james cummins JAMES bookseller CUMMINs bookseller Catalogue 133 Sporting books & prints catalogue JAMES CUMMINS bookseller 699 Madison Ave, New York, 10065 | tel: (212) 688-6441 | fax: (212) 688-6192 | jamescumminsbookseller.com 133 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller Catalogue 133 Sporting Books & PRints 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 [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 1] Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. ALKEN, Henry The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 8vo. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1825. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. Full olive levant gilt by Riviere and Son, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate of William Morley Pegge; Schwerdt bookplate. Some light traces of foxing in frst and last leaves, not afecting plates. Fine copy. Cloth folding box. Tooley 43; Siltzer p. 72; Schwerdt I, pp. 19-20 (this copy); Podeschi 121 (folio ed.). Schwerdt Copy “This book difers from the folio edition … Alken himself seems to have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account of their small size” (Schwerdt). front cover: item 19 The “Fox Hunters Toast” plate (no. 19) is bound as a frontispiece; the original printed label is laid down on a preliminary leaf: inside front cover: item 10 Alken’s Sports of Great Britain. Fifty coloured plates. Price Three Guineas. inside rear cover: item 11 A classic Alken title with excellent provenance. rear cover: item 62 $6,000 photography by nicole neenan 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. 2] (ANGLER’S ASSISTANT) The Anglers Assistant being an Epitomy of ye Whole Art of Angling. Wherein is Shewn at one View ye Harbours, Seasons & Depths for Catching all Sorts of Fish usually Angled for. Also the various Baits for each so digested as to contain the Epitome of all ye Treatises ever Wrote on the Subject exempt from their Superfuities which tend more to perplex than Instruct Engraved broadside, printed in black. Title within a cartouche with angling motifs, explanatory text in columns beneath. Plate size 290 x 180 mm. [London]: Sold by M. Sheepy under the Royal Exhange in Cornhill Pr. 4d, [n.d., ca. 1750]. First edition. Leaf somewhat toned. Horizontal repair at center on verso and mounting remnants along top, with small marginal tears and loss along top left (not afecting text). ESTC N30374 (Harvard). THE EARLIEST ‘ASSISTANT’ Attractive and interesting angling broadside, with extensive descriptions of pastes, fies, 3] and worms to be used in pursuit of each (ANNALS OF SPORTING) variety of fsh. The imprint of this copy difers from, and The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects and fancy pursuits; PRECEDES other copies seen, which bore containing every thing worthy of remark on hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fshing, cocking, pugilism, wrestling, imprints of Onesimus Ustonson (1760s), singlestick, pedestrianism, cricket, billiards, rowing, sailing, &c. &c. Accompanied with striking representations of and Ustonson & Son (1790s). Westwood the various subjects & Satchell describe these broadside as “a stock article with the tackle makers” (p. xiii); Illustrated with 152 plates, many of them hand colored, by Henry Alken, Samuel Alken, Robert Cruikshank, Thomas and Edwin a related work is The Angler‘s Complete Landseer, etc., and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo (8-½ x 6 Assistant, an 8-page leafet with the imprint inches; 215 x 150mm). London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-28. First edition, with rare number for June of J. Wilkinson (1780s). 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Uniformly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, all edges gilt. Very occasional foxing to plates. A fne set, beautifully bound. Schwerdt I, pp. 32-5; Tooley 64; This copy can be dated to a decade earlier, Podeschi A12; Cohn 32; Slater p. 9. circa 1750, as it bears the imprint of Marshall Sheepy (Sheepey) who was active from 1748- One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting, shooting, and 53 (Plomer). Only one other copy is recorded the turf, but its reach extends to such less fashionable pursuits as swimming and gymnastics; the angler will fnd much of interest in the Houghton Library at Harvard. here. A superb, prime set of this important sporting journal, complete in 13 volumes, WITH THE RARE JUNE 1828 NUMBER, (the last issued, of which only a small number were published), the January to June title page for 1828, half titles where called for, and the $1,750 errata page in Vol. 2. PLUS The Turf Herald and Turf Guides for 1824-1827. A CORNERSTONE OF ANY SPORTING LIBRARY. $15,000 2 | James Cummins bookseller Catalogue 133 | 3 5] else a fne copy of a book seldom found approaching this condition. Half red morocco slipcase with Derrydale logo on BAIGENT, Dr. W[illiam] spine and on upper cover leather label, with chemise. Siegel A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an 85; Frazier B-5-a. 4] Introduction by W. Keith Rollo With Barber’s Drawing for the Title Page (AUSTRIA) Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations, “One of the most important books published by Connett.” Jagd-Cronik von Gerlos [Cover title.] Autograph Manuscript Hunting Chronicle, Gerlos im Zillertal, Tirol, 1864-1877 together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. -- Siegel This is the large paper edition of this work. The 4to. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, [n.d. ca. 1937]. With ten small ink vignettes of hunting scenes (most humorous), and an inserted autograph note (folded, with remains of seal). regular, trade, edition was published at the same time by One of approximately 40 copies. Text in blue morocco gilt, Windward House, a sporting press started by Connett in 1933. 76 pp., approx. 32 lines per page in a variety of hands, remaining leaves blank. 4to. [Austria: 1864-1877]. Green quarter leather and hackles in 11 captioned mounts, in original blue morocco patterned paper boards. Minor exterior rubbing, old shelfmark 11 on label. Internally clean, very good. Both editions used Barber’s vignette on the the title page. folding box. Circular angling bookplate of F.W. Sims. From this drawing it appears that Connett liked the artist’s Manuscript Chronicle of Hunting in the Tirol Hampton’s Angling Bibliography p. 32. Windward design and used in it the Derrydale edition: in Manuscript chronicle of hunting in the Jagdbezirk (district) of Gerlos in the Zillertal south west of Kitzebühl in the Austrian Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the the margin of the drawing Connett has pencilled “reduce ¼ Tirol, including discussion of the boundaries and characteristics of the area, historical remarks and a review of the large and small 164 hackles described in the text, all in the original full leather inch” and the drawing was photographically reduced to the game (covering the period from 1775 onwards in summary form, with greater detail after 1859), and then records of hunting trips folding box. A superior copy of a rare work. smaller dimension for the large paper copies. A simplifed version of the design was used on the Derrydale edition in the district, 1864-1877, among them a visit by the Counts Mittrowsky, 23 April to 1 May 1866, with narrative diary entries signed $8,000 Franz Graf Mittwrosky and Ernst Graf Mittrowsky; and several lengthy entries in 1870-71 signed Emil Prinz Furstenberg. The spine. One of the rarest and most desirable productions of entries for 1873-1877 are a single extended paragraph. the Derrydale Press, and, by virtue of the drawing, a unique copy. The game hunted was chiefy Rehbock and Auerhahn. 6] $6,500 $1,750 BARBER, Joel Wild Fowl Decoys 5 color plates, one of them handcolored, and 121 other illustrations. TOGETHER WITH BARBER’S ORIGINAL INK DRAWING FOR THE TITLE PAGE laid in. 4to. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, ONE OF 55 LARGE-PAPER COPIES, signed by Barber, this being No. 22. Original full red morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut; very slight chipping to top of spine, 4 | James Cummins bookseller Catalogue 133 | 5 8] showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today…” In fact, (BIG GAME INDUSTRY) INVESTMENT one of the frst pictures they supplied AUDITORS OF CALIFORNIA animals for was — appropriately Report on Horne Zoological Corporation enough — Trader Horn, which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award 100 pp. of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves for Best Picture. mounted with approximately 50 photographs (various sizes and processes), and various documents. Folio. Los Angeles: On a more practical level, there is a 1929. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped “Descriptive Classifcation of Principal in gilt to upper cover.