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james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Ave, New York, 10065 | tel: (212) 688-6441 | fax: (212) 688-6192 | www.jamescumminsbookseller.com 52nd Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair April 12-15, 2012 booth e01 Signed, with an Original Print soiling. Tipped into a twentieth century album of half brown morocco and brown cloth, gilt spine. Bookplate of Robin Stephen Benson. Cf. Tooley 1. ADAMS, Ansel. Images. Oblong folio, Boston: New York Graphic 66-67; E. W. Bovill, The England of Nimrod and Surtees 1815-1854 (1959). Society, 1974. Deluxe issue, one of 1000 copies signed by Ansel Adams $5,000 and with additional silver print signed by Adams. Black shelfback and slate cloth, original photographic dust jacket, very fine copy, housed in original A lengthy and fascinating letter from Apperley to his publisher on a variety silver-stamped clamshell box (front hinge of box cracked). $10,000 of subjects relating to the second edition of “Memoirs of the Life of the The deluxe issue of this elegantly produced volume presenting some of the Late John Mytton”: Reading in part: “At length I have come to a conclusion as regards affording you all the assistance possible towards the 2d. edition best known photographs by Adams. With an original signed print, “Fern of the Life of Mytton — I now send you three views which are the last and Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California ” I hope will consider as good as any that you have received at my hands. The series you have complete (12 s. a vignette) I have spared no expense I can Author’s Own Copy assure you to have them got up in a style worthy of the patronage of the Sporting World, moreover what enhances their value is their being faithful 2. ANDREWS, Roy Chapman. The New Conquest of Central Asia. Sketches from Nature. It is a great pity that we were not acquainted with A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in each other previous to the publication of the 1st Edition, otherwise the Mongolia and China, 1921-1930. The Natural History of Central Asia vol. views Alken had delineated could have been made from Sketches which I, Chester A. Reed, Editor. With chapters by Walter Granger...Clifford H. I would have had taken from the spot where these ludicrous & extraordi- Pope...Nels C. Nelson...with 128 plates and 12 illustrations in the text and 3 nary scenes ocurred …” Apperley acknowledges that Ackermann will be maps at end. lx, 678pp. 4to, New York: The American Museum of Natural reluctant to bear the expense of re-doing the Alken views, but goes on to History, 1932. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth stamped in black. insist, “I must again beg of you to leave out the view Mytton Setting Fire Minor wear at extremities. Archival repair to pp. 335-6. An attractive and to Himself for I think it really too bad to hold poor M up to ridicule by extremely desirable copy. In custom black morocco-backed slipcase with exposing him in so degrading a point of view in a picture. In my opinion inner wrapper. Yakushi A 223. $4,500 it is quite enough to describe his unnatural actions, but for goodness sakes The New Conquest of Central Asia is lavishly produced volume that stands do not hold him up for a maniac in so deplorable a manner by representing as one of the landmarks of twentieth-century exploration. This copy is him in his idiocy by pictorial illustration.” There follows a discussion and from the library of the author, Roy Chapman Andrews. Loosely inserted detailed listing of which of the New Plates and Old Plates are to be used in are four TLSs to Andrews and/or his colleague and co-author Walter the second edition (a total of 18 plates were published), and discusses a por- Grainger from recipients of presentation copies of this book: Kermit trait on Mytton in oil that Apperley proposes to sketch Mytton’s “phiz” if Roosevelt, T[homas] W. Lamont, Childe Frick, and C. V. Whitney (vari- he can get a quarter of an hour’s access to the room, and that Ackermann ously dated from January to April , 1933). Andrews, adventurer, explorer use the sketch for a revision of the title page illustration. Apperley discusses and naturalist, was subsequently the model for the character of ‘Indiana facsimiles of Mytton’s letters and asks for a half a dozen copies of the new Jones.’ Provenance: personal library of Roy Chapman Andrews; presented edition on larger, superior paper “with a margin of 3 inches” for his own by Chapman’s second wife, Wilhemina “Billie” Andrews (later Mrs. Robert use. He discusses the expected print run, the need to keep standing type A. Street) to Charles Gallenkamp, author of Dragon Hunter. Roy Chapman after the first 2,000 (or at least 1,500) copies are printed, and counsels the Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions (Viking, 2001). A matchless publisher on the number of copies to be sent to Calcutta and Bombay and association. Madras and New South Wales and America … “For from time immemorial there never was such a man as John Mytton … It has been my endeavour that the Work shall take and it must take, therefor you need not fear for the Apperley Tells His Publisher How to Make the Life of Mytton ‘Take’ result any longer. But one word with you before I conclude, be liberal in 3. APPERLEY, Charles James (“Nimrod”). Autograph Letter, Signed your outlay upon the said work …” (“C.A.”) to Rudolph Ackermann, 12 May 1836, on illustrating and promot- ing the second edition of Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, and objecting to several of Alken’s “ludicrous and extraordinary scenes” 16 pp. Mounted. 4to, Shrewsbury: 12th May 1836. Some old folds and negligible 4. AUSTEN, Jane. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. 3 vols. 12mo, Lon- poverty, his distress at Theodore Roethke’s death and Delmore Schwartz’ don: John Murray, 1816. First edition. Later tan polished calf, gilt spines, insanity, and his father’s suicide and his own depression, but also of the joys marbled endsheets, edges marbled to match. Volume I finely rebacked, of writing, scholarship, teaching, and parenthood. Full description available spine labels renewed to style. Bound without half-titles in volumes 2 and 3 on request. (none called for in volume 1). Occasional light spotting (chiefly at ends). A very good tall copy. Gilson A8; Keynes Austen 8. $12,500 The Third Folio King James Bible — Handsome Copy 8. (BIBLE, English). The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, 5. BACK, Captain [George]. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition and the New: newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835. Illustrated with folding map at special Commandement. Title within large woodcut border represent- end and numerous plates. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1836. First edition. ing the twelve tribes. Text in two columns, 72 lines, black letter. A4 B4 C6 Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, rebacked with fine period D4, A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Zzz6 Aaaa-Mmmm6 Nnnn4; [508] leaves (+ “The spine, morocco label. Contemporary bookplate of Anthony MacTier “of Genealogies”, [2], 34 pp., bound before Genesis); without map. Thick Folio Durris” Fine copy, clean and bright. Streeter 3704; Wagner-Camp 58b; Field (390 x 260 mm.), London: Imprinted at London by Robert Barker …, 1613. 64; Hill 42; Lande 935; Arctic Bib. 851; Sabin 2613; TPL 1873. $1,750 Third folio edition of the King James Bible. Contemporary panelled calf.; Back volunteered to search for the lost Ross expedition. Here he describes old institutional stamp on front and rear pastedowns. Covers quite scuffed, his trip through north central Canada down the Slave to Great Slave Lake, but sound and atttractive. General title [A1] laid down, A2-A4 with skillful then to the Great Fish River (which he discovered) and finally to the Arctic restorations to lower corners; final three leaves repaired, with old damp- Coast. He makes important observations of the Aurora Borealis here, stains (Nnnn3 with loss of a word on 3 lines); lower corners of D6 and Oo3 too. It was on this journey that Back named Montreal Island. ‘As a literary restored with no loss of text; map lacking (as most often) but overall, a composition this work may rank higher than any former volume produced remarkably fine and sound copy otherwise, not often seen thus. STC 2226; Darlow & Moule 249; STC 23039.6 (Genealogies); Herbert 322; PMM 114. by the Northern expeditions’ (Lande). $25,000 A very attractive copy of the true 1613 folio edition, the third edition of the 6. [BADCOCK, John]. The Fancy; or The True Sportsman’s Guide: Being King James Bible. Authentic Memoirs of the Lives, Actions, Prowess, and Battles of the Lead- ing Pugilists, from the Days of Figg and Broughton, to the Champioship of The “Gun-wad” Bible Ward. By an Operator. With 57 plates, including 47 mostly stipple engraved portraits, colored pictorial title page in each volume, and 8 plates of sport- 9. (BIBLE, German) [Saur, Christopher], printer. Biblia, Das Ist: Die Hei- ing scenes (2 colored, 2 folding). Pp. [i]-xv (contents), [i] – iv (introduction), lige Schrift Atles und Neues Testaments, Nach der Teutschen Uebersetzung [5]-680, [iii] – vi, [1, notice]; [i]-xii (contents), [1] – 743, [1, binder’s direc- D. Martin Luthers mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, Auch Bengefüg- tions].