Americana from James Cummins Bookseller

N.p. [Chicago?]: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition. Illustrated with two maps, eight full page photographs and numerous vignette photos in text. 181 pp. Title-page on stub and a correction to Illustrations page in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Vellum backed blue boards. Near fine copy, inscribed by the author to Daniel E. Pomeroy. Bookplate. First edition. Illustrated with… Read more

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1923. First edition. Frontispiece, sepia-toned photogravures throughout. 234pp. 1 vols. 4to. Vellum spine, blue boards. Very good (spine dull). Bookplate. First edition. Frontispiece, sepia-toned photogravures throughout. 234pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1900. Illustrations and folding maps. 7 vols. 8vo. Original colored paper printed wrappers. Almost fine. Inked stamps on the upper wrappers (Essex Institute). Illustrations and folding maps. 7 vols. 8vo. Inlcudes important official reporting from Governors James Sheakley and John Brady on the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as information on treaty boundaries, agriculture, native… Read more

[Warren Township: Published by the Log Cabin Gun Club, Inc, 2005. First edition. 16 page of black and white photos and 8 pages of color plates. 187pp. 4to. Original green cloth, by the Turul Bookbindery, Wharton, NJ. First edition. 16 page of black and white photos and 8 pages of color plates. 187pp. 4to. The history of the… Read more

[N.p., New York, 1903. Published in Ainslee's Magazine, February 1903; collected in Roads of Destiny (1909). Pencil on paper, rectos only, signed in ink on the first page, with a few ink corrections, and occasional copy editing marks. 29 ff. on guards. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches (26 x 21.5 cm). Full red levant morocco gilt, marbled endpapers,… Read more

London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1780. Hand colored mezzotint. 14 x 10 1/16 inches (plate mark). Ample margins. Toned, taped at edges to a mat. Hand colored mezzotint. 14 x 10 1/16 inches (plate mark). "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight" The final, and rarest, of three known versions of the print, each with varying… Read more

Newtown, CT, 1758. 134 pp in ink. 4 x 6 inches. Disbound. Browned and brittle, excisions to a small number of leaves. 134 pp in ink. 4 x 6 inches. Newtown's first physician. Daybooks covering seven years in the practice of Dr. Thomas Toucey, the first physician in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. Treatments of several dozen citizens… Read more

New York: Hugh Gaine, 1769. First edition. [2],ii,72pp. 12mo. Disbound. Inked library stamp on title. Cloth box. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, his sale Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 675). First edition. [2],ii,72pp. 12mo. The First American Treatise on the History of Medicine: The Norman Copy. Middleton served as the Professor of the Theory of Physic… Read more

Various places, 1852. 24 pages on lined paper, in ink in legible hand. 4to. Half buff-patterned calf and marbled boards. Several pages removed, wear to head of spine. 24 pages on lined paper, in ink in legible hand. 4to. The manuscript log book of the third and final voyage of the 385-ton whaler Henry Clay out of Nantucket.… Read more

Maysville, Kentucky: L. Collins, 1832. First edition, first issue. 360pp. Half-title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, flat spine gilt. Very minor wear at board edges. Foxing and toning. Very good. First edition, first issue. 360pp. Half-title. 12mo. The first edition, first issue with the Maysville Kentucky imprint is considerably more scarce than the later issues published in Philadelphia… Read more

Ogdensburgh [N.Y.]: Published by J.C. Sprague, 1855. First edition, likely a presentation copy to the publisher inscribed on the front blank "To my good friend/Sprague/From the Author/Nov. 1855.. 324 pp. 8 x 4 inches (20 x 11 cm). Original brown blindstamped cloth. Minor wear at extremities and corners. Light spotting throughout, discreet stamp of Joyce and Gene Gresslen to… Read more

Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.], 1934. [97] pp., profusely illustrated with dozens of snapshots, newspaper clippings, and a map of coastal Alaska. 1 vols. 4to. Full light brown morocco gilt, upper board with yachting pennant of the Yacht Hussar onlays in red, blue, and gold within gilt fillet border with floral corner ornaments, board edges and dentelles… Read more

London, 1830. 1p., plus integral address leaf. 4to. 1p., plus integral address leaf. 4to. Audubon writes: "I have been in London a fortnight and am yet without any answer to my last letter sent to you from Liverpool about a month ago, in which I desire you to collect the money due to me by Miss Harriet Douglas of… Read more

London: Gregory Dexter, 1643. First edition of Williams' first printed book: the first English-Native American dictionary. [16], 197, [3] pp (errors in pagination as issued). Collation: A-O^8 [C4 signed as B4]. Without the rear endpaper. 1 vols. Small 8vo (132 x 82 mm). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered, some wear at edges. Small hole on… Read more

Princeton, N.J., 1901. [2] pp., written on folded quarto sheet. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. [2] pp., written on folded quarto sheet. 1 vols. 8vo. Handsome holograph letter declining an invitation from the St. Andrews Society, with "a genuine disappointment ... I esteeem the invitation a great compliment; my own is Scots blood ...".

New York: Williams and Whiting, 1810. First collected edition. Stipple engraved portraits of Hamilton, Madison and Jay (often lacking). vii, [3], 325; [2], iv, 368; [2], iv, 368 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, repairs to hinges, one volume rebacked to style. Foxing and browning, worming at the front of vol. 2 in the gutter margin. First… Read more

New York, 1918. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman.  Privately printed in an edition of only fifty copies. Frontispiece portrait. 114pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman.  Privately printed in… Read more

London, 1897. Inscribed in the margin below the image. Lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. 15 x 9 1/4 inches. Mounted to board. Toned, crease through the top of the image. Inscribed in the margin below the image. Lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. 15 x 9 1/4 inches. An autographed Spy portrait of Hay,… Read more

Middletown, [Ct.]: Printed by Seth Richards, 1815. Second Edition and First Alsop edition. WITHOUT RARE FRONTISPIECE a view of the Ship Boston taken over by the "Savages at Nootka Sound, March 22nd, 1803." . 204 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep. Very Good. Second Edition and First Alsop edition. WITHOUT RARE FRONTISPIECE a view of the Ship… Read more

New York City: Charles Ponzi, Publisher; Via Bormida 2, Rome, Italy, 1937. First Edition. ix, [i], 176 pp. Full-page portrait on p. vi. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth, titled in dark blue on upper cover and spine, minor fading to spine. Inked stamp of the Morrow Distributing Agency, Dallas, TX on the front endpaper. Bookplate. First Edition. ix,… Read more