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: John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784. Fourth Hawkins edition. With Fore-Edge Painting of Angling Scene. A reprint... Read More
Price: $1,500
Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
![Decades du continentes Vitas Theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi Superiori seculo propagarunt et propugnarunt. [Bound with:] Vitae Germanorum medicorum qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, claverunt: congetae et ad annum usque MDCXX deductae. Melchior Adamus.](/pictures/thumb/223074.jpg?v=1438724681)
Frankfurt: Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa; Johann Georg Geyder for the widow of Jonas Rosa, 1618; 1620. First editions. Biographical Dictionary of Reformation Minds. Melchior Adams (c. 1575-1622) was one of the most important biographers of the savants (mostly German, Swiss, and Dutch) of the 16th century, and his meticulously... Read More
Price: $1,500
Frankfurt: Heirs of Jonas Rosa, 1663. Second edition (after the first edition of 1615). Essential biographies of Germanic thinkers and savants: theologians, philosophers, jurists, scientists, as well as artists, as well as printers (the very first entry is on Füst & Gutenberg). With useful indices (order of appearance, and alphabetical)... Read More
Price: $1,250
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1910. Hamilton, Norah. No. 26 of 210 special copies. MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III'S COPY. Jane Addams, who is bound to appear on anyone's list of Great American Women, was a pioneer of social work whose establishment of the Hull-House settlement in a dingy area... Read More
Price: $750
New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More
Price: $75
New York: for Members of the Bradford Club, 1864. First edition, Number 178 of 250 copies printed. Inscribed to "Charles Welford Esq/ with Compliments of the/ Bradford Club/ Sep 1 1864." Gives history of the sale of his books. Read More
Price: $125
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More
Price: $250
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut comparative table at pp. 8-17 of the four alphabets: Malabar, Sanskrit and a modified form, and Telugu. Read More
Price: $1,000
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Read More
Price: $1,000
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, following the 1776 first edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged. Read More
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1776. First edition. The First Burmese Type. Read More
Price: $1,750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,500
![Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title]](/pictures/thumb/212767.jpg?v=1443499913)
[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon. Read More
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. First Type Specimen of Malayalam. First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam. Read More
Price: $1,250
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
Price: $900
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783. Read More
Price: $900
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which "there was an order from the French government for the confiscation of exotic language punches and matrices from the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale" (Coakley). Uncommon. Read More
Price: $1,000
!["A Note on the Accompanying Original Leaf/Printed in 1487-1488 by Johann Amerbach." [drop title]. WITH: an original leaf from "Lectura super quinque libros Decretalium cum Repertorio Alphonsi de Montalbo" by Nicolaus Panormitanus. Johann Amerbach.](/pictures/thumb/245332.jpg?v=1438724975)
Johann Amerbach, 1487-88. Read More
Price: $200
Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits... Read More
Price: $1,500
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1986. One of 26 copies (none for sale, signed by the artist. Printed in linophoto Baskerville. Read More
Price: $400
n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's... Read More
Price: $1,250
[New York]: 28-5-76. Michael Andre (born August 31, 1946) is a Canadian poet, critic and editor living in New York City. Andre was the editor of Unmuzzled OX, an occasional magazine of poetry, art and politics which began in 1971. Read More
Price: $75
