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front cover: item 67 inside front cover: item 78 inside rear cover: item 76 rear cover: item 8 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. “adrift in the streets” of new york city: presentation copy ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Young Outlaw, or, Adrift in the Streets. With four plates (frontispiece, pictorial title for Tattered Tom, Second Series preceding title, 2 plates at pp. 108, 208). [2] f. (blanks); [4, ads], viii, [9]-256, [2, blank] pp. 8vo, Boston: Loring, [1875]. First edition. Original purple publisher’s cloth, title in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Spine and fore edge of upper board faded, else near fne. Presentation copy, inscribed on the fyleaf, “Robert Lloyd from the Author.” “Canal Street’s about a mile of. I’ll show you the way for ten cents.” Adventures of Sam Barker, orphan, runaway, and “a genuine representative of the ‘street Arab’” of New York City. Inscribed, “Robert Lloyd, from the Author.” Alger presentation inscriptions are rare. $2,500 first edition with english text of the greatest english fencing manual ANGELO, Domenico. The School of Fencing, With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art … 47 engraved plates by Ruyland and Hall after J. Gruyn. English and French title-pages, dual-language text in two columns. Oblong folio, London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765. Second edition, frst edition with English text. Later 18th-century half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt in 4 compartments, contrasting morocco labels in the rest. Rebacked and recornered preserving spine, one label renewed, endsheets renewed, French title page worn and soiled with repair to verso, some soiling and light foxing throughout, lower portion of blank margin on last leaf repaired. Contemporary owner’s inscription on frst blank (“W.S. Smith, from his friend Henry Felthouse”), bookplate of Jean Oliver. Cohen-de Ricci, p. 83; Vigeant, p. 29; Castle (Bibliography), p. xlix; Thimm, p. 10; Gelli, p. 21 (for frst). The second edition, and the frst edition with English text, of the “chief work in the English literature of fencing” (Castle, p. 212). Angelo’s venerable School of Arms in London brought the French method of fencing to a wealthy and fashionable clientele. The school was run by successive Angelo generations until its closing in the early 20th century. The frst edition of 1763 was printed in French only; this 1765 edition contains the same plates as the frst edition with text in French and English. An edition entirely in English with reduced plates was published in 1787. $7,500

2 | james cummins bookseller [ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d’; and Xavier d’Arles de MONTIGNY]. Therese Philosophe, ou Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du P. Dirrag et de Mlle Eradice. … Première partie. [Thérèse Philosophe avec l’histoire de Mme Bois-Laurier … Seconde partie]. With 10 engraved plates. [iv], 141; [iv], 135 pp. 2 vols. 16mo, Au Bazar, 1797. Nouvelle édition avec fgures. Near contemporary quarter green morocco and boards, marbled endsheets. Light toning to textblook, slightly rubbed at extremities, very good plus. OCLC: 492762528 (Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve); OCLC: 421685099 (Lyon, without imprint or plates); cf Pia 1320 for BN Enfer 410, 1797 Cythère imprint (vol. II, only, without plates); not in the Private Case, cf. nos.131-7. Beautiful little edition of this perennial classic of the 18th century, much admired by de Sade; the history of Mme Bois-Laurier in the second part is ascribed to Montigny. $2,000

BENJAMIN, Judah. Collection of autograph letters relating to mortgage bond coupons of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. V.p., chiefy London: ca. December 1868 - July 1870. Material creased from prior folds, generally very good or better. A collection of autograph letters by Judah Benjamin to Senator Thomas F. Bayard concerning the redemption of mortgage coupons issued by the troubled Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. Benjamin (1811- 1884), the former Secretary of War, Attorney General and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America, was, at the time of this correspondence, living in England and establishing a law career. In a series of fve autograph letters written to Delaware Senator Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898), Benjamin engages Bayard’s help in attempting to redeem mortgage coupons for the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company totalling £875. The collection also includes three autograph letters from James McHenry, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, to Bayard, concerning the coupons (one letter mentioning Jay Gould of the Erie Railway Company); an autograph letter from Edward McDermott of the Atlantic and Great Western, to Bayard; draft of a letter from Bayard to McHenry; autograph letter from Robert (?) Potter of the Altantic and Great Western; two letterpress printings of a lease aggreement between the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company and the Erie Railway Company. $4,000

catalogue 124 | 3 the first american catholic bible, subscriber’s copy in a contemporary binding (BIBLE, Catholic) The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions, in Divers Languages; And First Published by the English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly Revised, And Corrected, According to the Clementine Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for Elucidating the Principal Difculties of Holy Writ. viii, 487, [1], [4, blanks]; 280, *281-*284, 281-490 pp. 2 volumes bound in one. Thick 4to, Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co, 1790. First American Catholic Bible. Contemporary American sheep with red morocco title label. A fne copy, with some light toning and staining to text. Evans 22349; Parsons 87; Hills 23; Herbert 1343; Rumball-Petrie 168; O’Callaghan, pp. 34-35; Clarkin 53. Provenance: Richard Sweetman (inscription on title page dated 1791, original subscriber listed on p. viii), thence by descent (inscription on title page in several hands “presented by him [Richard Sweetman] to John Sweetman & after the decease of the latter came … to his widow Margaret, intermarried with Charles Fortman the 29th of November 1798. And by him a Present to Bridget Penrose.”) Additionally inscribed on verso of fep (“John Blanely’s Bible”) and with 1 p. manuscript geneology of Sweetman and Penrose family on blank following frst volume. A remarkable gathering of frsts in a single volume: the frst Catholic Bible printed in the United States, the frst Catholic Bible printed in any language in the New World, the frst Bible printed in quarto format in the U.S., the frst Bible printed by Mathew Carey, and the frst minority-religion Bible printed in America. Catholics constituted only a small minority of the population of the United States in 1790. Even so, Mathew Carey, an exile from Ireland, believed that America could support the publication of an edition of the English Catholic Bible. He secured approximately 475 subscribers, and it is thought the print run did not exceed 500 copies. In 1954 a census of extant copies found thirty-fve copies in public and private collections. While the number of copies today may perhaps be forty-fve, the volume’s continuing rarity may be understood when one realizes that the Vatican Library did not possess a copy until 1979. With good reason, Margaret Hills describes this edition as “the rarest of the notable early American editions of the Bible.” A signifcant edition both in the history of Bible printing and the history of publishing in the United States. A fne copy in a contemporary binding, belonging to subscriber Richard Sweetman and his descendents. $35,000

4 | james cummins bookseller BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder const: inhovdende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architectï, beldthÿwers, ende plaetsnyders van dese eevw. Engraved title-page (dated 1661), complete with 96 portraits and a total of 101 plates, most engraved by Jean Meyssen. [2], 585, [3] pp. (pp. 499-500 repeated in the pagination). 4to, [Antwerp: Juliaen vab Montfort, 1662]. First edition. Full contemporary calf, Dutch marbled endpapers. Rebacked, preserving original spine, new red morocco spine label to style, corners rubbed, strong impressions for each plate. Two of the portrait plates are pasted on to the leaf facing their description: Gaspar de Wit or Witte, p. 395 and Aertus Quellinus, p. 505. OCLC 64302658; Arntzen-Rainwater H55. One of the most important references on seventeenth-century arts in the Netherlands. The frst part deals with painters who died between 1600 and 1661, the second with artists still active in 1661, the third with sculptors, architects and engravers who were active until 1661. Most of the plates are engraved by Johannes Meyssens (1612-1670), with others by Paul Pontius, Peter de Jode, Richard Collin, and several others. $3,500

(BINDING, Derome) Bossuet, [Jacques Bernigne]. Discours sur l’Histoire Universelle … Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu’a l’Empire de Charlemagne [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques François et Latins]. [iv], 629, [3] pp. 4to, Paris: Didot, 1784. One of 200 copies on papier vélin. Contemporary red morocco, covers with ruled in gilt with triple fllet border, spine with 5 raised bands, titled in gilt in one, the rest gilt all over with a repeating lightning bolt or staircase pattern, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, by Derôme the younger (with his ticket to frst blank). Wear to head of spine, some sporadic spotting to text. Cf. PMM 157 (for original edition). One in a series of works of French and Latin literature printed by Didot and originally published in 1681 by the order of Louis XIV for the education of the Dauphin. Boussuet’s history was the last in a long line of universal histories, from St. Augustine onwards, that interpreted history as the continuing manifestation of divine providence. This copy fnely bound by Derome the younger, with his ticket, and tooled on the spine with a distinctive staircase or lightning bolt tool. $2,500

catalogue 124 | 5 (BINDING, Funeral) Schwartzenthaler, Johann Baptiste. Threnodiae, plangentes obitum nobilis atque magnifci viri, Dn. Joh. Baptistae Schwartzenthaleri, I.C. celeberrimi Ab amicis Tubingensibus scripta. Cum Viennensis academiae rect. Magnif. Programmate publico: & phil. facult. Decani lugubri carmine. Full page woodcut coat of arms of Schwartzenthaler, printed in Italic, Roman, Greek and Hebrew types (some dampstaining to lower right corner). 4to, Tubingen: Johann Alexander Cellius, 1615. Contemporary black stained vellum, stamped and ruled in silver and blind, quintuple rule around a central silver feurons, corner tools and rool tool, initials “ZPAP” and date “MDCXVI” in upper central panel, remnants of silk ties (sides lightly warped, minor wear to spine and edges, silver oxidized). Funeral binding of black painted vellum for a memorial to the jurist J.B. Schwartzenthaler, who had taught at the University of Vienna. It contains contributions in prose and poetry by Schwartzenthaler’s friends in Vienna and Tubingen. $2,500

6 | james cummins bookseller (BINDING, Steel, Robert) Finely bound morocco covers attributed to Robert Steel to house a manuscript copy of Nicola Haym’s Twelve Trio Sonatas. Oblong 4to (11-3/4 x 9-7/8 inches), [London: ca. 1703]. Green morocco tooled in gilt to a cottage- roof design with massed small tools, outer roll tool border in gilt, spine titled “Dodici sonate a tre,” paste paper endsheets, silver clasps engraved with arms and motto (Che sarà sarà) of the 2nd Duke of Bedford and catches with engraved goats and crown on clasps. Rebacked, preserving original spine, some light wear to covers. Cf. Haym, Complete Sonatas, Part I, edited by Lowell E. Lindgren. For binding, cf. Henry Davis, II, no. 148; Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, no. 53; Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, no. 38. Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729), German-Italian virtuoso cellist and composer, came to England with violinist Nicola Cosimi in 1700 to serve Wriothesley Russell, the 2nd Duke of Bedford, as musicians in his Southampton House in Bloomsbury. They each received an annual salary of 100 guineas and were charged with organizing concerts and performing for the Duke and his friends. Both Haym and Cosimi composed and dedicated works to their patron while in England, as did composer and botanist James Sherard, who sometimes joined in performance with the two Italians. Haym composed two sets of trio sonatas for two violins and fgured bass, and it is undoubtedly his opus 1 collection, Dodici sonate à tré, published in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger in 1703 and dedicated to the Duke of Bedford for which these fnely-bound covers were made. We attribute the binding to Robert Steel, apprentice and successor to Samuel Mearne. $7,500

catalogue 124 | 7 BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaires sur les Lois Anglaises … Traduits de L’Anglais due la Quinzième Édition par N.M. Chompré. xxxi, [i], 622, [2]; [iv], 636, [2]; [vi], 594, xxviii, [2]; vi, 579, [3]; vi, 554, [2]; vi, 410, liv, 117, [3] pp. 6 vols. 8vo, Paris: [Firmin Didot for] Bossange … Rey et Garvier … Aillaud, 1822-1823. First Chompré translation, frst Paris edition. Contemporary red half morocco and red paper-covered boards, fat spine divied into fve compartments with gilt flet and gilt Greek key roll, titled and numbered in two compartments, “coifes Lyonnaises” headcaps. Some light foxing throughout, still a beautiful, near fne set. Armorial bookplates partially removed from each volume. PMM 212 (for frst). A beautiful set of the frst Paris edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries of the Laws of England, translated by Chompré from the London edition of 1809. The frst edition in French, translated from the 1770 fourth English edition by August Pierre Damiens de Gomicourt, was published in Brussels in six volumes, 1774-6. A pirated edition, it was not a particular faithful translation and was superseded by this authorized edition of 1822-3. $2,500

(BYRON, George Gordon, Lord) Hindson, Richard G. The Suppressed Poems of Lord Byron … English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire. [4], viii, 103, [19] pp. 8vo, 1819. Early calf, with spine label stamped in gilt, marbled edges. Rebacked, boards rubbed, and modern endpapers, some browning at the foredge afecting one gathering, otherwise near fne. A manuscript copy of Lord Byron‘s English Bards, Scotish Reviewers based on the 1818, Paris edition published by Galignani. This gift volume is warmly dedicated by the scribe, “Rich. G Hindson requests Mr. / Christr. Wannop’s acceptance / of this Book as an Assurance / of his Friendship / March 2nd 1819.” Hindson’s transcription closely follows the Galignani frst edition of 1818, retaining the many notes at the foot of the page, as in the printed exemplar, and omitting only the short pieces “Ode” and “A Sketch from Private Life” at the end of the volume. The practice of making scribal copies of printed texts at the end of the nineteenth century was not an uncommon practice, and the greater esteem that such copies held for their owners and recipients is witnessed in the careful hand in which it was produced. $700

8 | james cummins bookseller Leyden-Amsterdam: 1743. First Dutch edition. Contemporary BYRON, [Lord George Gordon] Noel. Autograph address mottled Dutch calf, speckled edges. Corners repaired, spines leaf, signed (“Noel Byron”) to David Grant Esq, Messrs. worn, but the gilt is intact and text shows faint occasional Grant and Co., Malta. 1 p. pen and ink on paper addressed in dampstain on some leaves, otherwise a near fne copy. All 80 Byron’s hand, with remnant of ink seal, docketted in another plates are present, but are bound out of order (intentionally, hand, ink date stamp. 8vo, Cephalonia: 12 September 1823. according to instructions on the plates) as follows: volume I: Creased and soiled, worn with some loss, early paper repair. 1-7, 12, 8-11, 16, 13-15, 17-33; volume II 34-43, 58, 44-57, 60-73, 75, Byron’s Letters & Journals, vol. XI, pp. 25-6. 74, 76, 59, 77-80. The autograph address leaf from a letter sent by Byron from Dutch translation from the French of Chomel’s celebrated the Greek island of Cephalonia to merchant David Grant Dictionnaire œconomique, the most popular domestic of Malta. Grant had agreed to cash Byron’s checks after encyclopedia of the 18th century. First published in Lyon, Byron found it difcult to exchange his funds in Greece. 1709, the encyclopedia’s breadth is ambitious and it describes The text of the letter (not present), reads in part: “My various methods of managing one’s property, maintaining present credits altogether on Genoa and England amount to one’s health, remedies and treatments for a great number about seven thousand pounds sterling … I brought up ten of illnesses, and insightful advice for living a long and happy thousand dollars besides, and luckily too, for I have found life. Chomel gives broad instructions for raising domestic the difculties you mention in yr. letter in negociating with animals — sheep, cows, oxen, horses, mules, hens, and even the Greek except at an unfair discount which I of course bees — along with hunting and fshing techniques. There decline accepting …” Byron was in Cephalonia under the are numerous entries on gardening, botany, agriculture, auspices of the London Greek Committee to promote Greek farming, vines & vineyards, and trees. Advice is ofered for independence — he would die at Missolonghi some 7 months artisans, craftsmen, gardeners, winemakers, merchants, after the date of this letter. bankers, commissionaires, magistrates, ofcers of the courts, and other Gentlemen of quality. In brief, the book $1,500 aims to answer all practical needs for all walks of life. The plates illustrate a wide variety of this advice and include diagrams for fashioning fshing equipment, recognizing diferent sorts of footprints left by animals, basic principles CHOMEL, Noel. Huishoudelyk Woordboek, Vervattende vele of geometry, methods for distilling, laying out gardens along middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te numerous plans, and many methods for capturing animals, behouden, met verscheiden wisse ne beproefde middelen Voor birds in particular, with complex nets and devices. The work een groot getal van Ziekten, en schoone Geheimen om tot een was translated into several languages, including English hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, Een menigte van (1725), German (1750), and Dutch (1743), and eventually manieren om Lammeren, Schapen, Koeien, Paarden, Muil-ezels, Japanese (1783) — the latter translation being produced Hoenderen, Duiven, Honigbyen, Zywurmen te kweken, voeden, from the Dutch. Chomel (1632-1712) developed his broad genezen, en winst te doen met die Dieren; Velerije soorten van range of knowledge while serving as Louis XIV’s gardener Netten. Full-page engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan and supervising the grounds of the Chateau d’Avron near Punt [1742], 80 folding plates. [6], 1-616; [2], 617-1496, (4) pp Vincennes. (pagination is continuous over two volumes). 2 vols. 4to, $3,500 catalogue 124 | 9 with lord randolph churchill & the duke of marlborough als CHURCHILL, Winston. Lord Randolph Churchill. Illustrated. xvi, 564; viii, 531, [1] pp. 2 vols. 4to, London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth gilt. Vol. I front cover tender, light scattered foxing, very good. Bookplates of South African mining magnate J. Dale Lace and Fred Lessing. Cohen A17.1; Woods A8(a). The frst edition of Churchill’s biography of his father. With an Autograph Letter, signed (“Randolph S. Churchill”), to his lawyer, Mr. Freshfeld, concerning the sale of family heirlooms. 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet of Blenheim Palace mourning stationery. January, 29, 1884. And with a 2 pp, Autograph Letter, signed (“F.[?] Marlborough”), to Lord Aberdeen, ofering his congratulations. On Vice Regal Lodge, Dubin stationery. June 20, [ca. 1880s]. $1,750

advocates of french-american commerce CLAVIÈRE, Etienne and Jacques Pierre BRISSOT DE WARVILLE. De la France et des Etats-Unis, Ou De l’Importance de la Revolution de l’Amérique pour le Bonheur de la France, des Rapports de ce Royaume & des Etats-Unis … xxiv, xlviii, 344 pp. 8vo, Londres [i.e., Paris?]: 1787. Nineteenth century red calf spine, marbled boards, edges untrimmed. Title page a bit soiled. Very good. Howes C464; Kress B1169; Goldsmiths 13307; ESTC T109594; Sabin 13516. A highly important work of political economy, published in Paris under a false imprint, and designed to stimulate investment in the United States by the French. Brissot was one of the most pro-American French thinkers of the period; he later wrote a well-known work on his American travels, and later died in the Terror. This work seeks to enlighten the French and American public about the possibilities for mutually benefcial investments. Dedicated to the American Congress and the “friends of America in both worlds,” it reviews a number of economic issues, such as balance of trade, the superior benefts of French manufactures for American markets, why French wines and oils were better than any that could be produced in the U.S., and a broad range of specifc products. Various American products ranging from rice to furs are then discussed. In the end the authors include a prospectus for their proposed “Societe Gallo-Americaine.” Claviere and Brissot worked together on a number of political tracts, and both believed that the example of America’s fedgling democracy held the key to France’s future. $1,750

10 | james cummins bookseller CLAY, Henry. Autograph Letter, signed (“H. Clay”), to Mr. and Mrs. [Richard] Bayard on the death of their son Charles. 2 pp. pen and ink on one sheet. 4to, Washington, D.C: 27 March 1850. Light creases from prior folds, near fne. In double-sided frame. Kentucky Senator Henry Clay (1777-1852) writes to former of limitation leaf. Contemporary half blue morocco and Delaware Senator and state Supreme Court Chief Justice marbled boards, t.e.g. Fine. Siegel A; Frazier T-6-a. BAL 3388 Richard H. Bayard (1796-1868) and his wife Mary on the tragic for frst edition (1880), BAL 3407 for frst authorized edition death of their son Charles in the Bay of Naples. Charles, (1882); not in the Meine bibliography (1939). only 21 years old, was struck and killed by debris from the The famed Fireside Conversation, written while Clemens eruption of Mount Vesuvius on February 9, 1850, while found himself at an impasse during the composition of serving as a Midshipman in the US Navy. He was buried in Huckleberry Finn. The work circulated privately — and the English Cemetary at Naples. Clay writes from a position gleefully acknowledged to his friends — but never published of weary acquaintance with the tragedy of losing a child, during his lifetime. In the 1920s, the text gained new having outlived seven of his eleven children. The letter reads, readers after the Grabhorn Press edition of 1925, with an in part: “I received today a letter from Mr. Bayard and one introduction by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, who had also from Mrs. Jackson communicating the melancholy event prepared the 1882 edition for Clemens in the print shop which has happened in Naples … I can fully appreciate your at the U.S. Military Acadmy at West Point. One of the feelings and your distress, alas!” rarest of Connett’s books, identifable only by the small $2,500 device at the foot of the limitation. Frazier notes that in a letter preserved at Harvard, Connett writes, in part, “I the derrydale 1601 am sending you a copy of that most terrible but authentic masterpiece of Mark Twain’s — ‘1601.’ A boy will deliver it to your house tomorrow. I’m afraid to send it through the [CLEMENS, Samuel L.]. [1601.] Being a freside conversation mail. I did a somewhat overpowering design for this book in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons of in the vain hope of overpowering the text but I fnd the reknown hold converse on concerns personal and intimate. By Mark text can’t be overpowered — no how!” A note preserved Twain. Text within printed borders on paper watermarked in Connett’s copy, sold in 1994, identifes the H.D.W. Vidalon. Collation: blank leaf, half-title, title page (verso “… mentioned in the limitation notice as Henry D. Whiton. of which this is copy No. 34” [numbered in ink], Connett Henry Devereux Whiton (1871-1930), was a Long Island device A at foot), foreword (3 leaves, last verso blank), fy- yachtsman, industrialist, patron of the Beebe expedition to title, text (6 leaves, last verso blank), blank leaf. 8vo, [New the Galapagos, and philanthropist whose residence is now York]: Done into a privately emprynted booke, 1926. Number the Lawrence Country Day School. RARE. 34 of 100 copies: “One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.D.W.” with Connett device A at foot $17,500

catalogue 124 | 11 picasso by clergue CLERGUE, Lucien. “Picasso Président.” Vintage gelatin silver print, inscribed by the photographer on verso, “Picasso (portfolio I) Frejus 1962” and with photographer’s ink stamp. 7 x 9-1/2 in, [Frejus: 1962]. Light wear to margins of print, very good. Portrait photograph of Picasso attending a bullfght in Fréjus, by the artist’s protégé, Lucien Clergue. [With:] Lucein Clergue. Numéro hors série [de SUD], préparé par Catherine Marty. [Marseille: SUD, 1968]. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Inscribed by Clergue on the fep. $2,500

12 | james cummins bookseller CRÈVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de. Lettres d’un Cultivateur Américain: Addressées à Wm. S***on Esqr. depuis l’année 1770 jusqu’en 1786. Par M. St John de Creve Coeur, Traduites de l’Anglois. Frontispiece, engraved titles to each volume, 5 maps and 3 plates. xxxij, 478, [4]; 438, [6] pp. Collated complete, including the errata sheet in volume I. 3 vols. 8vo, Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1787. Third and best edition. Contemporary sheep, blind rule to the covers, fve raised bands, compartments stamped in gold, with title and volume numbers, marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed, joints cracked (some losses to spine of vol. III), some browning to a few pages, and dampstaining to a few pages in vol. III, otherwise a sturdy copy, about very good. Sabin 17495; Howes C883. A contemporary copy of the best French edition and most complete of all editions of Crèvecoeur (Sabin). In this proto- American narrative Crèvecoeur asks, “What then is the American, this new man?” Crèvecoeur’s response to the question was structured like a novel, with discernable storylines and characters. The expanded 1787 French version of Letters, includes more autobiographical, historical, and geographic content that moves the text away from the novelistic form of the earlier English edition toward something more sturctured. Crèvecoeur thought of both editions as the same work, this making the complete 1787 edition essential for a comprehensive understanding of his work, and the identity of “this new man.” With notable maps of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. $2,750

(CUALA PRESS) Yeats, Jack. A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series]. Illustrations after drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Printed on cartridge paper made at Saggart Mill in County Dublin, text in handset Caslon type. Lacking No. 10, Second Year, for March 1910. 83 [of 84] partsSmall folio (11 x 7-1/2 inches), Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. Condition generally fne. A few numbers with repairs to margins on blank verso (one part with a corner supplied, not touching image). Cloth portfolio, upper cover with pictorial label after design by Jack B. Yeats, recent black morocco spine, to house the entire series. In half blue morocco slipcase. Miller pp. 120-121. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present set lacks one number. The second and thrid series date from 1935-1937. Extensive runs are uncommon. $12,500

catalogue 124 | 13 biblical scenes, illustrated (CURIOSA) La Sainte Bible. Half-title, title and 12 printed caption leaves with passage in Latin, each followed by an etching on papier de chine. 8vo, [Paris: n.d., later 19th century?]. Three quarter citron levant and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by P. Huban. Engraved book label by Provost-Blondel, a helmet with motto Toujours en Face. First two plates with light marginal staining at lower right. Fine. Not in Darlow & Moule. Suite of a dozen fnely executed erotic etchings, each interpreting a biblical passage (printed captions in the Vulgate). Genesis 3 - Adam and Eve before the tree, with sign, “Defense de Toucher à l’Arbre de Vits”; Genesis 18 - group sodomy scene, three men with turbans, one youth, one woman; Genesis 19 - two women and a bearded man at the mouth of a cave; Genesis 38 - desert scene, man and woman joined, another woman attending with a fan; Genesis 39 - oriental boudoir, woman grasping the man; Judith 13 - classical interior, woman atop the man, on cushions; Daniel 13 - two old men surprising a young woman at a pool; Kings 11 - David descending the staircase with a lyre, in foreground two dark women attending a fair woman at a pool; John 1 - Vox clamantis in deserto. Man and woman, atop a sphinx, bearded prophet and Egyptian hieroglyphics on the plinth; John 1 - Et Verbum caro factum est. Angel joined with a young woman leaning on a carpenter’s bench; Matthew 24 - Vidertis abominationem desolationis. Solder raping a woman in the foreground of a scene of military carnage Amen - two couples in the foreground of a walled enclosure of erect phalluses, with banners, Grande Exposition de Vits. $7,500

14 | james cummins bookseller DICKENS, Charles. Autograph Cheque, signed “Charles Dickens” with a fourish, on Coutts Bank, payable to “Miss Dickens, Forty-Six Pounds £46.0.0.” Blue ink on partly printed document. 3-1/2 x 8 inches, London: Thirteenth October 1863. Inlaid to a small quarto leaf, matted. “Miss Dickens” is likely Mary Dickens, the author’s oldest daughter. After her parents’ separation in 1858 Mary ran the Gadshill household, and it is possible that this cheque was written to cover housekeeping expenses. $1,650

DI PRIMA, Diane. Combination Theatre Poem & Birthday Poem for Ten People. Portfolio, 4 leaves. Broadside, New York: The Brownstone Press, 1965. First edition, copy 99 of 100 copies printed. Heavy red paper portfolio printed in black with woodcut design. Portfolio near fne, leaves fne. Inscribed by Diane Di Prima to Bob Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop, “Bob- / Happy Thanksgiving! / Diane.” $2,500

catalogue 124 | 15 FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Frontispiece and 5 plates, wood-engraved ornaments and initials throughout, 2 pages of advertisements (for Salammbo) at front. [i-ii, i-] xxii, [1-]383[-384] pp. 8vo (7-3/8 x 5-1/8 inches), London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886. First edition in English. Handsomely bound in near-contemporary green-blue morocco over green cloth boards, t.e.g. Fine. $3,250

inscribed with the early poem “forest flowers” FROST, Robert. Collected Poems. Frontispiece portrait photograph of the author by Doris Ulmann. [xviii], 453, [1] pp. 8vo, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing, [1942]. Later edition. Publisher’s blue cloth. Head of spine browned, else near fne in chipped dust-jacket with loss along top edge. Crane A23 (for frst edition). Inscribed by Frost to Reginald Cook with the 8-line poem “Forest Flowers.” Reginald “Doc” Cook was a Middlebury professor and friend of Frost’s. He was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Frost’s wife Elinor, and Cook would visit Frost during the poet’s summer stays in Ripton, VT. The early poem “Forest Flowers,” which opens with the lines “Some fowers take station close to where we stay, And some draw up on either side of the way,” was originally published in 1917 in The Pinkerton Annual, the literary magazine of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost taught from 1906 to 1911. The poem did not appear in any of Frost’s lifetime editions, though a ten-line variant titled “Tutelary Elves” was published in 1966. The original poem was separately published in 1978 as Forest Flowers: An Early Poem Recovered by the Friends of the Amherst College Library. Frost has added a note beneath his transcription of the poem, “This was written almost earlier than anything else in this book.” This volume is a later printing of the 1939 Collected Poems and includes the 1942 collection A Witness Tree. $5,000

16 | james cummins bookseller GIACCHIERI, Pietro. Commentario degli ordini equestri (GILL, Eric) Hague, René. Sketchbook of pencil portraits of esistenti negli stati di Santa Chiesa preceduto da un compendio Eric Gill and his family, David Jones and unnamed others. 71 storico dell’estinte istituzioni cavalleresche. 24 hand-colored full-page pencil drawings and 2 ink drawings, most by René plates, xxiv, 232. Folio, Rome: Tipografa della S. C. de Hague, and most titled. Oblong folio (11 x 17 in.), [Pigott’s Propaganda Fide, 1853. Second edition, preceded by an Place: ca. 1932]. Original green faux alligator covers. Light edition in 1852. Contemporary green morocco backed wear to binding, frst leaf with piece torn from right margin, marbled boards with vellum corners, spine in gilt. Former edgewear to a few leaves. Several leaves stamped in ink on library stamps to some leaves, not afecting the plates, some the verso. In a custom black and maroon cloth box. minor foxing, again, not afecting the plates, else near fne An album of 73 drawings, mostly by René Hague, comprising with bright illustrations. Colas 666; Lipperheide 1931. studies and portraits of David Jones, Eric Gill, his daughters A commentary on the Knights in the Papal orders in the Joan and Petra, René Hague and others. Subjects include Catholic church, preceded by a historical compendium of “(Girl with matches) Young Lady (from the painting by David the former orders. The illustrations show various Knights, or Jones, 1895-),” “Mr. Hague reading 8pt Joanna,” “Mr. Jones Cavaliere, presented in their full uniforms, with other plates taking tea with Mrs. Gill,” “The Gentry Dine,” “Jock, dog depicting the ornaments and medallions of their orders. of Joan and René Hague,” “Girl sewing with candle,” “Easy With the book plate of the St. Charles’s College Library, with the splash Mr. G., It’s early yet.” Included is a typed Bayswater, London. note, signed by Gill’s daughter Petra Tegetmeier, dating the $2,250 sketchbook and ascribing the drawings to René Hague. $4,750

catalogue 124 | 17 presentation copy, annotated by the author the first book of the fantod press, inscribed GORDON, Anthony. A Treatise on the Science of Defence, [GOREY, Edward]. The Beastly Baby. Ogdred Weary. Small for the Sword, Bayonet, and Pike, in Close Action. 19 plates 8vo, New York: Fantod Press, 1962. First edition, one of (one folding) after R. Smirke. [viii], 66 pp. 4to, London: B. 500 unnumbered copies. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Covers McMillan, 1806. Second edition. Contemporary full red lightly browned. Toledano A9a. morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide outer border The frst book of Gorey’s Fantod Press, published under the surrounding central panel tooled in gilt and blind, with gilt psuedonymous anagram Ogdred Weary. The eponymous corner- and center-pieces, spine with raised bands in fve character is so revolting and meets such a terrible end, that compartments, lettering piece in one compartment, the rest no publisher would take the book on. Inscribed, “21 May gilt with small foral tools, a.e.g., blue endpapers. Binding 1964. For Bob [Wilson]. Ogdred Weary.” Wilson was the rubbed, front joint starting at head of spine, wear to spine proprietor of the Phoenix Bookshop in New York. One of ends with some loss. Gilstrap Public Library, Newark-on- Gorey’s scarcest titles. Trent stamp on title-page and verso of each plate and library $1,500 bookplates on endsheets, frst blank detached, light sporadic foxing. Thimm, p. 119; Pardoel 1132.01. An important work on military swordsmanship. According to Hutton, as quoted in Thimm, “This is the earliest known work giving any idea of attack and defence with the bayonet.” Inscribed by the author, “To Thomas John Manchee Esq, This hasty production of an insignifcant Invalid (now pressed by various disorders & the Infrmities of Age) is now ofered as a little mark of that high aspect which the Writer, in Common with all liberal men, must entertain for rare Integrity & highly cultivated Talents …” and dated January 7, 1827. Machee was a radical reformer who wrote several books on charities and reform. Gordon has added corrections and notes, some quite lengthy, to the margins throughout. $2,250

18 | james cummins bookseller first printing of two handel songs abolitionism for young adults (HANDEL, George Frederic) Watts, John, publisher. The JONES, J[ane] Elizabeth. The Young Abolitionists; or Musical Miscellany; Being a Collection of Choice Songs [and Lyrick Conversations on Slavery. Engraved tail-pieces. 131, [1] pp. Poems], Set to the Violin and Flute [or, With the Basses to Each 12mo, Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Ofce, 1848. Tune, and Transpos’d for the Flute], by the Most Eminent Masters. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in gilt and Engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous woodcut blind. Slight rubbing to spine ends, a few sporadic spots of head- and tailpieces, woodcut music throughout. 6 vols. 8vo, foxing to text, else a near fne copy. Contemporary owner’s London: John Watts, 1729 [-1731]. First edition. Early 19th name (“Miss Sarah Lapham”) to head of title-page and gift century full calf, covers with gilt armorial stamp of John Earl inscription (“Sarah Lapham, Presented by her cousin Julia A. of Clare, spines gilt with morocco lettering-pieces, a.e.g. Miller. Rush. April 1849”) on front free endpaper. Hinges tender, with some neat repairs, damage to some “Mother, he asked me if I were an abolitionist. What did he lettering-pieces, old dampstain to gutter of frst and last few mean? What is an abolitionist?” A didactic novel for children leaves of each volume. Provenance: John Fitzgibbon, II, Earl about a Northern white family and their experiences with of Clare (his bindings); Sir Henry Doulton (his bookplate). slavery and the abolition movement. Four of the chapters The Earl of Clare’s set of the frst edition of this important end with poems signed “B.S.J.” The author, Jane Elizabeth collection of more than 450 English songs. Eleven of the Hitchcock Jones (1813-1896), was a prominent abolition and songs are attributed to Handel, including frst printings of women’s rights lecturer. “At the suggestions of Stephen S. “Dull Bus’ness hence” and “As on a Sunshine Summer’s Day.” Foster, she wrote The Young Abolitionists (1848), a tract for Includes verse by Gay, Prior, Pope, Theobald and Henry children illustrating the basic facts of slavery and abolition Fielding, with an early piece of his entitled “A dialogue through cheerful, sentimental dialogues” (Notable American between a Beau’s Head and his Heels.” The lyrics are set to Women, I, pp. 285). fute and violin and, from volume III on, unfgured bass. $3,000 $1,500

catalogue 124 | 19 JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. [40] pp. 12mo, London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Nearly undetectable wear to tail and one corner, else fne. Slocum & Cahoon A3. Provenance: Robert Wilson. One of only 509 copies of Joyce’s frst book. A fne copy in the third binding variant (thin wove transparent end-papers and signature C poorly centered). $3,000

clouds hill bookplate (LAWRENCE, T.E.) Scott, Geofrey. Poems. [viii], 45, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Oxford University Press. Humphrey Milford, 1931. Blue cloth. Spine titled in gilt. Clouds Hill bookplate. Small stain at fore edge of fyleaf and half title, else fne. “The literary remains of Geofrey Scott are so scanty and so precious that no apology is needed” (from the foreword). Scott (1884-1929), architect and author of The Architecture of Humanism (1914) and The Portrait of Zélide (1924), “was a polymath whose interests extended beyond his success as a biographer, aesthetician, architect, and editor” (ODNB). He was renowned for his conviviality and “not only for his witty conversation and erudition but also for his temperamental behaviour and his snobbery” (ODNB). His life and work was the subject of Richard M. Dunn’s Geofrey Scott and the Berenson Circle (1998). An unusual volume of poetry from the library of T.E. Lawrence, with the Clouds Hill bookplate. $2,000

20 | james cummins bookseller “very long, and rather dull”: subscriber copy, with fine a.l.s. to the subscriber [LAWRENCE, T.E.] Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. Printed in red and black. Illustrated with 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colored maps (with original linen backing), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth. In this copy, page XV is mis-paginated as VIII. 4to, [London: Privately Printed, 1926]. One of about 170 “Complete” copies for subscribers, inscribed on p. xix “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.,” with a manuscript correction to the list of illustrations. Also signed by the printer, H.G. Hodgson, at the end. Tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutclife. Fine copy. O’Brien A040; Duval 8; Clements p. 49 (stating that only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas each). Nancy Campbell (original subscriber); Barbara Hutton (ownership inscription on fyleaf: “Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow 1941”). Lawrence’s superb narrative of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. Invited by Sir Ronald Storrs to the British organized conference at Jiddah, Lawrence impressed the Arab leaders, and thereafter played his spectacular role as the revolt succeeded, entering into the mythology of the twentieth century. His account is itself one of the legendary books of the century, elaborately produced and illustrated with works commissioned by Lawrence. The present copy includes the “Prickly Pear” plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages 92 and 208, or the Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem. With a remarkable and revealing clutch of correspondence about the author and his book, addressed to the original owner, Mrs. Colin (Nancy) Campbell: 1. LAWRENCE, T.E. Autograph Letter, signed (“Yours very truly, TE Shaw, used to be Lawrence”), Cranwell, Lincolnshire,

catalogue 124 | 21 England, 16 September 1926. Two pages, recto and verso of a single leaf, with the mailing envelope addressed in Lawrence’s hand. Lawrence is plainly trying to win a subscriber but his tone is almost hostile: “owing to a misunderstanding, I had to ofer to accept two clients of Messrs Sotheran as subscribers for the limited edition of my reprinted war-book … Sotherans in reply gave me your name and another. I have delayed to write until the date of publication was reasonably certain. … It will not inconvenience me in the least (quite the contrary!) if you decide not to take your copy. The book costs thirty guineas: is very long, and rather dull.” A FASCINATING LETTER. 2. JOYCE, Colonel Pierce C. Two Autograph Letters, signed. Substantial letters from Col. Pierce Joyce, another key ofcer in the Arab revolt, and a friend Mrs. Campbell and her late husband. The frst is written from Baghdad in 1925, 28 December 1925 (signed “P.C. Joyce”). 8 pp., with original envelope. “A man just from England came in to see us yesterday & tells me he hears Lawrence is about to destroy all existing copies of his book & rewrite it again this year or next — worse than ever!” Joyce also tells Mrs. Campbell about the forthcoming book, and how he wrote Lawrence “and demanded a copy of his book as being his chief supporter in the Arabian gamble.” Joyce fgures prominently in Seven Pillars and there is a portrait of him by Dobson, which Joyce disliked, as he notes in the other letter. The second is written from Galway, 12 October 1927 (signed “Pierce Joyce”). 3 pp. Discussion about a future visit and Seven Pillars. “I should like to kill Frank Dobson for his Hogarthian drawing of myself & yet when I met him the other day the homicidal initiative was lacking!” & “I love your enthusiasim over ‘The Seven Pillars,’ if you could only have seen nature’s setting to the pictures he paints in his beautiful English it would have been the ideal.” 3. PIKE, Roy Manning, printer of the 1926 Seven Pillars. Two Letters, signed (“Manning Pike”), from London, the frst a Typed Letter, 8 [August] 1927, one page, about shipping; the second, an Autograph Letter, 15 August 1927. One page, enclosing a second copy of Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Shaw (O’Brien A039, 200 copies), present, and discussing the customs declaration for Seven Pillars at 30 guineas. 4. CAMPBELL, Nancy. Two Drafts: Autograph Letter, Signed (“N. Campbell, Mrs. Colin Campbell”) to T.E. Lawrence (“Sir”). Campbell Ranch, Goleta, California, 30 October [1926]. 2pp., 8vo. Mrs. Campbell writes about her excitement to be a subscriber. “Thank you very much for allowing me to have the privilege of subscribing.” Autograph Letter, Signed (“N.C.”) to Messrs. Manning Pike, on letterhead of The Drake hotel, Chicago, undated. 3 pp., arranging shipping of her copy of Seven Pillars. $135,000

22 | james cummins bookseller seventeenth-century manuscript prayer book on vellum LORBER, Martin. Florilegium Selectissimarum Precum, Illustrissimo Domino Domini Comiti Basilio Brescia … a Martino Lorber … mariis et selectoribus Libellis sedulo collectiam, et in Signum singularissimae observantiae dicatum et oblatum. 10 engraved plates (2 hand-colored, 4 printed in blue). [4], 113 pp. calligraphic manuscripton vellum in an italic hand, in red and black ink with gilt initials. 12mo (4-1/2 x 2-5/8 in.), [Loreto, Italy: 10 August 1694]. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Split to head of front joint. Provenance: William Bragge (his sale, Sotheby’s, June 7-10, 1876, lot 286). Calligraphic prayer book on vellum presented from chaplain Martin Lorber for presentation to the Bishop of Brescia. The dedication is dated 10 August 1694, Loreto. The Basilica della Santa Casa is located in Loreto and special mention of the worship of Our Lady of Loreto is made in the text. This manuscript was formerly in the collection of William Bragge and sold at his sale at Sotheby’s in 1876, where it was described as “[vying] for perfection of writing with the works of the celebrated Nicolas Jarry.” Bragge (1823-1884) was an English collector of manuscripts — his sale of 491 items brought £12,500 in 1876 (for Bragge, cf. De Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, pp. 155-6). $7,500

catalogue 124 | 23 (LOUIS XIV) [Charpentier, François, et al]. Medailles sur les Principaux Evenements du Regne Entier de Louis le Grand, avec des Explications Historiques. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Simonneau l’aîné after A. Coypel, title-page with engraved border and vignette, 318 f. letterpress descriptions of medals illustrating the life of Louis XIV, each medal reproduced recto and verso in engraving, each leaf within engraved rococo border. [12] pp. table of contents at rear. Folio, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1723. Second edition. Full contemporary red morocco gilt with arms of Louis XIV on covers and royal monograms in spine compartments. Wear to spine ends, cover darkened, some sporadic browning and staining to text. Cohen/de Ricci, p. 695. Provenance: Delaware Senator Thomas F. Bayard (autograph letter presenting the book from Samuel L.M. Barlow, December 22, 1884). The second edition of this handsome catalogue of commemorative medals issued during the life of Louis XIV, frst issued in 1702 and here extended through his death in 1715. $2,000

proof copy LOWELL, Robert. Lord Weary’s Castle. 69 pp. Printed rectos only. Square small 4to, [New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946]. Blue wrappers, tied, with title written in pen on label on upper cover, with no title-page, but with half-title and verso of title-page. Proof copy of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning frst regularly published book. From the library of Louis Andre Ledoux with his signature on the inner front wrapper. $2,500

24 | james cummins bookseller M[ANDRILLON], J[osep]h. Le Spectateur Américain. Ou Remarques Générales sur l’Amérique Septentrionale et sur la Républic des Treize Etates-Unis.[Bound with:] Recherches Philosophiques sur la Découverte de l’Amerique, ou Discours sur Cette Question … Engraved folding map and 2 folding tables. xvi, 128, 307, [1]; [ii], 91, [5] pp. 8vo, Amsterdam: Les Héritiers E. Van Harrevelt, 1784. First edition. Contemporary half calf and pastepaper boards. Extremities rubbed, small repair to head of spine, foxing to margins of frst few leaves. Very good. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Théodore de Jonghe, noted Belgian collector, and a small booklabel above. Howes M248; Sabin 44240. First edition of this work on the natural and political history of the American colonies. “The author was desirous of being a member of the [Society of the] Cincinnati, and thought that Congress could take away the difculty which prevented his membership” (Sabin). The map is an attractive depiction of the thirteen states. $2,500 the first report of the holocaust The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. Note addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on Dec. 10th, 1942, and other documents. [At head of title:] Republic of Poland, Ministry of Foreign Afairs. 16 pp. 8vo, London: Published on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Afairs by Hutchinson & Co., (Publishers) Ltd, [1943]. First edition. Self wrappers, upper cover printed in red. Fine. First publication of the Polish govenment-in-exile report on the Nazi atrocities, drawing upon the eyewitness report by Jan Karski- Kozielski of conditions inside the extermination camps in German-occupied Poland. A cornerstone of the literature on the Holocaust. $3,250

catalogue 124 | 25 MENNIE, Donald. The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China’s Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints. 50 tipped-in photographic prints (12 hand-colored), decorative pen sketches throughout by Lt.-Col. H.G. Gandy. Printed and bound by the Kelly & Walsh Limited, Shanghai. 4to (12-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches), Shanghai: A.S.Watson & Company, 1926. First edition, no. 416 of 1000 copies. Bound in original pictorial woven silk with upper cover depiction of the Gorge after design by H.G. Gandy “adapted to the weaver’s art.” Some minor rubbing, else fne. $2,000 MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books [and:] Paradise Regain’d. A Poem in Four Books. With 20 wood- engravings by D. Galanis and inital letters designed by Anna Simons. 2 vols. 4to, London: The Cresset Press [Printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press], 1931. Edition of 195 copies, this copy unnumbered. Original full tawed pigskin. Minor natural variations in leather. Fine in cloth slipcase. Ransom 22. Lovely copy of the imposing and beautiful Cresset Press Milton, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. The text of Paradise Lost is from the second edition of 1674; Paradise Regain’d is set from the frst edition of 1674. $4,000

26 | james cummins bookseller architecture textbook for young students [MORELLI, Jacopo]. Catalogo di Commedie Italiane. Engraved arms on title page. viii, 179 pp. 12mo, Venice: Nella stamperia PANSERON, [Pierre]. Élémens d’Architecture … [Première di Modesto Fenzo, 1776. First edition. Contemporary Partie]; [bound with:] Nouveaux Élémens d’Architecture … pre-binding stif wrappers, untrimmed. An exceptionally Seconde Partie. First part: 17 engraved plates, printed recto attractive copy, fne. and verso, most hand-colored in wash and pink watercolor; Tommaso Farsetti’s fne collection of books and manuscripts second part: 36 numbered engravings and 12 supplemental was extremely rich in Italian literature and history. A series plates (in two series numbered 1-6 each) by P.L. Bienvenue. of specialised catalogues was published between 1771 and [ii], 27, [1]; 22 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris: Chez l’Auteur … et Chez 1778, prepared by the distinguished Venetian librarian Jacopo Desnos, 1772; 1773. First edition. Contemporary mottled Morelli (1745-1819), with the collector’s assistance—all of calf, smooth spine gilt all over with small volute tool, red which are rare. This catalogue of Italian plays is preceded by morocco lettering-piece. Light wear along joints, internally an introduction by Farsetti in which he explains his criteria fne. for inclusion. There are bibliographical notes to many of the The frst two parts of Panseron’s Elements of Architecture, a entries and omissions from Allacci’s Drammaturgia are noted. textbook for young students. The frst part treats the fve A 28-page list of additions was added to some later issues, orders and other basic elements of architecture, the second but this exceptionally fne copy is clearly of the earliest issue, deals with sculpture as it relates to architecture. A third before the additions were made. OCLC lists copies at Yale, part, published in 1776, explains the application of the fve Newberry, Univ of Chicago, Harvard, Toronto, BL, BNF, orders to construction. The parts were issued separately Cambridge. or together. [With:] Recueil des Profls d’Architecture Composé $3,500 par le Sr. Panseron … Engraved title and 54 (of 56) engraved plates showing architectural and design details of interiors, cornices, columns, etc. Paris: Chez Mondhare et Jean, n.d. [ca. 1773]. Contemporary quarter citron morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, with intials “F.B.” at spine. Light spotting throughout, pinholes to margins. $4,000

catalogue 124 | 27 PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell. 3 folding engraved maps, colored in outline, 6 engraved plates, 2 leaves of engraved music. xxviii, 372, [4pp. Music]; xcii pp. 4to, London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799. First edition. Full later cloth, uncut. PMM 253; Howgego P21; Cox I pp. 394-95; Hosken p. 154; Ibrahim-Hilmy II 93. The classic of African exploration. $3,000

songs of philidor, et. al; 7 engraved works bound in one PHILIDOR, François-André (composer). Ariettes détachées du Sorcier, comedie en deux actes melées de chants mis en musique par A. D. Philidor. Les paroles de Mr. [Antoine-Alexandre-Henri] Poinsinet le jeune. Représentée par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi ce 2 janvier 1764. Premier [-deuxieme] acte … Gravées par Gerardin. [2] 16; [2], 16 pp., words and music entirely engraved. 8vo, Paris: de La Chevardière, [1765]. First edition thus (of the separately printed “Ariettes”). Bound with 6 other titles (see below) in contemporary calf. Binding worn and rubbed, upper joint cracked, spine splitting; internally very good. OCLC: 658673189. François-André Philidor (1726-1795) was not only the most powerful chess player of his day and, for a time and its unofcial world champion, he was also a musician and composer of over 20 comic operas, which, though now rarely performed, enjoyed a notable success at the time and are still occasionally recorded. One of his most popular operas was Le Sorcier (1764), which appears here bound with songs excerpted from two others of his works, in the company of pieces by two of his contemporaries, Egidio Duni and Rober Desbrosses. All are rare in institutions; on the market, they are virtually non-existent. [Bound with the following titles, all octavo, all entirely engraved:] — PHILIDOR. Ariettes du Jardinier et son seigneur. Opera comique … [2], 13, [1] pp. Paris : “aux Adresses Ordinaires de Musique,” n.d. [ca. 1761]. OCLC: 165346723 (one copy). — DUNI, Egidio Romoaldo. Ariettes séparées du milicien … n.d. [2], 20 pp. Paris: “aux Adresses Ordinaires …,” 1756. OCLC: 610714043 (one copy). — DUNI. Ariettes séparées de l’École de la jeunesse … [2], 22 pp. Paris: Chez l’auteur… n.d. NOT IN OCLC. — DESBROSSES, Robert. Ariettes et duos des Deux cousines, comédie en prose en un acte représentée pour la première fois à la Comédie italienne le 21 may 1763… Les paroles sont de M. Delaribadier. [2], 30. Paris: chez l’auteur … et le Clerc … [ca. 1763]. OCLC: 658607326 (one copy). — DUNI. Ariettes separées de L’isle des foux … Gravé par Mme. Lefebvre. [2], 20 pp. Paris: Chez L’auteur rüe du four Saint Honoré vis à vis les murs de l’hôtel Soissons et aux adresses ordinaires de musique, n.d. [1765]. OCLC: 48597387 (one copy). — PHILIDOR. Airs et duos des Fêtes de la paix avec accompagnement, piéce en un acte représentée sur le Théâtre de la Comédie italienne le lundi 4 juillet 1763… [2], 40, [2] pp. Paris: Chez Le Clerc md. [i.e. marchand] rue St. Honoré, proche la rue des Prouvaires à Sainte Cecile. Et aux adresses ordinaires. OCLC: 715334948 (one copy). $3,000

28 | james cummins bookseller PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. Compiled by QUDURI, Ahmad ibn Muhammad. [Mukhtasar] Islamic Merle Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates (of which Manuscript Legal Treatise, Hanaf school. Incipit: Kitab al- 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations Taharah. Qala Allah ta‘ala ya ayyuha al-ladhina Amanu idha in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to, qumtum ‘ala al-Salat. Initial leaf with small gilt polychrome New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. No. 44 of headpiece, text in black ink on polished paper, 15 lines in 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock the frst printing from fne nasta‘liq hand, headwords in red, within gilt borders. new plates, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Occasional marginal additions. 134 leaves, complete. 8vo, Cloth spine and boards. Very good copy (light rubbing to [Turkey or Persia: ca. 1201 A.H., 1787 C.E.]. Contemporary extremities, endsheets toned). Rare. Custom morocco backed oxblood leather binding, rules in gilt about central gilt folding box. mandorlas, fore edge guard. Some wear to binding (spine $4,000 ends, fap fold), gilt edges partly rubbed plain, an occasional smudge. Very good, internally clean. Two nineteenth- century ownership stamps and several notes, one dated A.H. 1289 (1872 C.E.). Cf. Garrett no. 1248Y for a similar manuscript. Handsome manuscript Hanaf legal treatise by al-Quduri (ca. 972-1037 C.E.), of Baghdad. One of the notes on the preliminary blank provides a date for the manuscript copy, ca. 1201 A.H. or 1787 C.E. $2,750

catalogue 124 | 29 superb ca. 1880 railroad engineering drawing (RAILROADS) “W. Freeborn’s system of Articulated Locomotives”: detailed engineering drawing, pen and ink on thin prepared translucent cloth, signed “J.H. Müller Eng. 25 Chambers Str. del.” Image 52-1/2 inches long, 22 inches high, New York: Ca. 1880. Fine condition. Framed and glazed. A beautiful cut-away engineering drawing consisting of four studies; front, head-on view; back view; and two side views of a steam locomotive, with cow-catcher, top bell, and ornamented headlight, done with meticulous skill. Possibly used in a patent application, for developing component specifcations, or for displaying to potential investors. A handsome and highly decorative work. $3,500

inscribed (ROGERS, Bruce) The Song of Roland. Illustrated throughout with 6 vignettes by Bruce Rogers, colored by hand in blues, reds, greens and yellow tones after the stained glass windows at Chartres. Printed in red, blue, brown, gilt, and black. The type fonts are a lettre batarde and Civilite types imported from France. [ii], 34, [1] pp. Folio, [Boston: Printed by The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifin & Company, 1906]. Limited edition, number 39 of 220 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. Patterned tan paper boards, vellum spine with brown lettering, tan cloth sliding case. Morocco book label of LeRoy Sugarman. A few small trifing tape stains on end leaves, some ofsetting from book label. Fine. Blumenthal, p. 17. Inscribed by Bruce Rogers to LeRoy Sugarman. “The Song of Roland …, one of the most popular of the Rogers books, was notable for drawings made by Rogers from the stained glass windows of the cathedral of Chartres, printed from line blocks and hand colored” (Blumenthal). $4,000

30 | james cummins bookseller ROJAS, Fernando de. The Spanish Bawd, Represented in Celestina: or, the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea. A8 B-2B4 2C6 (2C3 is missigned as “Cc2”; A1 and 2C6 are blank, and lacking in this copy); [14], 88, 91-202 pp. Folio (11 1⁄4” x 7 5/8” ), London: Printed by J.B.[eale] and are to be sold by Robert Allot at the Signe of the Beare, 1631. First edition in English. Bound in later brown morocco by V. Arias; marbled endpapers; a.e.g. Minor rubbing to some of the extremities of the boards, many of the leaves show heavy staining and browning, particularly at the edges and gutter, that does not afect the text. STC (2nd ed.), 4911; ESTC S107195. Frequently identifed as the frst European novel, La Celestina is a tragic-comedy in dialogue frst published 1499, followed by an expanded edition in 1502. The tale is of Calisto, a young man who engages the procuress Celestina to attract the young and unmarried Melibea, a girl heavily protected by her parents. Although the protagonists employ the rhetoric of courtly love, marriage is not their desired goal; alas, the lovers have a tragic end. Rojas’ Spanish original infuenced Miguel Cervantes and Lope de Vega, as well as the development of European prose fction in general. For English literature, there is equal interest in this edition’s translator, the Oxfordian, James Mabbe (1571–1642?). After matriculation at Oxford, Mabbe served for several years in Madrid as secretary to Sir John Digby, the English ambassador to Spain, whose mission was to negotiate a marriage between Prince Henry and the eldest daughter of Philip III, Ana (who went on to marry Louis XIII instead); however Mabbe’s time in Spain was not misspent in mere diplomacy, and he made himself familiar with Spanish letters and customs. By 1617 he was back at Magdalen College, where he began producing acclaimed translations of Golden Age Spanish literature. His close friend Edward Blount published an elaborate folio edition of The Rogue (1622), Mabbe’s translation of Matheo Aleman’s picaresque novel Guzman de Alfarache. The following year, under the initials I. M., Mabbe contributed a short poem to the 1623 Shakespeare folio, co-published by Blount. The Spanish Bawd appeared in 1631, in a translation that Mabbe initiated some years earlier (a manuscript exists: Alnwick Castle, MS 510), and that relied on translations in both French (Lavardin, 1578) and Italian (Ordonez, 1506). Mabbe, the frst English Hispanist, also translated a series of novellas by Cervantes in 1640. Mabbe’s activity as a man of letters and translator of canonical Spanish literature placed him in a central role in Early Modern English literary culture. His writing possesses a fuency that still resonates with critics, with one modern editor describing his work as “a piece of masterly English prose” (Fitzmaurice-Kelly, xxiii). His connection with Blount and his shared interest with Shakespeare in disseminating Spanish literature in England make him a signifcant fgure for contemporary scholars. Translator’s dedication signed: Don diego Puede-ser, i.e. James Mabbe. There are two known issues of the Spanish Bawd, one with the imprint “sold by Ralph Mabbe” in the imprint, and the other, like our copy, “sold by Robert Allot.” $2,500

catalogue 124 | 31 ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. Illustrated with Japan proof impressions of four etchings by R. Swain Giford and seven drawings by J. C. Beard; and 20 full- page illustrations by A. B. Frost, Fannie E. Giford, Henry Sandham. xvi, 318 pp. 4to, New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885. First edition. The Medora edition, no. 411 of 500 copies printed, June 1885. Original brown cloth gilt, uncut edges. A clean, solid copy with faintest traces of wear at extremities. Some toning to front endsheets and half title. Very good plus. Phillips, p. 319; Heller 309. $2,500

ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste. Odes, Cantates, Epîtres et Poésies Diverses [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques François et Latins]. xii, 560 pp. 4to, Paris: P[ierre] Didot, Fils Aîné de F.A. Didot l’Aîné, 1790. One of 250 copies on papier vélin. Contemporary red morocco, covers ruled in gilt to a simple panel design, spine with 5 raised bands, lettered in gilt in one, the rest with circular sunburst tool, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, light blue silk moiré endpapers, by Bradel l’Aîné (his ticket on fep). Extremities lightly rubbed, lower corner of front cover worn. Ramsden, French Bookbinders 1789-1848, p. 42. One in a series of works of French and Latin literature printed by Didot and originally published by the order of Louis XIV “pour l‘education de Monseigneur le Dauphin.” This copy fnely bound by Bradel l’Aîné, with his ticket (“… Bradel l’Aîné, Succeseur du Sr. Derome, le Jeune son Oncle, Rue St Jacques …”) $2,000

32 | james cummins bookseller signed by rushdie on the title-page RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. 446 pp. 8vo, New York: Knopf, 1981. First American edition, preceeding the British edition. Publisher’s boards in a dust jacet. Spine slightly faded, small creasing of the jacket at the head of the spine, and minor rub along on the back panel. Otherwise a fne copy. An exceptional signed copy of Rushdie’s second novel, considered to be his best work. Awarded the Booker Prize in the year of its publication, Midnight’s Children was also awarded the Booker of Booker Prizes in 1993, which honored the best of the original 25 winners of the prize. $725

RUSHDIE, Salman. The Satanic Verses. [x], 547 pp. 8vo, London: Viking, 1988. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, in a dust-jacket. Additionally, this copy includes the publisher’s pre-publication dust-jacket listing the provisional price of £12.95 and date of issue as September 1988. Pencil note on front pastedown, else fne. One of the 20th century’s most controversial novels, an icon for freedom of artistic expression and winner of the Whitbread award. An exceptionally nice copy in both the pre- publication dust-jacket and the publisher’s original jacket. $500

catalogue 124 | 33 (SAMMELBAND) A collection of 26 Medical Dissertations. 4to, v.p. [chiefy Strasbourg]: 1637-1684. Later vellum-backed boards. Front joint split, some foxing, browning, marginal stains. A collection of 26 medical dissertations, mostly published in Strasbourg, 1637-1684, related to various topics including, dysentery, gunshot wounds, the plague, kidney stones, psychological ailments, sleeplessness, surgery on tumors, tooth rot and other maladies. The book includes a manuscript index note at the beginning of the volume and each pamphlet is numbered in manuscript. Most of the titles are quite rare, OCLC showing 3-5 institutions as holding the individual titles. The variety of topics suggests that a physician documenting current research or academic activity in medical studies in Strasbourg compiled the volume. The unique French title in the collection closes the volume and discusses the use of the earliest eau de toilette, L’eau de la Reine de Hongrie, as an antiseptic tonic for the plague. The following is a list of the titles herein: STURMIO, S. Discursus medicus de medicis non medicis in salutem periclitantis proximi. Wittenberg, 1663. [16], 42 pp. LOMBARDIUS, C. Centum Theses de Ofcio Medici. Marburg,1655. [44] pp. HEINTZ, J. Disputatio inauguralis medica De afectibus soporosis. Strasbourg,1677. 40 pp. ISRAEL, J. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de ligatione vulgo von Nestel Knopfen. Heidelberg,1672. 24 pp. OCLC: Cornell and NML. KUEFFER, W. C. [Galaktologian], Seu Dissertationem De Lacte Inauguralem, Sub Auspicio Divino, … Strasbourg,1672. [8], 40 pp. OCLC: only Cornell in North America. WILLIUS, J.V. Disputatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria… Strasbourg, 1640. [16] pp. WILLIUS, J.V. Auxiliante pacis authore, afectuum vehementissimum, vehementissimorum afectuum efectum et causam Iram dissertatione. Strasbourg, 1671. [4], 44 pp. TACKIUS, J.M. Disputatio inauguralis Medica Juvenem Phthisi Incipiente Laborantem. Giessen, 1684. 16 pp. NIEMAND, H. Disputatio medica inauguralis de sufusione. Strasbourg, 1676. [2], 28 pp. BIX, J.U. [Sphygmographia]; seu, Dissertatio De pulsu inauguralis. Strasbourg, 1677. 28 pp. HERTEBRODT, J.M. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de peste. Strasbourg, 1667. 16 pp. NICOLAI, H. Disputatio Inauguralis Medica. De Vulneribus Sclopetorum. Strasbourg,1675. [4], 40 pp. WIDT, J.R. S.S. Triade Fortvnante Et Praesidente Phthisiologia Decreto Et Avthoritate Magnifci, Nobilissimi, Gratiosissmi Collegii Medici, Universitatis Argentinensis… Strasbourg, 1637. 32 pp. SEBISCH, J.A. Disputatio cheirurgica de tumoribus praeter naturam in genere … Strasbourg, 1669. [2], 40, [2] pp. SALTZMANN, L. Disputatio inauguralis medica qua abscessum internum insignis magnitudinis… Strasbourg, 1671. 28 pp. SCHERBIUS, C. Disputatio medica inauguralis de renum calculo … Ultrajecti, 1669. 16 pp OCLC: BL only. PHILIPPUS JACOBUS. Disputatio medica inauguralis … Strasbourg, 1673? [8], 56 pp. MAPP, M. and SCHEID, J.V. [Zetematon peri phusog dekas] h. e. De fatibus quaestiones decem …Strasbourg, 1675. [2], 34 pp. SCHEID, J.V. Visus vitiatus, ejusque demonstratio mathematico-medica … Strasbourg, 1677. [8], 70, [2] pp. MAPP, M. Disputatio de fstula genae terminata ad dentem cariosum … Strasbourg, 1675. 28 pp. WIETZEL, J.C. Disputatio inauguralis medica De morsibus et puncturis animalium … Strasbourg, 1676. 30 pp. SCHERPFF, M. Disputatio medica inauguralis exhibens febrem petechialem … Strasbourg, 1676. [8], 28 pp. SENCKENBERG, J.H. Disputatio medica inauguralis De ptyelismo… Strasbourg, 1676. 28 pp. DULCKEN, J.H. Disputatio Inauguralis De Nakir Id est, Nakir Arabum …Heidelberg, 1684. 20 pp. AMELUNG, J.C. Der Röm. Käyserl. Majestät Und Churfürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen Allergnädigst- Und Gnädigst-ertheiltes Privilegium. [Leipzig], 1680. 12 pp. [?] Les vertus de l’eau de la reine d’Hongrie. [Paris?], [c1670s]. 3pp. $2,600

34 | james cummins bookseller SAYERS, Dorothy. An Account of Lord Mortimer Wimsey, the Hermit of the Wash, related in a Letter to Sir H—- G—- Bart, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. 16 pp. 8vo, Bristol: Printed by M. Bryan, Corn-street, 1816 [actually Oxford, Oxford University Press for the author, 1937]. “One of 250 copies privately printed by Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press in November and December 1937 for Christmas gifts to Sayers’ friends.” Limp self-wrappers. Minor foxing. Gilbert A27. A fctional family history of an ancestor of Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey, with a false imprint. $1,500

SAYERS, Dorothy L. Papers relating to the Family of Wimsey. 55, [1] pp. 8vo, Bristol: Privately Printed for the Family [by] Humphrey Milford, [1936]. First edition, one of only 500 copies, with slip for extra copies tipped-in at front. Blue wrappers. Light browning to covers. Gilbert A 27. Wimsey family spoof by Sayers. $1,000

catalogue 124 | 35 “i am not writing anything now and …” SCOTT, Sir Walter. Autograph Letter, signed, “To Miss Smith” (Sarah Bartley). 3 pp. Edinburgh: 13 February 1814. Old folds and one repair without loss of text. Address on the verso of the fnal page of the letter, with red wax seal, addressed to “Miss Smith / Drury Lane Theatre / London” and postmard in red “Feb 12 / 1814.” Included is an engraved portrait of Scott “from the original picture in the possession of Mr. Murray painted 1824.” “Letters of Sir Walter Scott” London: Constable, 1932-37, Vol. 3, pp. 411-12. Written to the actress Sarah Smith, later Bartley, (1783?–1850), some fve month before the publication of his great success Waverley, which appeared July 7, 1814. Scott and Miss Smith, as he addressed her, were frequent correspondents, and he praised her performances and her character in his letters to others. In one letter he encouraged Miss Smith to “have Shakespeare and the Dramatists of that golden age of theatrical genius as often in your hand as you can” (10 Dec 1811) and he presented her with a copy of his “Rokeby” upon publication in 1813. Scott tells Miss Smith: “I am not writing any-thing just now, and indeed have no thoughts of doing so for some time for I should tire of writing and what is worse though your politeness or rather let me say your partiality may contradict me people would unquestionably tire of reading.” It is no surprise that Scott claimed literary inactivity during this period in which he was composing Waverley — he worked hard to preserve his anonymity, in spite of the novel’s eventual success. This letter provides insight into Scott’s interaction with his contemporaries as he transitioned from being a celebrated poet to the progenitor of a new genre, the historical novel. $2,250

with a drawing of a wild thing (SENDAK, Maurice) Grimm, Wilhelm. Dear Mili. Illustrated. [40] pp. oblong 4to, New York: FSG, [1988]. First edition. Cloth. Near fne in near fne dust-jacket. Hanrahan A130. Inscribed “For Bob Wilson, [illustration of a Wild Thing] so you won’t forget what I look like! Maurice Sendak Aug. ‘90.” $1,500

inscribed with a grimm dwarf! (SENDAK, Maurice) Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Juniper Tree and other Tales from Grimm Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. xii, 168; xii, 169-332 pp. 2 volumes in a slipcase. Small quarto, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973. First edition. Cloth boards, spines stamped in gilt with ornament on upper board, paper dust-jackets, housed in paper-covered slipcase with large pictorial label. Fine. Hanrahan A82. Inscribed to Bob Wilson with an ink drawing as follows: “Grimm dwarf covering a / bad ink splotch. Ain’t I clever! / Maurice Sendak / Oct. ‘75” The dwarf covers an ink smear that appears on the fore-edge of the frst two leaves of volume 1. $1,500

36 | james cummins bookseller (SENDAK, Maurice) Krauss, Ruth. A Hole is to Dig, a First (SENDAK, Maurice) Lanes, Selma. The Art of Maurice Book of Defnitions. [48] pp. 6.5 x 5.5, New York: Harper and Sendak. 278 pp. Oblong quarto, New York: Abrams, 1980. Row, 1952. Later printing. Paper dust-jacket over cloth- First edition. Transparent acetate jacket over pictorial paper covered illustrated boards. Upper corner of front inner fap boards. Fine. clipped, with price of $2.57 net on lower corner and “Harper Inscribed “For Bob Wilson / [Wild Thing drawing captioned Crest” foil sticker to front cover, otherwise fne. Hanrahan ‘with pleasure’] / Maurice Sendak / April ‘81.” A4. $1,500 Signed by Sendak on the front endpaper with an original drawing in black ink and dated “Feb. ‘69 / for Bob Wilson.” $1,500

catalogue 124 | 37 american coffee & sugar to spain, piracy, russian hemp & iron to america, as the napoleonic wars raged (SHIP LOG) Manuscript log book of the ship Factor for 1806-1807. Approximately 100 f. of fne laid paper, the recto of the frst leaf notated “Ship Factor bound from Beverly towards Rotterdam. Elisha Whitney Commander. Sailed June 24th AD 1806 … May God grant a safe and speedy passage.” This log covers 47 f., including the log title. A second voyage is included, starting at leaf 48 “Ship Factor Commanded by Elisha Whitney from Boston bound for Amsterdam & St. Petersburgh.” This extends for 33 f. The balance of the book is blank. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (30 x 25 cm), [On board ship: 1806-1807. Original oversize lettered hessian, the upper cover with the notation “Ship Factor’s Log Book. AD 1806,” the contents with the original stab-stitching to the hessian spine. Slight toning, generally in a remarkably good state of preservation. These are the log books for two voyages of this commercial vessel, covering both round trips. The frst voyage, with a cargo consisting primarily of cofee and sugar, departed from Quincy to Rotterdam, continued on to Alicante and La Mata on the southern coast of Spain, and then returned to New York. The second log records a voyage from Amsterdam to St. Petersburg (i.e., Cronstat), where the Factor picked up a cargo of Russian hemp and iron, and fnally back to New York. Written in a fne, legible hand, these two logs record not only the progress of the vessel, latitude and longitude, and the weather, but include encounters with other vessels, the confguration of sails used, the employments of the crew, two drawings of islands, notes of food and water issued, etc. The Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900 record the Factor as a brig of 253 tons, owned by Thomas Stephens and Abraham Kilham of Beverly, Massachusetts, built at Haverhill in 1806, and registered on June 21, three days before its maiden voyage, recorded in the frst log. Episodes noted include being boarded by armed men from a Spanish privateer on September 28th, 1806 while working through the Straits of Gibraltar. In this instance, all ended well, when an English brig to windward bore down to aid them. There is also an account of striking a shoal on January 7, 1807, a serious mishap, and being boarded by a Russian Man o’ War about 4 miles from Cronstat. American ship logs from this period are uncommon, and with its fne hand-lettered binding, this is an excellent and appealing example, worthy of research into the growth of American trade with Europe at the height of the Napoleonic War and in the years preceding the War of 1812. $4,500

38 | james cummins bookseller where it all began (SIMON & SCHUSTER) Buranelli, Prosper, F. Gregory Hardwick, and Margaret Petheridge, editors. The Cross Word Puzzle Book. An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands That Have Been Submitted to the New York World Published here Exclusively for the First Time and Edited by … [viii], 115, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: The Plaza Publishing Co, 1924. The frst copy of the frst book from Simon & Schuster. Blue cloth, with attached pencil. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publishers, puzzles partly accomplished in pencil. Admission ticket to the First National Cross Word Puzzle Convention, 18 May 1924 at half title. Small paper faw to back fyleaf (now loss). Answer sheet (folded) loosely inserted at back. Full purple morocco slipcase and chemise. Inscribed by the founders of Simon & Schuster on the fyleaf: “To Aunt Wixie whose idea, announced on January 3, has fnally taken material form in this frst copy of the frst edition of the frst publication of Simon and Schuster Inc. Alias The Plaza Publishing Co. With many thanks [signed:] Dick [Simon]. [signed:] Max [Schuster]. April 7, 1924 — 5:52 p.m. — ushering in the Cross Word Puzzle Era.” With a letter from Dick Simon to Father, 28 Feb. 1924, thanking him for ordering 10 copies and continuing on a humorous note. A cornerstone of American publishing history and of the history of American leisure. $10,000

catalogue 124 | 39 SIMON, Richard L. Draft typescript memoir of publishing, Fools Give You Reasons. 84 pp., variously paginated, typed on rectos only, many with holographic corrections. 4to, New York: n.d. ca. late 1950s]. Unpublished. Some edgewear and chipping (three leaves with losses), a few leaves brittle and toned. In custom cloth folding box. Provenance: Peter Simon, son of Richard L. Simon. Typescript reminiscences of Dick Simon (1899-1960), co- founder with Max Schuster of Simon & Schuster, about his life in publishing and changes in the business over three decades.

Comprising: Notes for “Fools Give You Reasons” and other fragments, including “Who Reads Fiction and Why?” 7 pp. Foreword. 2 pp. One Way of Getting into Publishing / Working for Liveright, 9 pp. Working for the Aeolian Corp. (piano rolls); meeting Max Schuster. “Fred R. Hood was the frst book wholesaler I ever met … a combination of Mr. Deeds and Abraham Lincoln.” 4 pp. Also about Schuster. The Middle Men. 19 pp. Sackheim & Scherman, founders of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The Middle Men. The Efect of Paperback Reprints on the Publishing Trade. 5pp. Promotion and Advertising. 13 pp. Advertising. 5 pp. Advice given him by Adolf Kroch. The Efect of Television on Book Buying in America. Draft, dated 8/13/57. 3 pp. Concludes, “From here television seems like a manifold blessing.” Titles. 12 pp. Two and Two Makes Four. 5 pp.

With: Fri. night, Sept. 14th, [1957?] “Dear Dick …” Autograph letter, 2 pages, recto and verso, no signature. And: To Dick Simon From Sloan Wilson, Subject: Relationship between writer and publisher, 6 pp. (4 original leaves, 2 in photocopy only).

An unpublished look at American publishing history and practice. $5,000

40 | james cummins bookseller STEIG, William. Collection of fnished drawings and sketches for Fortune and The New Yorker. 43 drawings, detailed below. Some soiling, generally near fne. 4 pen-and-ink and wash drawings for The New Yorker (approx. 9 x 8 in.), signed (“Steig” and “W.Steig”), docketted in pencil and with The New Yorker stamps on verso, ca. 1940 22 pencil sketches (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in.), captioned, depciting scenes of modern ofce work life, possibly for Fortune, ca. 1950 12 pen-and-ink drawings (approx. 7 x 10 in.), most signed (“W. Steig”), some captioned and docketted with page number and placement, scenes of modern ofce work life, one image docketted as having appeared in Fortune magazine, ca. 1950 One fnished pen-and-ink and colored pencil drawing (9-1/2 x 8 in.), ca. 1950, possibly an unused drawing for The Agony of the Kindergarten 4 miscellaneous small sketches in pen-and-ink. $12,500

catalogue 124 | 41 original drawings for till death do us part STEIG, William. Collection of fnished drawings for Till Death Do Us Part. 53 pen-and-ink drawings, all but one mounted on color paper and signed (“Wm. Steig”), captioned on the mount, some docketting in pencil, one image inscribed “William Steig, RD 2, Cream Ridge, NJ” on verso of mount. Images approx. 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 in , [Cream Ridge, NJ]: ca. 1947. Damge to a few mounts, generally near fne. A collection of 53 original drawings to Steig’s look at the life cycle of a marriage, from frst encounter to divorce and old age. $17,500

42 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 124 | 43 STEIG, William. Collection of original drawings for About People. 58 pen-and-ink drawings on paper, signed (“Wm. Steig”), docketted in pencil and pen, two images with Random House and Life Magazine stamps on verso. Various sizes, approx. 6 x 6 in, ca. 1939. Some light smudging, generally near fne. 58 original signed drawings for William Steig’s About People (1939) — the completed book ran to 105 illustrations. With a signed note, “John — Here it is. Don’t lose it. Bill” presenting the drawings to an editor or publisher. $25,000

44 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 124 | 45 original maquette and finished drawings for the agony in the kindergarten STEIG, William. Maquette for The Agony in the Kindergarten, with an additional 69 fnished drawings. 222 pp. numbered in pencil, comprising 106 f. with pencil and pen-and-ink sketches, rectos only (save for three leaves with photostat reproductions), pencil notations throughout by Steig, type-written title-page and foreword; with 69 fnished pen-and-ink drawings on loose paper, some signed lower right, type-written captions, with pencil annotations. Sketchbook: 9-3/4 x 7-1/2 in.; Drawings: approx 9-1/2 x 8 in, ca. 1950. Fine. The original maquette for William Steig’s unsettling look at the daily traumas of childhood, The Agony in the Kindergarten (1950), showing the placement of each image and caption and with copious annotations and marks by Steig throughout. With an additional 69 of the fnished drawings as used in the published text. “… the surreal drawings if The Agony in the Kindergarten were perhaps [Steig’s] most brilliant breakthrough into a purer kind of art, but his representations of childhood have always implied a continuity with adult experience; children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us” (The World of William Steig, p. 6, from the Introduction by John Updike). $30,000

46 | james cummins bookseller STEINBECK, John. Cup of Gold. [vi], 269, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. First edition, frst issue, of the author’s frst book. Publisher’s yellow cloth, top edge stained and fnal blank present. Very slight wear to spine ends, ofsetting to fep with contemporary owner’s inscription in pencil, in Mahlon Blaine dust jacket showing light wear at top and bottom of spine, head of spine and rear panel faded, a bright, unsophisticated example of the jacket. Goldstone & Payne A1a.. Written when Steinbeck was 27 years old, Cup of Gold is a historical romance about the life of the pirate Henry Morgan. The frst edition consisted of 2476 copies, of which 939 sets of unbound sheets were remaindered, eventually, to Covici-Friede, who reissued them several years later with new preliminaries, preface, binding, and dust jacket. The McBride imprint remained, however, on the last page of text. $12,500

catalogue 124 | 47 personal scrapbook of french stage actor clément-just STOKOWSKI, Leopold. Typescript foreword to De Motte’s Long-Playing Phonographic Record Guide, signed; with (THEATER) Clément-Just. Album of theatrical corrected draft, two typed letters, signed, and autograph photographs, prints, original art and clippings relating to letter, signed. Typescript, typed letters, and autograph the career of French stage actor Clément-Just. 14 albumen letter, 6 pp., with 2 mailing envelopes. 4to and smaller, 1955. and 3 salted paper prints (10-1/2 x 8 in.) mounted on album Published as Foreword to The Long Playing Record Guide, 1955. leaves, most of Clément-Just in costume, 5 cartes-de-visite Old folds, generally fne. and 3 cabinet cards of Clément-Just, all signed (“C. Just”) and The original foreword by Stokowski to Warren De Motte’s many captioned on the mount with title of play and date, The Long Playing Phonographic Record Guide, 1955, the frst with 3 original watercolor sketches and numerous prints. comprehensive and sytematic survey of music available Oblong folio, [Paris]: ca. 1860-1881. Album leaves worn, on LP, “from the great masters of symphonic and operatic some separated at the gutter, photographs generally fne and music, to the popular and folk-music of nations all over the unfaded, some imperfections in the developing processes or world, including African and Asiatic.” From the collection deteriorations to a few prints, album worn, covers detached. of New York editor and bon vivant John Ferrone, long With binder’s ticket of Deschamps, Paris on front pastedown. associated with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, where he edited The personal photo album and scrapbook of the celebrated the multivolume Letters and Diaries of Virginia Woolf, 19th-century French stage actor Clément-Just, with striking the Diaries of Anaïs Nin, and the HBJ paperback program. vintage albumen and salted paper print photographs of He was also editor of Alice Walker and Eudora Welty, the actor in costume, all signed by Clément-Just and many and a long-time personal friend of James Beard, whose captioned with the name of the play and the theater where posthumous work he edited. it was performed. Clément-Just specialized in historical $1,000 costume dramas, plays with titles such as Mazarin, Henri II, La Prise de Pékin, La Chouanne, Jeanne D’Arc and Monte Cristo, and the photographs are noteworthy for their elaborate display of costume. Clément-Just is nearly

48 | james cummins bookseller unrecognizable from photograph to photograph as he undergoes extreme changes in costume, make-up and hair style. Laid-in to the album is a collection of contemporary French theater newspaper clippings concerning Clemént- Just’s career, including an 1875 issue of Paris-Theatre which is adorned on its front page with a cliché print of the actor. $5,000 a modern classic — review copy TOOLE, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces … Foreword by Walker Percy. Large 8vo, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition, one of only 2500 copies printed. Original beige cloth. Fine in very good plus frst state pictorial dust-jacket (slightest traces of wear at head of spine, some light speckling on verso). Review copy with publicity insert and review slip noting publication date of 31 May 1980, with Richard Elman’s notes towards a review on verso. “John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant, posthumous novel of the opiniated, misunderstood Ignatius Riley and life in New Orleans. The author sent it to every publisher in America, all of whom rejected it. After the fnal rejection (by Knopf ) Toole committed suicide. He was only 32. His mother gave the manuscript to Walker Percy, who secured its publication by Louisiana State University Press, and it was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Its virtues have now been universally recognized … New Orleans can never be the same again after Toole’s comic masterpiece” (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, 125). First state of the dust-jacket, without the Chicago Sun-Times blurb on the rear panel. Reviewed by scholar and critic Richard Elman for the Summer 1980 issue of Knoxville Lifestyle. $2,000 turing’s “imitation game” TURING, Alan. Computing Machinery and Intelligence [in:] Mind, vol. 59, no. 236. Pp. 433-460. 8vo, Edinburgh: Nelson, October 1950. First publication of the landmark paper outlining the “Imitation Game,” now known as the Turing Test. Gray printed wrappers. Some trifing chipping at margins, deft repair to blank spine panel. First publication of Turing’s famous thought experiment, which he dubbed the Imitation Game, “the most lucid and far-reaching expression of his philosophy … The wit and drama of the ‘Turing test’ has proved a lasting stimulus to later thinkers, and a classic contribution to the philosophy and practice of artifcial intelligence” (ODNB). A landmark in twentieth-century science. $3,500

catalogue 124 | 49 correspondence soon began to cover a wider range of topics, VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Polar Express. Full page color including politics, Shakespeare, and a recipe for Boerenkool illustrations by the author. Oblong 4to, Boston: Houghton met Wurst. “if you can get hold of some really good sausages Mifin Company, [1985]. First edition. Crimson cloth blocked made out of good American meat and not out of Russian in silver. Fine in fne unclipped dj. wood pulp like ours, then I would suggest the following recipe to you. Take a good cabbage of closely packed texture Inscribed to Paul Frankel by the author on the fep with a …” Ferrone was a skilled editor and his inquiries prompted small ink drawing of a bell emitting a musical note. van der Post to fnd photographs to add to the 1979 edition $1,650 of Venture to the Interior. The correspondence ended after HBJ moved from New York and Ferrone took an early retirement, the white bushman of cheyne walk* though a 1984 carbon from Ferrone makes clear that “my independent life has proven quite successful. Harcourt VAN DER POST, Laurens. Correspondence with John Brace Jovanovich has given me so much work that I need Ferrone, editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, comprising look no further. Apart from my continuing responsibility 26 Typed Letters, signed, and Ferrone’s retained carbons. for Virginia Woolf, Anaïs Nin …and Alice Walker … I am Air Mail paper or aerogrammes, typed, signed (“Laurens” happy to be able look after your interests once again.” With or “L”), 2 with secretarial signatures, one autograph post a presentation copy of the Penguin edition of The Night card, many with mailing envelopes, 26 pages in all; Ferrone’s of the New Moon, and a copy of the Morrow paperback retained copies are carbons or photocopies of 22 letters on 26 edition of The Heart of the Hunter (December 1968), pages. 4to and smaller, London, Sufolk, and New York: 1977- inscribed to John Ferrone from Anaïs Nin. A substantial 1982. Condition generally fne. literary correspondence at a time of van der Post’s greatest diplomatic activity, to the editor responsible for getting van Rich and varied correspondence between the celebrated der Post’s work to a new and expanded American audience. chronicler of the Kalahari, television presenter, international diplomat, and “enchanter,” Sir Laurens van der Post (1906- * — Anonymous review of Teller of Many Tales, The Lives of 1996), and New York editor and bon vivant John Ferrone, Laurens van der Post, by J.D.F. Jones, The Daily Telegraph, 22 who championed his work in America during the late 1970s. Sept 2001. They frst met during a 1977 visit by van der Post to New $2,000 York, and they spoke of South Africa and Anaïs Nin (Ferrone oversaw the publication of her multivolume diaries) and the

50 | james cummins bookseller japanese swords in watercolor Watercolor album of Japanese swords. 18 ink and watercolor double-page spreads (4-1/2 x 16 in.) some folding, with kanji character titles and English translation in manuscirpt. Oblong 12mo, [Japan: later 19th century]. Decorated paper wrappers. Chipping and wear to edges of covers, some soiling to pages, but illustrations bright and vibrant. Hand painted and manuscript album containing 18 representations of Japanese blades in scabbards (saya) with formal mountings (kochirae). Executed in ink (sumi) with richly applied polychrome colors. Each illustration is accompanied by a cryptic title in Japanese with translations in English. Blade types include mostly daggers (tanto) and sabers (tachi). $7,500

catalogue 124 | 51 walt whitman’s signed copy of “review of the life, character, and writings of elias hicks” (WHITMAN, Walt) Burnap, George Washington. Review of the Life, Character, and Writings of Elias Hicks. 32 pp. 8vo, New York: 1851. Gray printed wrappers. Minor faws at spine and edges of front cover. Signed by Whitman on the front cover and with his marks in blue pencil on eight pages. Very good. Custom black half morocco slipcase and chemise. Povenance: Bodley Bookshop, N.Y.C., invoice 1956 for $17.50 to Whitmans scholar Loren K. Davidson. Signed by Walt Whitman on upper right corner “W.W. 1880” and annotrated in blue pencil at pp. 5, 6, 9, 14, 15, 27, 30 and 31. In the autumn of 1880, Whitman wrote an extensive essay on Quaker abolitionist Elias Hicks. He had long planned to write about Hicks, and he read this biographical account with great interest, and, as was frequently the case, with his blue pencil in hand. His markings show him to be looking at original source material about Hicks rather than Burnap’s prose. Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Elias Hicks (1748-1830) headed one of the two factions in the frst major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. A liberal Quaker preacher, he advocated abolition among other causes. Hicks was an acquaintance of Whitman’s father and a close friend of Whitman’s grandfather Jesse. Whitman’ mother Louisa shared her husband’s admiration for Hicks, who preached the value of Inner Light against the authority of ordained clergy, and Walt Whitman credited his mother for introducing him to Hicks. In November 1829, 10-year-old Walt heard Hicks preach at Morrison’s Hotel in Brooklyn, later recalling his “resonant, grave, melodious voice.” Whitman’s essay, “Notes (Such as They Are) Founded On Elias Hicks,” appears in his 1888 newspaper column collection November Bough. Walt Whitman’s markings (no handwritten words) are on pages 5, 6, 9, 14, 15, 27, 30, and 31. A sample: WW has bracketed and drawn an arrow to: “Who was Elias Hicks? Elias Hicks was born in the township of Hempstead, in Queens County, on Long Island, on the 19th of March, 1748. His parents, John and Martha Hicks, belonged to reputable families, and were at the time of his birth in connection with the Society of Friends” (p. 6). Whitman draws a perpendicular line and arrow to “an incidental notice” by Elias Hicks about his visit to Saratoga in 1781 (p. 9). On another page, he’s underlined the following: “It is said that in England no Dissenting family drives its carriage more than two generations” (p. 14). WW brackets and draws an arrow to a lengthy quote from Hicks to Nathan Shoemaker of Philadelphia in 1823 beginning: “And inasmuch as those idle promulgators of the doctrine of original sin believe they are made sinners without their consent or knowledge, which according to the nature and reason of things every rational mind sees is impossible, so likewise they are idle and ignorant enough to believe they are made righteous without their consent or knowledge by the righteousness of one who lived on the earth near two thousand years before they had an existence, and this by the cruel act of wicked men, slaying an innocent and a righteous one …” (p. 27). On page 31, WW underlines “the origin of our religious ideas, — are they innate or acquired?” and draws a question mark in the margin next to it. A choice Whitman signature on a biography of Hicks, whose example runs through Whitman’s entire life and career. $9,500

52 | james cummins bookseller “i celebrate myself …” a fine copy of the second edition of leaves of grass [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Frontispiece portrait. [1] f. (blank), pp. [i]-iv, [5]-384, [1, advertisement (verso blank)], [1] f. (blank). 12mo, Brooklyn, New York: [Fowler and Wells], 1856. Second edition, with an additional 20 poems not published in 1855 edition. Original green cloth, spine stamped with leafy title and the celebrated Emerson quote in gilt, upper board titled in gilt within ornamental border in blind, lower board in blind. Fine, fresh copy, with just a few minute spots of rubbing at corners. In a custom green half morocco clamshell box. Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 5-6; BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2. Provenance: John Stuart Groves (his morocco book label). A fne copy of the second edition of Leaves of Grass. As well as the additional poems, Whitman has included a fnal section of Correspondence and Review, called “Leaves-Droppings,” beginning with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation “I greet you at the beginning of a great career …” which Whitman had rather boldly stamped on the spine of the original binding. The Christian Examiner of November, 1856 was not amused, and wrote: “… Thus the honored name of Emerson, which has never before been associated with anything save refnement and delicacy in speech and writing, is made to indorse a work that teems with abominations.” $30,000

catalogue 124 | 53 zola in 1888 ZOLA, Emile. Autograph Letter, signed (“Emile Zola”), Medan 22 aout 88, sending payment for the casting of a bronze bust. One page, black ink on laid paper, 10 lines, approx. 50 words, with integral blank. 8vo, Medan: 22 August 1888. Old folds. Fine. Tipped into a copy of L’Attaque du moulin (1901). Excellent autograph letter, signed, from the great French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902) to an unnamed recipient, sending a cheque (not present) for 400 francs “en paiement du buste en bronze que vous avez fondu pour moi et je vous prie de vouloir bien m’envoyer une facture acquittée.” For Zola, 1888 was an eventful year. On 14 July, the Legion d’honneur was conferred upon Zola (he had previously refused in 1884 and 1886). Two days before the present letter was composed, he fnished writing La Rêve. “En 1888, Zola a deux révélations: l’amour et la photographie” (Massin). He took up photography and met Jeanne Rozerot, who became his mistress toward the end of the autumn. Zola’s engagement with the arts was signifcant and of long standing, and in 1891 when elected president of the Société des gens de lettres, he lobbied for Rodin to be chosen for the planned monument to Balzac. A choice letter from an eventful year. In a copy of L’Attaque du moulin (1901), one of 300 copies, with plates handcolored (wrappers bound in). Half morocco, spine gilt with red lozenge onlays by P. Afolter, front board detached. $2,250

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