james cummins bookseller catalogue 128 ‘First American edition’ a note on the catalogue This collection, formed over a thirty-five year period, assembles first and early ameri- can editions of influential and significant works of english and european thought from the seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries. The collection charts the intellectual foundations of american activity in the fields of politics, philosophy, theol- ogy, medicine, science, mathematics, economics, travel, and education. The original editions were published before 1825; the american editions date from 1729 through the mid-nineteenth century (most before 1820). spanning the colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal eras, these works suggest the raw material distilled into the american national character so clearly visible to foreign visitors. Note that the date of a work’s first (European) publication is generally given following the state- ment of edition. 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 23 inside front cover: item 149 inside rear cover: item 188 rear cover: item 164 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 ad- dress) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping prefer- ence. all postage is extra. new clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for de- ferred billing. all new York and new jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept american express, master card, and Visa. 1 ADDISON, Joseph. The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison with the Life of the Author. Frontispiece portrait engraved by David edwin. 12mo, Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin johnson, jacob johnson and Robert johnson, 1805. First american edition. Tickell’s edition of 1721 is the first collected edition. contemporary sheep, spine gilt. Rubbed, some gouging and scuffing, upper joint cracking, some browning and spotting of text, signatures of e. minor and ann m. Paddillo on title and leaf following, in a leather-tipped brown cloth open-end case. shaw & shoemaker 7833; stauffer, pp. 76-77, portrait is no. 694. With portrait frontispiece by David edwin, Philadelphian engraver, well known for his finely engraved portraits, including those of Thomas mcKean, Thomas jefferson, Dolly madison and several of George Washington. For some thirty years he was the “most popular and prolific engraver of portraits in the united states” (stauffer). $200 2 ADDISON, Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, with the exception of his Numbers of the Spectator. Collected by Mr. [Thomas] Tickell. With a complete Index. Frontispiece portrait in first volume, 8 engraved plates of medals in volume 4 (browned), frontispieces by alexander anderson in volumes 5 and 6. 6 vols. 8vo, new York: Published by William Durell & co. George Forman, Printer (vol. 1); c. s. Van Winkle, Printer (vols. 2, 3, 5 and 6), D. & G. Bruce, Printer (vol. 4), 1811. First american edition of the collected works. This edition was first published 3 October 1721 in four volumes. apparently the Spectator entries were included in the original edition. Blue- green boards, orange printed labels, uncut. a few joints starting, some light rubbing, some wear to heads and tails of a few spines, signature cut away on free endpapers, some light marginal browning, else a striking set, in very good condition. in two brown cloth open-end cases. ncBeL 2:1098. Volumes 27 through 32 of the series “The British classics.” Thomas Tickell was a poet and friend of addison. shortly before his death addison had selected him to collect and publish his works. With a frontispiece by alexander anderson, the “father of the american woodcut.” $500 3 AESOP. Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop; with an English Translation as literal as possible … A New Edition wherein the errors in the Latin text of the best and latest European copies of Mr. Clarke’s selection are corrected … by James Ross, Professor of the Latin and Greek languages in Franklin College, Borough of Lancaster. Dual english and Latin language text. 12mo, Lancaster: Printed by Burnside and smith, 1804. First edition of james Ross’ corrected edition of clarke’s translation. clarke’s translation first appeared in 1774 and the first american edition was published in Boston in 1787. contemporary sheep. Rubbed, short crack along upper joint, head of spine chipped, some browning and spotting, mostly marginal and strongest on endpapers, with the stamp of Phebe e. mitchell. in a leather-tipped brown cloth open-end case. shaw & shoemaker 5667; Pmm 15 for the 1474 edition. Based upon the 1794 ninth edition of H. clark’s translation. The first american edition of aesop was samuel croxall’s translation published in 1777; the first american of Robert Dodsley’s translation and that of Robert Burton was the same year. $150 4 ARGENSON, René Louis Voyer, Marquis d’. Essays, Civil, Moral, Literary & Political. Written after the Manner of M. De Montagne: Interspersed with Characters, Portraits & Anecdotes. 12mo, Worcester: Printed by Thomas, son & Thomas: sold by them at the Worcester Bookstore, march 1797. First american edition. First published in 1785. contemporary sheep, black morocco label. Rubbed, especially fore-edges, worming in inner upper corner of first few leaves, not affecting text, browning and spotting of leaves. in a leather-tipped brown cloth open-end case. With the ownership signature of nathan Brayton. shipton & mooney 31748. argenson was a friend of Voltaire, condillac and d’alembert and a member of the club de l’entresol which included Bolingbrook and Ramsay. under Louis XV he was the minister of foreign affairs and very involved in economic affairs. argenson’s ideas and theories share many similarities with those of the physiocrats. $75 5 ARIOSTO, Lodovico. Orlando Furioso: translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto; with notes by John Hoole. 6 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: Henry Hudson, 1816-1817. second american edition, following Hudson’s 5 volume edition published the year before. Panelled polished american calf. Heads of two volumes loose, else in good condition. shaw & shoemaker 36760. $300 6 BACON, Francis. Essays Moral, Economical and Political. 12mo, Boston: Published by Oliver and munroe, 1807. First american edition of the first complete edition of Bacon’s “essays” and first separate american edition. in 1688 William Bradford had printed the first american appearance of Bacon’s essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World. contemporary sheep, red morocco label. ex-library with small paper label on spine and pockets and labels on pastedowns, rubbing and wear to extremities and joints, some browning of text, mostly at the front and back and of endpapers. With the signature of William Pickering, the gift to the library of charles Walker Pickering. in a leather-tipped brown cloth open- end case. Grolier, english 13; shaw & shoemaker 43127. For the first complete edition: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30. Bacon’s theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the jeffersonian era. jefferson catalogued his library using “Bacon’s classification of the human mind into ‘Reason,’ ‘memory,’ and ‘imagination’” (Brown, Thomas Jefferson, p. 196). $350 2 | james cummins bookseller 7 BACON, Francis. Essays Moral, Economical and Political. 12mo, Boston: Published by joseph Greenleaf [Printed by Oliver & munroe], 1807. First american edition, with a variant title-page. The imprint on this title reads “Boston:/ Published by joseph Greenleaf,/ no. 49, cornhill,/ Boston./ [dotted line]/ 1807.” with no mention of the printer. also on this title “Lord High chancellor of england” is 49 mm as compared with 42 of the other; there is also a slight variation in the size of the date. contemporary sheep, red morocco gilt label. Quite rubbed, some light marginal browning of text, endpapers browned, signatures of john Belknap, one signature on title trimmed. Leather-tipped brown cloth open-end case. Grolier, english 13; shaw & shoemaker 43127. For the first complete edition of 1625: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30. $300 8 BACON, Francis. The Works of Francis Bacon … A New Edition with a Life of the Author by Basil Montague. 3 vols. Large 8vo, Philadelphia: a. Hart, late carey & Hart, 1852. First complete american edition of Bacon’s works. slightly later half calf over marbled boards, brown and morocco labels, gilt spine. some rubbing of binding else a very good copy. $500 9 BARCLAY, Robert. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is Held Forth, and Preached, by the People, called in Scorn, Quakers: Being a full explanation and Vindication of the Principles and doctrines, by many Arguments, deduced from Scripture and Right Reason and the Testimonies of Famous Authors, both ancient and modern, with a full answer to the strongest Objections usually made against them. Presented to the King. Written in Latin and English by Robert Barclay, And since translated into High Dutch, Low Dutch, and French for the Information of Strangers. The Sixth Edition in English. 8vo, newport, Rhode island: Printed by james Franklin, 1729. First american edition. First published in amsterdam in 1676 as Theologiae verae Christianae apologia. First translated and published as An Apology for the true Christian Divinity in aberdeen in 1678. contemporary panelled calf. Quite rubbed, joints separated, chipping of spine and extremities, some browning of text, primarily marginal, with the signatures of Ruth Trobridge, 1742, of newport and Robert mosher, who bought the book of Ruth Trobridge 1743. in a brown cloth folding box, morocco label.