A specialty of James Cummins Bookseller - Rare and sought after books on book-collecting, publishing history, incunabula, book-plates, fore-edge painting, bookbinding, auction and trade catalogues, bibliographies and the history of printing.
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition, with half-titles and... Read More about The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and...
Price: $2,000
Philadelphia: Dec. 14 1834. GET YOUR OPIUM HERE. Read More about Billhead of Isaac Thompson Wholesale & retail Druggist. Accomplished for "100 Feet Glass...
Price: $125
Oxford: D. Prince et J. Cooke, 1781. Fine neo-classical binding in the style, and contemporary with, the Edwards of Halifax, with a charming fore-edge fishing scene. Read More about Miscellanea Critica. Iterum Edita. Curavit, et Appendicem Adnotationis Addidit Thomas Burgess
Price: $2,500
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1899. First edition. An attractive example of a modern embroidered binding, on the definitive work on the subject. Read More about English Embroidered Bookbindings
Price: $850
London: Printed for White, Cochrane & Co. by S. Hamilton, 1814. First edition edited by Mitford. The fore-edge painting depicts a country setting, with trees and a river in the foreground and a palatial manor in the background amidst more trees. A fine example of the art. Read More about The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, A Life of the Author, and An Essay on His Poetry,...
Price: $1,500
London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Strteet, 1867. First edition. With fore-edge painting of Oxford from the Meadow. Read More about Proverbial Philosophy
Price: $450
ca. 1833 [paper watermaked 1833]. A most unusual mosaic binding, with the use of hundreds of small multicolored morocco tiles creating a trompe l'oeil basket-weave effect. Read More about Blank album
Price: $1,500
N.p: The Bird & Bull Press, 1967. First Edition, one of 500 copies. A fine copy of this beautifully produced work. Read More about Omnibus. Instructions for amateur papermakers with notes and observations on private presses,...
Price: $375
North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. One of 232 copies. Read More about Practical Remarks on Modern Paper. With and introductory essay by Leonard B. Schlosser
Price: $250
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies. Read More about Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch - with a small selection from letters addressed to...
Price: $350
New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc, 1938-1939. Priced. Read More about The Cortlandt F. Bishop Library. April 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1938; April 25, 26, and 27, 1938; November...
Price: $150
New York: Privately printed, 1913. First edition, #96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. Inscribed on flyleaf, "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne [names partly effaced] with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby, St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass, lake..... Read More about Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis, Mo
Price: $3,000
Kent: Dec. 10, 1861. With ad for "The Arabs of the City" and lectures tipped onto blank page. Read More about ALS. On Lectures on "Arabs of the City", "China" and "Wonderful Book...
Price: $75
New York: Morgan Library, 1973. With great inscription, "For Ernest Reichl with great respect over the years, Joe Spiral March/'78." Read More about The Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the...
Price: $150
Parma: dalla Stamperia Ducale, 1816. First Edition. Read More about Vita del Cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni Tipografo Italiano e Catalogo cronologico delle sue edizioni
Price: $2,000
[London]: Privately printed by the Philbiblon Society [with label on front pastedown], 1857. Thought to have been printed in fewer than 100 copies, with presentation from Bohn to the Rev. G.J. Masten. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by the author first members leaf , "The Rev. G.J. Masten with the..... Read More about The Origin and Progress of Printing. A Lecture delivered at Twickenham, April 8th, and repeated...
Price: $900
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1993. One of 500 copies. Read More about The Two Hundredth Book A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California...
Price: $150
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1958. First edition, one of 400 copies printed. Read More about The Hundredth Book A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California
Price: $325
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1811. Contemporary Cathedral Binding, with a Fore-Edge Painting. Beautiful and unusually elegant binding, decorated with a fine painting of a cathedral along the fore-edge. Read More about The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of...
Price: $2,000
New York: George Braziller, [1971]. The Duke of Berry was a great collector of anything beautiful, from gems to castles. His library was surely one of the most remarkable of his collections, and included the Très Riches Heures and the Belles Heures, both illustrated by the famous Limbourg Brothers, as..... Read More about The Grand Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. Introduction and Legends by Marcel Thomas
Price: $150
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1899. First edition. Read More about English Embroidered Bookbindings
Price: $250
NOT LOUISVILLE, KY. Tipped into a copy of Robert Pollok's The Course of Time. 12mo NY, 1832 in contemporary black morocco. Read More about Bookplate of the Butternuts Library at Louisville (New York) ---No. 322 with abstract from the...
Price: $150
![Engraved armorial bookplate of K[illian] K. Van Rensselaer of New York, with the motto “Vertus...](/pictures/thumb/17159.jpg?v=1534803795)
[New York]: circa 1790's ? This would have been Killian K. Van Rensselaer, (1763-1845), a lawyer and representing New York in Congress from the Seventh Congress (1801) through the Eleventh Congress (1811). Peter Rushton Maverick (1755-1807), originally a silversmith and from an engraving family in England, was a New York..... Read More about Engraved armorial bookplate of K[illian] K. Van Rensselaer of New York, with the motto “Vertus...
Price: $300
