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.
New York: Privately printed, 1913. First edition, #96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. Inscribed... 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
London: Constable & Co, 1935. First edition. Volumes nine of Michael Sadleir's influential Bibliographia series. Read More about Anglo-American First Editions 1826-1900. East to West. Describing First Editions of English...
Price: $150
Boston: Hall, [1977]. First edition. Auchincloss’ Annotated Copy. With Louis Auchincloss’ annotations and emendations at the front and back for a total of 12 pages. Auchincloss is also the book’s dedicatee. Read More about Louis Auchincloss and His Critics: A Bibliographical Record. With Introduction by Louis Auchincloss
Price: $400
London: A.M. Philpot Ltd, 1923. First edition, Number 207 of 500 copies. Printed by Unwin Brothers. (Published at £3.3). Still the standard, indispensable Burton reference. Read More about An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Preface by F. Grenfell Baker
Price: $500
[London]: Printed [by the Curwen Press] for the First Edition Club, 1925. First Edition, no. 479 of 500 copies printed. ‘every book and pamphlet which Byron is known to have written’. Elegantly produced catalogue of the major Byron exhibition mounted by the First Edition Club in 1925. Though not the..... Read More about Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions Proof Copies & Manuscripts of Books by Lord Byron...
Price: $150
New Haven: Nathan Whiting, [1834]. Sixth edition. Standard early history of the American Revolution, originally published in Italian in 1809. With an unusual homemade calligraphic bookplate of John R. Wagner, with some letters so highly stylized that they approach abstraction. Read More about History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America … Translated from the...
Price: $200
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1947. First American edition, one of 50 on India paper of a worldwide edition of 510 copies. Read More about Luminario, or the third chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum: On the Construction of Roman...
Price: $400
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mid-19th century. The face, mane and feet of the lion being printed, and the body done in pen-and-ink by an unnamed student. A lovely example of this partly-printed pedagogical ephemera on the teaching of penmanship. Read More about American School calligraphic drawing of a Lion
Price: $3,000
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[New York: Canson et Montgolfier, September, 1925]. Number 90 of 500 copies prepared for the Friends of Canson et Montgolfier. COMPLETE. Read More about Book of Paper Specimens Manufactured by Canson et Montgolfier
Price: $400
New York: Published by Dempsey & Carroll, The Art Stationers. Union Square (South-West Corner.), 1890. Read More about Out of the Ashes (Dempsey & Carroll
Price: $250
Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey 1112 Walnut Street, 1904. Read More about The Unique Collection of Engraved portraits of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Gilbert...
Price: $250
Paris: Librairie L.(eopold) Cartaret 5, Rue Drout. 1946-1948. Read More about Le Trésor du Bibliophile. Livres Illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945 et Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle...
Price: $400
North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 500 copies. Read More about A Pair on Printing. Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing. William Caslon and the first...
Price: $175
New York: The Merwin-Taylor Sales Company ... Telephone Gramercy 567, June 21, 1905. Read More about Catalogue of autograph letters comprising a selection from the literary correspondence of Bayard...
Price: $75
New York: W. A. Colman, No. 205 Broadway, December 1837. A 48-page alphabetical listing of books available from his store, without prices. The collection includes agriculture, classical, drawing, sciences and history and some general literature, also some color plate books. Accompanied by a "Confidential Circular Letter" from J. W. Hamilton..... Read More about A Catalogue of New, Curious & Rare Books, most of which are recently imported... offered for...
Price: $250
Boston: Charles Libbie & Co...W.F. Brown & Co., Printers, 1884. Read More about Catalogue of the Historical Libraries of the late Hon. Charles Hale and the late Hon. Nathan Hale...
Price: $150
London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 26th April-29 April, & 14, June, 1909. Read More about Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Japanese Colour Prints and a few Kakemono. The Property...
Price: $100
Boston: C.F. Libbie, 1901. ALL THREE PARTS. with Parts 2 & 3. Read More about Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the late Frederick W. French, of Boston, member of...
Price: $200
[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1785]. First edition. Rare Milestone of Malagasy. Early and important text in tracing the evolution of the Malagasy language, which is the westernmost branch of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family: in other words, it is related to Tagalog, Malay, Maori, and..... Read More about Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour instruire sommairement ces peuples, les...
Price: $2,750
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1964. Facsimile Edition. One of the rarest Caxtons (one of 4 known copies), the copy herein reproduced had been bought by H.P.Kraus in 1960 and traded to Cambridge for another Caxton. Read More about Vocabulary in French and English. A Facsimile of Caxton's Edition c. 1480. With Introduction by...
Price: $250
London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly; and William Laing, Edinburgh, 1794. First Edition. A life of scholar, printer, librarian, and "Scotland's formost Latinist" (ODNB) Thomas Ruddiman. His RUDIMENTS was the standard 18th-century Latin grammar and while keeper to the Advocates' library he acquired an "unrivalled collection of early Scottish books"..... Read More about The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A.M. The Keeper, for Almost Fifty Years, of the Library Belonging to...
Price: $400
Bruxelles, [Mons]: Librairie Scientifique et Littéraire, 1849. No. 10 of 27 on papier de Hollande reserved for members of La Société des Bibliophiles Belges, this copy for Dr. Victor Francois of Louvain, signed on the limitation page by President Renier Chalon and Secretary Camille Wins. Read More about Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en...
Price: $250
Bruxelles: 6 Juin 1868. "J'étais souscripteur à votre excellent Bibliophile illustré qui, malheureusement, ne parait plus …" Reknowned bibliophilic prankster and perpetrator of the Fortsas Sale hoax, Renier Chalon writes to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré, asking for a missing number needed to complete his run of the periodical. "Vous..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré...
Price: $250
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Thomas Hutchinson Esqr, with all good wishes from C.E. Chambers, Edinburgh. January, 1899." With an ALS laid-in from Chambers to Hutchinson. Chambers’ collection consited mostly of Romantic and Victorian literature, including a large run of Dickens first editions..... Read More about A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers,...
Price: $250
London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels
Price: $250
New York: Knickerbocker Auction Rooms Eight West 28th Street, March 19, 20 &21,[1900]. lots 1001-1488 are books. Read More about Catalogue of a Most Superb Collection of Extremely Rare and Elaborate Furniture...formed by the...
Price: $150