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Antique Bookshop ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 308 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Wednesday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. What is it about the American political system that there are two candidates Payment is due on receipt of books. who would seem unelectable in the normal course? No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. Hilary, whose time has surely passed, and whose email systems while holding an important office seem designed to avoid scrutiny, and Donald, Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. a billionaire whose business practices probably wouldn’t stand up to much scrutiny either and whose outbursts seem “un-Presidential”. CONTENTS Surely there are other possible and suitable candidates, or is influence and money so important that without it there is no chance of being elected. BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 41 I find it extraordinary that the prolonged “hoop-la” of the Primaries, which AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 42 - 231 goes on for months, throws up these two. Let’s hope that whoever wins LEGAL CLASSICS 232 - 242 rises to the occasion. MISCELLANEOUS 243 - 363 The state of Australian politics seems not much better. Our Prime Minister, who called a double dissolution election to gain control of a recalcitrant Senate, has now to deal with a worse situation. Front cover items: 5, 13, 13 (Title), 39/ The rise of the minor parties seems to be a symptom of the public’s view 28, 34, 18, 362, 8, 36 (2v) of the major political parties, who are generally perceived to be untrust- worthy. Back cover items: New South Wales, which has had not a few members of Parliament found guilty of corruption, seems to keep taxpayers in the dark, with the details 36, 30, 18, 332, 3332, 3 / 37, 215, 359, 200/ of almost all Government deals with private enterprise kept secret on the 21, 327, 271, 246, 177, 357/ 328, 48, 213, 331, 83 basis of commercial confidentiality. What should August 2016 be transparent is totally opaque and it is this secrecy that leads to opportunities for corruption. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH 6 BELZONI, Fortunato. EMILIO GRECO. Roma. Editalia. 1962. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 1 ALDIN, Cecil. THE GREAT ADVENTURE. Lond. Humphrey 126pp. 80 b/w plates of the artist's sculpture Milford. n.d. (1920) Folio. Or.ill.bds. and drawings. Fine copy in the sl.soiled slip- unpag. 16 delightful full-page plates case. 1st ed. Inscribed by the artist. Italian and b/w ills. in the text. Pictorial text. Emilio Greco is particularly known for endpapers. Old tape repair to attach his sculptures of elegant and elongated female a loose plate and short repaired tears figures. $80 to a couple of pages else a very good 7 BERNDT, Ronald M. DJANGGAWUL. An copy. Very Scarce. Aldin's parody on Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern "Alice in Wonderland" set in a town Arnhem Land. Lond. Routledge & Kegan called Bunnyborough. $375 Paul. 1952. Or.cl. Dustjacket. xxiv,320pp. 2 ALLEN, Endpapers sl.browned else a very god copy. Christopher. JEFFREY SMART. Scarce. $175 Unpublished paintings 1940 - 8 BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE 2007. Collingwood. Aust Galleries TO SOUTH WALES. Monmouth and Hereford Publ. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. Shires. Edinburgh. Adam & Charles Black. 1864. 285pp. col ills. Very good copy. Or.limp cl. 401pp. + ads. Two folding maps, one 1st paperback ed. Inscribed by the a railway map. Two other maps and 10 engraved author and the artist. Jeffrey Smart's views. Sl. foxing else a very good copy. $60 lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense 9 BROUDE, Norma & GARRARD, Mary of human experience in a modern D. (Eds.) THE POWER OF FEMINIST ART. urban setting. This new book collects Emergence, Impact and Triumph of the American his unpublished paintings for the Feminist Art Movement. Lond. Thames & first time $275 Hudson. 1994. Large Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 318pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and 3 ARNDELL, R.M. PIONEERS black & white. Fine. 1st ed. $95 OF PORTLAND HEAD. Builders of Ebenezer Church and School, 10 BUNYAN, John. THE SELECT WORKS Early Settlers of the Hawkesbury ... WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. and Hunter Rivers and Squatters of By George Cheever, D.D. LL.D. and an the North-West NSW and Southern Introductory Essay on the Pilgrim's Progress Queensland including Family Genealogies. by James Montgomery Esq. Glasgow, Edin & Bris. 1976. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 334pp. b/w Lond. Wm.Collins. 1869. Folio. Elaborately plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Signed Blind & gilt stamped & decorated leather by the author. $65 boards. lxiv,775pp. a.e.g. Illustrated with 100 engravings on wood and a series of 4 BAEDEKER, Karl. EGYPTE ET SOUDAN. drawings in chromo=lithography after Manuel de Voyager. Leipzig. Karl Baedeker. designs by T.Stothard, R.A. The binding a 1914. (4th ed.) Or.limp cl. 442pp. With 21 little rubbed else a very good copy. Scarce. A maps, 85 plans and 55 gravures. French splendid Victorian-era binding. $150 text. Very good copy. The French edition of Baedeker's Egypt. $175 11 CARR, Bob. DIARY OF A FOREIGN MINISTER. Syd. UNSW Press Ltd. 2014. 5 BELLOC, Hillaire. CAUTIONARY Or.bds. Dustjacket. 502pp. Very good copy. TALES FOR CHILDREN. Designed for the 1st ed. Inscribed by Bob Carr. Former Premier Admonition of Children between the ages of of New South Wales, served as Minister of eight and fourteen years. Verses by H.Belloc. Pictures by B.T.B. (Lord Foreign Affairs from March 2012 to September Basil Blackwood). Lond. Eveleigh Nash Co Ltd. n.d. (1907) Sm.4to. Or 2013. This is his diary as Foreign Minister grey paper boards with lettering in dark red and an illustration printed during that period. $45 in black. 79pp. 86 line drawings throughout in the style of Edward Lear. Spine sl.rubbed & some browning to endpapers else a very good copy. 12 CARRUTHERS, Steven L. JAPANESE 1st ed. Scarce. $175 SUBMARINE RAIDERS, 1942. A Maritime THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] Mystery. Syd. Casper Publ. 2006. (Rev ed) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. b/w ills. Fine. Signed by the author. New information about the Japanese Leger's name is inseparable from those artists, Picasso and Braque among midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, the shelling of Sydney & them, who form the core of modernism in the twentieth century. $90 Newcastle a week later & the large-scale sub campaign to terrorise & 17 DELEVOY, Robert L. SYMBOLISTS AND SYMBOLISM. destroy commercial shipping. $45 N.Y. & Lond. Skira / Macmillan. 1978. Large folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 13 CATHOLIC BIBLE (Approved) THE HOLY BIBLE. Containing the 247pp. Profusely illustrated in colour Entire Canonical Scriptures according and black & white. Very good copy. to the Decree of the Council of Trent. 1st ed. The Symbolist movement was Translated from the Latin Vulgate. one of the dominant forces in European Added is the History of the Holy art and literature from 1870 to 1900. Ctholic Bible. Prepared under official It arose in France in opposition to the sanction of His Grace, the Most Rev. spirit of realism which had produced James F.Wood, D.D. Archbishop Impressionism. $75 of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. 18 DULAC, Edmund (Illustrator) John E.Potter & Co. 1875. Folio. PERRAULT"S FAIRY TALES. Lond. Elaborately gilt-decorated leather The Folio Society. 2002. (6th printing) boards. 128,789,235pp. a.e.g. Or.pictorial cloth. 185pp. 30 splendid Chromolithographic title page and colour plates. Fine in the slip-case. A also another chromo title for the New lovely volume. $75 Testament portion. Numerous full- 19 FAHY, Kevin et al. NINETEENTH page engraved plates and engraved C E N T U R Y A U S T R A L I A N ills. in the text. The binding a little FURNITURE. Syd. David Ell Press. rubbed and small rectangular piece 1985. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 624pp. cut from first title page, else a very good Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. copy. From St.Mary's Convent Lismore, Dj sl.faded else A Very good copy. 1st and sold by them at auction in 2005. ed. Scarce. Edition of 2000 copies. The $495 definitive work on the subject. $450 14 CHALOUPKA, George. JOURNEY 20 GARLAND, Col.Ron. NOTHING IN TIME. The 50,000-year Story of IS FOREVER. The History of 2/3 the Australian Aboriginal Rock Art of Commandos. Syd. The Author. 1997. Arnhem Land. Syd. Reed New Holland. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 444pp. Profusely 1999. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 256pp. illustrated with photographs and maps. Many Col.ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce. This copy Australian Aboriginal rock art is inscribed by the author who was a member the world's longest continuing art of the unit, and awarded an MC and Bar in tradition. $120 WWII. $250 15 DAVIS, John Staige. PLASTIC 21 HANSON, Pauline. UNTAMED SURGERY. It's Principles and Practice. & UNSHAMED. The autobiography. With 864 illustrations containing 1637 Docklands. JoJo Publishing. 2007. 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