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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 |  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 compartments, 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 century 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

 | 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 |  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 publication of the play The Knight of Malta (which features an African villainess) perhaps explains Spingarn’s interest in this work. $6,500

 | 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 paneled 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. STC 16394, 2311 & 2311a, 23039e & 2608. Darlow & Moule (Herbert) 476 Rumball-Petre 135. Griffiths 1633.8. An uncommon lot, including the first complete King James Bible printed in Scotland, and the first Edinburgh edition of the Book of Common Prayer. The Bible follows a separate printing of the New Testament in 1628. This edition, it is suggested, was printed in connection with the Coronation of Charles I in Edinburgh in June 1633. Some copies of this printing of the New Testament were accompanied by plates, but these were later additions (ca. 1638), and there are two settings of some of the sheets, which are frequently comingled. In this copy, the catchword at 3G1 is “But”; 2F6v has the reading “carkases”; the catchword at 3G1r is “37 But”; and the headline on 3K3r is “Of Widows.” The Book of Common Prayer is the form with catchword “pride” at B1r, and anticipates the ill-fated 1637 revision for the Church of Scotland. The editions of Genealogies, the Concordance, and the Psalms are contemporary editions of the sort that are characteristically found bound with various editions of the Bible originating from London and elsewhere. The Edinburgh Bible is scarce: ESTC locates five copies in North America: Folger, Huntington, NYPL, Newberry and Univ. of Pennsylvania. The Prayer book is also uncommon, with three copies located in North America (Harvard, Huntington and this copy, now properly deaccessioned). Of the Psalms, four copies are located in North America: Folger, LC, UT, and again, this copy. $7,500

catalogue 119 |  italian armorial binding in original box 8 (BINDING, Armorial, Italian) [Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen. Engraved title in each volume (vols. II-IV reading “Unser Lieben Frauen …”). 189; [2], 193-390; [2], 393-590; 190 pp. 8vo, Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, [c. 1760]. Contemporary Italian binding of full brown morocco, covers gilt with two outer border rolls, corner-pieces, and arms (of Prince- Bishopric of Trent?), spine gilt in six compartments, a.e.g., Dutch gilt endpapers. Light wear to corners, else fine. In original morocco pull-off case, tooled in gilt to match, lined with Dutch gilt paper. Some wear and splitting to edges of box. A beautiful Italian armorial binding of the mid 18th-century, similar in style to those promoted by the Salvioni firm, in the original pull-off case. OCLC locates only one copy of this scarce German breviary, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. $8,000

 | james cummins bookseller three dublin almanacks in contemporary binding the glorious first of june in a kalthoeber binding 9 10 (BINDING, Irish) . [The Treble Almanack for the year MDCCXCV. (BINDING, Kalthoeber) Narrative of the Proceedings of His Containing I. Iohn Watson Stewart’s Irish Almanack, II. Exshaw’s Majesty’s Fleet, Under the Command of Earl Howe, from the Second English Court Registry III. Wilson’s Dublin Directory with a new of May to the Second of June M.DCC.XCIV. Frontispiece portrait correct plan of the city …] 12mo, Dublin: 1795. Contemporary (dated 1798), engraved title, engraved plate (foxed) and folding Irish red morocco, covers with gilt roll floral border, royal map (closed tear). 91, [1], [93*]-*100, [6], 97-118 pp. 4to, Lon- coat of arms of Great Britain with arms of Ireland in the third don: T. Burton, 1796. First edition, second issue (with errata quarter stamped in gilt in the center, flat spine gilt all over printed on verso of title). Contemporary full red morocco, with wavy roll and floral tool, dark blue morocco lettering- covers with triple-ruled outer border surrounding inner bor- piece, a.e.g. Some slight cracking to spine with small spots of der of small circles, gilt-stamped fern tool at corners, spine in loss to lettering piece, else fine. Bookplate of Ivor A.B. Fer- six compartments with raised bands, a.e.g., by Kalthoeber (his guson. ticket on flyleaf). Foxing to portrait and engraved title, else Sammleband of 3 Dublin almanacks — though each was fine. Previous owners’ stamps to ffep. For binding: Spawn & printed separately they were often bound together with a Kinsella 468 & 469; Ramsden, p. 89. general title-page (not present) as the “Treble Almanack.” A prospectus of sorts for A.C. De Poggi’s two engraved Comprising: The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack … For the scenes, after paintings by Robert Cleveley, of the events of Year of Our Lord 1795 … Dublin: John Watson Stewart, and June 1st, 1794, with an account of the battle, a subscribers list Thomas Stewart, 1795. The English Registry, For the Year of and appendices listing English and French officers present. Our Lord 1795. Dublin: John Exshaw, [1795]. Wilson’s Dublin Likely a subscriber’s copy, in a beautiful, understated binding Directory, For the Year 1795. Dublin: William Wilson, [1795]. by Christian Katlhoeber (who bound at least one other copy Folding map (“Wilson’s Plan of the City of Dublin”) at rear. of this work). $1,500 $3,500

catalogue 119 |  presentation copy in an edwin moore of cambridge binding 11 (BINDING, Moore, Edwin) Middleton, Conyers. Treatise on the Roman Senate. In Two Parts. [ii, ad leaf] [ii], 196 pp. 8vo, Lon- don: R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1747. First edition. Contempo- rary red morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide floral border made up of three rolls, surrounding a lozenge center-piece made up of small geometric and floral tools, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red lettering piece in one compartment, the rest with dotted saltire and acorn and star tools, a.e.g., by Edwin Moore of Cambridge. Joints rubbed, head of spine damaged. For binding: Foot, Henry Davis Gift, I, p. 81, and II, nos. 171 & 172; Maggs cat. 1212, I, no. 110; Hobson, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, no. 65. Inscribed at the top of the title-page, “N (?) Templeman Trin: Coll: Camb. E dono Authoris.” In a fine binding by the leading Cambridge binder of his day, Edwin Moore, known for the brilliance and precision of his tooling, the distinctive concave lozenge that adorns many of his covers, and the high quality of the leather used. $800

the publisher’s copy “a” 12 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poem. [16] pp. 5 x 7 in., New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1973. Copy “A” of 26 lettered copies A to Z (total edition of 126 copies). Original marbled paper wrappers. Fine. MacMahon A11. From the library of publisher Robert Wilson, proprietor of The Phoenix Bookshop, with a typed note laid in, announcing his felicitous location of it. $2,500

signed by bishop, brasil & 5 others 13 BISHOP, Elizabeth, editor. An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry. Edited, with Introduction, by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil. xxii, 181 pp. 8vo, Middletown, Ct: Wesley- an University Press, [1972]. First edition. An important bilingual anthology of modern Brazilian poetry, translated by some of America’s finest poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Barbara Howes, Richard Eberhart, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, et al. This copy is signed and inscribed by the two editors, Bishop (“March 19th, 1973”) and Brasil (“April 5, 1975”) on the title-page. In addition, the following poets have signed their translations: James Merrill, Barbara Howes, Richard Wilbur, Galway Kin- nell, and W.S. Merwin. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller “shouldn’t there be a mass resignation or something?” 15 14 BISHOP, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems. 8vo, New York: Far- BISHOP, Elizabeth. Autograph Note, signed (“Elizabeth”), to rar Straus Giroux, [1969]. First edition, review copy with slip Léonie Adams (“Dear Léonie”), congratulating her on win- announcing publication date of April 29, 1969. Blue cloth. ning the Shelley Memorial Award, and discussing a contro- Fine in near fine dust-jacket (very slight fading to spine). Mac- versy at the Library of Congress. In ink, on verso of black and Mahon A9. white gelatin print docketed by Bishop above her note “Dia- Signed and inscribed on the title-page, “March 19th, 1973”; mantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil”. 17 x 11.5 cm, [Brazil: n.d., ca. and beneath the printed title, Bishop has penned: “(A bad Christmas, 1954]. Very good. title …)” Léonie Fuller Adams (1899-1988) was an American poet who $2,000 was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Po- etry to the Library of Congress in 1948; she was awarded the Shelley Memorial Award for 1954-1955 by the Poetry Founda- tion. Bishop writes, “… congratulations of the Shelley award 16 — it is certainly merited this time. From what i read in the BISHOP, Elizabeth, translated and edited by. The Diary of ‘N.Y. Times’ airmail edition I’m in an awful quandary what “Helena Morley”. xxxvii, 281 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar Starus to do about the L. of C. — shouldn’t there be a mass resigna- and Cudahy, [1957]. First edition, first state of the dust-jack- tion or something? Or has there been? I’m not sure who the et. Yellow cloth and boards, photographic endpapers. Fine mass is, anymore, I’m afraid …” The photo Bishop uses here in near fine, unclipped, first state dust-jacket by Harry Ford. was reproduced on the endpaper of The Diary of Helena Mor- MacMahon A4. ley, edited and translated by Elizabeth Bishop. Inscribed on the title-page, “Elizabeth Bishop, March 19th, 1973 (Forgive my poor Portugese).” With the card of Richard $1,500 D. Holland, Director of Publicity of Farrar, Starus & Giroux laid in. $1,000

17 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Geography III. 50 pp. 8vo, New York: Far- ra, Straus and Giroux, [1976]. First edition, one of 7500 copies. Brown cloth. Fine in fine dust-jacket. MacMahon A13. Signed on the title-page, “Elizabeth Bishop Oct. 10th, 1977.” $1,850

catalogue 119 |  first book, review copy, inscribed 18 BISHOP, Elizabeth. North & South. 54 pp. 8vo, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition of the author’s first book. One of 1000 copies printed. Review copy, with slip laid in. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy (very slight fading along edges) in bright, very good dust-jacket by Samuel Hanks Bryant, with minor rubbing, a few tiny closed tears, and slight chipping along upper edge. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in, and the unknown (but highly perceptive) reviewer’s notes in light pencil on front endpapers. MacMahon A1. Inscribed on the title-page “Greetings to Robert Wilson, / Elizabeth Bishop, Cambridge, Massachusetts (NORTH)/ March 19th, 1973.” Wilson, owner of the Phoenix Bookshop in New York City, published Bishop’s Poem, in an edition of 100 copies, in the same year as this inscription. $5,000

19 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems [selected for Elliot Carter’s “A Mirror on Which to Dwell”]. Broadside sheet printed on recto and verso. 11 x 8-H inches, [New York: Speculum Musicae, 1976]. First edition, later issue (with undated drop-title “Elizabeth Bishop / Po- ems”). Slight browning at edges, one pinhole. MacMahon A12. The text of the six poems which were set to music by Elliot Carter in “A Mirror on Which to Dwell.” For the first performance on February 24, 1976, the selcted poems were photomechanically reproduced from The Complete Poems and handed out with the programs with the heading “Young Concert Artists presents | SPECULUM MUSICAE | February 24, 1976,” and the drop-title “Poems Elizabeth Bishop Farrar, Straus and Giroux”; for subsequent performances, the heading was dropped, and the drop-title was reproduced from the half-title of The Complete Poems, reading simply “Elizaberth Bishop / Poems.” Very rare thus, signed by both. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller 20 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems. North & South — A Cold Spring. viii, 95, [1] pp. 8vo, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First edition, one of 2000 copies printed. Original blue cloth. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. MacMahon A2. Author’s second book, which won her the Pulitzer Prize, and which collects her first book of poetry, North & South (1946) with her newest cycle of poems, A Cold Spring, hitherto unpublished. A fine association copy, inscribed to bookseller and small publisher, Robert Wilson of The Phoenix Bookshop in New York City. Wilson later published Bishop’s Poem in an edition of 100 copies. Inscribed on the title-page: “Regards to Bob Wilson, Elizabeth Bishop.” $2,000

21 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Questions of Travel. 95 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1965]. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine copy in fine dust-jacket by Adrrianne Onderdonk. MacMahon A6. Inscribed, “Elizabeth Bishop, [Questions of Travel] mostly unanswered, March 19th 1973.” $1,500

catalogue 119 |  medical and culinary manuscript from bolderwood lodge 22 (BOLDERWOOD LODGE, Minstead, Hampshire) An original medical and culinary manuscript commonplace book in various fine clear legible hands, titled on the spine “Medical / Receipt / Book / Bolderwood.” Ruled in red throughout, numbered in ink by an early hand. Pp.1-338, [2 pp. inlaid i.e. 339-340], 368-404, 405 numbered but blank, 405-409, 410 numbered but blank, 411, [1 p. blank], 413, 1 p. blank, [1 p. mounted], 1 p. blank, [1 p. mounted], 1 p. blank, [1 p. mounted], 1 p. blank, [1 p. mounted], 1 p. blank, [1 p. mounted], 1 p. blank, 27 pp. blank, 20 pp. “The Table” [an alphabetical index], 12 pp. blank, [1 p. of notes]. 4to (8-K x 6-I in), [Minstead, Hampshire, England: ca. 1650 – 1750]. Later black morocco over slightly-beveled wooden boards, the covers paneled in blind with fillets and a floral roll, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment and at the foot of the spine, the other compartments with repeat decoration in blind centering on a crowned-dolphin tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. A high-status and beautifully-written compilation from the library at Bolderwood Lodge, a residence which was once the most glamorous of the Royal Hunting Lodges in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. Bolderwood Lodge (which was also known as Boldrewood or Boldrode) flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries before being demolished in the 1830s. The fame of the house reached its apogee under the stewardship of the ‘Master-Keeper of Boldrewood-walk’ Lieutenant-General John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, PC, FRS (1693-1766), head of a family with inextricable links to the US in general and the River and State of Delaware in particular. The manuscript appears to be have been written by at least three different hands. None of the compilers’ names have been established with any certainty, but the most important figure in the history of the compilation of the present album is probably Lady Charlotte West Baroness Delaware (born before 1685 [?], died 1734/5), first wife of the 1st Earl De La Warr. She was well-connected: her father was Earl Clencarty, her mother was the daughter of the Earl of Sunderland. Her great grandfather was the Earl of Bristol and her great-great Grandfather the Earl of Bedford: all family names which appear in the current compilation. Lady Charlotte’s husband was Lieutenant-General John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, PC, FRS (4 April 1693 – 16 March 1766) who was styled the Honourable John West until 1723 when he succeeded to his father’s title. He was then known as John West, 6th Baron Delaware between 1723 and 1761 when he was made an Earl. He was a Brit- ish soldier, courtier and politician, and friend and confidant of the second Duke of Richmond, grandson of Charles II. His friendship with the Duke was the most relevant relationship to Bolder- wood: the Duke and he ran a pack of hounds in the New Forest and Bold- erwood seems to have been the base for fashionable gatherings and hunting parties headed by both De La Warr and Richmond. The present album would initially have served a valuable and almost purely practical purpose as the repository of information on a wide range of subjects, medical, culinary and techni- cal, to be consulted at leisure or in an emergency: bitten by a dog, see page 389; “boyld cakes” see page 71; “turkey pye” page 153; pages 124/5 “To Make

 | james cummins bookseller Oyle of Swallowes. / Take 8 or 12 young Swallowes very ripe out of the nest, and breake them feathers and all in a Mortar…”; page 217. “To make Coffy. / You must dry the beries in an Oven and then beate them to powder, then boyle a quart of water and when it boyles put in six spoonfulls of the powder and let it boyle a quarter of an houre then drink it as hot as you can,” etc. Contributions appeared to have been solicited from friends, relations and earlier published works: page 188, “A Water made by the Lady Fleetwood for the wind Collicke”; page 193, “Sr. Waltr. Ralaighs Receipt for Stomach Pills”; page 203, “Mr Eliotts Searcloth”; page 204, “The Lord of Strafords Medisine for the Goute”; page 205, “A Medisine for the Plague, given by King Henry the 8th to his Soldiers at Bolain”; page 207, “The Lady Allens water”; page 214, “To make Sweete water my Lady Farfoxes way”. Other names include: Lady Arran; Lady Berkshire; Lord Carteret; Lord Duncannon; Mrs. Evelyn; the Countess of Exeter; Lady Fleetwood; Lady Gifford; Lord Halifax; Lady Hardwick; Lady Kildare; Lady Newport; the Earl of Pembroke; Lady Russell; Lady St. John; Lord Spencer; Lady Temple; [etc.]. Over a period which probably spanned almost 100 years the various custodians of the book compiled a work which includes over 680 recipes, medical receipts, or advice. Only one entry is dated (see page 389. “For the Bite of a Mad Dog. From India … Publish’d in Common Sense Novr. 17. 1739”), but there is a second reference which can be dated (p. 399. “Lady Georgina [sic.] … now Lady Cowper”: Lady Georgiana [1716-1780], daughter of the 2nd Earl Gran- ville, and the widow of John Spencer married the 2nd Earl Cowper in 1750). Internal evidence suggests that by about the middle of 18th century the book was not in the best of shape: some soiling, one leaf (pp. 339/340) is cut down and inlaid to size and 13 leaves went missing (numbered pp. 341-367). In addition, the information within would have been seen as being increasingly out of date. No longer a valuable tool, but a nearly-forgotten relic. After a period of neglect, the manuscript was apparently re-discovered, What remained of the original binding was discarded, repairs were made where necessary and a beautiful new binding was supplied, tooled to an antique style. $10,500

catalogue 119 |  23 Borrow’s earlier attempts at a translation, perhaps begun BORROW, George. Autograph Letter, signed (“G Borrow”), in St. Petersburg while he was overseeing a printing of the to Cecilia Lucy Brightwell. 1 page pen and ink on a folded New Testament into Manchu. Collie and Fraser suppose that sheet. 12mo (4 x 3-H in.), N.p: December 7, 1848. Tape from the first draft of Borrow’s Russian translations were “writ- prior mounting at fold. ten while he was in St. Petersburg, though they were revised later, probably for the proposed publication announced in Borrow writes to his close friend Lucy Brightwell, asking her 1857 in the advertisements at the end of The Romany Rye to visit his mother as he is unwell. “Pray do me the favour (p. 102). “Emelian” was first published in Once a Week, VI, 8 to go and see my poor dear mother as often as you can …” March 1862, and reprinted by T.J. Wise and included in the Brightwell (1811-1875) was an author and artist; she wrote Avon Booklet II, 1904 and again as a separate publication by series of short biographies for young people. Brightwell was Wise in 1913 in an edition of 30. Collie and Fraser list two very close to Borrow, and she referred to Mrs. Borrow as manuscripts of the story (in the British Library and Worces- “Mother.” ter), both incomplete. $1,250 $2,750 emeilan the fool 24 BORROW, George. Autograph Manuscript fragment of “Emelian the Fool.” 2 pp. pen and ink on 2 leaves of blue paper. 8vo, N.p [St. Petersburg?]: n.d [ca. 1830s]. Worn, with small closed tears at margins. Collie & Fraser E.9 (for first separate publication). The working manuscript, with deletions and corrections, of the first two pages of George Borrow’s translation of the Russian folk tale “Emelian the Fool.” As the text differs substantially from the printed version, this is likely one of

 | james cummins bookseller 25 inscribed to ginsberg BOTERO, Giovanni. [Translated by Robert Johnson.]. 26 An Historicall Description of the Most Famous Kingdomes and BURROUGHS, William S. Ali’s Smile Naked Scientology. 106, Common-Weales in the Worlde … Woodcut world map on the [4] pp. Text in German and English. 8vo, Bonn: Expanded Me- title-page. [iv], 268 pp. 4to, London: [By R. Barker?] for John dia Editions, [1978]. Pictorial wrappers. Jaggard, 1603. Third edition of 1601 translation of Botero’s Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page “For Allen Love 1591-92 world geography. Nineteenth century polished Willim S. Burroughs,” and signed on the half-title, “Allen brown calf, a.e.g., by T. Aitken. Joints rubbed, else fine. ESTC Ginsberg aug 30, 1979 City Lights.” An important association S100518; STC 3400; Alden 603/14; STC (2nd ed.) 3400; Sa- copy of Burroughs’ expanded look at the Church of Scientol- bin 6811; Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536- ogy, which religious studies scholar Hugh Urban described as 1603, 3400. a “nonscholarly popular exposé of Scientology.” Botero’s work was considered the best geography for more $3,000 than a century after its first publication in Rome in 1591-92 as Delle Relationi Universali. Among Botero’s discussion of Euro- pean, Asian and African powers are descriptions of the New World colonies of Florida, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Peru. $3,500

catalogue 119 |  27 [BURROUGHS, William S]. Junkie. William Lee [with, dos à dos:] HELBRANT, Maurice. Narcotic Agent. 12mo, New York: Ace Books, Inc, [1953]. First edition of Burroughs’ first book. Ace Double Books D-15. Original pictorial wrappers. Some wear, first leaf (“Publisher’s Note”) detached. Inscribed on the title-page “For Robert Wilson, William S. Burroughs” $2,000

28 BURROUGHS, William S. Naked Lunch. 255 pp. 8vo, New York: Grove Press, [1962]. First American edition. Half black cloth over black boards, top edge black. Fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket. Maynard & Miles A2b. Inscribed on the title-page, “For Bob Wilson all the best at Thanksgiving William S. Burroughs Nov 23, 1974.” $3,500

byron in albaro 29 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). Autograph Letter, signed (“Lord Byron”) in the third person within the text, to friends (“Messrs Cooper Greenhow and Pendelton”[?]) in Genoa, ar- ranging a meeting for the next day. One page, with address panel on verso of conjugate, also signed, with his newly adopted initials (“N.B.”). Albaro [a suburb of Genoa, Italy]: 17 April, 1823. A few small stains, old folds, one corner torn away from unsealing (no loss); red wax seal present. Written while Byron and Guicciolis were residing in the Villa Saluzzo in Albaro, on the outskirt of Genoa, only a few days before receiving news of the death of his daughter, Allegra, and while he was deeply involved in the movement for Greek independence. Byron himself was to die a year later, on April 19, 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece. “Lord Byron presents his Compliments to Messrs Cooper Grrenhow and Pendelton — and will be very happy to meet them at two [underscored] o’clock tomorrow if that hour will be convenient — Albaro, April 17th 1823.” $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller 30 Revett and artist William Pars, explored sites of antiquity, CHANDLER, Richard. Travels in Asia Minor: or an Account keeping exacting records of their findings. The account of of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Large the ruins of Athens are of unprecedented detail and are of folding engraved frontispiece map. xiv, xiii, [i], [2], 283, [1] pp. great importance — Chandler found the Parthenon in a 4to, London: 1775. First edition. Contemporary polished calf, deplorable state of disrepair and was even able to purchase spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco for himself a portion of the Parthenon frieze. This copy lettering-piece. Small repair at foot of rear joint, else near fine. from the library of Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet, and Blackmer 318. Provenance: John Harrison (bookplate, signa- member of the Society of Dilettanti. ture on title-page dated June 2, 1775). $2,500 Along with Chandler’s Ionian Antiquities (1769) and Trav- els In Greece (1776), this work offers an account of the first expedition solely funded by the Society of Dilettanti, a club dedicated to the study of classical antiquity. Chandler, joined by Nicholas Revett and artist William Pars, explored sites of antiquity from their base in Smyrna, keeping exacting records of their findings. They visited “Tenedos, Alexan- dria Troas, Chios, Smyrna, Erythrae, Teos, Priene, Iasus (in Caria), Mylassa (Caria), Stratonicea, Laodiceia (ad Lyceum), Hierapolis, Sardes, and Ephesus” (ODNB). $1,750

31 CHANDLER, Richard. Travels in Greece: Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. 7 engraved maps (2 folding). [ii], xiv (Contents, bound out-of-order), 4, 304 pp. 4to, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition. Con- temporary tree calf. Skillfully rebacked, preserving original spine. Offsetting to title and contents leaves. Bookplate. Black- mer 319. Provenance: Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet (bookplate). Along with Chandler’s Ionian Antiquities (1769) and Travels in Asia (1775), this work offers an account of the first expedition solely funded by the Society of Dilettanti, a club dedicated to the study of classical antiquity. Chandler, joined by Nicholas catalogue 119 |  32 [CHARLES, Archduke, Duke of Teschen]. Grundsätze der Höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele Ihrer Zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der Österreichischen Armee. 25 hand-colored folding engraved maps. [iv], 169, [1] pp. Folio, Wien [Vienna]: Aus der Kaiserl. Königl. Hof-und Staatsdruckerey, 1808. Second edition, expanded with illustrations from the first edition of 1806. Finely bound in contemporary red morocco, covers with border of gilt-stamped filigree tool, flat spine, with green morocco lettering-pieces, a.e.g. Fine. Provenance: Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville (signature on title-page); Franz Carl Craf Folliot de Crenneville (bookplate). Important manual of warfare by Napoleon’s great Austrian adversary, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771-1847). First published in 1806, this expanded second edition includes 25 hand-colored maps and was issued specially for Charles’ generals. This copy belonged to Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville (1763 – 1840) a Frenchman who fought for Austria as general officer during the Napoleonic Wars. $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller the causes of his obscurity? 33 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Autograph Let- ter, signed (“S.T. Coleridge”), to Henry Francis Cary [mispelled by Coleridge “Revd F. Carey … British Library”], translator of Dante and recently appointed Asisstant Keeper of Printed books at the British Library. 2 pages, in ink, on single folded sheet; addressed in verso of the conjugate in Coleridge’s hand. 4to, [Highgate]: Nov 1830. Old folds, remnant of red wax seal, and one perforation from opening (not affecting text). In increasingly delicate health (worsened by his resumption of opium in 1825), and in financial distress, Coleridge appeals to his friend the Reverend Henry Francis Cary (translator of Dante) shortly after the publication of the first edition of his Constitution of Church and State. In a passage of such convoluted density and syntactic complexity that it is hard to believe that Coleridge is not making fun of himself, he asks for help in identifying the “cause of the obscurity felt generally in my prose writings”: “My dear F in the very center of my Being respected Friend! “Tho’ I am so unwell as not without plausible grounds to suspect that your remarks may come too late for me to make any practical use of them; yet — should it please God to grant me a respite, such a sufficiency of bodily negation* [underscored] as (his grace assist- ing) would enable me to redeem the residue of my time — It would be so great a help to my chances of being useful to receive from a man, like you, some data on which I might commence a sincere attempt to ascertain the causes of the obscurity felt generally in my prose writings, whether in the way of expressing my thoughts, or in the injudicious selection of the thoughts themselves, that l must press on you your kind promise to run your eye once more through my work on the constitution. All I ask is, merely that you would mention the pages in the 2nd edition, when you did not fully comprehend, for I am quite certain, that on such a subject what you found a difficulty to understand, ought not, without an adequate preparation, to have been in the book at all. One cause of this defect I suppose to be the contrast between the continuous and sympathetic character of my Principles and the occasional & fragmentary way in which they have hitherto been brought before the public. “Yet when I look at my second [underscored] Lay-Sermons, of which Mr. Green was saying yesterday, that any reader who had not looked at the date on the title-page, would have taken for granted that it had been written within the last fortnight, and in which I cannot believe it possible that any educated man would complain of amy want of common sense thought in plain mother English, I cannot sincerely & conscientiously attribute the whole of my failure to attract the attention of my fellow-men to faults or defects of my own. You will believe me when I say, that to win their attention for their own most momentous interests is the wish that so entirely predominates over any literary Ambition, as to render the existence of the latter latent in my own consciousness …” *A reference to a hoped-for cure for his opium addiction?. $7,500

catalogue 119 |  34 Revue s’est arrangé avec vous pour publier le Typhoon. Mais CONRAD, Joseph. Almayer’s Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. le MS de Freya n’est pas revenu ici. Donc, il me semble qu’il 8vo, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first issue, est possible qu’il soit chez vous. Si c’est ainsi gardez le je vous with no “e” in “generosity” on p. 110. Original olive green prie si vous en avez besoin. Dans le cas contraire je vais vous cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Fine. In half green morocco slip- envoyer sitôt paru le numéro de London Magazine (Juin) qui case. Smith 1; Wise 1. publie ce conte en Angleterre. Quatres contes paraîtront en A fine copy of Joseph Conrad’s first book. vol. cet été Secret Sharer — Smile of Fortune — The Part- ners — Freya of the Seven Islands. Le long roman Chance $3,500 [underlined] sera publié en Février de l’année prochaine. Salut et fraternité (comme on ecrivait en l’an II). Tout à vous, J. Conrad. Merci du no. du Mercure. l’etude de De Smet m’a 35 fait plaisir. [Desirez?]-vous traduire The Mirror of the Sea?” CONRAD, Joseph. Autograph Letter, signed (“J. Conrad”), 10 French was Conrad’s second language (before English) and mai 1912, to Henry Davray, his French translator, concerning he read and wrote it wth facility and paid close attention an advance for The Secret Agent and other literary matters. Pen to the translations of his published writiings. This letter is and ink on gilt-edged Capel House card, 25 lines in French. rich in allusion to many key works; and the reference to the 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in., Capel House, Orlestone, Nr. Ashford: 10 issue of the Mercure is almost certainly to the one containing May 1912. Fine. Published in Collected Letters of Joseph Con- Davray’s review of Under Western Eyes, the Mercure de France rad vol. 5, p. 60. for Jan.-Feb. 1912 (cf. Lohf & Sheehy 1218); Davray wrote A choice dense letter from Joseph Conrad to his friend and several additional pieces on Conrad’s work. translator Henry Davray (1873-1944), who also translated $6,500 Wilde’s De Profundis and Ballad of Reading Gaol and many titles by Wells. Conrad writes, “Mon cher Davray, Pardonnez moi si je vous demande de me dire si les editeurs de l’Agent Secret payent quelque chose à l’avance? Et si tel est le cas a combien je puis m’attendre. Je voudrais bien savoir ce qui en est. Avez vous le ‘typescript’ de ma nouvelle Freya of the Seven Islands [underlined] chez vous ? Je l’ai envoyé a la Revue ‘Progès.’ Puis cette

 | james cummins bookseller arnold rood’s copy, extra-illustrated 36 (CRAIG, Edward Gordon) Craig, Edward, editor. Edward Gordon Craig: The Last Eight Years. 1958-1966. Letters from Ellen Gordon Craig. 4 woodcuts, 2 each by Edward Gordon Craig and John Craig, with suite of extra cuts, the John Craig examples signed and numbered in pencil. Interleaved copy, extra-illustrated with photographs, letters and ephemera. 8vo, Whittington Press, [1983]. One of 345 copies, out-of-series copy specially bound and extra-illustrated for Arnold Rood, with his pen annotations throughout in the margins. Publisher’s half red morocco and marbled boards. Some light rubbing to spine, else fine. A unique copy, extra-illustrated with photographs, letters, and ephemera from the collection of Arnold Rood, close friend and biographer/bibliographer of Edward Gordon Craig. With a note on the colophon, “This copy is specially bound for Arnold Rood. August 1983. J[ohn] R[andle].” Some highlights among the many photographs, receipts, notes and ephemera: Vintage b/w photo by Rood of EGC in Tourettes in 1960, inscribed by EGC and Ellen “Nelly” Craig in 1963; B/w photograph by Rood of EGC and Nelly in 1961; Vintage b/w photo by Rood of Ellen Craig, 9/10/61, inscribed by Nelly to Rood; Vintage b/w photo by Rood of EGC and Nelly, inscribed by both in 1960; Real photo postcard of the Craig family, c. 1910; B/w photo of Craig family cottage in Long Crendon; Two real photo postcards of Tourettes-sur-Loup and Vence, one inscribed on verso by EGC; Vintage color photograph of EGC in Vence, inscribed by him on verso; Vintage color photograph by Helen Craig of Nelly in front of cottage at Long Crendon; 3 page ALS to Rood from Teddy Gordon Craig announcing Nelly’s death and describing her last moments, Jan. 29, 1975; 1 page document export license for transporting EGC’s ashes from France to London for burial; Autograph note to Rood from Teddy Gordon Craig concerning bequest of EGC’s scarab ring to Rood, with a photocopy of EGC’s history of the ring, and a b/w photograph of Rood wearing the ring; Autograph note from Nelly asking Rood to send more tobacco for EGC; Vintage b/w photo of EGC and Nelly at EGC’s 90th birthday, with Nelly’s notes on verso describing the dinner and seating placements; 3 page ALS to Rood from Teddy describing EGC’s rallying from a grave illness, Jan 1, 1966; Vintage color photograph of EGC in hat and cape in Vence, inscribed; Receipt from dinner at Le Pigeonnier (mentioned in facing text); Real photo postcard of Nelly with grandmother Ellen Terry, 1913, inscribed by Nelly; Postcard from Nelly to Rood, September 23, 1963 (“father looks as if he has eaten 50 sour apples”); Invitation to EGC’s 94th birthday, with photo from the party; Funeral souvenir with EGC woodcut; ALS to Rood from Nelly, July 11, 1960, mentioning an edition of Walt Whitman with £100, and thanking Rood for cheering up her father. An extraordinary and unique archive of a friendship spanning three generations of the Craig family. $2,250

catalogue 119 |  h.w. bruton’s copy, in boards 37 (CRUIKSHANK. GEORGE) The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d’esprits, &c … Hand-colored engraved title to each volume, 36 hand-colored illustrations by George Cruikshank. 226, [2]; 230, [2]; 222, [2]; 226, [2] pp. 4 vols. 12mo (7 x 4 in.), London: Printed & Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1822, 1819, 1819 & 1820. First editions (a later issue of vol. I with title dated 1822). Original pictorial boards. Some wear to joints and spine ends, a few minor repairs, internally very clean. Each volume housed in a custom morocco pull-off case. A front wrapper to one of the original parts laid in vol. I. Cohn 419: Patten, George Cruikshank I, 1792-1835, p. 190. Provenance: Anne Eliza Hamilton (her signature, 1828); Fred Wilkins (bookplate); H.W Bruton (his signature and intialed collation, his sale); John F. Talmage (bookplate); Henry Sother- an & Co. (book ticket to rear pastedown). Cruikshank’s inimitable illustrations, published 1819-20. “The Humourist … gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations; Blanchard Jerrold calls it his first remarkable separate work. Robins issued forty six-penny parts, stitched into green wrappers with a colored etching in each, during 1819 and 1820. The parts were also bound in four volumes (as here). In several respects this format anticipates the one Dickens and his publishers revived for Pickwick Papers and the other serials …” (Patten, p. 190). This copy with the provenance of Cruikshank’s executor and pre- eminent collector, H.W. Bruton. It brought £27 in the Bruton Sale, lot 202, in 1897. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller 38 D’AVILER, C.A. Cours d’Architecture … Etched title, 162 engraved plates (many folding or double-page, 82 included in pagination, 80 hors texte). 4to, Paris: Jean Mariette, 1738. Third Mariette edition, with added plates. Contemporary cat’s paw calf. Small repairs to binding extremities, browning to some leaves, but overall a very pretty copy. Bookplate. Millard, French, 14. One of the most popular and useful architectural manuals of the 17th and 18th centuries, first published in 1691. D’Aviler‘s work is notable for combining theory — based on Vignola’s discussion of the five orders — with the practical aspects of design, orna- ment and construction. When Mariette obtained the rights to the book in the early 18th century he thoroughly reworked the text and expanded the illustrations to included a greater emphasis on contemporary domestic architecture. “More than any other ‘cours d’architecture,’ [d’Aviler’s] is designed for the layman and the artisan, and contains all that would aid the client, builder, and student” (Milard). A beautiful copy, in contemporary cat’s paw calf. $2,500

catalogue 119 |  39 (DIVISIEKRONIEK) Cornelius Aurelius, [and Ellert de Veer]. Die Cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vrieslant, beghinnende van Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jhesu. Voertgaende tot den jare M.CCCCC. Ende XVII [1517]. … Met die Cronike der Biscoppen van Utrecht … [with:] Register [and:] Cort Waerachtich verhael vande Regeringhe ende ende ghedenckweerdichste gheschiedenissen welcke inde Gravelijckheit van Hollant / Zeelant ende Vriesland … Title page printed in red and black, with woodcut illustration below. Black letter, text in double columns. Woodcut illustrations throughout the first work. Lacking the world map as usual. Numerous errors in foliation, including missing leaf numbers. [2], 436 [i.e., 434], [4]; 96 ff. Folio, Leiden; Delft: Jan Seversz; Aelbert Hendricxz, [18 aug. 1517]; 1585. First edition. Later full mottled calf, gilt spine (spine worn, front joint cracked but holding). Register folded (worn at outer margins with some losses). Small burn hole in margin of F8 in second title (costing a few letters). Nijhoff-Kronenberg 613; Adams A2253; Rosenwald 1104; K. Tilmans, Aurelius en de Divisiekroniek van 1517: Historiografie en humanisme in Holland in de tijd van Erasmus (1988); J. Gerritsen, Jan Seversz prints a Chronicle, in: Quaerendo, 21 (1991), p. 99-124. First edition of the famed Divisiekroniek or Divisional Chronicle, printed in thirty-two divisions by early Leiden humanist bookseller and printer Jan Seversz. Gerritsen provides a succinct analysis of the printing of the book and identifies characteristics in punctuation, headlines, and errors suggesting the work of two compositors using a single press and small supply of type. The woodcut illustrations comprise some 366 impressions from 192 blocks re-used in a variety of combinations. More than one hundred are coats of arms (from 67 blocks); and many of the blocks were already worn. Many of the illustrations are copies from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Schedel; a few can be reliably attributed to Lucas van Leyden, such as the birth of Christ (F4v). The collation calls for a world map after leaf R4 but even in Nijhoff’s time it was lacking in most copies; Gerritsen notes, “usually wanting but required by the text.” The map is lacking in both copies recorded at the Library of Congress (including the Rosenwald copy); the KB digital copy does not reproduce the map. The four-leaf Register or index (often lacking) is set in a different type and on a larger sheet (here folded). The ‘Kort Waerachtich verhael vande Regeringhe …’ by Ellert de Veer is a continuation of a 1585 edition of the Cronycke (cover- ing events of the sixteenth century), with a woodcut portrait of Philip of Burgundy. The present copy bears the Hendricxz title page (also issued with a Dordrecht title page of printer Pieter Verhagen). $12,500

 | james cummins bookseller alice’s own copy 1929.” Williams, Madan, and Green, p. 229. Provenance: Alice 40 P. Hargreaves, (née Liddell); Sotheby’s (London) Alice sale, 5 [DODGSON, Charles L.] Alice’s Avonturen in het Wonderland. June 2001, lot 99 (owner’s note on card loosely inserted). Naar het Engelsch van Lewis Carroll. Deel I [Deel II]. [Alice’s Ad- Swedish adaptation of the immortal classic, signed by Alice P. ventures in Wonderland. Dutch] [At head of title:] Boeken voor Hargreaves, the original Alice. Uncommon, and with choice Jongens en Meisjes No. 28 [no. 29]. Illustrated. 63,[1, ad]; 59, [5, association. ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Heerenveen: Hepkema, [n.d., ca. 1912]. $2,000 Red wrappers. Signed by the original Alice on the title page in each part. Lovett 622. Provenance: Alice P. Hargreaves, (née Liddell); Sotheby’s (London) Alice sale, 5 June 2001, lot 99 (owner’s note on card loosely inserted). Dutch edition for young people, signed by Alice P. Har- 42 greaves, the original Alice. OCLC records only two U.S. [DODGSON, Charles L.]. Elsje’s Avonturen in ’t Wonderland. locations (Harvard and HRC), and only 3 in the Netherlands. Bewerkt door B. Westerveld. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Uncommon, and with choice association. Dutch]. With illustrations after John Tenniel. 89, [3, ads] pp. 8vo, Den Haag: J.B. Wolters, 1924. Dutch language adaptation $2,250 of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Tan wrappers. Signed by the original Alice on the half title “Alice P. Hargreaves,” with a gift inscription from her son Caryl “A.P.H. from C.d.H. June 1929.” Provenance: Alice P. Hargreaves, (née Liddell); Sothe- 41 by’s (London) Alice sale, 5 June 2001, lot 99 (owner’s note on [DODGSON, Charles L.]. Alices Äventyr i Underlandet. … I fri card loosely inserted). försvenskning efter orignalets hundrasjuttonde tusen av Nino Rune- Dutch edition for young people, signed by Alice P. Har- berg. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Swedish]. With illustra- greaves, the original Alice. Uncommon, and with choice tions after John Tenniel. 89, [3, ads] pp. 8vo, Helsingfors: Hol- association. ger Schildts, [1921]. Swedish adaptation of Alice’s Adventures $2,000 in Wonderland. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Signed by the original Alice on the half title “Alice P. Hargreaves,” with a gift inscription from her son Caryl “A.P.H. from C.d.H. June

catalogue 119 |  inscribed with als 44 43 (DOVES PRESS) The English Bible Containing the Old Testa- DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred. Sonnets. 30 pp. 8vo, London: The ment & the New translated out of the original tongues by special Academy Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. Origi- command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted nal paper-covered boards. Light wear to extremities. In half with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal brown morocco clamshell box. NCBEL III:623. editions and edited by the Late Rev. F.H. Scrivener M.A. LL.D. for Inscribed on the verso of the half-title: “Alexander Tucker the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. With calligraphic from Alfred Douglas July 1909.” With an ALS to Tucker from initials by Edward Johnston. 5 vols. 4to (13 x 9 in.; 329 x 226 Douglas on The Academy stationery, dated July 26, 1909, mm.), London: Doves Press, 1903-1905. One of 500 copies on sending him this copy of Sonnets, and noting, “I think, in the paper. Original full limp vellum, gilt-lettered spines. Minor ir- words of Homer, that ‘The wine had gone round a bout our regularities in the natural vellum; aside from the usual foxing minds’ the other eveing.” to a few leaves in the first gathering in volume I (The Transla- tors to the Readers), chiefly confined to lower margins, this is $1,500 a fine copy of the most important book of The Doves Press. In two quarter blue morocco custom cloth slipcases with chemises. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 251; Cave 123. Of the fifty or so publications of the Doves Press, the Bible is by far and away the most impressive work. The great red ini- tial — and what a red it is! — and first line of the first chapter of Genesis demonstrate a perfect marriage of calligraphy and typography. The Doves Bible, alongside the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Oxford Lectern Bible by Bruce Rogers, stands as one of the greatest typographical accomplishments of the past 100 years. $15,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 119 |  45 (DRUGS) Escobar, Pablo. Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricatu- ras 1983-1991. Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (4 of them in color). [2]-377, [1] ll., printed rectos only. 4to, [Medellin, Columbia: 1992]. Original calf with facsimile signature and fingerprint in gilt; minor foxing on a few leaves. A collection of political cartoons concerning the Colom- bian drug trade, self-published by drug trafficker Pablo Escobar while serving time in his luxury prison, La Cat- edral. According to an Escobar family member, most of the copies of the book were burned after Escobar’s escape from the prison with only a handful of copies surviving the fire. OCLC locates no copies, though the book does turn up now and again on a certain online auction site at predictably ludicrous prices. $5,000

46 DRYDEN, John. King Arthur: or, the British Worthy. A Dra- matick Opera. Perform’d at the Queens Theatre By Their Majes- ties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden. 51, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the [Judges Head] in Chancery- Lane near Fleetstreet, [1691]. First edition. Half blue morocco and marbled boards. Rebacked, endsheets renewed, text spotted, trimmed somewhat close, with partial loss of imprint. Wing D2299; Macdonald 91a. Dryden’s libretto to Henry Purcell’s dramatic opera — combining spoken dialogue with musical passages — on the legend of King Arthur. “King Arthur (staged May or June 1691, and immediately printed) had its origins in the end of Charles II’s reign in the project which produced Albion and Albanius” (ODNB). $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller east hampton patent, 1666 for one of the original settlers of east hampton 47 (EAST HAMPTON, NY) Period copy of the original patent for East Hampton given March 12, 1666, by Governor Richard Nicolls, the first English Governor of New York, to John Mulford, Thomas Baker, Thomas Chatfield, Jeremiah Conkling, Stephen Hedges, Thomas Osborne, Sr. and John Osborne. Docketed on back, “Grant of Easthampton to John Mulford 13 March 1666.” 13 x 13 in., ca. late 17th century. Old repairs at the folds, lower margin uneven. See Rattray, East Hampton History, pp. 475-480. East Hampton, the easternmost town in New York and the first to be settled by the English, was originally inhabited by the Montaukett Indians, who sold off most of their land by 1660. After the English took over from the Dutch, Governor Nicolls issued patents confirming ownership of land held under grants from the Dutch authorities. These patents were written by Matthias Nicolls, secretary of the colony and later Mayor of New York City. One of the grantees, John Mulford, came to Southhampton in 1643, sold his house in 1648 and in 1649 was one of 9 persons who settled East Hampton. $3,000

catalogue 119 |  48 FROISSART, Jean. Histoire et Chronique Memorable de Messire Jehan Froissart. [16], 423, [29]; [12], 288, [4]; [8], 333, [3]; [8], 324 pp., ruled in red throughout. 4 volumes in one. Folio, Paris: Gervais Mallot, 1574. Second edition of the Sauvage 1559-61 revision, with the Mallot imprint. Contemporary calf, covers rulled in gilt to panel design, gilt foliage tools in corners and forming central oval, spine gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, titled in one compartment, later spine label removed and preserved on inside front cover, a.e.g. Light browning and foxing throughout, some worming towards end of final book affecting marginal text. Adams F1067-68 (with Ruelle and Sonnius imprints); Potthast, page 473; Sarton III, 1751-53; Tchemerzine (1977) III, 388. A manuscript menu for a dinner served to King George IV Froissart’s 14th-century history in a beautiful contemporary and 9 guests, cooked under the supervision of Amand Vil- Parisian binding, in the style of the Ève bindery. met, the King’s chef de cuisine. The menu lists a total of 25 dishes under eight sections, with headings: Potages, Poissons, $3,000 Relevés, Entreés, Rots, Relevé, Entrémets and Buffet. Dishes include “Le Gigot de sept heures,” “Les Poulets aux Chou- fleurs,” “Les Escallopes de Veau a l’ecossaise” and a haunch manuscript menu for king george iv of venison. The individual cook responsible for each dish is 49 identified in the left margin (Houggins, Mrs. Smith, Miller, (GASTRONOMY) “His Majesty’s Dinner 20th May / Un- Mrs. Morton and Brudenell). der the control of A. Vilmet Chief Cook …”. 1 page pen and $750 ink on paper. Docketed on the verso with the date and the number of people expected for dinner (“20th May 1828 / 10 Persons”). Folio (12-H x 5-I in.), [London?]: 20th May 1828. Creased from prior folding with neat repair to split in upper- most fold.

 | james cummins bookseller presentation copy to the earl of donoughmore 50 GORDON, Anthony. A Treatise on the Science of Defence, for the Sword, Bayonet, and Pike, in Close Action. 19 plates after R. Smirke. [viii], 66 pp. 4to, London: B. McMillan, 1805. First edition. Modern full dark brown calf. Soiling, creasing, and small repaired tear to inscription leaf, marginal dampstaining throughout. Very good. Thimm, p. 119; Pardoel 1132.01. An important work on military swordsmanship. According to Hutton, as quoted in Thimm, “This is the earliest known work giving any idea of attack and defence with the bayonet.” Inscribed by the author, “To the Right Honourable The Earl of Donoughmore conspicuous for His knowledge of the sword, & for his regard for the Author … London March 3d 1806.” Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore (1756-1825) was an Irish peer and politician. $3,000

51 HALE, S.J. Mary’s Lamb [in:] The Juvenile Miscellany. September & October No. 1 Volume V. Engraved frontispiece and 2 wood- engraved illustrations. 12mo, Boston: Putnam & Hunt, 1830. First edition. Printed original wrappers. Fine. In custom slipcase. Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, pp. 299-300. The first appearance of the famous poem “Mary had a little Lamb” was in this American juvenile periodical. The three verses appear on page 64 (entitled “Mary’s Lamb”)and were reprinted later the same year in Hale’s Poems for Our Children. $3,000

catalogue 119 |  hastings to bogle, the first british envoy to tibet 52 HASTINGS, Warren. Autograph Letter, signed (“Warren 53 Hastings”), to George Bogle, the first British envoy to Tibet. HENTY, G. A. The Queen’s Cup. [iv], 250, [ii]; [iv], 253, [3]; [iv], 2-H pp., on a single folded sheet. (9 x 7 K in.; 230 x 186 mm), 221, [3] pp. + 32 pp. ads at back of vol. III dated Nov. 1896. Fort William, Bengal: 10 May 1775. With half-titles in all vols. Expert facsimile title-page to vol. Fine, early, and important letter from Warren Hastings (1732- III. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. First edition. 1818), the first Governor-General of Bengal, to George Bogle Original green embossed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown (1746–1781) a Scottish adventurer and diplomat, clerk of the leaf endpapers. Spine gilt rubbed with some loss to vol. III, East India Company, and Hasting’s envoy to Tibet — the slight lean to vol. I, occasional light soiling, previous owner’s first to open diplomatic relations with Tibet and the ‘Teshoo pencil inscription to each vol., still a near fine copy. Dartt, pp. Lama’ — written at a time when Bogle was trying to open 108-109; not in Sadleir or Wolff. trade relations with Tibet, and Hastings himself was under A sharp copy of Henty’s rare novel on yachting, among the investigation for corruption. last triple-deckers to appear in Britain. “Dear Bogle, All your letters arrived in order of their $6,500 numbers. I shall expect with Impatience the Report of your Negociations with Teshoo Lama, the Sequel of your Journal, & your Observations on the People & Country that you have 54 visited. If you can accommodate a longer continuance at HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems of … edited with notes by Tashiludden [?] at your own Ease & Convenience & the Ra- Robert Bridges … With an appendix of Additional Poems and a crit- jah’s inclinations, I am not anxious to see you soon in Bengal, ical Introduction by Charles Williams. [xx], 159 pp. 8vo, London: where my power is suspended, & my friends involved in the Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1930. Second effects of my own situation. Do, however, as you please, but edition, with additional poems. No. 54 of 250 copies. Quarter conclude matters with the Rajah in the best manner you can vellum and cloth. Near fine copy with original glassine wrap- before you leave him. You may assure him that the Company per. Dunne, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Comprehensive Bib- will approve & confirm the pacific & national Connection liography, A73. which I have endeavored to establish between him & their Governments …” Charges of corruption against Hastings $2,600 were brought two months earlier, in March. Bogle’s Journal and Observations were published a century later (1876) as Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. $2,500  | james cummins bookseller housman on horace 55 HOUSMAN, A.E. Autograph Letter, signed (“A.E. Hous- man”), to an unnamed recipient. 2 pp. pen and ink on a folded sheet. 8vp, Trinity College, Cambridge: 19 December 1919. Crease from prior fold, else fine. Not in Burnett, The Letters of A.E. Housman. Housman the classicist writes to give thanks for a volume of criticism. “I have received the book on Horace and the Eighteenth Century which you have been kind enough to send me … It brings home to one how soaked in certain Latin authors the English of that period were, and the number of examples from Walpole, for instance, is surpris- ing …” Housman is likely refering to Horace in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century by Caroline Goad (1918), which he acknowledged reading in a later letter. $1,000

in contemporary sheep, signed by hoyle 56 HOYLE, Edmond. Mr. Hoyle’s Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-Gammon …. [2], [xii], 216 pp. 12mo, London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, in Gray’s-Inn; Henry Woodfall, and Richard Baldwin, both in Pater-Noster-Row, n.d. [c. 1765]. Fourteenth edition. Probable publisher’s binding of full sheep, covers ruled in gilt, spine with four gilt-ruled bands. Head of spine damaged, wear to joints, some scuffing to covers. Laid into a half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. ESTC T88034. Provenance: Trehane Chapple (ownership signature on front paste-down dated 1772). A beautiful copy in original condition. The calf binding was likely done by the publisher — the title-page advertises copies at “Three Shillings neatly bound.” This copy signed by Hoyle on the verso of the title-page to thwart piracy. $1,250

57 (INDIA) Mathison, John and Alexander Way MASON. An East-India Register and Directory, for 1804 … Containing Complete Lists of the Company’s Servants, Civil, Military, and Marine … To- gether with Lists of the Europeans, Mariners, &c. Not in the Service of the East-India Company; and Merchant Vessels Employed in the Trade … Frontispiece folding map of Hindustan (India), 2 folding letterpress charts. xxviii, 356 pp. 12mo, London: Cox, Son, and Bayles, [1804]. Contemporary red morocco, covers with gilt-rolled border, flat spine in 5 compartments, with title and sunburst tool in gilt, a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate and previous owners’ marks to endpapers. A finely-bound example of this East-India Company register, with lists of civil and military personnel, casualties, etc., for the year 1804. $1,200

catalogue 119 |  59 KNOPF, Alfred A. Correspondence relating to hiring Roger johnson’s lives of the english poets, all uncut Shugg for a senior editorial position at Alfred A. Knopf in 1945 and Shugg’s resignation in 1952. 3 typed letters, signed (“Alfred 58 A Knopf ”), on Knopf letterhead; 2 autograph letters, signed JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Po- (“Alfred” & “A Knopf ”), on Knopf and Mayflower Hotel sta- ets; with Critical Observations on their Works. Engraved portrait tionery; with 3 typed letters, signed, from Knopf staff; carbon frontispiece of Johnson after Sir Joshua Reynolds in vol. I. 4 copies of 2 typed letters from Shugg, each 1-H pp.; and re- vols. 8vo, London: Printed for C. Bathurst et al, 1781. Second lated ephemera, photographs, and correspondence. 4to and London edition and first authorized separate edition. Vols. smaller, New York, etc: 1949-1956. Condition generally fine. I-III in original boards with paper labels, vol. IV in contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, all uncut. Vol. III In early 1945, Alfred A. Knopf wrote to Prof. Roger Shugg lacking backstrip and label, minor marginal dampstaining (Princeton class of 1927) at the University of Indiana in in vol. IV, with occasional light foxing throughout. Laid into Bloomington to offer an editorial job with responsibility for a full brown cloth slipcase with leather label and individual college-level history, politics and social sciences textbooks. chemises. Vol. IV with bookplate of John Pritchard. Fleeman Shugg, who had worked for Knopf during the middle 1930s, 79.4LP/5; Courtney & Smith, pp. 141-42; Chapman & Hazen, was a fellow at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. pp. 159; Rothschild 1265; ESTC T146734. From 1941 to 1945, he served as an associate professor of history at Indiana University while doing research for the The first authorized separate edition of Johnson’s Lives of Military Intelligence Service of the War Dept.’s general staff. the English Poets — they first appeared as the Prefaces, Bio- During the course of the next month Knopf hired Shugg, graphical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (10 vols, effective April 1945, initially with a two-year contract. In late 1779-1781). A beautiful set, all volumes uncut, the first three 1952, after a reorganization, Shugg wrote a detailed letter of in original boards, and the last in a contemporary half calf resignation (present in the carbon), to which Knopf respond- binding, Pollard considered this set to be the first issued with ed with two personal notes. As evidenced by letters to Shugg spine labels printed on a leaf integral to the book itself (cf. at the time, there was evidently some acrimony. Bennett, Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, p. 87). Shugg went on to the University of Chicago Press, where he $1,750 served as publishing director from 1961 to 1967. From 1963 to 1965 he was president of the Association of American Uni- versity Presses, and from 1968 to 1980, he was the director of the University of New Mexico Press. With: White House invitation to a luncheon 17 June 1963 for editors of projects published under the auspices of the National Historical Publication Commission. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller 60 “thegreatamericanovel” LAMB, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“C Lamb”), to 61 publisher Edward Moxon. One page. 12mo, N.p.: n.d. [ca. LEWIS, Sinclair. Main Street. The Story of Carol Kennicott. 451 1830?]. Mounted to stiff drab sheet. pp. 8vo, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First An intriguing note from Lamb to his publisher and son-in- edition, first issue. Original orange-stamped blue cloth. Faint law, Edward Moxon, who married Lamb’s adopted daughter, shelf wear, spine a trifle dulled, bumping to top edge of front Emma Isola Lamb (1809–1891). cover, else very good. In a half black morocco slipcase and “Dear Moxon, You will much oblige me by transmitting the 2 chemise. John G. Kidd & Son bookseller ticket. Pastore 7. packets safe as directed. I return your ms. — The gesture was Lewis’s satire of life in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, and the beautiful. How old Westwood* licked his chops at it! — C. novel that made his reputation. Presented by the author to Lamb.” publisher and bookseller John Kidd, “Dear John Kidd — this *“[Thomas] Westwood senior [father of the poet and angling is the greatamericanovel — Sinclair Lewis.” John Kidd was a bibliographer] was an unusual character with a hump and founding partner of Stewart, Kidd Publishers in Cincinnati in reportedly stood 4 feet and ‘a nail high’ (Works of Charles and 1910 and John G. Kidd & Son, a bookstore and publisher. A Mary Lamb, 833). He was vividly described by Charles Lamb fine association. in several letters to William Wordsworth between 1829 and $1,750 1830. The Lambs moved in next door to the Westwoods’ cottage in September 1827, when Thomas Westwood senior was employed as an agent of the Phoenix Insurance Company. In 62 October 1829 the Lambs were forced to give up their house LOCKE, John. The Works. Engraved copperplate frontispiece and became lodgers with the Westwoods. This arrange- portrait of Locke by Cipriani. Folding chart in vol. I. 4 vols. ment lasted until May 1833. Originally complimentary of 4to, London: Printed for W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington, L. Westwood senior’s company and manners Lamb soon began Davis, W.Owen …, 1777. Eighth edition & second quarto edi- to tire of his ‘one anecdote’ (ibid.) and miserly behaviour” tion (after the 1768 Hollis Edition). Full contemporary pol- (ODNB). ished calf, red and green title labels, a few hinges neatly re- $1,500 paired. Unobstrusive labels on pastedowns. Handsome copy. Yolton 370; Christophersen, pp. 88-89. “This edition of Locke’s Works is generally considered the best” (Christophersen). $2,750

catalogue 119 |  giving elkin mathews publication rights to 2nd edition clippings on front endpapers, bifolium of 4 pages of advertise- 63 ments for Mastin’s novels tipped in at end. Some rubbing to MASEFIELD, John. Salt-water Ballads. 112 pp. 8vo, London: binding, internally fine. Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, one of 500 copies of the The fourth published novel of John Mastin, R.B.A., F.L.S., author’s first book. Blue cloth. Faded spine, else very good. F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.S.A.Scot., F.R.M.S. (1865-1932), English Laid into a half blue morocco slipcase and chemise cloth drop artist, popular science writer, schoolmaster, and the author box. Simmons 1; Wight 1. of scientific romances. Among these are two interplanetary Signed on the flyleaf, “Mary E. Madox Rossetti / 30 April novels, The Stolen Planet (1906) and Through the Sun in an Air- 1904.” (Mary Madox Rossetti was the daughter of William ship (1909); a lost race adventure, The Immortal Light (1907); Michael Rossetti). and the present work of fantasy, Autobiography of a Picture Laid into the book is a Signed Document dated 25 July 1913. (1910). Mastin trained as an artist, taught drawing, and lived “Subject to the conditions of the Agreement made between near Sheffield until the great war. In The Autobiography of a the 1st of May, 1913, I hereby grant to Elkin Mathews … Picture, Mastin literalizes the notion of the artist giving life to Publisher a license to print & issue a second edition of Salt his canvas, and the novel records the consciousness of Mira, Water Ballads … John Edward Masefield.” With envelope painted by Rolf Trofford, including her sentiments when the tipped-in. portrait is shown to the human original, Myra, while away at exhibitions (offering a glimpse of the backbiting fellow mem- Elkin Mathews did, in fact, publish the second edition of bers of the Orchtown Society of Artists), during the daily life Masefield’s Salt-Water Ballads — in 1913. of a teacher of painting (again with lively scenes of artistic $1,500 pretence, philistinism, and domestic matters), and when she is joined by Rolf’s self-portrait at an exhibition. The published novel is rare. OCLC records copies only in BL, NLS, and Cambridge. The typescript is complete, highly legible, 64 and bears frequent corrections to the text. MASTIN, John. The Autobiography of a Picture. [Corrected typescript of the novel.] Typescript on blue paper, with manu- $2,500 script corrections in ink throughout. [8], 211 leaves, 35 or 36 lines per page, typed on rectos only. 12-M x 8 in., [Woodleigh House, Totley Brook, near Sheffield: 1909]. Published: Lon- don: F. V. White and Co., 1910. Sewn into red and tan cloth flexible cover, with author’s address label on upper cover, newspaper reviews of Through the Sun in an Ariship and related

 | james cummins bookseller signed by milne and shepard 65 MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. 178, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: E. P. Dutton, [1928]. First Ameri- can edition, number 200 of 250 copies, signed by the author and artist, with the limitation page a cancel. Original green cloth with paper spine label and yellow paper over boards, uncut and unopened. Fine copy in original glassine, original yellow illustrated box (box repaired at edges). In yellow drop box. $4,000

catalogue 119 |  inscribed from may morris to john quinn, in commissioned binding by katharine adams 66 (MORRIS, May) Morris, William. The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists. 12mo, London: Longman’s, Green & Company, 1915. Full dyed black pigskin, upper cover with “JQ lettered” in gilt in a roundel semé with dots, by Katharine Adams (signed with her initials and device on lower turn in). Spine worn. Custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Not in Tidcombe. Provenance: John Quinn from May Morris; Julia Quinn, his sister; by descent in the family. With a loosely inserted New Year’s greeting card from May Mor- ris, and the envelope addressed to Quinn in her hand and postmarked 1 Jan [19]16. The book, bound by Katharine Adams, who was a friend of May Morris, is inscribed “To John Quinn from May Morris New Year 1916.” A choice association: Quinn, whose collection included several manuscripts of William Morris, was apparently the love of May’s life, but Quinn lost interest in her though May tried until 1917, unsuccessfully, to continue the affair. This book was retained by Quinn’s heir, his sister Julia, during the dispersal of Quinn’s vast collections in 1923-4. $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller 67 adopted by his step-father only a month before this letter MORRIS, William. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Decora- was penned, on January 12, 1806. Napoleon chides Eugène tive woodcut borders and initials designed by William Morris. for paying an exorbitant amount of money on his house. 340 pp. Large 4to, [Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Printed at the “Mon fils, je ne puis accorder mon estime à M. Caburelet [?] Kelmscott Press, April 1897]. First edition, one of 250 paper ni à votre architect, je les ai chassés l’un et l’autre de chez copies. Printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types. moi. Il est absurbe qu’on ait dépensé 1500,000 francs dans Original limp vellum with silk ties. Spine titled in gold, un- une maison si petite que la vôtre, et ce qu’on y a fait ne vaut cut edges. Minor soiling of spine, a lovely fresh copy. Fine. pas le quart de cette somme. Ayez donc soin de ne rien faire Peterson A45; Ransom, Private Presses, p. 330; Sparling 45; faire qu’avec des devis arrêtés. Au reste, ne vous melez pas Tomkinson 45. de votre maison, j’y ai ____ embargo. Quand vous viendrez Very attractive copy of this work, initially composed by Mor- à Paris d’ailleurs, vous logerez dans un palais. Paris ce 18 ris in verse and prose in 1895, but ultimately written entirely fevrier 1806 [signed] Napoléon.” [Son, I have no respect for in prose and announced in June 1896. He read proofs of a M. Caburelet or for your architect. I kicked them both out of few sections, and his daughter May finished the proofreading. my house. It’s ridiculous to have spent so much on a house as It was not published until after his death. tiny as yours, and what was done isn’t worth a fourth of that. So be sure not to have anything done without an estimate, $6,500 and don’t bother yourself about it — I’ve put an embargo on it. Anyway, when you come to Paris you’ll stay in in a palace …”] 68 $5,000 NAPOLEON I, Emperor of France. Letter signed (“Napo- leon”) to his step-son, Eugène de Beauharnais. One page in ink, on single sheet of blank stationery. 9 x 7-G in., Paris: 18 fevrier 1806. Docketed at top “No. 19” and at bottom (in the same secretarial hand) “à mon fils le Prince Eugene Na- poléon.” An indignant letter from the Emperor to his step-son Eugène, the son of Joséphine de Beauharnais (1781-1824), who was catalogue 119 |  early new york city skyscraper by francis kimball 69 (NEW YORK CITY) [Kimball, Francis, architect]. The City Invest- ing Building Broadway-Cortlandt and Church Street. Francis H. Kim- ball, Architect … A Fireproof Office Building Ready for Occupancy April 1908. Illustrated with color frontispece and 6 folding plans at back. [12] pp. Copyright by the Broadway-Cortlandt Co. Printed by Chasmar-Winchell Co. 4to, New York: [1907]. First edition. Origi- nal gray wrappers with embossed gilt stamping. Some chipping top covers at lower edge, else fine. A beautifully produced publicity brochure for the City Investing Building, including renderings of the interior spaces and 6 folding architectural plans. Designed by Francis Kimball and completed in 1908, the City Investing Building was one of New York City’s first skyscrapers, and at 33 floors, was one of the largest buildings of its time. The building, which stood at 56 Cortlandt Street, was demolished in 1968. $1,000 manhattan pre-war apartments 70 (NEW YORK CITY) The World’s Loose Leaf Album of Apartment Houses. Containing views and ground plans of the Principal High Class Apartment Houses in New York City … Price $25.00. Map of mid- and uptown Manhattan showing subway, elevated, and surface car routes. B/w photograph and accompanying floorplan for 150 luxury pre-war Manhattan apartments. Oblong 4to, New York: New York World, March 1910. Original album binding of metal spine fastened by two screws, covers with maroon gilt-stamped morocco. Binding worn, covers detached, wear to first few leaves, small closed tear to lower margin of plates throughout. OCLC 21394519 (1 copy, NYPL). A scarce album advertising units in some of the most desirable pre-war apartment buildings in Manhat- tan, with photographs and plans for 150 buildings, including The Dorilton, The Langham, The Paterno and 970 Park Ave. A document of the incredible uptown building boom at the start of the 20th century. $2,500

 | james cummins bookseller 71 NICHOLSON, William. Characters of Romance. 16 color litho- graphic plates. Title-page with dedication on the verso to Wil- liam Ernest Henley and smaller brown contents leaf. Folio (19- H x 15-H in.), London: William Heinemann, [August], 1900. First edition. Original purple cloth portfolio. With booklabel of Sigfried Sassoon. Slight wear to portfolio. Plates fine. Nicholson’s portraits of literary characters, including Miss Havisham, Don Quixote, Long John Silver and Baron Munchausen. $2,000

72 O’BRYEN, Christopher. Naval Evolutions: or, A System of Sea- Discipline … 18 engraved plates (most folding) and 2 letterpress charts. viii, 90, [2] pp. 4to, London: W. Johnston, 1762. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Near fine. Cf. NMM V, 736. Provenance: John Denis Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo (bookplate). The English translation and adaptation of Horste’s L’Art des Armées Navales (Lyon, 1727), “A standard work on naval tactics” (NMM). $4,500

catalogue 119 |  the only 18th century portrait of an english bookbinder 20 original photographs of the ma-jung fete of 1923 73 74 (PAYNE, Roger) Harding, Sylvester. “Roger Payne, Natuus (PHOTOGRAPHY) Album of photographs of costumed vindesor: MDCCXXXIX. denatus Londin: MDCCLXXXXVII. dancers from the Ma-Jung Fête held at the Plaza Hotel, De- Effigiem hanc graphicum solertis Bibliopegi …” Etched-full cember 19th, 1923. 20 vintage sepia-toned silver prints, tipped- length portrait of Payne working at his lying press. 11 x 8-H in., in to album leaves. Original program in yellow printed wrap- London: Etche’d by S. Harding No. 127. Pall Mall [for Thomas pers bound-in at rear. 8vo, New York: 1923. Specially-bound in Payne], 1800. Second state, with “and published” scratched a brocade cloth binding. Fading to two photographs, else fine. from the imprint. Framed. Davenport, Roger Payne, p. xviii; Provenance: Estate of Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl. Maggs cat.1212, II, no. 177. The Ma-Jung Fête, organized by Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt, was Rare etched portrait of the great 18th-century binder Roger held at the Plaza Hotel, December 19th, 1923, for the benefit Payne, issued the year after his death by London bookseller of the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish Big Sisters Orga- and patron Thomas Payne (no relation). “Portraits of Payne nizations. It featured a “Ma-Jung Ballet” by Ned Wayburn are only to be found, as far as I know, in two instances, both in association with Florenz Ziegfeld, with Art Deco- and of which were made after his death. The earlier of these Chinese-influenced stage settings and costumes — seen in two is an etching by Sylvester Harding, which was pub- the photos here — by Ziegfeld Follies designer Alice O’Neil. lished in 1800 … The drawing shows Payne working at a Inscribed on the front flyleaf by Alexander A. Brown, “Just to binder’s press in a workroom in bad repair. He is depicted Reminisce / The Mah Jong Fete of 1923.” A unique souvenir as a delicately built man with a refined apperance and long from this Roaring Twenties high-society event. thin hands of an artist” (Davenport). According to Maggs $2,250 catalogue 1212, part II, no. 177, this is the only 18th century portrait of an English bookbinder. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller the piltdown man hoax 75 (PILTDOWN MAN HOAX) A collection of nine contemporary items, from the collection of G.E. Hart of Uckfield, Sussex. v.p., chiefly London: ca. 1912-1918. Condition generally very good. In 1911, Uckfield solicitor Charles Dawson found pieces of a human skull in a quarry in Piltdown, Sussex. He showed the find to his friend Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, and the remains were declared the “missing link“ — Eoanthropus dawsoni. Later discoveries of hominid remains cast doubt on the authenticity of the Piltdown Man, and fluorine dating in 1949 decisively proved that the remains were younger than claimed. The jaw was shown to be from a modern ape, and the teeth had been filed down and the jaw bleached to match the skull. The collection comprises: — [Unknown photographer] Cabinet portrait photograph of Charles Dawson. [No place: no date]. Photo on card (the mount 6 1⁄2 x 4 1⁄4 in.), signed in ink by Dawson. — Geological Society of London. Abstract of the Proceedings … no. 932. December 28th, 1912. [London: no date but 1912]. Octavo, pp. [19-] 27 [-28]. Stitched (old fold). The presentation of the discovery of the Piltdown man by Dawson, Smith Woodward and Elliot Smith. — Charles DAWSON. The Piltdown Skull. [No place but ?Hastings: no date but 1913]. Octavo, pp. 73-82. Plates, 1 folding diagram. Wrappers. An off-print: “Reprinted from the ‘Hastings & East Sussex Naturalist,’ Vol.II., No. 2, 1913.” — Charles DAWSON, Arthur SMITH Woodward and Grafton ELLIOT SMITH. Supplementary Note on the Discovery … at Piltdown. [No place but London: no date but 1914]. Quarto, pp. [i], 82-99. Plates, illustrations. Original wrappers. An off-print “from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for April 1914, Vol. lxx.” — F.S. Frisby of Uckfield (photographer). A real-photo postcard “Workers at Piltdown” of Robert Kenward jnr. (standing), Charles Dawson (sitting), an unidentified man, “Chipper” the goose and Arthur Smith Woodward. [c.1913, postmarked “10 Au- gust 1914”]. Addressed to “Miss Hart” of Uckfield with note by Robert “Kenny” Kenward, the son of the tenant farmer on whose land the Piltdown man was found. The first shot in the First World War was fired ten days after this card was sent, and Kenward was killed in 1916 at the Front. — F.S. Frisby of Uckfield (photographer). A real-photo postcard of a sketch of the skull of “The Piltdown Man” [c.1913] — Charles DAWSON. The Piltdown Skull. [No place but ?Hastings: no date but 1915]. Octavo, pp. 182-184. Wrappers. An off-print: “Reprinted from ‘Hastings & East Sussex Naturalist,’ Vol.II., No. 4, 1915.” — Arthur SMITH Woodward and Grafton ELLIOT SMITH. On a Second Skull from the Piltdown gravel. [No place but London: no date but 1917]. Quarto, pp. [i-ii, 1-] 10. Illustrations. Original wrappers. Inscribed by Woodward “G.E. Hart, Esq. / with kind regards of / the Authors.” An off-print from the Quarterly Jour- nal of the Geological Society, Vol. lxxiii, part I, 1917. — Sir Arthur SMITH WOOD- WARD (editor). A Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man in the de- partment of Geology and Palaeon- tology in the British Museum (Natu- ral History) … Second Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1918. Octavo. Pp. [i-vi, 1-]32, [i-ii]. Plates, illustrations. The second edition, inscribed by Smith Woodward to G.E. Hart of Uckfield. The Piltdown Man figures on pp. 8-25. $1,250

catalogue 119 |  76 [PORTER, Elijah]. Journal of a Revolutionary Soldier, being a Journal the American Revolutionary War Service of Elijah Porter of Farmington, Connecticut from May 1777 to May 1780, describing his service in New York and New Jersey, written from memory after the war. Manuscript on laid, watermarked paper; 11 leaves and 10 additional leaves (6 x 4-H in.) loosely inserted, being a total of 21 leaves containing approx. 26 unfoliated pages of ink manuscript. Nineteen and a half leaves excised from the bound notebook, an apparently re-purposed account book; the notebook was inverted and the remaining leaves were used to record the present journal. The additional, loosely inserted leaves conclude the journal begun in the notebook. 8vo, approx. 7-G x 4-I in in., [Farmington, Connecticut: 1841]. Marbled stiff paper wrappers dated “1841” in manuscript on upper cover. Housed in a custom gilt-lettered leather and cloth box. Elijah Porter’s journal of his American Revolutionary War service covers a three-year period, May 1777 to May 1780, and is so arranged as to provide a vivid narrative of the leading incidents and campaigns during his military service in New York and New Jersey. It is a narrative more than a mere daily accounting. Porter served in General Israel Putnam’s Division of the Connecticut Line, under General George Washington’s command. The main events chronicled by Porter include the Battles of Fort Montgomery, Monmouth, and Stony Point. He describes the capture and execution of two spies, an attempt to kidnap Washing- ton, the arrest of American General Charles Lee by Washington in the field at Monmouth, an African American servant’s single- handed capture of a British officer, and Washington’s tearful solicitude for his troops during the harsh winter encampment at Morristown. Some of the other persons discussed by Porter include American General Anthony Wayne, the “Hored Trayter [Benedict] Arnold,” and American ally, “Barren Stuben [Baron von Steuben] the Old Prussian Drummer.” Porter, of Farmington, Connecticut, enlisted in May 1777 and first served in the Hudson River Valley in New York. The journal of his three years’ military service in the American Revolution begins with accounts of two separate incidents there concerning the arrests, trials, and executions of two British spies in September and October of 1777. Porter begins by providing a gripping description of his having to hold down a distraught kneeling British officer convicted of espionage so that the officer could be shot to death. He has to leap away as the officer is shot. A description of the dramatic discovery and subsequent hanging of another spy near Fishkill, New York follows: “[O]ur patrolling party discovered a man making towards the [British] Fleet, they took him up and brought him before a Court & one of the guards testified he saw a stranger put something in his mouth whereupon the surgeon gave him an emetic which brought up a silver ball and in it a letter from Burgoine [British General John Burgoyne] to Genl. [Sir Henry] Clinton to hasten on for his relief, the Court passed the sentence of Death and in an hour he was swinging under the Gallows” (pp. [2–3]). Porter also writes about the British plan to capture George Washington across the river from West Point. A servant girl in a house where Washington was attending a ball detected the plot to kidnap General Washington and take him to New York. The servant warned Washington’s guard who: “…place[ed] themselves in the bottom of the Boat and kept still, the night was dark, but the sentry soon discovered a boat approaching but they kept still untill the enemy landed, they then arose and sprang ashore and captured all the enemy and brought them with Genl. Washington over to West Point in safety[.] not long after this the report was that the British Army at Philadelphia under Genl. Howe was on their way to N. York & Genl Washington was making all the preparation he could to capture the whole army” (pp. [8–9]). The most moving account within Porter’s Journal of a Revolutionary Soldier is of the hardships endured by Washington’s army during their harsh winter encampment at Morristown, New Jersey in 1779 and 1780. Porter’s description of a sleepless Washington wading through the snow, tearfully comforting his hungry troops is particularly affecting: “[O]n the 5th day very early in the morning, before sun rising, there was some noise in the Camp and behold Genl. Washington wading in the snow, leading his horse and calling at every Hutt speaking kindly to all the soldiers and saying the first he knew of their sufferings, was the night before and had not slept a moment during the night, but tho it was severe cold was on  | james cummins bookseller his way to see and sympathise with the suffering Soldiers, and when he found them so puicible [peaceable?] & so rejoiced to see him & hear his voice, he was much overcome & the Tears rolled down his cheeks in torrents he told us he would do his utmost to get us something to eat, & so passed on to visit the whole encampment. Before night the steward’s Call was beat [upon the drums] and off they went. In a little time he [the steward] returned with a piece of Beef enough to give each man a quarter of a pound, at the sight of food their appetite was raving and he was obliged to place a sentry over it while he would weigh it out, as soon as they received their quarter of a pound of raw beef they Instantly swallowed it raw, and it so sharpened their appetite they were almost raving mad … The snow continued falling untill it was about 3 feet deep on the level, and it was very difficult movingabout, but guards must be mounted every day, and as they marched to their different stations they might be traced by the Blood of their feet …” (pp. [25–26]). An outstanding account written from memory by a soldier who witnessed extraordinary events during the American Revolu- tion. Porter would pen within: “The Present Generation do not seem to know what Obligation they are under to the Whigs of America, for it was they that Redeemed the Country from bondage at the sacrifice of Life and property.” $42,500

catalogue 119 |  remington to his publishers 77 REMINGTON, Frederic. Autograph Letter, signed (“Fred- eric Remington”), to his publishers, Little, Brown. 1 p. pen and ink on paper, inlaid. 9 x 6-H in, New Rochelle, NY: Sep- tember 22, [1892]. Near fine with faint creases from prior folding. Remington writes his publishers, Little, Brown, expressing his pleasure and thanks for their fine job in presenting his illustrated edition of Parkman’s The Oregon Trail. Read- ing in part, “I am delighted with it [The Oregon Trail]. To my mind it is the best cover I have ever seen. It’s absolute. The drawings ‘come’ in perfect shape and have been well arranged. I hope the book will be a tremendous success since I want to illustrate more of Mr. Parkman’s works … you have my thanks and gratitude for so well doing a book in which I shall always feel a great pride.” During the 1880s, most of Remington’s illustrations were commissioned for magazines — The Oregon Trail was one of his earliest successes as a book illustrator. $4,000

78 (ROME) Lauro, Giacomo. Antiquae Urbis splendor hoc est praecipua eiusdem templa amphitheatra theatra circi nauma- chiae arcus triumphales mausolea aliaque sumptuosiora aedificia pompae item triumphalis et Colossaearum imaginum descriptio. Part I: 41 plates, including engraved title (1610), engraved dedication, portrait (1609), engraved plate, [3] letterpress leaves (each dated 1614), and 36 plates. Part 2: 44 plates, including engraved title & dedication leaves (dated 1613), portrait, and 41 plates. Part 3: 50 plates, inluding engraved title (1615), letterpress dedication leaf, 3 plates, 2 ll. letterpress, 8 plates, 1 leaf letterpress, 38 plates. In all, 135 plates, without the 4th Part issued in 1628. Oblong 4to (21.5.x 28.5 cm.), Rome: 1610 [1612; 1613; 1615]. First editions (later issue of Part I). Full 18th-century navy morocco. gilt, a.e.g. Beautiful copy. Berlin Catalogue 1858; Fowler, pp. 141-142; Brunet III: 881. Most attractive set of these superb engravings of ancient Rome and its most famous monuments and structures; it includes two fine engraved maps by Lauro: “Antiquae Urbis,” plate [6] of part I; and a map of the Roman Em- pire, “Romani Imperii Imago,” plate [3] of the third part. “A fourth part appeared in 1628 with about 40 more plates (Cicognara 3761). This was often issued with the second editions of Parts 1-3, Rome, 1625, in which the Latin text beneath the plates was translated into Italian, French, and German and printed on the verss of the plates” (Fowler). $5,500

 | james cummins bookseller 79 jersey shore RUSSELL, Bertrand. Typed Letter, signed (“Bertrand Rus- 80 sell”), to Mr. Johnson of The Dial. 1 page typed. 4to, London: SCHENCK, J.H. Album of Long Branch: A Series of Photographic 28 February 1918. Creased from prior folds, else fine. Views with Letter-Press Sketches … Price Ten Dollars. 74 (of 78) “Under normal circumstances I should have been very happy albumen photos mounted recto and verso to 37 leaves with ti- to accept your suggestion that I should write for the ‘Dial.’ tles and decorative borders. 161 [lacking pp. 145-6], [1] pp. 8vo, But at the moment I am about to go to prison for six months New York: John F. Trow, 1868. First edition. Publisher’s green probably … If, when I come out, your offer is still open, I blind-stamped cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine and front cov- shall be very grateful if you will let me know.” er, t.e.g. Light wear to covers, some bubbling to cloth on rear cover, binding shaken with 6 plates and some text leaves loose Russell served a six-month sentence in Brixton prison for with damage to fore-edge, pp. 149-150 torn. In a custom green lectures espousing his pacifist views. While in prison, Russell cloth clamshell box. Sabin 77561 (calling for only 38 photos wrote Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Russell would on 19 leaves). eventually write for the American avant-garde periodical The Dial, contributing essays, reviews, and philosophical examina- A rare photographic portrait of the seaside town of Long tions. Branch, New Jersey, published at the height of the town’s popularity as a resort for the rich and powerful. Once called $750 the Hollywood of the East for its thriving theater scene, Long Branch was also a favored vacation spot for seven Unit- ed States Presidents — including Garfield, who was sent here after being shot in the hopes that the fresh air would help his recovery. The photographs — which capture the homes, businesses and hotels of Long Branch — are, we assume, by the Pach Brothers, whose Long Branch gallery is shown in the final plate. The author, J.H. Schenck, also published a guide book to Long Branch in the same year as this album. Only one other copy (also incomplete) has sold at auction in the last 30 years. $3,500

catalogue 119 |  An account of the causes and beginning hostilities of the Second Seminole War by Potter Woodburne, a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. “Unsparingly critical of Jackson, Jesup and the Secretary of War” (Howes). Copy belonging to Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891), an historian of American history who wrote popular illustrated works on the American Revolution and the Civil War and wrote features for Harper’s Weekly. $3,500

large paper copy 82 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays …. Portrait by Ridley, vignette of Swan on the Avon on the general title-page, individual title to each play, plates by Stothard and others. 12 vols. Demy 8vo (8-H x 5-K inches), London: Printed by T. Bentley, Bolt Court, 1800. Harding edition, large paper copy. Bound in contemporary calf, spines neatly rebacked to style in gilt and contrasting red and green title labels, new endsheets, some foxing to text and plates throughout. Jaggard, p. 508; Franklin, Shakespeare Domesticated, p. 50. A large paper copy of Harding’s 12-volume Shakespeare edition, “in admirable taste, printed by Bentley; clear to read …” (Franklin), with Rowe’s Life, a Glossary, Farmer’s essay on second seminole war Shakespeare’s learning, and a Preface by Dr. Johnson. Jaggard 81 states “One of the few sets on large paper, demy 8vo, is at (SECOND SEMINOLE WAR) [Woodburne, Potter]. The Stratford.” The regular issue, much smaller, was advertised as War in Florida. Large folding frontispiece map, 2 folding plans. a 12mo. viii, 184 pp. 8vo, Baltimore: Lewis and Coleman, 1836. First $3,000 edition. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in black cloth. Some light foxing througout, small unobtrusive hole and tears to frontispiece map, contemporary bookplate removed from front pastedown. Sabin 64673; Streeter Sale 1236; Howes P515. Provenance: B[enson] J. Lossing (signature in pencil to title-page).

 | james cummins bookseller romeo and juliet from the second folio, 1632 signed by thomas 83 84 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep. Tipped-in photo of the [Second Folio]. Ornamental head- and tail-piece. 81-106 pp. author by Marion Morehouse on title-page. [1] f. (limitation Eleven [of 13] leaves, extracted from the Second Folio; with leaf), 34, [2] pp. Designed and printed by Peter Beilenson. 8vo, leaves 2h5 (pp. 93-4) & 2i1 (pp. 97-8) in fine recent facsimile. [New York]: New Directions, [1952]. First American edition, Folio, [London: 1632]. Disbound. Some edge toning and soil- out of series copy, and signed by the author, from the edition ing, generally tall and with good margins. In custom cloth of one hundred copies printed on Stoneridge paper. Tan cloth, folder. spine and upper board titled in gilt. Faintest toning of spine. “My bounty is as boundlesse as the Sea, / My love as deepe, A fine copy as issued in publisher’s slipcase with printed title the more I give to thee / The more I have, for both are Infi- label. Rolph B14. nite.” Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy of the ill-fated lovers, Contains “Over Sir John’s Hill,” “Poem on His Birthday,” here from the Second Folio, 1632. The text begins on a left “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” (first book ap- hand page (the last page of Titus Andronicus on the recto of pearance) “Lament,” “In the White Giant’s Thigh,” and “In the leaf). Country Sleep.” $2,000 $3,750

catalogue 119 |  85 TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Bertrams. A Novel. iv, 335, [1]; iv, 344; iv, 331, [1] pp. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1859. First edition. Bound in full straight-grained bown morocco, t.e.g, by Zaehnsdorf. Minor rubbing. Sadleir, Trollope, 8. $1,250

86 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Castle Richmond. vi, 304; iv, 300; 290 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. First edition, second issue, with half titles. Bound in full straight-grained bown morocco, t.e.g, by Zaehnsdorf. Minor rubbing. Sadleir, Trollope, 10. $1,000

“hope, & be certain that all’s for the best” 87 TUPPER, Martin Farquhar. Collection of 11 Autograph Letters, signed, with 2 Autograph Quotations, signed, 1849 - 1881. Pen and ink on paper. 38 pp., total. 8vo, Albury, Guildford, Surrey; London, etc: 1849-1881. A few leaves with old marginal traces of mounting, generally very good. Cf. D. Hudson, Martin Tupper: His Rise and Fall (1949). Substantial group of autograph material from the prolific and best selling Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889), whose Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments (1838) was a runaway best seller through the 1840s and 1850s. Tupper bought a country house, Albury, and raised a large family there, making a very successful American tour in 1851, and his reputation continued to grow until the early 1860s. This collection includes two representative AQs from mid- and late life (“Dearest England, Mother England …”, 1862; “All’s for the Best …”, 1881), and a varied correspondence spanning a the middle and end of Tupper’s active career. — In a letter dated 12 September 1849, he writes concerning preparations for the Jubilee of Alfred the Great, “I have had little but discouragement: very few noble men wise also enough to like my views; and even now, the Cholera in London destroys all propriety for our Jubilee: so I have arranged to leave the whole matter to a local committee at Wantage … I only wish the nation felt as you do, — & as I do , — and then a royal procession to Westminster abbey would be just the thing.” — Two letters to Mr. Dennis, the first dated 8 December 1854, on the subject of biography, “one gets tired out with tedious detail, — a fault you steer clear of entirely in your graphic & critical compendia. Boswell’s Johnson is not so much a biography, as a notebook of conversations: so, though it is long, it is never tedious, from its variety and the wonderful wisdom of the hero.” The second, dated 1 October 1861, reporting that he is fit again after an accident with “a great shying horse” left him with two broken ribs. — To the American painter Samuel Stillman Osgood (whose first wife Frances died of tuberculosis in 1850), Tupper writes on 25 July 1856 to congratulate him on his marriage, “for you were a walking illustration of the old text ‘it is not good for a man to be alone’”; and continuing “… America still has much of my thoughts & interests in an international way, & I often write to help to keep the peace: all your great men are more or less known to me, & I for one never feared  | james cummins bookseller a war.” — Two letters, 9 November 1855 & 8 March 1867, to W.C. Ben- nett on war poetry and ballads. — To Rev. B. F. Westcott, on mourning paper, 19 December 1869, concerning “a Society to investigate the Supernatural … I am, as by these presents you perceive, an Enquirer: and have heard & seen strange things myself …” — And a four-page letter to Henry Ward Beecher, 24 February 1876, inquiring about matters connected to a proposed reading tour in America during the Centennial year. “Can I, think you, read from your own desk or pulpit? A most impudent request if unkindly so regarded: but I mean it humbly & frankly.” Tupper’s final tour of the U.S. was “a pale shadow of the first.” Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy “enshrined the moral commonplac- es of early Victorian bourgeois ideology in a sonorous, pseudo- scriptural language which enhanced their dignity and seemed to guarantee their permanence. He presented as vatic wisdom the established convictions of his readership, which responded by venerating him as a sage. But as those convictions themselves began to crumble in the 1860s, under the pressure of scientific advance and social change, so Tupper’s status declined and he came to seem an embarrassing survival from a superseded past, a victim of the progress he had so earnestly celebrated” (ODNB). $1,500 limited issue, signed by j.p. morgan et al 88 UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley, printer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. [28], 566, [2] pp. Folio, New York: Printed for the Convention, 1893. Copy no. 5 of the limited issue. Original heavily gilt decorated vellum over boards, with brass fore-clasps, t.e.g., others untrimmed, ribbon marker. Printed in red and black, with floriated borders by Bertram Grosvenor Good- hue, title in black letter. Binding slightly rubbed, gilt bright; some bleed-through on the title from the array of original ink signatures on the verso, otherwise very good or somewhat better . Copy number 5 of the limited issue of the revised Book of Common Prayer, overseen by D.B. Updike, and signed in ink on the verso of the title of many of the principals associated with the revision approved at the 1892 General Convention, including finan- cier J.P. Morgan, who helped fund the edition’s publication. The limited edition was prepared in two forms, one being this form, intended for distribution to each diocese and jurisdiction within the Church, with original signatures on the verso of the title and with a variant title, all in black letter, without border. The standard limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper has the signatures of the principals in printed facsimile, and a foliated border around the title resembling those around the main text, and the central “Laudate Dominum” device, and the two lines: “Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.” Updike comments at length on this project in his introduction to Notes on the Merrymount Press and about his role in the attempted rescue of an ill-conceived attempt to produce a decorated edition from the plates of the 1892 printing: “The best things about the book were the cover and charming end-papers which Goodhue designed for it. Sad to relate, the edition had an immediate and resounding success! We were congratulated, and we blushed. Our shame was taken for modesty and we were congratulated more! While the book is indeed a strange one, it is by no means so strange as the designs originally made for it” (see pp. 9-10). Nonetheless, the experience was an important prelude to the production in 1928 of Updike’s own edition, widely regarded as his finest work. Laid into this copy is the 4pp. leaflet, On the Decorations of the Limited Edition of the Standard Prayer Book of MDCCCXCII, and tipped to the second blank is the original bifolium printed presentation slip, with the recipient denoted in manuscript (a now defunct divin- ity school). $6,500

catalogue 119 |  duc de la rochefoucauld’s arms leather labels. Bookplate of Lord Egremont, booklabel of 89 Sefik A. Atabey. Ownership signature on the title-page. Small [VAIRASSE D’ALLLAIS, Simon]. Histoire des Sevarambes, mended horizontel tear on title-page, some scattered foxing. peuples qui habitent une partie du troisiéme continent, communé- Blackmer 1762; Atabey 1310 (this copy); Cobham-Jeffery, p. ment appellé la terre Australe. Contenant une relation dugouver- 64. Provenance: Lord Egremont (bookplate); Sefik A. Atabey nement, des mœurs, de la religion, & du langage de cette nation, (bookplate). inconnuë jusques à present aux peuples de l’Europe. Engraved iden- A collection of excerpts from memoirs of travel in Turkey tical frontispieces, titles printed in red and black. 333; 303, [25, and Greece. Catalogue of musical works] pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Amsterdam: $1,500 Aux dépens d’Estienne Roger, 1702. Later (15th?) edition (first published in 1672; second edition by Estienne Roger). Bound in contemporary mottled calf, edges red, with coat of arms of the Duc de la Rochefoucauld on upper and lower covers, with a tls from ogden nash spines gilt in six comparments spine ends and tips slightly 91 worn, else a handsome copy. WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette. Illus- “Severambia, a Utopia, contains many parallels with More’s trated by the author with 6 sketches. [xii], 293 pp. With tipped- Utopia” (Barbier II, p. 768). The publisher of this imaginary in title-page. 8vo, New York: Farra & Rinehart Inc, Publishers, voyage, Estienne Roger, was a well-known music publisher, [1932]. Review Copy of reissue of the 1929 Doubleday Doran and this edition contains a striking and impressive 25 pp. edition, with tipped-in Farrar & Rinehart title-page and yellow catalogue of his music-related publications. review slip (noting publication date of June 16th). Blue cloth, yellow paper labels on spine and upper cover. Very good in $1,750 chipped dust-jacket by Rea with loss and splitting at folds. Waugh’s first novel and fourth book. Here in republished form. With a TLS (with envelope) from Ogden Nash, then egremont-atabey copy of Farrar & Rinehart, to Lewis Gannett of the New York 90 Herald Tribune, dated June 1, 1932. Reading in part “This very WALPOLE, Robert. Memoirs Relating To European and Asi- grand book was originally published by Doubleday Doran atic Turkey; Edited From Manuscript Journals. With 8 engraved in the spring of 1928, right after the merger. It somehow got maps & plates (1 folding), 2 aquatints (1 double-page) & 4 pan- squashed in the confusion, only selling a few hundred copies, oramic views of Athens drawn by William Haygarth & etched so this really amounts to a new publication …” by C. Turner. Aquatint title vignette & tailpiece, several text $750 illustations. xxii, viii, 607 pp., with tipped-in errata slip at p. xxii. 4to, London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, Pater-noster Row, 1817. First edition. Contempo- rary half red morocco, flat gilt spine in compartments, green  | james cummins bookseller 92 WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. Engraved frontispiece portrait. [962] ff., signed: [A],B-K (including I and J),[1]-113 in 4s, 114 in 2; π2 (first leaf is a blank), 1-115 in 4s, 116 in 2. 2 vols. Large, thick 4to (300 x 240 mm), New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven, 1828. First edition. Original boards, covered in rose paper with cloth shelfback in period style, printed labels in fine facsimile on antique paper, edges untrimmed. Conservation repairs in outer upper blank margin of portrait, and upper corner of front flyleaves in vol.I. Some faint toning to a few leaves from insertion of maple leaves, etc.; small ink stains to vol. I, 74:2v-3r, obscuring a few words. Bookseller’s ticket on both front pastedowns, “T. Watts, Li- brarian, 102 Nassau Street, N.Y. …” Fine set of this landmark work. Skeel 583; Grolier American 100, #36; PMM 291; Sabin 102335. Provenance: Daniel Wright (signatures, dated 1847 on flyleaves). The most important American dictionary, of prime importance as an early effort toward mass education, eventually placing correct spelling and usage at the fingertips of the ordinary American citizen. This two-volume quarto unabridged dictionary represents the culmination of Webster’s indefatigable dedication to providing his country with its first comprehensive modern dictionary. “Webster set a new standard for etymological investigation, and for accuracy of definition (‘a born definer of words’ — Sir James Murray), and included 70,000 words, as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary. The edition was 2,500 copies, and the price $20.00” (Carpenter). “Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from England by the cultivation of a separate American language” (PMM). $25,000

catalogue 119 |  murray and webster do a deal 93 WEBSTER, Noah. Manuscript Document, signed, being a contract between Webster and lindley murray regarding the terms of Web- ster’s purchase from Murray of a plot of land in lower Manhattan, “now in tenure and occupa- tion of Thomas Greenleaf, printer.” Signed by Webster, and Murray’s attorneys, John Murray , Sr. and Jr. Three scallop-topped pages on two adjoining sheets. 7-I x 12-H in, [New York]: December 20, 1794. Some splitting along central vertical fold, otherwise in fine condition. In quarter blue morocco folder. A New York City real-estate transaction with tremendous resonance. This remarkable agreement was made between the two pioneering, rival American grammarians, Lindley Murray and Noah Webster, whose grammars, spellers, and readers influenced many generations of American students. Indeed, Lindley Murray (1745-1826) was the only rival in popularity to Noah Webster, and he published his hugely successful English Grammar in 1795, while living in York, shortly after this document was signed. In it, he agrees to sell a plot of land to none other than Noah Webster himself (“all that certain lot of ground situate lying and being in the second Ward of the City of New York … bounded in front on Water Street, on the East side by ground of Robert Bruce, and on the West side by ground of John Keese …”) By an equally curious coincidence, the then-current tenant of Murray’s property was the New York printer, Thomas Greenleaf, whose New York Journal and Patriotic Register was the first Democratic organ in the country. $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller 94 [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. 8 pp. of reviews (inserted in some binding B copies); frontispiece (in second state, on china mounted on heavy paper); BAL state B of copyright notice; state B of p. iv, with column 2, line 4 reading: “cities and”; corrected state of p. 49, line 2. Small folio (11-J x 7-I in.; 284 x 197 mm), Brooklyn, New York: 1855. First edition, second issue, BAL binding B. Original green cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, boards extensively tooled in blind within triple-ruled borders in blind. Light semi-circular damp stain to portrait mount, just approaching margins of portrait, and fainter corresponding tidemarks in outer margins of title leaf. Recased, with some attention to corners and spine ends. A lovely copy of this landmark American work. BAL 21395; Grolier American 67; Johnson, High Spots 79; Meyerson A.2.1.a1; PMM 340; Wells & Goldsmith 3; Feinberg/ Detroit 269; Schmidgall, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 18, Fall/Summer 2000, pp. 74-76. “He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred). This copy has the corrected version of line 2 of page 49 (“And the day and night are for you and me and all”). Whitman scholar Gary Schmidgall, in his article, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision,” notes that Whitman retained the “day and night are for you” reading for the 1856 and 1860 editions. $75,000

catalogue 119 |  95 WILDE, Oscar. Autograph Note, signed, to an unknown recipient, an invitation to 5 o’clock tea. One page in ink. 3-H x 5 in., [London: before 1885]. Matted and framed, with portrait of Wilde after Sarony’s photograph. Address panel of an invitation to “5 o’clock tea,” with Wilde’s name and address at Grosvernor Square above: “Oscar Wilde 9, Charles St Grosvernor Square London.” 9 Charles Street was Wilde’s address for several years until his marriage to Constance Lloyd in late 1884. $4,000

rare and early wilde note — a key — and the riddle of the sphinx 96 WILDE, Oscar. Autograph Note, signed, to John Ehret Dickinson. One page (5 lines) on “Solora” stationery. London: ‘74 [1874]. Fine, with integral blank, on recto of which is the “shadow,” or faint image, of a key, which Wilde’s note evidently enclosed. A mysterious and extremely early note, written when Wilde was 19 or 20 years old, to John Ehret Dickinson (1860-1896), the (then 14-year-old) grandson of the founder of the famous paper-making firm, of whom Rupert Hart Davies remarks, “He had aesthetic tastes and deplored his family’s connection with trade.” Two of Wilde’s books [inscribed by him in 1888] to Dickinson, were sold at Sotheby’s in 1910” (v. Hart-Davies, The Letters, p. 220, footnote). As to the nature of his relationship with Wilde, we can supply little information, and none is provided by the obvious biographical sources. There are no known letters to him from Wilde, and, as a matter of fact, apart from one single letter to his mother from 1868, written when Wilde was not quite 15 years old, there is no other letter earlier than this in Hart- Davis. The note is, by all appearances, an inscription presenting Dick- inson the gift of a key — possibly to a flat in London — which must surely have been enclosed in the note, to judge from its “shadow.” According to Ellmann (p. 35), in the summer of 1874, shortly after his triumphant reception of a scholarship in classics to Magdalen Col- lege, he met his mother and brother in London for a brief stay and celebration before the family crossed the channel, coming back by way of Paris. It may have been during that stay in London that Wilde penned this note. The inscription reads: “For John Ehret Dickinson in admiration of his incomparable art and his incomparable personality, from Oscar Wilde. London ’74.” Another mystery here is the mean- ing of the “Solora” stationery — heretofore unknown to us — which includes an image of the Sphinx at top left, surrounded on three sides by phrases in an unknown code or language, with “SOLORA” printed beneath. There is no name or address on the letterhead, but it is known that at the time Wilde had started to work on his poem “The Sphinx” in 1874, the year he entered Oxford. The Sphinx had already become, not only to Wilde but to many of his generation, a veritable symbol of the sexual predator. The fact that the note enclosed a key for his friend adds even more intrigue to this true Wildean mystery: an ultimate rarity, and certainly one of the earliest known (if not the earliest known) letters from the adult Oscar Wilde. $20,000

 | james cummins bookseller signed by hank williams 97 WILLIAMS, Hank. Hank Williams’ Country Hit Parade [cover title]. Illustrated with b/w photos. 47, [1] pp., arrangements of 20 songs for piano, guitar chord and vocal. 4to, Nashville: Acuff-Rose Publications, n.d., ca. 1950. Photo-illustrated wrappers. Some ink smudges to cover from previous owner’s inscription, else fine. Signed (“Hank Williams”) in pen on the front cover, five months before his death. With a note by the previous owner explaining when she (a young women at the time) obtained the autograph, “Saw him at Sunset Park — Jennersville, Pa. July 13, 1952. Died Jan. 1 — 1953,” and a note on p. 39 beneath a photo of The Drifting Cowboys, “Saw two of the Drifting Cowboys, Jerry Riv- ers and Don Helms. At Sunset Park … ” A live recording of this concert has been preserved, and can be heard on WFMU’s blog (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/09/hank-wiliams.html). Towards the end of the show Williams can be heard offering copies of this songbook (“Me or any of the boys would be glad to autograph it for you”) for 50 cents apiece (or 2 for “a reduced price — that’ll be a dollar”). A rare Williams’ autograph with impeccable provenance. [With:] Life Story of Our Hank Williams, “The Drifting Cowboy.” As told by his Mother [Mrs. W.W. Stone] to Allen Rankin. Montgomery: Philbert Publications, 1953. [16] pp. booklet issued by Williams‘ mother after his death. $3,500

catalogue 119 |  prize agent alexander davison’s copy 98 WILLYAMS, Cooper. A Voyage Up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure. One of The Squadron Under The Command of Rear - Admiral Baron Nelson of The Nile, And Duke of Bronte in Sicily, With A Description of The Battle of The Nile On The First of August 1798 … Engraved dedication leaf, 42 sepia-washed aquatint plates (1 double-page map) by Stadler after Willyams. xxiii, [i], 309, [1] pp. 4to, London: T. Bensley, 1802. First edition. Contemporary diced Russia, covers tooled in gilt with wide border incorporating floral rolls, gilt arms of Alexander Davison in the center, flat spine divided in six compartments with gilt arms, title, and maritime tool. Fine. Abbey Travel 196. Blackmer 1813. Hilmy II:335. Prideaux, pp. 223 & 357. Cox II:448. JCB Maritime Hand-list 1235. NMM 5:1657. Provenance: Alexander Davison (bookplate, his arms on binding). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure, a ship in the squadron under the command of Nelson. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is “the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle.” Davison (1750-1829), an English merchant and supply agent for the British government, was a close friend of Nel- son and served as his prize agent after the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Copenhagen. Davison erected an Obelisk to Nelson on his estate, Swarland, Northumberland. $5,000

the building, the business,the family: a woolworth archive 99 (WOOLWORTH, Frank Winfield) Collection of autograph and printed material from the archives of F.W. Woolworth, regarding his business and its history, the Woolworth Building, and his family. [New York]: 1893- 1927. Generally in very good condition. See, John P. Nichols’ Skyline Queen. A remarkable archive pertaining to the retail (five and dime) pioneer, Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852–April 8, 1919), who opened his first store in 1879, and who, by 1911, had incorporated 586 stores in America, England, and Europe into the F. W. Woolworth Company. In 1913, Woolworth built the landmark Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan, at the time the tallest building in the world, at a cost of $13.5 million. The current archive documents not only the history of the business and the financial history of the Woolworth Building itself, but also contains important records and memorabilia from the Woolworth family. An archive of vital significance to the history of New York City and its architecture, as well as the history and development of international retail chain stores such as that pioneered by Woolworth.

business history: • An extraordinary Autograph Notebook kept by Frank Woolworth himself (approximately 6 x 4 inches), signed on

 | james cummins bookseller • Carbon copy of printed Inventory March 15 & April 15, 1904 • F. W. Woolworth Co. Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir 1879- 1919. Illus. 32 pp. Wrappers. • F.W. Woolworth Traffic Book. 4to February 1, 1927. 31 pages. Green cloth. • Woolworth’s First 75 Years. The Story of Everybody’s Store 1879-1954. 62,[2] pp. Specially bound in red cloth

the woolworth building: • Schuyler, Montgomery. The Woolworth Building. Frontis- piece signed. by artist E. Horter, with his illus. throughout. 4to. New York, Privately Printed, 1913. First edition, one of 1000 done for Frank W. Woolworth. Boards, in original box. • Dinner given to Cass Gilbert Architect by Frank W. Woolworth in the Woolworth Buiding April 24, MCMXIII. Photographs of Gilbert & Woolworth, engraving of building. Printed by Munder-Thomsen 8vo, NY, 1913. Blue boards, a.e.g. Very fine in original glassine and original box. • Dinner given to Cass Gilbert Architect by Frank W. Woolworth. F. Hopkinson Smith Presiding. 2 tipped in color plates of the building, portraits of Woolworth, Gilbert, Hopkinson Smith, Louis J. Horowitz (Builder), William Winter, Hon. W.U. Hensel, Mr Patrick Francis Murphy. 140 pp. Red cloth.•. Another copy of the above, specially bound for frank w. woolworth (With his name stamped in gilt on front pastedown) in full blue morocco, neatly rebacked. • The Cathedral of Commerce. Woolworth Building New York. Illustrated. NY, 1916. 4to. Deluxe edition bound in full purple morocco, with wrappers bound in for Woolworth. Printed by Munder-Thomsen. • Photograph of Celebration of the Woolworth Building (233 Broadway) dinner, specifically of the presentation of Wool- worth’s silver bowl to Cass Gilbert, the Architect. 1936. • Official Award Ribbon. Panama Pacific International Expo- sition San Francisco 1915. 17 x 3-1/4 inches. Broadway Park Place Co. awarded for being the Highest and Finest Office front “F.W. Woolworth 280 Broadway, New York. U.S.A, … Building in the World If this book is lost — I wish the finder would send it to above • A substantial archive of over 100 documents and letters address and send your name also. F.W. Woolworth.” First (mostly Woolworth’s lawyers and real estate agents) per- page dated Feb 17, 1893. [122] pp., consisting of his notes taining to the finances and management of the Woolworth on prices of various products (especially china) and sources, Building itself, as well as a few other properties. shipment dates, and destination stores (coded with Wool- worth’s unique numbering system). An intimate glimpse of family history: Woolworth’s methods. • Original letters of Administration of the Estate of F.W. • 4 printed spreadsheets, “Actual Net Expenses for Year 1897, Woolworth granted to: Helena W. McCann, Jessie W. Dona- 1899. 1900, 1901,” listing expenses for each Woolworth hue; Herbert T. Parson. May 24, 1919. FWW died without stores. 17 x 14 inches each signing his newest will, so his handicapped wife received the • Printed sheet dated 1899-1900 listing all FWW stores estate under the provision of his older 1889 will. Lancaster-Third Avenue 8-1/2 x 22 inches. Sheet dated 1900- • Indenture for house in Rodman, NY. 1859 1901 listing all FWW stores Lancaster-Plainfield (NJ) 8-1/2 x • Photos of FW Woolworth and wife 22 inches • Woolworth, Frank W. WAR! WAR! WAR! Letters from South- • Manuscript Statement for 1903 on F.W. Woolworth statio- ern France and Switzerland written in 1914. [New York] David nery Nelke, 1917. 76 pp. woolworth’s own copy. Bound in full

catalogue 119 |  blue morocco with red morocco doublures with the Woolworth Crest, a.e.g. bound by MacDonald. In slipcase. • 5 panoramic photo albums of Oyster Bay Estate of Frank Woolworth’s daughter Helena Woolworth McCann Sunken Orchard. • Album of 13 tipped in folio photographs of the interior of the Houses of Mr. and Mrs. C.E.F. McCann in New York and Oyster Bay. Bound in full green morocco, moiré silk endpapers by J. O. Wilson New York & Paris. • Cornell, John and Josiah. American Families Historic Lineage. Illustrated. 372, 366, 324 pp. 3 vols. Folio, New York: National Ameri- cana Society, no date (ca. 1914). Number 33 of 50 copies of the Etoile d’Argent Edition. Bound in full navy blue crushed levant with the Woolworth family coat-of-arms in gilt and multi-color leather onlay on the upper board of each volume; moire silk doublures and endleaves; all edges gilt; enclosed in a navy blue straight-grain goatskin covered wooden slip case; by MacDonald, N.Y. $30,000

 | james cummins bookseller “welcome to the world trade center” Trade Center in the Port of New York. General information 100 about the WTC for contractors; The World Trade Center. 16 (WORLD TRADE CENTER) Collection of ephemera relat- pp. brochure. ing to the construction of the World Trade Center. New York: [With:] 5 postcards and one vintage photograph of the com- The Port of New York Authority, ca. 1966-9. pleted towers; Advertisement for the Downtown Manhattan A collection of 9 brochures and pamphlets published by the Heliport. Port of New York Authority concerning the construction and $1,250 promotion of the World Trade Center, most dating from the early years of the planning and construction of the site. Comprising: 101 World Trade Center: Where the Markets of the World Come to You. YEATS, William Butler. The Trembling of the Veil. Photo- [c. 1966]; The Port of New York Authority Facilities. [1966] Men- gravure frontispiece portait after Charles Shannon. Printed tions the WTC along with the bridges, tunnels, airports and by the Dunedin Press, Edinburgh. 247, [1] pp. 8vo, London: buildings managed by the Port Authority; Making Your World Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Markets Grow. [c. 1966] Promotional brochure for the WTC; 1922. First edition, no. 342 of 1000 copies signed by Yeats. [Engelking, Lessing L.] The Construction Story — Watching the Original gray boards, vellum paper spine. Fine copy in very World Trade Center Day by Day. 12 pp. pamphlet describing good dust-jacket with closed tears and chipping, and toning the construction of the WTC; The World Trade Center in the to spine panel. Wade 133. Port of New York. [c. 1968] 4 pp. promotional brochure with architectural model of the WTC on the front; The World $1,500 Trade Center in the Port of New York. [c. 1969] A revised copy of the above brochure, with cost estimated at $600 million (from $575 million) and completion date moved from 1972 to 1973; Your Safety Bank Account for World Trade Center Construc- tion. 4 pp. brochure in the form of a bank pass book, lists 15 safety tips for workers at the WTC site; Welcome to the World catalogue 119 |   | james cummins bookseller

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