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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 336 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, Tuesday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD Having had an open bookshop in Sydney for over 40 years, we have sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. seen many customers and visitors come and go. Payment is due on receipt of books. There are of course our regulars who we get to know as friends in the No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. fullness of time, as well as those who buy occasionally, or who just come in for a chat. Some of our longer term customers have passed on as the Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. years go by and we miss them greatly, as much for their occasional pres- ence as for their custom. The well-known, important and famous have also graced our doors, though I won’t drop any names. CONTENTS The are also the idiosyncratic. We have one gentleman who comes in regularly, browses briefly, chooses a book, then proceeds to sit on the BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 32 shop lounge chair. He opens the book on his lap and dozes off. He does AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 33 - 137 this regularly but I can’t recall him ever purchasing a book. I inadver- MISCELLANEOUS 138 - 349 tently disturbed him on his last visit and apologised for interrupting his nap. “I’m not drunk” he said. I told him that I hadn’t thought he was, and he wasn’t. Having been disturbed and seemingly offended, he left shortly after. I wonder whether we’ll see him again. Front cover items: One fellow came in after a long lunch at a nearby restaurant. He wasn’t 4, 232, 3 (5V), 14, 9/ drunk but had clearly imbibed and he purchased quite a few books of 11, 32, 12, 16 not insignificant value. He returned the next day and lamented he had spent so much on books. I thought he might ask to return them, but he didn’t. Another man, clearly having had a few, came in for me to assess June 2019 two “valuable” books he had. On being told that they weren’t valuable he became abusive and asked how I could possibly run a bookshop if I Follow us on Instagram @theantiquebookshop couldn’t recognise a valuable book? He left vowing never to return. I suggested as he left ISSN 2209-850x that this was an outcome greatly to be desired. Enjoy reading the catalogue! THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH Introduction and legends by Jean Longnon, Honorary Curator, Library, Institute de France and Raymond 1 ARNOLD, Lloyd R. HIGH ON THE WILD WITH Cazelles, Librarian, Musee Conde. Preface by Millard HEMINGWAY. Idaho. The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1969. 4to. Or.cl. 343pp. Meiss. Lond. Thames and Hudson. 1969. 4to. Or.dec.cl. b/w ills. Very good copy. Number 178 of 950 copies 31pp. + 247 plates. Very good copy. Reproduced from the signed by Ernest Hemingway's son, John Hemingway. Illuminated Manuscript. In the slip-case. A reproduction In the slip-case. Lloyd Arnold was a good friend of of the miniatures painted by the Limbourg Brothers, Hemingway's and documented his life in Sun Valley, Jean, Herman & Pol in 15th century France that were Idaho. $120 commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry, the 3rd son of the 2 BRIDGE, Carl; BONGIORNO, Frank; & King of France. $120 LEE, David (Eds) THE HIGH COMMISSIONERS. 7 CHESELDEN, William. THE ANATOMY OF Australia's Representatives in the United Kingdom, THE HUMANE BODY. The Classics of Surgery Library. 1910 - 2010. Barton. Dept. of Foreign Affairs. 2010. Col. Special Edition. Alabama. Classics of Surgery Lib. 1985. Ill.wrapps. 342pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Or.dec.leather. Marbled endpapers. 269pp. a.e.g. Very In 1910 when Australia was a self-governing but not good copy. Bound in marker ribbon. Copy Number 637 of yet sovereign state, Sir George Reid was appointed as 7,500 limited editions. First published in 1712, William Australia's first high commissioner to act Cheselden's anatomy of the humane body achieved great as a channel of communication between popularity & was used as an essential study source for governments. $95 medical students. This is a reprint of the original edition. 3 BURNEY, James. A $60 CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF 8 CHING, Henry. POW MAH. A Historical Sketch of Horse VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE and Pony Racing in Hong Kong, and of The Royal Hong Kong SOUTH SEAS. Bibliotheca Australiana Jockey Club. Published by Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin. Hong #3 to #7. Five volume set. Amsterdam. Kong. South China Morning Post 1965. Or.cl. Dustjacket. N. Israel. 1967. 4to. Mock-vellum 274pp. (sl foxing) to foredge & end papers. Dustjacket covered boards with gilt titles & glassine slightly faded at spine & top edge. b/w plates. Very dustwrappers. 391,482,437,580pp. With good copy. Inscribed by the author. Scarce. Founded fold-out maps & b/w ills. Very good set. in 1884 as an amateur body to promote the sport of Facsimile reprint. James Burney was an horse racing, & was granted a Royal Charter in 1959, English Rear-Admiral who accompanied although the 'Royal' was dropped after the transfer Captain Cook on his last two voyages. He wrote of sovereignty in 1997. $120 two books on naval voyages & a third on the game 9 CLANCY, Robert & RICHARDSON, Alan. of whist. A facsimile reprint of the originals. THE MAPPING OF TERRA AUSTRALIS. A Guide $350 to Early Printed Maps of Australia, Antarctica and 4 BUTTSWORTH, John. AUSTRALIAN the South Pacific. Syd. Universal Press. 1995. Folio. COLONIAL FURNITURE. A Guidebook. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. Profusely illustrated in Drummoyne. Colonial Living Press. 1987. 4to. colour. Name on ffe, else Near Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Col.Ill.wrapps. 140pp. Profusely illustrated in Long before the Dutch discovered Australia's west colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. An extensive range coast, philosophers, navigators & explorers spoke of of nearly all cedar colonial furniture from the a vast land to the south known as Terra Australis. collection of Dr. John Buttsworth. From cedar chairs built in the 1840s Robert Clancy explores its early imagined maps. to pine & cedar stools from the 1860s. $85 $90 5 CARNEY, Gerard. THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS 10 DALRYMPLE, Alexander. AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATES AND TERRITORIES. Cambridge. OF THE DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE SOUTH Cambridge Uni Press. 2006. Or.bds. 510pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. The PACIFICK OCEAN. First printed in 1767, reissued Australian people drew on their constitutional heritage to join in a with a foreword by Dr Kevin Fewster of the Australian federation under Commonwealth Constitution in 1901, when colonies National Maritime Museum, and an essay by Dr Andrew Cook of the were transformed from colonies into states. $100 British Library. Syd. Hordern House. 1996. Or.bds. Qtr.leather. 103pp. 6 CAZELLES, Raymond. & LONGNON, Jean. (Ed). LES TRES With fold-out b/w ills & map. Very good copy. Whilst translating RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY. Musee Conde, Chantilly. some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1762, Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple discovered that Luis Vaez de Torres had found New Guinea & the Torres Strait. $125 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 11 DIXON, Trisha. 16 GUPTILL, Arthur Leighton. DRAWING WITH PEN AND & CHURCHILL, Jennie. THE VISION OF INK. With an introduction by Franklin Booth. N.Y. The Pencil Points EDNA WALLING. Garden Plans 1920 - 1951. Press Inc. 1930. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Melb. Blooming Books. 2004. (rep) 4to. Col.ill. 431pp. Dustjacket torn & sl.chipped. Corner bds. Dustjacket. 150pp. Profusely illustrated of page 35 missing with no loss of text. in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Edna Walling was one of Australia's most Very good copy. Second printing. Arthur influential landscape designers, who studied Guptill together with Ernest Watson, horticulture at Burnley College in Melbourne, founded, edited, & managed American Artist before launching her own landscape design magazine & Watson-Guptill Publications. business in the 1920s. $60 These publications were designed to aid in the teaching & skill of drawing $175 12 FORGE, Suzanne. VICTORIAN SPLENDOUR. Australian Interior Decoration 17 HEDGE, John. TROUT FISHING - A 1837 - 1901. Photographs by Irvine Green. SEASON ON THE MONARO. Being the Melb. Oxford University Press. 1981. Experiences of a fly-fishing enthusiast on the Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely rivers and lakes in southern New South Wales. Syd. John Hedge, Abbey illustrated in colour and black & white. Publishing. 1968. Or.bds. (sl.spotting) 288pp. b/w plates & ills. A very Very good copy. 1st ed. The Victorians had good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $125 a passion for an abundance of ornament, 18 LINDSEY, Tim & McRAE, Dave. (Eds). STRANGERS NEXT which they thought of as natural, necessary, DOOR? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century. Portland. Hart civilized, enjoyable, & positively elevating. Publishing. 2018. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 548pp. Very Suzanne Forge examines this Victorian good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Stranger Next Door excess. $75 brings together insiders & leading observers 13 GASCOIGNE, John. SCIENCE IN THE to critically assess the state of Australia / SERVICE OF EMPIRE.
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