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JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 119 New Arrivals James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 119 New Arrivals to Place Your Order, Call, Write, E-Mail Or Fax JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 119 New Arrivals james cummins bookseller catalogue 119 New Arrivals 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] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B., A.B.A front cover: item 97 inside front cover: item 73 inside rear cover: item 5 rear cover: item 74 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 2 ADAIR, James. The History of the American Indians; Particularly APPLETON, Jeanette M. Photogravures of Manchester-by-the- Those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride’s Crossing. 17 (of 18) photogravures Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: Containing An on 16 (of 17 leaves), each printed on tissue and tipped onto Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil a backing sheet, extra-illustrated with frontispiece variant of Customs …. Folding map frontispiece of the “American Indian “Eagle Head Rock” re-titled “Christmas Morning by the Sea.” Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, West & East Florida, Lacking “Lilly Pond” gravure. Oblong folio (10-M x 13-I in.), Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia etc.” [xii], 464 pp. 4to, Boston: J. Eastman Chase, 7 Hamilton Place, [1891]. Original London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First edi- grey sugar-paper covered boards, title printed in black within tion. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Foxing to half-title, decorative border (the whole designed by J.E.H.), expertly offsetting to map and title-page, else fine. Howes A38; Pilling rebacked to style with blue cloth. Marginal spotting to title 18; Clark I, 28; Field 11; JCB (3)I, 2013; Prucha 7847; Sabin 155; and contents leaf, occasional small tears and chips to backing Graff 1; Vail 643. sheets. Provenance: Anne Higbee Green (Magnolia, Mass., lo- “Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes” cated next to Manchester-by-the-Sea), with ownership inscrip- (Sabin), written by “one of the most colorful figures in tion dated August 11, 1891. OCLC: 10287582 (4 copies). Southern colonial history” (Clark), a man who for forty years A rare photographic portrait of Massachusetts’ North Shore traded with the Indians. From 1735 until 1759 he traded with region, including Manchester by the Sea, Beverly Farms, and the Catawba, Cherokee and Chickasaw, and each of these Pride’s Crossing, with beautifully reproduced photogravures major tribes is represented by a chapter in this work. An by Jeanette M. Appleton. ample portion of Adair’s History is devoted to his attempt to $2,250 prove the descent of the Indians from the lost tribes of Israel. $5,500 catalogue 119 | 1 huth’s copy, the dedication copy 3 (ARTHURIAN LEGEND) Boron, Robert de. Merlin Roman en Prose du XIIIe Siècle. Publie avec la Mise en Prose du Poème de Merlin de Robert de Boron d’après le Manuscrit Appartenant à M. Alfred H. Huth par Gaston Paris et Jacob Ulrich. [viii,], xci, [i], 280; [iv], 308, [2] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris: Firmin Didot et Cie, 1886. First edition, one of 100 copies on J. Whatman Turkey Mill. Full citron morocco, gilt-decorated with an all-over diapered pattern of repeating tulip fleur-de-lis, spines gilt in 6 compart- ments, t.e.g., by Rivière. Spines darkened, lacking the Huth leather bookplate in volume 1. Provenance: Alfred Huth (his morocco circular booklabel in vol. II). The dedication copy — Alfred Huth supplied the 13th cen- tury French manuscript from which this volume was based. $2,500 4 BARNUM, P[hineas] T[aylor]. Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to “My dear Henry” [Henry D. Beach] about Lavinia Warren and General Tom Thumb. 1 page pen and ink on “Office of the New-York Sun” stationery. 8vo, New York: December 25, 1862. Small puncture affecting one word, faint creasing from prior folding. Barnum encourages Henry Beach of the New York Sun to write favorably of the marriage between General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren. Reading in part: “If you will at the same time quietly suggest in three or four lines that the elegant little woman Miss [Lavinia] Warren now at the St. Nicholas Hotel would make a brilliant match for the little General, the thing will be complete! If I don’t make it up to the Sun in the way of advertising two-fold, charge me what you please & I will pay it.” Lavinia Warren and General Tom Thumb married in 1863 to great fanfare and press coverage. $2,500 2 | james cummins bookseller carjat’s charles baudelaire 5 (BAUDELAIRE, Charles) Carjat, Étienne, photographer. “Ch. Baudelaire.” Woodburytype bust portrait on original printed La Galerie Contemporaine mount. 9 x 7 in., Paris: Goupil, [1878]. Matted and framed. Fine. The iconic portrait photograph of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat, taken c. 1863, and here printed posthumously in La Gal- erie Contemporaine in 1878. Carjat was rivaled only by Nadar in his portraits of 19th century French cultural figures. “Like Nadar, Carjat captured character and expression brilliantly. Indeed, some of his portraits of celebrities, e.g. Rossini, Baudelaire, Halévy and Gambetta, are livelier and more intimate than Nadar’s …”(Gernsheim, The History of Photography: 1685-1914, p. 308). $3,500 catalogue 119 | 3 6 BEAUMONT, Francis and John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies. Never Before and Now Published by the Authours Originall Copies. Edited by James Shirley. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Fletcher by William Marshall (in second state, reading “Vates Duplex” for “vates duplex,” and with “J.Berkenhead” in small type). [i-lii], 1-75 [76], 1-143 [144], 1-165 [166-168], 1-71 [72], 1-172, 1-92, 1-50 [i.e. 52], 1-28, 25-48 pp., with the usual mispagination. Folio in fours, London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, 1647. First collected edition. 20th-century binding incorporating early-19th century calf gilt cover panels and cut down spine compartments. Various repairs including to the frontispiece, title, 9-11th leaves, 2P1, 2R4, 3T2, 5A1, 7C2-4; clean tears to 5P4, 8F4; paper fault hole to 6D3; some leaves probably supplied from another copy, including 3T2, 4A1, 5A1, 8C3. Wing B 1581; Pforzheimer 53; Greg III 1013. Prov- enance: Arthur Barnette Spingarn (civil rights activist, 1878–1971, his bookplate designed by Ruth Reeves). This is the last of the three great published collections of Jacobean drama. It appeared decades after the deaths of the authors, but still echoes the format of the earlier folios containing the works of their great contemporaries: Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. The present work contains 34 plays and a masque, but not all the plays are by Beaumont and Fletcher. As with the earlier folios, the printing of this work was undertaken by several printers, including Susan Islip: a rare example of a female printer in the 17th century. This copy from the library of a great champion of African-American civil rights, Arthur Barnette Spingarn, an ally of W.E.B. Du Bois and head of the NAACP legal committee. The first publica- tion of the play The Knight of Malta (which features an African villainess) perhaps explains Spingarn’s interest in this work. $6,500 4 | james cummins bookseller first complete scottish king james bible and first edinburgh book of common prayer 7 (BIBLE & PRAYER BOOK, SCOTTISH) The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and Other Rites and Cer- emonies of the Church of England: with the Psalter or Psalmes of David [bound with:] SPEED, John. The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures … [bound with:] The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New … Appointed to be Read in Churches [bound with:] DOWNAME, John. A Briefe Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation … [bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into English Meeter. [94] pp. A-F8 (-A1); [40] pp. A-B8 C-D2. Woodcuts charts, map, title-border; [900] pp. A-2X8 2Y4; 3A-3L8 3M4. En- graved title and frontis, and separate title for NT; [100] pp. *2 A-F8; [10], 93, [3] pp. (with errors in numbering). A-F8 G4.With music. 5 volumes bound in one, with the Concordance bound between the O.T. and N.T. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed by the Printers to the King’s most excellent Majestie …; [London: by Felix Kingston]; by the Printers to the Kings Cambridge: Printed by the Printers to the Vniversmosexcellent Majestie ; London: Imprinted [by H. Lownes and R. Young];, 1633; 1633; 1633; 1630; 1628. Later gilt pan- eled mottled calf, gilt spine label, marbled endsheets, to contemporary style. Bookplate of Joseph Yates, Clanna House. Trimmed rather close throughout, frequently costing register and/or page numbers, some head lines and a few catchwords; some scattered loss of some bottom lines late in the N.T., early ink inscription on first title, small discoloration to first several leaves, stain to lower fore-corners of 2M8 and 2N1, some occasional foxing, soiling and minor spotting, lacking A1 (blank) to BoCP; withal, a reasonably good gathering, neatly bound. ESTC S123370, S122895, S102072, S90766 & S122325.
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