Recent Arrivals from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836. 8vo, 3 vols: [2], viii, xi-xvi (as issued), 317,[1], [2, ads]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294 pp. Half-title in first volume. Original cloth backed boards, printed labels. Early signature of A. Leapingwell on each front pastedown and shelving numbers in ink on backstrips. Boards toned and worn, labels chipped, some spotting… Read more about this item

8vo. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1854. 8vo, (8), 13-196 pp. Original publisher's blind stamped cloth, a trifle worn at corners and backstrip ends, white stain on lower board, scattered foxing. Early ink signature of C. Clement and blind stamp of A. Whittmore & Co Booksellers and Stationers, Milwaukee on front free end paper. § The first American… Read more about this item

Sm. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1822. Sm. 8vo, 224 pp. Original sheep, backstrip with red leather gilt title label. Front board cracked but held by strings, modest age toning and one ink splash. Early ownership inscription on front free endpaper: "Cornelius Holland's Property 1824." Bookplate of Reuel W Smith on front pastedown. § The first American book… Read more about this item

8vo. London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued. § Limited to 150 sets (this copy unnumbered), this superb reprinting of Blake’s only woodcuts from the… Read more about this item

8vo. Berlin: Kommissionsvertrieb Wasmuth, 1992. 8vo, xxi, 423pp. With 53 b/w plates at the end. Original green cloth lettered in gold on the upper cover and backstrip, as new. § § Only edition, long out of print and all but unavailable in the US. Without the errata sheet at the end. Bentley, BB, postscript 2000 p.… Read more about this item

4to. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 4to, 1p.preface by Muir, 27 leaves hand-colored, 1p.appendix, 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and the separate uncolored plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers, backstrip and edges strengthened with brown paper, covers soiled. Internally very good as issued. § The… Read more about this item

3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 vols. Original cloth, yellow endpapers, backstrip titled in gilt with Bentley imprint also in gilt. Very good copy with some areas of sun fading and spotting to the cloth and plates foxed as usual. Neat early name on front pastedown in each vol. § First edition in original cloth, with the title… Read more about this item

Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1950 Large 8vo, xii, 198pp. With 17 plates (4 in color). Original cloth, dust-jacket. § Second edition, revised and enlarged, with chapter VII entirely rewritten. Scholars regard this as the definitive work on the subject.

New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd. 1960 Thick 8vo, 4 parts bound in one, 169, 165, 117, 128; 103pp. index at end. Original blue cloth, fine. § Limited to 550 copies, this copy unnumbered. An invaluable catalogue of some 7500 rare books, pamphlets, etc.

2 vols. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1819. 2 vols. 4to, xxviii, 671; v, [vi-vii], 342; [Memoirs part II] (2), 336pp. With eight engraved plates, two folding, and one folding chart. Old diced calf neatly rebacked, with red labels. Inoffensive browning and occasional foxing, generally a very good well-margined copy. § Second and best edition. A… Read more about this item

xii. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948 Large 8vo. xii, 297pp. Map on end-papers, and 16 plates. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a very good copy. Ink signature at front, old price in pencil (£240). § First edition. "The book is not a history of Macao, but, as the subtitle implies, a study of key episodes and periods connected with… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, Éditeur, 1923. 12mo, 65 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine, opened copy in the original glassine. § First edition of André Gide's translation of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. On 1550 copies, the present copy is No. 8 of only 23 on Japon, the tirage de tête.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882 Slim small folio, 135pp., with a map of the Columbia River from the boundary to the Snake River (25 sheets at end of report. The sheets are numbered consecutively from the boundary to Snake River and can be joined together into one sheet which shows the river continuously.) Fold-out 16 1/4" x 13" skeleton… Read more about this item

4 vols. London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 vols, 8vo. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Full brick red morocco, backstrips lightly sunned, scattered foxing. Bookplates of Albert Ramsay-Cohn and of one other; early ownership inscription of Adam Paterson on front blank in each vol. Very good. § First edition with… Read more about this item

Cambridge: John Owen, 1842 2 vols., xvi,249; viii,240pp. Original cloth, paper labels, bookplate and signature in each volume. Very good. § First edition. "Narrative of Richard Cleveland (1773-1860), an intrepid New England sea captain, navigator, ship owner and merchant who sailed many times around the world and was instrumental in the development of an early triangle fur trade… Read more about this item

2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1866. 2 vols., 8vo, 358; 375pp. Plates. Frontispiece in each volume. Original green gilt pictorial cloth. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. § First edition. "Lord (1818-1872) was the naturalist with the British North American Boundary Commission. This book contains an extensive overview of natural history in British Columbia, including birds, fishes, reptiles,… Read more about this item

Slim folio. Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1787. Slim folio, (4), [xii], 75, [76], 4 (Notes), (3, Subscribers)pp. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked, a pleasant well-margined copy. § First Foulis edition in folio (preceded by two smaller-format printings). Gaskell notes of the Foulis Press its "dignified simplicity of eighteenth-century printing."Gaskell, Foulis Press, 683. Rothschild 661.

Folio. [London: Leadlay, 1931]. Folio, title leaf, contents leaf, facsimile "Note by Max," and 5 mounted color plates. Original parchment-backed portfolio; plates loose as issued. Covers a bit soiled and worn, internally fine. § Limited to 900 copies, this is #403. This portfolio commemorates Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. "Sentiment is out of fashion," says Beerbohm in his note.… Read more about this item

4to. York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley et al., 1786. 4to, 2 vols: [46], 311, [9] pp. with portrait and 29 plates (1 folding); [2], 343, [10] pp. with 14 plates (2 folding), plus Terra [viii], 74, [4] pp. with separate title page, 2 tables and 1 plate. In total portrait and 44 plates… Read more about this item

Single plate. Paris: Lucien Vogel, 1914. Single plate. § From a spectacularly illustrated fashion magazine of the early 1900s, depicting the cutting edge of style at the time.