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2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair April 7-10

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2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair April 7-10

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The following catalogue is a selection of books that we will be exhibiting at the 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Full descriptions can be found on our website, or on request. 1] 2] (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) [DORLON, John, ASHMUN, J[ehudi] Captain, et al.] History of the American Colony in Liberia, from December Orderly Book of Captain John Dorlon’s Company of New York 1821 to 1823. Compiled from the Authentic Records of the Minutemen Colony New York: 19 February-11 April 1776. Large folding map. Washington, D.C: Way & Gideon, 1826. First edition. defending NYC in advance of the British Invasion Manuscript orderly book documenting the fortifcations and EARLY REPORT ON THE COLONY FOR FREED AND FREE-BORN preparations by rebellious colonists in advance of the Brirish BLACKS invasion of New York and Long Island in 1776. Ashmun acted as the agent for the United States in the SOLD establishment of the American colony of Liberia, a settlement in west Africa for freed blacks. He served two terms as governor of the colony: the frst from 8 August 1822 - 2 April 1823. After a brief hiatus, he resumed governorship for a longer second term: 14 August 1823 - 26 March 1828. He is the most important fgure in the early years of Liberia, and this work is one of the earliest accounts of the colony’s settlement. $3,000 3] 4] AUDUBON, John James (BAKST, Leon) ALEXANDRE, Arsene The Birds of America The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst … with Notes on the Ballets 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon. New York: Roe by Jean Cocteau Lockwood & Son, 1840-1844. First octavo edition. With frontispiece portrait, 50 colored plates, 27 monochrome plates. The first octavo edition of Audubon’s Great National London: Fine Arts Society, 1913. First English edition. Work A standard, indispensable work A tall set, bound from the original parts, in a contemporary full This beautifully produced volume was the frst work in English on morocco binding. the art and theatrical designs of Leon Bakst. $65,000 $3,750

2 | James Cummins bookseller 5] 6] (BIBLE, Catholic) (BIBLE) The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Faithfully Translated into The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, English, out of the Authentical Latin … with Annotations, Translated out of the Original Greek: and with the Former and Other Helpes … in the English College of Rhemes Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Appointed to Antwerp: James Seldenslach, 1621. Third edition of the Rheims New be Read in Churches Testament. Boston: Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, 1794. ‘The first pocket edition of the Roman Catholic Bible’ SO MUCH FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE The third edition of the Rheims Catholic New Testament, following Rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for editions in 1582 and 1600. In 12mo format, it is the frst pocket a consortium of booksellers (to provide an American printed edition of the Roman Catholic Bible in English. alternative to British printings). The Great Seal of the United $2,750 States, prominently displayed on the title page, suggests that even at the dawn of the American republic, certain clauses of the Third Amendment were subject to fuid interpretation. This is the only instance where the Great Seal of the United States was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. $26,500 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 3 7] Items 8-12 BLACKSTONE, William william MUIR FACSIMILES OF WILLIAM BLAKE Commentaries on the Laws of England A collection of the superb William Muir facimiles of the works of William Blake. America [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1771-2. First American edition. Notes Bentley: “[Gilchrist’s ‘Life’] not only multiplied the prices of [Blake’s] works, but it encouraged the publication of facsimiles. Of Subscriber’s copy of the first american edition these, the most ambitious, and the most conspicuously successful, Blackstone’s Commentaries was frst published at Oxford in 1765-69 were those … produced at The Blake Press at Edmonton by William and was immediately successful. Blackstone translated English Muir and his family and friends. Twelve works in Illuminated common law into layman’s terms. As the colonial legal system, and printing were issued between 1884 and 1890, printed and coloured by afterwards, that of the United States, was based upon the English hand at great trouble and with considerable success … The size of legal system, it was as important a text in America as in England. the edition was small, but their infuence was appreciable, and their scope has only been equalled in recent times by the facsimiles of the $12,000 Blake Trust.”

4 | James Cummins bookseller 8] 9] BLAKE, William BLAKE, William America, A Prophecy, by William Blake, 1793 Europe, a Prophecy, by William Blake, 1794. Facsimilied at William Muir facsimile, 18 leaves, hand-colored. London: Quaritch, Edmonton, anno 1887 1887. 50 copies printed. 17 leaves, hand-colored. London: Quaritch, 1887. No. 38 of 50 copies, in original wrappers signed by Muir on the wrapper. One of the great large-format facsimiles by William Muir, from spectacular large format copy A (at the time in the possession of Quaritch, now in the This is the 8th of 12 facsimiles issued by Muir. The facsimiles were Morgan Library). taken from Muir’s own copy of leaves 1 and 3; the BM copy (leaves 2, $9,000 4, 5, 7); and the MacGeorge copy for the rest. $11,000

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 5 10] 11] BLAKE, William BLAKE, William Milton, a Poem in 2 Books Songs of Innocence. [And:] Songs of Experience With 45 hand-colored plates in facsimile by William Muir. William Muir facsimiles, hand-colored. 34 & 31 leaves. London: 1885. Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch, 1886. One of 50 Each work is one of 50 copies; one of a few sets specially bound for copies. Quaritch. in a Special Binding by Roger de Coverly in a deluxe binding The Milton facsimile was made from Copy A (1804-08), the British Songs of Innocence has an illuminated leaf at the end, with Muir’s Museum copy; it has 45 hand-colored plates. colophon stating this is copy 47, dated 1884. Songs of Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy and he is recorded at the end as the $12,500 Publisher in London in 1884. His death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience was taken from the Beckford Copy. The general title to both works has been bound at front. $12,500

6 | James Cummins bookseller 12] 13] BLAKE, William [CARTARI, Vincenzo] & Richard LINCHE (translator) The Book of Thel [bound with:] The Marriage of Heaven The Fountaine of Ancient Fiction. Wherein is Lively Depicted and Hell [and:] Visions of the Daughters of Albion [and:] the Images and Statues of the Gods of the Ancients, with There Is No Natural Religion [and:] All Religions Are One. Their Proper and Perticular Expositions. Done out of Italian Hand-colored facsimiles by William Muir. With 8, 26, 11, and 21 into English, by Richard Linche Gent plates in the four works (66 total). Edmonton: John Pearson for London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1599. First English edition. Bernard Quaritch, 1884-5. Each title one of 50 copies. Mythology Sourcebook Four Muir Facsimiles, in Special Binding The Pforzheimer catalogue calls this popular mythology manual an The Muir facsimiles were produced in editions of 50 copies; a few “abbreviated paraphrase” of Caratari’s Le Imagini, con la Spositione de copies would have been bound up by Quaritch, the distributor, in i Dei degli Antichi (Venice, 1556), “a compilation from Ovid, Claudian, white vellum, as here. Pliny, Homer and others of descriptions of classical deities.” ESTC $12,500 goes further in calling it “mostly an original work by Linche.” An important work in the transmission of classical mythology to Tudor England. $3,500

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 7 14] 15] CASTIGLIONE, Baltassar CHARTERIS, Leslie ll Cortegiano del … novamente stampato, et con somma [The Saint’s Second Front] Typescript of an unpublished diligentia revisto, con la sua tavola di nuovo agionta novella Venice: Gabriel Iolito, 1541 237 pp., typescript with manuscript corrections in pencil by the author. [1941]. The Ideal of the Courtier — Early Edition, Pristine from Venice the saint Prevents a Japanese Invasion of California Irresistably pristine copy of a very early Venetian edition of The complete unpublished typescript of Leslie Charteris’s long- Castiglione’s classic depiction of how the ideal gentleman should be lost Saint novella, The Saint’s Second Front — the plot of which educated and behave. First published in the year before his death, foreshadows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 1528, it was one of many courtesy books published throughout Written just months before the attack, Charteris’s story involves a the 16th century (e.g., Guazzo’s Il Civil Conversatione). Il Cortegio plan by the Japanese to use a clandestine army — the Black Dragon remained the standard of behavior for all the upper classes of — to attack Southern California as prelude to a larger invasion. The Europe for the next fve centuries, especially in England, where it story was submitted to Cosmopolitan, who rejected it and wrote to became an important and recognizable Shakespeare source and a Charteris that “we do not think this is the time to publish anything huge infuence on the court of Queen Elizabeth through her tutor, which might aggravate the tensions with our Japanese friends.” An Roger Ascham. important rediscovery of a missing piece of The Saint canon. $2,250 $25,000 8 | James Cummins bookseller 16] 17] CHARTERIS, Leslie (CHURCHILL) BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen Archive of typescripts, photographs and ephemera India Under Ripon. A Private Diary V.p., chiefy Lantana, Florida: ca. 1930s-1970s. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. First edition. ‘How I created a Saint’: a Leslie Charteris archive CHURCHILL’S COPY An archive of typescripts of plays, stories and articles by Leslie Presented by Blunt to Churchill, “Winston S. Churchill with kind Charteris (1907-1993), author of the The Saint series of novels staring regards from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Nov 25 1909 for Nov 30.” In his the good-hearted thief Simon Templar. The archive includes the distinctive hand, Churchill has added on the front pastedown: “This typescripts of an unpublished Saint story, “Death Is So Permanent,” was the frst copy printed WSC.” With the blookplates of both and The Saint radio play, “The Simon Templar Foundation,” as Winston Churchill and his son, Randolph. well as Charteris’s essays on how he created the Simon Templar The relationship between Blunt and Winston Churchill is well- character and how the character was adapted for TV (The Saint known if under-reported. Blunt — poet, hedonist, diplomat, series ran from 1962-9 and starred Roger Moore). In addition, the traveller and radical anti-Imperialist — was a good friend of archive contains typescripts of travel and food essays written for Randolph Churchill and assisted the young Winston in his Gourmet, photographs of Charteris, and an assortment of Saint biography of his father. This volume is a wonderful and apposite ephemera. emblem of their relationship. $8,500 $9,500

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 9 18] 19] [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … by Mark Twain Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition, frst London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition, with half-title. issue. Untrimmed in original drab wrappers Earliest Presentation Copy of the Published ‘Huck’ Three of Coleridge’s greatest poems, which had been composed Presentation inscription from Clemens to his agent Pond on the long before, but published here for the frst time at the urging of front fy leaf: “To Major J.B. Pond, with the afection of Mark Twain friends, especially Lord Byron: his visionary opium dream, “Kubla Feb. 21/85.” Inscribed to the manager of Clemens’ lecture tour Khan,” the anguished “Pains of Sleep,” and the haunting, erotic with George Washington Cable. On the leaf opposite, Pond later “Christabel.” recalled the circumstances of the inscription when he gave the book to his son in 1897 “… the great Twain-Cable combination under $10,000 my management …‘Mark’ showed me the book, & asked me if I wanted it, Yes, said I, I would very much prize the frst copy of one of your books …” $215,000

10 | James Cummins bookseller 20] 21] CORBOULD, Henry, and Thomas UNWINS (DANTE) BOYD, Henry (translator) Bound album of 34 drawings (20 by Corbould, 14 by Unwins) The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and wash drawings mounted; one signed Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dante. London: Cadell and by Corbould, 3 signed by Unwins. England: 1820-1850. Davies, 1802. First complete edition in English. original Regency Book Illustrations by corbould and the signet library copy unwins The pinnacle of Italian literature, Dante’s Divine Comedy was Collection of bound watercolors by the neo-classical historical completed a year before his death in 1321. Its signifcance and painter Henry Corbould (1787–1844) and the portraitist Thomas infuence cannot be overstated. Unwins (1782–1857). “[Boyd’s] translation is important as the frst English version of the $9,500 complete Divine Comedy to be published… The edition’s value was in assisting to re-establish an audience for Dante, whose reputation had sufered a decline in the previous century. It was dedicated to Viscount Charleville, whose chaplain Boyd was until the Irish rising induced him to resign his post” (ODNB). SOLD

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 11 22] 23] DAVIS, William Richard (DEFOE, Daniel, supposed author) JOHNSON, A Short Account of Travels in Palestine and on the Coast of Charles Syria A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Birmingham: White & Pike Ltd, [1849]. Sole edition. Notorious Pyrates APPARENTLY UNRECORDED With three engraved plates. London: Rivington, 1724. First edition. Davis states in the preface, “This little pamphlet is a description the foundations of pirate-lore of my Travels in Palestine and on the Coast of Syria during the History of the pirates who pillaged the Caribbean, north Atlantic, time I was allowed to go as servant to my ofcers whilst on board and Cape of Good Hope during the 17th and 18th centuries, H.M.S. Harlequin.” The author was abroad for three years and four usually attributed to Daniel Defoe. It is in this work that the months in total. His account also includes stops at Jafa, Bethlehem, foundations of pirate-lore are established: wooden legs, eye patches Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Mount Carmel. The second half of the and the Jolly Roger all make their frst appearance here. We are book consists of extracts from his diary. Very rare: not in BL, OCLC, introduced to characters such as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and or COPAC. Bartholomew Roberts, names which infuenced the likes of Robert $1,250 Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. The plates show Black Beard, Bartholomew Roberts, and the two female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. $17,500 12 | James Cummins bookseller 24] 25] DESCARTES, [René] DIBDIN, T.F. Meditationes de prima philsophia, in qua Dei existentia et Book Rarities; or A Descriptive Catalogue of Some of the Most animae immortalitas demonstratur Curious, Rare, and Valuable Books of Early Date; Chiefy Paris: Michaelem Soli, 1641. First edition, unrecorded early state, in the Collection of the Right Honourable George John Earl without printed errata on fnal contents leaf. Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c in an Unrecorded Early State Illustrated. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James’s, 1811. First edition, one of 36 copies. The exceedingly rare frst edition of Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, a companion to Discourse on Philosophy (1637). As Presentation Copy of the Spencer Catalogue Descartes told Marin Mersenne, who edited the work and saw it Prospectus through the press, the Meditations contains “all the principles of my physics.” Inscribed on a front fyleaf, “With the Author’s respectful Compts.” The rare specimen of Dibdin’s great catalogue of the Spencer An exceedingly rare book in any state — only 34 copies located, the collection, Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1814-5), published in 4 volumes majority in French institutions. Only three copies (one incomplete) with 3 volumes of supplements (1822-3). Here Dibdin proposes a are recorded at auction by ABPC in the last 40 years. A superior work on early printing, to be illustrated with woodcuts and copy in contemporary vellum — in an unrecorded, and arguably the describing examples from the Spencer collection and elsewhere. earliest, state. Many of the copies, as this one, were presented to close friends. SOLD $12,000 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 13 26] 27] DIBDIN, T.F. EGE, Otto F. The Lincolne Nosegay. Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 London: W. Bulmer and Co. for Dibdin, [1814]. First edition, one of A.D. 36 copies. Bound in Dublin by George Mullen, c. 1816. Printed descriptive leaf and 37 mounted leaves. [New York: Philip C. inscribed by dibdin, in a george mullen binding Duschnes, October 1936]. Inscribed: “Price stitched 3/6. Only 36 Copies printed” and signed with three manuscript and two incunable leaves with initials. The frst of Otto Ege’s portfolios of manuscript and printed leaves, Dibdin’s pseudo-auction catalogue, limited to 36 copies and typically sold by New York bookseller Philip Duschnes in 1936. The portfolio written in faux-Middle English, of the 19 early printed books in comprises 3 manuscript leaves and 34 leaves from printed Bibles. English (including three Caxtons) that he had bought from the Ege has been characterized by Christopher de Hamel as “the most Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral for 500 guineas. In a fne endearing of arch-villains” and his role in breaking manuscripts contemporary binding by the Dublin binder George Mullen. and dispersing leaves throughout the 1930s is well known. Recent $55,000 scholarship tends to confrm his ambivalent status, while examining the whereabouts of the manuscripts and contents of the portfolios. Ege “stressed their educational value and the inimitable experience of seeing and handling manuscripts and books” (Silver). $5,000 14 | James Cummins bookseller 28] 29] EKINS, Charles ENGLAND. Privy Council Universal Signals Simply and Intelligibly Displayed; in A Decree of Starre-Chamber Concerning Printing, Made the Symbols of Black and White … with Geographical Notes of eleventh day of July last part 1637 Reference, as connected with Ships, Colonies and Commerce London: by Robert Barker … and the assignes of John Bill, 1637. Folding frontispiece and plate. London: Thomas Curson Hansard, First edition, frst issue. 1838. Censorship in pre-revolution England NOT PUBLISHED: SIR WILLIAM PARKER’S COPY Fourth of the Star Chamber ordinances for the regulation of OCLC locates just a single copy of this work on signaling at printing, forbidding the printing or distribution of “any seditious, the NMM. The presentation inscription reads: “A Specimen of scismaticall, or ofensive Bookes or Pamphlets.” The decree [Universal Signals] for Sir William Parker Bart G.C.B. &c, &c. No. required that all works be entered into the register of the Stationers’ One. To be read frst.” This is an early proof, printed in part for Company of London, and that all works display their imprimatur Parker’s consideration and comments. as well as the name of the printer and author. Furthermore, the number of licensed printers was capped at 20. The Decree was in $3,500 part an attempt to regulate and stife dissent in the period leading up to the English Civil War. It remains a landmark work in the history of printing, censorship, piracy and copyright law. $8,500 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 15 30] 31] FRASER, George MacDonald GISSING, George Complete run of the Flashman Papers: all volumes signed in New Grub Street frst edition London: Smith, Elder, 1891. First edition, one of 500 copies. London: Barrie & Jenkins and later Harvill and HarperCollins, 1969- the lower depths of literary london 2005. All frst editions. A near fne copy of the frst edition of Gissing’s grim tale of A RARE SIGNED SET the lower depths of literary London, where aspiring writers, The Flashman Papers in their entirety, documenting the many journalists and critics negotiate the often incompatible demands of adventures and great many loves of Sir Harry Flashman VC KCB integrity and commercial success. “[Gissing’s] strongest book, an KCIE. For all his success, Fraser made it clear that his hero remained acknowledged classic. Its main characters have become recognized “a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and, oh yes, a symbols of the many shades of professional integrity and toady.” adaptability in the literary world, shades not substantially afected by the passing of the years” (ODNB). $9,500 $6,500

16 | James Cummins bookseller 32] 33] GODFREY, Thomas (HENRY VII) Juvenile Poems of Various Subjects. With the Prince of Letters patent to Sir Thomas Tyrell, restoring his estates Parthia: A Tragedy by the late Mr. Thomas Godfrey, Jun. of Document on vellum, ca. 1504. Philadelphia. To which is Prefxed some Account of the Author with original wax seal of henry vii and his Writings Letters patent from King Henry VII restoring lands to Sir Thomas Philadelphia: Henry Miller, 1765. First edition. Tyrell. An impressive example on two large vellum membranes, The first play produced by an American with the wax seal of Henry VII, and housed in the original leather document case. First edition of The Prince of Parthia, which was “the frst drama written by a native American to be produced upon the professional Sir Thomas was the son of Sir James Tyrell (d. 1502), a supporter of stage” (DAB). The play debuted on 24 April 1767 at the Southwark Richard III and allegedly, at the King’s command, the murderer of Theatre in Philadelphia. Performed by David Douglass’s American “the Princes in the Tower” — Edward V and his brother Richard, Company, its riches were such that a second performance was Duke of York. He managed to fnd favor for a time with Henry VII, deemed unnecessary. Nonetheless it is a signifcant moment securing an important post in English Calais. in American theatre, not least for being performed in the frst As referenced in this document, Tyrell’s fortunes turned, and he was permanent theatre in the country. ABPC lists no copies at auction in beheaded in 1502 for his involvement in the Earl of Sufolk’s plot to the past 35 years. overthrow the king. $8,500 $30,000 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 17 34] 35] JAMES II LACTANTIUS Autograph Letter, signed as Duke of York (“James”), to L. Cœlii Lactantii Firmiani divinarum institutionum Libri Samuel Pepys septem [bound with:] Tertullianus [Apologeticum] The Hague: April 24, 1679. Venetiis [Venice: Aldus] in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, [April 1515]. First Aldine edition. James II and Pepys discuss naval matters Prior to becoming king, James II acted as lord high admiral from Macclesfield Copy, Rubricated Throughout 1660-73. He had a small board of seven men to assist him; Samuel Aldine printing of the early Christians Lactantius and Tertullian, Pepys served among them as clerk of the acts. This letter was published just after the death of the elder Aldus in January 1515. The written at the time of the Popish plot, and in order to quell any preface to the Lactantius notes his death. This copy fully rubricated, suspicion of involvement, James went abroad to Brussels and later unusual for an Aldine octavo. Scotland where he was “virtual viceroy.” $5,500 The letter reads in part, “I had received yours in which you gave an account of the losse of the marigold prise at Tanger. I hope that we shall now sone heare of the arrival of Sr. J. Narborough for then we shall have some more strength at home, though not so much as I thinke aught to be at sea, considering the French are ftting out …” $8,500 18 | James Cummins bookseller 36] 37] LULL, Ramón MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo [Three works in one volume:] Opusculum Raymundinum Nicholas Machiavel’s Prince … Translated out of Italian into de Auditu Kabbalistico sive ad Omnes Scientias English; by E[dward] D[acres] Introductorium; Ars Brevis Illuminati Doctoris Magistri London: R. Bishop, for Wil: Hils, and are to be sold by Daniel Raymundi Lull; Sacrosanctae ac Salitiferae Christianae eum Pakeman, 1640. First edition in English. eorundem perpulchra introduction Machiavelli’s Prince: the First English edition Paris: Aegidius Gorbinus, 1578. First published in Rome in the Italian vernacular in 1532, The Prince sammelband of three works marks the foundation of modern political theory. The work was innovative and controversial from the start, divorcing the study of Very rare: Lull’s work includes a description of a system which politics from ethics and religion. Several 16th-century manuscript infuenced Leibnitz and can be classifed “among the forerunners of English translations are known — it is likely that Shakespeare both modern symbolic logic and computer science” (DSB). read one of these, for he has Richard III speak of the “notorious Ramón Lull, c. 1232-c. 1315 — poet, philosopher, alchemist, Catalan Machiavel” and the “murderous Machiavel” in Henry VI, parts I & mystic, called “Doctor Illuminatus.” 3. The Life of Castruccio Castracani, another study of contemporary Italians and which follows the text of The Prince, was a likely source $5,000 for Mary Shelley’s Valperga. $85,000

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 19 38] 39] [MARCEL, Jean-Joseph] [MONTANO, Andreas Avelino] Vocabulaire Francais-Arabe [Emma, Queen of Hawaii.] Photograph and clipped signature Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, an VII de la Republique [1798]. First Honolulu: c. 1870. Framed and glazed, measuring 9 x 10-½ in. edition. A particularly fine example of Emma’s photograph and One of the first books printed in Cairo signature The Imprimerie Nationale was established in October 1798, shortly She has signed herself “Emma R / September 26, 1865.” after Napoleon’s army arrived. This French-Arabe dictionary Born in Honolulu in 1836, she was adopted by her maternal aunt, commences with numbers and other basic vocabulary (time, the chiefess Grace Kama’iku’i Young Rooke, and her husband, Dr. temperatures, etc.), before moving on to food, professions, local Thomas C. B. Rooke. She married Kamehameha IV on 19 June 1856. geography (Cairo, Nile, pyramids) and other useful words for Emma was an active queen, concerned with palace afairs and was a soldier on the ground. This is augmented by the selection of involved in the expansion of the royal library. She is best known for phrases in the fnal section. Marcel’s preface gives useful instructions founding the Queen’s Hospital in 1860, which was built to care for as to the correct pronunciation of certain Arabic letters (shown) native Hawaiians who had no immunity to many of the European and of the Arabic words and phrases, which are given in Latin diseases which they encountered. transliteration throughout the volume. Extremely rare. We locate just four copies. There are no copies recorded on ABPC. $2,500 $19,500

20 | James Cummins bookseller 40] 41] PHILLIP, Arthur PIKE, Z[ebulon] M. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi … Frontispiece portrait, engraved title (in the frst state) and 54 Frontispiece portrait, 6 maps. 8vo. Philadelphia: John Binns, 1810. engraved plates & charts (31 hand-colored). London: Printed for First edition. John Stockdale, 1789. First edition, deluxe issue. In a contemporary American binding THE RAREST AND MOST DESIRABLE FIRST FLEET BOOK The report of the frst, and certainly one of the most important, A beautiful copy of the best First Fleet book in the rare deluxe issue: exploration narratives of the Southwest. Pike’s narrative includes the ofcial account by its frst governor. his account of his travels to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas “A work of primary importance for Australian history” (Hill). and Red Rivers, as well as his earlier journey to the sources of the Compiled primarily from Phillip’s journal, it also includes material Mississippi River. He also relates his visit to the Spanish settlements from John Shortland, John Watts, Henry Lidberg Ball and John in New Mexico. Along with the writings of Lewis & Clark, Pike’s Marshall. Less known is that it includes the frst published account Account must stand as the most important early work on western of La Perouse’s expedition and it was due to Phillip that the exploration. The maps, which Wheat considers “milestones in the documentation of the latter half of the expedition was saved. mapping of the American west,” are the frst to show geographic knowledge of the area based upon frst-hand explorations. $50,000 $15,000

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 21 42] 43] [PORTER, Elijah] PYLE, Howard “Journal of a Revolutionary Soldier …” Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson [Farmington, Connecticut: 1841]. 36 full-page plates, this copy extra-illustrated on the endsheets with 7 watercolor drawings (5 full-page) by Merle Johnson, New York: first-hand account of revolutionary war battles Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition, no. 21 of 50 copies only on Elijah Porter’s journal of his American Revolutionary War service Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. covers a three-year period, May 1777 to May 1780, and provides a vivid narrative of the leading incidents and campaigns during With 7 Merle Johnson Watercolors of Piratical Scenes his military service in New York and New Jersey. Porter served in The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales General Israel Putnam’s Division of the Connecticut Line, under and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson. This General George Washington’s command. copy marvelously extra-illustrated by Merle Johnson with 7 full- and Includes accounts of the Battles of Fort Montgomery, Monmouth, double-page watercolor illustrations of pirates. These are not the and Stony Point; the capture and execution of two spies; an attempt grim, hardened pirates of Pyle’s illustrations; Johnson’s pirates are to kidnap Washington; an African American servant’s single-handed drawn in a humorous, cartoon style that blends the historical and capture of a British ofcer; and Washington’s tearful solicitude for the modern. his troops during the harsh winter encampment at Morristown. An $7,500 outstanding account. $30,000 22 | James Cummins bookseller 44] 45] (RACKHAM, Arthur) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian SCOTT, Robert Falcon Fairy Tales Scott’s Last Expedition the signed limited edition, in fine condition Frontispieces, 18 colored plates, maps. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913. First edition. With twelve color plates, ffty-nine black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1932]. No. OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY 144 of 500 copies signed by Rackham. The copy of Edward R.G.R. Evans, frst Baron Mountevans: he was $4,500 second in command on the expedition, the captain of the Terra Nova and the last living man to see Scott alive. These volumes are further distinguished by two of Evans’ original drawings (including one of the Terra Nova) and his signature. It is also signed by Roald Amundsen, Cecil H. Meares, Capt. J. Neil, Cherry Keaton, Hjalmar Riiser Larsen, John Hugh Mather, and John Baptist Lucius Noel. $15,000

2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 23 46] 47] SHAKESPEARE, William SHAW, Henry Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies Alphabets Numerals and Devices of the Middle Ages Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout. London: Printed for 48 plates, many hand-colored and heightened in gold. London: P[hilip] C[hetwinde], 1664. Third folio edition, second enlarged William Pickering, 1845. Larg paper copy. issue, of Shakespeare’s plays, generally regarded as the rarest of the seventeenth-century folio editions. Large paper copy in a fine binding McLean praises all of Shaw’s books as being “among the fnest The Rare Third Folio, J.P. Morgan Copy achievements of Victorian book design and illustration” (McLean, The Third Folio is a reprint of the second edition (1632), but this pp. 65) and signals out the present title as being of particular interest second issue contains seven additional plays; of which only Pericles to students of lettering. Starting with Illuminated Ornaments (1831- Prince of Tyre is now considered to be the work of Shakespeare. An 33), Shaw’s major works were printed by the Chiswick Press and unknown number of copies is thought to have been destroyed in published by Pickering. Each work was ofered in plain or colored the Great Fire of London of 1666. With the gilt-stamped red leather issues, with a small portion of each edition, as in the present armorial bookplate and pencilled-in shelf mark of J.P. Morgan. example, printed on Imperial Quarto with plates “more highly fnished in opaque colors, heightened with gold.” $500,000 This copy in a stunning contemporary binding. $4,750

24 | James Cummins bookseller 48] 49] (SLAVERY) CONVENTION NATIONALE STARK, Freya Decrets de la Convention Nationale Des 16e jour de Pluviose Baghdad Sketches & 16e jour de Germinal, an second de la republique Francoise, 12 plates. Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd, 1932. First edition. une & indivisible. 1. Qui abolit l’Esclavage des Negres dans les scarce first book by one of the great 20th-century Colonies. travellers Evreux: de l’Imprimerie de J.J.L. Ancelle, 16 Pluviose An II [4 February 1794]. First edition. Born in Paris, brought up in Devon and Italy, Stark studied history at Bedford College, University of London, then trained as a nurse and FRANCE ABOLISHES SLAVERY learned Arabic at the School of Oriental Studies. A document of historic signifcance — and a testament to the “In 1929 she moved to Baghdad, where she went slumming in Arab fraught path to the abolition of slavery. This document is the frst clothing and was an outsider among priggish British expatriates” in what would prove an arduous though ultimately successful path: (ODNB). During this time she made two journeys into the France abolished slave trading in 1818, though it wasn’t until 1899 mountains of western Iran. The frst took her to Luristan, which that abolition in the empire was complete. The decree was printed lies between Harsin and Khorramabad. Her second trip was to Ilam throughout France and in addition to Paris, imprints from Marseille, and the Kabirkuh mountains. The War Ofce made maps based Lille, Avignon and Auxerre are recorded in a total of nine copies on on the information she brought back and her profle in the expat OCLC. There are none recorded from Evreaux. community rose as a result. $6,500 $1,250 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 25 50] 51] SWIFT, Jonathan THESIGER, Wilfred Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Arabian Sands Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver 46 plates, 8 maps to the text & folding map in pocket. London: Engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Gulliver (in the second Longmans, 1959. First edition. state as usual), 5 engraved maps & one engraved plate of the ‘I went to Southern Arabia only just in time’ automatic writing machine. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. First edition (Teerink’s A), frst printing. Rare signed copy in the dust-jacket. one of the great satires in the English language $4,000 A very pretty set of the rare frst printing. $45,000

26 | James Cummins bookseller 52] 53] TOWNSEND, Joseph VERGUET, C.M. Leopold Manuscript by Quaker Joseph Townsend of the Battle of Histoire de la Premiere Mission Catholique au vicariate Brandywine September 11, 1777 Melanesie 49 pp. manuscript. [Baltimore: between 1833-1841]. Map, facsimile letter and 23 plates. Carcassonne: P. Labau, 1854. First edition. Quaker Eyewitness account of a Washington defeat first catholic mission in melanesia Joseph Townsend’s own manuscript for his eyewitness account of the Battle of Brandywine is one of the few civilian, frst-hand A fne copy of this rare work on the frst Catholic mission in narratives of that American Revolutionary War battle and its Melanesia. Verguet was a missionary of the Societé de Marie whose aftermath. Townsend was a Quaker non-combatant, but he provides activities long preceded that of the Missionaires du Sacre-Coeur in a clear description of the decisive fanking movement of the British Melanesia and the western Pacifc. army. While the American army commanded by Washington was The work’s appeal is enhanced by the series of beautiful woodcut defeated at Brandywine, the battlefeld is today celebrated as the plates illustrating local inhabitants and views. It also includes a place where the young, twenty-year-old Marquis de Lafayette was comparative vocabulary of French, English, Tahiti, Hawaii, the wounded serving the American cause and the place where the Stars Marquesas, Fiji, Aboriginal Australia, Maori, Tonga and Samoa. and Stripes were possibly frst fown in battle. There is a substantial chapter on New South Wales, including an $25,000 image of the monument to La Perouse. $7,500 2016 New York Antiquarian Book Fair | 27 54] 55] (VIRGIL) [VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius] WHITMAN, Walt The Thirteene bookes of Aeneidos … Translated into English Leaves of Grass verse to the frst third part of the tenth booke, by Thomas Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer after Phaer Esquire: and the residue fnished, and now newly set a photograph. Brooklyn, New York: 1855. First edition, frst issue. forth for the delight of such as are studious in poetrie: by ‘I see and hear the whole’ Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke “He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the London: Thomas Creede, 1596. intoxication of his immense afrmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric The third complete PHAER & TWYNE translation of the yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred). Of Aeneid the original 795 copies, only 337 were issued in the frst binding, as This translation follows partial translations in 1558 and 1562, and this copy, with extensive gilt stamping, marbled endsheets, and gilt a complete translation printed in 1573 and 1584. “Though not the edges (in the second binding only the title was gilt, and plain yellow frst, Phaer’s was the most popular of all the Tudor translations endsheets were used). having been published in whole or in part at least eight times A beautiful copy of a landmark work in American literature. (Pforzheimer). $200,000 $9,000

28 | James Cummins bookseller 56] (WINE) STEINLEN, Christian Gottlieb La Fête des Vignerons, Vevey Hand-colored engraved panorama, comprising 30 conjoined sections. 7-½ x 588 in. Lausanne: Spengler & Cie, [1833]. Sole edition. Forty-Seven Foot Tribute to Winemakers The fête in Vevey was organized by the Brotherhood of Vevey Winegrowers (then known as Agricultural Association or Abbaye of St. Urban). What began as an annual festival in the seventeenth century became one of the few permitted community events during the Protestant Reformation. In 1833 the festival was held on August 8-9, and the procession included 800 participants. It was staged by David Constantin and Steinlin, the local drawing teacher, designed the costumes for the procession and produced the drawings for this picturesque memento. The drawings feature people who actually participated in the procession. A wonderful survival, completely untrimmed. $12,500

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