fern fronds, central panel with floral-tooled frame, flat spine tooled to a similar design, edges gilt. Some contemporary marginalia on colophon, ownership inscription “Johannes Rolls 1824” on flyleaf. Overall, a remarkably well preserved copy. Not in Adams; no copies found in OCLC, the BN, Vatican Library, British Museum, etc., etc.; Romeo Arbour Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France: 1470 – 1870, pp. 304-5. rare. We are unable to find any other copies of this exquisite little breviary printed by the widow of Thielmann Kerver, Yolande Bonhomme, herself descended from a distinguished family of printers. “Elle imprime plus de 200 ouvrages: livres d’histoire, mis- sels, bréviaires, bibles, livres d’heures …” (Arbour, pp. 304-305). In a contemporary, densely gilt binding utilizing patterns of highy unusual tools, possibly of local (i.e., Chartres?) origin. $6,000

 | james cummins bookseller bradley martin copy 9 BRISSON, Mathurin Jacques. Ornithologie ou Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux […] à laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espèce, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu’ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires [bound with:] Supplementum Ornithologiae … 261 folding engraved plates by Martinet, engraved half-titles by Martinet, dual title-pages in French and Latin, parallel text in French and Latin, engraved woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. 6 volumes and supplement in 6. 4to (29 x 22 cm.), Paris: Chez Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760. First edition. Full contemporary red morocco, covers rulled in gilt with French fillet border, spines with five raised bands, lettering in two compartments on red morocco labels, the rest stamped in gilt with floral tools, a.e.g. Light wear to head of vol. IV spine, vol. I, signature 3P remargined, sporadic light spotting or browning. Ronsil 391; Nissen 145; Ayer/Zimmer I, p. 94; Anker, 69; Stresemann 54. Provenance: Robert More, Linely (bookplate); Bradley Martin (his sale, lot 1426). The Bradley Martin copy, exceptionally beautiful in contemporary French red morocco, of this important “early systematic treatises on birds by a contemporary of Linnaeus” (Zimmer). Brisson’s “subdivided system approaches our own more closely than any attempt made in the following eighty years” (Stresemann). The illustrations are by F.N. Martinet, who would go on to illustrate Buffon’s Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Robert More (1703-1780), MP for Bishop’s Castle and Shrewsbury, fellow of the Royal Society and friend of Carl Linnaeus. $20,000

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catalogue 120 |   | james cummins bookseller in parts 10 BURGESS, Gelett, and Bruce Porter, eds. The Lark. Book I. Nos. 1-12; Book II, Nos. 13-24 & Epilark issue. Illustrations and cover designs by Florence Lundborg, Gelett Burgess, Ernest Peixotto, Hervert Van Vlack, Newton Tharp, Reginald Rix, Willis Polk and Bruce Porter. In original 25 parts. Sm. 4to, San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895-1897. First edition, in parts. In original parts, many unopened and all are in fine condition. From the library of bibliophile and actor Jean Hersholt with his library tag (B.22). In quarter brown morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. 25 original parts, including “Epilark,” plus duplicates of 2 parts, contents for first and second book, prologue for first book, and supplemental portrait of R.L. Stevenson. $2,500

11 CATULLUS, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera. [2], 200, 221-372 pp. [complete]. 4to, Birminghamae [Birmingham]: Typis John- nis Baskerville [John Baskerville], 1772. Baskerville’s first quarto edition. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, covers with outer gilt-ruled border, spine with raised bands, lettered in one compartment, tooled in gilt with small floral and dot tools in the rest, a.e.g. Small chip from head of spine, title-page toned. Bookseller’s ticket of Porquet, Quai Voltaire on front pastedown. Gaskell 44; Brunet I, 1680; Graesse II, 87; Moss I, 263. $1,500

catalogue 120 |  rare early map and guide to central park 12 (CENTRAL PARK) A Pocket Map and Visitor’s Guide to the Central Park, in the City of New York, with all the Necessary Explanations. Fold- out map of Central Park by J.P. M’Lean at rear, measuring 4-G x 19-H in. 24 pp. text and illustrated ads. 12mo (4-L x 3-J in.), New York: P. Burger & Co, 1859. First edition. Publisher’s cloth wrappers, titled in gilt (with some loss) on the front cover, light sporadic foxing throughout, very faint embossed stamp to title page, near fine. Sabin 54583; not in Stokes, Iconography. Although maps of the park were issued in Valentine’s Manual and in the Reports of the Park Commissioners as early as 1858, this is likely the earliest separately-issued pocket map of the park. The map and text were published in July 1859 (evidenced by the notice to advertisers on p. 9 and a date on the map itself), just one month after a notice by the Park Commissioners declaring the Ramble to be complete. The preliminary 8 pages of text give a history of the park, as well as a list of the commissioners and officers in charge of construction (including Frederick Law Olmstead and Robert Vaux). The publisher writes of this map on page 7: “In getting up the map of the Park, great pains have been taken to make it as clear and intel- ligible as possible … The most prominent and intersting portions of the Park which are now completed, or in the course of completion, are so distinctly marked on the map that they can be seen at a glance, such as the old and new reservoirs, play ground, parade ground, promenade, arsenal, nursery, botanical garden, skating pond, cave, walks, carriage drives, bridle roads, vista rock, and last, though not least, that at present most beautiful and delightful portion called ‘The Ramble’ …” The publisher continues by suggesting that future issues of the map will chart the progress of construction; however, no other editions of the map seem to have been published. Follow- ing the text are 15 pages of advertisements for New York businesses, including ads for the printer James Craft, engraver and electrotypist of the map Albert H. Jocelyn, and artist of the map J.P. McLean. $5,000

 | james cummins bookseller american beauties and the jerome sisters 13 (CHURCHILL, Winston) [Bartol, Cyrus A. (text) and Joseph FAGNANI (artist)]. American Beauty Personified as The Nine Muses. Frontispiece portrait photograph (albumen print) of artist Joseph Fagnani, and 9 albumen prints from portraits of American women by Fagnani, each sitter identified by an ink caption in a previous owner’s hand. [56] pp. 6-L x 5-I in. (16.8 x 14.5 cm), n.p. [New York?]: n.d. [ca. 1869]. Contemporary limp burgundy morocco, with a handwritten paper label affixed to the upper cover, reading: “American Beauties as Muses 1860-1870 (with names written by Leonie Jerome)” and gilt-lettered spine. Some wrinkling to mounts, small dampstain to lower part of gutter margins, but overall a good copy. With the bookplate of Leonie [Jerome] Les- lie on the front pastedown, and that of her sister, Jennie [Jerome] Spencer Churchill on the rear flyleaf. In 1869, the Italian-American painter Joseph Fagnani’s exhibition of the “Nine Muses” was held at the Somerville Art Gallery. A review of the show by the New York Times (Nov. 22, 1869) reads: “As just recognition rather than a flattering compliment of America female beauty, these pictures, apart from the strict consideration of their artistic merits, are full of interest, and, wher- ever they are taken, will be sure to attract much attention. We learn the muses are loudly called for in other quarter; and those who have not worshipped at their shrine, should, like good patriots, make haste to do so.” Here, in this remarkable little album, Fagnani aims to highlight and emphasize the varying beauty of American women, at a time when the European ideal served as the sole model for American standards. All the more remarkable is this copy’s extraordinary association with two of the most celebrated American beauties of its period, the Jerome sisters, Jennie (1854-1921) and Leonie (1859-1943). Daughters of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie and Leonie would have been teenagers at the time of the Fagnani exhibition after the Civil War. The two were to become among the most famous beauties of their day and the toast of England: Jennie, when she married Lord Randolph Churchill, younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, in 1874; and Leonie, ten years later, when she married the baronet Sir John Leslie. Jennie, of course, soon became the mother of Winston Churchill; and Leonie was the mother of Shane Leslie. This album, with the actual identities of the sitters revealed by Leonie, represents perhaps the teenage aspirations of the two sisters, soon to be realized in high society. The original portraits are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. $7,500

catalogue 120 |  “a genius for friendship” — thomas hardy — with gissing poem 14 (CLODD, Edward) The George Eliot Birthday Book. 277, [1] pp. 12mo, Aldeburgh: [ca. 1878-1930?]. Edward Clodd’s (July 1, 1840- 1930) copy, signed by him on the title-page and at his birthdate entry; with the engraved bookplate of Montgomery Evans II, by S. H. Sime. Edward Clodd (1840-1930) was a banker, amateur anthropologist, folklorist, and friends with an extraordinary variety of artists, intellectuals, writers, scientists, explorers, etc. According to the ODNB, “from 1878 he used his weekend home in Aldeburgh, Strafford House, for annual Whitsuntide gatherings of eminent intellectuals,” and this book is a wonderful record of those Whit- suntide Sundays in which, over the years, Clodd’s friends signed his George Eliot Birthday Book on their respective birthdays. The following are only a few among the many who signed: W.B. Yeats (3 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), James George Frazer (1 Jan. 1854-1941), Selwyn Image (17 Feb. 1849-1930), Henry Moore, artist (7 March 1831-1895), Andrew Lang (31 March 1844-1912), W. Holman Hunt (2 April 1827-1910), Bernard Quaritch (23 April 1819-1899), Edward Whymper (27 April 1840-1911), J.M. Barrie (9 May 1860-1937), Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840-1928), George Gissing (22 Nov. 1857-1903), Leslie Stephen (22 Nov. 1832-1904), W.W. Jacobs (8 Sept. 1863–1943). Two poems are tipped in at the rear, and George Gissing has written and signed an autograph poem of 2 stanzas on the front free endpaper; and 2 poems are tipped in at the rear addressed to Clodd, signed in one case by 5 friends, G.S. Robertson, William Simpson, Clement Shorter, H. Wharringham & Grant Allen and dated Whitsuntide 1897. The other poem signed by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson. $5,000

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15 CUMMINGS, E.E. “Breton.” Watercolor on paper, signed at lower right corner, title in pencil on verso. One small tear. Matted and framed. Given to Cummings’ Harvard schoolmate and good friend S. Foster Damon, poet and teacher at Brown University. Subse- quently given to Ernest Costa, who, under Damon’s influence became a librarian at Brown. $3,000

inscribed to hildegarde and james sibley watson of the dial 16 CUMMINGS, E.E. Christmas Tree. Silver foil page facing title- page. Printed in green and orange. 12mo, [New York: American Book Bindery, 1928]. First edition, first separate printing of “little tree.” Original half red cloth and paper-covered boards with printed silver label on front cover. Covers rubbed and faded, ffep starting, rear joint cracked, rfep detached. Firmage A8. A separate publication of the poem “little tree” from XLI Poems, printed by the American Book Bindery for use as a Christmas gift. This copy inscribed on the first blank to Hildegarde and James Sibley Watson of The Dial, “Happy New Year! To S H W from EEC.” Watson, who owned the avant-garde journal The Dial with Scofield Thayer, was an early champion and publisher of Cummings. $1,125

editor scofield thayer’s copies 17 (CUMMINGS, E.E.) The Dial (January 1920, May 1920, January 1921, April 1922, January 1924, March 1924). 11 vols. 8vo, [New York: Dial Publishing Company], 1920-1924. Original pink wrappers. Covers edgeworn and lightly soiled. Firmage B25, 27, 29, 34, 49 and G8. The Dial editor and publisher Scofield Thayer’s own copies, containing contributions by Cummings, with Thayer’s editorial markings in pencil and his bookplate laid into each. The January 1920 issue, the first with Thayer as editor, is also the first to include contributions by Cummings. With an additional five issues (not from Thayer’s library), each with contributions by Cum- mings. “On page 22 of The Dial for January 1920, E.E. Cummings virtually inaugurated his career as a professional poet” (Kidder, “Buffalo Bill’s — an Early E.E. Cummings Manuscript,” Harvard Library Bulletin, October 1976). $750

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  inscribed to hildegarde and james sibley watson 18 CUMMINGS, E.E. EIMI. 432, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: Covici, Friede, Publishers, 1933. First edition, number 7 of 1381 copies signed by Cummings. Publisher’s yellow cloth. Light soiling and edgwear to spine and corners. Firmage A13a. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Hildegarde and James Sibley Watson of The Dial, “For S.H.W. from EEC April 3.” $900 presentation copy 19 CUMMINGS, E.E. HIM. 145 pp. 8vo, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition, one of 150 (of 160) signed copies, this copy out-of-series. Parchment spine, black paper-covered boards stamped in gilt. Light soiling and wear to parchment, lacking the slipcase. Firmage A7b. Signed by Cummings on the colophon page and additionally inscribed in crayon on the front free endpaper to M. R. “Morrie” Werner, “for M.R.W. With the salutations of E.E.C. Xmas, 1927.” Werner was a journalist and biographer and a close friend of Cummings. A drawing of Werner by Cummings is reproduced in Richard S. Kennedy’s biography of Cummings, Dreams in the Mirror. Cummings’ oil portrait of Werner is found in CIOPW. Werner was a major source of information on Cummings for Charles Norton’s biography, E.E. Cummings: The Magic-Maker. $750

 | james cummins bookseller inscribed to james sibley watson of the dial 20 CUMMINGS, E.E. HIM. [iv], 145, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition. Original black cloth spine and white paper boards. Spine faded, light soiling to covers. In printed dust-jacket tanned at spine with a few shal- from e.e. cummings to allen tate low ships. Firmage A7a. 21 Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Hildegarde and James CUMMINGS, E.E. “Marion.” Oil on card, signed (“Cum- Sibley Watson of The Dial, “For Hildegarde [sic] & S.W. [not mings”) on verso, with separate inscription on card, visible signed].” Watson, who owned the avant-garde journal The from rear of frame, “For Allen Tate, from E.E. Cummings.” Dial with Scofield Thayer, was an early champion and pub- Image 12 x 8-H in., n.d. Light chipping to card edges. Matted lisher of Cummings. His work first appeared in the journal in and framed. 1920; the August 1927 issue featured a large portion of HIM. An oil bust portrait of Cummings’ wife, Marion Morehouse, A fine association. given to Allen Tate. With an inscription from Cummings to $900 Tate and a letter from Tate’s wife establishing the provenance of the painting. $4,500

catalogue 120 |  22 CUMMINGS, E.E. “Marion in Blue Robe.” Oil on wood panel. Image 16 x 7-H in, n.d. Fine, in wood frame. A portrait of Cummings’ wife Marion Morehouse in a blue robe with her hair piled high. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller “the enclosed is what i happen to believe …” 24 23 CUMMINGS, E.E. Typed Postcard. Silver Lake, NH: August CUMMINGS, E.E. Typed Letter, signed (“C’s”), to Howard 25, 1962. Surface abrasion, not affecting text. Rothschild. 2 pp. typed, with hand-addressed envelope. 8vo Airmail postcard to Howard Rothschild in London, dated (11 x 8-H in.), 4 Patchin Place, [New York]: May 16, 1946. shortly before Cummings’ death: “thanks immensely for the Creased from prior folding. priceless information about Norway — & for the 2handed- “The enclosed is what I happen to believe. If your friend, the swordlifting Swedish hero. Let us know how you like guided South American poetess, still wishes to ‘interview’ me after tours in the proletarian paradise; & don’t miss Lenin! Marion she has read and understood it — fine and dandy; provided sends love.” she’ll heartily agree to [underlined] quote me (somewhere [With:] Four page Autograph Letter, signed, from Cum- in the course of her radiotalk) as saying [underlined] exactly mings’ wife, Marion Morehouse, reading in part: “Thanks so this and nothing else …” Followed on a separate sheet by much for the clipping, though I’m always dismayed by the “individuality always was and always will be the one and way journalists misquote. C did say to Sonia [Orwell] that only reality: I love it. What a loveless world calls ‘publicity’ artists should be in the opposition but as for saying he’d not is nothing but the disease of unreality; and I loathe it. If you been happy since Roosevelt was elected, not only did he not ask me for an individual, I give you William Shakespeare. say it but it’s no the sort of thing he would say …” E.E. Cummings.” $750 [With:] One page Typed Letter, signed, from Cummings’ wife, Marion Morehouse, written in 1934 during her and Cummings’ stay in Tunisia at Baron Huene’s villa at Ham- mamet, expressing disdain for the open homosexuality of the Tunisian men, “There isn’t much to write about as we hardly ever leave our place. The people down here are terrible, with few exceptions. They’re all queer and such queers you have never seen …” $1,500

catalogue 120 |  25 DANIELL, Thomas and William. A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates on thick paper after T. and W. Daniell, each plate with one accompanying leaf of text. Folio, London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Contemporary half Russia and marbled boards. Front joint repaired, light wear to corners, light foxing to a few plates. Abbey Travel 516; Tooley 173; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523. “Thomas Daniell played an instrumental role in graphically documenting a wide geographical and cultural range of sites across the Indian subcontinent, travelling more extensively than any of his contemporary colonial artists, and earning him the title ‘artist-adventurer’” (ODNB). Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The jour- ney, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal and by the publication of Oriental Scenery in 1795-1808 and the A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China in 1810. The album opens with the Indiaman’s departure from Gravesend, a stop at Madiera, and a rough turn around the Cape of Good Hope. The majority of the views de- pict native life in Java (including shark fishing) and nautical scenes along the Chinese coast and Canton River, with some scenes of Chinese dress and manners. $15,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  king louis philippe i’s copy on card in a simier binding 26 DANIELL, William. A Voyage Round Great Britain: Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813 … 84 hand-colored aquatints printed on card. [ii], 90; [iv], 65, [1] . Volumes 7 & 8 only. 2 vols. Folio, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824; 1825. First edition, one of approximately 25 copies on card. Contemporary violet morocco, covers ruled in gilt with central panel surrounding the arms of King Louis Philippe I, Duc d’Orleans, a.e.g., by Simier (ticket on verso of front free endpaper). Light rubbing to bindings, else fine. Abbey, Scenery, 16; Tooley 177: Provenance: King Louis Philippe I, Duc d’Orleans, (his arms in gilt on the covers, his stamp and stamp of his library at Chateau Nueilly on the title-page). The final two volumes of “The most important book on British Topography” (Tooley), presenting views of the south coast of England and Wales, bound in full violet morocco by Simier for the King of France, Louis-Phillipe, Duc d’Orleans. Chateau Neuilly, where these volumes resided, was confiscated by Napoleon III after being burned and pillaged during the Revolution of 1848. An incomplete set, lacking vols. 5 & 6, in an armorial binding of violet morocco is listed in the catalogue of Louis Philippe’s library sale in 1852 (cf. Catalogue de livres provenant des bibliothèques du feu roi Louis-Philippe, no. 1629). In 1827 William Daniell, painted a scene of the grounds of Chateau Neuilly and later issued a print of a scene of the King’s Paris residence, the Palais Royal. $10,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  with receipt for subscription, signed by dibdin 28 27 DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Director; a Weekly Liter- DIBDIN, The Reverend Thomas Frognall. Bibliotheca ary Journal: containing I. Essays, on subjects of Literature, the Spenceriana: or, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographiana. Account of rare and the Fifteenth Century and of many Valuable First Editions in the curious Books, and of the Book Sales in this country, from the Library of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. &c &c. &c. Hundreds close of the seventeenth century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of engravings and examples of type etc., some tinted in of the Lectures delivered weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description red and blue. 4 vols. Imperial 8vo, London: Printed for the of the principal Pictures exhibited for sale, with the names of the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1814. First purchasers. 379, [1, errata], [4, subscribers]; 385, [1], [6, index] edition. Bound in full nineteenth century crimson morocco. pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Printed by William Savage: sold Bookplate of Ross Winans. Very handsome set. Bigmore and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J. Hatchard; and W. Wyman, pp. 169-70. Miller, 1807. First edition, with half titles. Contemporary A work devoted to the Earl’s 15th- and early 16th-century full mottled calf, gilt spine, small split in two joints, else fine. books at Althorp; Spencer’s library comprised over 45,000 Jackson 9; Windle and Pippin A6. volumes, and its holdings of incunabula were noteworthy: Dibdin wrote a good portion of this weekly which lasted 47 Caxtons, for example, are described. An important work, only 24 numbers. The intent was “the circulation of such with particularly fine and numerous illustrations. Laid in is a knowledge as may serve to shew the state of literature, sci- manuscript receipt “Subscription for copy of the Bibliotheca ence and the fine arts in the metropolis and other parts of Spenceriana herewith sent £8.8 T.F. Dibdin Nov. 31.” the empire.” The 4 page subscribers’ list includes Dr. Charles Burney, Sir Francis Baring, Humphry Davy, John Flaxman, $2,250 Dr. Jenner, Sir Oswald Mosely, James Sowerby, Ely Stott, Edward Tooke and Benjamin West. “The philanthropist Thomas Bernard and Dibdin were associated together on this publication … Dibdin said that he wrote two thirds of the magazine” (Windle and Pippin, pp. 21-22). $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller on the closing of the doves press 30 (DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James. Au- tograph Letter, signed (“C.-S.”), to Sydney Cockerell (“Dear S.C”). 2 pp. pen and ink on one sheet of stationery. 8vo, Up- per Ifold, Dunsfold, Surrey: September 21, 1916. Faint crease from old fold. Cobden-Sanderson writes to Sir Syndey Cockerell (1867- printed on vellum 1962), former secretary to William Morris at the Kelmscott 29 Press, on the imminent closing of the Doves Press. Read- [DICKINSON, Francis Henry]. A List of Printed Service Books, ing in part, “I shall be very happy to send some ‘memorial’ According to the Ancient Uses of the Anglican Church. 16 leaves. sheets when the press closes. You have been too apprecia- 4to (21.7 x 13.4 cm), London: Joseph Masters, 1850. printed tive to be denied! As for my biography I have always been on vellum, apparently the only copy thus. Contemporary chary of that, but I may, when the press is moved, as I have gilt-panelled vellum binding. Beautiful copy, with blind stamp nothing else to do, look back — try our memories & if they of previous owner A.J.V. Radford, and bookseller’s tickets of will round them off into ‘a whole’ I may perhaps give it as a Herbert Reichner, Lathrop C. Harper Inc, and H.P. Kraus. last present to my friends — but nothing will appear in the Besterman (Fourth edition) 3579; Halkett & Laing III 374. final [?]lala copies but the ‘Vale’ & some letters & advertisements wh. have already appeared amongst the ephemera Following the manuscript tradition, liturgical printing in both of the Press …” “Vale” is “Salve aeternum aeternumque the Catholic and Anglican churches frequently employed vale,” Cobden-Sanderson’s farewell essay in the final book of vellum as well as paper. D.B. Updike writes that economic the Press, Catalogue Raisonné, printed just two months after considerations were also a factor: “As early printed books this letter, in December 1916. On the closing of the Doves were nothing more than a mechanical imitation of manu- Press, Cobden-Sanderson dumped all of the Press’s fonts scripts … even in printed missals vellum was often used for and matrices into the Thames. Cobden-Sanderson closes the canon of the Mass, since the pages devoted to this were the letter with a compliment to “your wife’s most beautiful subject to wear by constant handling” (D.B. Updike, “Some productions” and post script, “By the way I shall not forget to Notes on Liturgical Printing,” The Dolphin, no. 2 (1935), pp. return the Chaucer book.“ Cockerell’s wife, Kate Cockerell, 208-16). That being the case, it isn’t surprising that this rare was a manuscript illuminator and artist. Cobden-Sanderson bibliography should have a vellum issue; yet no other vellum and Cockerell’s friendship dated back to the days of the Kel- copy has been recorded. moscott Press, and Cockerell’s brother, Douglas, began his $3,500 celebrated bookbinding career as an apprentice at the Doves Bindery. $2,500

catalogue 120 |  on the closing of the doves press one of 12 on vellum, in a doves binding 31 32 (DOVES PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, (DOVES PRESS) [Keats, John]. Keats. [Poems. Selected and Ar- signed (“CH S J Hornby”), to T.J. Cobden Sanderson (“Dear ranged by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson]. Printed in red and black. 203 Cobden Sanderson”). 2 pp. pen and ink on one sheet, Shelley pp. 8vo, [Hammersmith: The Doves Press], 1914 [i.e., January House stationery. 8vo, Chelsea: Shelley House, December 16, 1915]. One of 12 copies on vellum. Full dark blue morocco 1915. Faint creasing from prior folds, pen spill at right-hand gilt, a.e.g., by the Doves Bindery, spine panels and boards margin. ruled with single gilt fillet, signed “The Doves Bindery 19 CS The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Cobden-Sand- 15” on lower turn-in. Faintest traces of rubbing at head of erson on his sadness on the closing of the Doves Press. Read- upper joint. Fine. Ransom 45 (12 copies printed on vellum); ing, “It is with a touch of sadness that I send you this cheque, Tidcombe, The Doves Press, DP 36. as I fear it may be the last I shall send you for a Doves Press Superb collection of Keats’ verse, one of twelve copies Book. They have given me a great deal of pleasure for many printed on vellum, in a simple and elegant Doves binding. years, more than I like to reckon up, and I don’t like to think $17,500 that the Press is coming to an end. “At least you will be able to look back upon a fine acheive- ment in respect both of form and matter of the books you have printed. It would be impossible to find from both points of view a more delightful series.” The Doves Press would close December of the following year, the final book being the Catalogue Raisonné, printed December 16, 1916. A touching sentiment from one giant of the Private Press movement to another. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller 33 DU SOMMERARD, A[lexandre]. Les Arts au Moyen Âge. 10 chromolithograph titles, frontispiece portrait and 505 (of 618) plates, many hand-colored or chromolithographed. Album and Atlas volumes only. 5 vols. Folio, [Paris: Techener, 1836-1846]. First edition. Full purple morocco, covers gilt with outer triple filet and roll borders, central panel of wide dentelle, triple filet and floral cornerpieces, spines with six raised bands, lettered in three compartments, richly gilt in the rest, comb-marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by J. Clarke. Light rubbing to joints and corners, foxing throughout, heavy at times. With T. & W. Boone, 29 Bond Street, bookseller’s ticket. Brunet II, p. 920. Provenance: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley (his bookplate). The album and atlas volumes of Alexandre Du Sommerard’s Les Arts au Moyen Âge, a monumental work documenting the art of the Middle Ages, including its architecture, painting, tapestry, enamels, furniture, manuscripts, sculpture and arms and armor. An important work in the history of color printing — Ray notes that as the series was published hand-coloring gave way to the new method of chromolithography (cf. Ray, French, p. 356). The five volumes comprise series 1 through 9 and the atlas, the plates being bound out of order by subject. This copy from the library of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley (1794-1888), a long-serving speaker of the House of Commons. $7,500

catalogue 120 |  35 EDWARDS, George. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, 34 Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, etc., Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten (DULAC, Edmund) Rosenthal, Léonard. The Kingdom of the Copper-Plates. [With:] Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Pearl. 10 mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. 151, [1] pp. Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants. etc … 362 hand- 4to, London: Nisbet & Co., Ltd, [1920]. First edition, no. 98 colored engravings, sequentially numbered across both of 100 copies signed by Dulac. Publisher’s half vellum, t.e.g, works, each engraving with facing letterpress description. rest uncut. Light scuffing and nick to bottom edge of covers, Text in English and French. 7 vols. 4to, London: Printed for else fine. Hughey 543b. the Author, at the Royal College of Physicians, 1743; 1747; $1,750 1750; 1751; 1758; 1760; 1764. First edition. Full late 18th-century blue crushed morocco gilt. Occasional light offsetting of plates to text, plates generally quite clean, some scattered light foxing to text, overall a beautiful set in this fine near- contemporary binding. Nissen 286-88; Wood, p. 329; Sitwell, p. 93. “Though issued separately, they [Natural History and Glean- ings] are considered as one and either must rank as imperfect without the other … At its date of issue the Natural History and Gleanings was one of the most important of all bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book and a work of Ornithology. It is still high on each list …” (Sitwell). Of these 362 exquisitely colored plates, 318 are of birds, whith a few of insects, mammals, plants, etc. a beautiful set of one of the great bird books. $55,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  36 (ELEPHANTS) An original woodblock depicting an Asian elephant with a riding platform on its back, used for the Libellus de Na- tura Animalium, 1508. The verso of the block bears the woodcut of an hourglass. 2-M x 1-H x 1 inches, [First published Mondavì: Vincenzo Berruerio, March 1, 1508]. Small section cracked away from upper right corner, not affecting the image area. A very rare survival from a set of images “of a superior quality, which, if viewed without the text, can easily be mistaken for modern designs” (free translation of Sander). Mortimer, Italian Sixteenth Century Books, 55. This woodblock, containing a fine and very early image of an Asian elephant, was first used in the bestiary Libellus de Natura Animalium, printed by Vincenzio Berruerio in Mondovi, Italy, in 1508. It is the first book from Berruerio’s press. The text has, in the past, been mistakenly atttributed to Albertus Magnus; the identity of the artist/engraver is unknown. (The 1508 Libellus itself is known from just a single copy of the Italian-language edition, and 5 copies of the Latin-language edition, one of which was sold by Christie’s in 2001 for $98,766.) The printing shop and the materials were taken over from Vincenzio Berruerio by Giuseppe and Girolamo Berruerio; Giuseppe moved to Savona in 1521, and a second edition was published by him in 1524. According to Ruth Mortimer, “There are some differences in the illustration of the Italian version, but the copy is not available for close inspection”. There was also a 1524 Savona edition by Giuseppe Berruerio, for which the solid black ground “was cut away from most of the blocks …” (Mortimer). A facsimile of the first edition was pubished by J.I. Davis in 1958 from his own copy, and in his Preface, Davis justly observes: “Among Italian woodcut books of the 15th and early 16th centuries, a few are outstanding, such as the Venetian Hypnerotoma- chia Poliphili … I do not think it would be too much to put this almost unknown work in the same category.” $9,000

 | james cummins bookseller holbein’s illustrations to praise of folly 37 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Morias enkomion [Greek] Stultitiae laus … cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris Jo.Holbenii. E codice aca- demiae Basiliensis. Accedunt … vita Erasmi … vita Holbenii … et epistolae Erasmi. Engraved additional title-page, full-page engraved portraits of Erasmus, Holbein the Elder and Holbein the Younger, engraved transcription of Erasmus’ memorial stone, & 81 illustrations (6 mounted and folding), all (with the possible exception of 3 or 4) engraved by Caspar Merian from drawings by Holbein found in Oswald Myconius’ copy of the 1515 Froben edition. 8vo, Basle: Genathianis, 1676. First edition with Holbein’s illustrations. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with leather label. Slight wear to spine tips, joints starting but solid, covers somewhat darkened, internally fine. Graesse II, 495; Brunet II, 1037. $3,000

catalogue 120 |  beautiful copy 38 [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]. An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son. [2], 2, 309, [4, ads]; [4], 286, [2, ads] pp. 2 vols. 12mo, London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1764. First edition. Contemporary full calf with raised bands, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Beautiful copies in a full brown morocco sliding case. Bookplates of Julia Parker Wightman. Rothschild 1023; Tinker 1098. A matchless, brilliant set — seemingly untouched from day one — of Goldsmith’s epistolary History of England, intended for the young reader. Published anonymously, it was “at first ascribed to the Earl of Orrery, to Lord Lyttelton, and to the Earl of Chesterfield” (Halkett & Laing). $1,000

in full deluxe publisher’s morocco 39 GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Illus- trated. 584; 647, [1] pp. Printed by J.J. Little & Co. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First Edition. Bound in Publisher’s de luxe full morocco binding, with blindstamped portrait of Grant on upper and lower covers, blind stamped fillets on covers, a.e.g. About fine in this rare binding. $1,250

40 HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Strangers on a Train. [viii], 299 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1950]. First edition. Date code B-Z (February 1950) on copyright page. Light blue cloth. Slightly toned at edges, else near fine in bright, very good plus dust-jacket (unclipped, price $2.75 present; spine and top edge of front panel slightly faded, bump at head of spine panel with 2mm square loss; faint traces of rubbing to front and back panels). Bookseller’s ticket at gutter of front endpaper. Highsmith’s first novel, and the basis for Hitchcock’s celebrated film. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller 41 transportation in the cloudlands of java, 1914-1925 HUNTER, Dard. The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800. 48 42 pp. Hand-printed in type of Hunter’s own design on hand- (INDONESIA) Three Photographic Albums of Aerial made paper, and illustrated with numerous text reproduc- Tramways on Coffee, Tea, and Rubber Plantations in the tions from old engravings and with 26 tipped-in facsimiles. Netherlands East Indies, 1914-1925, showing the engineering Folio (16-H x 11-H inches; 41.9 x 29.2 cm), Chillicothe: work of the Dutch firm of Merrem & La Porte. 571 black Mountain House Press, 1925. Limited to 190 numbered cop- and white photographs (some colored) mounted on black ies, signed by the author, this being copy no. 177. Loose as or green leaves, most titled in white ink: most 6 x 9 or 5 x 8 issued in the original half-linen portfolio, with ties. Portfo- inches; approx. 250 3 x 5 inches and smaller. 3 vols. Oblong lio with spotting, occasional offsetting from facsimiles. An 4to (2), square 8vo (1), Netherlands East Indies: 1914-1925. incredible achievement in bookmaking and scholarship, Dard Clothbound albums. Fine. Provenance: W.G. ten Houte de Hunter’s second book on the subject. Lange, engineer (signature and later bookplate dated 1946). $3,500 Compendious visual archive of photographs of aerial (cable) tramways for transportation of tea, coffee, gutta percha, firewood, and building materials — as well as the occasional group of workers — on mountainous plantations in the cloudlands of Java, Netherlands East Indies (present-day Indonesia), including Bandoeng, Mt. Salak, Gedeh, Pengalen- gan, Kali Glidik, and other areas. The captions identify the plantation and record engineering features, such as the span of unsupported cable or the weight of the cargo. In addition to documenting the engineering works of the Dutch firm of Merrem & La Porte in rugged terrain from ca. 1914 to the mid-1920s, the photographs offer a glimpse of these remote lands at the beginning of the modern era. $5,000

catalogue 120 |  islam and the arab world

islamic devotional manuscript with calligraphic noah’s ark 43 ‘ABD AL-QADIR AL-HISARI. [Islamic Devotional Manuscript, containing selected Surahs and Prayers]. Manuscript in Arabic, 9 lines in a fine naskh hand in black ink, fully vocalized, gold aya markers, with catchwords, within gilt rule borders, occasional marginal corrections and annotations; three-page opening with elaborate polychrome gilt floral headpieces and ornamental borders, 5 polychrome gilt chapter headpieces, numerous sectional dividers gilt with floral motifs, titles in red. With 29 elaborate calligraphic compositions lettered in ghubar within the forms, Table of the Names of the Prophet. Complete. [144] leaves. 8vo (4 x 6 inches), [Ottoman Turkey: 1180 (1766 C.E.)]. Brown leather Islamic binding, boards with gilt floral roundel within gilt roll borders, patterned paper pastedowns. Fore edge guard perished, spine with wear, front board loose (almost detached). Occasional smudges to a few letters, else internally fine with generous margins. Collector’s stamp of Shakir Husain on first leaf; marginal notes at end with dates 1225 & 1243 A.H. (1810 & 1827 C.E.). Cf. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 449-56, 506-8. Attractive pocket Islamic devotional manuscript, with Surahs from the Qur’an, verses and prayers on Quranic themes, and numerous pages of elaborate figurative calligraphic forms. Blair notes that the “the only type of pictorial writing that flourished in the Ottoman lands was zoomorphic calligraphy” (506). Storks and lions offered rich symbolic matter, and were part of the popular fabric of Sufi life, “but such compositions were also designed by famous calligraphers at the Ottoman court. Some took the shape not of living beings, but of objects like a ship” (ibid). The present manuscript includes 29 finely executed calligrams on such themes as the Sun and Moon, the Scales, the bridge leading to the straight path, the Footprint of the Prophet, the Seal or star of Solomon, Noah’s Ark, the Lawh Mahfuz, the Lamp of the Prophet, the Horn or Trumpet of Israfel, minarets, the Ka’aba, the Magharat Ashab al-Kahf (the Cave of the Seven Sleepers), paradises, thrones, swords, numerological designs, and other motifs. These forms are filled with prayers in the minute ghubar or dust script, and this section is signed “‘Abd al-Qadir al-Hisari pupil of Abu Bakr Rashid Afandi” and dated and dated 1180 A.H. or 1766 C.E. A large format calligraphic galleon by the same calligra- pher (identified as ‘Abd al-Qadir Hisari) and bearing the same date is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A rare and superb pocket manuscript. $25,000

 | james cummins bookseller manuscript islamic legal lexicon, dated a.h. 642 44 AL-MUTARRIZI, Abu ‘l-Fath Nasir b. ‘Abd al-Sayyid. [Arabic Manuscript. Al-Mughrib fi tartib al-mu’rib. Incipit]. Text in ink on paper, naskh script with sectional headwords in red, largely unvocalized, 16 lines per page, in the hand of Mustafa bin Muham- mad bin Yusuf, Sunday afternoon, at the end of Rabi‘ al-awwal, in the year 642; shoulder notes and marginalia in red and brown in other hands. 351 ff. Text complete. 4to, [Baghdad or Damascus: A.H. 642 (October 1244 C.E.)]. Modern brown calf wallet- style binding, preserving portions of older blind-tooled covers. First leaf with marginal repairs, some small losses, light staining throughout, occasional old worming and edgewear. Custom quarter morocco clamshell box. A.J. Arberry Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts III:358; Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur G1, 294, S1, 515; Huart, p. 169. Al-Mutarrizi was a grammarian and jurist born in 538 A.H. /1144 C.E. He was a Mu’tazilite and a jurist of the Hanafite school and lived most of his life in his native Khwarizm. The present manuscript, Al-Mughrib fi tartib al-mu’rib, is one of his three principal works, a dictionary of technical terms in the Hanafi tradition, and was well known and commented upon through the centuries. The present manuscript is an early copy of the work, dated only about 30 years after the author’s death in Baghdad in 1213. A copy of the work dated A.H. 607 (1210/11 C.E.) is recorded in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; at Princeton, Garrett 284Bq records an abridgment dated a century later. sold

catalogue 120 |  45 [AL-SAMANUDI, Yuhanna]. [Muqaddimah al-Sullam. Coptic and Arabic Liturgical and Grammatical Manuscript and Prompt Book]. Bilingual text with Coptic at left of page and Arabic cognates at right of same page, occasional paragraphs in Coptic followed by Arabic. Brown and red ink on laid paper of European origin, two geometric sectional headings, a few marginal ornaments. 14 or 15 lines per page, with catchwords, in 12 unbound gatherings, mostly in 10s, 117 ff., including 5 blanks; lacu- nae as noted below. 12mo (6-I x 4-I inches), [Egypt: early 17th century C.E.]. Occasional traces of dampstain and other minor smudging to text, small recent blue ink spill along top edge of two gatherings, not affecting text. Tan morocco wrapper with polychrome gilt stamping, green morocco interior with gilt borders, fore edge guard elaborately gilt. An early 17th century text of the Muqaddima al-Sullam or Scala, the pioneering grammatical and didactic work of mediaeval Coptic bishop, Yuhanna al-Samanudi (fl. 1230-1260), presenting a basic glossary of Coptic liturgical terms with their Arabic translations, using Biblical and liturgical texts as his examples, giving the masculine and plural forms of words past and future tenses, and different forms as context required. The work is unusual from a linguistic perspective because the grammar of Coptic (a non-Semitic language) is described entirely in Arabic; the work had an additional influence upon the shaping of Ethiopian philol- ogy because of ties between Egyptian Christians and Ethiopia. The work was edited by Athanasius Kircher as Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta, Rome, 1643, where the text is entitled Praelusio Scalae Alsamenudi. The present manuscript of the Scala differs in that its first portion provides more detailed grammatical explications; in the second part of the Scala, though incomplete, the chapter and section organization of the vocabulary corresponds on the whole to the text used by Kircher. The second work is a practical guide for deacons or acolytes (al-shamamisa) to the order and requirements of the Coptic prayers. First text: Muqaddimah al-Sul- lam al-lati lil-shaykh al-qadis al-Samanudi … [Scala Magna. Coptic Grammar and Coptic Arabic Vocabulary]. 77 leaves: [2, blank], [27]+[48 (including 1 blank)] ff., with some irregular foliation, lacking 2 bifolia [corresponding to pp. 48-50 (heavenly beings and celestial bodies) & parts of 58-59/71-72 (natural world / characteristics of people) in Kircher’s text], and with the vocabulary list incomplete, ending on a catch letter [after al-thawb, in the middle of p. 118 of Kircher’s text]. Second text: [incipit:] Bismillah. Kitab ma yajib ‘ala al-shamamisa min al-qira’a wal-tartil [Book of What is Required of the Deaconate in Reading and Recitation] [Coptic and Arabic Liturgical Prompt Book and Glossary]. 40 leaves: [2, blank] [38] ff., ending on a catchword for a divisional heading (one or more gathering likely lacking). The text gives the order of prayers and responses of the deacons or acolytes during prayers, and is complete though the second part of section headed Hadha qabla Salat al-Injil (preceding the Gospel). Rare and unusual and visually appealing. $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller cornerstone of uzbek literature 46 ALISHER NAVOII, [Mir ‘Ali Shir Nava‘i / Newaï]. [Turkish Manuscript] Kitab-i Manzum-i Nava’i-i Turki. Manuscript, black ink on paper (occasional passages in red), text in 4 columns, 21 lines, in minute and exquisite nasta‘liq within gilt borders, polychrome gilt basmallah with flowers and vines, with stylized text against a lapis background. Colophon dated 933 A.H., by ‘Ali al-Herawi, known as al-Hijrani. 75 leaves. Com- plete. 8vo, Herat: 933 A.H. [i.e., 1526 C.E.]. Later nineteenth century natural goatskin binding, deep indigo endsheets. Some minor rubbing to binding. First and last leaves re-margined; some traces of damp in ornamental heading, browning and staining to outer edges of about twenty leaves (occasionally touching a word or two), elsewhere confined to margins. Four collector’s seals on first or last leaves, incuding ‘Abd Al-Raji Hasan Muham- mad; two owners’ signatures on first leaf, ink note below colophon dated 1244 (1828 C.E.) with seal of Muhammad Isma‘il. Near contemporary manuscript collection of the verse of central Asian mystic, poet, and courtier, Alisher Nava‘i (or Navoii), known as the founder of Chagatai Turkish literature, dated Herat, 933 A.H. (1526 C.E.) at end. The scribe, ‘Ali al-Hijrani, is the same who wrote the large manuscript described in the Paris catalogue, Bib. Nat. Suppl. Turc. 316 & 317. WIth numerous marks of ownership over the centuries. An ink notation dated 1828 below the colophon records the title of the book, in the hand of Muhammad Isma‘il, Zabt-i Kitabkhaneh-i Mubarake-i Jadid (keeper of the new library) with his seal. A finely executed manuscript from the flourishing of literary production in Herat. $10,000

catalogue 120 |  47 (ARABIA) Niebuhr, Carsten. Description de l’Arabie, d’après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même. 24 plates, two of which have hand-colored diacritical marks (of Arabic text) and initials; folding genealogical table; large fold-out map hand-colored in outline. 1 f. (half-title), [i]-xliii, [xliv-xl- vi], [1]-372 pp. 4to, Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. Full period raintree calf, spine gilt, boards tooled with floral border gilt. Short closed tear in folding map repaired, some minor dampstaining in margins. Fine. Gay 3589. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. $4,000

48 (BIBLE, Arabic) [Bible in Arabic] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, in the Arabic language. Text in Ara- bic. General title page in English and Arabic, New Testament with added title page. [406] ff. [π2], a2, A-4G4,4H2; [π1], A-Z4, Aa4, Bb2. 4to, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed by Sarah Hodgson, 1811. Contemporary cambridge style panelled calf, spine gilt. Rebacked. Some minor foxing. Darlow and Moule 1663. “This edition, produced under the patronage of the Bishop of Durham (Shute Barrington), was at first undertaken by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1806), Cambridge Professor of Arabic in 1795, and vicar of Newcastle, in 1801. On Car- lyle’s death, Henry Ford, Lord Almoner’s reader in Arabic at Oxford, took up the work and saw the book through the press. The text is based, apparently, on the London Polyglot” of 1655-7 (Darlow & Moule). The Arabic text of Walton’s London Polyglot was edited by Castell and Pococke. $2,250

 | james cummins bookseller presentation copy 49 BURTON, Isabel. A E I: Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel. With 15 illustrations and two maps (one folding). 8vo, London: William Mullan, 1879. First edition. Original brown cloth, decorations in gold and silver. Headcap chipped with tion Committee Bombay. 2. On my return from Africa, loss, else fine, internally clean, with original binder’s ticket some months afterward, I find no notice of my Examination on rear pastedown. whether in general Notes or communicated to me. 3. I have Considered to be chiefly the work of her husband, Sir therefore the honor to request that you will forward this by Richard Francis Burton (this is particularly to be noted in the [two words] to be competent [two words] Interpreter in the discussions of the Ottoman Empire and India). Presentation Arabic Language [three words] allowance for the same. This copy, inscribed “H Van Laun / with Isabel Burton’s / kind was allowed to me at the Sinddhi & the M… dialects in both compliments / 21 Feb 1879.” of which I passed examination [three words]. I have the hon- $2,750 our to be, Sir, Yr most obt Svt, Richard F Burton Lt. 18 R. Bom. N. I. In charge Somali Expedition.” Just ten days previ- ously, Burton had returned to Aden from his bold trip to burton's arabic exams Harar. On the eve of attaining worldwide celebrity, Burton is requesting official recognition of his linguistic skills. Also of 50 considerable interest is the name of his examiner in Arabic, BURTON, Richard. Autograph Letter, signed (“Richard “Lt. Playfair,” i.e., Sir Robert Lambert Playfair (1828–1899), F Burton Lt.”), to the British political resident at Aden, author and colonial administrator: “From March 1852 concerning his examination in the Arabic language. Writ- until September 1853 [Playfair] served as assistant execu- ten in gray-black ink on laid grayish blue paper. One page, tive engineer at Aden, and in 1854, when Outram became 20 lines. Folio, Camp Aden: 18 February, 1855. Docketed on first political resident there, the latter chose Playfair as his verso, which shows slight browning. Occasional words faintly assistant. In this capacity, under Outram and his successors, inked, else fine. Playfair remained at Aden until 1862” (DNB). Playfair was In the year Burton’s account of his pilgrimage to Mecca was based in Algeria after 1867 and wrote on north Africa: “His published, the explorer requests the results of an examina- most valuable work in connection with the Barbary states tion in Arabic just before his recent trip to Somalia: “Sir, I was A Bibliography of Algeria from the Expedition of Charles V in have the honour to bring to your attention that before my 1541 to 1887 (1888)” (ibid); Burton had a copy of the book in departure for Africa about Sep or Oct 1854 I was examined his library. by Lt. Playfair in the Arabic language & my papers were $9,000 sent on your information to Bombay. At the same time I addressed an official letter to the Secretary of the Examina-

catalogue 120 |  “he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert” not affecting text. Bookplate of E.H. Whinfield and another. 51 Provenance: Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922), translator DOUGHTY, C[harles] M[ontagu]. Travels in Arabia Deserta. and scholar. Brockelmann, GAL, II, 233; SII, 234. Hand-colored folding map (loose, as issued), 8 folding plates, The great Arabic Dictionary of Firuzabadi (1329-1414 C.E.), numerous illustrations in the text. 2 vols. Thick 8vo (8-L for many years the standard work, in an attractive and legible x 5-K in.), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888. First manuscript copy, undated, but most likely produced in the edition. Original green pictorial gilt cloth, uncut. Owner- middle to late eighteenth century. With interesting prov- ship signatures of Henry Grant, 1893. One plate in vol. I enance: British scholar E.H. Whinfield served in the Bengal split along fold (no loss), head of vol. II scuffed; inner hinges Civil Service and was a translator of Sufi texts, the verse of cracked. Very good. Blue cloth folding box with individual Rumi. He prepared a bilingual edition of the Rubaiyat or chemises. Quatrains of Omar Khayyam (1883), and in 1898 he published a “And in truth if one live any time with the Arab, he will volume of Verses and Translations. have all his life after a feeling of the desert” (vol. I, p. 450). $7,500 Handsome copy of one of the great books of exploration, cherished both for its stately and peculiar language as well as its fascinating account of life among the Bedouins. Uncom- mon in the original cloth. $4,000 firuzabadi’s “ocean of words,” the great arabic dictionary 52 Firuzabadi, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub. [al-Qamus al-Muhit wal-Qabus al-Wasit] [Arabic Manuscript Dictionary]. Black ink on polished native paper, 31 lines in nasta’liq, fully vocalized within gilt borders, gilt polychrome floral headpiece, sectional headwords in gilt or red or blue, catchwords in dust script. 610 leaves. 4to (7 x 10-H inches), [Ottoman Turkey or Persia: 18th century C.E.]. Contemporary Islamic binding, red leather, boards and fore-edge guard with gilt rule borders and central gilt ornaments, short title in Arabic in ink on bottom edge, paper spine label. Binding slightly rubbed, last half dozen leaves with marginal repairs (terminal leaf and one other remargined), dampstaining, cheifly in margins and

 | james cummins bookseller 53 [Islamic Devotional Manuscript, containing selected Surahs and Prayers]. Manuscript in Arabic, 9 lines in a fine naskh hand, Quranic passages fully vocalized, gold aya markers, with catchwords, within gilt rule borders, occasional marginal corrections; double page opening with gilt headpieces and ornamental flourishes in red and blue, sectional dividers gilt. Complete. [116] leaves. 12mo (3-I x 5-H inches), [Egypt or Turkey: late 19th century]. Brown leather Islamic binding, boards and fore-edge guard with gilt floral stampings within gilt roll borders. Minor wear to spine and extremities, occasional marginal soiling and infrequent smudging of letters. Very good. Attractive pocket Islamic devotional manuscript, with Surahs from the Qur’an, verses and prayers on Quranic themes. Includes: Surahs: Al-Fatihaha, Ya-Sin, al-Waqi‘ah, Rahman, al-Fajr, and numerous shorter verses. Prayers (with Sharh or explanatory verses): Du‘a’ al-Huruf [Prayer of the letters]; Du‘a’ Nur al-Mubarak, Du‘a’ Jibrail [Gabriel], Du‘a’ Ilyas [Elias]. $3,000

catalogue 120 |  proof sheet from the oxford seven pillars, 1922 proof pages from the oxford seven pillars, 1922 54 55 [LAWRENCE, T.E.]. [Seven Pillars. A Triumph. 1919-1920] [LAWRENCE, T.E.]. [Seven Pillars. A Triumph. 1919-1920] Proof sheet from the Oxford edition, 1922, comprising a Two proof sheets from the Oxford edition, 1922, comprising complete chapter. Text in double columns. Single leaf, print- a complete chapter. Text in double columns. 2 leaves, printed ed recto only. 4to, [Oxford: Oxford Times, printers, 1922]. rectos only. 4to, [Oxford: Oxford Times, printers, 1922]. Proof sheet from the Oxford edition, eight copies printed. Proof sheets from the Oxford edition, eight copies printed. “Six copies still exist and fragments of one of the other two “Six copies still exist and fragments of one of the other two are extant” (O’Brien). Old folds, one short marginal tear. are extant” (O’Brien). Old folds, a couple of short marginal With a folded paper band, marked in pencil 33 and 29 (within tears. Fine. O’Brien A034. a circle). Fine. O’Brien A034. Rare proof sheets from Lawrence’s private printing of the Rare proof sheet from Lawrence’s private printing of the third text of Seven Pillars by the Oxford Times in 1922, cor- third text of Seven Pillars by the Oxford Times in 1922, corresponding to chapter CIII (Myself, pp. 562-566, in the 1935 responding to chapter XXVII (Wejh Is Captured, pp. 163-4 Cape edition), with many changes between the Oxford text in the 1935 Cape edition), with many changes between the and that of the subscribers’ edition. Some of these proof Oxford text and that of the subscribers’ edition. Some of sheets were distributed to subscribers of the 1926 edition. these proof sheets were distributed to subscribers to the 1926 The changes to Chapter [CIII], beginning “Lazily and mildly edition. Chapter [XXVII], beginning “The news excited the I helped the Camel Corps,” perfectly illustrates the ways army,” perfectly demonstrates the extent to which Lawrence in which Lawrence made use of his proof, substantially re- rewrote the book before the 1926 edition, as it includes writing or omitting entire passages, as in the sixth paragraph, entire paragraphs that do not figure in the final version, “The narrative hid in faint sentences, scattered through including the final sentences “… and this taught me not to pages of opinion. Of course, my diary had to be something mix sedentary Semite and nomad Semite in one pack. As I not harmful to others if it fell into enemy hands, but, even realised all these things, the deaths of those twenty men in making this allowance, it showed clearly that my interest lay the Wejh streets seemed not to matter much.” in myself, not in my activities, and four-fifths of it were use- less for this rewriting.” Other changes are subtler, consisting $5,000 chiefly in the ordering of clauses and the choice of words. The final sentence (revised before the 1926 edition) is unchar- acteristically direct: “Indeed, the truth was always that I did not like myself.” $10,000

 | james cummins bookseller 56 a lovely rose garden [Manuscript Arabic Prayer Book. Islamic Devotional 57 Prayers]. Pen and ink on polished paper. Arabic, in a fine (PERSIAN POETRY) [Gulistan] [Manuscript collection naskhi script, 9 lines per page, within gilt and ruled borders. of Persian poetry]. Manuscript in Persian, 11 lines in fine Opening page with elaborate polychrome gilt heading, two nastaliq hand, occasional words and phrases lettered in gilt central pages with circular flor gilt borders, section headings throughout, within borders of fine blue, gilt, red, and black with gilt floral panels, verse markers in gilt throughout, a rules, small polychrome floral headpiece on opening page, few marginal glosses in fine hand. Colophon signed by the a few marginal notes in red or black. Complete and dated scribe Sayyid ‘Ali, of the pupils of Muhammad Lutfi. 96 ff. at end. [370] pp., foliated in pencil by a western owner. 8vo, 3-I x 5-G inches, [Ottoman?]: A.H. 1260 [i.e., C.E.1844]. In the month of Safar, 979 A.H. [1571 C.E.]. In an Islamic Contemporary blind-tooled and gilt-painted morocco. Minor binding (mid-19th century C.E.) of dark brown leather with rubbing to spine ends, fore-edge guard perished, one or two rose velvet sides within gilt roll borders, matching fore edge tiny smudges in text, two leaves repaired in margins, overall guard titled in gilt, rose leather pastedowns with central near fine. gilt ornaments, edges gilt. Small wormhole in lower cover A highly attractive and finely executed manuscript of devo- through to margins of four leaves, occasional marginal stain- tional prayers, abundantly ornamented in gilt throughout. ing, a few letters on second leaf smudged (others very infre- quently); title lettering on opening page has been retouched. $2,000 A lovely example in a very attractive binding. $5,500

catalogue 120 |  58 Qur’an [Koran]. Manuscript on polished paper, 15-line naskh script within gilt borders, with polychrome gilt ornamental double page opening, text fully vocalized in black with reading marks in red, gold aya markers, surah headings in white within gilt panels, ornamental sectional markers. 302 leaves. Complete. 12mo (157 x 105 mm), [Ottoman Turkey: late 19th century C.E.]. Contemporary oxblood leather, stamped in blind. Fore-edge guard detached, lower inner hinge tender. Five pages with small smudges (affecting a few words); marginal staining to penultimate leaf, affecting a few letters; holograph prayer in another hand on verso of last leaf, lacking back flyleaf. Very good. An attractive small format Qur’an. $4,000

59 Qur’an [Koran]. Illuminated manuscript on polished paper, 21-line ghubar script within gilt borders, with double page opening illuminated in gold, blue, and rose with floral ornaments, text fully vocalized with catchwords, gilt dot aya markers, surah headings in red within small gilt panels. Occasional marginal corrections. 215 leaves. Complete. 16mo (108 x 66 mm), [Ottoman Turkey or Egypt: mid- to late 19th century C.E.]. Contemporary brown leather, covers with gilt borders, with onlaid gilt lozenges and cornerpieces, matching fore edge guard, blue marbled paper endsheets. Half a dozen leaves with small smudges affecting legibility of a few lines, else fine. A beautiful pocket Qur’an, finely executed in a tiny, legible hand. $3,500

60 Qur’an [Koran]. Manuscript on paper, 15-line naskh script within gilt borders, with floral double page opening in gilt, blue, and purple, text fully vocalized in black with reading marks in red, gold aya markers, surah headings in white within narrow gilt panels, ornamental sectional markers. Complete. Signed at end by the scribe, Sayyid Hafez Ali al-Wasfy, known as Effendi-zadeh, “one of the pupils of my father,” and dated in the year 1251. 12mo (150 x 100 mm), [Ottoman: 1251 A.H., ie., 1835 C.E]. Red leather binding, spine and fore edge flap repaired in early twentieth century. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. $3,750

 | james cummins bookseller mcnamara appointed secretary of defense 61 (KENNEDY, John F) Engraved broadside document of Robert S. McNamara’s Appointment as Secretary of Defense. Signed by Sec. of State Dean Rusk (“Dean Rusk”) and President John F. Kennedy (“John Kennedy”). Engraved broadside document, accom- plished in ink calligraphy, signed by the President (“John Kennedy”) and countersigned by the Secretary of State (“Dean Rusk“), affixed with embossed paper seal of the United States. 22-G x 18-H in, Washington, D.C: January 21, 1961. Framed. Document signed by President Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk on the date of Robert McNamara’s appointment as Secre- tary of Defense. McNamara (1916-2009) was the longest serving Secretary of Defense, holding the position from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. McNamara was of course one of the chief architects of the escalation of the Vietnam War, the defining event of American politics and culture of the period. $35,000

catalogue 120 |  jfk’s first book, inscribed to newsman arthur krock 62 KENNEDY, John F. Why England Slept. xx, 252 pp. 8vo, New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition. Publisher’s rose cloth. Spine faded, light wear to spine ends. The first edition of John F. Kennedy’s first book, inscribed to Arthur Krock: “To Mr. Krock. Who Baptized, Christened, and was Best Man for this book — with my sincere thanks, Jack Kennedy.” Arthur Krock (1886-1974), the “Dean of Washington Newsmen,“ was Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times and wrote the “In the Nation” column. He was a close friend and political ally of Joe Kennedy and his children. He advised John F. Kennedy with the revisions of his 1939 senior honors paper, “Appeasement in Munich,” in preparation for its publication the following year. It was Krock who suggested the new title, Why England Slept, a response to Churchill’s While England Slept. Krock would continue to advise the young Kennedy, who thanked him In the Preface to Profiles in Courage. Ted Kennedy wrote ad- miringly of Krock in his tribute volume to his father: ”Mr. Krock has long been one of the most respected newsmen and colum- nists in Washington. He was won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He met Dad [Joseph Kennedy] during the New Deal years and won his deep admiration. Mr. Krock advised President Kennedy in the writing of his first book, Why England Slept, and has been a source of valued help to my brothers and myself ” (Edward Kennedy, The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 112). [With:] As We Remember Joe. Edited by John F. Kennedy. Privately Printed: Cambridge, Mass, 1945. First edition, second issue. Original burgundy cloth. Fine copy. Inscribed, “For Martha and Arthur Krock, Bob Kennedy. Christmas 1965.” Krock contributed a short reminiscence of Joe Kennedy from the 1940 Democratic National Convention, pp. 39-41. KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. Harper & Brothers: New York, 1960. First edition. Publisher’s cloth. Spine faded. In- scribed, “To Arthur Krock, With the thanks and admiration of his friend, Bob Kennedy.” Krock wrote the foreword to The Enemy Within. The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy. Collected by Edward M. Kennedy. Privately Printed, 1965. Original blue cloth. Some scuffing to front cover. Inscribed, “To Arthur Krock, Who helped make The Fruitful Bough possible. With appreciation. Ted Kennedy. Sept 6 1965.” With carbon of typescript of Krock’s contribution to the volume as submitted for editing. $60,000

 | james cummins bookseller 63 jenkinson — carter — munby copy LEWIS, M.G. [and Walter Scott]. Tales of Wonder. [iv], 236; 64 [iv], 237-482, [2] pp. 2 volumes bound in 1. Large 8vo (9-M (LIBRI, Guglielmo) Catalogue of the Choicer Portion of the x 6-G in.), London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Magnificent Library, Formed by M. Guglielmo Libri … Which Author, and sold by J. Bell, 1801. First edition. Contemporary Will be Sold by Auction … on Monday, 1st of August, 1859. xx, diced Russia, covers gilt with wide outer border of filets and 380, 2 (10 lot addenda), 13-40 (prices realized) pp. Some lots small floral tools, spine gilt in six compartments, all edges with buyers and prices realized in manuscript. 4to, [London]: marbled. Joints rubbed, spotting to first and last few leaves. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1859. 20th-century Kunitz & Haycraft, pp. 383-4; Summers, A Gothic Bibliogra- cloth, original wrappers bound in. Light rubbing to binding, phy, pp. 525, 529. repaired tear to front wrapper. Cf. Norman, Scientist, Scholar This work was mockingly nicknamed “Tales of Plunder” & Scoundrel, Grolier Club, 2013. Provenance: Dr. Henwood due to its high quality and price. It includes some pieces by (gift inscription from John H. Bohn on front wrapper); Fran- Walter Scott who, although not mentioned on the title page, cis Jenkinson [librarian of Cambridge University] (manu- collaborated with Lewis on this collection of ballads. “The script pricing, identified by Carter); J.W. Carter (ownership considerable literary output of Lewis is neglected today, inscription), gifted to; A.N.L. Munby (gift inscription and but his influence upon contemporary romanticism and the ANS from Carter, bookplate). catharsis which his extravagance effected upon its morbid Catalogue from the sale of notorious book thief Guglielmo elements cannot be overlooked” (Kunitz & Haycraft). Libri (1803-1869). This copy belonging to Cambridge librar- $1,200 ians Francis Jenkinson and A.N.L. Munby and John Carter of Scribners. Libri’s catalogues are remarkable for the incredible wealth of books and manuscripts on offer (most procured by theft from Continental libraries) and the highly detailed descriptions of the lots. $1,500

catalogue 120 |  signed by the sun king and his court 65 LOUIS XIV, King of France; and other members of the Royal Family. Document signed: Marriage Contract between Noël Beaudet de Morlet, Huissier, et Marguerite Gallyot. Signed by louis xiv; Louis, Le Grand Dauphin; Louis, duc de Bourgogne; Charles, Duc de Berri; Philippe, Duc d’Orléans; and other members of the royal family, and the Court, including the rare signature of architect, Jules Hardouin Mansart. [12] pp., consisting of 5 bifolia. Folio, [Versailles]: juin, 1704. Sewn with red ribbon. Very good, in a custom blue cloth portfolio, with blue morocco label on upper cover. From the collection of louis auchincloss. A remarkable document, signed by one of the greatest of French monarchs, Louis XIV (1638–1715), whose reign from 1643 until his death in 1715 is the longest of any European monarch. Indeed, upon his death shortly just days his 77th birthday, Louis was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, who became Louis XV. All of his intermediate heirs — his son Louis, le Grand Dauphin; the Dauphin’s eldest son Louis, duc de Bourgogne; and Bourgogne’s eldest son Louis, duc de Bretagne — predeceased him. In this marriage contract from 1704, Louis XIV’s signature is accompanied, beneath his, by those of his male heirs, including that of (1) Louis de France, “le Grand Dauphin” (1661–1711); (2) the latter’s eldest son, Louis, the Duke of Burgundy (1682 –1712), who became Dauphin of France upon his father’s death; (3) his second son, Charles, duc de Berry (1686-1714). By 1715, all were dead, and Louis XV succeeded to the throne. The visual impact of these three “Louis,” all together, is quite striking. Little wonder that the American author/lawyer/collector Louis Auchincloss was taken by them. Other members of the royal family whose signatures are present are: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674 –1723), the nephew of Louis XIV, and Regent when the 5-year-old Louis XV ascended to the throne; Marie Françoise de Bourbon (1677 – 1749) the youngest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV; Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1673 –1743), the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis; Marie Anne de Bourbon (1666 – 1739), his eldest legitimised daughter. Beside her name, she has penned, in contrast to her sisters (from the same mother), “legitimée”; François Louis de Bourbon (1664-1709), prince of Conti; Louise Benedicte de Bourbon (1676 – 1753), princess of the blood; Louis Auguste de Bourbon (1670 – 1736), eldest legitimized son of Louis XIV. In addition to members of the royal family, there are a number of signatures of members of the royal household; notably, that of France’s great architect of the 17th century, jules hardouin mansart (1646-1708). His signature is quite rare. As for the couple, a pair of portraits of them by levrac-tourneres (1668-1752) appeared at Christie’s, NY, on 21 Oct., 1997, with the folowing biographical note by the cataloguer: “Noël Beaudet de Morlet was ennobled by Louis XIV, having been appointed Hussier Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi, Conseiller, and Directeur des Pépinières du Roi — the last an appointment in which he was charged with overseeing the King’s seedbeds and plant nurseries. The garden plan that he holds in his portrait no doubt alludes to this role. Beaudet de Morlet was married twice, first in 1685 to Marguerite Gallyot, and then to Marie-Elenore Hersent in 1709. He had five children, all by his first wife, the oldest of whom, Charles-Nicolas, took over the Royal appointments when his father died after 36 years of service to the crown.” Beaudet de Morlet’s position as Directeur des Pépinières could well explain the signature and pres- ence of Louis XIV‘s renowned architect, jules hardouin mansart, at the signing of the contract. The portrait of him by Levrac- Tournères shows him holding an architectural drawing. $16,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  66 (MARIE ANTOINETTE) Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas. Oeuvres. Illustrated with engraved plates after Picard. Volumes 1-2 only [of 4]. 12mo, a la Haye: Vaillant, Goosse, Hondt …, 1722. Bound in full 18th-century tan calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt spines with raised bands; the arms of marie antoinette stamped in gilt on upper and lower covers; and with the gilt-stamped letters “C[hateau] T[rianon],” surmounted by a crown, at the foot of each spine. Upper joints starting, spines slightly darkened, but overall, quite attractive. No. 469 (pp. 85-86) of Bibliothèque de la Reine Marie Antoinette au Petit Trianon by P. Lacroix, 1863. Provenance: Morocco ex-libris of the 19th-century bibliophile, Baron L. Double, in each volume; and bookplate of Samuel Put- nam Avery in Vol. II; and from the library of louis auchincloss. There are 561 identifiable items in the Library of Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon in Lacroix’s census, as well as 175 missing books. This is number 469 in his inventory. Although books from the Queen’s library at the Petit Trianon surface from time to time, they are quite scarce and difficult to come by. $10,000

 | james cummins bookseller a promotion from the young general — for valor at toulon 67 NAPOLÉON. Manuscript Document, copy, co-signed (“Buonaparte”) as général de brigade, promoting an artillery officer to cap- tain for his valor at the siege of Toulon. One page on recto of single bifolium. 4to, Nice: “le 13 germinal, l’an 2 de la République” [April 2, 1794]. Somewhat soiled, one stain, but good and legible. Interesting document early in the career of the 24-year-old Napoleon, whose signed note (in secretarial hand) at bottom reads: “I received the original of the piece if which this is a copy, to send to the commission. Brigade General, Commander of Artillery of the Army of Italy, Buonaparte.” Napoléon himself had been promoted only months before to the rank of Brigade General for his actions at the siege of Toulon. The original, of which this is an official copy, was signed by the two “deputés-en-mission” from the National Convention, Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of Maximilien, and Salicetti. It was they who provisionally promoted Napoléon to the rank of brigade general; here, the names of all three appear in a document which mirrors the promotion of Napoleon himself at the beginning of one of the most astounding military careers ever recorded. $4,250

catalogue 120 |  the second principia 68 NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtonio Equite Aurato. Editio Secunda Auctior et Emendatior. Engraved vignette on title, one folding engraved plate, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. 14 leaves, 484, [8] pp. 4to, Cambridge: [Cornelius Crown- field], 1713. The second edition, expanded and corrected, and the first to include the General Scholium in which Newton gives a general resumé of the work. One of about 750 copies printed, of which 250 were sent to Holland and France. Modern brown half morocco and cloth, two small paper repairs to title page at right margin and one small repair to the second leaf, not affecting the text. Wallis 8; Grey 8; Babson 8; DSB X, p. 64; for the first edition of the Principia (1687), see: PMM 161; Dibner 11; Horblit 78; Nor- man 1586. The critical second edition of what is incontestably the single most important scientific work ever published, one which laid the foundations for modern physics. Published in Newton’s lifetime by his friend and collaborater, Roger Cotes (1682-1716), this edition contains for the first time Cotes’ Preface which lays out New- ton’s method, a 7 pp. Index, and most importantly, Newton’s own celebrated conclusion entitled Scholium Generale (pp. 481-484), written in response to the objections of Berkeley and Leibniz, in which the author expresses the religious conceptions underlying and supporting his empirical-mathematical construct. “Coperni- cus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained, in mathematical terms, within a single physical theory. With him the separation of natural and supernatural, of sublunar and superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws” (PMM). $27,500

 | james cummins bookseller “the greatest of all publications illustrated with lithographs” — ray 69 NODIER, Charles, J. Taylor and Alph. de Cailleux. Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l’Ancienne France [Ancienne Nor- mandie]. 232 lithographed plates by Engelmann after Fragonard, Taylor, Bonnington, et al, some in two states, many plates with lithotint, printed on chine appliqué, 25 engraved vignettes to text. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: P. Didot l’aine, 1820-25. First edition. Contemporary half dark blue morocco and marbled boards, spines richly gilt. Light foxing throughout, mostly to margins. Ray, French, 106. The first two volumes, of an eventual 19 published over 58 years, of this highly influ- ential series of romantic views of French scenery and architecture. Ray singles out this Ancienne Normandies series (a third volume, not present, was published more than 50 years later) as of particular interest and beauty, the Bonnington lithographs in particular “among the masterpieces of all lithography.” $2,250

catalogue 120 |  “the jews and the arabs have a common interest in the defeat of nazi germany” 70 Palestine Land Regulations, 1940. Explanatory Statement issued by the British Government [Caption title]. Map: “Palestine Land Regula- tions, 1940. Unofficial map showing the approximate locations of restricted zones.” 10 pp. Duplicated typescript, printed rectos only. Folio, New York: British Library of Information, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, March 11th 1940. Map somewhat faintly inked, paper toned, else very good. Not in OCLC (and preceding the weekly Bulletins from Britain). Official British communiqué on the introduction of restrictions on the sale of land from Arabs to Jews, with histori- cal background summarizing recommendations in 1930 and 1936, when a Royal Commission proposed that land transfers from Arabs to Jews be allowed “only where it is possible to replace extensive by intensive cultivations, that is to say in the plains and not, at any rate at present, in the hills.” The regulations were published on 28 Feb- ruary 1940; this document, headed For Release March 11th 1940, presents the information for an American audience. “Nothing is more likely to contribute to the possibility of renewed bitterness between Arabs and Jews and to further violent disorders than the existence of a considerable landless Arab popula- tion and in fact restrictions on land sales are essential if we are to establish good government in Palestine.” With a sketch map designating the zones where land sales are totally restricted (Jerusalem, Gaza, and Beersheba), partly restricted (Haifa, Nazareth and Lake Tiberias north to the Syrian border, and the Negeb), or unrestricted. An uncommon survival and an early look at the mechanics of partition. $750

 | james cummins bookseller one copy on vellum, 9 on colored papers 71 (PANCKOUCKE, Charles-Louis-Fleury) G, E. Épître à Charles Panckoucke. 4 leaves (title leaf and 6 pages of verse signed “E.G.”). 10 volumes in one. 4to (21.5 x 13.0 cm), [Paris]: 1819. Ten different copies: one printed on vellum and 9 printed on different colors of wove paper. Bound together in contemporary gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco gilt, flat spine, edges uncut. OCLC: 5586619. Extremely rare and possibly unique copy of this verse tribute to the great publisher Panckoucke (1780-1844), who produced some of the monumental books of the 19th century, such as Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, Description de l’Egypte and La Flore Médi- cale. His wife, Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke (1784-1860), painter and pupil of Redouté, contributed to the afore-mentioned as well as to other plate-books printed by her husband; and the poems praises her charms and talents as well. Ten copies of the poem, one printed on vellum and 9 on paper of different colors (including mauve, blue, green, beige, pink), are here bound together; it may be the Panckoucke family’s own copy. The book in any form is very rare; it is not in Van Praet or Alston; there is no copy on any paper in the British Library; nor is the poem mentioned in the dictionaries of anonymous and pseudonymous works by Barbier and Quérard. OCLC locates one copy only of the book (Cambridge U.) — but it doesn’t contain the issue on vellum. $6,000

catalogue 120 |  surgical & astrological works of paracelsus, strasburg 1605 72 PARACELSUS. Chirurgische Bücher und Schrifften … [With:] Aureoli … Opera Bücher und Schrifften … Ander Theyl. Darinnen die Magischen und Astrologischen Bücher … auch von dem philosophischen Stein handlende Tractatus begriffen … Title page printed in red and black within woodcut border, portrait of Paracelsus, woodcut printer’s devices. Ander-, Dritter-, Vierdter Theil, and Appendix of first work each have sectional title. Second work with 62 woodcut figures in text, numerous astrological signs and sigils. (:)8, A-Dd6, Ee8, Ff-Aaaa6, Bbbb8, (:)4, a-Mm6, Nn4. Pp. [16], 680 [i.e., 686], [32], [2], 115, [5]; [8], 691, [13]. 2 volumes bound in one. Folio, Straßburg: In Verlegung Lazari Zetzners Buchhändler, 1605; 1603. First edition of the complete Surgical Books; First Folio edition in German of the Magical and Astrological Books. Nineteenth century half calf and boards. Terminal leaf with repair at gutter, C6 in facsimile (with contemporary notation of its absence in ink on verso of C5, “Hier fehlt ein Blatt”), contemporary annotations. Some rubbing of spine, occasional soiling of text. Sudhoff 267, 257; Wellcome Catalogue 4811, 4808. Sudhoff praises the surgical volume of this German folio edition edited by Huser: “Dieser chirurgische Band der deutschen Folio- ausgabe ist ganz anders zu beurteilen als die beiden medicinisch-philosophischen Bände: er ist abgesehen von der gr. Wundarznei ein vollständig neues Werk nach Huser’s Handschrift gedruckt und von allergrößtem Werthe für die Kenntnis Hohenheims … eine hochverdienstliche Arbeit des bescheidenen Joh. Huser” (p. 464). Bound with the volume of magical and alchemical works edited by Huser and published in Strassburg in 1603. Uncommon. $15,000

 | james cummins bookseller spectacular extra-illustrated set of the stone & kimball poe: copy no. 1 of 10 73 POE, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Newly Collected and Edited with a Memoir, Critical Introductions and Notes by Clar- ence Stedman and George Woodberry … In Ten Volumes. With 20 plates by Albert Edward Sterner, 12 portraits of Poe and his family, three engravings of Poe residences, and one reproduction of a manuscript. extra-illustrated with Four Illustrations for the Tales by Aubrey Beardsley with printed cover of the portfolio, and the suite of 18 engravings titled Extra Etchings, and 26 engravings by Wögel and others, Quantin imp. (the French source for the Extra Etchings). 10 vols. 8vo, Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894- 1895; 1901. First edition, Japan vellum issue, no. 1 of 10 copies signed by Stone & Kimball; with inserted leaf signed by Stedman & Woodberry. Full black morocco, with inlaid floral decorations to upper boards, turn-ins with gilt skull and crossbones, red silk endsheets, t.e.g., by Taffin. Upper joint of vol. I with faintest trace of rubbing, superficial bump to bottom edge of vol. VII. A spectacular set. Kramer 35b, 35c, 287; Lasner 80A; Gallatin p. 58; BAL 16168. “The most ambitious publishing project of Stone and Kimball, conceived in enthusiasm and carried out with care, this has remained the standard edition of Poe” — Kramer. This issue on Japan vellum was never offered for sale, and the only copy seen by the bibliographer was in the collection of W.J. Kirk, formerly an employee of the firm. The Beardsley illustrations (Kramer 287) were originally intended to number eight, but only four — “The Black Cat,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” — were delivered before the artist’s death. Stone published the suite in 1901 (the front wrapper of the portfolio is bound in at the front of vol. I). The size of these illustrations conforms to Lasner’s 80A. Of the Extra Etchings (Kramer 35c) issued for the Poe, from French engravings but bearing titles in English, ten sets accompanied the special Japan Vellum edition; the portfolio was also advertised separately for $5.00 a set, described by Kramer as “perhaps more elusive than any of the books printed for Stone & Kimball … The only copies of the plates which the compiler has seen, are in the collection of Mr. W. J. Kirk of Oak Park.” The present set is extra-illustrated with 26 engravings titled in French (the source for the 18 Extra Etchings plus 8 additional engravings to illustrate Poe from the same period and printer). In a fine somber binding by Taffin. $10,000

catalogue 120 |  exquisite images of pompeian frescoes 74 (POMPEII) Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes. Each plate (8-H x 10-H in., and smaller) is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored, another only partially. Folio, [Italian?]: ca. 1850. Bound together in three quarter red morocco by Pawson & Nicholson, Philadelphia, with their ticket. Rebacked in goatskin, original spine laid down, inner hinges reinforced with period cloth. A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indis- tinguishable from watercolor drawings — and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings — each in the style of the ancient art of Pompeii in its frescoes, geometric mosaics, and ceramics. There are scenes of mythological figures (e.g., a satyr cavorting with a goat); scenes of purely decorative nature, suggestive of Pompeian vase art against a black gloss background; domestic scenes of husband, wife, and children; cupids; pastoral scenes; fish and game; and several images of an openly erotic nature suggestive of the relaxed style of Pompeiian attitudes toward nudity. $5,000

 | james cummins bookseller 75 76 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. M. Fabii Quintiliani orato- RADCLIFFE, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance In- riarum institutionum libri duodecim … additis simul eiusdem dec- terspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. [ii], 428; [ii], 478; [ii], 463, lamationibus… [Gerardus Bucoldianus, editor]. [bound with:] [1]; [ii], 428 pp., without half-titles. 4 vols. 12mo, London: GELLIUS, Aulus. Noctes Atticae … [4] ll., 330 pp.; [24] ll., 202 Printed for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First edition. Con- pp., [13] ll. Both titles within identical alegorical woodcut temporary quarter calf and marbled boards, red leather spine border depicting at its base a recumbent Cleopatra pressing labels. Slight rubbing to joints and corners, internally fine, adders to her breasts, Dionysus pulling the beard of an old clean and crisp. Rothschild 1701; Summers, pp. 434-35. man, etc.; illustrated with woodcut capitals, headpieces and A choice copy of one of the most famous and best-selling fleurons; first page of Noctes within large woodcut border gothic romances of the last 200 years, reprinted, translated, depicting the founders of Cologne, Agrippa and Agrippina adapted, and dramatized innumerable times during the nine- [all illustrations by Hittorp?]. 2 volumes bound in one. Folio, teenth century and into our own. Cologne: Apud Eucharium Cervicornum, sumptu et aere M. Godefridi Hittorpii, 1527; and 1526. Contemporary calf, $4,500 covers elaborately ruled and tooled in blind; spine perished; internally, some soiling and staining throughout, but sound; in a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Neither edition in Adams (but see Q-25 for 1525 ed. of Quintilian by the same printer); OCLC 312995446 (Quintilianus) and OCLC 7686353 (Aulus Gellius). Very interesting and beautifully decorated Cologne printings by Cervicornum — who seemingly specialized in humanis- tic works and standard Latin classics such as these, working for the publisher Gottfried Hittorp. He may, alas, be best remembered by posterity for his piracy of Erasmus’s edition (originally printed by Froben ) of Epistolae Tres by Jerome in 1520, as well as Erasmus’ Vita Hieronymi, taken from Eras- mus’ edition of St. Jerome’s works printed by Froben in 1516. $1,500

catalogue 120 |  two by the great rafinesque 77 RAFINESQUE, Constantine. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz, entre 1800 et 1814 … en Zoologie et en Botanique, pour servir d’introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. [With:] Circular Address on Botany and Zoology; followed by the prospectus of two periodical works, Annals of Nature and Somiology of North America. 55, [1]; 36 pp. 2 works in one volume. 12mo (136 x 92mm), Palermo; Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1814; 1816. First editions of both works. Near-contemporary blue leather-backed marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Upper joint split but holding, infrequent light foxing. BM Nat. Hist. p. 1638; Circular Address: Sabin 67448; Eberstadt 138-604; Meisel III, p. 377. Two rare and early works by the polymath naturalist Constantine Rafinesque (1783-1840), born in Constantinople and raised in Marseilles, though his name is forever associated with American botany, zoology, and linguistics. After an American apprentice- ship, Rafinesque lived in Palermo from 1805 to 1815 and published classifications of new plants and animals in Sicily. The first title, printed in Palermo, reviews his work during the preceding decade and “serves as an introduction to his future works.” The second title, his first publication in America, announces an amibitious serial publication to record the natural history of North America. Rafinesque’s Florula Ludoviciana (1817) provoked controversy and a hostile reception. “Rafinesque’s ‘natural’ system, adapted from French prototypes developed by Michel Adanson and Antoine de Jussieu, grouped plants according to their per- ceived morphological relationships, a system that prevailed by the middle of the century … But his life’s work was totally ignored by his contemporaries, most of whom agreed with fellow botanist L.D. von Schweinitz, who wrote in 1832 that ‘he is doubtless a man of immense knowledge — as badly digested as may be & crack-brained I am sure’ … His reputation was rehabilitated about the middle of the twentieth century when it was acknowledged by most botanists that most of Rafinesque’s 6,700 Latin plant names had been validly published according to rules since adopted by the botanists themselves” (ANB). Rafinesque, who is also well known for his work on the fishes of the Ohio and his studies of the mound-builders of the Ohio valley, was an early observer of the impermanence of species. Darwin cited him in Origin of Species (6th ed.) as one of three American naturalists who recog- nized that “species undergo modification.” rare. $8,000

 | james cummins bookseller 7 rembrandts from the original copper plates draft outline of riis‘s autobiography 78 79 (REMBRANDT) A Collection of Original Etchings … Frontis- RIIS, Jacob. Autograph Manuscript Draft Outline of the The piece and 199 mounted plates on India paper. 4to, London: Making of an American. Pen and ink on paper, 8 pp. stapled Printed by J. Kay, 1826. Contemporary green morocco, booklet (chapters I-VII) and 2 pp. on single sheet (portions of covers with wide gilt roll border, spine with 5 raised bands, chapters XII-XV). 4to, c. 1900. Light toning. richly gilt in five compartments, lettered in other, a.e.g. Bind- The autograph outline of the first seven chapters of Riis’s ing rubbed, plates in fine condition. Contemporary owner’s autobigraphy, The Making of an American (1902), as well as inscription on first blank. outlines for parts of chapters twelve through fifteen. The An album of old master prints, most printed from original opening chapters recount stories from Riis’s boyhood in plates, including 7 plates by Rembrandt, 6 after Rembrandt Denmark, meeting his future wife Elizabeth Gortz, and his by Vivares, 25 by Claude, and plates by Dominique Barriere, arrival in America. “The story commences on a bridge over Horizonti, Hollar, Theodore Van Kessel, Runciman, Cor- the river Nibs on the outskirts of the ancient town of Ribe, nelius Bega, Castiglione and Silvestre. Some of the images, which is on the Danish north seacoast. A boy & girl have met including the 7 Rembrandts from the original copper plates, …” appeared in an 1816 album by J.M. Creery. $7,500 $6,500

catalogue 120 |  81 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. A Tragedy. 104 pp. 8vo (9-J x 5-I in.: 232 x 146 mm.), [Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1819. First edition, one of 250 copies, without initial blank. Bound in full green morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., by Riviere & Sons, professionally rebacked in invisible fashion, spine gilt (very slightly sunned, else fine). Bookplate of Robert Hoe and Blairhame. Granniss 50; Ashley V 69; not in Tinker. First edition of Shelley’s dramatization of this dark tale of parricide, child abuse, and incest - based on actual events - and arguably the most enduring Romantic verse-play. Only 250 copies were printed, according to Shelley himself. According to Grannis, “With the exception of Queen Mab, The Cenci is the only one of Shelley’s works which reached a second edition during his lifetime [see the following item] ...” On the other hand, the play was never staged until the Shel- ley Society produced it on the occasion of Robert Browning’s birthday, on May 7, 1886. $7,500

underground rome 80 (ROME) Bosio, Antonio and Giovanni SEVERANO. Roma subterranea novissima, in qua post Antonium Bosium antesigna- num, Jo: Severanum Congreg. Oratorii presbyterum, et celebres alios scriptores antiqua Christianorum et praecipue martyrum coemeteria, tituli monimenta, epitaphia, inscriptiones, ac nobiliora sanctorum sepulchra … distincta illustrantur … [edited by Paolo Aringhi]. Engraved frontispiece, large folding engraved map of ancient Rome, 84 full-page and 34 half-page engravings, approximately 150 smaller cuts throughout the text, title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; initials, etc. Two volumes bound in one. Folio, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Apud Fred- ericum Leonard, 1659. Second edition in Latin, expanded. Contemporary brown calf, rebacked, red leather spine label. Very good, sturdy copy. Magnificently illustrated record of the tombs and sarcophagi in the catacombs beneath Rome, first published as Roma Sotterrane in Italian in 1632, followed by editions of 1640 and 1650. It was first translated into Latin and edited with addi- tions in 1651 by Paolo Aringhi, and here again in the “novissima” edition. Superb copy. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  82 SOWERBY, James, and Sir James Edward Smith. English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants with their Essential Charac- ters, Synonyms, and Place of Growth; to which will be added Occasional Remarks. Illustrated with 2,592 hand-colored botanical plates by James Sowerby; descriptions by James Edward Smith. 36 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for the author, by J. Davis, and sold … by Messrs. White … Johnson … Dilly … and by all Booksellers, 1790-1814. First edition. Full contemporary tree calf, a few volumes with repairs to spines, plate 1872 bound in sequence, though at beginning of vol. XXVII rather than end of vol. XXVI. ESTC (RLIN) T147671; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717; Pritzel 8789-8790; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, p. 140. “Probably our British wild flowers have never been so well portrayed and described as in James Sowerby’sEnglish Botany …” (Great Flower Books, p. 55). $22,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 120 |  83 (STING, The) Gebr, Jerry (Jaroslav). Title card illustration for the opening credit of The Sting, titled “A Bill/Philips Production of a George Roy Hill Film,“ and showing the camera operator, director, and others filming a scene. Pen and ink, watercolor and pencil heightened with white on cream paper. 27 x 42 in., [ca. 1973]. Framed. Fine. Provenance: Estate of George Roy Hill. The original illustration for the second of four title cards used in the opening credits of the classic 1973 motion picture The Sting. $8,000

 | james cummins bookseller in original cloth 84 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The History of Penden- nis. The Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author. viii, 384; xii, 372 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. First edition. Original gray-blue cloth, spines slightly faded and soiled. Superb copy, and rare thus. Van Duzer 166; CBEL III, 430. $1,250 complete set to 1899 85 THOMAS, Robert Bailey. The Farmer’s Almanac. 11 vols. 12mo, Boston: 1792-1899. Uniformly bound in half brown morocco and marbled boards, in eleven volumes by decade; the first thirty-seven issues, up to 1829, untrimmed. Joints repaired to the first two volumes. Complete uninterrupted set of the Farmer’s Almanac, from the first issue in 1792 through 1899. The almanac has been in continuous publication to the present day. $5,000

catalogue 120 |  announcing a “specimen” sheet of the dictionary —1809! 86 WEBSTER, Noah. Autograph Letter, signed (“N Webster”), to Samuel M. Hopkins of New York, discussing his plans for a specimen sheet of his proposed Dictionary. 1-H pp. 4to, New Haven: June 14, 1809. With integral blank, addressed and postmarked on verso. Small tears at fold, outer edges a little ragged, overall very good. In a quarter blue morocco and cloth folder. In 1806 Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, which was a concise dictionary intended for adults containing 37,000 words — a precursor of his great dictionary of 1828. He then published an abridgment of the Compendious Dictionary for use in schools in 1807 (and again in 1817), with the hope that the proceeds from sales of these and from his school books would provide the necessary funding for his great project, an entirely new Complete Dictionary, which, he thought would require only a few years of labor. By 1809, Webster was trying, without great success, to sell subscriptions to the proposed volume. This letter dates from that important period, in which Webster was trying to solicit support for the project. He writes: “I have sent to Dr. Mason a specimen of my proposed Dictionary, with a few preceding observations which I request you to get a sight of — it occurred to me that the issuing of a half sheet in some such form, might aid me in my design, & a specimen of the work was mentioned by Dr. Mason. What measure my friends will think it best to take, I know not. Perhaps they may sign a recommendation of my design, & of the school books whose sales must supply me with the means of prosecuting it — & content that I should publish it with the specimen — they will take time to decide … I saw Dr. Miller & Dr. Kos__(?) of the physicians & Dr. Beech of the Episcopal Church, who expressed the utmost readi- ness to cooperate with other gentlemen in the design. To the other gentlemen, I wish Dr. Morneyer & some others of the clergy, lawyers & physicians, may be added …” In typical fashion, Webster concludes the letter with some observations on his studies in the Ethiopic language, and remarks “Every new language I examine furnishes a number of new facts, & some new light of this subject, which is not without its use in explaining our own language …” No such specimen sheet of Webster’s Dictionary has ever been recorded. Skeel records a Broadside of 1807 (Skeel 581) and notes a “subscription blank, headed with an appeal for support in the project,” printed as Appendix XXVII in Emily Ford’s Notes on the Life of Noah Webster; two articles by Webster (The Panoplist, February 1810 & Monthly Anthology, March, 1810) appeared around this time announcing the work and asking for support (see Skeel, p. 232); and, finally, a “prospectus” appearing in 1826 was published as an advertisement in the Connecticut Herald (May 2, 1826), with four- teen recommendations from prominent men — but no specimen has ever emerged, despite the evidence of this letter that Webster actually had one produced. An important letter from the early period of Webster’s struggle to produce his great dictionary. $10,000

 | james cummins bookseller inscribed to william linton 87 [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass [issued with:] Passage to India. 8vo, Washington, D.C.: 1872. Fifth edition, second issue. Later full green morocco, covers with gilt double-rule outer border, spine with raised bands and six compartments, four with inlaid red morocco and gilt floral device. Spine toned, joints and head repaired. BAL 21407. Reprint of the Washington, D.C., edition of 1871 (BAL 21403), with revisions and alterations (see BAL list); issued with the 2nd printing of Passage to India. The present copy is inscribed from Whitman to artist and activist WIlliam Linton (1812-1897), “the finest wood engraver of his generation, as well as an important figure in political and literary circles” (ANB). “W.J. Linton, from Walt Whitman, 1872” and inscribed below, “W.W. Linton from W.J.L. Dec: 21, 1872”. The 1876 re-issue of Leaves of Grass, known variously as the Centen- nial Edition or the Author‘s Edition, included a new portrait of the poet engraved by William Linton from a recent photograph. A choice Whitman association. $7,500

catalogue 120 |   | james cummins bookseller the classic american ornithology before audubon, and one of the first american color plate books 88 WILSON, Alexander. American Ornithology, Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates; Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings Taken from Nature … 76 engravings, with excellent handcoloring. 9 vols. Folio, Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1808-14. First edition. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly backed to original style in red calf with plain gilt rules, title and volumes numbers stamped in gilt. Some light wear to text leaves. Moderate to heavy foxing and offsetting from plates, as usual with this work, but far better than typical. Meisel III, p.369; DAB XX, p.317; Bennett, p.114; Sabin 104597; Reese, Stamped with National Character 3. Wilson’s work was the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon and the most elaborate color plate book published in America up to its time. Wilson, a Scot, began work on American birds in 1802 with the encouragement of William Bartram. The feverish pace of his work, which began to be published in 1808, weakened his constitution, and he died suddenly in 1813, with the eighth volume in press. His friend George Ord completed the work and wrote a memoir in the final volume. Al- though incomplete in scope, because of Wilson’s narrow geographical travels and his early death, it was by far the most extensive work about American birds. Likewise, the color plates set a new standard of achievement for works produced in America, even though Wilson’s artistry was sometimes crude, and the depictions of birds are stiff and out of scale compared to Audubon. In fact, as a self-taught poet and schoolmaster who came late to such work, he did a remarkable job, although he was fated to be out- shone by Audubon. Wilson’s first volume appeared in September, 1808; the present set is the second issue, with a different imprint than the first. The second volume came out in 1810, the third and fourth in 1811, the fifth and sixth in 1812, and the seventh and eighth in 1813. Ord produced the final volume in 1814. Wilson’s book is a great pioneering effort in both American bookmaking and science. It remained a standard book even after Audubon, and possibly went through more editions than Audubon’s octavo set, staying in print in one form or another until the 1880s. Bennett calls it “the first truly outstanding American color plate book of any type.” $22,000

catalogue 120 |  the first collection of women’s autographs? 89 (WOMEN’S AUTOGRAPHS) [Jenkins, Maria]. [Three autograph manuscript catalogues of a collection of women’s autographs and engraved portraits]. “Ladies Autographs. Letters, Signatures, Notes. Some in Books,” “Catalogue of Ladies, or Female, Au- tographs,” “Catalogue of Female Portraits alphabetically arranged — with the Engravers names.” [16]; [52]; [44] pp., pen and ink. 12mo, [Bristol: n.d., ca. 1830s-1850s]. Two volumes in original wrappers, the three volumes sewn together in drab paper boards. Some edgewear and soiling to boards and to third volume. In custom burgundy cloth clamshell box. Catalogus librorum manu- scriptorum in bibliotheca d. Thomæ Phillipps, no. 18665 (“Miss Jenkins’ Catalogue of Ladies Autographs”). For Maria Jenkins cf. Hardy, Book-Plates (second edition), p. 3 & Munby, Phillips Studies, IV, pp. 202, 203, 207. Provenance: Thomas Phillips (his signature and catalogue number). Three autograph manuscript catalogues of a collection of women‘s autographs and engraved portraits assembled by Maria Jenkins (d. 1858) of Clifton, Bristol, one of the first English collectors of bookplates (“… to this lady … we should attribute the honour of being the first collector of book-plates, for their own sake” — Hardy). Her collections were sold by Puttick & Simpson on June 27, 1859. The present catalogues were purchased by the great manuscript collector Thomas Phillips, who had the three volumes bound up together. According to his catalogue, Phillips owned some 31 manuscript items from Miss Jenkins’ collection, including an 11 volume “Collection of Poetry by Ladies” (cf. Catalogus Librorum manuscripto- rum in bibliotheca d. Thomæ Phillips, nos. 18012-18027, 18329-18339 and 21616-21619). The second volume opens with an introduction by Miss Jenkins, explaining her interest in collecting women’s autographs and suggesting that hers is the first such documented collection: “I have seen catalogues of general collections of autographs wherein perhaps were a few by women here and there scattered, but I am not aware of any one who has made a collection or formed a catalogue exclusively devoted to *female* autographs …” The three manuscripts comprise alphabetical listings, with dates and some short biographical details, of the collection’s female novelists, poets, actresses, royalty, and spouses of famous men. Some of the notable names include Queen Anne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Noel Byron, Catherine de Medici, Eliza Cook, fellow lady collector Miss Currer, Maria Edgeworth, Mrs. Gore, Caroline Lamb, Letitia Landon, Mary Mitford, Hannah More, Julia Pardoe, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Charlotte Smith, Frances Trollop and Queen Victoria. $12,000

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