NEWS UPDATE

We will be handling the inventory of Jeffrey Thomas Fine and Rare Books in partnership with Brick Row Book Shop effective August 1 2007 and we both are beginning to add his inventory to our inventories. Please check regularly for new books or contact us directly as we will be adding a large number of very fine and rare books to inventory in all fields especially travels, Americana, illustrated books, and literature.

We hope you will find this site easy to navigate and enjoyable to visit--please let us know of any problems you encounter. In addition to the services accessible here, you can contact us for bibliographical information and valuation of your books or books you are considering. We are happy to consult with you on purchases already made or under consideration, and can offer up-to-date information on retail and auction prices. We represent Institutions and private collectors at auctions worldwide; we also prepare valuations and formal appraisals of single items or entire collections.

We are actively purchasing books and manuscripts in all fields, especially medieval illuminated and text manuscripts, California and Hawaii material, Pacific voyages, illustrated books and fine bindings from the 15th to the 20th century, children's books and fine press printing.

William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, and T. F. Dibdin remain special interests.

A unique service we like to offer is access to our database of full collations of books by William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and others. If you are wondering how many plates the large-paper edition of Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron should have or how many versions of Blake's Book of Job were issued, just contact us and we'll send you the full entry from the bibliography. There is no charge for this service.

Finally, we hope that you will contact us for any of your book needs, including restoration and repair of books and manuscripts, informal valuations to full-scale appraisals, auction purchases (including eBay) worldwide, and of course purchases and sales for your own collections. We guarantee every transaction unconditionally and, as members in good standing of the ABAA and ILAB, we subscribe to the code of ethics endorsed by reputable antiquarian booksellers worldwide.

John Windle, Proprietor, Antiquarian Bookseller ? Chris Loker, Proprietor, Children's Book Gallery ? Jeff Mezzocchi cataloguer

49 Geary Street, Suite 232 and 233 ? San Francisco, CA 94108 ? USA

Tel: (415) 986-5826 ? Fax: (415) 986-5827 ? Cell: (415) 244-8256

John's email: sales@johnwindle.com

Chris's email: chris@childrensbookgallery.net

Open Mon-Fr 10-6, Sat 12-6, preferably by appointment or take your chances. The shop is two blocks from Union Square in downtown San Francisco. Click here for more on 49 Geary and a map of how to get here.

Catalogue 45, Rare Books in All Fields, will include about 100 books from 1475-1950. It will be issued on CD-ROM and PDF in Spring 2008.

Catalogue 46, Children's Books, will be issued in the summer of 2008 and will include about 250 books and art works not previously offered and not available on the Internet.

Catalogue 42: Blake Plates, containing over 90 separate plates by William Blake and Catalogue 43: Children's Books, containing over 135 fine and rare children's books, single plates, and original artwork, are both sold out but available in PDF format..

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Rospigliosi binding [Prospero Fagnani]. Index Generalis rerum ac verborum in commentarios super quinque libros Decretalium. Rome: sons of Jacobus Feius Andreas for Joannes Casonus, 1661. 1 part only, of 8. Folio (349 x 225mm). Vignette arms of Pope Alexander VII on title. Contemporary Roman olive morocco gilt by Gregorio Andreoli for Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), tooled to a post-fanfare design incorporating azured lozenges derived from the Rospigliosi arms and fan corner ornaments, shaped compartments with a semé of tiny stars or flames, spine with central flower tool and arabesques, gilt edges. Slight wear at extremities, spine lightly faded and with minor repair at head, a few wormholes at tail, and slight wear in top compartment; lacking 2 index leaves, supplied in manuscript, 1 leaf torn with loss, toned.

§ Previously named only for its main patron, the Rospigliosi bindery was identified by Josè Ruysschaert as the bindery of Gregorio and Giovanni Andreoli. It was one of the most active and celebrated Roman shops in the 17th century and counted among its patrons not only Giulio Rospigliosi, for whom the present binding was commissioned, but several other popes, noble families, such as the Medici and Borghese, and royalty, such as Giulio?s close friend, Queen Christina of Sweden. An identically bound copy of another part of this work was formerly owned by Major J.R. Abbey (see sale, Sotheby?s, 22 June 1965, lot 321, described as black morocco); it was reproduced in Hobson, French and Italian, no. 75, and listed as no. 40 in Foot?s list of the work of this bindery in Davis Gift, I, pp.326-336. Even before acceding to the papal throne, Giulio Rospigliosi was a renowned patron of the arts and author of operatic libretti. His library remained largely intact until 1933, when 60 books were offered for sale by the Roman bookshop, Il Bibliofilio (cf. Hobson, op. cit.). Provenance: Giulio Rospigliosi (Pope 1667, binding); John Hely-Hutchinson (bookplate, sale Sotheby?s 13 March 1956, lot 279, £180 to Foyle); Foyle sale July 2000, lot 171.

$12,750.

Walter Crane. The Absurd ABC. London: George Routledge, [1873]. Small thin 4to, [16] pp. including endpapers, illustrated in rich colors by Crane. Original color wrappers carefully rebacked, a fine copy.

§ A Sixpenny Toy Book featuring magnificent, rich color illustrations on every page (engraved and printed by Edmund Evans) printed on one side of page only.

$1250.