India Company School, Hoe Copy
Album of Indian miniatures.
[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More about Album of Indian miniatures
Price: $3,000
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2020
Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures & Descriptions de ses plus beaux Bâtimens...
Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696. Second edition. Of the first edition (1691), Fowler wrote, "from the point of view of the practical architect this Cours d'architecture was the best work of its kind yet issued" Read More about Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures...
Price: $1,500
![Item #315954 Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges]. Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Hernandez](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/315954.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669653928)
Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges].
Buenos Aires: Rueda, [1968]. The classic Argentine epic poem, El Gaucho Martin Fierro, with an introduction by Borges. Borges wrote prologues for three editions of Martin Fierro in the 1960s (each is distinct; this is the third). Read More about Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges
Price: $500
Las Kenningar.
Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More about Las Kenningar
Price: $1,750
Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos.
Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, [1977]. Second edition. Read More about Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos
Price: $500
The Rare First
The American Anglers Guide. Being a compilation from the works of popular English authors, from Walton to the present time;...
New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., and for sale by John J. Brown & Co, 1845. First edition. The Rare First. Sage Sale: "Said to be the first book on angling written by an American and printed in America". The book describes the more important American fish and how to..... Read More about The American Anglers Guide. Being a compilation from the works of popular English authors, from...
Price: $2,250
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
Price: $8,500
G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Carriages, New Haven, Conn.
[New Haven]: T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street, [1859]. Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Carriages, New Haven, Conn
Price: $1,500
Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di Novemb. 1539.
Florence: 6 November 1539. A letter of recommendation from Cosimo II de Medici (1519-1574), Duke of Florence and later the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for his counselor Agnolo Niccolini (1502-1567), addressed to the Conte di Benevento With a later Medici family letter: Medici, Carlo de. Letter signed, [N.p. , likely..... Read More about Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di...
Price: $3,000
The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; Compiled from Authentic Memoirs.
London: For the Author, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793. First edition. Dalzel was Governor at Cape Coast Castle, the notorious slave trading hub on the coast of present day Ghana. Read More about The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; Compiled from Authentic Memoirs
Price: $1,500
Presentation Copy
The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, through the United...
New York: B. Frodsham, 548 Broadway, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the author. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dr. E. Parmele [sic, Eleazar Parmly] / Presented by / The Author." Eleazar Parmly was a prominent 19th-century dentist. A rare presentation copy..... Read More about The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of...
Price: $1,500
![Item #315289 Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/315289.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669653785)
‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’
Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on anamnesis and identity, the events of March...
Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on...
Price: $7,500
A collection of 16 ALS, being received correspondence from various New England thinkers and educators.
1830s-40s. A collection of letters written to George Barrell Emerson (1797-1881), pioneer of girls' education and cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson graduated from Harvard in 1817, and served as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy there from 1819 to 1821. He left that post in 1821 to become the..... Read More about A collection of 16 ALS, being received correspondence from various New England thinkers and...
Price: $4,500
NORDMANN COPY
Album of erotic plates.
[Early 1800s]. NORDMANN COPY. A collection of French erotic lithographs in an ornate romantic binding. Includes a series of 17 lithographs ("Le départ de la garnison," "L'Antichambre en goguette," "Ah! Le bon bouillon que j'aurai" etc.). Read More about Album of erotic plates
Price: $10,000
G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser.
New Haven: Baker & Goodwin, printers, New York, 1860. superb copy of a landmark trade catalogue. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" (Romaine). Founded in the 1850s, G. & D. Cook & Co. quickly became among the most successful northeastern U.S. carriage makers of..... Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser
Price: $2,000
An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against...
Boston: Redding & Co, 1845. Second edition, improved. Second edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary, by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green (1813-1887). With chapters on cheating in poker, faro, and many other games. Green's..... Read More about An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the...
Price: $3,500
Photograph, inscribed.
[Havana, Cuba]: Bohemia, April 16, 1964. Signed beneath the image with the revolutionary's signature slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre, Che." A rare image of Che, taken in Havana in 1964 for Bohemia, a Cuban weekly magazine. Read More about Photograph, inscribed
Price: $8,500
DICK SCAIFE'S COPY
The Power of Ideas. The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years.
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, Inc, [1997]. Copy #3 of 250 copies of the Special Limited Edition, inscribed to Dick (Scaife) and signed by Edwin Feulner by the President of the Heritage Foundation. DICK SCAIFE'S COPY. Dick Scaife was one of the founding members of the Heritage Foundation. He joined Heritage’s..... Read More about The Power of Ideas. The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years
Price: $400
With A.L.s. from Louise Guiney to the Illustrator
Carmen. Translated from the French and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With a Memoir of the Author by Louise Imogen...
Winchester, Massachusetts: Emdund H. Garrett [Printed at the DeVinne Press], 1896. Garrett, Edmund H. Number 26 of 50 copies on Japan vellum, signed by the translator. With A.L.s. from Louise Guiney to the Illustrator. A beautiful and stylish 1896 edition of the Prosper Mérimée novella written in 1845 and the..... Read More about Carmen. Translated from the French and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With a Memoir of the...
Price: $900
Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide. To Which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the Subject) Two Treatises...
London: J. F. and C. Rivington,...[et al.], 1790. First edition. The most significant work on suicide of the eighteenth century. Together with dueling, the author devotes a separate treatise to suicide’s relationship to gambling. A “most frequent source of suicide,” writes the author, gambling is “often the last stage and..... Read More about Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide. To Which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the...
Price: $3,000
A Major Landmark in photography
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887. A Major Landmark in photography. The first edition of this rare and important photographic work is a landmark in the evolution of the medium, and in the role of mechanical reproduction on the fine arts. Although the complete set of images for Animal Locomotion totaled..... Read More about Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
Price: $150,000
Draft Outline of Riis’ Autobiography
Autograph Manuscript Draft Outline of The Making of an American.
c. 1900. Draft Outline of Riis’ Autobiography. The autograph outline of the first seven chapters of Riis’s autobigraphy, The Making of an American (1902), as well as outlines for parts of chapters twelve through fifteen. The opening chapters recount stories from Riis’s boyhood in Denmark, meeting his future wife Elizabeth..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Draft Outline of The Making of an American
Price: $7,500
‘em este maravilhoso Cipriani’
[Autograph album of the manager of the Cipriani Restaurant at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro].
[Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro: October 1997 - December 2014]. ‘em este maravilhoso Cipriani’. Fine diverse autograph album of noted guests at the Cipriani restaurant in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro, often with sentiments inscribed to the manager, Hervé Jean Yves Schmidt, including Harald, king of..... Read More about Autograph album of the manager of the Cipriani Restaurant at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de...
Price: $7,500
South Groton Grammar School Class Portraits, 1863
[Framed collection of 62 cased ambrotype portraits of students with a larger ambrotype portrait of a schoolteacher at center].
So. Groton [Mass.]: 1863. South Groton Grammar School Class Portraits, 1863. A highly unusual grouping of ambrotypes, a kind of one-off yearbook comprising 62 individual portraits of grammar school students arranged around a larger central portrait of their teacher, a bearded young man with a book in hand. South Groton..... Read More about Framed collection of 62 cased ambrotype portraits of students with a larger ambrotype portrait of...
Price: $12,500
Presentation Copy
Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem.
Oxford: J. Vincent, 1839. First edition of the author's first book. Presentation Copy. Ruskin’s first book, published while a student at Christ Church, Oxford, the Newdigate Prize poem for 1839. "With J. Ruskin's kind regards" on the title-page. Read More about Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem
Price: $3,500