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front cover: item 27 inside front cover: item 22 inside rear cover: item 80 rear cover: item 7 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. 1] Fine Early Copy of Ackermann’s Oxford ACKERMANN, Rudolf An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History Halls, and Public Buildings. London: Rudolf Ackermann, of Cambridge” and plate 50 bears the May 1, 1814, date — 1814. both are Abbey’s first states. Plates 15, 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94 are Abbey’s second state. There are 6 watermarked plates, each First edition. Stipple engraved portrait of the Chancellor, bearing the date 1812, and the half-title is present in both Lord Grenville, 64 hand-colored aquatints engraved by Bluck, volumes. Hill, Stadler and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall, et al, and 17 colored line and stipple engraved costume plates A fine, early copy of Ackermann’s monumental survey of the of university figures in their academic garb by Aagar after great university. Uwins. xxv, [1], 275, [7]; [4], 262, [6] pp. 2 vols. 13-3/8 x 11-1/4 $6,000 inches. Bound in full antique brown calf, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, some offsetting of plates, foxing to Grenville plate, but a fine, otherwise unfoxed, handsome copy. Tooley 5; Abbey Scenery 280. 2] Illinois State Normal University cross country to California, then by freighter to Seattle, and on to Alaska. The tenderfoot (ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron recounts job-hunting, snowshoeing on the Gold Creek Trail Johann Isaac von and experiences in an avalanche. After a stint in a bakery, A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to he went into commercial aviation with a more experienced pilot, Fred Soberg. Cole performed a loop the loop with Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable their Curtiss Jenny. The venture was ended when a sudden Events, and of Popular Traditions … Translated from overnight gale wrecked their plane. Cole soon found a job the German by John Black. London: R. Ackermann, 101, with a survey team in Mount McKinley National Park (the Strand, 1820. frontispiece shows him seated with a rifle). He travelled as a stowaway on a steamer from Cordovia to Seward, where he First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. 24 would have picked up the railroad line. hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz, 1 map. xiv, [2], [1]-178 pp. Folio (13-1/4 x 11 in.). Contemporary polished calf, Frederick Soberg (1905-1983) was an early pioneer of Alaskan spine gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked, corners somewhat rubbed, aviation and a founder of the Juneau Aviation Club in 1934. offsetting from plates and text, very good, attractive copy. One of Soberg’s flying buddies was Sheldon Simmons, who Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie, pp. 107-8, 312; Prideaux, p. later founded Alaska Airlines. At pp. 84-86, Cole publishes a 337; Tooley (1954), no. 234. letter from Soberg saying that he had formed a partnership with Simmons. Along the Rhine with Ackermann Long after this visit to Alaska in 1930, Cole produced One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books . a privately printed account, Journey to Caribou Land $4,500 (Whittier, Calif., 1983), that draws upon One Lives but Once and gives details of his work in the park. UNRECORDED. 3] $850 (ALASKA) COLE, Martin One Lives But Once. [N.p: n.d., 1936]. With frontispiece and two plates from photographs. 105 pp. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the first blank. Very good plus. Not in OCLC. Short and colorful account of the adventures of young Martin Cole making his way from the classrooms of the 2 | James Cummins bookseller 4] ANDERSEN, Hans Christian Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1932]. No. 144 of 500 copies signed by Rackham. With twelve color plates, fifty-nine black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 286 pp. 4to. Bound in full vellum, stamped in gilt, VERY FINE. In glassine and custom cream paper over borders box. Riall, p. 177; Latimore and Haskell, p. 68. Stunning copy of the signed limited edition $4,500

5] APPIAN [Title in Greek] Appiani Alexandrini Rom. historiarum Punica, sive Carthaginiensis, Syriaca, Parthica, Mithridatica, Iberica, Annibalica, Celticae & Illyricae fragmenta quaedam : item De bellis civilibus libri V. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus [Estienne], 1592. First complete Estienne edition. Printer’s device to title- page. [xii], x, [2, blank], 767, [1] 72, [34] pp. Parallel Greek and Latin text in two columns. Folio. Full contemporary white pigskin, covers tooled in blind to a panel design with three distinct rolls and small tools surrounding arabesque centerpiece, remnants of ties. Small excision from margin of title-page, else a clean copy. Adams A-1352; Schreiber 223. Provenance: Earls of Maccelsfield (South Library bookplate and small embossed stamp to first two leaves. Magnificent Estienne printing of Appian of Alexandria’s Roman History; the Macclesfield copy in a contemporary blindstamped pigskin binding. $2,000

Catalogue 132 | 3 6] AVINOFF, Andrey Russian Ecclesiastical and Decorative Art Objects in the Collection of George R. Hann: Watercolor illustrations by A[ndrey] Avinoff. Pittsburgh?: 1944. A total of 100 watercolors, each about 5 x 3 in; 84 of them mounted in two volumes, the remainder loose. 2 vols. Folio (13 x 11-1/2 in.). Two full dark blue calf albums, gilt on upper covers and spines, patterned fabric doublures, linen hinges (to allow the thick volumes to open flat); fine condition. With the bookplate of George Rice Hann and that of the Library of the Westmoreland County Museum of Art in each volume. 100 Avinoff Watercolors of Russian Art Treasures Andrey Arvinoff (1884-1949), a Russian artist who emigrated to America after the Bolshevik revolution, specialized in landscapes and portraits; he also had a successful career in commercial art. He was noted for his imaginative and skillful detail, art critics praising his “purity of line that can come from only the most delicate perception” and observing “like the other Russians who have come here, he loves to use details in wholesome quantities.” In the commercial art field, his nephew Alex Shoumatoff notes in the family chronicle Russian Blood, “his renditions of everyday household articles attracted attention as works of art.” In 1922 he was recruited by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh to be a curator of entomology and in 1926 became the museum’s director. In addition, he taught courses on Oriental and Russian art at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the ideal artist to depict George Hann’s Russian objects, and his watercolors, done over pencil, are careful but not fussy; where, as is often the case, the objects are set with precious stones, his drawings shine with a radiant sparkle. Accompanying these volumes is the catalogue of an exhibition of Russian Icons and other works of art from Mr. Hann’s collection held at Carnegie Institute in 1944. It is finely bound in dark brown calf, gilt device on upper cover; apart from a little wear to extremities, it is in fine condition, and displays some of the items illustrated in the two albums. $15,000

4 | James Cummins bookseller 7] BARNES, Djuna Collection of manuscripts, books, letters, photographs and original art of Djuna Barnes. Ca. 1915-1982. Condition generally very good or better, described in complete listing of collection. Provenance: Hank O’Neal. A career-spanning collection comprising manuscripts and corrected typescripts, candid vintage photographs, inscribed books, original art, and autograph postcards and typed letters of Djuna Barnes, from the collection of Hank O’Neal, New York photographer, record producer and author. Through his friendship with Berenice Abbott, O’Neal was one of the few to gain access to the reclusive Barnes during the final years of her life. O’Neal helped Barnes manage her literary affairs, stave off unwanted attention, and arrange for reprints and new editions of her work. In 1990, O’Neal published a memoir of their relationship, “Life is Painful, Nasty and Short … In My Case It Has Only Been Painful and Nasty.” Over the course of their relationship, O’Neal received gifts of inscribed books, manuscripts and artwork from Barnes. Highlights of the collection include: — One of only 10 copies of Ladies Almanack, signed and hand-colored on Vergé de Vidalon, and additionally inscribed to O’Neal. — Inscribed copies of A Book (1923), Nightwood (1937), Selected Works (1980). — Barnes’ working copy of The Antiphon, with numerous manuscript corrections and 8 typed pages of insertions, done for the 1962 Selected Works edition. — 6 autograph postcards, including 4 to Barnes’ mother Elizabeth Chappell Barnes. — Original art, including suppressed “Horace Chubble Brushing Around Heaven” illustration for Ryder — Vintage and rare photographs, including a collection of portraits of Barnes taken by Berenice Abbot in her studio in 1957 and printed by Hank O’Neal. — A unique recording of a short phone conversation between Barnes and O’Neal, discussing, among other things, the 1979 reissue of Ryder. One of only two known recordings of Barnes’ voice. A full list of the collection is available on request. $40,000

Catalogue 132 | 5 8] 9] [BECKFORD, Peter] BEEBE, William Thoughts on Hunting. In a series of familiar letters to The Galápagos: World’s End. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, a Friend. Sarum: Printed by E. Easton : Sold by P. Elmsley 1924. in the Strand; J. Ridley, St. James’s Street; London and W. limited signed edition, no. 96 of 100 copies signed by the Sollers, Blandford, 1781. author. Photogravure portrait of Beebe, 9 tipped-in color First edition, with half-title. Engraved frontispiece and plates and 80 images (most photographic) plus two maps. two engraved plates comprising depiction of the Goddess xxi, 443 pp. 4to. Original white cloth, with vellum tips, t.e.g. Diana, the plan and elevation of a kennel. [10], 334 pp. 8vo In original grey cloth dust-jacket. (7-3/4 x 6 in.). Nineteenth-century brown morocco, with with als laid in red and green morocco lettering pieces, gilt fox’s head in spine compartments and center of upper and lower panels. A fine copy of Beebe’s 1923 expedition to the Galapagos Fine in cloth slipcase. Podeschi 64; Schwerdt I, p. 56; Gee, which openly sought to build on Darwin’s discoveries in Sportsman’s Library, p. 8 (“The corner-stone of a huntsman’s 1835. This lavish work includes a full account of the voyage library”). plus Beebe’s scientific findings. The text is augmented by the photographic images and especially the color plates. The definitive statement on foxhunting and hound management, written after many years of practical With ALS laid in on Department of Tropical Research New experience by an eloquent squire and former M.P.; its York Zoological Society stationery. teachings form the basis of modern foxhunting. The work $2,250 has gone into numerous editions, few of them so physically attractive as the original. $1,250

6 | James Cummins bookseller 10] 11] (BIBLE, German) [SAUR, Christopher] (BIBLE. N.T., Greek) Biblia, das ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues E Kaine Diatheke [Title in Greek]. Novum Testaments, nach der Teutschen Uebersetzung D. Testamentum. Juxta exemplar Joannis Millii Martin Luthers mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, accuratissime impressum [edited by Caleb Alexander auch Bengefügten Vielen und Richtigen Parallelen. from Mill’s text with additions and alterations Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. and a chronological table of the books of the Second Saur edition. [4], 992, 277, [3] pp. Text printed in Testament]. [Worcester] Wigorniae, Massachusettensi: two columns. 4to. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, Excudebat Isaias Thomas, Jun, 1800. metal clasps. One clasp lacking. Minor wear to extremities. First American printing of the Greek New Testament Contemporary ownership markings on endpapers. Lightly (“Editio Prima Americana”). [5], 6-478, [2, ads] pp. Text in tanned, light foxing and soiling. Very good. Seidensticker, p. Greek. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, black morocco spine 61; Arndt 269; O’Callaghan, p. 25; Evans 9343; Hildeburn 1877; label. A few scuff marks, minor worming to foot of spine, NAIP w018552; Sabin 5192. flyleaves loosened at foot, usual slight browning of text, The Second Saur Bible but overall a very nice copy. With the bookplate of Chester Ashley; and loosely inserted is a church pew receipt to a The second edition of the first European language Bible Miss Ashley of Hudson [New York], dated 1842. Evans 36952; printed in America, after the first of 1743. The text is based Darlow and Moule II 4775; Sabin 56204. on Martin Luther’s version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible, with Book Three of Edras, Book ‘Editio Prima Americana’ Four of Edras, and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from Superior copy of this milestone in American printing history, the Berlenburg Bible. The present edition, rumored to have with a most interesting bookplate: that of Chester Ashley been issued in 2000 copies, was printed by Christopher Saur (1791-1848) of Hudson, New York, who, after his graduation II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, from Williams College, eventually settled in Little Rock, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Arkansas, where he became one of the wealthiest and most Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to powerful lawyers in the territory, and eventually “one of the printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. greatest Senators Arkansas or any state has ever produced.” – A nice copy of an important early American Bible. Josiah Hazen Shinn, Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas (1908). $6,000 $1,250

Catalogue 132 | 7 12] 13] (BIBLE) BLACKSTONE, William The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Commentaries on the Laws of England. America Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek: and with [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Philadelphia, at the Union Library, in Third-street, 1771-2. Revised. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Boston: First American edition. “Re-printed from the British Copy, Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, Page for Page with the Last Edition.” Folding “Table of For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. Descents” in vol. II. [viii], ii, [vi], 485, [1]; [viii], 520, xix, [i]; West, E. Larkin, W.P. Blake, and J. West. Sold by them at [viii], 455, [1, ads], xxvii, [i]; [xxii, Subscribers], [viii], 436, vii, their respective Book-Stores, 1794. [i], [xxix], [i] pp. 4 vols. 4to. First volume in contemporary A-U6 W6 X-Z6 (Z6 verso blank). Text printed in two columns. calf, vols. II-IV in contemporary sheep, all with red morocco 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title-page margin spine label and volume number stamped in blind. Vol. IV (not affecting text), title leaf with tissue repair at gutter rebacked to style, preserving endsheets. Rubbing and some and fore-edge margin, 4 other leaves with small repairs to other wear to bindings with loss at extremities, typical margins. Very good. Evans 26664; Hills, English Bible in browning and spotting of text, vol. II with waterstaining America, 48; ESTC W4683 (AAS, Duke). to margins and rear endpapers torn. Provenance: Daniel Campbell (his signature to vol. IV, p. 1); Matthew Visscher SO MUCH FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE (his signature to vols. II-IV, dated 1782 in vol. II). Library Company of Philadelphia “First American Editions,” p. Rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston 21; Lilly “Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature” for the consortium of booksellers (to provide an American 52; Shipton and Mooney 11996, 12327. For the first edition: printed alternative to British printings), with the Great Seal Grolier “English” 52; Higgs 4494; PMM 212; Rothschild 407. of the United States prominently displayed on the title-page, suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic, Subscriber’s Copy certain clauses of the Third Amendment were subject to fluid interpretation. This is the only instance where the Great Subscriber’s copy with the signature of Daniel Campbell. Seal of the United States was used in conjunction with a The subscriber’s list identifies him as: “Daniel Campbell, patently religious work. Esq; Schenectaday [sic], Province of New York.” Campbell emigrated to the colonies from Ireland in 1754 and rose to Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. prominence and fortune as a trader, merchant and judge. $26,500 And with the signature of Matthew Visscher (1751-1793), Albany lawyer and patriot. Visscher was a lieutenant in the 8 | James Cummins bookseller Albany city militia and served as secretary of the Albany Items 14-24 Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Protection. william MUIR FACSIMILES OF WILLIAM BLAKE Blackstone’s Commentaries were published at Oxford in 1765- “[Gilchrist’s ‘Life’] not only multiplied the prices of [Blake’s] 69 and were immediately successful. Blackstone translated works, but it encouraged the publication of facsimiles. Of English common law into layman’s terms and as the colonial these, the most ambitious, and the most conspicuously legal system, and afterwards, that of the United States, was successful, were those … produced at The Blake Press at based upon the English legal system, it was as important a Edmonton by William Muir and his family and friends. text in America as in England. Bell justifies his piracy of this Twelve works in Illuminated printing were issued between work by saying that his edition helps the American economy 1884 and 1890, printed and coloured by hand at great trouble by keeping the monies here and that his edition will also and with considerable success … The size of the edition was be a great deal more economical for the purchasers. From small, but their influence was appreciable, and their scope his advertisement in Volume I, “The inhabitants of this has only been equalled in recent times by the facsimiles of continent have now an easy and advantageous opportunity the Blake Trust” (Bentley). of effectually establishing literary manufactures in the British colonies, at moderate prices calculated for this meridian, the establishment of which will absolutely and eventually 14] produce mental improvement, and commercial expansion, with the additional recommendation of positively saving BLAKE, William thousands of pounds to and among the inhabitants of the America, A Prophecy, by William Blake, 1793. London: British empire in America. Thus, the importation of one thousand sets of Blackstone’s Commentaries, manufactured Quaritch, 1887. in Europe, at ten pounds per set, is sending near ten one of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile, 18 leaves, hand- thousand pounds across the great Atlantic ocean.” colored. Folio. Modern calf backed boards, preserving A 22-page subscriber’s list in the fourth volume includes original wrappers. Keynes 217k; Bentley 249j. many prominent people such as John Dunlap, Printer; One of the great large-format facsimiles by William Muir, John Jay; Sir William Johnson; Andrew Oliver and from copy A (at the time in the possession of Quaritch, now Edmund Quincy. There are quite a few of the signers of in the Morgan Library). the Declaration of Independence on the subscriber’s list RARE. including John Adams, William Ellery, Philip Livingston, Thomas McKean, Lewis Morris, Robert Morris, John $9,000 Morton, Cesar Rodney, George Ross, Richard Stockton, Roger Sherman, James Smith, George Taylor and Matthew Thornton. This publication was the first major undertaking by Robert Bell in his printing and publishing business. Known best to his contemporaries as an auctioneer, he has been credited with having done more than any other printer in the Colonies to promote the reading of the classics (Oswald). The first volume of Blackstone contains 4 pages of advertisements and notices from Bell including his notice “To the American World” explaining his “buy American” theory. $12,000

Catalogue 132 | 9 15] 16] BLAKE, William BLAKE, William The Book of Thel [bound with:] The Marriage of The Book of Thel. [London: 1885]. Heaven and Hell [and:] Visions of the Daughters of No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile, based on copy Albion [and:] There Is No Natural Religion [and:] All D. 8 leaves. 4to. Full green levant, wrappers bound in. Spine Religions Are One. Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard toned. Fine. Bentley 249b. Quaritch, 1884-5. $3,750 Each title one of 50 copies. With 8, 26, 11, and 21 hand-colored plates in the four works (66 total). 4to. Contemporary full white vellum gilt, spine and upper cover titled in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine copy. Cloth slipcase. Bentley 249 b,c,e, & g. Four Muir Facsimiles in Special Binding The Muir facsimiles were produced in editions of 50 copies; a few copies would have been bound up by Quaritch, the distributor, in white vellum, as here. The wrappers are not preserved but the books are complete. $12,500

10 | James Cummins bookseller 17] 18] BLAKE, William BLAKE, William Europe, a Prophecy, by William Blake, 1794. Facsimilied The Gates of Paradise, by Wm. Blake, Lambeth 1793. at Edmonton, anno 1887 [wrapper title]. London: Facsimilied at Edmonton, anno 1888, by Mary Hughes Quaritch, 1887. and Wm. Muir. London: Quaritch, 1888. No. 38 of 50 copies, signed by Muir on the wrapper. 17 leaves, No. 26 of 50 copies, signed by Muir on the wrapper. With 18 hand-colored. Folio. Original printed wrappers, white paper black-and-white etched plates. iv pp. text. Complete. Small spine (slightly damaged). Brown morocco-backed folding folio. Original printed wrappers. Spine with light chipping, case. Fine copy. Keynes, p. 297; Bentley 249k. else fine. Blue cloth folding case. Bentley 249m. This is the 8th of 12 facsimiles issued by Muir. The facsimiles I want, I want were taken from Muir’s own copy of leaves 1 and 3; the BM A mixture of For Children and For the Sexes plates: title-page copy (leaves 2, 4, 5, 7); and the MacGeorge copy for the rest. (plate 2) and plates 3, 9 & 15 from For Children; plates 1, 4-8, The large-format Muir facsimiles are rare and spectacular. 10-14, 16-18, 21 from For the Sexes. Presumably based on two $11,000 or more unidentified copies. This copy has no “programme” (Muir’s list of his facsimiles) printed inside the back wrapper. This facsimile is so accurate that plates from it have been offered as originals on occasion. RARE. $6,000

Catalogue 132 | 11 19] Blake’s Milton: the Muir Facsimile in Special BLAKE, William Binding The MILTON facsimile was made from Copy A (1804-08), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. [Edmonton: Muir, the British Museum copy; it has 45 hand-colored plates. Muir 1885]. includes a three-page facsimile letter from Blake to Hayley, One of 50 copies, marked by Muir “for the Times.” William dated March 16, 1804, explaining the poem. It is preceded Muir facsimile. 27 leaves in color. Small folio. Later blue by five pages of printed text, consisting of a letter by Muir cloth, preserving pale blue printed wrappers. Bentley 249e. to Prince Victor of Hohenloft-Langenburg, “Your Serene Highness, and my Kind Patron” describing Blake’s career and Reproduces copy A, the Beckford Harvard copy. work; it mentions that the Milton is “the most difficult” of With an additional facsimile of Blake’s Index to the Songs the facsimiles he has done so far, and that it has taken two of Innocence and of Experience, an uncolored plate, The years to complete. Muir’s price for this facsimile was ten Divine Image; signed by Muir inside back wrapper, with guineas, the highest of any of his productions. notes and prices of forthcoming titles. REMARKABLE. RARE. $3,500 $12,500

20] BLAKE, William Milton, a Poem in 2 Books. Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch, 1886. One of 50 copies, number 30 struck through on wrapper and title-page, and inscribed in Muir’s hand “Saturday Review.” [1, blank], [2, printed title-page], [3-7, Preface] pp. With 45 hand-colored plates in facsimile by William Muir, plus 3 pp. facsimile letter at end. 4to. Full autumn leaf morocco gilt, preserving wrappers, t.e.g., by Roger de Coverly. Light rubbing to front joint. Fine. Cloth slipcase. Keynes 217f; Bentley, pp. 28-9.

12 | James Cummins bookseller 21] BLAKE, William Songs of Experience. London: Quaritch, 1927. second muir facsimile, No. 25 of 50 copies, signed by Muir inside front wrapper and at limitation statement at end. William Muir facsimile. 27 plates, hand-colored. Small folio. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping to wrappers, internally fine and bright. Brown morocco-backed folding case. Bentley 162. The second Muir facsimile of this great book, with beautifully colored plates, including four additional plates among them a general title for Songs of Innocence and Experience. $2,500

22] BLAKE, William Songs of Innocence. [And:] Songs of Experience. Muir’s colophon stating this is copy 47, dated 1884. Songs London: 1885. of Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy and he is recorded at the end as the Publisher in London in 1884 but Each work is one of 50 copies; one of a few sets specially his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who bound for Quaritch. William Muir facsimiles, hand-colored. distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience was taken 34 & 31 leaves; illuminated colophon at end of Songs of from the Beckford Copy. The general title to both works has Innocence; with Index and uncolored plate, The Divine been bound at front. Image, bound at end. Small folio. Full white vellum gilt (bound without wrappers). Fine. Cloth slipcase. Bentley 249 The superb Muir facsimiles, in a deluxe binding. a & d. $12,500 Songs of Innocence has an illuminated leaf at the end, with

Catalogue 132 | 13 23] 24] BLAKE, William BLAKE, William Songs of Innocence. [And:] Songs of Experience. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Edmonton: John [London: Quaritch, 1927]. Pearson for Bernard Quaritch, 1884. Second Muir facsimiles of these works, 55 and 50 copies One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. printed. 28 & 27 facsimile plates in color. 2 vols. Small folio. With 11 hand-colored plates (bound without wrappers or the Wrappers, stitched. Marked for Review in Muir’s hand and preface addressed to Muir’s patron). 4to. Full green straight- signed by him, with autograph notes on the upper covers grain morocco, covers gilt with triple gilt fillets, spines (later states have printed details on the wrappers). Fine. lettered in gilt within decorative framing lines, board edges Green cloth slipcase and chemise. Bentley 144, 162. gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Faint wear to extremities, else fine; probably the publisher’s special binding. Keynes 217c; Outstanding examples of the second Muir facsimiles of these Bentley, pp. 28-9. famed works, with excellent coloring, and bearing notes in Muir’s hands on the sources: “facsimilied by Joseph Patrick Blake’s ‘Daughters of Albion’: Muir Facsimile in Trumble, Sophia Elizabeth Muir and William Muir from Special Binding the Beaconsfield original[s] in the British Museum with [in Experience] (as an appendix) 4 plates from the other British $4,000 Museum copy. Also one plate for which no colouring is known ‘A Divine Image’ which seems to belong to the Songs although not included in them by Blake.” $9,000

14 | James Cummins bookseller invested Ladysmith & cut the telegraph lines & pulled up the Railway … Then began the long dreary siege…” Carter reports using “a lot of pigeons” and notes the cost of Kaffir and Zulu runners, to get letters out of Ladysmith and at least one of his letters (not here) was published in the Hamilton Spectator. The siege is depicted much like a holiday camp, citing football matches, swimming races, water polo, cricket. “We got so indifferent to the Boer ‘snipers’ that you would see most of our chaps having an afternoon siesta behind their trenches while bullets would be chipping the stones around them. We also used to organise pools, when we could see some of the Boers, and have a long range shooting match, the man who bowled the first Boer over taking the pool.” Yet there is also much on troops movements, information on the Boers, the conditions of Ladysmith, accounts of engaging the enemy, and reflections on the experience of combat: “the actual fighting is all right as the excitement deadens your faculties, but after a battle when … you see your poor companions who a few hours before were joking with you, lying dead or else writhing in the agonies of pain caused by frightful wounds, then you feel your courage leaving you and your nerves getting like wax.” The remaining correspondence includes three letters as Carter’s regiment treks across the Transvaal through August and September 1900. These too are full of detail of life in 25] the field, bivouacking scouting enemy positions and action: “There was a grand opportunity for our Field Artillery. They (BOER WAR) CARTER, Sergeant D.A. simply pumped shrapnel into them, the Artillery Officers 20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, going mad at the sight, and shrieking to the gunners ‘fire! fire! hurry up you b----- fools, you never had such a chance, Bloemfontein and elsewhere. VP including Ladysmith, fire!’ … You could see at every discharge of the guns, the Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al: 28 October 1899 - 5 April Boers falling, and at the same time our splendid Infantry 1901. running for all they were worth trying to get at them Nine ALS, three TLS, eight carbons. 64 pp. in total. Folio & with the bayonet … [I]t is very seldom the Boers leave any 4to. Very good, some tiny chips to carbons and a few spots of wounded or dead behind them and it proves how hard we minor dampstaining not affecting legibility. pressed them … It was like a shambles … one, two or more bodies, horribly mutilated by the effects of the Lyddite.” FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH The final group commences with Carter being stationed A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer at the Commander-in-Chief’s office and he wastes no steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is “sleep[ing] opportunity to use the special mail service for his own in the open air, only one blanket & one waterproof sheet.” correspondence. He describes Kitchener at work and Within a year he was Lord Roberts’ private clerk and in provides insight to life in the office. Yet beneath this is a December 1900 he is stationed at the Commander-in-Chief’s yearning for the war to end and a frustration that it can’t be Office (Kitchener’s) doing “confidential military work for the done in one swift battle: “We cannot get a good fight out of Military Secretary to Lord Kitchener.” the beggars they simply have a few shots at us and as soon as Although part of the intelligence service, Carter saw we get near enough to do some damage, off they go helter- more than his share of fighting. He describes the march to skelter.” Ladysmith, and the action at Elands Laagte Station, noting This group of letters were all addressed to Carter’s long time “a bullet going through the top of my helmet and cutting off friend, who we know only by the name of Jose. Given the some of my hair but without even scratching the skin.” warmth and detail included here, it’s possible that he was The next four letters were written from Ladysmith and using these letters as a substitute for a diary. Carter served provide a full account of the siege. “The Boers had big with some distinction in 1st Manchester Regiment and was siege guns mounted on the hills around Ladysmith which mentioned in the despatches. quite outclassed our light field guns … [They’d] completely $5,000 Catalogue 132 | 15 26] (BOOK OF HOURS) Illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum. [Northern France (Paris): ca. 1470]. In Latin and French, 130 leaves (plus 2 vellum endleaves at front and 8 at back), wanting leaves with miniatures at fols. 24, 74, 88, 94 and 129, single column, 14 lines in a fine late gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow, red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with white penwork, eleven border panels of single line foliage with gold and colored leaves and fruit (fols. 18r, 22r, 34v, 44v, 49v, 53v, 57v, 61v, 69v, 122v, 127r), fifteenth-century paper devotional sheet with the heart pierced by the Cross between the inscription: “Ihs est amor meus” pasted to recto of second front endleaf (upper lefthand corner torn away), and with prayers in manuscript on 8 leaves at end. 12mo (142 x 102 mm). Modern tooled calf over pasteboards in medieval style, gilt tooled on spine, a.e.g., by R. Petit. Some small smudges and slight cockling to a few leaves, else excellent and clean condition. This diminutive Book of Hours comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1r); Gospel Readings (fol. 13r); Obsecro te (fol. 18r); O intemerata with the title “Orison devote a la vierge me” (fol.22r); the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol. 25r), Lauds (fol. 34v), Prime (fol. 44v), Terce (fol. 49v), Sext (fol. 53v), Nones (fol. 57v), Vespers (fol. 61v) and Compline (fol. 69v); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 75), with a Litany (fol. 85r) and prayers; the Hours of the Cross (fol. 89r); the Hours of the Dead (fol. 95r), followed by prayers, including the “xv ioyes nostre dame” (fol.122v) and the “vii requestes nostre seigneur” (fol.127r), both in French. $15,000

16 | James Cummins bookseller 27] (BOOK OF HOURS) Hore beate Marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum ecclesie romane … Paris: Gilles Hardouyn pour Germain Hardouyn, [1521?]. [97] (of 104) leaves, printed on vellum, 23 lines, black letter, initials in gold on blue or red grounds, text pages within a variety of historiated and ornamental borders, and with 16 large and 13 small metal cuts FULLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 8vo. 17th-century French citron morocco, tooled in gilt to a panel design with drawer-handle and volute tools. Bohatta 961; Lacombe 316; Adams 1032; Joseph Cundall. “A Brief History of Wood engraving” in The Publishers’ Circular No 1350, May 14, 1892, p. 550; Roger S. Wieck, Painted Prayers (NY, 2004). Printed on Vellum, with 16 Large Miniatures Fine example of illumination on vellum in an early binding, from the atelier of the Hardouins, who, along with the Parisian printers Kerver and Simon Vostre, made the printing and illumination of vellum Books of Hours one of their specialties. Books of Hours were traditionally used at home rather than at church and such was demand that “from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, more Books of Hours were produced, both by hand and by the press, than any other type of book” (Wieck, p. 7). It’s often noted that Books of Hours finally placed access to God in the hands of the public. With the new technology of moveable type, the ability to satisfy demand increased dramatically and, though still expensive, they were now in reach of a far larger section of the public. Joseph Cundall explains the printing process: “[T]here is no doubt that the famous illustrations of the Missal, or ‘Book of Hours,’ issued in Paris between 1490 and 1520, were engraved on metal of some kind, perhaps on copper or some amalgam of tin and copper… It will be noticed that the groundwork of many borders in the French books is filled with little white dots, criblé it was called; these dots are, in the first place, to imitate similar work in the gold grounds of the borders of illustrated missals, and, in the second place, to save the labour of cutting away so much of the metal as would be required for a white ground…“ Curiously, many of the images in French Books of Hours were made after German illustrations. However, the real distinction lay in the quality of illumination and particularly the use of gold leaf. Examples such as this, redolent in gilt and in a contemporary hand are very desirable indeed. $15,000

Catalogue 132 | 17 28] One of the great large-format Derrydale Press titles of the 1920s, and a classic work on the Arabian horse, “the aristocrat BOSWELL, James of the equestrian world.” The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. … in Two Volumes. A superior copy of the deluxe edition. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. $9,000 First edition, second state of S4r with corrected spelling of “give.” Engraved portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds, 2 other engraved plates. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588 [i.e. 586] pp. 2 vols. 4to (11-3/4 x 9 in.). Modern half calf in antique style over old marbled paper-covered boards. Uncut. Fine, in custom cloth slipcase. Pottle 79; Rothschild 463; Grolier English 131. Uncut An uncut, large-margined copy of the first edition of the most famous and enduring biography in the English language. $6,500

29] BROWN, William Robinson The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 26 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author. Color frontispiece after Harrington Bird and three other color plates, 46 halftone plates, illustrations in text. xxvii, [3], 218 pp. Large 4to. Full blue morocco with emblematic gilt tooling, t.e.g. by MacDonald. Fine. Siegel 25; Frazier B-19-D; Podeschi 364.

18 | James Cummins bookseller 30] 31] BROWNE, Thomas [BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett] The Works of the Learned Sr Thomas Browne, Kt. An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems. London: James Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. Containing I. Duncan, 1826. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio First edition, first issue with line 15, p. 75, reading “found,” medici: with annotations and observations upon it. and pages 12, 24 & 148 correctly aligned. xiii, [iii], 152 pp., III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: together with the issued without half-title. 8vo. Later nineteenth century garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany tracts. With full green morocco, gilt, by Bedford. Front joint rubbed. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (her morocco booklabel); alphabetical tables. London: Printed for Tho. Bassett, Ric. Christopher Clark Geest (bookplate). Barnes EB2; Hayward Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearne, and Charles 238. Brome, 1686. EBB’s Second Book, the Doheny Copy First collected edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Robert White, printed general title in red and black, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s first mature work, and her separate titles for each part. [xvi], 316, [xii], [xiv], 102, [viii], first regularly published book. Her first book, The Battle of 52, [vi], 68, 99-103 [1], [4] pp. Folio. Contemporary paneled Marathon, was privately printed for her father in an edition of calf, stamped in blind, rebacked, preserving most of original only 50 copies when she was 14 years old. It is known in only spine and red morocco lettering piece titled and tooled in 15 extant copies. An Essay, published when Browning was gilt. Some contemporary marginalia, bookplates. A fresh, only 20, reflects her “passion for Byron and Greek politics exceptionally fine copy. Keynes 201; Wing B5150; ESTC with an exploration of the human mind’s powers. The poem R19807; Wither to Prior 110. Provenance: George Millar never directly considers how gender influences genius and (inscription, “Libris Geo. Millar. Coll: Reg: Oxon: 1699”); the prospects for fame. But clearly this is an underlying Wilfred Merton (bookplate); Robert S Pirie (bookplate). concern …” (ODNB). First Collected Edition $2,750 The first collected edition of one of the great masters of English prose, collecting Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and Miscellany Tracts. A superior copy in contemporary calf. $2,500

Catalogue 132 | 19 32] BROWNING, Robert Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, rebacked. Covers a bit darkened at edges, front free endpaper a little chipped at edge, minor wear and staining. In a custom cloth box. Presentation Copy to Peter Pan’s Grandfather Inscribed presentation copy, with the following inscription on the half-title: “The Rev. J. Llewelin Davies, from Robert Browning. May ’64.” Llewelin Davies (1826-1916) was a noted scholar and divine who corresponded with Carlyle, Ruskin, and others, including Browning. He was the grandfather of the “Llewelin Davies boys” — the five brothers who were the inspiration for J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. $1,750

33] (CALLIGRAPHY) TILLEY, William Micro-calligraphic manuscript “Dedicated in Friendship are the following sellections [sic] for an esteem’d friend by William Tilley … To the Memory of Mr. Daniel Salisbury who departed this life Octr 27 1794. Aged 24 years one month and six days …” With miniature calligraphic versions of the Lord’s Prayer, The Ten Commandments, etc. N.p: July 10, 1820. Pen and ink in a miniature hand on paper, watercolor ornamentation of flowers, leaves, and two weeping willows, stamped gold foil border. 4to. Light chipping at edges and some browning to paper. A finely executed calligraphic manuscript, with miniature calligraphic versions of religious texts, done in memory of “Mr. Daniel Salisbury who departed this life Octr 27 1794. Aged 24 years one month and six days …” $2,000

34] [CARTARI, Vincenzo] & Richard Linche (trans.) The Fountaine of Ancient Fiction. Wherein is Lively Depicted the Images and Statues of the Gods of the Ancients, with Their Proper and Perticular Expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1599.

20 | James Cummins bookseller First English edition. Woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 226) on title. [206] pp. Collation: A-2C⁴ (—A1, blank). Small copies printed on paper). Title with vignette, numerous 4to. Early 19th-century half green morocco and marbled woodcut illustrations, and large initial capitals. Folio (12-3/4 boards, spine titled in gilt. Covers rubbed, title and final leaf x 8-7/8 in.; 32.4 x 22.5 cm). Loose, as issued, in publisher’s soiled and repaired, title resized, dampstain to G1-4 & Z1-2B4, decorated board portfolio with maroon velvet straps, in some marginal annotations, stab holes at gutter throughout. publisher’s maroon morocco-backed clamshell box with Pforzheimer 133; ESTC S107896; Tomita, Italian Books printed label on upper cover; box worn, a few rust marks on Printed in England 1558-1603, no. 268. upper board. Mythology Sourcebook One of 13 Copies on Vellum The Pforzheimer catalogue calls this popular mythology This work consists of two important ordinances issued by manual an “abbreviated paraphrase” of Caratari’s Le the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, Imagini, con la Spositione de i Dei degli Antichi (Venice, 1556), “a 1543. Under the active influence of Bartolomeo de las Casas compilation from Ovid, Claudian, Pliny, Homer and others (“friend of the Indians”) the new laws had the special design of descriptions of classical deities.” ESTC goes further in of ensuring better treatment of the Indians, limiting the calling it “mostly an original work by Linche.” An important distribution of their lands, and, above all, protecting them work in the transmission of classical mythology to Tudor against enslavement by the conquering Spaniards. England. “Las Leyes Nuevas” are reprinted here in this fine facsimile $3,500 from the copy on vellum in the British Museum, and are followed by an English translation. Much of the book is taken up by the historical Introduction by Henry Stevens, 35] who denounces the Spanish mistreatment of the Indians. Ironically, the Spanish crown was later forced to rescind the CHARLES V, King of Spain new laws by colonists who were outraged at having to give The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and up their right to a quota of enslaved Indian laborers. Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the Emperor A magnificent and impressive production by the Chiswick Charles the Fifth 1542-1543. A facsimile reprint of Press, one of only 13 printed on vellum. the original Spanish edition together with a literal $8,000 translation into the English language. To which is prefixed an Historical Introduction by Henry Stevens of Vermont and Fred W. Lucas. London: Chiswick Press, 1893.

Catalogue 132 | 21 36] becoming a professional which never got published: nobody would touch it, because it was too preposterous, and might CHARTERIS, Leslie even offend our good friends, the Japs.” [“The Saint’s Second Front”] Typescript of an It was believed that the only surviving typescript of the unpublished novella. N.p: ca. 1941. story was destroyed in the 1950s when Doubleday purged its 237 pp., rectos only, typescript with manuscript corrections archives. This copy, which clearly once belonged to Charteris in pencil by the author. 4to. Unbound leaves in remnant of and bears his corrections, was part of a small archive of original envelope, with typist’s note, and “Pearl Harbor” in material given by the author to a friend in Ireland and only red ink on cover and small label. Some light creasing and recently rediscovered. evidence of handling, a few spots, in very good condition. $25,000 A Long-Lost Saint Typescript The complete unpublished typescript of Leslie Charteris’s 37] long-lost Saint novella, The Saint’s Second Front — the plot of CHARTERIS, Leslie which foreshadows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Written just months before the attack, Charteris’s story Archive of typescripts, photographs and ephemera. V.p., involves a plan by the Japanese to use a clandestine army — chiefly Lantana, Florida: Ca. 1930s-1970s. the Black Dragon — to attack Southern California as prelude 4to. Generally in very good or better condition, some to a larger invasion. The story was submitted to Cosmopolitan, light creasing and signs of use, some wear and tearing to who rejected it and wrote to Charteris that “we do not think envelopes. this is the time to publish anything which might aggravate the tensions with our Japanese friends.” An archive of typescripts of plays, stories and articles by Leslie Charteris (1907-1993), author of the The Saint series of Charteris referenced the story several times in interviews and novels staring the good-hearted thief Simon Templar. The in writing, describing it in the introduction to the May 1957 archive includes the typescripts of an unpublished Saint story, issue of The Saint Detective Magazine: “Death Is So Permanent,” and The Saint radio play, “The “I wrote a book in which the Saint averted a fair facsimile of Simon Templar Foundation,” as well as Charteris’s essays Pearl Harbor, except that the attack was to be on California about how he created the Simon Templar character and how instead of Oahu. That is the only story I have written since the character was adapted for TV (The Saint series ran from

22 | James Cummins bookseller 1962-9 and starred Roger Moore). In addition, the archive contains typescripts of travel and food essays written for “Pehea Ka Piko.” 3 typescript versions, 11 pp. total, plus 3 pp. Gourmet, photographs of Charteris, and an assortment of carbon, ca. 1966. Article for Gourmet; Autograph note about Saint ephemera. work in progress, “Why wires cut?” Why Caroline afraid?” etc. In original envelope addressed to Charteris to Florida. Comprising: Press and publicity photographs and newspaper clippings, in The Adventures of Houdini, typescript “audition script” of a a Herald-Tribune Syndicate envelope addressed to Charteris. radio play. 27 pp., in envelope. With cast list, Chester Morris as Houdini. Ephemera and promotional items emblazoned with the Saint logo, including stickers, envelopes, compliments Death Is So Permanent. Unpublished typescript. 68 pp. on cards, memo paper, stationery; Saint Magazines, Inc. blank yellow and white paper, some corrections in pencil, in checkbook; “Irish Intelligence Club” card signed by Leslie original envelope addressed to Charteris in Florida; Death Is Charteris; rubber stamps, hood ornament, and pin with So Permanent. A Whodunit. Typescript. [1], 59 pp; Death Is So Saint logo; rubber stamps with Charteris image, signature, Permanent. A Whodunit. Typescript. [2], 59 pp. (identical to the Saint Magazine address, etc.; clippings of food and travel previous copy, but with addition of Dedication page). articles written for Gourmet; disbound issues of The Saint The Simon Templar Foundation. Radio play by Robert and Mystery Magazine. Silvia Richards (adapted from the story of the same name $8,500 by Leslie Charteris). Typescript. 1945. [1], 32 pp. with pencil corrections, marked “LC” at upper left corner of first leaf. “The Tivoli.” 12 pp. carbon typescript for article for Gourmet magazine; “I’ll Take the Plane.” 2 pp. carbon typescript of article about air travel; “Introduction” to The Saint Magazine. 54 separate 1-p. typescripts (with some carbons), mostly sequential, starting December 1961; “The Saint on Television.” 8 pp. typescript, ca. 1963. Charteris on The Saint television series; “How I Created a Saint.” 7 pp. carbon typescript. In original envelope address to Charteris in Florida. “And Then Came Nana.” 9 pp. typescript copy, with small typed noted listing magazine’s for possible publication. Unpublished autobiographical essay about childhood nanny. In Harriet Wolf folder and envelope addressed to Charteris in Florida. Catalogue 132 | 23 38] Publication day for Huck was 18 February 1885, in a first printing of 30,000 copies: in green or blue cloth ($2.75), [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] sheepskin library binding ($3.25), or in a deluxe half morocco Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … by Mark Twain. binding with marbled edges ($4.25). Clemens had been on New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. a highly successful reading tour with George Washington Cable, and wrote Webster from Indianapolis (in a letter dated First American edition, first issue. Illustrations by E. W. 8 February) “You know I read in Brooklyn Feb. 21 — I shall Kemble. 8vo. Publisher’s deluxe half morocco, marbled want to see you at the Everett that day … You can bring a edges and endsheets. Finely rebacked, preserving original Huck Finn in a nice binding …” In other correspondence spine, small repairs to spine ends and to last two letters in leading up to the New York visit, Clemens repeats his request name panel. Custom morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL for copies. He was in Saratoga on 20 February before coming 3415; Grolier American 87. to New York City. Webster had to have brought the present Earliest Presentation Copy of the Published copy in the deluxe binding to the Everett Hotel, where the author inscribed it to the impresario for the reading ‘Huck’ tour, Major James B. Pond. On the leaf opposite, Pond Presentation inscription from Clemens to his agent Pond on later recalled the circumstances of the inscription when he the front fly leaf: “To Major J.B. Pond, with the affection of gave the book to his son in 1897 … “the great Twain-Cable Mark Twain Feb. 21/85.” combination under my management …‘Mark’ showed me Clemens had planned a sequel for Tom Sawyer (1876) almost the book, & asked me if I wanted it, Yes, said I, I would very immediately, yet the book required nearly a decade of great much prize the first copy of one of your books …” effort before he found his way. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The book sold well although early critical response was was intended for simultaneous publication in America and in hostile. The book’s reputation has grown, and Ernest the British territories in December 1884, but the defacement Hemingway famously declared: “All modern literature comes of the Uncle Silas plate altered the production schedule for from one book by Mark Twain.” the American edition. A dozen pre-publication copies were A landmark presentation copy of the greatest American hastily bound in green cloth in December 1884 to secure novel of the nineteenth century. copyright, and Clemens presented a copy bound in sheep to his wife at Christmas. $215,000

24 | James Cummins bookseller 39] First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Cook, 48 engraved plates (including 25 folding), 14 engraved [COMBE, William] maps (including 6 folding) and 1 folding letterpress table, Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern after drawings made by W. Hodges during the voyage. 2 Provinces of France … London: R. Ackermann, 1821. vols. 4to. Nineteenth century half green straight-grained morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, First edition. Frontispiece and 17 hand-colored aquatints lettered in gilt (“Cook’s Second Voyage”), decorated with gilt by Thomas Rowlandson. ii, 291, [1] pp., + [4] pp. catalogue. anchor devices. Joints a bit rubbed but sound, covers scuffed, 8vo. Uncut in original publisher’s drab boards, spine and paper board of second volume (upper cover) abraded. original printed label creased, light offsetting from plates, Internally, both volumes show light dampstains, mostly in custom full morocco case. Tooley 415; Abbey Travel I, marginal, throughout; some offsetting from plates to text. 89. Provenance: Graham M. Adee (bookplate); Dr. James B. Overall, however, a handsome and eminently serviceable Clemens (bookplate). set, complete as issued. Hill 358; Spence 314; Holmes 24; Uncut in Boards Mendelssohn I, p. 377; PMM 223. A near-pristine copy in original boards, with the oft-missing The first crossing of the Antarctic Circle prospectus for Johnny Quae Genus and advertisements for The account of Cook’s first voyage was edited by John other Ackermann books bound at the rear. Hawkesworth and his third was entrusted to John King. As $2,000 such, this second voyage was the only work which Cook had total control over and is the only one to appear in Printing and the Mind of Man: “The world was given for the first time 40] an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was COOK, James no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the 19th century.” and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 … In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of Hill explains in greater detail: “The men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook of the Ships. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries Catalogue 132 | 25 including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society 42] Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, [and] Norfolk Island … This voyage produced a (COSTUME) vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Lady’s and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid in Costume: Combining and harmonizing taste and finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy in addition to the aforementioned discoveries.” judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy, with Fashion in dress … with useful advice $6,500 on female accomplishments, politeness and manners … By a Lady of Distinction. London: Printed by B. Crosby 41] and Co. Stationers’ Court, Ludgate Street; and sold by All (COSTUME) Booksellers, 1811. First edition. 4 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates by J. Bouvard & Cie catalogue of mounted samples of James Hopwood after H. Corbould, J. Swan and Son, epaulets and military regalia. Lyon, France: J. Bouvard & Printers, 76 Fleet Street. 241 pp. 8vo. Bound in full red Cie 20, Rue Lafont, c. 1900. polished calf by Bayntun, Bath, uncut. Bookplate and small blind stamp on title-page. Near fine. Hiler, p. 618; Colas 2065 14 thick card sheets with samples centrally mounted vertically (French ed.); Lipperheide 3252 (French ed.). to recto and verso, some sheets quite thick to accommodate larger epaulets, each with manuscript notations of name, Scarce Regency-era woman’s manual addressing proper size, etc. 11-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Black cloth album with the female dress, deportment, and cosmetics. printed label of “J. Bouvard et Cie Fabrique de Dorures, “… Let me hasten to recommend to you, a publication at Soireries, Ornaments d’Eglise” to front paste-down. Some this time in much request, and which possesses much unique wear commensurate with age and use, spotting and thumb- merit. It is entitled The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English soiling, apparently complete with all samples, backing Ladies’[sic] Costume. You will really be pleased with the possibly restored at an early date. book … This book teaches the art of combining a delicate This very unusual French sample book contains a large range taste with a correct judgment, without either aiding our of epaulets and sequin samples with a few lettering and star vanities, or infringing on our duties … Read this work, with samples. attention, it is really excellent of its order.” — Ackermann’s Repository, volume 5, #29, May 1811. $2,500 $1,250

26 | James Cummins bookseller 43] manuscript accounts and maps of the war are rare on the market. (CRIMEAN WAR) SIMPSON, William & ADAIR, Alexander William Alexander William Adair (1829-1889) served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards through the Crimean War and The Seat of War in the East. London: Paul & Dominic ultimately rose to the rank of Brigadier General. Adair Colnaghi, 1855-1856. embarked for the Crimea aboard the Alma Transport on 12 April 1855, arrived on the 30th and remained there until June First edition. Two tinted lithographic title-pages and of 1856. He was an amateur watercolorist, and evidence of 79 tinted lithographic plates, [24] pp.; accompanied by 5 his draftsmanship is found in the manuscript maps here. manuscript maps, one in ink and four in ink and watercolor, Three of them are loose, two are on the versos of letters to and two manuscript letters (both with their original his mother, and two maps are affixed to preliminary leaves. envelopes). Folio. Original half red morocco with gilt spine Three of them are signed by Adair, all are in his distinctive and green moire covers, a.e.g, extremities a little rubbed, hand. but cloth fine and gilt bright, some scattered minor foxing. Abbey, Travel, 237. Written from Camp Sebastopol, the letters are dated 19 July 1855 (approx. 450 words) and 15 October 1855 (approx. A Future General’s Copy with his Manuscript 150 words) and relate entirely to military matters. The first Battle Maps and Letters provides a detailed description of Sebastopol’s topography, the positions of British and French forces, and discusses A fine copy of Simpson’s set of views documenting the the map on its verso. The second letter gives the distances Crimean War, augmented with two manuscript letters and between several allied positions, refers to its map, and notes five manuscript maps in the hand of its original owner, that his battalion has “orders to turn out every morning at 5 British officer Alexander William Adair, who participated in 1/4 o’clock, red coats, bearskin caps, &c, which looks as if an the battles of Alma, Inkerman and Sevastapol. The volume attack were anticipated, but I hardly think the Russians fools is inscribed “Evelyn A. Carter Wood from her father Alex. enough to come on — it will be another clasp to our medals Wm Adair formerly of Coldstream Guards.” First hand if they do, I suspect.”

Catalogue 132 | 27 The map on the first letter depicts the “English Right Attack The Crimean War was fought between October 1853 and on Sebastopol” and shows forces arrayed before the fortress February 1856 mainly on the Black Sea and the Crimean known as the Redan (top center), the main focus of the peninsula. While the immediate cause of the war was British attack. Fort Malakoff, the focus of French forces, concern over the rights of Christian minorities in the is visible to the right. This map was drawn a month after Ottoman Empire, both the French and the British sought to the first of two unsuccessful attacks on the Redan (June deter Russian expansion and prevent the collapse of Ottoman 18th 1855), and includes nearly every conceivable detail: power, which served as a buffer for British control of the batteries, quarries, mortars, rifle pits, trenches, pickets, eastern Mediterranean. sentries, numbers of men in various locations, and such Mid-way through the war the London publishers Paul notes as “Here the dead of June 18th were buried” and and Dominic Colnaghi dispatched Scottish artist William “Covert way leading to the caves and Woronzoff Road.” Simpson to the region to make sketches for publication. On the verso of the second letter is a sketch of the Simpson arrived on the 15th of November, 1854, shortly Sebastopol defenses drawn a little more than a month after after the battles of Balaclava and Inkerman and just prior the second attack of 8 September 1855. This shows Sebastopol to the siege of Sebastopol. Through consultation with and its harbor, defended on the land side by a string of participants in these battles and personally viewing the six bastions. Identified within the confines of the town topography Simpson made watercolors of recent actions, are various barracks, a battery, the temporary hospital, a among them a representation of the famous Charge of the dockyard, a quay, and Fort Paul, on the shores of the harbor. Light Brigade (plate 15) of the battle of Balaclava. Simpson A boat bridge extends across the harbor from Fort Paul to was a member of the expedition against the port city of the shoreline below the Star Fort. Also shown are the allied Kerch in May of 1855 and subsequently witnessed the first forces entrenched before the town. The third loose map attack on Sebastopol on June 17th and 18th. Many of the depicts the “Advanced Trenches & Harbour of Sebastopol,” plates representing these subjects are based on his direct and is dated 17 September 1855, shortly after the second observations. As noted by Abbey “these plates are indeed an assault. It shows the Redan, Fort Malakoff, Russian rifle pits, impressive piece of work, not only artistically and technically, the advanced trench as well as other trenches and bears such but also in pictorial reporting.” notes as “here I spent the night of Sept. 6th” and “Here Capt. A remarkable copy of this important volume documenting Buckley of the Scots Fusileers was killed by a rifle shot while the Crimean War, with additional original documents posting picket duties on the night of Sept. 6th.” significantly enhancing its historical value. Laid down on the verso of the flyleaf is a map depicting the Battle of Inkerman of 5 November 1854. This is a $17,500 carefully drawn plan including a scale of distances (two inches to a mile), a color-coded key identifying English and French infantry and cavalry, Russian infantry, and guns. Also included is a list of troop totals for each force. The map depicts the field of battle with the conventional north/south orientation reversed. A portion of Sebastopol Harbor, occupied by three Russian naval ships, is visible on the lower right. Fort Malakoff appears in the upper right. The Tchneraya River and associated marshlands stretch across the bottom of the map. An aqueduct runs parallel to the river. Finally, affixed to the second free endpaper is a large general view of Sebastopol, the harbor, and surrounding terrain. The town is outlined in red and the various bastions defending it are identified. The broad positions of the English and French are shown, with the English in the center, flanked by the French left and right. 28 | James Cummins bookseller 44] 45] CROWLEY, Ann DANIELL, Thomas and William Some Expressions of Ann Crowley, Daughter of A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China. Thomas and Mary Crowley, of London, During her London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. Last Illness, from the 23d of the First Month 1773, to the First edition. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates on thick paper 12th of the Second Month 1774. With an Introductory after T. and W. Daniell, watermarked 1808, each plate with Testimony Concerning Her, from the Family … the one accompanying leaf of text. Folio. Contemporary half Russia and marbled boards. Front joint repaired, light wear to Fourth Edition. Norwich, [Conn.]: Printed by John corners, light foxing to a few plates. Abbey Travel 516; Tooley Trumbull; for Henry Spencer at East-Greenwich, in Rhode- 173; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523. Island, 1776. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left Second American edition. ix, 10-20 pp. 12mo. Original England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning stitched wrappers. Pages toned and edge-worn, some light to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed staining. Early ownership marks to wrappers. ESTC W3491; in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was Evans 14722; cf. Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister documented in William’s journal and by the publication Crowley (2010). of Oriental Scenery in 1795-1808 and A Picturesque Voyage to Pious Words from a Young Quaker Woman on Her India, by the Way of China in 1810. The album opens with the Deathbed Indiaman’s departure from Gravesend, a stop at Madeira, and a rough turn around the Cape of Good Hope. The majority The pious deathbed utterances of a young London Quaker of the views depict native life in Java (including shark fishing) woman, Ann Crowley, who died before her 17th birthday and nautical scenes along the Chinese coast and Canton following a year-long illness. Her father Thomas Crowley (c. River, with some scenes of Chinese dress and manners. 1713-1787) was a religious polemicist and poet who published some thirty works, many of them critical of his Quaker faith. “They worked primarily in the British capital of Calcutta, Crowley was the great-great-grandfather of Aleister Crowley. restoring paintings in the Council House and the Old Court House, as well as producing the first topographical series This Norwich, Connecticut, printing is the second American of prints of the city (‘Views of Calcutta’, 1786-8, aquatint edition, following the Burlington, NJ, edition of 1775. The and etching), which according to contemporary diaries and American editions were preceded by two London editions of inventories proved extraordinarily popular among both 1774, printed by Mary Hinde. an Indian and a European clientele. It has been suggested An attractive copy in original stitched wrappers of a rare that Thomas Daniell was among the first British painters printing — OCLC locates just three copies. to use Indian assistants in printmaking; the influence of his landscape compositions and working techniques are visible $750 in Indian topography, c.1790-1850 (including oils after the

Catalogue 132 | 29 Views in the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta). Thomas Daniell pp. 210-1). ODNB further clarifies, “The Descent, understood played an instrumental role in graphically documenting by Darwin as a sequel to the Origin, was written with a a wide geographical and cultural range of sites across the maturity and depth of learning that marked Darwin’s status Indian subcontinent, travelling more extensively than any as an élite gentleman of science.” of his contemporary colonial artists, and earning him the title ‘artist-adventurer.’ Assisted by his nephew, Daniell made $9,000 three tours: from Calcutta to Srinagar (1788-91), a circular tour from Mysore to Madras (1792-3), and in 1793 they visited 47] Bombay and its temple sites-always sketching, drawing, and painting intensively as they travelled” (ODNB). (DEFOE, Daniel) JOHNSON, Charles $15,000 A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, and also Their Policies, 46] Discipline and Government, from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, in 1717, to the DARWIN, Charles Present Year 1724. With The remarkable Actions and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Adventures of the two Female Pyrates, Mary Read and London: John Murray, 1871. Anne Bonny … London: Rivington, 1724. First edition, first issue (with errata on verso of vol. II title- First edition. With three engraved plates. [22], [17]-320 pp. leaf ). viii, 423, [1]; viii, [ii], 475, [1] pp. 8vo. Publisher’s green 8vo. Nineteenth century half red morocco gilt, leather spine cloth. Light wear to covers, expertly recased. Bookplate. labels, and marbled boards. Expertly rebacked. Minor traces Freeman 937. of rubbing. Huntington stamp on rear pastedown; Driscoll Piracy Collection bookplate on pastedown. Very good plus. Darwin’s Descent of Man created an uproar second only Sabin 36287; Gosse, My Pirate Library, p. 45 (second ed. only); to his Origin of the Species; however, “contrary to popular Moore 458; European Americana 724/50; Bell J119; Howes error, prevalent now as well as then, Darwin never said that J127 (“aa’”); NMM 4:267; Hill, 891 (2nd ed.). man was descended from apes, let alone monkeys; what he claimed was that man’s ancestors if alive today would have to History of the pirates who pillaged the Caribbean, north be classified among the Primates” (De Beer, Charles Darwin, Atlantic, and Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth

30 | James Cummins bookseller and eighteenth centuries, usually attributed to Daniel Defoe. the Property of George John Earl Spencer K.G., with In a sense Johnson’s book is a sequel to Exquemeling, yet a General Index of Authors and Editions … London: it is in this work that the foundations of pirate-lore are Longman, Hurst, Rees & Co. Printed at the Shakespeare established: wooden legs, eye patches and the Jolly Roger Press, 1814-15; 1822; 1823. all make their first appearance here. We are introduced to characters such as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and Bartholomew Large paper copies, one of 50 or 55 copies. Frontispiece Roberts, names which influenced the likes of Robert Louis portrait. Numerous plates, text printed in red and black. 7 Stevenson and J.M. Barrie to name just two. vols. Folio. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, boards tooled in blind and in gilt. Some light offsetting and “This rare work embodies many items relating to the foxing. Fine (spines very slightly toned, one joint tender). Colonial history of British America, nowhere else extant, Jackson 36, 37, 38; Windle A25, A26, A27; Besterman 5051. as, the Adventures of Blackbeard, and his Capture by Lieut. Provenance: Marquis of Stafford (binding; bookplates). Maynard in the James River, Va. …” (Sabin, describing the third ed.). The plates show Black Beard, Bartholomew Monumental large paper set of Dibdin’s elaborate catalogue Roberts, and the two female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary of the library of the second Earl Spencer, one of the great Read. book collectors of his or any time. T.F. Dibdin (1776-1847) was A duplicate from the library of Henry E. Huntington, with Spencer’s librarian and produced the four-volume catalogue his stamp on the rear pastedown. in 1814-1815, and later three volumes on the collections at Althorp, describing nearly 1,500 items. RARE AND IMPORTANT. Bound for the Marquis of Stafford, with his device on the $17,500 boards of the first four volumes, and his bookplates in the two Althorp volumes. The tooling varies slightly across the set. 48] “The handsomest and most elaborate catalogue of a private DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall library yet issued” (De Ricci, p. 75). Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, a Descriptive Catalogue $10,000 of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of Many Valuable First Editions in the Library of George John Earl Spencer K.G. [With:] Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures at Althorp [and:] A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately Forming Part of the Library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and Now Catalogue 132 | 31 49] It is a picked copy … and I will venture to affirm, enough in these volumes on the score of art to make them very DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall desirable in the choicest cabinet. I have risked everything A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in upon them — and the utmost success will not assure me a France and Germany. London: Printed for the Author, by thousand pounds. The Engravings and Drawings alone cost £4,000 …” William Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821. The second letter refers to the extra plates, which were First edition. [v], xxv, [vii]. 62, lxxix, [i]; [iv], 555, [1]; [v], issued at a later date. The set then passed to Holbrook 662 lxii pp. Half titles to vols. II & III, and with the full Jackson and was included in Elkin Mathews’ catalogue of his complement of 83 copper-engraved plates after drawings library (Catalogue 119, 1951). by G.R. Lewis, plus the 64 engraved plates on India paper which are mounted in the text; and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with $4,500 all 52 plates from Lewis’ A SERIES OF GROUPS, ILLUSTRATING … PEOPLE OF FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1823. 3 vols. 4to. Full contemporary russia by J. Clarke. Covers with an outer 50] gilt dog-tooth border with triple gilt fillets; spine in six DICKENS, Charles elaborately gilt-tooled compartments; raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Holbrook Jackson copy. Jackson 48; Windle Autograph Letter signed to his friend H.W. Kolle, & Pippin A38a. Provenance: Robert Ray (Pymme’s Library concerning arrangements for a Hackney Coach outing bookplate); Holbrook Jackson (bookplates); Elkin Mathews and Kolle’s arrest for climbing a lamp post. [London: (letter from Percy Muir to Mrs. Arnold Yates, apologizing for January, 1833]. delay in sending the books); Arnold Yates. 4 pp. 8vo. Slight browning, otherwise in excellent condition. “It is a picked copy” Superb, Early Dickens Letter, 1833 Tipped in are 2 autograph letters siged from Dibdin to Robert Ray, the first, dated 15 May, 1821, presenting this book: A superb letter from Dickens to his friend, H.W. Kolle from “As a trifling mark of respect & esteem, I forward your copy 1833 ­— in fact, the earliest letter of any substance to appear of my ‘Tour’ — 48 hours before the day of publication … on the market in the last 30 years. Only one earlier letter 32 | James Cummins bookseller precedes it — a short note of invitation from 1832; no other letter from 1833 has surfaced at a public sale in the last three decades. Dickens’ friend Kolle was a bank clerk who acted as a go-between for Dickens during his love affair with Maria Beadnell, Dickens’ first girlfriend. Kolle himself was engaged to one of the Beadnell sisters, Anne, and here, Dickens urges his friend to undertake all the arrangements for a Hackney Coach outing (presumably with the Beadnells). Along the way, Dickens pokes fun at Kolle’s arrest on he previous Sunday evening for climbing a lamp post (according to a family tradition) — but certainly under the influence of drink. “ … on the subject of the Coach Engagement I should really prefer leaving it to you. My reason is this — not to mention the obvious one that you do everything so well — You engaged the last I never did anything in the money way without being imposed upon … I really should not like my off hand, badly digested bargain to be balanced against your more prudent, less expensive and in every respect more eligible arrangements. With our friends the Beadnells too you can do no wrong. “I never was more delighted in my life than to hear that you were incarcerated … My only regret is that I was not there to see the fun … I suppose the story is to be entre nous and that in relating it, you follow the usual directions on the Glass Packages ‘with care keep this side up’ … am so anxious to hear the particklers … Of course you are not in fault. Those policemen are such a rascally set of Negroes (Blacks not Browns) …” The date is supplied by the editors of the Pilgrim edition of The Letters, who also note that the incident of Kolle’s arrest was at least partly the inspiration of Dickens’ “Making a 51] Night of It,” in No 4 of “Scenes and Characters,” 8 October 1834, in Bell’s Life in London, under the pseudonym “Tibbs”; DUMAS, Alex[andre] and later, in Sketches by Boz, Second Series (1837). Stockholm, Fontainebleau et Rome, Trilogie Dramatique An incomparable Dickens letter of a very rare vintage. sur la vie de Christine. Paris: Barba, 1830. $25,000 First edition. Folding lithograph frontispiece. [vi], 191 pp. 8vo. Later 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards. First few leaves foxed and edge-worn. Selden bookplate. Presentation copy First edition of this early Dumas, père, play, inscribed on the title-page, “A Mademoiselle Victorine Colas, Souvenir d’une soirée chez M. Belloc. M. Dumas.” $1,500

Catalogue 132 | 33 52] very soon owing to the bad air.” [DUNMORE, John L. or George This photograph is slightly larger than the one in the book, CRITCHERSON] which is 11 x 14 in. Furthermore, the image in the book is cropped closer on the right and left margins. Esquimaux Winter Hut and Its Occupants. The The New York Public Library has a folio of 26 images of Entrance is seen on the Left. [London]: c. 1872. near identical size mounted on card. The portfolio was Albumen print measuring 11-5/8 x 16-1/4 in (295 x 412 mm). donated to the library in 1892 as part of the Robert Stuart Laid down on thick cream card with manuscript caption Collection. According to Horch, originally all of these measuring 17 x 21 in. Image slightly faded, card chipped with images were captioned in manuscript, though were later some minor soiling, one tear not affecting image. Horch, remounted with typed captions as “the original ink-written Frank. “Photographs and Paintings by William Bradford.” captions for the photographs had badly faded by 1940.” It’s American Art Journal 5.2 (1973): pp 61–70. interesting that the caption on their duplicate of this image is the same as ours and the image itself has not been cropped. from bradford’s fabled arcitc regions Horch writes that Bradford probably not only selected these A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford’s images himself but “closely directed the actual taking of the fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken photographs …” by either Dunmore or Critcherson, the two professional It’s entirely likely that Bradford would have had extra prints photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on made to distribute to friends, repay favors and, most of all, his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It to solicit subscribers to what was a very expensive book was probably taken at Upernavik, a settlement on an island to publish. Given how it conforms to the examples in the off Greenland’s west coast, or Godhavn. Robert Stuart portfolio, this particular image is probably one Arctic Regions included 141 albumen prints in addition of them. to Bradford’s account of the voyage. The title of the $4,500 photograph here varies from the printed caption in the book, where it reads: “Plate Number: 116 Esquimaux igloe or winter hut, made of turf and stones. The entrance is to the 53] left through a door which is about three and a half feet high. The length of the passage is about twelve or fifteen feet, and EGE, Otto F. at the farther end is another door, through which one almost Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries has to crawl on his hands and knees. After passing through 1121-1935 A.D. [New York: Philip C. Duschnes, October there is then room to stand erect but one is forced to leave 1936]. 34 | James Cummins bookseller The eighteenth-century printings include leaves from Baskett, Oxford, 1740; the great Baskerville Bible, Cambridge, Printed descriptive leaf and 37 mounted leaves in folder, each 1763 (the Sermon on the Mount); Saur, Germantown, Pa., with printed title card, as issued. Folio. Fine (three leaves 1763; Baskerville, Birmingham, 1769; Isaiah Thomas Greek with toning). In original cloth folding box. Silver & De N.T., Worcester, 1800; Thomson, Philadelphia, 1808; Blair & Hamel, Disbound and Dispersed 14 (Checklist 68); Gwara, pp Bruce Immaculate Bible, Edinburgh, 1811; the Polychrome 30-31 (Appendix I, Hand List 57 & 61). Bible, New York, 1899; the Doves Bible, Hammersmith, 1903- 5; miniature Bible, Edinburgh, 1919; Nonesuch Bible, London, The first of Otto Ege’s portfolios of manuscript and printed 1924-5; and from the Bruce Rogers Lectern Bible, Oxford, leaves, sold by New York bookseller Philip Duschnes in 1936 1935. (200 sets were produced; a second series with a different Ege has been characterized by Christopher de Hamel as “the selection of leaves was marketed in 1938). The portfolio most endearing of arch-villains” and his role in breaking comprises 3 manuscript leaves and 34 leaves from printed manuscripts and dispersing leaves throughout the 1930s Bibles: is well known. Recent scholarship tends to confirm his Armenian manuscript Bible, 32 lines, two-columns, black ink ambivalent status, while examining the whereabouts of the within red rules, on paper (different manuscript from Gwara manuscripts and contents of the portfolios. Ege “stressed 56); Leaf from a miniature Bible, 55 lines, two columns, on their educational value and the inimitable experience of vellum, France, ca. 1240 A.D.; manuscript Bible, 32 lines, seeing and handling manuscripts and books” (Silver). double columns, red and blue initials and flourishes, on This leaf book offers a concise history and tour of vellum, France, ca. 1310 A.D. manuscript and printed forms of transmission of the Bible. The printed leaves include two incunables, Venice, 1495, and Nuremberg, 1497 (a leaf of the Psalms, with MS initials). $5,000 The sixteenth-century imprints include leaves from the Aldine Greek Bible, Venice, 1518; Leiden, 1532; “suppressed” 54] Luther Bible, Leipzig, 1541; Matthew Bible, London, 1549; Great Bible, London, 1549; Hebrew Latin Bible, Venice, 1551; EINSTEIN, Albert Stephanus Latin Bible, Geneva, 1555; Plantin, Louvain, 1565; Stephanus Greek Bible, Paris, 1569; Bishops Bible, London Cosmic Religion with Other Opinions and Aphorisms. 1575; Breeches Bible, London 1592; and the Polyglot Bible, An Appreciation by George Bernard Shaw. New York: Hamburg 1596. Seventeenth century printings include the Covici Friede, 1931. Fulkes N.T., London, 1601; the second printed Spanish First edition. 109 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in almost fine Bible, Amsterdam, 1602; the King James Bible, London, 1611; unclipped pictorial blue dust-jacket. the Pearl Bible, London 1653; Polyglot O.T., London, 1655; Polyglot N.T., London, 1657; Elzevir Estates General Bible, With a Chapter on “The Jewish Homeland.” Leiden, 1663; the second Eliot Indian Bible, Cambridge, $1,500 Mass., 1685.

Catalogue 132 | 35 settlers Thomas Gilbert and John Barton Hack. Similarly, there is an extract of a 1837 letter from Western Australian Governor James Stirling to Lord Glenelg regarding the whaling industry: “extraordinary quantities of whales, seals, sharks, turtles … and the valuable coral and pearl oyster are also found.” Under the letter “q” there is a long list of questions demonstrating some of the concerns of the English navy: “Can you supply me with any provisions?”; “Is the colony you have just left healthy?”; “What news of the Russians?”; “Are [the settlers] molested by the natives?”; “Does the colonial press flourish?”; (incredibly:) “Do you know anything of the South Australian Protestant community?”; and “Have you any Otaheite papers?” There is also a separate section of questions specifically for whalers. This work is likely a development of the system provided in Ekin’s previous work, Naval and universal signals, in symbols of black and white … (London, 1837). Ekins’s system used signals to create a locus of 600 possibilities, each of which would change according to one of ten pendants. The lexicon of numbered meanings is appended to the explanatory text. The bulk of the work is comprised of the vocabulary, demonstrating the ever expanding scale of the British 55] Empire. EKINS, Charles Parker was a Royal Navy officer who served on The Glorious Universal Signals Simply and Intelligibly Displayed; First of June. His career culminated in his brief promotion to First Naval Lord in Russell’s ministry and so could in Symbols of Black and White … with Geographical comment on Ekins system with some authority. The folding Notes of Reference, as connected with Ships, Colonies frontispiece plate receives the brunt of Parker’s attention. and Commerce. London: Thomas Curson Hansard, 1838. He has crossed out the information at the head of the chart Partial proof. Folding frontispiece and plate illustrating with the simple comment “unnecessary.” Perhaps more signals and numerical correspondence. 4, [8], [4], [blank], [9], alarming is his note at the foot of it, “The numbers have no [3], [10], [5], [10], [7], [2], [10], [5], [9], [2], [7], [1], [blank] pp. Arithmetical character,” which must mark a low point for 8vo. Contemporary blue pebble-grain cloth with a 12-line any numeral. Parker has made other deletions, corrections sample of Ekin’s hand laid down on the upper board, book and suggestions in the book. plates to front paste down and verso of folding plate, inner OCLC locates just a single copy of this work at the NMM. hinges a little weak, some minor marginal damp staining. This must have been a duplicate as it bears not just the NMM’s bookplate but accession and de-accession stamps. COPING WITH THE COLONIES: SIR WILLIAM PARKER’S In fact, it is about ten pages shorter than the copy retained COPY by the NMM. The presentation inscription gives some The expansion of the British Empire introduce a whole raft clue: “A Specimen of [Universal Signals] for Sir William of new names into the Navy’s vocabulary. Ekins’ system Parker Bart G.C.B. &c, &c. No. One. To be read first.” looks to address this and so in addition to standard sailing What we have here is an early proof, printed in part for terms, this system includes simple signals for colonies Parker’s consideration and comments. Ekins has printed the in Australia (Botany Bay [illustrated on the plate], Port vocabulary for just ten letters here. Adelaide, Adventure Bay, Christmas Island, Swan River); The final work was never published. New Zealand (Bay of Plenty, Admiralty Sound, Corararicka Harbour, Cook’s Strait, Wangeroa, Cape York); Vanikoro $3,500 (Mannicolo or La Perouse’s Island), Raiata Island, Roratonga Island, Simpson’s Island (“Natives are savages”), Solomon Islands, Singapore, Hawaii (Whoohoo, Whymea Bay) and many others. Further, there are many notes giving detail specific to each place. Among the most extensive are the notes on Adelaide and its port. Ekins quotes from private letters from the early

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ELLERY, William A valuable record of the ANZAC campaign in World War “Copies of Abstracts of Bounty on fish, &c. paid from One. This album was entirely the work of its author, J. Ellis: photographer, caption-writer, publisher. January 1st, 1791, to March 31, 1795, as rendered to the Treasury of the United States, and there allowed” Ellis was attached to the 7th Light Horse Regiment, which was raised in the first months of the war from men who [cover title in manuscript]. District of Newport [Rhode had enlisted in New South Wales. It formed part of the 2nd Island]: 1 April 1791 - 1 April 1795. Light Horse Brigade and saw action at the Battle of Romani, 14 manuscript documents on 9 leaves, signed (“Wm Ellery the third Battle of Gaza and then the capture of Jerusalem. Collector” with paraph) 11 times. Folio. Original drab sewn Photographs of the first two are featured here. wrappers. Fought in August 3-5, 1916, the Battle of Romani was the last Contemporary gathering of customs records for “dried and ground attack by the Central Powers on the Suez Canal. The pickled fish and salted provisions” exported from Rhode Allied victory concluded their campaign to defend the canal, Island between 1791-5, with the signature of William Ellery an operation that commenced on January 15 that year. It also appearing 11 times. Ellery (1727-1820) was the representative marked the first Allied victory over the Ottoman Empire from Rhode Island in the Continental Congress and a during the war. signer of the Declaration of Independence. He signed these The vast majority of these strong images are devoted to the documents as collector of customs for the Newport District, battles at Romani and Gaza and as troops moved through a post appointed to him by Washington following ratification El Arish, Mesaid, Rafa, Bilah, and Wadi Ghuzzeh. There are of the Constitution. Ellery descendants include the author photos of Turkish trenches, of Armenian Refugees, Turkish Richard Henry Dana and the transcendentalist and Unitarian prisoners, German prisoners, transporting casualties and minister William Ellery Channing. graves. We also see preparations for gas attacks, fumigating uniforms, washing and bathing, and tending the horses. In $2,000 addition, there are shots of the local people going about their business and some light-hearted moments such as the Anzac 57] steeple chase and even one of surfing. ELLIS, J., Trooper A remarkable little production, the images are numbered in pencil and loosely inserted, yet Ellis has clearly invested Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine. Ca. 1919. in the album itself with its handsome cover and printed captions. A rare insight into the life of ANZACs beyond First edition. 96 albumen prints on 12 leaves. Each with Gallipoli. We locate just a single copy at the NLA; their copy printed captions. Oblong folio. Self-published. Original has only 92 images. publisher’s maroon gilt titled cloth. Rebacked in period style, covers with some minor soiling but overall a very good $6,500 album.

Catalogue 132 | 37 58] (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) WALTON, Izaak, and Charles COTTON The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation … With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas [Bound with:] The Chronicle of the ‘Compleat Angler.’ London: William Pickering, 1836; 1864. First Nicolas edition, Large-Paper copy. Title-pages printed in red and black. Added engraved titles, with 61 engraved plates and vignettes on india paper, mounted, and an additional suite of proof plates (most before letters) bound in. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with 10 original albumen photographs (3 small portraits of anglers and 7 reproductions of paintings), approximately 300 engraved plates (portraits, views, landscapes, fish), including plates from earlier editions of Walton; Westwood’s Chronicle of the ‘Compleat Angler’, 1864, is mounted on stubs at end of vol. IV. 4 vols. 4to (262 x 190 mm). Full crushed crimson Levant morocco gilt, boards with two triple-rule borders and ornate cornerpieces in gilt, spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborately tooled with gilt fish devices on dark green morocco oval onlays, inner gilt dentelles, marbled sheets, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by L. Claessens et fils, Brussels (signed in gilt on turn-in of vol. I, and with label). A superb extra-illustrated copy with unparalleled provenance. Coigney 44; Horne 43; Oliver 41; Westwood & Satchell, p. 228; Keynes, p. 94. Provenance: Thomas Westwood (1814-1888), his bookplate; exhibited at the 1880, Brussels, exhibition stamp; William Waldorf, Viscount Astor (1848-1919), his bookplate. Westwood’s Extra-Illustrated Copy One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. Pickering used 27 of the most prominent artists, painters, and engravers to illustrate it: “[D]rawings by T. Stothard, Mr. Derby, Mr. Willement, Mr. Edward Hassell, Inskipp, Pine, Augustus Fox, Delamotte, Sir Francis Sykes, Bart., Mr. Hixon, and T.S. Cape, engraved by W. Humphreys, Byfield, G. Adcock, H. Robinson, Fox, W.H. Worthington, J. Richardson, W.J. Cooke, J.G. Armytage, W.J. Wilkinson, Roberts, J.Thompson, and Freebairn” (Oliver). Thomas Westwood, who ranks with Alfred Denison as the greatest angling bibliophile of the 19th century, resided costume, two in rowboats), sporting etchings by Samuel in Brussels from the 1840s. Westwood published his New Howitt, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century engraved Bibliotheca Piscatoria beginning in 1861 and his Chronicle of the views and portraits, nineteenth-century etchings of angling ‘Compleat Angler’ in 1864. His first collection was catalogued and sporting and Flemish scenes as well as suites of the by Bouton in 1873 (and sold en bloc to the Lenox Library). illustrations for the Hawkins (1760), Bagster (1808 and 1815), No collector ever stops collecting, and Westwood was no and Major (1823-4) editions, in many instances with proof exception. His interest in Walton was perennial, and this state before letters as well as the finished plates. A copy of his extra-illustrated set was the fruit of his later interest. The Chronicle is bound in at the end of volume IV. other fruit of his continued angling collecting was the It has always been, as Coigney notes, the “favorite of the expanded Bibliotheca Piscatoria, by Westwood and Satchell, extra-illustrator” — and this set is remarkable for its binding, published in 1883. additions, and provenance. The present copy includes three added engraved titles, three albumen portrait photographs of anglers (one in $27,500 38 | James Cummins bookseller 59] 60] FABER (compiler), Johann, Pseudo-Augustines, FRANK, Robert et alii The Americans. New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. Manuscript prayer book in Latin, on vellum, [Incipit:] First American edition. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. 83 Qui Orare Vult, Sic Deum Invocet, Sic Cum Augustino black-and-white photographs printed in gravure. [iv], vi, [170] Precetur. Ex Libro Meditationum Capit. XXXIII. pp. Oblong 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, color collage Germany (?): mid-16th century. by Alfred Leslie on back panel. Jacket lightly toned, rubbing 1-126 leaves ruled in red including final pastedown, conjoint; to publisher’s name at foot of spine, several nicks, short 22 lines per page including line for catchword on every page; closed tear to front panel and spine folds. Roth 101, pp. 150-1; written in a 16th-century humanistic book hand, verso of Parr/Badger I, p. 247; The Open Book, pp. 176-7. final leaf of text with Society of Jesus logo drawn in gold ink; blank spaces on 9 leaves, presumably left for illumination. c. “In The Americans Frank has given us a vision of the United 147 x 107 mm. Modern sheep, with clasps. Fine. States that is as true or untrue as we care to make it. What is certain is that it changed the face of photography in the Beautiful Manuscript Prayer Book documentary mode … it paved the way for three decades The first part of the text, through 74r, corresponds to the 1562 of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived edition of a compilation of prayers known as PRECATIONES experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived CHRISTIANAE, compiled by Johann Faber, the Catholic from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, theologian, primarily from Pseudo-Augustine’s MEDITATIONES more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank’s and his SOLILOQUIA, Gregory of Nazianzus, and other Church masterpiece” (Parr/Badger). fathers; the second part (after fol. 74v) is a selection of prayers $10,000 with no clearly identifiable source — although much is taken from Augustine’s MEDITATIONES — and the manuscript ends with a Litany. A remarkable well-preserved and beautifully written manuscript. $9,000

Catalogue 132 | 39 61] 62] FRASER, George Macdonald FRASER, George MacDonald Flashman, From the Flashman Papers. New York: NAL Complete run of the Flashman Papers: all volumes Book World Publishing, 1969. signed in first edition.London: Barrie & Jenkins and later First American edition. 256 pp. 8vo. Original publisher’s Harvill and HarperCollins, 1969-2005. yellow cloth, a little grubby with a chipped and darkened All first editions. Signatures vary from “George McDonald dust-jacket. Fraser” to “George M. Fraser” and “George Fraser”; Flashman and the Dragon has a signed bookplate laid down ‘It should have been a quill, dipped in blood — to half-title. 12 vols. 8vo. All fine to very good in the original someone else’s blood’ red or black boards and dust jackets. Wonderfully inscribed by the pen of GMF in the voice of Harry Flashman: “To the worthy descendant of my A RARE SIGNED SET old comrade-in-arms and occasional fellow Indian fighter Comprising: Flashman (1969); Royal Flash (1970); Flash for PORTUGEE PHILLIPS in admiring recollection of his ancestor’s Freedom! (1971); Flashman at the Charge (1973); Flashman headlong flight from Fort Phil. Kearney to Laramie. I could in the Great Game (1975); Flashman’s Lady (1977); Flashman not have done better myself. Harry Flashman.” and the Redskins (1982); Flashman and the Dragon (1985); This copy is further distinguished by the typed letter laid Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990); Flashman and down on the front free endpaper where Fraser refers to the the Angel of the Lord (1994); Flashman and the Tiger (1999); aptness of presenting the American edition “in view of your Flashman on the March (2005). grandfather’s nationality” and continues “believe it or not, The Flashman Papers in their entirety, documenting this is the format that conned the experts — some experts the many adventures and great many loves of Sir Harry anyway.” In a post-script he refers to the inscription: “Sorry Flashman VC KCB KCIE. For all his success, Fraser made it the inscription was done with a ball-point. It should have clear that his hero remained “a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a been a quill, dipped in blood — someone else’s blood.” thief, a coward - and, oh yes, a toady.” $2,000 $9,500

40 | James Cummins bookseller 63] 64] FROST, Robert FROST, Robert A Boy’s Will. London: David Nutt, 1913. A Boy’s Will. New York: Henry Holt, 1915. First edition, second issue. Small, thin 8vo. Original tan First American edition, second issue. 63 pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers (Binding D). Fine. Cloth folding box. blue cloth, spine a little faded, buff endpapers, in printed Clymer and Green, p. 20; Crane A2. dust-jacket with light edgewear and closed tear at head of spine, original 75 cent price blacked out and stamped “$1.00 The author’s first book, preceded only by the legendary NET” (Clymer & Green’s 3rd state of the jacket); in custom Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost green morocco-backed case. Clarke A2.1. has the distinction of being one of the few poets who was successful throughout his entire lifetime, receiving four Inscribed to His Old Classmate Pulitzer prizes among his many awards. INSCRIBED by Frost to his Harvard classmate John Hallowell, $1,500 class of 1901. “John Hallowell — 190, from Robert Frost — 1901. 1924.” Frost has added at the bottom, “Some of these were written in Harvard Days.” $6,500

Catalogue 132 | 41 65] FROST, Robert New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First Edition, no. 50 of 350 copies signed by the author. Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. 8vo. Original black cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Very good copy (wear to spine ends). Scarce. Crane A6. Limited edition of this excellent collection, including “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” for which Frost won the Pulitzer Prize. $2,500

66] FROST, Robert West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, [1928]. First edition, No. 126 of 1000 copies signed by Frost, and with the woodcuts signed by Lankes. Illustrated with full- page woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. 58 pp. 8vo. Printed at the Merrymount Press. Original decorated paper boards, cloth spine. Fine copy in a very good slipcase, split at top. Crane A10.1. $900

67] FROST, Robert Birches [Bread Loaf Folder, No. 3]. Middlebury, Vermont: Bread Loaf School of English, [n.d., ca. 1929]. First Separate edition, second printing. Single sheet printed on one side and folded to form four unnumbered pages. 3 x 5 in. Original green self wrappers, with title and green tree on front cover. Fine. Not in Crane. Clymer and Green, p. 105. Exceedingly Scarce ‘Birches’ The first separate edition of Frost’s celebrated poem, “Birches,” here in the second printing, distinguishable from the first by the paper stock and the smaller italic type. $1,000

42 | James Cummins bookseller 68] 69] FROST, Robert FROST, Robert A Considerable Speck. [Boston: Printed by Dard Hunter, Jr, Collected Poems. Garden City, New York: Garden City 1939]. Publishing, [1942]. Proof copies of the first separate edition. 2 proof copies: Later edition. Frontispiece portrait photograph of the one uncorrected page proof of the 33-line poem, without author by Doris Ulmann. [xviii], 453, [1] pp. 8vo. Publisher’s the printed title-page, and with printer’s manuscript blue cloth. Head of spine browned, else near fine in chipped corrections and directions in red ink; and one final proof dust-jacket with loss along top edge. Crane A23 (for first copy, with “Original Proof ” printed on title-page; both uncut edition). on cream wove paper watermarked “HANDMADE.” 2 single folio gatherings (380 x 285 mm). Some minor smudging and Inscribed with the Early Poem “Forest Flowers” marginal soiling to uncorrected proof; final proof is fine. Inscribed by Frost to Reginald Cook with the 8-line poem Laid in a custom green cloth chemise. Crane A24. “Forest Flowers.” Reginald “Doc” Cook was a Middlebury professor and friend of Frost. He was an honorary pallbearer Printer’s Proof Copies at the funeral of Frost’s wife Elinor, and Cook would visit Laid in is a photocopy of the handbill titled “The Colonial Frost during the poet’s summer stays in Ripton, VT. The Society of Massachusetts” detailing the poem’s history: early poem “Forest Flowers,” which opens with the lines “This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost at the “Some flowers take station close to where we stay, And some Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. It has been draw up on either side of the way,” was originally published printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first font of type in 1917 in The Pinkerton Annual, the literary magazine of that he has cut and cast himself, and is one of the first pieces Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost of printing. It is on hand-made paper, made by him and his taught from 1906 to 1911. The poem did not appear in any father, an authority on paper, with whom he is associated at of Frost’s lifetime editions, though a ten-line variant titled the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at Massachusetts Institute “Tutelary Elves” was published in 1966. The original poem of Technology …” was separately published in 1978 as Forest Flowers: An Early A Considerable Speck was first printed in the Atlantic Poem Recovered by the Friends of the Amherst College Library. Monthly in July, 1939. The first separate edition consisted of Frost has added a note beneath his transcription of the poem, fewer than 100 copies, according to Crane. These proofs are “This was written almost earlier than anything else in this extremely rare, if not unique. book.” This volume is a later printing of the 1939 Collected Poems and $6,000 includes the 1942 collection A Witness Tree. $5,000

Catalogue 132 | 43 70] 71] FROST, Robert FROST, Robert Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949. New York: Henry Autograph Quotation, signed (“Robert Frost”), a Fair Holt and Company, [1949]. Copy of a stanza from his Poem “A Lone Striker.” First Trade edition. Frontispiece portrait. 666 pp. Designed Pen and ink on paper. 8vo. Framed. About fine. Complete by Maurice Serle Kaplan. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine, Poems, p. 356; cf. Thompson, Robert Frost, The Early Years, with small snag at head of spine in almost fine dust-jacket pp. 160-161. with small tears. Crane A35.1. A fine autograph quotation by Frost from “A Lone Striker,” Inscribed a poem based upon recollections of his early life, and a work from which extracts in the poet’s hand are not often seen. Inscribed by the author on the portrait. “Robert Frost, to his friend Dan Danneman.” Six lines, entirely in Frost‘s hand: “He knew another place, a wood, / And in it, tall as trees, were cliffs; / $2,500 And if he stood on one of these, / ’Twould be among the tops of trees, / Their upper branches round him wreathing, / Their breathing mingled with his breathing … / [signed:] Robert Frost / For Stuart W. Jackson.” The succeeding line in the poem gives the decisive thrust: “If — if he stood! Enough of ifs!” The poem was published by Knopf in 1933 as one of the Knopf Borzoi Chap Books. $2,750

44 | James Cummins bookseller 72] GARFIELD, James A. Autograph Letter, signed (“J.A. Garfield”), as Congressman from Ohio, to Ezra Booth Taylor of Warren, Ohio, acknowledging the receipt of $500. Washington. D.C: 21 November 1869. 1 p., in ink, on letterhead of the House of Representatives. 4to. Fine. Hard Times for Congressman Garfield from Ohio Ezra B. Taylor, a Republican lawyer and judge from Garfield’s home state of Ohio, was elected Republican Representative to the 46th Congress to fill the vacancy created by Garfield’s resignation to seek the Presidency. Taylor served several terms in Congress thereafter. In this letter to Taylor, Garfield writes, “Your favor of the 18th, inclosing a draft … for Five Hundred Dollars, is just received and I have endorsed the amount on your note. It comes just in time to aid me in a hard pinch … I have obtained a loan which will tide me over for the present …” Garfield pens an intriguing postscript: “I think it was right that the P.M. at Ravenna [Ohio] should be allowed a check line — & am glad to have been able to secure the allowance for E.T.E.” $1,250

73] (GENOA) DE CREDENTIA, Nicolaus Autograph Manuscript Records of the noble Passano family of Genoa, Italy, compiled for Antonio Da Passano the 123rd Doge of Genoa and Corsica and his children, heirs, and successors. Genoa, Italy: 15th-17th century. 43 leaves, in ink, on rectos and versos. In Latin and Italian. 24 x 17 cm. Disbound. Contemporary vellum. Binding worn, some soiling, occasional perforations from ink burn. The Occupation of Chios by the Genoese and their Administration of the Island 1346-1566. Vol. III, p. 922. Notarial Documents of the time Christopher Columbus lived in Genoa The journal of Antonio Da Passano, Doge of Genoa and Corsica (July 1675- July 1677), is a collection of notarial documents concerning the history of the patrician Passano family, in the senate since the mid- 15th century. This journal also includes genealogical notes and two Latin poems. There is frequent mention of John the Baptist, the patron saint of Genoa. The first portion of the manuscript, in a 15th-century hand, bears the signature of Nicolaus de Credentia who was a cancellarius in Genoa contemporary with Christopher Columbus’s time as a citizen in that very city. The manuscript provides a study of senate activity over the course of three centuries in Genoa as well as a solidification of the importance of the Passano family. $5,500

Catalogue 132 | 45 74] Comprising: 10 autograph letters, 2 leaves noted by Roberts, and 2 copies of George Gissing letters (in another hand). 8vo GISSING, George and smaller. Swinnerton letters toned, others generally fine. New Grub Street. London: Smith, Elder, 1891. Gissing Newsletter 13:4 (Oct. 1977) & 14:1 (Jan. 1978). First edition, one of 500 copies. [vi], 305, [1], [2, ads]; [vi], Fascinating group of correspondence on George Gissing, 316; [vi], 335, [1] pp., with half-titles in all volumes. 3 vols. 8vo. addressed to Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923), who wrote Original blue-green crackle-grain cloth stamped in black. an introduction to The House of Cobwebs (1906) and the Near fine copy in superior condition (faintest rubbing to Dictionary of National Biography article on Gissing, and tips). Coustillas A9a; Collie IXa; Sadleir 971; Wolff 2552. had been for many years a literary advisor for the firm of Constable, where he recommended publication of The Private A near fine copy of the first edition of Gissing’s grim tale of Papers of Henry Ryecroft. The letters are transcribed in the the lower depths of literary London, where aspiring writers, issues of the Gissing Newsletter. The George Gissing letters journalists and critics negotiate the often incompatible (see no. 7) are known only from these copies. demands of integrity and commercial success. “[Gissing’s] strongest book, an acknowledged classic. Its main characters 1) LEE, Sidney. A.L.s (“S. Lee”), 30 May 1906, on Athenaeum have become recognized symbols of the many shades of letterhead, “Dear Seccombe, I have been reading Geo Gissing professional integrity and adaptability in the literary world, with increasing admiration. You have really converted me to shades not substantially affected by the passing of the years” belief in him.” (ODNB). 2) ROBERTS, Morley. Holograph notes on Gissing and $6,500 his publications, with reference to an article in Nineteenth Century, Sept. 1906, George Gissing by Austin Harrison; and a summary of Roberts’ article in Literature (20 July, 1901). 75] 3) A.W. WARD (1837-1924), professor of History and English (GISSING, George) Algernon GISSING; at Owens College, then Principal; later vice chancellor of Adolphus William WARD; Ellen GISSING, Victoria University, Manchester; and, from 1900, Master of Peterhouse. He conceived of the Cambridge History of English Sidney LEE; Frank SWINNERTON; Morley Literature and was a co-editor. It was during Ward’s tenure as ROBERTS Principal of Owens in 1876 that Gissing was caught stealing Collection of Autograph Letters, signed, to Thomas and expelled. Gissing was prosecuted and imprisoned. A.L.s. Seccombe, June 19, [1912?] “I return the Gissing article with Seccombe, on the subject of George Gissing. London: many thanks. Part of it is all new to me; my only anxiety 1906-1912. was that there should be nothing inaccurate about his 46 | James Cummins bookseller Manchester life and troubles. ‘Serious trouble’ is sufficient on this head. You have no idea (and you must not suppose for a moment that I am speaking of myself, for I am not) how much kindness was shown to him after the collapse, and it might pain some survivors that an impression should remain that he was treated as a pariah.” 4) GISSING, Ellen (G.G.’s sister). 2 A.L.s., 7 & 19 June 1912, giving family details, suppressing others: “I should certainly make no reference to ‘Madame Gissing.’ I think it cannot be in any way necessary.” 5) GISSING, Algernon (G.G.’s brother). 3 A.L.s., 14 & 18 & 24 June 1912, concerning proofs of the D.N.B. article and factual corrections. 6) SWINNERTON, Frank. 3 A.L.s., 21 & 26 June & 18 August 1912, concerning Swinnerton’s critical volume on Gissing for Martin Secker (published 1912), Seccombe’s D.N.B. article, and thanks for the loan of the original manuscript of it. 7) GISSING, George. Copies (in different hands) of 2 A.L.s. to James Payn, editor of the Cornhill and reader for Smith, Elder: 25 Nov. 1887, “The phrase is an affected one … I was given to such things just at that time”; 7 Aug. 1891, about the sale of the copyright of Godwin Peak (later published as Born in Exile) and also discussing the financial failure of New Grub Street. $4,000

76] Royall Tyler’s comedy, The Contrast, by some twenty years. GODFREY, Thomas Alas, Godfrey did not live to see his play produced. He had passed away from yellow fever in 1763. In his short life he Juvenile Poems of Various Subjects. With the Prince of was friends with the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Francis Parthia: A Tragedy by the late Mr. Thomas Godfrey, Hopkinson and Benjamin West, all significant players in Jun. of Philadelphia. To which is Prefixed some Account the founding of American arts. He was also the son of the inventor of the same name which possibly facilitated these of the Author and his Writings. Philadelphia: Printed by relationships. Henry Miller, in Second-Street, 1765. In addition to the text of the play, his poetry is collected First edition. xxvi, [2], 223, [1] pp. Small 4to. Period style full here. Godfrey’s poetry is considered to be some of the best calf, red morocco label to spine, spine and boards with gilt produced in the colony and its inclusion here adds to the rules. Small paper repair to lower corner of title. A superior significance of the volume. Furthermore, this work includes copy in a fine binding. Evans 9983; Sabin 27658; Hughes, two pieces titled “Elegy, to the memory of Mr Thomas p.38; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2129; Wegelin, O. Amer. Godfrey” one by John Green, the other by Nathaniel Evans, poetry, 183; Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 119; Stoddard, 176; Everett who helped usher this volume into print. It is complete with Emerson, American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary the list of subscribers. Years, pp. 91-92. Rare. ABPC lists no copies at auction in the past 35 years. The first play produced by an American $8,500 First edition of The Prince of Parthia which was “the first drama written by a native American to be produced upon the professional stage” (DAB). The play debuted on 24 April 1767 at the Southwark Theatre in Philadelphia. Performed by David Douglass’ American Company, its riches were such that a second performance was deemed unnecessary. Nonetheless it’s a significant moment in American theatre, not least for being performed in the first permanent theatre in the country. This work and its performance precedes Catalogue 132 | 47 77] 78] GORE, Catherine GREY, Sir Charles (1st Earl Grey) Autograph Letter, signed (“C.F. Gore”), to Frederic Autograph Letter signed regarding troop conditions. Schoberl. Paris: 4 April 1834. Fallodon near Alnwick: 2 September 1785. 1 p. pen and ink on folded sheet, integral address leaf with Bifolium docketed on final blank. 4to. Old folds, but very stamp and remnant of wax seal. 4to. Creased from prior good. folding, some light staining and toning. The letter reads in part: “I must again beg leave to trouble Catherine Gore Demands Prompt Payment from you on the subject of the unfortunate young men of my reg ‘Messrs Ackermann’ … plunged into distress by the high price of every article in the West Indies, & after arriving in England, being marched English novelist Catherine Gore (1798-1861), one of the from one end of the kingdom to the other, which their pay principal “silver fork” authors who chronicled the Regency- was by no means adequate to.” He then pleads the special era gentility, writes to the editor Frederic Schoberl (1775-1853) cases of Ens. Clune, Taylor and Green. to accept a commission for his periodical Forget-Me-Not: “I shall have much pleasure in executing your commission, and Charles Grey was successful and controversial in the will forward to you a tale intitled ‘Now, or Never,’ before the American War of Independence. Promoted to Major- 1st of May.” Mrs. Gore goes on to demand prompt payment General in 1777, under General Howe he commanded the from the publisher, Rudolph Ackermann, as the terms of 3rd Brigade at both Brandywine and Germantown. ODNB this commission are well below her normal rate: “I receive states, “[A]fter his few years of service in America he earned from the Keepsake 25£ for a contribution of the same length.” a reputation as an efficient and loyal subordinate. He was ABPC and Rare Book Hub list no records of autograph also ranked as a hardline officer who advocated the fullest material by Catherine Gore at auction. prosecution of the war.” His ruthless reputation was established in actions near Paoli, Pa., then at New Beford, $750 Martha’s Vinyard and Old Tappan, NJ. $750

48 | James Cummins bookseller 79] GRIMKÉ, Angelina Emily Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in Reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Addressed to A.E. Grimke. Revised by the Author. Boston: Printed by Isaac Knapp 25, Cornhill, 1838. First edition. 130 pp. 12mo. Original quarter embossed cloth and boards, with yellow printed paper label on front cover. Small tear to cloth at along rear joint, some staining to covers, tear from lower corner of pp. 3-4. Contemporary signature in pencil of “L.W. Keeler, Union” on ffep. Dummond, p. 62; Sabin 28854; Krichmar 466. Early Feminist Work, “a scorching response” (ANB) to Catherine Beecher Grimké’s Letters to Catherine E. Beecher began as a series of essays made in response to Beecher’s An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism with Reference to the Duty of American Females, which was written to Grimké. She published them first in The Emancipator and The Liberator before being put in book form here by The Liberator’s printer, Isaac Knapp. Grimké (1805-1879) argued against Beecher’s belief that women, as subordinate to men, should not participate in the abolitionist movement and should be absolved of such moral duties. Her Letters were “a scorching response to a pamphlet opposing engagement by her sex in political activism. Her Letters to Catherine Beecher was much ahead of its time. It argued that women should be allowed not only to help write the laws of the land but to sit in the seats of its government” (ANB). One of the most important early feminist and suffragist works. $5,000

Catalogue 132 | 49 80] (HANCOCK, General Winfield Scott) Brady, Mathew, photographer Eight photographs of General Winfield Scott Hancock.[Virginia, Washington, D.C., et al]: ca. 1861-1865, printed ca. 1870s. Each photograph tipped onto a 14 x 11 in. card. Various sized, from approx. 4 x 6 in. to 11 x 8 in. Damage to lower corner of one image, else fine. Laid into a contemporary quarter green morocco portfolio with morocco label on front cover reading “W.S. Hancock.” Provenance: Thomas F. Bayard With Two Mathew Brady Images from the Field A collection of vintage photographic portraits of General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) dating from his service in the Union Army, from the estate of Thomas F. Bayard, against whom Hancock ran and won the 1880 Democratic presidential nomination. Hancock went on to lose the general election to Garfield by only 20,000 votes. Hancock distinguished himself in the Battle of Gettysburg and won Grant’s praise for his conduct in the Wilderness Campaign. Grant wrote of him in his Memoirs, “Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command. He commanded a corps longer than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible. He was a man of very conspicuous personal appearance … His genial disposition made him friends, and his personal courage and his presence with his command in the thickest of the fight won for him the confidence of troops serving under him. No matter how hard the fight, the 2d corps always felt that their commander was looking after them.” The collection includes at least 3 photographs by Mathew Brady: a large group shot of Hancock, David Bell Birney and their staffs, ca. 1864; and Hancock with three of his division commanders — Francis C. Barlow, David B. Birney and John Gibbon — during the Wilderness campaign. Three of the other images bear a close resemblance to known Brady images, and we suspect they are variant poses. $17,500

50 | James Cummins bookseller Catalogue 132 | 51 81] both persuade white America to endorse social and political equality and actively help other members of the race to (HARVARD UNIVERSITY), [WARREN, George improve their educational, cultural, economic, and political Kendall, photographer] standing. […] Du Bois had specifically identified Greener as a Harvard Class of 1870 Photographic Yearbook. member of this special group […]” (Ardizzone, p. 15). Upon graduating, he held teaching positions in Philadelphia and [Cambridge: Harvard University, 1870]. Washington, D.C. before accepting a professorship at the 109 albumen prints (some second generation), includes: 23 University of South Carolina during its brief Reconstruction- bust portraits (5-1/2 x 4 in.) of faculty; 6 landscapes (approx. era experiment in integration. While there, Greener became 6-1/2 x 9 in.) of Harvard buildings and environs; 73 bust the school’s first African-American librarian, earned his law portraits (5-1/2 x 4 in.) of the class of 1870, each SIGNED by the degree, and worked tirelessly to advance African-American sitter beneath the image; and 7 group portraits (approx. 6 x rights and education. He later served as Dean of the Howard 9 in.) of sporting, fraternity, and religious clubs, including 1 University law school and continued to practice law for “Class of 1870” portrait. Folio. Full panelled brown morocco much of his life — most notably defending West Point cadet over bevelled boards, rubbed; spine titled in gilt, “Class Johnson C. Whittaker. Greener also wrote and lectured on Album. Harvard 1870” and on front cover, “Willard T. African-American topics, debating Frederick Douglass on the Perrin.”; a.e.g. Very good. issue of black migration (cf. Woodson, Negro Orators, pp. 453- 487). Greener’s daughter, Belle da Costa Greene, “passed” as Harvard’s First Black Graduate, One of the white, and would go on to a brilliant career as J.P. Morgan’s ‘Talented Tenth’ librarian. Of particular interest is the portrait of Richard Theodore In April 2016, Greener was honored by Harvard University Greener, Harvard College’s first black graduate and the first with the unveiling in Annenberg Hall of a large-format black graduate of a top-tier university (Slater, “The Blacks photograph portrait. According to The Harvard Crimson, the who First Entered the World of White Higher Education” portrait was presented as “part of Harvard Foundation’s p. 48-9). “Among the representative young men of color portraiture project, which aims to diversify the artwork—a in the United States — and now, happily in the process of majority of which currently honors white male alumni and time, their name is legion — Richard Theodore Greener has faculty—decorating Harvard buildings.” undisputed standing” (George Washington Williams, History This yearbook is an immensely important and rare item, a of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, p. 438). document from the tragically brief period of Reconstruction- Born in Philadelphia and raised in Boston, Greener (1844- era gains in civil rights for blacks. It includes one portrait 1922) was light complected, having several European of Greener SIGNED by him beneath the image; additionally, ancestors, though he never attempted to “pass” as white. Greener appears in the Thayer Club (“Commons”) group His early schooling was erratic ­­­— after his father left photo and the Class of 1870 group photo. The photographer, for California to prospect for gold, Greener was forced George Kendall Warren (1824-1884), was a distinguished to take various clerk and hotel jobs to help support his northeastern landscape photographer and the most family. Employers noted Greener’s intellectual gifts and highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite encouraged him in a self-directed course of study. Greener northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, also began attending political and abolitionist lectures and Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and was eventually able to resume his formal education when a Harvard. benevolent employer sponsored his enrollment at Oberlin. He then studied two years at Phillips Academy, Andover, and $12,500 was accepted to Harvard in 1865. “He lived alone in the dorm and struggled through his freshman year, which he had to repeat … Although he did not report hostilities, he found his classmates continually curious and confused by him. Rumors spread that he was an escaped slave, that he had no prior education, or that he had served in the Civil War” (Ardizzone, An Illuminated Life, p. 19). Greener graduated with high honors, and his many awards include first prize in Boylston Declamation, First Bodwoin for a Dissertation, and the Boylston Prize for Oratory (Williams, p. 439). Greener went on to a distinguished career in education, law, and civil rights: “Greener was a reflection of the professional elite, the ‘Talented Tenth’ of the Negro race, whose accomplishments the leader W.E.B. Du Bois believed would 52 | James Cummins bookseller Catalogue 132 | 53 82] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel [Works] The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Large Paper Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Illustrated throughout and with frontispieces in two states, colored, and black and white. SIGNED BY ARTISTS and illustrations by Anne Whelan Butts, Sarah Stillwell, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Maude Cowles, Childe Hassam, Howard Pyle, Alice Barber Stephens, Ernest Peixoto, Frank Merrill and many others. 22 vols. 8vo. This being Number 36, signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the author’s daughter, and the Publishers. Publisher’s three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, richly tooled gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g. Fine. BAL 7645. WITH HAWTHORNE DOCUMENT & SIGNED BY ARTISTS CHILDE HASSAM, JESSIE WILCOX SMITH, HOWARD PYLE, ET AL With signed document by Hawthorne as the “Surveyor for the District of Salem and Beverly and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Salem” 1848, for a shipment of “Gum Copal” (a resin used for varnishes for boats and furniture. Salem being the place where it was refined) tipped-in at front of Volume 1. The frontispieces signed by the artists are : Anna Whelan Betts (Volume I); Emlen McConnell ( Volume II); Sarah S. Stilwell (Volume III); Jessie Wilcox Smith (Volume IV); Mary Lewis Ayer (Volume V); Eric Pape (Volume VI); Maud Cowles (Volume VII); B. West Clinedinst (Volume VIII); Alice Barber Stephens (Volumes IX and X); E.C. Peixotto (Volumes XI); Frank T. Merrill (Volume XII); Howard Pyle (Volume XIII); A.I. Keller (Volume XIV); Frederick McCormick (Volume XV); F.C. Yohn (Volume XVI); Albert Herter (Volume XVII); Harry Fenn (Volume XVIII); Childe Hassam (Volume XIX); Edmund H. Garrett (Volume XX); Jules Guerin (Volume XXI); and Ross Turner (Volume XXII). $7,500

83] HEMINGWAY, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1952. First edition. 8vo. [ii], 140 pp. Original light blue cloth, in dust-jacket. Fine, sharp copy, in first state of jacket, priced $3.00., some waer to spine ends and front panel. Hanneman 24. $2,750

54 | James Cummins bookseller 84] Hobbes published a partial translation of the Odyssey in 1673 (Travels of Ulysses), the Iliad in 1676, and a complete Homer (HOMER) Hobbes, Tho[mas] in 1677. A rare book on the market, with only one auction Homer’s Odysses. Translated by Tho. Hobbes of record in the last 35 years. Malmsbury. With a Large Preface Concerning $9,000 the Vertues of an Heroique Poem. Written by the Translator. London: Printed by J.C. for W. Crook, at the 85] Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1675. First edition. [xx], 301, [5] pp., with errata leaf. Collation: HOUDINI, Harry [A]1 B-O^12 )(1. 12mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Houdini’s Paper Magic. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1922. Repaired tear to lower margin of O4, small repair to outer First edition. Colored frontispiece and numerous other margin of O5, light dampstain and wear to lower margin of illustrations to text. x, 206 pp. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth. O5-O8. Wing H2556; ESTC R28678; Homer in Print, B48; Lower edge of front board worn, ownership inscription to MacDonald and Hargreaves 77. front free endpaper, else a near fine copy in a near fine dust- ‘a continuation of leviathan’ (Nelson) jacket. Hobbes’ reply to the question of why he attempted a A REAL BEAUTY! translation of Homer at the age of 87 — “Because I had A lovely copy of the scarce first edition. Houdini’s paper nothing else to do” — along with Dryden and Pope’s tricks formed an important, if under-reported, aspect of his withering critiques, have helped obscure the merits of shows. this plain and unadorned translation. Recent scholarship has reevaluated the work, suggesting that it encodes $2,250 philosophical positions that Hobbes was forbidden to openly profess (Nelson, ed. Thomas Hobbes’ Translation of Homer, 2008).

Catalogue 132 | 55 86] Prior to becoming king, James II acted as lord high admiral from 1660-73. ODNB says, he was “no mere figurehead … but [JACKSON, William A.] took an active interest in naval affairs.” He had a small board The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. English Literature of seven men to assist him; Samuel Pepys served among 1475-1700. New York: Privately Printed, 1940. them as clerk of the acts. James took his role so seriously that he was present on ships engaged in both the second and third Limited Edition, No. 111 of 150 copies, this copy signed by Anglo-Dutch wars until being forbidden by Charles II from Pforzheimer on frontispiece in first volume. Illustrated further endangering his life. This letter was written at the with photographic plates. 3 vols. 4to. Original white cloth, time of the Popish plot, and in order to quell any suspicion rust morocco spine labels. Spine lightly toned, a fine copy of involvement, James went abroad to Brussels and later in original cloth slipcase. Breslauer & Folter 162 (“the chef Scotland where he was “virtual viceroy.” d’oeuvre of William A. Jackson”). Pepys’ lasting claim to fame is, of course, his diary. However, The original edition of this superb and indispensable the substance of his life’s work was through his work as an reference, describing more than 1,100 printed books and 169 official in the Admiralty, not least as Secretary of the Royal autographs and manuscripts. Navy when he was commissioned to report on the condition $8,500 of the Navy, which, after “five years of uninterrupted Peace” and incompetent administration, had been reduced “to a Condition of being with difficulty kept above Water.” 87] In addition to assisting James II, Pepys had also been on a committee to run Tangiers from 1672-79. So it was only JAMES II natural that the two would correspond on such matters. Autograph Letter, signed as Duke of York (“James”), to The letter is an excellent example of the Duke of York’s Samuel Pepys. The Hague: April 24, 1679. correspondence with Pepys. It reads in part, “I had recived yours in which you gave an account of the losse of the Bifolium with integral blank & autograph address leaf, marigold prise at Tanger. I hope that we shall now sone heare monogrammed red seal. 4to. Some old folds, paper slightly of the arrival of Sr. J. Narborough for then we shall have toned, but very good. In quarter morocco slipcase with some more strength at home, though not so much as I thinke the bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Samuel Pepys, Diary and aught to be at sea, considering the French are fitting out …” Correspondence of Samuel Pepys … in the Reigns of Charles II and James II … (London, 1883) vol 4, p. 211. John Narborough had been stationed in the Mediterranean for the previous five years in order to combat attacks by 56 | James Cummins bookseller corsairs on British shipping. At the time of writing he was in natural history content. Much of the text consists of an command of the Plymouth with a fleet of thirty-five vessels. extensive catalogue of the flora and fauna of the region, He still encountered difficulties against the strength of with specific details about the character and demeanor Algerine forces. The fate of the Marigold was emblematic of of the creatures encountered there. For example, we find Narborough’s troubles. The 44 gun fourth rate ship that was here the first full descriptions of the cranberry, blueberry captured in 1677 and then wrecked in 1679, the same year the and wild turkey. Josselyn includes an historical chronology fleet was called back to England. (which includes its own separate title-page), but acquired A fine letter involving three vital figures in the Royal Navy. his information second-hand. This work was proceeded by a more straightforward natural history: New-England’s $8,500 rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country (1672). Josselyn hoped these works would admit him to the Royal Society. As ODNB explains, election did 88] not transpire. For all their undoubted quality “Josselyn’s JOSSELYN, John two works blend dispassionate and useful observations with a retailing of marvels that he would neither read as An Account of Two Voyages to New-England. London: providences nor explain, nor omit.” A rare, important and Printed for Giles Widdows at the Green-Dragon in St. Paul‘s- interesting work. There was a second edition in the following Church-Yard, 1674. year. First edition. Woodcut winged dragon printer’s device $20,000 and license on leaf preceding title-page. [8], 279, [3, ads] pp. Small 8vo. Full brown 19th century morocco, a.e.g. Foxing. Bookplate of John Carter Brown (with duplicate stamp) and stamp. Streeter Sale 635; Wing J 1091; European Americana 674/105; Church 627; Sabin 36672; Henry Stevens, Nuggets 1567; Howes J254, “c”; Arents Tobacco II, 323; Siebert sale I:105; Vail 162; Cox Travel II:71. This work has been called the “earliest work on the Natural History of New England” (Rich). Josselyn made two trips to America, in 1638-39 and 1663-71, both times landing at Boston and spending most of the time in Maine. His narrative is highly valued for its observations on the state of medicine and surgery in the colonies, as well as its Catalogue 132 | 57 89] Nixon Administration as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Nixon’s closest advisor on KEYNES, John Maynard foreign policy. This copy is inscribed on the half-title: “To The Economic Consequences of the Peace. New York: Robert McNamara, One of the truly noble men that I have Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. met, with the admiration and affection of his friend, Henry Kissinger.” First American edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth. Rare dust-jacket with some loss to upper edge of front panel, split Volume two describes the turbulent years of the second at folds, chipping to head and tail of spine. Nixon Administration and is inscribed “To Robert McNamara, a staunch friend and guide through troubled First American Edition in Very Scarce Dust Jacket times. With affection and admiration, Henry A. Kissinger.” A book whose prophetic insight into the terms imposed McNamara was Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and on the Central Powers at the end of World War I is now Johnson, 1961-68. legendary. “[It] has the claim to be regarded as Keynes’s $4,500 best book. In none of the others did he succeed so well in bringing all his gifts to bear on the subject at hand … The writing is angry, scornful and, rarely for Keynes, passionate” 91] (Skidelsky, p.384). The book was originally printed in an edition of 5,000 but 2,000 were lost at sea between KOLDEWEY, Karl Edinburgh and London. Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt 1869-1870. Vorträge $950 und Mitteilungen. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1871. First edition. Large folding colored map. iv, 64 pp. 8vo. 90] Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, discreet library stamp to title-page. A very good copy. Howgego, K14. KISSINGER, Henry A. Rare. The first published report of Koldewey’s second bid to White House Years & Years of Upheaval. Boston: Little, reach the North Pole, specifically via the open sea as per the Brown and Company, [1979 & 1982]. speculation of August Petermann. This work precedes the official account by two years. First edition. 1521; 183 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust-jacket, minor split at inner joint on first volume. The expedition was equipped with two ships, the propeller Second volume fine. steamboat, Germania, and a sailing ship, Hansa. Departing Bremerhaven on 15 June 1869, the expedition headed north Inscribed to Robert McNamara past Greenland and the Arctic Sea where Koldewey and his Kissinger’s massive memoir of his first four years in the crew sought to penetrate the Arctic. Their complement

58 | James Cummins bookseller included six scientists, among them the surveyor Julius von 92] Payer, who would later co-command the first Austrian Arctic expedition. LACTANTIUS Like so many nineteenth-century polar expeditions, the L. Cœlii Lactantii Firmiani divinarum institutionum ships did not fair well. Within days of departure, they were Libri septem [bound with:] Tertullianus separated — though had agreed in advance that in the this [Apologeticum]. Venetiis [Venice: Aldus] in Aedibus Aldi, et event the ships would rendezvous at Sabine Island. On 5 Andreae Soceri, [April 1515]. August, the Germania reached Sabine Island where the crew mapped the coast between latitudes 73° and 77°, effectively First Aldine edition. Printer’s device on title of Lactantius continuing the work of Edward Sabine back in 1823. Ice [A2] and verso of colophon of Tertullian [A5]. Collation: 2a- prevented the Germania from proceeding further than 2b^8, a-z^8, A-Y^8; *^4, 2A-2F^8, italic type, rubricated in 75°30’N, just to the north of Shannon Island, and the crew red and some blue throughout with initials and paraphs. 8vo. set up a camp on Sabine Island. They used this as a base to 17th-century English red morocco, tooled in gilt to a panel chart the Greenland islands and glaciers, during which they design. Binding worn, with front joint cracking, small library discovered Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord. Meanwhile, on 19 shelf labels affixed to spine, worming to lower margin of 2a1 October, the Hansa was crushed by the ice just 50 kilometers just touching device, worming to text on 2F4-8 with paper short of the proposed rendezvous point. repairs. Some contemporary marginal annotations, those in Book 1 of Divinae Institutiones washed out. Ahmonson- This report includes an account of the voyages of both the Murphy 132; Adams L16; Renouard 1515/5. Provenance: Earls Germania (by Koldewey) and the Hansa (by Hildebrandt). of Macclesfield (South Library armorial bookplate, dated These are complemented by the scientific and ethnographic 1860, and small embossed armorial stamp to first 3 leaves). reports of Boergen, Copeland, Pansch and Payer. The large folding map notes that the crew of the Germania made use of Rubricated Throughout maps by William Scoresby, Edward Sabine, Wilhelm Graah Aldine printing of the early Christians Lactantius and and Douglas Clavering. Tertullian, published just after the death of Aldus in January $2,000 1515. The preface to the Lactantius notes his death. This copy fully rubricated, unusual for an Aldine octavo. $5,500

Catalogue 132 | 59 93] 94] LATIMER, Hugh LECONTE DE LISLE, Charles-Marie-René The Seconde [-Seventh] Sermon of Maister Hughe Hésiode. Hymnes Orphiques. Théocrite. Bion - Moskhos Latimer, whych he preached before the Kynges maiestie, - Tyrtee. Odes Anacréontiques. Traduction nouvelle. w[ith]in his graces Palayce at Westminster [the]. xv. day Paris: Lemerre, 1869. of Marche. M.ccccc.xlix. Cum gratia et priuilegio ad First edition. [iv], 367, [368, blank], [4] pp. 8vo. Half violet imprimendum solum. [London: John Day, (1549)]. morocco and marbled boards by René Kieffer, with ticket Early edition, with side-notes throughout and “Hughe inside flyleaf. Spine toned. Very good plus. Latimer” on title. Title within woodcut architectural border. Inscribed to Théophile Gautier [432] pp., Collation: A-Y⁸, 2A-2E⁸ (lacking blanks 2E7-8). Small 8vo. Modern full dark blue calf. Light dampstain to lower A volume of translations by the classicist poet Charles margin of first 4 leaves, text toned, with small marginal Leconte de Lisle, parnassian and friend of Baudelaire and marks and manicules in pencil throughout. Pforzheimer 582; Gautier. Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) was a long-time librarian ESTC S122869. at the Luxembourg, and was elected to Victor Hugo’s chair at the Academie française in 1887. Sermons of Hugh Latimer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), a prolific author, critic, and A collection of 6 sermons preached by the great English journalist, was rejected at the Academie française on three Protestant reformer and martyr Hugh Latimer (1485-1555), occasions in the 1860s. In 1868 he accepted a post as librarian printed upon his return to preaching during the reign of to the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. Edward VI. The Pforzheimer catalogue notes that several Inscribed on the half title, “à Théophile Gautier, son undated editions of this work were printed in 1549, with admirateur sincère, Leconte de Lisle.” copies often containing a mixture of sheets from the first and later printings. $4,250 $3,500 60 | James Cummins bookseller 95] MACHIAVELLI, Nicolo The Works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English. London: Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1675. First English edition. Woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initial. Collation: [a]2 b-d2 A-Z4 2A-2B2 2C-2K4 2L-2M2 2N-3I4 3K2, x3K2, 3L-3Y4 [3Z]4 (3Z1, *2, 2*2, 3*4, 3Z2-4). 4 ads (lacking final leaf ) pp. Folio, Modern full calf, old red morocco label to spine, gilt. Wing M128A; ESTC R019906. First edition in English of Machiavelli’s collected cornerstones of political thought, including his The Art of War, Discourses on Livy, and The Prince. This translation, the first complete translation in English, is attributed to Henry Neville (1620-1694). There are two issues of this work, each printed in 1675 and without priority: one with the imprint, Printed for John Starkey (as in this copy), and another, Printed for J.S. Some bibliographers have called for a frontispiece portrait, though none appears to have been issued. $7,500

Catalogue 132 | 61 96] (MAINE) Sullivan, James The History of the District of Maine…Illustrated by a New Correct Map of the District. Boston: Printed by I Thomas and E.T. Thomas, 1795. First edition. Engraved frontispiece folding map drawn by Osgood Carleton. 8vo. Rebound in modern buckram, with brown leather spine label, with “Index of Names and Places in Sullivan’s History of Maine” bound in at rear, separately published (by A.J. Huston, Portland, Maine. n.d.). Map with 2-inch tear into image from inner margin, uniform toning to text and map. Overall, though, very good. Howes S-1122 (“First general history of this state”); Evans 29589. The First General History of the State, with Map $2,500

97] MELVILLE, Herman Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. Second printing. viii, 495, [1] pp. 8vo. Publisher’s brown wave-grain (TZ) cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth worn through on spine ends and tips, bookplate removed from front pastedown, a few pages creased, some scattered light foxing. For first edition: BAL 13666; Wright II, 1703. The rare second printing of Melville’s confounding work of psychological fiction — the story of a young writer, Pierre Glendinning, who forfeits his inheritance to live in artistic squalor with his half-sister and another woman. The novel was condemned by critics for being sexually and morally corrupt and, like Melville’s previous novel, Moby-Dick, did not find favor with readers. A large portion of the 1852 first edition print run remained unsold and was lost in the 1853 warehouse fire that destroyed much of Harper & Brothers’ Melville stock. $2,000

62 | James Cummins bookseller 98] MERCATOR, Gerard Atlas Minor. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, [colophon:] Dordrecht: Adrianus Bottius, 1610. Engraved title-page, 152 [of 153] maps, all with contemporary handcoloring. 684 pp. 4Q2 (pp. 675-6) with paper flaws, remargined, bound before 4O1 (p. 657); lacking 4Q3 (pp. 677-8 map 150 “Peregrinatio Pauli”). Oblong 4to (9 x 7 inches). Old calf. Finely rebacked preserving spine (gilt tooling refreshed), red morocco label gilt; repair to corner of front board. A superb atlas, internally bright and fresh, in a handsome binding. Koeman II Me 189A; Phillips 429. After the success of Mercator’s 1606, “Atlas sive Cosmographia,” he set about producing a smaller version, affordable to a far wider population. This “Atlas Minor” first appeared in 1607 and demand for it was so strong editions were soon published in French, Dutch, German, English and even Russian and Turkish. There are several maps here (each with contemporary color) that depict part, or all, of America. They commence with the double-hemisphere map “Typus Orbis Terrarum,” followed by “America,” “Polus Arcticus,” “Hispania Nova,” “Virginia & Florida,” “Cuba,” “America Meridionalis,” “Fretum Magellanicum,” and finally, “Designatio Orbis Christiani.” $17,500

Catalogue 132 | 63 99] 100] MERRILL, James MILTON, John The Yellow Pages. 59 Poems. [N.p: no publisher, 1971]. Paradise Lost, A Poem. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and First edition, one of only 26 copies. With pencil corrections Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1770. by the author. Typed rectos only. 4to. Stapled, in mailing First Foulis edition, large paper issue. Engraved title-page envelope from Merrill. Usual toning. Fine. Hagstrom A25a. portrait of Milton. [xii], 466 pp. Folio (14-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches). One of 26 Copies — Inscribed by Merrill Contemporary full red morocco, covers gilt with wide floral border, center medallion comprised of small acorn, bird’s The rare staple-bound first of 1971, consisting of only 26 head and thistle tools, spine with raised bands and seven copies. The author’s introductory note on the title-page is panels, richly gilt with small tools in six, lettered in the one, dated “St. Louis, xi.1971.” marbled edges. Light wear to extremities, a few minor scuffs This copy is inscribed by Merrill to Robert Wilson to coves and spine, with one small repair to spine panel. In a (proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop) and includes the custom cloth slipcase. Gaskell 510. Provenance: J.W. Lancaster mailing envelope addressed in Merrill’s hand (from his (gift inscription from Honorable Harriet Douglas, March Stonington address). The half dozen authorial corrections 12, 1821); Sylvester, Lord Glenbervie (bookplate); C.F. Wyatt are to fix typographic errors. RARE. (bookplate); Major J.R. Abbey (bookplate dated 1932; his sale, Sotheby’s 1965, lot 484, £40 to Joseph, thence to David $7,500 Magee). ‘Things unattempted yet …’ The J.R. Abbey Copy The Abbey copy of the Foulis Press Milton, which stands as one of the great achievements of 18th-century printing as well as arguably the finest setting of this greatest of all English epics. In a fine contemporary red morocco binding. $12,500

64 | James Cummins bookseller 101] anthem. Arne’s wife Cecila Young (1712-1789) was among the greatest English sopranos of the 18th century and enjoyed (MILTON, John) ARNE, Thomas Augustine a close association with Handel, performing many of his The Musick in the Masque of Comus. Written by operatic works. She performed at the opening production of Milton. As it Was Perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Arne’s Comus in 1738 — it was his first major success. Young’s sister Isabella Lampe (1815-1795) was also an accomplished London: Printed by William Smith, at Corelli’s Drury-Lane. soprano and was married to the composer John Frederick Head … for the Author, at his Lodgings, [1740]. Lampe. Songs from his immensley popular opera The Dragon First edition. [ii], 47, [1] pp. Letterpress title and engraved of Wantley are bound-in here. music. 4to. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, With 26 pages of music manuscript bound-in at the rear, red morocco spine label. Rebacked, preserving label, wear comprising various arrangements — for strings, trumpet, to covers, damage to outer lower corner of pp. 11-32 with voice, bass — of “The Early Horn” by John Ernest Galliard some loss at margins, some soiling and small closed tears (titled in pencil in a later hand); the Andante Larghetto from throughout. RISM A 1745 & L 453. Handel’s Saul (1738), arranged for three voices with figured [Bound with:] LAMPE, John Frederick. Songs and Duetto’s bass; “Sung by Sigr. Carestini [an Italian castrato] in Alcina,” in the Burlesque Opera, call’d, The Dragon of the Wantley. an aria from Handel’s Alcina (1735) with flute, violin, viola, London: John Wilcox, 1738. [ii], XLI, [1] pp. Letterpress title and figured bass accompaniment; “March in Deidamia [1741] and engraved music. Signed (“JF Lampe”) on the verso of by Mr. Handel,” arranged for horns, timpani, strings and the title-leaf and inscribed in another hand “Corrected and figured bass. revised by ye author.” An intriguing assemblage of printed and manuscript music — concerning works, composers and performers closely Signed by Arne and Lampe, with Contemporary connected with Handel and the mid 18th-century London Handel MS Transcriptions opera scene. The first work signed (“T.A. Arne”) on the title-page. Arne $2,000 (1710-1778) was the leading British theater composer of the 18th-century, working at Covent Garden and Drury Lane — where this adaptation of Milton’s Comus was performed. Arne also composed “Rule, Britannia!” and the version of “God Save the King” that became the British national

Catalogue 132 | 65 102] [MONTANO, Andreas Avelino] [Emma, Queen of Hawaii.] With a clipped signature and date 1865 in her hand. Honolulu: c. 1870. Photograph measuring 3-3/8 x 2-1/4 in. with the ms slip laid down beneath it. Framed and glazed, measuring 9 x 10-1/2 in. A particularly fine example of Emma’s photograph and signature in a contemporary frame. She has signed herself “Emma R / September 26, 1865.” Born in Honolulu in 1836, she was adopted by her maternal aunt, the chiefess Grace Kama’iku’i Young Rooke, and her husband, Dr. Thomas C. B. Rooke. She married Kamehameha IV on 19 June 1856. Emma was an active queen, concerned with palace affairs and was involved in the expansion of the royal library. She is best known for founding the Queen’s Hospital in 1860, which was built to care for native Hawaiians who had no immunity to many of the European diseases which they encountered. The hospital exists to this day as Queen’s Medical Center. Her philanthropic endeavours set a precedent for sitting queens. Although unattributed, this image is likely taken by Andreas Montano, the Colombian photographer who came to Hawaii in 1870 and immediately set up a studio at 87 Fort St. He photographed much of Hawaiian royalty and became Emma’s official photographer. $2,500

103] MORIER, James A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. First edition. 26 plates (uncolored aquatints and uncolored line); 3 maps. 438 pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt dentelles, with note says Bernard Quaritch states this binding done for an exhibition. Ex Libris Ilys, Heliopolis. Abbey 357. A HANDSOME COPY James Justinian Morier, diplomat, traveller and novelist, published in 1812, the record of his journey to Persia which at once took rank as an important authority on a country then little known to Englishmen. “By its admirable style and accurate observation, its humour and graphic power, still holds a foremost place among early books of travel in Persia” (ODNB). Morier was also the author of The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824). $2,750

66 | James Cummins bookseller 104] 105] (MUSIC) Müller, Johann Michael (NEW ZEALAND) THOMSON, Margaret Zions Harpffen-Lieder Bestehend in Hundert und Ferns and Flowers. New Zealand, Hawaii, etc.: ca. 1878. Funfftzig Psalmen Davids Welche nach einer leichten A herbarium including over 120 botanical specimens from und fueglichen Manier auffgesetzt Und mit einem New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa and England, most richtigen Baß aufs neu versehen sind Von. Frankfurt auff captioned and dated in ink. Large quarto. Original pictorial Main: Zu finden bey Johann Adoph Stock … Fedrucht bey green cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed. Balthasar Diehl, 1718. Pristine condition with a distinguished Printer’s device on title. [2], 116, [2] pp. 4to. Full near provenance contemporary tree calf (worm, joint weak); internally Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Patricia C. slightly toned, but a sound, clean copy. OCLC: 916172375. Thomson from her loving sister Maggie. October 12th 1878.” One Copy in OCLC This substantial herbarium is drawn primarily from New Müller (1683-1743) was an organist and composer of the late Zealand and Hawaii and also includes samples from Cape Baroque period. He held posts as organist and headmaster of Town and England. The New Zealand specimens were the Hanau Marienkirche and Gymnasium. OCLC lists only gathered mainly from around Wellington, Otago, Tapanui one copy, in Berlin’s Bibliothek der Universitat der Kunste, and Auckland; they include the poisonous tutu plant, Maiden of this setting of 150 Psalms to printed music and figured Hair Fern, Wilton’s Bush and kidney ferns. The Hawaiian bass. There is some indication that the copy in Berlin may plants include sugar cane, coral leaf and pepper corns. be incomplete, as the collation given is an illogical ”[8o] Compiled by Margaret Thomson, the sister of John Turnbull Bl.” These settings were published in a larger collection of Thomson, noted New Zealand pioneer and Chief-Surveyor. Müller’s work — printed in 1718 by Stock and again in 1719 — The album is presented by Margaret to her sister Patricia, with a dedicatory poem by Georg Telemann (Neu-aufgesetztes they were the elder siblings of John. The herbarium was vollständiges und nach der neu- und reinesten Composition compiled while Margaret visited her brother and included a eingerichtetes Psalm- und Choral-Buch). stop at Hawaii. $1,250 John Turnbull Thomson was instrumental in the development of New Zealand’s infrastructure and founded the Otago and Southland Institutes of New Zealand. He

Catalogue 132 | 67 arrived in 1856 and immediately undertook the task of surveying Otago “on horseback in a series of sweeps that took him as far west as the Waiau River and as far north as Mount Cook” (NZDNB). His survey was published in 1860, he remained in New Zealand for the rest of his life. This is not only distinguished by its provenance but also its condition. The album has clearly been carefully handled since completion, the specimens themselves are entirely intact. This is not only a desirable piece of New Zealand history but also an excellent example of work by a female botanist. $4,500

106] [PARÉ, Ambroise] Opera Ambrossi Parei Regis Primarii et Parisiensis Chirurgi … First Latin edition. Woodcut title-page vignette, portrait of the author, and numerous woodcuts to text throughout. With final blank. Folio. Paris: Jacques Du Puys, 1582. Modern three quarter brown morocco and buckram boards. Faint stamp to title, damspstain to fore-margin throughout. Adams P-313; Cushing P-88; Osler 661; Waller 7175; Wellcome I, 4824; Doe 46. The first Latin edition of this pioneering work on surgery — it was this Latin edition that popularized Paré’s text and helped to elevate surgery to the status of scientific discipline: it “made the work immediately available to all nations of Europe, since Latin was universally the language of the scholar” (Doe). The translation is by Paré’s pupil Jacques Guillemeau and follows the first French edition of 1575. The woodcuts, many of which show fantastic creatures and medical anomalies, are taken from the first edition, supplemented with woodcuts from the 1579 edition. $5,500

68 | James Cummins bookseller 107] PARRY, William Edward Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. With 30 plates (4 folding) and 9 maps (4 folding). 4to. Contemporary half tan calf and marbled boards, rebacked preserving gilt spine (some rubbing), modern endpapers, hinges reinforced with cloth, internally fine, crisp and attractive. Hill 225; Sabin 58864; TPL 1295; Field 1184. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Parry to one of his Officers The account of Parry’s second expedition, this time through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay and beyond. The book is largely concerned with the aboriginal life of the Eskimos, and contains accounts of various scientific discoveries. In 1824-25 the indomitable Parry made a third, unsuccessful, voyage. In 1827 he set out in an attempt to reach the North Pole, setting a record for northernmost travel which stood until 1876. He was promoted to Admiral in 1852. Inscribed by Parry to one of his officers, “Lieut. J. Bushnan RN with the author’s best regards.” John Bushnan was the assistant surveyor on board the Fury. Bushnan was to have joined the Franklin expedition to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, but as Franklin wrote, “Lieut. Bushnan, who had served under Captains Ross and Parry, was appointed to accompany me but, long before the party was to leave England, I had to lament the death of that excellent young officer.” An excellent association copy of a classic, substantial work of Arctic exploration. $7,500

Catalogue 132 | 69 108] 109] P[ENN], W[illiam] (PHILIPPINES) PERINAT Y LASSO DE LA The Sandy Foundation Shaken: or, Those So Generally VEGA, Alfonso Believed and Applauded Doctrines … Refuted. London: Operaciones Militares en el Rio Grande de Mindanao. [John Darby], 1668. Resena Historica del Rio Grande Mindanao y First edition. 36 pp. Collation: A-D4 E2. 4to. Disbound. Title- Fragmentos de un Diario de la Ultima Expedicion, page soiled, worming to lower margin, costing a few letters, Ilustrado con Dibujos y Fotografias. Manila: 1888. worming guarded with tape on A1-B4, early marginal notes First edition. 66 original photographs (measuring 4-3/4 x on two leaves. In custom quarter calf case. ESTC R38009; 6-5/8 in. or 3-3/8 x 4-1/4 in.) laid-down with typed captions, Smith, Friends’ Books 2.283; Wing P11356. illustrations to text, plus a folding colored lithographed map. The Pamphlet that Sent Penn to the Tower 139, iii, [i], 1 pp. 4to. Modern red calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Some foxing on the mounts, photos a little faded, The first edition of the third work by William Penn — but very good. Palau, 223038 & cf. 223039; Angeles, F. Delor. Quaker leader and founder of the state of Pennsylvania in “Notes and Translations from the ‘Operaciones Militares En 1681. Written shortly after the 23-year-old’s conversion to the Rio Grande De Mindanao (Perinat).’” Philippine Quarterly of Quaker faith, The Sandy Foundation Shaken “logically followed Culture and Society 9.4 (1981): pp 275–293. Penn’s doubts on the Trinity and tested the grounds for the rejection of the divinity of Christ” (ODNB). Penn and his EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT printer were briefly imprisoned in the Tower for publication With just three other known copies (BNE, Cornell, of this work without license. Newberry), this work is formidably rare. Our example is $6,000 further distinguished by the inclusion of an extra 46 original photographs (all with printed captions). Palau calls for only twenty photographs, less than a third of the number contained here. A second edition was published in Madrid in 1891 which only includes 22 photographs. The BL copy of the second edition is also augmented with extra photographs. It’s possible that special copies were made up for distribution to dignitaries.

70 | James Cummins bookseller Conflict between the Muslim Moro population and foreign The photographs show Spanish-led troops of native Filipinos rule has been ongoing for over 400 years and waged against engaged in military activities against the local Muslims. The Filipino, Spanish, Japanese and American armies. Most of Filipino soldiers appear dressed in their distinctive uniforms, it has taken place on Mindanao, the second largest island of carrying rifles, and wearing helmets that look like inverted the Philippines. This work — virtually unknown — is the bowls. Many of the photos depict military operations, first photographic record of the conflict and tells us much of soldiers marching, tents, huts, and buildings, and gun boats Spanish military operations. Furthermore, it is an important on the Rio Grande de Mindanao. One photograph shows contribution to early Filipino photography, providing a soldiers carrying their wounded on stretchers through the valuable record of nineteenth century Mindanao. jungle. Another shows the “Necropolis de los Sultanes Perinat y Lasso de la Vega was an official on the staff of de Buhayan” and another is of the Christian church at the Spanish Governor General of the Philippines, Don Tamontaca. All of the fighting occurs in what is know as Emilio Terrero. He, and journalists from Diario de Manila, the “Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,” which accompanied the expeditionary force to Mindanao. The text includes the provinces of Basilan (except Isabela City), is his first-hand account, comprised of daily entries from Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. Several mid-January to late March, 1887. In addition to the events cities are depicted, including Cottabatto, Damabalas, of battle, he describes uniforms of the Moro, weapons and Lintukan, Pagalungan, Kudaranga, and Bacat. Many of the tactics, and remarks on the population mix, ceremonies, photographs, beyond the first twenty called for by Palau, geography and local customs. There is also a historical show scenes of regular life in the towns of Mindanao, though overview. there is often a military presence depicted as well. In Angeles’ abridged translation we read the following: “We This is an early glimpse into what American armies faced found ourselves a handful of men thousands of miles from in both the Spanish-American war of 1898 as well as the our beloved Spain, in a country unknown, graceless, and Philippine-American war (1899-1902). savage, without refuge, fighting in the rigors of a climate The folding map, also printed in Manila, is titled: “CROQUIS different from ours. Amid constant humidity, breathing and del teatro de las operaciones en el rio Grande de Mindanao wading in stagnant water … experiencing fatigue, hunger en el ano de 1887.” It has an inset map, “Curso del rio and burning thirst, we waited under the worst circumstances Grande.” The illustrations to the text all reflect the action for the ambushes of a treacherous, ingenious and bold described and confirm the work as a remarkable example of enemy.” colonial printing. $25,000 Catalogue 132 | 71 72 | James Cummins bookseller 110] (PHOENIX BOOKSHOP) Photo Album formed by Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop in New York. Mostly New York: [1970s and ‘80s]. Over 50 black and white and color prints of American poets. Various formats, mostly 8 x 10 inches. Very good to fair, some docketed on verso identifying the subjects. In commercial red three-ring binder. A Phoenix Photo Gallery — and More! Robert A. Wilson ran the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village from 1962 to 1988. He is the bibliographer of Gertrude Stein, Gregory Corso, and Denise Levertov, as well as a publisher of works by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, and many others. He was also a devoted follower of the Beats, and assiduously collected William Burroughs and Diane di Prima. This collection of photographs is a veritable gallery of the poets and writers he was associated with, captured in informal social settings, but includes some surprises, e.g., Tom Victor’s fine portrait of Louise Bogan, and an early photograph of the great designer, Christian Berard. The following is a partial list of the writers we have been able to identify: Louis Bogan (1). Fine black-and-white portrait by Tom Victor John Wieners (6, one signed) William Burroughs (6, one signed) Laura Riding (2), ca. 1990 Hortense Calisher (1) Robert Duncan (7) Gregory Corso (7) Marianne Moore (3) Diane di Prima (2) Richard Eberhardt (1, inscribed) Louis Simson (1) Jack Micheline (1) Tom Weatherly (1) Anne Freemantle, Anaïs Nin, and Marguerite Young at a joint reading at Town Hall In addition, there a snapshot of Frances Steloff (Gotham Book Mart) with Wilson, several of actress Pat Carroll (one inscribed); and an (apparently) vintage print of a photograph of Christian Bernard ca. 1945?). $2,000

Catalogue 132 | 73 111] PIKE, Z[ebulon] M. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers … During the Years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a Tour Through the Interior Parts of New Spain … In the Year 1807. Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr, 1810. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, 3 folding tables, a chart (on 5 separate leaves) and 6 maps (5 folding). 5, [3], 277, [5]; 65, [1]; 53, [1]; 87, [1] pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label titled in gilt. Binding rubbed, joints starting, dampstain to frontispiece and title, offsetting from frontispiece, some browning and spotting to text, offsetting and foxing to maps, small tears at mounts, repairs to 1 folding chart and Mississippi River map. In a custom blue cloth slipcase and chemise. Howes P-373, “b”; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Graff 3290; Wheat Transmississippi 297, 298, 299; Field 1217; Streeter Texas 1047C; Bradford 4415; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62936; Jones 743; Braislin 1474; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Hill 1357. The report of the first, and certainly one of the most important, exploration narratives of the Southwest. Pike’s narrative includes his account of his travels to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, as well as his earlier journey to the sources of the Mississippi River. He also relates his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Along with the writings of Lewis & Clark, Pike’s Account must stand as the most important early work on western exploration. The maps, which Wheat considers “milestones in the mapping of the American west,” are the first to show geographic knowledge of the area based upon first-hand explorations. Streeter refers to the description of Texas as “excellent.” $15,000

74 | James Cummins bookseller 112] 113] (PUERTO RICO) ALLEN, Charles H. RAMAZZINI, Bernhard [Bernardino] DEPARTMENT OF PORTO RICO Abhandlungen von den Krankheiten der Künstler und Inauguration of the First Civil Governor of Porto Rico Handwerker neu bearbearbeitet und vermehret von [Bound with:] Directory of the Military Government Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann. Stendal: D.C. of Porto Rico. San Juan: Direction of the Commanding Franzen und J.C. Grosse, 1780-3. General, Department of Porto Rico, 1900. )(8, )()(7, A-X8, Y4; [*]1, )(3, [*]1, A-Y8, Z4. (15)ff., 311 pp; (5) ff., 326 First editions. 35, [blank]; 78 pp. 8vo. Later blue cloth, pp., (12) ff. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spines printed label to spine. A couple of minor tears to pages, gilt. Fine set of an uncommon work. Ownership initials ms. annotation to each title-page, both bearing the stamp ECW in each volume. cf. Garrison & Morton 2121, PMM 170, “Compliments of Gen’l Geo. W. Davis U.S.A. San Juan P.R.” Norton 1776, Osler 3760 (for first ed.); Koelsch, B. Ramazzini, LOC “List of Books on Porto Rico” p. 30. Leben & Werk (Stgt. 1912); Waller 7724. TWO RARE PUERTO RICAN IMPRINTS Foundation of Occupational Medicine, from the An excellent and early example of American printing in the Library of Ernst Wynder newly acquired territory, one of the spoils of victory in the “Ramazzini was the first to recognize the social significance Spanish-American War. The text of the inauguration appears of occupational diseases and his book appeared at a most in both English and Spanish (the Spanish translation has its opportune time, since, with the beginning of industrial own title-page). It reprints General Order 88, announcing development in the eighteenth century, prevention of the inauguration, lists the “order of exercises” and includes accidents from machinery and the general health of workers the text of General Davis’s speech confirming the transfer became increasingly important” (PMM). of control to the US and clarifying the make-up of the new Early German edition of this landmark work in occupational government. The directory lists everyone from municipal and preventive medicine. Ackermann’s edition of Ramazzini appointments to the engineer and inspector of the Light includes considerable additional observations and extensive House Service. commentary. Identifies diseases and health problems Charles Herbert Allen had served as Assistant Secretary associated with more than fifty different occupations from of the Navy under William McKinley. His time in office miners, tailors, and dyers to glassblowers, trumpeters, and proved controversial. Despite raising significant revenue lime burners. through taxation, he failed to pass on any of the benefits to Uncommon and important edition, from the library of Dr. the population in terms of infrastructure or education. He Ernst Wynder, twentieth-century pioneer in cancer research resigned as governor the following year, whereupon he took and preventive medicine. his considerable talents to Wall Street. $3,500 $1,500

Catalogue 132 | 75 114] 115] (RESTORATION) (REVOLUTIONARY WAR) Poems on Affairs of State[ … vol. II; III; IV] [vol. I Two pay lists of the officers belonging to the Garrison of bound with:] State-poems; continued from the time of Fort St Phillips, who are to receive. Minorca: 25 December O. Cromwell, to the year 1697. [London]: 1697; 1703; 1704; 1781 and 23 February 1783. 1707. Two single sheets. Folio. Very good copies, a little toned, old Third edition of first volume, first editions of vols. II-IV. folds. Seven engraved illustrations in vol. IV, folded at margin. [viii], Signed in full by every officer 267, [1] (State Poems: [viii], 264); xii, 471, [1] (final 2 leaves bound at front following the Table); xi, [i], 468; xii, 468 pp. 4 The first is titled: “No. 26 Pay List for additional Subsistence vols. 8vo. Period half calf and marbled boards, red morocco etc to the officers in st. Philips Castle, from 25 Dec. 1781 to 23 spine labels. Some browning and light staining, generally in Feb. 1782.” The second has written on the verso: “No. 136 Pay very good condition. Case 211 (I)(c), 211 (2)(a), 211 (3)(a), 211 (4) List to make up Subs. to Brevet Officer etc equal to the Rank (a). where in they respectively serve in The Garrison of Fort St. Philips during the Siege, Decemb. 24 1781 — Dollars 4350-50.” The complete four-volume collection of this important These two officer pay lists are signed by each of the 36 and 44 anthology of satirical Restoration verse, with works by listed officers. They’re a wonderful souvenir of the siege and, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, and Shakespeare (his Venus and with a sample of every officer’s signature, a valuable source Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece appear in vol. IV). for further research. “Poems on Affairs of State provides detailed inside The five-month Siege of Minorca (August 19, 1781 - February information on matters of church, government, and court 5, 1782) was a vital victory over England in the European in their day had a vast readership, even when circulation theatre of the Revolutionary War. Throughout most of the was clandestine. With the possible exception of the Russian eighteenth century English possession of the island was of Revolution, there is no other instance in modern European real strategic importance, from its deep-water harbor, the or American history in which an underground press has been Royal Navy could launch attacks against the Mediterranean so effective in determining the outcome of a national crisis” fleets of Spain, France and Italy. (Anthology of Poems on Affairs of State, Yale University Press, 1975). $950 $2,000

76 | James Cummins bookseller 116] [RICHARDSON, Samuel] Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded … London: Printed for C. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church Yard; and J. Osborn, in Pater- noster Row, 1741-2. Second edition of vols. I-II, first edition of vols. III-IV. xxxviii, 296; [ii], 396; [ii], iv, 419, [1]; [ii], 471, [1, ad] pp. 4 vols. 8vo. Modern quarter brown morocco and cloth. Light toning and some faint dampstaining to text, top corner of vol. II, D7, torn off. Rothschild 1745. Richardson’s immensely popular epistolary novel went into 5 editions in its first year of publication. This second edition has a new introduction, addressing criticism of the novel and reproducing letters written in its support. $2,500

117] RIVERA, Diego The Frescoes of Diego Rivera. New York: Harcourt Brace, [1929]. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Rivera by Edward Weston, numerous b/w reproductions of frescos; 36, [108] pp. 4to. Publisher’s gilt-stamped black cloth; light scuffing to extremities, toning to preliminaries, red stain to one fly- title; near fine in custom green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Presentation Copy with Original Photograph SIGNED by Rivera on the front free endpaper for “Senorita Vail” in memory of a visit to her home, dated 13 November 1931. Laid in loose is a vintage photograph (3-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches) of Laurence Vail, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo in a Mexican courtyard. Laurence Vail was Peggy Guggenheim’s first husband and an important Surrealist writer. $9,000

Catalogue 132 | 77 118] 119] [ROLFE, Frederick] ROWLANDSON, Thomas Tarcissus: the Boy Martyr of Rome, in the Diocletian Dr. Syntax lamenting the loss of his wife. [London]: c. Persecution, A.D. CCCIII [cover title]. [Saffron Walden, 1820. Essex: Boardman, 1880]. Watercolor and ink on paper, captioned in pencil. Image size First edition. 24mo. Original grey printed wrappers. Dated 4-1/4 x 7-1/4 in. Some very faint soiling, else fine. Matted and 1880 on upper cover. With the ownership signature of A. T. framed. Literature: Combe, Second Tour of Doctor Syntax Bartholomew and his ms. note recording 1926 purchase from (Ackermann, 1820), facing p. 10. Christopher Sclater Millard. Fine copy, in folding case. Woolf Original Rowlandson Drawing for Doctor Syntax A1a. Provenance Stuart Mason (Christopher Sclater Millard), sold to A. T. Bartholomew; H. Bradley Martin (sold at The original drawing for the illustration found in Part I of his Sotheby’s, 1990), and Corvo biographer Robert Scoble (pencil famous Second Tour of Doctor Syntax. signature inside case). $6,500 Superb Copy with Exceptional Provenance Baron Corvo’s first work, issued anonymously at age 20. The date “1880” is written in ink on the upper cover; publication was late in that year or early in 1881. Copies of Tarcissus are of almost legendary rarity (fewer than fifty were printed). This copy has an exceptional provenance from the collections of Wilde bibliographer Stuart Mason (Christopher Sclater Millard), through A.T. Bartholomew, a Cambridge University librarian and early Corvo enthusiast; H. Bradley Martin; and Robert Scoble, the leading Corvo scholar and biographer. $10,000

78 | James Cummins bookseller 120] A Signer Loses His Umbrella (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) [COMBE, William] A familiarly chatty letter written by Philadelphia Signer of the Declaration of Independence Dr. Benjamin Rush to his The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little wife, Julia, who is away from home, relating the latest news Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: a Poem, by the and gossip from Philadelphia. He mentions Julia’s “little Author of the First Three Tours. London: R. Ackerman, farm,” writing of improvements to be made there: 1822. “Marcus is now employed in planting strawberries. He shall First edition. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after drawings attend to your directions. Your flowers & fruit trees seem to by Thomas Rowlandson. Tall 8vo. Contemporary (ca. 1840) languish for your eye & hand. I have engaged a surveyor to remainder binding of orange blind-stamped cloth, gilt- go out & run the line which is to add an acre or two to your lettered spines with ornaments. little farm. In the course of the stream which issues from the spring, thro’ the wood, there is a pleasant & shaded spot on The Last Syntax which I shall direct a covered bath to be made. It will furnish The last of the authentic Combe-Rowlandson Dr. Syntax ice in winter, and a bath in summer.” series, whose success prompted numerous imitations. This He continues with some news of family and neighbors, remainder binding, in superb shape, resembles that seen on writing, “I have passed another busy day — two hours of it the earlier Syntax books, but we have never seen it on Johny were pleasantly spent at Mr. Wister’s at Germantown in the Quae Genus, and it is beautiful example. Rare thus. company of three of the best informed ladies of Philada. Young Mr. Wister relapsed a few days ago, but is now I hope $1,250 mending. Capt. [John] Barry is better, but not well. My country patient at Frankford is out of danger. I visited him 121] yesterday — probably for the last time … John unkindly took my umbrella with him & left me a note to buy another for RUSH, Benjamin myself. I have not time to do so, nor do I know where to [Autograph Letter, Signed, from Benjamin Rush to His borrow one. From the want of it I have suffered from the rain this evening. To him it was an article of dress; to me it Wife]. Philadelphia: Sept. 1, 1803. was a necessary of health. I never expect to see it again.” The 2 pp. 4to. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, Captain Barry referred to is the famous naval officer spine gilt with red leather labels. Old folds. Light soiling. considered as second only to John Paul Jones. Top half of left edge repaired with newer paper. About very Rush closes the letter with a postscript about a party given good. by the governor, attended by Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. “Governor McKean gave a splendid tea party Catalogue 132 | 79 this evening in honor of Jerome Bonaparte. Miss Eliza Smith who attended it, says he is a modest, thoughtful well behaved young man.” Jerome Bonaparte was a lad of eighteen but deeply in love with Elizabeth Patterson of Maryland. They waited until December 1803 to be married, when Jerome would have passed his nineteenth birthday. The marriage was later dissolved by Napoleon in 1805. Benjamin Rush was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence; he later served as surgeon general for the Middle Department of the Continental Army, though he resigned in outrage over the disorganization and corruption in army hospitals. Rush established several medical facilities in Philadelphia, including the College of Physicians in 1787. “Writing prolifically over nearly half a century, Rush was the first American physician to become widely known at home and abroad. More than any other physician, Rush established the reputation of Philadelphia as a center for medical training … His drive to understand mental illness and render the treatment of mental patients more humane earned Rush the title ‘father were made for an attack on rail and river transport. The of American psychiatry’” (ANB). objective was to repel the Red Army from their established A delightfully chatty letter from Rush to his wife. positions and generally improve the position of the White Russian forces. The hope was that the NRRF would be able $3,750 to subsequently withdraw without significant casualties. In addition, smaller raids on Red Army positions were 122] carried out to the south, partly to destabilize them, partly as reconnaissance. Nightingale was in command of the Borok (RUSSIA) NIGHTINGALE, G[uy] W[arneford], Column on the right bank of the Dvina River for the August R[oyal] Munster 10 offensive. “Photographs of the North Russian Relief Force. April The first photos are of the H.M.T. War Summit & H.M.T. Pretorian chugging through the Arctic Ocean and White 1919 to October 1919. General H. deV. Sadleir-Jackson’s Sea in Midsummer, June 1919 on its way to Archangel. They Brigade.” April 1919 to October 1919. were billeted at Troitsa and among the many images of Approximately 100 snapshots, mounted and captioned in ink. the town and its surroundings is one of where the mutiny Typed order bearing the ink stamp “Russian Relief Force” of Dyer’s Battalion took place. Equally, there are shots of dated 9 September 1919 laid down. Photographs measuring Russian batteries, Allied defenses, company headquarters and 6 x 4 inches and smaller. Oblong 8vo (8-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches). regimental aid posts, as well as images of the Dvina River, Contemporary gray cloth, ms. title to upper board, upper Yaroslovskoe and Selso. A page is devoted to “Col. Davies joint wearing but holding nicely. Headquarters at Commencement of Action Aug 10th” and shows how the British troops organized themselves in the RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH RUSSIAN RELIEF Selmenga Forest, namely with three shots of “Piccadilly FORCE 1919 Circus (Selmenga Forest) with Shaftesbury Avenue and Regent Street.” A rare survival from a distinguished World War One veteran. Born in India, Nightingale was educated at Rugby and The attack commenced at noon and, despite the difficulty Sandhurst and joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1910. He survived of the terrain, was successful. We know that Borok the landing on V beach (Cape Helles, Gallipoli) April 25th, (Nightingale’s objective) was reported captured, along with 1915, and the following year he was awarded both the Military 80 POWs, by eleven o’clock that evening. Nightingale was Cross and the Legion D’Honneur for his services. evacuated in late September. Nightingale subsequently served with the 46th Battalion The photographs of Russia occupy the first half of the Royal Fusiliers in the North Russian Relief Force, part of the album, the rest is devoted to Nightingale’s time in Ireland invasion of Russia by the English, Irish and the Americans. with the 7th Cadet Battalion. Despite his distinguished The operation was conducted under the command of service in the military, Nightingale’s fate was a melancholy General H. de V. Sadleir-Jackson. one. He died in 1935, reportedly either by suicide (using his own revolver) of from alcoholism. Arriving in Archangel on 5 June 1919, the 46th proceeded along the Dvina River to Osinova where preparations $5,000 80 | James Cummins bookseller 123] 124] SAINT-REMY SCOTT, Joseph Histoire du Petit Nègre. Toulouse; Paris: Éditions Chantal, The United States Gazetteer: … Ilustrated wth Nineteen [1945]. Maps. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bailey, 1795. First edition. Illustrated in color throughout. [20] pp. 4to. First edition. 19 engraved folding maps, including the Illustrated stapled wrappers. large folding frontispiece map of the United States. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving early endpapers Le Petit Nègre Liberates Europe (now greatly darkened, with ownership notations). Several The adventures of a black soldier in the United States Army maps split at fold, general uniform toning to text and maps. during WWII. Plucked from the banks of the Mississippi and Very good. Howes S-237; Sabin 78331; Evans 29476. put to work in a Jeep factory, the “Petit Nègre” eventually The maps include Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New lands on the beaches of Normandy and goes on to terrorize Jersey, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New the enemy throughout Europe. Along the way, he gets kisses Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode from Alsace women liberated from Nazi rule and ecstatically Island, South Carolina, Northwest Territory, Southwest embraces a black soldier in the French army. He returns Territory, Vermont and Virginia. The large, folding triumphal to the Mississippi “et dans son village, entouré de frontispiece “Map of the United States,” frequently wanting, ses nombreux petits nègres tout noirs, tout noirs, il raconte is present here though detached. sans cesse ses aventures fantastiques.” A cornerstone of American mapmaking. OCLC locates only 3 copies (none in the United States), and we find no records at auction. $5,000 $3,000

Catalogue 132 | 81 125] SCOTT, Robert Falcon Scott’s Last Expedition [vol. I: The journals of Captain R.F. Scott; vol. II: The reports of the journeys & the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition]. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913. First edition. Complete with half-titles, frontispieces, 18 colored plates, many from drawings Wilson, and numerous plates from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition plus maps. xxvi, 633, 2ads; xiv, 534 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Original blue cloth, silvered, a little rubbed and worn, ownership inscription, drawings in ink and signatures to front free endpapers. Conrad p.188; Renard 1386; Rosove 290.A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77. OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY The copy of Edward R.G.R. Evans, first Baron Mountevans: he was second in command on the expedition, the captain of the Terra Nova and the last living man to see Scott alive. These volumes are further distinguished by two of Evans’s original drawings (including one of the Terra Nova) and his signature. It is also signed by Roald Amundsen, Cecil H. Meares, Capt. J. Neil, Cherry Keaton, Hjalmar Riiser Larsen, John Hugh Mather, and John Baptist Lucius Noel. This is the official account of one of the best known and tragic expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. It was arranged from Scott’s journals retrieved from his tent in 1912. By this stage he became the first Englishman to reach the South Pole, beaten by a matter of weeks by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. That they were beaten to the pole was an enormous disappointment, that weather conditions deteriorated preventing them from finding One Ton Depot proved fatal for the entire party. Scott’s immortal last lines were: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more … For God’s sake look after our people.” Edward Evans was sub-lieutenant on the ‘Morning’, which relieved Scott’s first expedition and took Shackleton home. “He was selected by Scott himself as second in command of his second expedition and captain of the Terra Nova, which left England in June 1910. He accompanied Scott in January 1912 to within 150 miles of the pole, where he turned back. Struck down by scurvy he was saved only by the devotion of his two companions, Chief Stoker Lashly and Petty Officer Crean. After a brief period of convalescence in England, which he devoted to raising money for the expedition, he returned to take command of the ‘Terra Nova’ in New Zealand and sailed south, only to find on arrival at Cape Evans in January 1913 that Scott had died in an

82 | James Cummins bookseller unparalleled period of bad weather when returning from Small 4to. A very good copy, some very faint dampstaining. the pole in March of the previous year. After bringing home Not in Church; Sabin, 38661; Maggs “Biblioteca Americana” the expedition and clearing up its affairs Evans went on IV, 2998; Milton W. Hamilton, “Battle Report: Genreal half pay and spent some time lecturing in Canada and the William Johnson’s Letter to the Governors, Lake George, United States. He had been promoted commander in 1912.” September 9-10, 1755” in Proceedings of the American (ODNB). Cape Evans was later named after him. He also was Antiquarian Society, April 1964, pp. 19-36. the author of South with Scott, 1921. THE BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) is perhaps the most successful polar explorer of all time. In 1903-06 he became the first A Portuguese translation of General William Johnson’s man to successfully achieve the northwest passage. He led “Letter to the Governours of the Several Colonies who the Antarctic expedition (1910-12) to become the first man to raised Troops on the Present Expedition” signed in the text reach the South Pole in December 1911. In 1926, he was the “Wilhelmo Gonson.” first expedition leader to be recognized without dispute as Not long after the commencement of the Seven Years’ War, having reached the North Pole. Johnson was appointed British agent to the Iroquois. On 28 Hjalmar Riiser Larsen (1890-1965) was a Norwegian aviation August 1755, he renamed Lac Saint Sacrement Lake George pioneer and generally regarded as the founder of the in honor of the British monarch, and proceeded north as Norwegian Royal Air Force. His polar exploration began in part of a four-pronged attack on the French, specifically to 1925 when Amundsen asked him to be his deputy and pilot capture the French-held Fort St. Frédéric at Crown Point. for an attempt to fly over the North Pole. “It was not the greatest battle of the French and Indian John Hugh Mather was a Petty Officer in Capt Scott’s crew, War, but it came when a victory was needed, and the results and participated in the allied campaign against the Bolsheviks were momentous. It retrieved both the glory and morale so in Arctic Russia and achieved considerable distinction in that badly depleted when Braddock fell at the forks of the Ohio area of operations. the previous July. It blunted a French drive which menaced Albany and the northern frontier, set up a new English Cecil H. Meares (1877-1937), was the chief dog handler and outpost in that area, and the capture of a distinguished Russian interpreter on the Terra Nova expedition. French general [Dieskau] was triumph for the victors and Cherry Keaton, British wildlife photographer and filmmaker, humiliation for the enemy” (Hamilton). was hired by and accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on his The publication of this letter was, of course, a remarkable 1909 British East Africa safari and hunting expedition and source of propaganda for the English and boosted Johnson’s went on to produce the silent movie Roosevelt in Africa. career significantly. The letter was reprinted in London, an Captain John Baptist Lucius Noel was an official engraved plan of the battle was produced as well as portrait. photographer on the 1922 and 1924 Everest Expeditions, the This Lisbon printing is, however, very rare and little known. 1924 trip famous now for Mallory and Irvines attempt on the It’s not in COPAC, there wasn’t a copy in the Streeter Sale. summit, where opinion for decades was split over whether In fact, the last copy on the market we can find was in 1928. they had got to the top or not. $5,000 $15,000

126] (SEVEN YEARS’ WAR) JOHNSON, William Relacao de huma batalha succedida no campo de Lake Giorge na America Septemtrional, entre as Tropas Inglazas commandadas pelo Coronel Guilhelmo, e as Francezas das quae era Commandante o General Barao Dieskau, aos 30 aos 30. de Junho do prezente anno de 1757 / traduzida no idioma Portuguez; extrahida de huma carta escrita pelo mesmo coronel, logo despois do successo, ao general Wensvort, governador da nova Hamsphire [sic] e mandada inclusa em outra escrita em postmaute capital da mesma provincia. Lisboa: [Domingos Rodrigues], 1757. First edition. Woodcut vignette to title-page. 7, [blank] pp.

Catalogue 132 | 83 127] SHAKESPEARE, William The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is Now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York’s Theatre. London: Printed by Andrew Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, 1676. First Davenant edition, Greg’s first issue with 4-line imprint, and sixth 4to edition. [iv], 88 pp.; [A]2 B-M4. 4to. Full brown calf in period style, covers ruled in gilt to a panel design with gilt-stamped tulips at outer corners of center panel, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco spine label in one, the rest tolled in gilt with small floral device. Repair to lower outer corner of [A]1, small paper repairs to worming at gutter of B1-E2, two early marginal notes on M3r. Bartlett 84; Greg I, 197(i); Wing S-2950; ESTC R17530. The Davenant Edition of Hamlet The first edition of Sir William Davenant’s edition of Hamlet. Davenant (1606-1668) — poet, playwright and theater manager — was “the man mainly responsible for the return of Shakespeare’s plays to the London stage at the Restoration” (ODNB). His father John Davenant was a devotee of Shakespeare, and the playwright purportedly stood as Davenant’s godfather at his baptism. The first performance in 1661 of Davenant’s edited version of Hamlet — with lines cut and supposed obscure language clarified and adapted to contemporary tastes — starred the great Shakespearean actors Thomas Betterton in the title role and Mary Saunderson as Ophelia (Davenant pioneered the use of female actors in female roles). Betterton could trace his performance back to Shakespeare, as Davenant instructed his actor to model his performance on Taylor of the Blackfriars, who was instructed by Shakespeare himself. Pepys was in the audience for the opening and remarked in his Diary for 24 August 1661 “… and then straight to the Opera, and there saw ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,’ done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton did the prince’s part beyond imagination.” The “Opera” is Duke’s Playhouse, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, established by Davenant in 1661 and featuring the first use of moveable scenery and a proscenium arch. Davenant’s edition is the sixth 4to edition of Hamlet and one of the few early editions still obtainable on the market. $75,000

84 | James Cummins bookseller 128] 129] SIEGENTHALER, Fred (SLAVE TRADE) METTERNICH, Klemens Strange Papers. A collection of the world’s rarest Wenzel Lothar, Prince of handmade papers [Translated by John O’Brien]. Letter, signed (“Metternich”) to Viscount Ponsonby Muttenz, Switzerland: 1987. enclosing a warrant to allow the British sloop “Arab” One of 200 copies. With 101 paper samples in printed folders. to enforce the terms of the Treaty of London of 20 Text: 128 pp. Folio. Text volume bound in Nepalese paper December, 1841, between Great Britain, Prussia, France, over boards, upper board titled in black. Autograph letter, Austria, and Russia. [Vienna]: 13 November, 1847. signed, presenting the work loosely inserted. As new in publisher’s folding box. 1-1/2 pages on rectos of single bifolium. In French. Folio. Docketed at top of first page “transmit warrant for the A spectacular assembly of unusual papers from an ‘Arab,’” Creased at top, small, semi-circular tear through both international roster of papermakers, fully described with leaves (text unaffected), minor soiling; overall, very good. noes on production processes. As Siegenthaler wrote, “Even as the Strange Papers collection makes its appearance, it has Enforcing the Ban on the Slave Trade already become clear that some of the papers included in it The Treaty of London of 20 December, 1841, the so-called can never again be produced, either because the raw material “Quintuple Treaty” between the 5 major powers, was the no longer exists or the papermaker no longer makes that first major international agreement to abolish the slave trade. particular paper and is not revealing his secret.” The agreement allowed a squadron of designated ships of This copy includes an autograph letter, signed, (in German), the Royal Navy, with certain powers of search and seizure, dated Bangkok 6 June 1995, presenting this copy, “as author to patrol the coast of Africa, Each of the ships of the Royal and portrayed in this leaf as watermark …” signed, “Mit Navy had to be approved, however, with an official warrant, freundlichen Grüssen, Fred Siegenthaler.” The watermark is by the signatory nations. The present document transmits a highly detailed self portrait of Siegenthaler, corresponding such a warrant from Austria for the English sloop “Arab,” to Mein Schattenwasserzeichen, 1978. under the command of William Morris. A sensory delight and an enduring legacy of master Viscount Ponsonby (c.1770–1855) was a career diplomat who, papermaker and artist Fred Siegenthaler. despite the fact that, according to the ODNB, “his behaviour as an ambassador sometimes embarrassed the government” $4,000 (for numerous affairs), he was appointed to Vienna as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, serving from 1846 to 1850. Metternich, of course has been called the greatest diplomat of the 19th century. $1,250

Catalogue 132 | 85 130] addressed to the Duke concludes with the author’s name and is dated, “Nutwood, Reigate, 15th August, 1826.” General SMYTH, James Carmichael Smyth, a military engineer, was selected by the Duke Precis of the Wars in Canada, from 1755 to the Treaty of of Wellington in 1825, to make a report on the military Ghent in 1814. With Military and Political Reflections. defences of Canada, and to offer recommendations as to the fortifications and works required along the frontier. Of London: [Printed by C. Rosworth], 1826. his unpublished communications on the subject the most First edition. xiii, [1], 185 pp. Half contemporary calf and important is a report, dated March 31, 1826, which together marbled boards. Bookplate of the Duke of Wellington. with several others is listed in Cruikshank’s “Inventory of Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (armorial bookplate, the Military Documents in the Canadian Archives,” 1910. He by descent); Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington states in the dedicatory letter of the “Precis” that a study of (presentation inscription, dated 1946, noting the gift of the past military operations in the province had been needed for book to); Wellington College, Berkshire (sold in 2004 for 150 an understanding of the present requirements for defence. GBP [!]). TPL 7156; Howes S728; Sabin 85236; Dionne II:103; The results of these researches are submitted to the Duke, Lande 801. with recommendations as to the strategic positions to be newly fortified or strengthened, in order to make impossible DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S COPY the conquest of Canada by the United States. The outlines The dedicatee’s copy of a rare work privately printed in of the plan “had been already traced by your Grace’s own limited numbers: Great Britain prepares for an invasion Hand” (Sabin). of Canada by the United States “In Canada and at Halifax After briefly acting as colonial secretary following the our enemy is at our door. If our minister at Washington is surrender of the Cape of Good Hope, Carmichael served at deceived; if our generals are indolent or supine, a war may Coruna, and in Scotland and the Netherlands (including the be declared and an invasion take place before the ministry in defence against the 1815 French invasion). On Wellington’s England are aware that hostilities are even contemplated” (p. recommendation he was made a baronet in 1823, and 185) published several books on military and colonial subjects, Not only was the Duke of Wellington the dedicatee, but including the present work. In 1829 he was appointed the work was published at his suggestion. On recto of the governor of the Bahamas, during which time he abolished leaf preceding the title: “N. B. — This Volume is printed the flogging of female slaves. In 1833 he was transferred to by desire of His Grace the Master-General [the Duke of the “more important” governorship of British Guiana, in Wellington], for the use and convenience of Official People which he position he was still serving when he died suddenly only. It is requested it may be considered as confidential by “of brain fever” in 1838. those Persons to whom Copies may be sent.” The dedication $3,500 86 | James Cummins bookseller 131] (SPEAKEASY) SMITH, Richard Averill, photographer Belle Livingstone’s Fifty Eight Street Country Club New York [cover title]. [New York: c. 1930]. 14 sepia-toned gelatin prints (7 x 9 in.) mounted on album leaves, each print captioned in ink on the mount, first leaf printed with emblem and Latin motto “risum teneatis?” Oblong 4to. Gray textured paper album bound in string, titled in gilt on front cover, with photographer’s label on rear pastedown. Some chipping and scuffing to covers, prints in fine condition, entirely unfaded. 14 Photographs of Belle Livingstone’s 58th Street Speakeasy A fascinating photographic tour of Belle Livingstone’s speakeasy, the 58th Street Country Club. Livingstone (d. 1957) ran several New York City speakeasies, her most notorious being the 5-story club on Park and East 58th pictured here. The club had evocatively titled and furnished rooms — The Royal Box, The Monkey Cage — as well as an indoor miniature golf course. The bar was referred to as Belle’s Soda Fountain. Livingstone is seen here raising a glass in The Royal Box. She described her establishment as a “salon of culture, wit, and Bohemia.” Along with Texas Guinan and Helen Morgan, Livingstone was one of the three major female impresarios of the New York speakeasy scene. Her Chicago Tribune obituary describes Livingstone as “operating in a quiet, discreet atmosphere, her cliental from the world of literature and theater.” Her success attracted the attention of the authorities, who were generally not at all scrupulous about shutting down gin joints in New York. She was arrested several times, eventually serving a 30-day jail sentence and was forced to close her business. In court she refused to name her financial backers — undoubtedly from the world of organized crime — for fear of retaliation. This album, which features 14 photographs by New York society photographer Richard Averill Smith, is inscribed by Livingstone to “My dear Frank — This picture book will prove to you that there is no sawdust on the floor of my American Salon …” $6,000

Catalogue 132 | 87 132] amnesty for Poles held captive was issued and a Polish Army, under Soviet command, was assembled. Stanko-Dziewulski STANKO-DZIEWULSKI, Julian joined this army and reports fighting in the Middle East — The Saviours and Liberators. [Edinburgh: by the author], Iran and Palestine. The author states in the introduction “If 1950. in my writing I have used a small drop of ink, oceans should be used to describe all the sufferings of people caused by the First edition. Mimeographed text, photograph title-page, Bolsheviks.” plus 18 original photos on 6 plates all captioned in typescript. [iv], v, [iii], iv, 1-137, [blank], 138-171, 171A, [blank], 172-262, The eighteen original photographs augmenting the text are [blank] pp. Small oblong 4to. Later quarter cloth, with uniformly bleak, even depicting the mass graves of Katyn. printed label to upper board, library stamps to recto and Some of the other images include: “A forced labour camp verso of title-page. at Pyetchora,” “The so-called hospital for soldiers sick with typhus. (Kermine, 1942),” “The living skeletons of Polish RARE WAR MEMOIR WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS children after leaving ‘The Soviet House of Bondage’,” “The skeleton of a Polish boy who enlisted in the Polish Army, Published in a very limited number of copies, this after crossing the Soviet-Iranian frontier. (Teheran, 1942).” mimeographed memoir includes a list of seventeen recipients, among whom are King George VI, Clement Atlee, This copy formerly part of the Foreign Commonwealth Winston Churchill, Harold MacMillan, August Zaleski (the Office library. OCLC locates just a single copy at Cal State Polish President in Exile), Elma Dangerfield and T. S. Eliot. (East Bay). He also thanks Bertram Russell for his advice. $3,250 A stringent denouncement of the Soviet Union, Julian Stanko-Dziewulski’s personal account of eight years from 1939-1947 commences with his capture by the Soviet army. He was interrogated and sentenced to penal servitude at Stolypinka (Kurst Oblast) and later Strelok (Primorsky Krai). He describes conditions at camp in great detail, the brutality of which culminates in frozen prisoners being used as railway sleepers. When the Soviet Union sided with the Allies in 1941, an

88 | James Cummins bookseller 133] 134] STEIN, Gertrude STEVENS, Wallace Picasso. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1938. Typed Note, Signed (“W. Stevens”) to Allen Tate, on First edition, no. 13 in the publisher’s series “Anciens et Hartford Accident and Indemnity notepaper, dated Modernes.” 63 full-page reproductions of which 8 are in 27 August 1945, about arranging a lunch, mentioning color. 8vo. Original wrappers, torn and stained, an inch Henry Church and Valery. Hartford: August 27, 1945. missing head and foot of spine, wrappers extensively repaired with cellotape, internally very good, however. Wilson A30. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches. Fine. ‘… I did write it in French yes I did …’ — to Stevens to Tate: “… particularly about Valéry Henry McBride …” Wonderful ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by Stein to her friend, Fine note discussing plans to get together, and mentioning the art critic HENRY McBRIDE, fellow champion of Picasso and his friend Henry Church: “the truth is that I heard from Mr. modernism: Church only this morning, particularly about Valéry.” “My dear Henri / I did write it in French / yes I did, $4,000 corrected if you / like but I did lots of love / Gtde.” According to biographer James Mellow, Henry McBride, along with Carl van Vechten, was one of Stein’s most important friends in the building of her American reputation. McBride was an art critic for the New York Sun whom Mellow calls “the most astute and entertaining art critic of his generation.” From the time that they met in 1913, McBride became a powerful promoter of Stein’s work in the States, “he mentioned her frequently and favorably in his columns for the Sun, often quoting her at length. His promotion of her work and her her reputation during the years of World War I kept her name before the public …” $2,000

Catalogue 132 | 89 135] Memoir (1835) of Liverseege. There are a further four pages of notes (written upside-down) at the back of the volume. SWAIN, Charles The Liverseege section ends with a dedicatory 4-line poem Autograph manuscript notebook, comprising working to George Condy, editor of the Manchester and Salford drafts and fair copies of more than 100 poems, many Advertiser. unpublished. [Manchester: ca. mid- to late 1830s]. The following 42 leaves are paginated 1-100 (but lacking 8 leaves) and contain 49 poems, some in fair copy, others Pen and ink and pencil, with corrections and emendations heavily edited. The next 92 pages contain a further 51 poems. throughout. [245] pp. on 123 leaves present, evidence of some Many of the poems are unpublished — the published leaves having been torn out. Folio. Original half calf and poems generally appeared in journals from the mid- to late marbled boards. Spine defective, covers worn and loose, 1830s. Some of the works are marked “Nielson” or “B.H.” light dampstain to rear of volume. In a custom blue cloth for Edward John Nielson and Ben Hime, respectively — clamshell box. composers who set Swain’s lyrics to music. This section ends Working Manuscript Notebook of Manchester with a list of 9 works, dated “Mar 27th 1839.” The notebook Poet Charles Swain ends with 50 pages of working drafts and notes. A complete list of the poems in this notebook is available on The working composition notebook of Manchester poet and request. engraver Charles Swain (1801-1874), containing fair copies and drafts of more than 100 poems, with an additional 50 pages $7,500 of rough drafts and notes. Swain began publishing in 1822 — his diverse output includes short lyrics (some of which were set to music), an epic in Spenserian stanzas, a biography of 136] the artist Henry Liverseege, homages to Sir Walter Scott and [SWIFT, Jonathan] Byron, and experiments with poems in dialogue. Swain’s friend Robert Southey wrote of him, “If ever man was born Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in to be a poet, you are; and if Manchester is not proud of you Four Parts. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. yet, the time will certainly come when it will be so.” Second edition (mixed state). Engraved frontispiece portrait The present volume opens with notes on the front free of Captain Gulliver (in the second state as usual), 5 engraved endpaper in pencil, followed by 7 pages in ink, for Swain’s maps & one engraved plate of the automatic writing 90 | James Cummins bookseller machine. [xii], 148, [vi], 164; [vi], 154, [viii], 199, [blank] pp. 2 137] vols. 8vo. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, spines gilt with red morocco labels. Teerink 289; Rothschild 2104; PMM (TORTURE) 185. Manuscript summary report of a deposition made One of the great satires in the English language. Swift first under torture, “Summarium factum est.” [Milan]: n.d. mentioned what would become his masterpiece in a letter to [ca. 1500]. Charles Ford on 15 April 1721. It wouldn’t be completed and 1-1/2 pp. in a notarian cursive hand, on recto and verso of first fully transcribed until August 1725, whereupon he set out to leaf of bifolium; second leaf blank apart from docket on London to arrange for its publication. verso. 296 x 200 mm. n.p. Very good. “Gulliver’s Travels is the book by which Swift is chiefly remembered, and it is the record of his own experience in Confession under Torture politics under Queen Anne as an Irishman in what G. B. An extraordinary, chilling document describing the Shaw called ‘John Bull’s other island.’ Its allegorical mode interrogation under torture of a suspected thief and his of satire constantly modulates between specific allusions accomplices, resulting in the final confession of the suspect, and general types, reflecting characters and events traceable the suicide by hanging of one of the accused, and the to prototypes in Stuart and Georgian court politics (in opinion that excessive force was used by the prosecutor. Lilliput and Brobdingnag), and to people and events in Swift’s own personal life (the king of Brobdingnag as $2,500 Temple, for example, or the Flying Island as an allegory of English imperialism in Ireland). It also includes moments of farcical low comedy in the Academy of Lagado (part 3) and elsewhere. It is in part 4 (the voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms) that Swift reaches the supremely vexing point of his whole writing career, mixing comedy with the tragi- comic psychological collapse of Gulliver, the representative Englishman who turns his back on the whole human race because it has failed to live up to the ideal of reason” (ODNB). $4,000

Catalogue 132 | 91 138] TOWNSEND, Joseph. [Baltimore: between 1833-1841]. Manuscript by Quaker Joseph Townsend of the Battle of Brandywine September 11, 1777 25 leaves, stitched together (foliated in red ink: pages 1–50), containing 49 pages of ink manuscript. 8vo (8 x 6-1/2 inches). Provenance: ink inscription on first page by A. D. Sharples in 1902 attributing manuscript to “Joseph Townsend of Baltimore.” First leaf detached; some chipping along fore-edge of first and last leaves affecting a few words, but not sense; other minor wear and some light, scattered foxing; overall, good condition. Housed in a gilt lettered brown morocco and cloth clamshell box. Some Account of the Adventures of one day—the memorable September 11th 1777 Joseph Townsend’s own manuscript for his eyewitness account of the Battle of Brandywine is one of the few civilian, first- hand narratives of that American Revolutionary War battle and its aftermath. Townsend was a Quaker non-combatant, but he provides a clear description of the decisive flanking movement of the British army. While the American army commanded by Washington was defeated at Brandywine, the battlefield is today celebrated as the place where the young, twenty-year-old Marquis de Lafayette was wounded serving the American cause and the place where the Stars and Stripes were possibly first flown in battle.The Battle of Brandywine or the Battle of Brandywine Creek, a turning point in the British army’s Philadelphia campaign. The battle was fought on September 11, 1777 not far from Joseph Townsend’s home in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Despite George Washington’s superior field position on the high ground, British and Hessian forces under the command of General Sir William Howe defeated the American army. Townsend describes Howe’s surprise maneuver around Washington’s right flank and writes in the present manuscript about his free access to the advancing British army: “[W] hile we were sitting therein [a Quaker meeting for worship in a private house] some disturbance was discovered near the house & about the door…found it to be an alarm amongst some of the neighbouring women, that the English were acoming, & that they murdered all before them young and old…being disposed to have a better & nearer view of them [the British army] we sat [set] out for the purpose & passing by the dwelling of Abel Boake, we soon after met Sarah his wife…she encouraged our going amongst them, at the same time admired their appearance, & what fine looking fellows they were (& to use her own expression) they were “something like an Army…thus encouraged we walked on until we approached the flanking party…in a few minutes we found ourselves in the midst of a Crowd of Military characters, rank & file…” (pp. 19, 22–23)

92 | James Cummins bookseller Townsend provides vivid descriptions of the appearance and bearings of General Howe and British General Charles Cornwallis. Howe is described as “…a large portly man of coarse features—he appeared to have lost his teeth, as his mouth had fallen in.” (p. 32) Cornwallis with his scarlet uniform and gold lace made “a brilliant & Martial appearance.” (p. 26) Townsend’s account of tending the wounded and burying the dead after the battle is vivid and poignant. An important memoir of a decisive battle in the American Revolutionary War. Townsend’s eyewitness description of the Battle of Brandywine is one of the most important first-hand accounts of one of the largest land battles of the American Revolution. Further notes: After the Battle of Brandywine, Townsend removed to Baltimore. The paper that Joseph Townsend wrote this manuscript upon is Gravell (American Watermarks, 2nd ed., Gravell 829 ROCKVILLE and PM 144). Gravell notes the paper was in use in Baltimore at least by 1833. After the war was over, Townsend and his wife, discouraged by the destruction of the battle, moved to Baltimore. Townsend, known as a strong humanitarian, helped the young city grow. War came to his doorstep again in 1814 when the British attacked Baltimore. As a pacifist Quaker, he did not participate in the battle, but when it was over, he tended to the dead and dying, a reprise of the Battle at Brandywine 37 years earlier. Joseph Townsend died in 1841 at the age of 85, leaving us an important legacy of the battle. For those interested in reading Townsend’s story, refer to Futhey and Cope’s History of Chester County (1881) which is in the library at the Battlefield.— Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site accessed online. Provenance: An inscription on the first leaf of the present manuscript by a relative of Townsend, A[lfred]. D[avis]. Sharples, attributes the manuscript to Joseph Townsend and states that the handwriting is Townsend’s. This attribution and an additional inscription also show the direct descent of the manuscript within the Sharples [also “Sharpless”] family. From Joseph Townsend, the manuscript passed to Townsend’s first cousin’s grandson, Philip Price Sharples (1810–1902). We have traced The Townsend and Sharples [also seen as “Sharpless”] family trees. The deaths of related individuals—a generation or two prior to Philip Price Sharples—clearly indicates they could not have been alive as recipients of this manuscript based upon our bracketed dating. The manuscript is noted as found within the files of Philip P. Sharples and then passed to his son, Alfred Davis Sharples (1844– 1919), and then to Alfred D. Sharples’ son, Alfred Roberts Sharples (1888–1972). Notes: Townsend’s narrative was first published in Philadelphia in 1846 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania with the caption title: Some Account of the British Army, Under the Command of General Howe, and of the Battle of Brandywine, on the Memorable September 11th, 1777. We have physically examined another manuscript containing Townsend’s narrative held by the Chester County Historical Society in Pennsylvania. Their manuscript is not in Townsend’s hand. It is clearly written in a later nineteenth century hand. It has noticeable textual differences from Townsend’s own (this present) manuscript and it is almost identical to the published account. The cover title of this manuscript is given above at the top, but its opening lines read: “Some account of the British Army under the Command of General Howe & the battle of Brandywine which came to the knowledge & personal observation of the subscriber.” $25,000

Catalogue 132 | 93 139] TUSKA, George Justice League [“Earth’s First And Last Super-Hero”]. [DC Comics, Inc:] April 1978. Appearing in issue 153 page 14. 5 panel pen-and-ink drawing. 16 x 10 in. George Tuska specialized in particularly intense action scenes; he illustrated such series as Iron Man, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Justice League, Infinity, and Power Man, as well as the newspaper strip World’s Greatest Superheroes. Tuska finished his studies at the National Academy of Design at age 21. In 1939, he joined the graphic studios of Jerry Iger and Will Eisner, where he worked on several comic books, like Jungle, Wings, Planet, Wonderworld, and Mystery Men. In the 1940s, as a member of the Chesler Studio, he drew several stories of Captain Marvel, Golden Arrow, Uncle Sam and El Carim. Tuska was mobilized during World War II, so he had to postpone his comic activities. After the war, he continued in the comic field with Crime Does Not Pay, and as the illustrator on Scorchy Smith. In 1959, he took over the daily and weekly Buck Rogers pages, which he continued until 1967. In the late 1960s, Tuska started working for Marvel, where he contributed to the series Ghost Rider, Planet of the Apes, X-Men, Daredevil and Iron Man. He continued drawing superhero comics for DC, including Superman, Superboy and Challengers of the Unknown. In 1978, along with Marty Pasko and Vince Colletta, Tuska started a new version of the daily Superman comic strip. Tuska worked on this series until 1982. $300

94 | James Cummins bookseller 140] WALTON, Izaak The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. London: Tho. Roycroft for Richard Marriot, 1675. “Fourth edition,” i.e. second edition of the collected Lives. Four engraved portraits, separate title-pages for each biography and Herbert’s letters, continuous register and pagination, errata leaf 2A4v. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt. Rebacked; sides crazed, fore edge margin of Donne portrait shaved with small loss to outer frame. Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Wing W-672; Coigney p. 386. PRESENTATION COPY, WITH DONNE SEAL “This collection of biographies is one of the most celebrated in the English language” — Pforzheimer catalogue (for 1670 ed.). This edition calls itself the fourth because it contains the fourth editions of the lives of Donne and Hooker. Presentation copy to Mrs. Lillie inscribed and signed (“Iz. Wa.”) on the title-page, with errata corrected in Walton’s hand, and John Donne’s seal affixed by Walton on E5r next to Donne’s poem to George Herbert. The wax impression of the seal depicts Christ crucified on an anchor. Walton employed a signet ring with that same emblem bequeathed to him in Donne’s will (see Notes and Queries: for Readers and Writers, Collectors and Librarians, 8th Ser., IX, 18 January 1896, p. 41). $9,500

Catalogue 132 | 95 141] 142] WHELER, George (WITCHCRAFT) Glanvill, Jos[eph] A Journey into Greece … in Company of Dr Spon of A Blow at Modern Sadducism in some philosophical Lyons. Small folio. London: Printed by William Caderman, considerations about Witchcraft. And the relation of the Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill, 1682. famed disturbance at the house of M. Mompesson. With First edition. Large folding map, 3 full-page engraved plates reflections on drollery, and Atheisme. London: Printed by of ancient coins, 3 tipped-in vignettes, engravings to text E. Cotes for James Collins at the Kings Head in Westminster- throughout. [xiv], 483 pp. Contemporary brown mottled Hall, 1668. sheep, spine richly gilt. Staining on pp. 198-202, front joint Fourth edition, “Corrected and Enlarged.” [28], 183, [13] cracked at head of spine, small snag to head of spine. Atabey pp., with general title and 3 additional dated title-pages (A 1328; Blackmer 1786; Wing W1607; Weber 413. Provenance: Philosophical endeavour in the defence of the being of Right Honble. James Lord Viscount Seafield, Lord Ogilbie of witches; Palpable evidence of spirits and witchcraft; A Whip Cullen, sole Secretary of State for the Kingdome of Scotland for the droll), with continuous pagination and register. 1698 (bookplate on verso of title); unidentified bookplate, 12mo. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, with later citron contemporary ownership signature on title. morocco spine label. Joints rubbed, wear to spine ends and Wheeler’s account of his travels to the eastern corners, with some loss. Early ownership marks to title-page, Mediterranean, including Greece and Turkey, which he made bookplate. ESTC R21168; Wing G800; McAlpin, III, p. 553. with Jacob Spon in 1675-76. Spon’s account of the journey “A philosophical endeavour in the defence of the being of was published in 1678. “Wheeler was especially interested in witches and apparitions” (Wing), first published in 1666. botany and topography, and he constructed the folding map “Like other Restoration natural philosophers, Glanvill [1636- present on his own system of trigonometry” (Atabey). 1680] believed that devils were real and could intervene in $3,500 the natural world, and he corresponded about supernatural matters with such major figures as Robert Boyle, Henry More, and Richard Baxter” (ODNB). Glanvill saw a denial of witchcraft, demons and supernatural beings as leading to materialism and atheism. He endeavored to show through witness testimony and firsthand investigation the truth of witchcraft. This fourth edition includes Glanvill’s personal account of the poltergeist disturbances at the house of Mr. Mompesson in Tedworth, Wiltshire. $1,750

96 | James Cummins bookseller 143] to hold an opinion on the subject … It was an astounding thing to me, incredible & awe-inspiring, to see those people WREN, Percival Christopher looking & behaving & speaking almost exactly as they did Autograph Letter, signed, to Herbert Brenon. in life — & in almost identical surroundings.” He continues Bournemouth: 19 November 1926. on, at considerable length, praising the film, the cast, and particularly the noting that “No small part of the glory and Six pages, on rectos and versos of three quarto sheets of club greatness of this film is the noble way in which American stationary. Old folds from mailing, a few old, light spots to owners, American knowledge, American advantages, third leaf (in no fashion affecting text), but otherwise very American money - have cooperated in making a British story, good. Enclosed in folding cloth case, with typed transcript. with British heroes, with British glorification, and a complete From the James S. Copley collection. submergence of American pride or self-praise & credit.” To the Director of the Film Adaptation of Beau Wren’s praise for the film continues further, responding to the news that Brenon is considering an adaptation of the Geste sequel, asking if Ronald Colman will be in the cast, and A splendid letter, perhaps the best imaginable in its context, updating Brenon on his progress on the third volume of the from Wren to the director and co-writer of the 1926 film trilogy. Toward bringing a conclusion to his letter, Wren adaptation of his 1924 novel about British soldiers serving in observes: “I must not occupy your time further — but would the French Foreign Legion, starring Ronald Colman, Neil like to add that I am as appreciative & grateful as it is possible Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Noah Beery and Norman Trevor. to be, & that I realize that it was a very great day in my life Writing three months after the film premiered in New York, when you read ‘Beau Geste’ & decided to film it …” Ca. 750 Wren apologizes for his silence: “… you have probably words. Signed “P.C. Wren,” and accompanied by a 9.5 x 7 cm decided that I am a myth or a fool or a fish or a most cabinet portrait photograph of Wren in uniform, signed by unappreciative & ungrateful hound. In point of fact, I have him on the image, and inscribed on the verso: “A snap-shot been a corpse, more or less, & it was not until this week that of Herbert Brenon’s most grateful admirer among all the I have been able to see ‘Beau Geste,’ — & I had determined millions who admire him. P.C. Wren.” It would be difficult not to trouble you with a letter until I had seen it. Well to imagine a more desirable letter relating to the transfer of — it is the finest film I have ever seen in my life, & you are Wren’s novel to the screen, an undertaking for which Brenon the greatest, most artistic, cleverest & most indomitable won the Photoplay Awards 1926 Medal of Honor. producer the world has yet seen. This sounds crude & fulsome flattery. It is nevertheless my honest opinion, & from $3,500 some points of view, there is nobody who is better qualified

Catalogue 132 | 97 144] WYETH, Andrew Andrew Wyeth: Dry Brush and Pencil Drawings. Greenwich, Ct: New York Graphic Society, [1963]. First edition. Profusely illustrated from drawings and sketches by Andrew Wyeth. [6], 73 pp. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Beige linen. Very good in a somewhat worn pictorial dust jacket reproducing a Wyeth painting of “The Mill.” Inscribed, with a Watercolor of ‘The Mill’ by Wyeth Extending across the front pastedown and on the front free endpaper is a fine watercolor drawing of the Wyeth’s Mill, seen from a different angle than that of the one on the dust jacket; and beneath Andrew has inscribed: “For Edwards — With warm greetings from the Wyeths at the Mill.” $7,500

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