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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 ADAMS, Henry. Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. Illustrated. (ASHENDENE PRESS) Berners, Dame Juliana. Treatyse 4to, Washington, D.C: [Privately Printed for the Author], of Fysshynge with an Angle. Woodcuts after those in the Boke 1904. First edition, one of 100 copies. Original blue cloth, red of St. Albans. 8vo, [The Ashendene Press, 1903]. One of 150 leather spine label. Light wear to cloth, rebacked, preserving copies on paper. Original full vellum. Fine. Custom half original spine and label, hinges strengthened, horizontal tear brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Ransom #17. to last blank. Bookplates of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Superbly printed Ashendene edition of the earliest English Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks. BAL 31; for Robert Woods Bliss, work on angling, following the text of the 1496 edition cf. Henry Adams: Selected Letters, p. 551. printed by Wynkyn de Worde. First edition, one of 100 privately-printed copies. “Although styled as an elaborate guidebook to two of France’s most $2,500 magnificent works of architecture, the book is a hymn of praise for the High Middle Ages, increasingly a golden age in the past for Adams and for many other thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic who were alarmed at various trends in the ‘modern world’” (ANB). This copy belonged to Robert and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks, acquaintances of Adams (he referred to “Bobby Bliss” in his letters). $2,500 3 4 (BIBLE, Hebrew, Pentateuch) Zeh sefer `ezrat ha-sofer: (BINDING, Armorial, Queen Anne) A Collection of the Stat- hamishah humshe Torah tikun sofrim vave ha-`amudim ‘im utes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, relating to High Treason, hagahot ‘or Torah nakhon hu lehagot bo ule-ha’atik me-menu sefer and Misprision of High Treason. 12mo, London: Printed by Torat Hashem. Engraved title-page with ornamental border Charles Bell, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb …, in vol. I (as usual). 5 vols. 8vo, Amsterdam: [Gerard Yohan 1709. Dark brown morocco, tooled in gold to a panel design, Yanson uve-vet Yisrael Mondavi], 1767. Contemporary tree floral and volute tools at sides and corners of inner panel, calf, spines gilt with tulip devices in panels, red leather spine arms of Queen Anne in the center, spine with five raised labels with Roman numerals. Joints starting, but a lovely set bands and six compartments, title in gilt in one compart- otherwise. ment, the rest gilt-tooled, a.e.g., comb-marbled endpapers. [with:] Jehuda Pisa’s Luchot Ha-ibbur, Amst. 1769 in volume 5. Very slight rubbing to joints, else fine, in a custom red leather clamshell box. Davis Gift, II, no. 158 (for similar binding on $3,500 the same title). Provenance: Queen Anne (her arms gilt- stamped on covers); Ian Franklin (inscription, “From the Nicholas Library, sold in London Aug 1877, Ian Franklin); unidentified bookplate (with O.H.P. monogram). A fine example of a typical Queen Anne binding, several examples of which can be found in the British Library (see Davis Gift, II, no. 158). $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller de thou binding 6 5 (BINDING, Maria Theresa) L’Office de la Semaine Saincte, (BINDING, De Thou) [Crespin, Jean]. Actiones et Moni- selon le Missel & le Breviaire Romain. 5 engraved plates, 3 menta Martyrum, Quia Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetate full-page illustrations to text. [iv], 832 (of ?) pp, incomplete in Germania, Gallia, Anglia, Flandria, Italia, & ipsa demum at end. Text in French and Latin, ruled in red throughout. Hispania, veritatem Euangelicam sanguine suo consanter obsig- 12mo, Paris: par la Compagnie de Libraires, 1661. Contempo- nauerunt. Title woodcut. [alpha]-[beta]8 A4 B-V8 X4 Y-2S8 rary maroon morocco, covers stamped in gilt with repeating (lacking signature [gamma], leaves 17 and 18; I3-6 are uncut crowned monogram and arms of maria theresa of austria and smaller than the rest of the book). 4to, [Geneva]: Joannes as queen of france, spine stamped in gilt with monogram in Crispinus, 1560. Near contemporary (c. 1587-1601) brown 6 compartments, a.e.g. Front joint just starting, small tear to armorial sheep for Jacques Auguste de Thou, with the arms title-page, scattered staining to text. Bookplate. Olivier 2506, of de Thou and his first wife, Marie de Barbançon-Cany, stamps 1 & 4 (for binding). on the covers, and their monogram “IAM” in gilt within A royal French binding for Maria Theresa of Spain as Queen six compartments on the spine. Some scuffing to surface of of France. covers, wear to spine ends with some loss, spine previously $3,500 repaired, new headbands, intermittent dampstaining to mar- gins throughout. Early ms shelfmarking on front pastedown, bookplate (name cancelled). Adams C2937. From the library of one of the great book collectors of his age, Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). The binding can be roughly dated to the time of de Thou’s first marriage, to Marie de Barbançon-Cany. $1,250

catalogue 117 |  sybil pye’s second recorded binding 7 (BINDING, Pye) Moore, T. Sturge. Danaë. 3 woodcut illustrations designed and engraved by Charles Ricketts. xlv, [ii] pp. Printed under Ricketts’ supervision at the Ballantyne Press. 8vo, [London: Vale Press … the last book to be sold by Hacon & Ricketts, London, and by John Lane, New York, 1903]. One of 230 (of 240) copies on paper. Bound in full tawed pigskin, covers tooled in blind with thin rules to a geometric design, embellished with leaf and flower tools in blind and leaf and dot tools in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, titled in gilt at head and foot of spine, compartments tooled in gilt with Rickett’s leaf tool, turn-ins gilt with small leaf tools at corners, by Sybil Pye, with her blind-stamped monogram on lower turn-in. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, some foxing and browning to text. Ransom, no 43; Tidcombe, pp. 147-155 & p. 208, no. 2 (for this binding). A very early Sybil Pye binding, listed second on her chronological list of 164 bindings, and exhibiting her early debt to the influ- ence of Charles Ricketts and Thomas Sturge Moore. Pye (1879-1958) was a self-taught binder, learning the craft entirely from Douglas Cockerell’s Bookbindings and the Care of Books. Through her father, a wine merchant and collector of contemporary and Oriental art, Pye was introduced to Thomas Sturge Moore, whose poem Danaë is bound here. Moore and Pye grew close (to the point of his proposing marriage) and it was Moore that introduced Pye to Charles Ricketts. He would have an enormous influence over her early style, and she used Ricketts’ tools (some of which can be seen on this binding) in her own work. Pye went on to develop an intricate “Cub- ist” style of inlaid morocco binding — in the present work we see her early style in which she favored white or natural pigskin and the thin-lined style of Charles Ricketts. Pye dates this binding in her notebooks to 1906, the year she began bookbind- ing, noting she bound two copies of Danaë in “White pigskin, blind- and gold-tooled” for Miss Cooper (the author known as Michael Field) and a Miss Withers. $9,000

 | james cummins bookseller retrospective binding by joseph william zaehnsdorf 8 (BINDING, Zaehnsdorf) Stockbauer, Jacob. Abbildungen von Mustereinbänden aus der Blüthezeit der Buchbinderkunst. With 40 heliogravure reproductions of historical bookbindings in libraries at Dresden, Gotha, Weimar and Wolfenbüttel, by A. Naumann & Schroeder. 13 pp. text. Folio, Leipzig: Adolf Titze, [ca. 1889]. Full gold-tooled brown morocco by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, outer frame inlaid with black morocco, large hatched tools in the corners and at the sides of the covers, the field semé with fleurs- de-lys, spine similarly decorated and lettered, fillets and hatched tools on turn-ins, endpapers imitating Renaissance brocade, top edges gilt, signed by the binder on front turn-in, printed front wrapper bound in. Faintest traces of rubbing to joints. Provenance: Michel Wittock (bookplate). Re-issue of Stockbauer’s pioneering work on modern German bookbinding, still notable for its plates and its useful record of fine bindings in Saxon libraries. Joseph Zaehnsdorf the younger (1853-1930) succeeded his father as head of London’s busiest atelier in 1886, and this retrospective binding on Stockbauer is entirely successful and striking in its large format. $5,000

catalogue 117 |  with 12 plates by blake 9 (BLAKE, William) Gay, John. Fables … with a Life of the Au- thor. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette, “Gay Monument” frontispiece and 68 illustrations (including 12 etchings by William Blake). [ii], xii, 225; [ii], vii, 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo (10-K x 6-I inches), London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue 10 with the long “s” throughout. Bound in full straight-grained BOSWELL, James. Private Papers of James Boswell from Mala- contemporary red morocco, covers stamped in gilt with hide Castle In the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. outer roll border, flat spines divided into 6 compartments, 2 Prepared for the Press by Geoffrey Scott. [With:] Boswell’s Journal with title and volume number, the rest gilt with small tool, of the Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and Index. Sever- a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities, some al aquatone facsimiles of original manuscripts by Boswell. 19 foxing to title-pages. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann. Bent- vols. 4to and Folio, [New York: William Edwin Rudge; The ley & Nurmi 371A; Ray, England 1; Essick, William Blake’s Viking Press], 1928-1937. One of 570 numbered copies, this Commercial Book Illustrations, XXVI. being no. 64, designed by Bruce Rogers. Red boards, some A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition backed with cloth, paper spine labels, in original slipcases. of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely Spines fresh (some minor wear), boxes about near fine. Vol. adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the 17 supplied from another set (no. 416), spine slightly faded. best examples of Blake’s work as a reproductive engraver. With the original Prospectus in red wrappers. $1,750 This set was designed by Bruce Rogers in the last of his eight years at William Rudge’s plant. The acquisition of the papers by Isham is itself a terrific story. Suffice it to say that in 1928, the collection was reluctantly sold by a Lord Talbot and his wife, one of Boswell’s great-granddaughters, to Lt. Col. Isham, long after they had been presumed destroyed, and then discovered in various remote cabinets and chests in Ire- land and Scotland. After his great acquisition, Isham wanted a sumptuous format for the collection, and negotiated a deal with William Edwin Rudge. Bruce Rogers was assigned the task of designing the format, and produced a set of volumes that are “magnificent examples of the arts of the printed book. They are, surely, the most impressive single monument of the Rudge/Rogers association” (Blumenthal, pp. 104-5). $4,500

 | james cummins bookseller original poster design for “the echo” 11 BRADLEY, Will H. “The Echo.” Original watercolor and gouache poster design on card, signed (“Will H. Bradley”) at lower left. 8 x 5-H in, [1895]. Tipped to board, in gilt-bordered mat. Bambage, p. 158 (for printed poster). A stunning original poster design by William H. Bradley (1868–1962), the foremost American Art Nouveau designer of his time. The Echo, a “humorous and artistic fortnightly” was advertised as “Chicago’s new paper — in which will appear a series of colored frontispieces by Will H. Bradley.” It began publication on May 1, 1895 and ceased with vol. 4, no. 3, July 1897. Despite his prolific output, Bradley’s original art is extremely rare on the market. We find no records of any of his original poster designs at auction. With an original lithograph poster advertisement for The Echo based on Bradley’s drawing. $18,500

catalogue 117 |  12 BURNES, Alex[ander]. Travels into Bokhara; Being an Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus … 2 frontispieces, 6 plates (one folding plate of the Buddha statues at Bamiyan) and with the large colored fold- ing map of Central Asia by J. Arrowsmith. 3 vols. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1834. First edition. Contemporary tan calf, gilt spine, contrasting morocco spine labels. Joints worn, dampstain to vol. III frontispiece, closed tear to map at mount. McLachlan & Whittaker, Afghanistan, 1508. The Scottish explorer Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) was known as Bokhara Burnes for his role in exploring and establishing contact with the city of Bokhara, in modern-day Uzbekistan. The present work, which made a name for Burnes, was popular in its day, but is now scarce on the market. Recent scholarship by Llewelyn Morgan, “With ‘Bokhara’ Burnes – A journey to the source of Arnold’s Oxus” (TLS 9 November 2012), identifies links between this work and “Sohrab and Rustum,” Matthew Arnold’s celebrated midcentury poem of tragic conflict along the Oxus. The map of Central Asia by Arrowsmith was sold separately, but was intended for use with this work. $2,500

very pretty 13 BURNEY, Fanny. Camilla, or, a Picture of Youth. By the author of Evelina and Cecilia. xlvi, 390, [2]; [vi], 432; [iv], 468; 432; 556 pp. 5 vols. 12mo (170 x 108 mm), London: Printed for T. Payne … and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies … in the Strand, 1796. First edition, with subscribers list pp. ix-xlviii. Bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt flat spines, some rubbing to joints, rear joint of vol. IV start- ing. Bookplate of John Waldie and another. The subscribers include Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York, Miss J.[ane] Austen, Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., Sir Charles Bunbury, Duchess of Devonshire, War- ren Hastings and Humphrey Repton, Esq. $2,500

 | james cummins bookseller inscribed first 14 BURROUGHS, William. The Naked Lunch. 226 pp. 12mo, Paris: The Traveller’s Companion Series published by the Olympia Press, [1959]. First edition, with first issue point of green border on title page, but with “Francs: 1500” crossed out and “New Price NF 18” added on back cover. Green wrappers, fine in pictorial original wrapper with tiny chip on back cover. In custom green half morocco slipcase and chemise. Maynard & Miles A2a. Inscribed on the title-page, “For Bob Wilson all the best from 1959. William Burroughs.” $8,500



catalogue 117 |  byron’s heroic poem 15 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). Mazeppa. Half-title pres- ent. 69, [3] pp. + [8] pp ads dated July, 1819. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, first issue, with imprint on p. [70]. Original drab gray wrappers, uncut. Some chips from spine, slightly cocked, but internally quite clean. Very good. Randolph, p. 70; Wise “Byron” I, pp. 131-2. “Mazeppa” was Byron’s heroic poem on the life and adven- tures of Ivan Stefanovitch Mazeppa. Using Voltaire’s “Charles XII” as a basis, Byron has his Mazeppa describe to Charles XII of Sweden his life. He explains why after being ennobled and well-treated by Peter the Great, he chose to change sides mid-battle when Charles XII invaded Russia. The “Fragment” at the back was Byron’s contribution to that famous party in Switzerland in response to his “We will each write a ghost story.” The best known of these of course being Mary Shel- ley’s Frankenstein. $1,000

16 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Proph- ecy of Dante, A Poem. xxi, [1], 261, [1, imprint], [2, ads, recto blank] pp. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (Doge’s speech at p. 151 is only 5-H lines). Original drab boards, printed paper spine label (darkened). Moderate wear to boards, light scattered foxing. Wise, “Byron” II, pp. 29-30. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller 17 18 CARVER, J[onathan]. Travels through the Interior Parts of (CONSTITUTION) The Columbian Magazine or Monthly North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 … To which Miscellany [Vol. I, issue 13]. Engraved general title to vol. I, is added, Some Account of the Author and a copious Index. 2 one engraved plate only [of 2, including plate facing p. 655]. folding engraved maps, finely colored in outline; engraved [615-674] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: printed for T. Seddon, W. portrait of the author, five engraved plates (four colored). Spotwood, C. Cist, & J. Trenchard, [September 1787]. Blue 8vo, London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, and J. Phillips, 1781. Third sugar paper wrappers, facsimile engraved title cut down and and best edition. Period speckled calf in Cambridge style, mounted on upper wrapper. Some toning throughout, early red morocco label. Frontispiece map with two small repairs manuscript amendment to title with some resultant dam- along folds, map of lake Superior with small repair, tobacco age, neatly repaired 1” tear to pp. 659-60, occasional spotting. plate with short repaired tear, generally a fine copy. Howes Provenance: James West (early signature to front blank). C215; Sabin 11184. Provenance: William Wigton (from Peter The most important issue of this early American magazine, Decker, with his pencilled note). including the first (or second) printing in a magazine of the Carver penetrated further West than any other pre-Revo- Constitution of the United States (see pp. 659-665). lutionary explorer in his search for a Northwest Passage, $4,500 mapping several tributaries of the Mississippi, and making many observations of flora and fauna, Indian tribes, etc., which were to prove useful to later explorers. His frontier experiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin have, according to Vail, “been accepted as one of the earliest and best accounts of pioneer days in this region.” And although Carver’s mis- sion proved abortive, his book excited an intense curiosity later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis & Clark. This edition includes a biography of the author, the index, and a colored plate of the tobacco plant not present in earlier editions. $6,000

catalogue 117 |  19 COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. Group of 15 original watercolor and gouache drawings for the book The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent (1954). 15 watercolor and gouache drawings, some with artist’s notations in pencil in margins, presented in 12 purple silk moiré mats, housed in leather portfolio. The largest 11-G x 9-J in, n.p: ca. early 1950s. Drawings generally in very good condi- tion, sporadic light marginal soiling, leather portfolio worn and split at hinges. A complete set of the original watercolor and gouache drawings by Miguel Covarrubias for his popular ethnographic book The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent. The 15 drawings here were the basis for the 12 color plates in the book, published by Knopf in 1954. Illustrations include an Eskimo mask, a Tlingit bone mask, California feather mosaic baskets, Hopi katchinas, Navajo blan- kets and sand-painting, a Crow medicine shield, and other objects. A copy of the book is included. $25,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  20 COZZENS, Fred S. Old Naval Prints. A Scarce and Unusual Collection. 24 Prints in Colors — Depicting 75 Ships [cover title]. 24 chromolithographs, each with a small ‘key’ plate printed in line on the verso with the plate number and the names of the ships. Printed by Armstrong & Co. of Boston. 4to, New York: National Military Publishing Co. 1919 Broadway, 1892-1894. First and only edition. Prints laid into a portfolio, with facsimile label on upper cover. Light scuffing to a few plates, neat repair to verso plate 8, some corners and margins worn or soiled, portfolio lightly worn. Rare complete suite of plates from America’s great Gilded Age maritime painter, Fred Cozzens (1846-1928). $1,250

21 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorritt. [In the original 19/20 monthly parts]. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne [“Phiz”]. 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, December, 1855-June, 1857. First edition, in the original monthly parts; first issue, with “Rigaud” for “Blandois.” Original blue printed wrappers. Some chipping to spines and margins; a few plates darkened. Spines of parts I, X, XIX- XX repaired. Very good set. Custom half mo- rocco folding box. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307- 330. Dickens’ celebrated novel, in the original parts as issued. “Circulation figures were abnormal, equal almost to the record-breaking numbers of ‘Bleak House’” (Hatton & Cleaver). And the advertisements are accordingly abundant and colorful in this work. With an admission ticket to a dinner given for Dickens before his departure for America in 1867. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller pickwick in parts 22 [DICKENS, Charles]. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club … Edited by “Boz” [In the original 19/20 monthly parts]. 43 en- graved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne (“Phiz”). 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1836-7. Third issue of part I, later issue wrappers for parts I-VII, Variant A of p. 341 in part XII; Pickwick Advertiser present in parts XI, XIV-XIX; Addresses present in XV, XVII, XVIII, XIX-XX; second issue of vignette title, sign reading Weller. Light blue printed wrappers. Some chipping, occasional repairs to spines. About a good set, without the inserted ads in parts I-X, XII-XIII. Blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88. One of the most widely celebrated classics of the English language, after the King James Bible and Shakespeare’s plays, in the parts issue, with a representative group of the ads present in later numbers. $2,750

catalogue 117 |  23 (GILL, Eric) Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew’s Gospel from the Latin Text. 6 wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in black and red in Caslon Old Face type. 15 pp. 4to (10-H x 7-H inches), Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. No. 96 of 250 numbered copies on Batchelor handmade paper. Cream linen boards with gilt titles on spine. Fine. Chanticleer 35; Evan Gill 276; Ransom, Private Presses, # 35. $2,400

24 GLASSE, Hannah. The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy; Exceeding Any Thing of the kind ever yet published … By Mrs. Glasse. [1]-288; [i]-xii pp. 8vo, Alexandria: Printed by Cotton and Alexander, 1812. “A New Edition, with Modern Improve- ments.” Second American edition, first published in 1805, but completely reset for this edition. Quarter contemporary red morocco-backed boards, foxing throughout, a few mended closed tears. Shaw & Shoemaker 25533; Bitting, p. 189. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller 25 extra-illustrated with original watercolors [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]. The Vicar of Wakefield. A Tale. [4], 26 214; [2], 223 pp. 8vo, Salisbury: B. Collins for F. Newbery, HAMILTON, W.T. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, London, 1766. First edition, with no catchword on page 213 Trading, and Indian Fighting. Edited by E.T. Sieber. 2 half-tone in vol. I; incorrect catchword “was” on page 39 and page 159 portraits, and 6 half-tone plates after Charles Russell. 8vo, correctly numbered in vol. II. Contemporary calf, covers New York: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1909. Third edition. ruled in blind. Abraision to vol. I front cover, faint dampsta- Bound in three quarter blue morocco, t.e.g., for John Wa- ing to upper inner corner of fist few leaves of vol. II, still a namaker. Near fine. Howes H139; Rader 1755; Graff 1759; very sharp copy in contemporary binding. In cloth clamshell Dobie, p. 72; Smith 4019. box. Rothschild 1028; Scott, pp. 173-75; Tinker 110. The adventures of “Old Bill” Hamilton in the Yellowstone $3,500 and Rocky Mountain country — “he tells some mighty fine stories” (Graff). Embellished with original watercolors of Native American costume and artifacts throughout by M. William Bradley. $3,000

catalogue 117 |  27 (HANDY, W.C) Covarrubias, Miguel. Print of W.C. Handy caricature, inscribed by Handy. 10-G x 8-H in. Faint crease at upper corner, else fine. Inscribed by Handy, “To Miss Clara Alexander, from W.C. Handy, with pleasant memories of Tunica friends. New York. Sept. 9, 1927.” It was in a train depot near Tunica, Mississippi, that Handy heard an element of the blues that inspired him to write “Mem- phis Blues.” Covarrubias illustrated Handy’s Blues: An Anthology (1926). His portrait of the musician appears on page 40, at the end of Abbe Niles’ introduction. $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller a bouquet of irish politicians 28 (IRELAND) Irish Autograph Album, including Eámon de Valera and his Cabinet in the 8th Dáil, and Members of Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil. Inserted leaf with 10 signatures, tipped in signatures on [24] leaves in a bound album. Oblong 12mo, [Dublin: 1931-1936]. Burgundy leather, a.e.g. Some spotting to album leaves, signatures generally fine. Choice album preserving a colorful and representative slice of Irish political life in the mid-1930s, including the signatures of Eámon de Valera and 9 members of his cabinet in the 8th Dáil (1933-1937) on a single sheet, followed by 24 individually tipped-in signatures (de Valera and seven others are repeated in this group). Eámon de Valera was a leader in the war of independence and, after breaking with Sinn Féin in 1926, was a founder of Fianna Fáil and head of the Irish Free State government. The members of his cabinet for 1933-1937 who have signed here are Seán T. Ó Cellaigh (Seán Thomas O’Kelly), deputy prime minister; P.J. Ruttledge, minister for lands and fisheries; Seán MacEntee, minister of finance; Tomas O’Derrig, minister for education; Gerald Boland, secretary of Sinn Féin, chief whip; Frank Aiken, minister of defense; Seamus O’Rian (James Ryan), minister for agriculture; Patrick J. Little; Concobhar MagUidhr (Conor Maguire), attorney general, later chief justice 1946-1961 (many of these were founding members of Fianna Fáil). The tipped-in signatures include: J.J. McElligott, secretary of the Dept. of Finance 1927-1953; Eámon de Valera, dated 24.10.35; Seán T. Ó Cellaigh, Frank Aiken, dated 17.3.32; Seamus O’Rian; Geróid O’Beolláin (Gerald Boland); Seán MacEntee; Sean F. Lemass, ministry for industry and commerce, later prime minster (1959-1966); Seosamh O’Conghaile (Joseph Connolly, dated 16.3.32, minister for posts and telegraphs; P.J. Ruttledge, dated 25.9.34; Patrick J. Little; Cormac Breathnach, Fianna Fáil politician, served in the Dáil 1932-54; Eamonn Cooney, dated 16.3.32, Fianna Fáil politican, served in the Dáil 1932-54; Robert Briscoe, long- serving Fianna Fáil politician; Padraig MacGabhann (Patrick Smith), dated 13.7.32, Fianna Fáil politician who served in the Dáil for 53 years; Kath, O’Callaghan, professor, Sinn Féin member, widow of IRA officer Michael O’Callaghan; Maire Nic Suibhne (Mary MacSwiney) of Cork, hunger striker and Sinn Féin politician who became the leader of the party after de Valera left to form Fianna Fáil; Damhnal Ua Buachalla (Daniel Buckley), dated 12.2.36, founding member of Fianna Fáil, appointed Governor General of the Free State in 1932; James Geoghegan, dated 14.3.32, minister for justice in the 7th Dáil; Dorothy Macardle, dated 8.3.32, writer and republi- can imprisoned during the civil war, later author of a history, The Irish Republic (1937); Miceal Ó Flannagáin (Michael O’Flanagan), priest, vice-president of Sinn Féin; Pól Ua Fearghail (Paul O’Farrell), dated 5.11.31; Caitlin[?] O’Cleirigh, dated 16.3.32; Ruadhri Rodach. $2,500

catalogue 117 |  jefferson’s map of westward expansion 29 (JEFFERSON, Thomas) A Map of the United States of N. America [in] Bailey’s Pocket Almanac, being an American annual register, for the year of our Lord 1786. With folding map and folding plate. [80] pp. 24mo, Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Francis Bailey, at Yorick’s Head, in Market Street, [1785]. Original marbled wrappers. Near fine in a custom leather-and-cloth slipcase. Evans 18922 (LOC only); Drake 10193 (Rosenbach, LOC, Rutgers, NYHS); no physical copies on OCLC for this year; Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (Princeton, 1952). Thomas Jefferson’s map and his vision of America’s western expansion is here expressed to the people of America in possibly the most democratic of all printing formats, the daily almanac. This is one of the very first maps of the newly created United States published in America; one of the first maps published in America to be titled using the “United States [of N.] America” nomenclature; and it is the first published map to make use of Thomas Jefferson’s report to Congress of a plan of government for the recently acquired western frontier territories. Excessively rare, the map incorporates Jefferson’s names, many of them derived from Indian words, for the proposed new states. Based on Jefferson’s report, but with their emendations of it, Congress, then under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Ordinance of 1784 on April 23, 1784. That same year, printer and bookseller Francis Bailey of Philadelphia published “A Map of the United States of N. America” based upon Jefferson’s proposals for new sates in the Northwest Territories for his 1785 Pocket Alma- nac. The map, engraved by H.D. Pursell (who engraved Filson’s map of Kentucky) incorporated not only the provisions of the Ordinance of 1784, but also relied on Jefferson’s original report to Congress. Much to Jefferson’s consternation, he discovered his report then published without his authorization by Philadelphia publisher David C. Claypoole in the Pennsylvania Packet. And, indeed, Claypoole had also published Jefferson’s proposed names for the new states. These proposed names for these future western states are here incorporates by Bailey into his map, the only published map to do so. Jefferson’s map first appeared in Bailey’s Almanac for 1785 and then in Bailey’s almanacs for 1786 (seen here) and 1787. All three almanacs are rare, but oddly this year exceptionally so. There are no auction records within at least the last 50 years for any of the almanacs. Dr. Rosenbach never offered an example for sale via his catalogs but highlighted a copy of this year’s 1786 example as #165 in his 1940 exhibition from his personal collection of exceptional rarities at the Free Library of Philadelphia.* In the introduction, Dr. G.P. Winship called it, “One of the most curious maps drawn in America” (p. 9). Dr. Rosenbach’s copy resides today in the Rosenbach Museum. Jef- ferson’s imaginative and ambitious map is widely reproduced in facsimile and in scholarship. But the map itself is artifact — so curiously issued — and so modestly foretelling Lewis and Clark’s Expedition and America’s future westward expansion. *Rosenbach: “With the excessively rare engraved map showing the projected states in the West. On the map … are shown the ten states which were planned but never created in the Middle West. The fanciful names given them by Jefferson appear: Sylvania, Michigania, Cherronnesus, Assenisipia, Metropotamia, Illinoia, Saratoga, Washington, Polypotamia, and Pelisipia” (One Hun- dred and Fifty Years of Printing in English America (1640-1790), An Exhibition … from the Collection of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia, 1940. $65,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  uncut wounded in 1916 but returned to duty through the end of 30 1918. He first worked at Westminster School of Art and then (JOHNSON, Samuel) Johnson, Samuel. Letters to and from became associated with the circle of Eric Gill and Hilary the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added some Poems Pepler at Ditchling in the early 1920s. He was briefly engaged never before printed. Published from the original MSS. in her pos- to Gill’s daughter Petra. Jones illustrated the Golden Cock- session by Hester Piozzi. [4], xv, [1], 397, [1]; xi, [1], 424, [16] pp. erel Gulliver’s Travels (1925), and exhibited works in a variety 2 vols. 8vo (9-I x 6-I inches), London: for A. Strahan and of media in England, France, the U.S., and Italy. T.S. Eliot T. Cadell, 1788. First edition. Original boards, uncut, neatly praised his later poem, The Anathemata (1952). The original rebacked with new paper spines. Contempoaray bookseller’s drawing accompanying the extra suites of plates is a prepara- label, “T. Hookham, Stationers, Bookseller and Bookbinder tory sketch for the final large plate of the goodly company New Bond Street corner of Bruton Street” in each volume. walking to the kirk, opposite page 36. It demonstrates how Signed in back by famous American collector DeWitt Miller. the artist’s conception for the plate evolved: the rejected In green cloth slipcase with chemise. Fleeman 88.3L/1; Roth- engraving for this plate contains elements from the drawing, schild 1270; Courtney, p. 168-9; Chapman & Hazen, p. 165; reversed, while the finished engraving incorporates almost all Tinker 1383; ESTC T082906. the figures and arches of the drawing, substituting a pair of white doves at lower left. $1,750 The rarest state of this superb production (published at 10 guineas), one of the finest books of the interwar flowering in British book arts . one of 10 copies, with an original drawing $25,000 31 (JONES, David) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by David Jones with 10 copper engravings printed in a green wash, plates printed by Walter L. Colls, London. 4to, Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon [Printed at the Fanfare Press, London], 1929. Number VIII of 10 copies signed by the artist, with a set of the engravings in first state, a set in final state, proofs of the 5 discarded engravings, and an original drawing signed by the artist. Original full white vellum. Boards slightly bowed, very faint offset from a few plates. Fine. Half dark blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 235. Coleridge’s classic of guilt and redemption, illustrated by painter and poet David Jones (1895-1974). Jones studied art before serving in the trenches in the First World War, was  | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  signed by joyce 32 JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. With a Preface by Padriac Colum. [iv], xx, 64 pp. 12mo, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, no. 47 of 800 numbered and signed copies. Publisher’s brown cloth, cover stamped in gilt with triangle design, spine with title in gilt. Fine. Slocum & Cahoon A32. A pristine copy of an excerpt from Joyce’s “Work in Prog- ress,” one of 800 copies signed by Joyce. $3,250

donald friede’s copy 33 JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. [40] pp. 12mo, London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First edition, third binding variant. Pub- lisher’s green cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Small bump to lower tip of front cover, else fine. Gotham Book Mart ticket on rear paste-down. Slocum & Cahoon A3. Provenance: Donald S. Friede (his bookplate by Miguel Covarrubias on front paste-down). One of only 509 copies of Joyce’s first book. A fine copy in the third binding variant (thin wove transparent end-papers and signature C poorly centered), with the Covarrubias bookplate of publisher Donald S. Friede. In 1928, Friede published at his own expense an ex- cerpt of Joyce’s “Work in Progress” (i.e. Finnegans Wake) in an edition of 20 copies. Friede was attempting to secure American copyright and convince Joyce to publish his novel with Friede’s firm, Boni & Liveright. The plan backfired, as Joyce was disgusted by Friede’s manoeuvring.

 | james cummins bookseller $3,250 one of six with double illustrations and borders 34 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) A Leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer with an Essay on Its Commercial History. Ornamental borders and wood- cuts by Edward Burne-Jones. Parliament of Fowls: “arriving at the doorway with the African guide” and “Cupid at his forge, attended by his daughter”. Pp. [315-6]. Text incipit, “Thorgh me men goon, than spake that other syde.” Folio, San Francisco: John Windle in association with the Arion Press, 1994. No. four of 6 copies with leaf with full-page illustrations and borders on each side, of an edition of 100 copies. Leaf with some small, faint traces of red offsetting. Fine specimen leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer, a leaf with full borders and with two large format woodcuts by Edward Burne- Jones for the Parliament of Fowls. $1,500

catalogue 117 |  “i’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me” 35 KEROUAC, Jack. Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”) to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review. One page typed on paper. With original mailing envelope and carbon copy of Rosenthal’s letter. 8-H x 8-H inches, 1418-H Clouser St, Orlando, Fla: post- marked January 29, 1958. Creased from prior folding, small holes at left margin from removed staples. Kerouac writes in response to a letter from Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review (a carbon of the letter is included here), who had requested a submission for an upcoming Zen-themed issue, “I do have something for your summer issue of Zen, five pages of prose about Buddhistic meditation in the woods, an excerpted chapter from my novel-in-progress entitled The Dharma Bums. Let me know if you want me to send you that, and please sorta promise you’ll print it (it’s highly publishable) before I type it up in the midst of 1,000 harassments and details … (5,000 word letters being exchanged with Hollywood producer, completion of novel-in-progress, etc. etc. ) (albums with Norman Granz, etc. etc.).” Kerouac would oblige Rosenthal with an excerpt of The Dharma Bums, which appeared in the Chicago Review under the title “Meditation in the Woods.” Kerouac goes on to suggest that Rosenthal contact Gary Snyder and Phillip Whalen for more material for the Zen issue, and he mentions Zen scholar Alan Watts. “… I would suggest you contact that young man [Gary Snyder] because he is now on a round the world freighter on his way home from the Shokokuji Monastery in Kyoto Japan and can provide your issue with direct Zen material, the latest, poems or prose … Another strong suggestion, is, get material, prose or poetry, from a contemporary Zen Master (lay) name of Phillip Whalen … Mention to [Alan] Watts that I said that it was his duty to furnish something for your is- sue in order to turn the wheel of the Dharma in 1958.” Whalen and Watts both appeared in The Dharma Bums (Whalen would later criticize Kerouac’s “Beat Zen”), and Snyder was the model for the novel’s main character, Japhy Ryder, and the embodiment of the novel’s counter-culture “rucksack revolution” of wandering Zen Lunatics. “As Jack saw it, Gary’s alternative life style was basically a religious way of life in The Dharma Bums …” (Charters, Kerouac, p. 293). Kerouac writes this letter from his sisters’s home in Orlando, where he had gone to write The Dharma Bums, writing the entire novel in ten sittings in November of 1957 — “he thought of himself like an athlete, sticking to his type- writer grinding out 15,000 or 20,000 words at a time” (ibid). Kerouac closes with a remarkable testimony to his Buddhist practice and its very close relationship to his writing, “No, I haven’t made a semi-serious study of Buddhism but a very serious one indeed, in fact I’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me. My prose will explain that.” An outstanding letter, written at the height of Kerouac’s fame, and touching on some of the Zen characters and experiences that were central to the writing of The Dharma Bums. $12,500

 | james cummins bookseller with original vedder drawing of omar 36 KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Text of the Third Edition]. Drawings by Elihu Vedder reproduced by Albertype process on facing pages (printed one side only). [128] pp. 4to (12-G x 9-G inches], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886. Vedder Phototype edition. Original grey cloth. Minor wear to spine. Potter 202. With a drawing in purple pencil of Omar by Vedder tipped-in, inscribed with 4-H lines of poetry, beginning, “Much wine old Omar dreamed about …” The drawing inscribed by Vedder, “Porter Edward Sargent, His Book. E.V. Roma 1913.” Additionally signed by Vedder at lower right of the title-page. $2,500

catalogue 117 |  37 KNOX, John. An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America for the Years 1757 1758 1759 and 1760 Containing the Most Re- markable Occurrences of that Period; Particularly the Two Sieges of Quebec. Large folding map of North America and frontispiece por- trait of Lord Amherst in vol. I; frontispiece portrait in vol. II. ix, [7, subscribers], 405, [3]; [2], 465 pp. Errata leaf in each volume. 2 vols. 4to, London: For the Author ; and sold by W. Johnston, 1769. First edition. Mid-nineteenth century tan polished calf, gilt spine, leather labels. Superficial traces of wear, a few occasional foxing marks. Handsome copy with generous margins. Howes K222, “b”; Sabin 38163; Dionne II:751; Lande 486; Gagnon I:1880; JCB 1680; Streeter Sale 1030; Vlach 417; TPL 323. An important first-hand account of the French and Indian war, containing “One of the most accurate and detailed accounts avail- able on the sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec” (TPL). The map shows British holdings in North America according to theTreaty of Paris in 1763. $6,250

 | james cummins bookseller elizabethan law enforcement 38 LAMBARDE, William. Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Iustices of the Peace, In Foure Bookes. Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, In the Fourth Yeare of the Peaceable Raigne of Our Most Gracious Queene Elizabeth … [Bound with] The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, And Such Other Lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be Adioyned, the Severall Offices of Church Ministers and Churchwardens, and Overseers for the Poore, Surveighours of the Highwaies, and Distributors of the Provision Against Noysome Fowle and Vermine. And Now Enlarged. Eirenarcha: [2], 201, 222-589, [85]; Duties: 80 pp. 2 works bound in one volume. Small thick 8vo. London: Thomas Wright, 1602. Later edition of Eirenarcha (first published 1581); later edition of The Duties (first published 1583). Eighteenth-century calf, red leather spine label; rebacked, with original spine laid down; joints cracked, with some chipping and loss to foot of spine. Beale T 387; STC 15170, ESTC S108202; STC 15154, ESTC S103925. William Lambarde (1536–1601) was an antiquary and lawyer, who, among his many accomplishments, compiled the earliest county history, The Perambulation of Kent (1576). His appointment as a justice of the peace for Kent in 1578, provided Lambarde with the background of experience which led to the present work; and it has long been regarded as the standard authority on the subject. It is of great value not only for the study of criminal procedure in Elizabethan England; along with its companion, the duties of constables, it offers a window into the society and mores of the age of Shakespeare and his Constable Dogbody. “He [Lambarde] praised English justice, but was sharply critical of the shortcomings of the juries, which had led government to circumvent them through such agencies as Star Chamber, and thus curtail liberty. Extolling the blessings of peace and deploring the disorders attendant on war, he showed a dislike of foreigners and inveighed, among other things, against ale houses, vaga- bonds, and engrossers, but he made little reference to national problems and none to felony or murder” (ODNB). Both Eirenarcha and The Duties of Constables, were continually reprinted, updated and expanded, and the two are frequently found bound together. “Editions of this [i.e., The Duties] are generally bound with editions of the Eirenarcha that are roughly contempo- rary, but not necessarily of the same year” (STC). $1,250

catalogue 117 |  a manuscript for tales of a wayside inn 39 LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Autograph Manuscript, signed and dated, of his poem of “The Kalif of Baldacca.” Work- ing draft, 7 pages on 2 folded sheets of pale blue stationery; with several revisions in Longfellow’s hand. 4to, Boston: February 12, 1864. Mounted on hinges and bound in quarter blue morocco and blue cloth and housed in a slipcase. Provenance: David Gage Joyce Sale, Hanzel Galleries, September 23, 1973. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and incorporated into Tales of a Wayside Inn as “The Spanish Jew’s Tale. / Kambalu. Begun January 26, 1864 - Finished February 12, 1864. “ His source for the “Kambalu” is Il Milione by Marco Polo. Longfellow’s manuscript was originally consigned by James T. Fields to auction in June, 1864, for “The U.S. Sanitary Commission.” $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller 40 (MERRYMOUNT PRESS) The Altar Book: Containing the Order for the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist According to the use of the American Church MDCCCXCII. By Authority. Printed in red and black, engraved title vignette, woodcut borders, woodcut initials designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Initials and illustrations hand-colored by Canon Arthur B. Rudd. Folio (38.5 x 30 cm), Boston: Boston: D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1896. One of 350 copies, published by Daniel Berkeley Updike. Printed at the De Vinne Press. Original brown blindstamped pigskin, three bronze clasps. Binding re- paired to the highest standard, original spine laid down (upper panel of spine and top left corner of front board re-tooled in blind to match). Bianchi 20. Provenance: Washington National Cathedral, deaccessioned in autumn 2011. One of an edition of 350 copies set in the newly cast Merrymount type at the Merrymount Press and printed on handmade paper at the De Vinne Press. With seven double-page spread illustrations by Robert Anning Bell, with Kelmscott-style woodcut borders and initials by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (who also designed the type). The loosely inserted 8-page gathering of plain-song is present in this copy. The initials, borders, and illustrations have been partly illuminated in colors, with a pencilled note recording that the illumination was done by Canon Arthur B. Rudd, 1928-32. The work which established the reputation of Updike and the Press as among the foremost modern designers/printers. It is considered by most contemporary analysts as a peak in the Arts & Crafts movement as manifested in the book arts, as well as the most significant attempt by an American designer to emulate the model established by the Kelmscott Chaucer. $5,000

catalogue 117 |  41 MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books … [and] Paradise Regained. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions. [30], lxix, 416; 390, [2], pp. 2 vols. 4to, Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, London, 1758. First Basker- ville edition. Vol. I, p. 75, line 3 with “God is light.” Bound in full contemporary calf, with later labels, some rubbing, else very good. Bookplate of Francis Hale Rigby (with note about presentation to her in 1795 by Mrs. Grey in volume II) and Frasier W. McCann. Gaskell 4 & 5. $1,500

42 PAPWORTH, John B. Rural Residences, Consisting of A Series of Design for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and Other Ornamental Buildings, Accompanied by Hints on Situation, Con- struction, Arrangement and Decoration, in the Theory & Practice of Rural Architecture; Interspersed with Some Observations on Landscape Gardening. 27 hand-colored aquatints. 4to, London: Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggins, 1818. First edition, with Ackermann catalogue. Quarter antique calf and boards, uncut. Very pretty. Abbey Life 45; Tooley 359; Prideaux, p. 347; Martin-Hardie, pp. 112, 129, 312; Archer 246.2; Colvin, p. 437. Papworth (1775-1847) was an architect, artist, and found- ing member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He popularised the rustic “cottage ornée” style. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller in riviere binding 44 43 PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit. The POPE, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Romance of American History Pictured by Howard Pyle, Compiled Poem. In Five Canto’s. Written by Mr. Pope. Title printed in red by Merle Johnson: With Descriptive Text from Original Sources and black. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates by Du Edited by Francis J. Dowd. Illustrations in color and black and Guernier after Du Bosc; each canto with woodcut headpiece. white by Howard Pyle. Large 4to, New York: Harpers, 1923. 8vo, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross- First edition, deluxe issue. No. 22 of 50 copies signed by Keys in Fleet-Street, 1714. Second edition of the final text Merle Johnson & editor Francis J. Dowd, with an extra plate. (same year as the first). Elegantly bound in full red crushed Original white cloth-backed spine with grey boards. In quar- morocco, spine lettered in gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., by ter green morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Rivière. Rothschild, 1570 (1st ed.). $3,500 Pope’s immortal satire appeared first in Miscellaneous Poems (1712) in two cantos only. It first appeared complete and as a separate book in 1714 and here again entirely reset and with new headpieces to the cantos. $2,000

catalogue 117 |  cardinal allen and the catholic plot to overthrow elizabeth 45 (QUEEN ELIZABETH) [Gifford, Gilbert?]. A briefe discoverie of Doctor Allens seditious drifts, contrived in a pamphlet written by him, concerning the yeelding up of the towne of Deventer, (in Ouerrissel) unto the king of Spain, by Sir William Stanley. The contentes whereof are particularly set downe in the page following. With a superb emblematic frontispiece woodcut of St. George and the dragon on A1v. [8], 128 pp , collating A-R4. 8vo, London: Printed by I. W[olfe] for Francis Coldock, dwelling in Paules-churchyarde at the signe of the green Dragon, 1588. First edition. Period brown calf with slight wear. A remarkably fresh, clean, and large copy, with Alfred Ehrman’s bookplates and William Sterling Maxwell’s pencil notes on the endpapers. ESTC 109186; STC (2nd ed.), 6166. In 1587, Sir William Stanley, an English commander with the Earl of Leicester’s forces sent to help the Dutch overthrow the Spanish, perfidiously surrendered the town of Deventer to the Spanish. Cardinal William Allen, a leader of the exiled Catholics in Flanders, “published a defense of Stanley’s action [Copie of a Letter Written … Concerning the Yeelding Up, Of the Citie of Daventrie, Antwerp, 1587] claiming that the English involvement in a war against Philip was sinful and unjust, Stanley’s action that of an informed conscience, and that any Catholic should do the same” (ODNB). Furthermore, Cardinal Allen encouraged Philip II to undertake the invasion of England and to overthrow Elizabeth. This particular work, an answer to Cardinal Allen’s letter, published in the same year, was written about a month before the Armada was sighted on July 19; it was entered into the books of the Stationer’s Company on July 1, 1588. The preface “To the reader” is signed “G.D.” The attribution to Gilbert Gifford — a double agent who had warned the English crown of Sir William Stanley’s questionable loyalty — is that of the Scottish historian, Sir William Stirling Maxwell, whose neat handwritten notes fill the endpapers of this copy. In “To the Reader,” the author explains his motive in responding to Allen: “… I did at the first utterly contemne and reject it, as a thing of no account, thinking it neither wholesom to stirre so foule and stinking a puddle, nor glorious to overthrow so sclender and superficiall a defense. Yet considering better of the most seditious driftes and devilish persuasions cummingly conveyed … under the cloak and shadow of Religion … I thought it a thing verie necessarie, to discover and lay open to the world, the slye & subtile dealings of D. Allen …” The last copy to appear at auction was in 1988; this particular copy brought 605 pounds in the Broxbourne sale in 1977. $17,500

 | james cummins bookseller from the library of rand’s architectural mentor 46 RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. 8vo, New York: Random House, [1957]. First edition. Original green cloth. Fine, bright copy, in very good plus dust-jacket. In custom morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Provenance: From the Estate of architect ely jacques kahn. From the library of the famous New York architect Ely Jacques Kahn, in whose office Rand worked during 1937 while research- ing the profession of architect for her novel, The Fountainhead (1943). Laid into this copy is a very important and early piece of ephemera bearing on Kahn’s career. After his graduation from Columbia College, Kahn entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and while in Paris Kahn exhibited two pieces at the “Salon de 1909.” Loosely inserted is the printed acceptance slip to “Mr. Kahn,” from the Société des Artistes Français, for his two submissions. He was 23 years old at the time, and would later build over 30 major buildings in New York City. For a stunning illustrated list of his achievements, see Ely Jacques Kahn, New York Architect (NY, Acanthus Press, 1995). His association with Ayn Rand is equally important to her career, and, in particular, her masterwork novel about the architect Howard Roark, The Fountainhead. According to Barbara Branden in her biography The Passion of Ayn Rand (1986, pp. 143-144), in 1937 “Ayn decided to spend a few months working in an architect’s office, without pay, in order to become familiar with the day-to-day activities of the profession. Through a friend she met the famous New York architect Ely Jacques Kahn and he agreed to her plan … Ayn spent six months working in Kahn’s office as a filing clerk, typist, and general assistant. He was the only one in the office who knew that her real purpose was research for a novel, and he seemed charmed by the adventure of having her there … It was while working for Kahn that Ayn solved the problem of devising a climax for her novel. One day, she asked Kahn ‘What is the biggest technical problem in architecture at the moment?’ He told her it was in the field of housing projects, and that the difficulty lay in finding a means of building modern struc- tures at the lowest possible cost … ‘When he said “housing,” something clicked for me. I thought that this was both a political issued and an architectural issue, and that it fitted my purposes. I knew that it was a good lead … Suddenly - like Newton’s apple - the total of the climax fell into place … From then on, it was easy …’ Ayn’s idea for the climax of The Fountainhead was that Howard Roark would dynamite Cortlandt Homes, the hous- ing project he had created.” When the galleys for the book came out sev- eral years later, Rand asked Kahn to check it for any architectural inaccuracies. Kahn made a couple of corrections, Rand recounted, and, as quoted by Branden, “’I was tremendously pleased - I was really delighted … I asked if he wanted an acknowledgment for his assistance, and he said no, it was not professionally ap- propriate, but that he would like me to give a general acknowledgment to the profession because they get so little recognition. And that’s why I put the note in the front of the book, I felt I had to.”’ Rand’s note of ac- knowledgment - which might well have been to the man himself - does indeed follow Ely Jacques Kahn’s suggestion, and reads: “I offer my profound gratitude to the great profession of architecture and its heroes who have given

catalogue 117 |  inscribed by fdr to his son john 47 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. Here printed for his friends at Christmastide 1944. Text in black, red and blue. 8vo, Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1944. Limited edition, no. 45 of 100 copies. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. Light toning to spine, else fine. In a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter, pp. 193-4. Presentation copy, inscribed by FDR to his youngest son and daughter-in-law on the front free endpaper, “For Johnny and Anne with love from Pa Christmastide 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt.” FDR delivered this prayer on the evening of June 6, 1944 after Allied forces began their invasion of German-occupied Normandy. The President had 100 copies printed and bound at his own expense to distribute to close friends and family at Christmas — continuing a tradition of book-giving that he had begun in 1935 (see Halter, pp. 193-4). “Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity …” $25,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  first inaugural: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 48 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. Delivered at the Capital, Washington, D.C. March 4, 1933. 9 pp. Small 4to (7 x 10; 177.8 x 254 mm), Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1933. Advance copy, printed on large paper. “Only a very few copies of the address were published in this format” (Halter). Bound in full blue cloth by the GPO. Signed on the ffep by Eleanor [Hall] R[oosevelt] Roach (Mrs. George Roach, daughter of G. Hall Roosevelt). only copy seen in cloth. In a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter T544. An advance copy of FDR’s first inaugural address printed on large paper, likely issued just the day before his swearing-in, and intended as a reading copy. FDR’s 20-minute speech, delivered on March 4, 1933 and broadcast to the nation over radio, was ea- gerly awaited by an electorate in the grips of the Great Depression. FDR had intended to read his address from a printed advance copy — at the last minute he changed his mind and instead read from his typescript which he had corrected in his own hand (cf. Halter). All subsequent printed copies incorporate FDR’s changes, making this advance copy bibliographically significant, as well as rare — only one copy of the address has appeared at auction in the last 30 years. FDR opens the address with his immortal pep talk, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.” Roosevelt goes on to place the blame for the economic crisis on the greed of bankers and businessmen who have placed profit over their social duties, “The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.” With unemployment at 25% at the time of his inauguration, FDR addresses the pressing need to get people back to work. He ends with a promise to use the full extent of his powers as President, a foreshadowing of the re- markable series of New Deal programs unveiled during his first 100 days in office, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” An incredibly important piece of Presidential Americana, marking the start of one of the nation’s greatest presidencies and the country’s rise from the depths of the Great Depression. $22,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  us some of the highest expression of man’s genius.” 50 $5,000 [SERAFINI, Luigi]. Codex Seraphinianus. Illustrated through- original jazz photographs by raymond ross out in color. 2 vols. 4to, Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, via Cinoi Del Duca, 1981. First edition, no. 1896 of 4000 copies, signed 49 by the author/artist. Bound in full decorated black cloth ROSS, Raymond, photographer. Photographs of jazz over boards, each volume with matching black cloth drop musicians Thelonious Monk, Rashan Roland Kirk, Phineas box, with paper overlays. With introductory letter from the Newborn Jr., Billy Strayhorn and others. 47 gelatin print publisher laid-in. photographs (7 photographs of Monk mounted on artist The deluxe first edition reproducing Italian artist Luigi Serafi- board), with photographer’s stamp and docketting on the ni’s manuscript encyclopedia for an imaginary world. rear. Images approx. 9-H x 7 in, V.p [New York; Newport, RI: c. 1962-1968]. A few prints with light edgewear or creasing, $2,000 mostly near fine. A collection of original photographs by the noted jazz photographer Raymond Ross. Highlights include Monk at first collected edition the piano at The 5 Spot in 1962, the Newport Jazz Festival 51 in 1965 & 1966 and the Garden State Jazz Festival in 1967; SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Rashon Roland Kirk at The 5 Spot and the 1968 Newport Calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Jazz Festival; Billy Strayhorn recording at Fine Sound Studio Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. in 1964. Ross (1924-2004) was a widely-known and respected [4], 363, [2, blank; 14, 2, blank]; [10], 56, [2, blank]; 16; [134 figure in the downtown jazz scene. According to his New of 136] pp. lacking final leaf m2 (with text of Petrarch’s York Times obituary, “he was one of the few to chronicle the “Visions”). General title leaf with elaborate woodcut border. transition from the big band sound of Duke Ellington to the Folio, London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for Mathew Bebop era ushered in by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.” Lownes, 1611 [but probably 1613, with 1613 title-page to 2nd $1,500 part of The Faerie Queen and Mother Hubbard; all other separate title-pages dated 1611]. First collected edition of the works; the second reissue of the 1609 edition of The Faerie Queen; the first edition of Mother Hubbard; and the first folio editions of all the other works. Early blind-ruled calf, rebacked. Title-leaf (a cancel) and final leaf M1 laid down,

 | james cummins bookseller both title and dedication (to Queen Elizabeth) a little spotted huth copy and soiled, some worming in upper corner margin through- 52 out Faerie Queen, not affecting text; generally a very good, STEELE, Richard, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift. [The sound copy. STC (2nd ed.) 23083.7; Johnson, F.R. Crit. bib. of Tatler]. The Lucubrations of Isacc Bickerstaff [General title-pag- the works of Edmund Spenser, 12, 19; ESTC S121946; issued es]. Nos. 1-271 (all published). 2 volumes bound in oneFolio, with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3 and 23087. London: Printed: and Sold by John Morphew, 1710; 1711. First collected edition of the works of England’s greatst and First edition, the original 271 numbers, with title, dedications most important poet after Chaucer. and indices to each of the two volumes. Full tan polished Of The Faerie Queene, this is the “second reissue of the 1609 calf, richly gilt spine and contrasting leather labels, by edition. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conju- Bedford. Morocco ex-libris of henry huth. Rothschild 1948; gate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3); B3r stanza Teerink 513. 1 begins ‘Yoùg knight.’ Q5-6 of part 1, bearing respectively The Tatler as it was first issued as a folio in two volumes in the 1609 title page and first leaf of text of part 2, are can- 1710 (nos. 1-114) and 1711 (nos. 115-271), running from 2 celed. Part 2 has been reprinted, with a title page dated either April 1709 to 31 March 1711: “Of the 271 numbers, Steele 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variant). The R3r catchword now wrote 188, Addison 42, and the two joint 36 … Davis lists reads ‘And.’ Pagination and register are continuous” (ESTC). six numbers, 21, 31, 67, 68, 249 and 248, as contributed by The Shepheard’s Calendar (STC 23093.5) has a separate title- Swift (or containing letters or ‘hints furnished by him’). In page dated 1611, separate pagination, and register. Colin addition, Aitken attributes to Swift letters in Nos. 59, 63, 71, Clouts (STC 23077.3), Prothalamion , Amoretti and Epithala- 190 and 195, and suggests that he was part author of Nos. 32, mion, Foure Hymnes, Daphnaida, Complaints Containing Sundry 66, 230 and 238” (Rothschild). A beautiful copy, complete as Small Poems Of The Worlds Vanities, The Teares Of The Muses, issued, and with a notable provenance. and Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterfly, all have separate $8,500 title-pages with the imprint: “At London printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes,” and continuous register. $4,000

catalogue 117 |  in contemporary binding 53 STERNE. The Works … in ten volumes complete … Frontispiece, 9 plates (one torn and repaired), marbled leaf in vol. II, pp. 111-2. 11 vols. 8vo, London: J. Rivington and Sons, et al, 1788. Full contemporary calf, covers with thin outer gilt rule, spines in six com- partments with raised bands, two compartments with red and black morocco lettering pieces, the rest with bird and urn devices tooled in blind, volume contents (“T. Shandy,” etc.) stamped in gilt to tail of spines, light scuffing and wear to covers, a very pretty set. Contemporary owners’ signatures to title-pages, small bookplate, wax seal to fly leaf of one volume. ESTC T14785. [With:] The Original Letters … London: T. Longman, et al., 1788. $3,000

54 [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. By Dr. S—t. 31 pp. 8vo, London: printed for N. Blandford; and sold by J. Peele, 1726. First Blandford edition. Recent marbled boards. Very good. Teerink 658; Foxon S819; Rothschild 2100; ESTC T19811 . A famous poem about the relationship between Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh (“Vanessa”), who died in 1723 and among whose papers a manuscript of the poem was found. It was first published in Dublin on about April 19, 1726, and a second edition followed shortly afterwards, adding ten “incriminating” lines; these two Dublin printings are very rare. On May 19 two rival editions, both unauthorized, appeared in London, this one, which follows the first Dublin printing, and one published by J. Roberts, which follows the second. Blandford went on to issue six more editions within the year, and Roberts several more as well. “This edition follows the text of the Dublin first edition and omits the addi- tional ten lines” (Foxon). rare. Neither of the first Blandford or Roberts printings has appeared at auction (in ABPC) since 1982. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller 55 “what a genius i had when i wrote that book!” [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. A7 B-F8 56 G1-5 A8 G8 H-Dd8; [14], 91, [1], 95-416 pp. 8vo, London: SWIFT, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Printed for John Morphew, 1711. First edition. Contempo- Improvement of Mankind … To which is Added, An Account of rary brown sprinkled calf with central dark-stained panel, a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James’s enclosed by blind-decorated framed, stamped in gilt with Library. [12], 322, [2, blank] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for initials of the original owner (“T.W”) who has also signed the John Nutt, near Stationer-Hall, 1704. First edition. Full green title-page: “Thomas Wentworth of St. John’s College in Cam- crushed morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by Rivière and Son. Joint slight bridge, 1710/1”. Joints starting but cords firm, endpapers rubbed, otherwise a near fine copy, complete with the initial somewhat discolored, but a handsome copy otherwise, with mock ad leaf, and the final blank leaf Y2. Teerink-Souten 217; the armorial bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Rothschild 1993. Fitzwilliam (1872-1943). Teerinck 2 (1b); ESTC N44669. Swift’s classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified Swift’s second book, containing, among many other delights, in the quarrels between Peter (Roman Catholicism), Martin his “Argument to Prove that the abolishing of Christianity, (Luther), and Jack (Calvin). It was his first major work, and may, as things now stand, be attended with some inconve- many years later in his old age, he is said to have exclaimed, niences, and perhaps not produce those many good effects “What a genius I had when I wrote that book!” proposed thereby …”; also “Verses Wrote in a Lady’s Ivory $4,000 Table Book,” “A Famous Prediction of Merlin the British Wizard,” etc. $1,000

catalogue 117 |  57 SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Gulliver (in the second state as usual), 5 engraved maps & one engraved plate of the automatic writing machine. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. First edition (Teerink’s A), first printing, with all distinguishing points as per Teerink. 20th-century period brown calf. Spines slightly faded, upper cove of first volume shows a few spots, a few occasional stains to text, otherwise a fine copy. Teerink 289 (“A edition”); Rothschild 2104; PMM 185. A very pretty set of the rare first printing of one of the great satires in the English language. $45,000

 | james cummins bookseller 58 to particularize; though I must put in my little protest against TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. The Annales …The Description them, lest I should be supposed to acquiesce with the histori- of Germanie [with:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba … an. I never was very much of a rake nor a spendthrift; nor so The third edition. [6] , 271, [1]; [6], 12, 227, [1] pp. Full-page poor in my reverses but that there was plenty of dinner law- engraving at p. 214 of second part. Lacking initial (¶1) and fully paid for … but as the death of nobody I know is likely final (V6) blanks. 2 volumes bound in one. Folio, London: to bring me such a treasure I must try my best in my own [By Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton, 1604]. First combined living person to leave my wife and young ones provided for edition of translations by Richard Grenewey and Sir Henry & trust that a number of lectures and word-loving persons Savile (third edition of both books). Contemporary calf with in America will be found to contribute to the success of that central gilt lozenge device, rebacked, endpapers renewed; harmless scheme. I wrote a note 2 days since and burned it as covers scuffed, but a handsome copy nonetheless. STC 23645; being too full of personal history — on wh. I must perforce ESTC S117624. enter however, in acknowledging your article. I need not say that this is private and between me and my friendly critic. $1,250 I write just before going to the first lecture, and will dress myself with more care than usual (knowing what eyes are on the look out) and will try and lay the proper emphasis upon “i never was much of a rake …” the words. Very faithfully yours W.M. Thackeray.” He adds 59 a note: “I have not had time to deliver any of my letters of THACKERAY, William M. Autograph Letter, signed (“W M introduction, and among them is the enclosed for Mr. Parke Thackeray”). 4 pp., on four panels of folded quarto letter- Godwin.” On the last panel, Thackeray adds a belated note: sheet, in ink. [Clarendon Hotel, New York]: “Friday, 19 Novr” “Thursday 25. I am much obliged for the papers, and reopen [1852]. Small adhesion marks on lower panel from once the letter written a week since and kept back on account of having been mounted, otherwise about fine. Enclosed in an the egotism … It will give me great pleasure to call on Mr. oversize half morocco clamshell case. Godwin and Mr. Bryant and to make Mr. Godwin’s acquain- An excellent letter, written during his first tour of America tance. I wish I could propose an evening but my evenings are (November 1852 - April 1853), addressed “Dear Sir,” but pos- all engaged at present for a week: & afterwards I am not my sibly to Parke Godwin or a close associate thereof. On the own master.” Wilson, in Thackeray in the United States, reports day of his first lecture in a series presented to the Mercantile that W.C. Bryant was in attendance at the lecture in the 19th, Library Association of New York, Thackeray writes: “I thank but there is no record there of an eventual meeting with you for the paper, and the critical and biographical sketch Godwin. w. you have drawn of me. There are some errors in the bio- $2,250 graphical department w. it is scarce worth while to correct or catalogue 117 |  first complete theocritus, with contemporary illumination and marginalia 60 THEOCRITUS. [Idyllia] [and other texts]. Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, illuminated throughout in colors and gold in a contempo- rary hand. [140] leaves. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.), [Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495/96]. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of hesiod’s theogony; second edition of his works and days; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge, extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin, in two different hands; gilt edges, gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland. Renouard, page 5(3); New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III, 473-74; HC 15477*; BMC V, 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000. First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus, of which 12 appear here for the first time, also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod’s Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis, as well as the second edition Hesiod’s Works and Days, which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings [zeta].F and [theta].G, with the text uncorrected. Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand (none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years, and we are unable to find any primarily to institutional copies with coloring), but the copy is notable as well for profuse, neat contemporary marginalia, mostly in Latin, but often in Greek, which fill the book. The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls, where, typically underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally, an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller, but always clear, hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope, with notations on unusual Doric (Theocritus’s dialect) forms (e.g., the Doric preposition form for the preposition ‘πpòs’ being ‘πotì’, the identification of parts of speech, and grammatical forms, poetic us- age, etc. Especially notable, too, are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil’s Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 (“Pharmaceutria”), where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home, there now seem to be two distinct hands, and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: “Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria” [whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria]. A beautiful copy of a rare and important book, with fascinating early annotations. $65,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 |  61 demons and sinners and monks and angels VESALIUS, Andreas. Icones Anatomicae. With all the figures 62 used to illustrate the anatomical works of Vesalius. Folio, WALASSER, Adam. Der Himlisch Fueßsteig. Auff Welchem [New York & Munich]: Printed for the New York Academy Der Büssende Sünder / Mit Hülff Göttlicher Gnaden / auß der of Medicine & The Library of the University of Munich by ungestümigkeit diser Welt / sicher wandlen / und furch Christliche the Bremer Presse, 1934. No. 46 of a total edition of 615 cop- Gutte Weg Widerumb zu dem ewigen Vatterland Kommen Kan. ies. Original half white pigskin and grey paper boards, raised Ein Geistlichs Büchlin / auß alter Gotsförchtiger Andeutung …. bands, leather label. Fine copy with original box (worn and Title in red and black. Illustrated with fifty-five woodcuts (ca. split but complete). Cushing VI.A 16; Bremer Presse 39. 100 x 65 mm.). Text and woodcuts within typographic ruled “Anatomic excellence and artistic beauty mark the superb borders. [16],168 leaves. 8vo, Tegernsee: [Klosterdruckerei], woodcuts of Vesalius’s masterpiece” (Notable Medical 1581. Contemporary blindstamped vellum, spine neatly la- Books). Among other things Vesalius is justly famous for his beled in manuscript. Some minor soiling, internally fresh and fulll-page depictions of skeletons, but the rest of his anatomi- clean. BM STC (German) p. 903; OCLC: 4 copies (U. Augs- cal illustrations are almost as remarkable. “The illustrations burg; Stadtbibliothek Augsburg; Munich; Harvard). in Vesalius’s book were so accurate and clear that anatomists “It was also [the Bavarian Monastery in] Tegernsee that copied them for the next three hundred years” (ibid). He set under the rule of Abbot Quirinus (1568-94) established a standard for medical illustration that has only recently been a printing-press in 1573. The importance of printing was surpassed. The Bremer Press edition, in fact, used Vesalius’s probably recognized at the very first on account of the art original woodblocks to print this remarkable book, and the of wood-engraving which had been practised for a long time woodblocks were subsequently destroyed during the Second at Tegernsee, and of which very beautiful proof-impressions World War. Regarding the Bremer Press, Ransom states: of the years 1472 and 1477 are still extant. The press at “Perhaps no other organization, private or public, has at- Tegernsee issued chiefly religious and popular works, and tempted closer coördination and interrelation of scholarship, also scholarly and liturgical books of great typographical type design, and book design.” Uncommon and of supreme beauty” - Catholic Encyclopedia (Online). The woodcut sym- beauty. bolic illustrations depict the sufferings of purgatory and the $8,000 strengths and pitfalls of the spiritual life; the accompanying explanatory text is keyed to the figures. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller “the east. what a subject for a poem …” 63 WHITMAN, Walt. [Works] The Complete Writings. Including a biography of Whitman by his literary executors. Introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, & Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. Frontispieces in two states, original manuscript leaf in vol. I together with a hand-engrossed certification leaf signed by Jeanette Gilder. Original publisher’s receipt (for $500) laid-in. 10 vols. 8vo, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902. The Author’s Manu- script Edition, number 20 of 32 copies. Full dark-green levant, covers with an overall floral design in gilt surrounding a central lozenge onlaid in red, the spine in six com- partments with raised bands, red moire silk endsheets, t.e.g., at The Knickerbocker Press. Fine. Myerson B4; BAL 21454A. A choice copy of the Author’s Manuscript Edition with an autograph draft leaf from chapter 153 (“Hours of the Soul”) of Speci- men Days, presenting the entire “East” subsection, beginning, “What a subject for a poem! Indeed, where else a more preg- nant, more splendid one? Where one more idealistic-real, more subtle, more sensuous- delicate?” The manuscript incorporates three line from “The Errand Bearers,” a poem that was later retitled “A Broadway Pageant” and included in the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass. The manuscript has a number of strike- throughs and emendations, some in purple ink, and a note that the three-line quote from “The Errand Bearers” should be set in “smaller type.” Any portion of Leaves of Grass in Whitman’s hand is desirable. $47,500

catalogue 117 |  64 (WINE) Chaptal, [Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chante- loup]. L’Art de Faire le Vin. Folding plate by J.E. Thierry at rear showing distillation process. xvi, 381, [1] pp. 8vo, Paris: Deter- ville, 1819. “Deuxième édition” [i.e. third edition]. Unopened in original publisher’s rose wrappers with yellow paper spine and paper spine label with manuscript title. Some wear and creasing to wrappers and spine, soiling and light foxing to front and back matter. Cagle 131a (first ed.); Simon, p. 18 (1807 edition); Vicaire, p. 164 (noting this is in fact the third edition). The third edition of this French manual on wine production, first published in 1801, followed by a second edition in 1807. Here in its original rose paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. Chaptal (1756-1832) was an important figure in the application of chem- istry to modern industry. He invented the process of chaptaliza- tion, by which sugar is added to unfermented grape must in order to increase the alcohol content after fermentation. $1,000 the chateaux of bordeaux 65 (WINE) Danflou, Alfred. Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Chateaux et Vignobles … 55 albumen photo- graphic plates (5 x 6-I in.) tipped-in within an ornate red rule. viii, [9]-110; 106 pp. 2 parts bound in 1 volume. 4to, Bordeaux: Librairie Goudin … Typ. Aug. Lavertujon, [1867]. First edition thus. Contemporary quarter burgundy sheep and marbled boards, rebacked, preserving the original spine, a few small spots of dampstaining in the margins, images clean with good contrast. Bit- ting, p. 114 (with only 48 plates); Vicaire 248 (also with 48 plates); not in Cagle; not in Simon. A systematic treatment of the great chateaux and vineyards of Bordeaux (Lafitte, Latour, Haut-Brion et al) cov- ering the local history and viticulture of the premiers through cinquièmes grands crus of Médoc, each illustrated with an original albumen print. Biting and Vicaire call for only 48 photo- graphs; the present copy collates with the BNF copy with 55 photographs. In his preface, Danflou projects pub- lishing a total of 4 parts; though the last two parts never appeared. This 1867 edition was preceded by a much smaller edition of 1866 covering only the premiers and deuxièmes grand crus and illustrated with only 19 pho- tographs. $6,000

 | james cummins bookseller battle in the Pacific …” (translated from the Preface). An imposing and colorful work of WWII propaganda by Impe- rial Japan, illustrating events both true and wished-for. In the former category are the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the sink- ing of the British Prince of Wales and Repulse at the Battle off Molaya, the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the Japanese assault on Wake Island (showing captured Allied soldiers stripped to their briefs and waving a white flag), and the Japanese landing on the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. In the latter category, a Japanese plan to attack New York City, showing Japanese bombers assaulting lower Manhattan. $6,000

67 (YACHTING) Stebbins, N[athaniel] L[ivermore]. American and English Yachts: Illustrating and Describing the Most Famous English Yachts Now Sailing in American and English Waters. With a Treatise upon Yachts and Yachting by Edward Burgess. 50 photo- gravure plates (a total of 54 images) after N.L. Stebbins, each with accompanying leaf with descriptive letterpress giving dimensions and history of the pictured yacht. [vi], 14, [2] the japanese bomb lower manhattan pp. Oblong 4to, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1887). 66 First edition. Original publisher’s brown pebbled morocco, (WORLD WAR II) [Wakayama, T, editor]. Dai Toya Senso front cover gilt-stamped with title, a.e.g. Rebacked, corners Kaigun bijutsu [Naval Art of the Great East Asia War]. 35 restored, plates bright and clean. mounted color plates, with captioned tissue-guards. Oblong “It is the chief aim of this work to present in convenient folio, Tokyo: Dai Nihon Kaiyo Bijutsu Kyokai [Greater Japan form accurate delineations of the most noted yachts, includ- Pacific Art Association], Dated: Showa 18 [i.e. 1943]. Publish- ing examples of the best types of craft now sailed for plea- er’s blue cloth boards, printed paper label on cover. Fine. sure or in contests of speed” (Preface). Beautifully illustrated “The purpose to publish this book is nothing but to let the with 50 photogravure plates by noted marine photographer people in Japan understand well the bravery and activity of Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins. the Japanese Navy. Every picture contained in this book signi- fies how vigorous and brave our Navy is fighting a desperate $3,250

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Almanacs 29 Americana 17, 18 Philadelphia 29 Presidential 29, 47, 48 Western 26 Architecture 42 Art 19 American 11 Bible - Hebrew 3 Bindings 4, 8 British 7, 9, 53 French 5, 6 Books & Printing - Incunabula 60 Canadiana 37 Classics - Greek 60 Gastronomy 24 French, 65 Wine 64,65 History - Ancient 58 British 38, 45 French 65 Irish 28 Naval 20 Roman 58 WW II 66 Illustrated 27 American 20, 44 British 9 Photography 65 Law - Enforcement/Police 38 Literature American 1,14, 35, 39, 46, 63 British 10, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 25, 30, 32, 33, 41, 43, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59 Italy 50 Poetry 51 Romanticism 16 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 36 Satire 56 Maps & Atlases - American 29 Medicine - Anatomy 61 Music - Jazz 49, Private Press 2, 23, 31, 34, 40 Sporting - Angling 2, 67 Theology & Religion - Reformation 62 Roman Catholicism 45 Travel & Exp - Central Asia 12 Women 2

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