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JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER catalogue 109 To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 e-mail: [email protected] www.jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 6:00, Saturday 10:00 - 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: Ross, Ambrotype school portraits, item 139 inside front cover: Mason, The Punishments of China, item 102 inside rear cover: Micro-calligraphic manuscript, item 29 rear cover: Steichen, Portrait of Gene Tunney, item 167 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. (ANDERSON, Alexander) Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of T. Bewick, by A. Anderson. With an Appendix, containing some American Animals not hitherto described. x, 531 pp. 8vo, New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. First American edition. Modern half brown morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Occasional light spotting, old signature of William S. Barnes on title. Hugo p. 24; S&S 5843; Roscoe, App. 5 (pp. 183-6); Pomeroy 144 (pp. 165-183). $2,500 The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usu- ally in reverse) from the original Bewick edition, by Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth edi- tion as the source from which Anderson worked. “It was his major work in these first years.” The book is important in America as the means by which many Americans became familiar with the Bewick Quadrupeds, and also be- cause Anderson and other engravers “in the future used Bewick’s illustrations as an encyclopedia from which they could draw in order to depict animals both native and foreign.” Roscoe devotes a substantial appendix to this edition. Hugo, “Some of the cuts in this volume are truly wonderful copies of the originals, and an inspection of them would stagger not a few who are accus- tomed to attribute to Bewick every engraving of more than ordinary ability produced at the time when these were published.” Many Australian as well as American animals are delineated. 2. ANDREWS, John. History of the War with America, France, Spain and Holland commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783. [2], 448; [2], 449; [2], 445; [2], 416, [59], [v]-xiv pp., plus twenty-four plates, six folding maps, and one single-page map (maps partially hand colored). 4 vols. 8vo, London: Published for John Fielding, 1785-6. First edition. Calf and contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in contemporary style. Contemporary ownership inscription on title pages. Light soiling and foxing. Very good. In tan half morocco slipcases, spines gilt. Howes A259, “aa”; Sabin 1501. $4,500 One of the basic contemporary histories of the American Revolution, this detailed narrative was compiled largely from newspaper articles and the pro- ceedings of the House of Commons. It is illustrated with portraits of princi- pals such as Washington, Clinton, Greene, Cornwallis, Burgoyne, Lafayette, Capt. Asgill, and Count d’Estaing, to which many additional portraits from other 18th-century and early 19th-century sources have been added. The maps show the North American colonies as far west as the Great Lakes and the Mis- sissippi River, the English Channel, the West Indies, and other hot spots of the time in Europe and elsewhere. James Cummins Bookseller 3. AUGUSTINE, Saint. Exhortatio S. Augustini... ad patientia exemplo passionis Christi. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum . 70 leaves with an additional 18 blank leaves at the back all with red outer border. Manu- script in black and gold. 83 x 57 mm, Bound in nineteenth century Con- tinental morocco, with gilt spine, a.e.g. Fine. $6,000 The manuscript contains 26 full page miniatures devoted entirely to medita- tions upon the passion of Christ. With a few figured subjects at the begin- ning and end of the series, the minatures are mainly emblematic, showing single objects and subjects from the passion. Thus the cycle constitutes what is known as the Arma Christi or “Leidenswerkzeuge.” Moreover, each miniature is accompanied by textual excerpts, quoted from precisely indicated sources in the writings of St. Augustine and relating directly to the subject of the paint- ing. List of miniatures: f1v Christ Crucified; f2v The lighted Lantern; f3v The Ropes; f4v The Kiss of Judas; f5v The mailed Fist; f6v The crowing Cock; f7v Christ’s Robe; f8v The Column; f9v The Flail; f10v The Scourge; f11v The Crown of Thorns and the Rods; f12v The Cross; f13v Christ’s right Hand, pierced by the Nail; f14v Christ’s left Hand, pierced by the Nail; f15v Christ’s Feet pierced by the Nail; f16v Christ’s Heart, the sacred Heart; f17v The Ham- mer; f18v The Sponge of Vinegar; f19v The Lance; f20v The Dice; f21vPilate; f22r The thirty Pieces of Silver; f23v The Ladder; f24v The Nail, Augur and Pliers; f25r The Roman Soldier and the Workman; f26r The good Thief and the bad Thief. 2 Catalogue 109 founding father and “father of the university of georgia” 4. BALDWIN, Abraham. Free Frank Signature on address panel ad- dressed by Baldwin to “His Excellency / James Jackson / Governor of Georgia / Louisville.” One page, signed at top right of panel “Free / Abr Baldwin”, and docketed vertically in another hand, “Honble. Abram. Baldwin / Phila. 24th Feby 1799 / Ordered to be filed / 20th March, 1799 / Treaties / 1799”. 6 x 3 inches, Philadelphia: 1799. Neatly inlaid to a larger sheet and enclosed in a cloth portfolio. $2,000 An attractive and rare autograph of this distinguished Georgian, who, after serving in the Continental Army, moved from his native Connecticut to Geor- gia where he entered the House of Representatives and became “one of the trustees of the college endowment … One of Baldwin’s first long-term proj- ects in this role dealt with the establishment of a state educational system and the founding of Franklin College, which later grew into the University of Georgia … Baldwin’s early work in the Georgia legislature earned him the respect of his colleagues, and in 1785 he was one of three men to represent Georgia in the Continental Congress … In 1787 Baldwin was among the del- egates appointed to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. He served on four of the six major committees to resolve controversies during the Convention: the committee on the representation of the small and large states in the national legislature; the committee on the assumption of states’ debts by the national government; the committee on slavery and the navigation acts; and the catch- all committee on deferred issues. Although Baldwin was not a leader in the debate at Philadelphia, he played a yeoman role in committee work and con- tributed in significant ways to the enduring frame of government hammered out during the summer of 1787.” (ANB). In 1799, Baldwin entered the U.S. Senate, where he sent this missive to the Governor of Georgia, James Jackson. Baldwin autographs are quite rare in any form — only 2 have appeared at auc- tion over the last 35 years. 3 James Cummins Bookseller a classic of french illustration 5. BALZAC. La Peau de Chagrin. Études sociales. [iv], 402, [2] pp. Title with vignette showing a man being pulled backward by skeleton, armed with a scythe, and 100 steel engraved vignettes in the text after draw- ings by Adam, Baron, Boulanger, Charlet, Daviid, Devéria, Fragonard, Gavarni, Grandville, Grent, Janet-Lange, Johannot, Raffet, Vernet, et. al. Royal 8vo (25.4 cm), Paris: H. Delloye et Victor Lecou, ´diteurs, Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, place de la Course, 1838. First Illustrated edition, first printing, with all first printing points as enumerated by Carteret. Nineteenth-century quarter calf and marbled paper boards. Bookplate of Louis Auchincloss. Minor rubbing to spine and bands, but near fine otherwie, clean and crisp. Lovely copy, with half title. Book- plate of Louis Auchincloss. Carteret, III, pp. 41-42; Sander 43; Brivois 15-17; Vicaire I, 45. $2,250 First illustrated edition of Balzac’s renowned 1831 novel, his first major com- mercial success, lavishly produced in a generous format, with superb illustra- tions by many of France’s finest illustrators of the period. From the library of American novelist, louis auchincloss. 4 Catalogue 109 “good old dowson” 6. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Autograph Letter, signed (“AB”) to Leon- ard Smithers (“My dear Smithers”), discussing his treatment, Ernest Dowson and Smithers’ projected editions of La Pucelle d’Orleans and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 2H pp., in pencil, on single folded sheet of “Pier View” stationery. 12mo, [Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth, England: Jan 13, 1897]. Very good. With “Pier View” envelope addressed in Beards- ley’s hand, postmarked from “Bournemouth”. Letter splitting at folds, slight soiling, but intact and legible. Maas, et. al., Letters of Aubrey Beard- sley 242; Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents, p. 252; not in The Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers, 1937. $4,500 Terribly ill and convalescing in Bournemouth with the tuberculosis which would soon kill him, Beardsley writes to his publisher, Leonard Smithers: “I am awfully sorry to have such a bad account of your leg.