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JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 117 Spring Arrivals James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 117 Spring Arrivals to Place Your Order, Call, Write, E-Mail Or Fax JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 117 Spring Arrivals james cummins bookseller catalogue 117 Spring Arrivals To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 e-mail: [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 11 inside front cover: item 45 inside rear cover: item 29 rear cover: item 19 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 2 | 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 | 3 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 4 | 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 | 5 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.
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