JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 124 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 124 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 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 67 inside front cover: item 78 inside rear cover: item 76 rear cover: item 8 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. “adrift in the streets” of new york city: presentation copy ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Young Outlaw, or, Adrift in the Streets. With four plates (frontispiece, pictorial title for Tattered Tom, Second Series preceding title, 2 plates at pp. 108, 208). [2] f. (blanks); [4, ads], viii, [9]-256, [2, blank] pp. 8vo, Boston: Loring, [1875]. First edition. Original purple publisher’s cloth, title in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Spine and fore edge of upper board faded, else near fne. Presentation copy, inscribed on the fyleaf, “Robert Lloyd from the Author.” “Canal Street’s about a mile of. I’ll show you the way for ten cents.” Adventures of Sam Barker, orphan, runaway, and “a genuine representative of the ‘street Arab’” of New York City. Inscribed, “Robert Lloyd, from the Author.” Alger presentation inscriptions are rare. $2,500 first edition with english text of the greatest english fencing manual ANGELO, Domenico. The School of Fencing, With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art … 47 engraved plates by Ruyland and Hall after J. Gruyn. English and French title-pages, dual-language text in two columns. Oblong folio, London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765. Second edition, frst edition with English text. Later 18th-century half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt in 4 compartments, contrasting morocco labels in the rest. Rebacked and recornered preserving spine, one label renewed, endsheets renewed, French title page worn and soiled with repair to verso, some soiling and light foxing throughout, lower portion of blank margin on last leaf repaired. Contemporary owner’s inscription on frst blank (“W.S. Smith, from his friend Henry Felthouse”), bookplate of Jean Oliver. Cohen-de Ricci, p. 83; Vigeant, p. 29; Castle (Bibliography), p. xlix; Thimm, p. 10; Gelli, p. 21 (for frst). The second edition, and the frst edition with English text, of the “chief work in the English literature of fencing” (Castle, p. 212). Angelo’s venerable School of Arms in London brought the French method of fencing to a wealthy and fashionable clientele. The school was run by successive Angelo generations until its closing in the early 20th century. The frst edition of 1763 was printed in French only; this 1765 edition contains the same plates as the frst edition with text in French and English. An edition entirely in English with reduced plates was published in 1787. $7,500 2 | james cummins bookseller [ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d’; and Xavier d’Arles de MONTIGNY]. Therese Philosophe, ou Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du P. Dirrag et de Mlle Eradice. … Première partie. [Thérèse Philosophe avec l’histoire de Mme Bois-Laurier … Seconde partie]. With 10 engraved plates. [iv], 141; [iv], 135 pp. 2 vols. 16mo, Au Bazar, 1797. Nouvelle édition avec fgures. Near contemporary quarter green morocco and boards, marbled endsheets. Light toning to textblook, slightly rubbed at extremities, very good plus. OCLC: 492762528 (Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve); OCLC: 421685099 (Lyon, without imprint or plates); cf Pia 1320 for BN Enfer 410, 1797 Cythère imprint (vol. II, only, without plates); not in the Private Case, cf. nos.131-7. Beautiful little edition of this perennial classic of the 18th century, much admired by de Sade; the history of Mme Bois-Laurier in the second part is ascribed to Montigny. $2,000 BENJAMIN, Judah. Collection of autograph letters relating to mortgage bond coupons of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. V.p., chiefy London: ca. December 1868 - July 1870. Material creased from prior folds, generally very good or better. A collection of autograph letters by Judah Benjamin to Senator Thomas F. Bayard concerning the redemption of mortgage coupons issued by the troubled Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. Benjamin (1811- 1884), the former Secretary of War, Attorney General and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America, was, at the time of this correspondence, living in England and establishing a law career. In a series of fve autograph letters written to Delaware Senator Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898), Benjamin engages Bayard’s help in attempting to redeem mortgage coupons for the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company totalling £875. The collection also includes three autograph letters from James McHenry, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, to Bayard, concerning the coupons (one letter mentioning Jay Gould of the Erie Railway Company); an autograph letter from Edward McDermott of the Atlantic and Great Western, to Bayard; draft of a letter from Bayard to McHenry; autograph letter from Robert (?) Potter of the Altantic and Great Western; two letterpress printings of a lease aggreement between the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company and the Erie Railway Company. $4,000 catalogue 124 | 3 the first american catholic bible, subscriber’s copy in a contemporary binding (BIBLE, Catholic) The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions, in Divers Languages; And First Published by the English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly Revised, And Corrected, According to the Clementine Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for Elucidating the Principal Difculties of Holy Writ. viii, 487, [1], [4, blanks]; 280, *281-*284, 281-490 pp. 2 volumes bound in one. Thick 4to, Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co, 1790. First American Catholic Bible. Contemporary American sheep with red morocco title label. A fne copy, with some light toning and staining to text. Evans 22349; Parsons 87; Hills 23; Herbert 1343; Rumball-Petrie 168; O’Callaghan, pp. 34-35; Clarkin 53. Provenance: Richard Sweetman (inscription on title page dated 1791, original subscriber listed on p. viii), thence by descent (inscription on title page in several hands “presented by him [Richard Sweetman] to John Sweetman & after the decease of the latter came … to his widow Margaret, intermarried with Charles Fortman the 29th of November 1798. And by him a Present to Bridget Penrose.”) Additionally inscribed on verso of fep (“John Blanely’s Bible”) and with 1 p. manuscript geneology of Sweetman and Penrose family on blank following frst volume. A remarkable gathering of frsts in a single volume: the frst Catholic Bible printed in the United States, the frst Catholic Bible printed in any language in the New World, the frst Bible printed in quarto format in the U.S., the frst Bible printed by Mathew Carey, and the frst minority-religion Bible printed in America. Catholics constituted only a small minority of the population of the United States in 1790. Even so, Mathew Carey, an exile from Ireland, believed that America could support the publication of an edition of the English Catholic Bible. He secured approximately 475 subscribers, and it is thought the print run did not exceed 500 copies. In 1954 a census of extant copies found thirty-fve copies in public and private collections. While the number of copies today may perhaps be forty-fve, the volume’s continuing rarity may be understood when one realizes that the Vatican Library did not possess a copy until 1979. With good reason, Margaret Hills describes this edition as “the rarest of the notable early American editions of the Bible.” A signifcant edition both in the history of Bible printing and the history of publishing in the United States. A fne copy in a contemporary binding, belonging to subscriber Richard Sweetman and his descendents. $35,000 4 | james cummins bookseller BIE, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder const: inhovdende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architectï, beldthÿwers, ende plaetsnyders van dese eevw. Engraved title-page (dated 1661), complete with 96 portraits and a total of 101 plates, most engraved by Jean Meyssen. [2], 585, [3] pp. (pp. 499-500 repeated in the pagination). 4to, [Antwerp: Juliaen vab Montfort, 1662]. First edition. Full contemporary calf, Dutch marbled endpapers. Rebacked, preserving original spine, new red morocco spine label to style, corners rubbed, strong impressions for each plate. Two of the portrait plates are pasted on to the leaf facing their description: Gaspar de Wit or Witte, p. 395 and Aertus Quellinus, p. 505. OCLC 64302658; Arntzen-Rainwater H55. One of the most important references on seventeenth-century arts in the Netherlands. The frst part deals with painters who died between 1600 and 1661, the second with artists still active in 1661, the third with sculptors, architects and engravers who were active until 1661. Most of the plates are engraved by Johannes Meyssens (1612-1670), with others by Paul Pontius, Peter de Jode, Richard Collin, and several others. $3,500 (BINDING, Derome) Bossuet, [Jacques Bernigne]. Discours sur l’Histoire Universelle … Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu’a l’Empire de Charlemagne [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques François et Latins].