Travel & Geography from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1912. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 8vo, 116 pp. illustrated with black and white photographs plus 4 large folding color-printed maps held in a sleeve bound within the covers. Half pebbled morocco, marbled paper boards, neatly rebacked. Light wear to binding, contents fine. § First edition. The results of a detailed soil survey of the western… Read more about this item

1878. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1878. 8vo, (xii), 470 pp. With folding map and numerous in-text illustrations. Original light blue beveled cloth, decorated in gilt. Cloth a little sunned and spotted, tissue-guard torn, text block lightly foxed, but contents bright and overall very good with gift inscription dated 1878 on front free endpaper. §… Read more about this item

1870. London: Hatchards, 1870. Large 8vo, (vi), 633 pp. Color frontis., 6 full-page b&w plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Half dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Binding a little rubbed and worn at joints, shelf mark erased from foot of backstrip, small rubber shelf stamp on verso of title, bookplate on front paste-down. Very good. § First… Read more about this item

1933. 1933-1939. 2 journals with laid in ephemera. Journal 1: 8vo, c.250 unlined pages bound in red pebbled cloth with "Notes" gilt-stamped on upper cover; c.200 pages filled with legible ink entries in French. Journal 2: 8vo, 252 lined and numbered pages bound in red, straight-grained cloth with "Record" gilt-stamped on upper cover; 132 pages filled with… Read more about this item

1950. 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.

1948. 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… Read more about this item

1882. 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"… Read more about this item

1842. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. 2 vols. 8vo, xvi, 249; viii, 240 pp. 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… Read more about this item

1982. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1982 Thick large 8vo, xx, 745pp. Frontispiece and 32 b/w illustrations. Original red cloth, fine. § Printed at the Arion Press in a large edition. Argonaut: "The best and most useful edition of this classic bibliography. Includes 429 separate items with excellent annotations and full collations. This work is considered… Read more about this item

1893. August 5, 1893(?). 1 page (114 x 180 mm) laid notepaper, 15 lines in ink on recto, verso blank. Fully mounted on a larger piece of paper; slight shadow from framing, otherwise very good. § A one page autograph letter from George A. Walkem (1834-1908), 3rd Premier of British Columbia from 1874-1876 and 5th Premier… Read more about this item

1819. London: Printed for J. Hassell, 1819. 8vo, viii, 147, (4)pp. with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and engraved by Hassell. Contemporary olive green morocco, gilt rules, decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Binding slightly rubbed, occasional foxing; a near fine copy with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan designed by William Hancock Wilke and printed by John Henry… Read more about this item

Single leaf, matted and framed. § Copperplate engraving of the crew of HMS Resolution hunting walrus, which first appeared in the first folio edition of Cook's Third Voyage. The scene was recorded by John Webber RA (1751-1793), one of the expedition's artists, and from his painting this engraving was made by Edward Scott. "From 11 August… Read more about this item

1819. London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. 8vo, viii, 310pp. With two folding charts. Modern half red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, joints rubbed but sound. Internally very good. § Including Cook's third voyage First edition, and very scarce. Although intended as a supplement… Read more about this item

1804. London: Cadell & Davies, 1804. 4to, xx, 394pp., [2pp. adverts], 9 engraved plates and maps, 7 folding, plate list on p.394. One folding plate backed with modern paper. Some browning and foxing but not offensive, generally a very good complete copy in contemporary calf rebacked, lettered in gilt, a very good copy with the bookplate of… Read more about this item

1802. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1802. 2 vols., 8vo text [16], CLXVIII (i.e. 168), 185 pages; folded letterpress table between pp. 168-169, and errata leaf (p. 185) at end: and the accompanying Atlas, small folio, [4] pages (letterpress title-page and "Explicacion" table of contents, 17 fine engraved plates comprising 9 maps (4 folding) and 8 illustrations (2 folding)… Read more about this item

1764. Gloucester: Printed by R. Raikes for T. Jeffrys, Geographer to His Majesty, 1764. 4to, [8],280,[8]pp., with two folding maps and five plates. Tear to two leaves expertly repaired, a fine copy in recent full polished calf with raised bands. § First English edition of this important work, which had been published in Russian at… Read more about this item

1920. San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1920 4to, xii, 120pp. Portrait frontispiece of Daines Barrington. Tipped-in map at p. 74 and a large folding map at the end. Original blue boards, buckram backstrip, printed paper label, dust-jacket. Very fine as issued. § Limited to 230 copies of which this is #175. 'Notes ... more complete and… Read more about this item

1782. London: G. Robinson, 1782. 2 vols., 8vo, (8) 1-358; (6) 1-347pp. With a folding chart and 21 engraved plates; a very good copy in contemporary speckled calf,black labels, backstrips scuffed, overall slight wear, a very good set as issued with a small wormhole at the head of the text of vol. 2 from the front to… Read more about this item

1883. [Washington: Government Printing Office] 1883. Roy. 8vo, roy. 8vo, (i) ix, 333 pp. With 16 full-page and folded lithograph maps, 13 sheets with one or more profile views. Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, a very good copy (upper joint tender but not split). § Second edition according to a note at the front (not… Read more about this item

1869. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Tall 4to, 251 pp. 8 plates of which 2 are folding. Original brown cloth titled in gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrip laid down, boards a little spotted, endpapers and index stained, but a sound copy. § First edition of this careful geographic survey of Alaska. "The information herein conveyed… Read more about this item