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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!

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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. Joseph Banks, the Indonesia relations & their future prospects, & British State and the uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge. why cordial relationships are important. $120 Cambridge Uni Press. 1998. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 247pp. b/w ills. Very 19 LIPSCOMBE, Nick. THE PENINSULAR good copy. 1st ed. Historian John Gascoigne examines how Sir Joseph WAR ATLAS. Oxford. Osprey. 2010. Oblong Banks used his personal networks & systems of patronage to integrate 4to. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. Profusely illustrated scientific concerns with the complex machinery of government. $65 with colour and black & white maps. Bound-in 14 GILLARD, Julia. MY STORY. North Sydney. Knopf. 2014. marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. In the Or.bds. Dustjacket. 504pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. slip-case. Between 1807 & 1814 Napoleon's Signed by the author. As Australia's 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard French Empire troops attempted to was also Australia's first female leader. As she sought to bring a new take control of the Iberian Peninsula. vision to politics, factional fighting saw her last three years & three Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807 days. $150 & Spain pushed back with help from Portugal & England. $95 15 (GREENAWAY, Kate) KATE GREENAWAY PICTURES. From Originals presented to her by John Ruskin 20 LOVILL, Justin. NOTABLE and other Friends (hitherto unpublished) HISTORICAL TRIALS. In Four With an Appreciation by H.M.Cundall, Volumes. I. Socrates to the Gunpowder I.S.O., F.S.A. Lond. Frederick Warne & Plot. II. Galileo to Admiral Byng. III. Co.Ltd. 1921. Folio. Or.qt.buckram & bds. Boston Massacre to Queen Caroline. 12pp. plus frontispiece photographic portrait IV. Burke & Hare to Oscar Wilde. Lond. of Greenaway and 20 lovely tipped-in colour The Folio Society. 1999. Or.bds. Qtr. plates, each with a captioned tissue-guard. cloth. 521pp., 498pp., 514pp. 554pp. uncut. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. The col frontispiece & b/w ills. Very good set. 1st Folio Society ed. The Folio English Victorian artist known as Catherine Society commissioned this four volume set in 1999, & it comprises Greenaway studied graphic design at the contemporary accounts drawn from a range of sources including South Kensington School of Art in 1858. newspapers, periodicals, trial collections & papers. The set $120 $135 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]

21 MATTHEWS, Emma. MARK STRIZIC. MELBOURNE: 26 PEAKE, Mervyn Laurence. MERVYN PEAKE: WRITINGS MARVELLOUS TO MODERN. Introduction by Barry Jones. Melb. & DRAWINGS. Selected by Maeve Gilmore & Shelagh Johnson. Thames & Hudson. 2009 Folio. Or.bds. Lond. Academy Editions. 1974. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. Profusely illustrated Dustjacket. 123pp. Profusely illustrated in with black & white illustrations. Very colour and black & white. Very good copy. good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Mark 1st ed. Scarce. English artist Mervyn Peake Strizic was born to Croatian parents began his career as a painter in London in in Germany in 1928, & after fleeing the 1930s & became an acclaimed illustrator the Nazis & then the Communists, he until succumbing to dementia at 57. His migrated to Melbourne, where he taught widow has selected his best writing & himself photography whilst working drawing. $125 for Vic Rail. $300 27 SASSOON, Siegfried. MEMORIS 22 MURRAY-OLIVER, Anthony. OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. MEMOIRS CAPTAIN COOK'S ARTISTS IN THE OF AN INFANTRY OFFICE. SHERSTON'S PACIFIC, 1769 - 1779. Christchurch. PREOGRESS. The Trilogy. Drawings by Avon Fine Prints Ltd. 1969. Oblong Lynton Lamb. 3 vols. Lond. The Folio Society. folio. Three quarter leather. 168pp. 1971 -1974.. Or.dec.cloth. 290244,171pp. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Profusely illustrated in colour and black b/w ills. Very good set. In the slip-cases. 1st Folio Society eds. Highly & white. Very good copy. In the slip-case. The pictures reproduced here decorated English soldier & acclaimed poet & novelist, Siegfried Sassoon represent a visual record of the discoveries of James Cook's three voyages won fame for his trilogy of fictionalised autobiographies that wonderfully between 1768 & 1780, twelve landmark years of exploration across the capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian life $120 vast Pacific ocean. $250 28 SCHROEDER, Ulrich von. THE GOLDEN AGE OF 23 McGREGOR, Alisdair. FRANK HURLEY. A photographer's SCULPTURE IN SRI LANKA. Masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu life. Camberwell. Viking. 2004. 4to. Or.bds. bronzes from museums in Sri Lanka. Hong Dustjacket. 460pp. Inscription on title page. Kong. Visual Dharma Publication 1992. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very Col.Ill.wrapps. 158pp. Profusely illustrated good copy. 1st ed. Made famous by his in colour and black & white. Very good photographs of the Mawson & Shackleton copy. According to tradition, Buddhism was Endurance Antarctic expeditions, Frank introduced into Sri Lanka in the 3rd century Hurley was a visual chronicler of major BC by Indian missionaries, & mingled with events of the 20th century. The biography of the Hindu art forms already present. An a remarkable man. $145 exhibition catalogue of bronzes. $80 24 McINTYRE, Kenneth Gordon. THE 29 SIU-LIN, Wong. EMIGRANT SECRET DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. ENTREPRENEURS. Shanghai Industrialists Portuguese Ventures 200 Years Before Captain in Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Hong Kong Uni Cook. Lond. Souvenir Press Ltd. 1977. Or.bds. Press. 1988. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 244pp. b/w Dustjacket. 427pp. (sl foxing) to dj. b/w ills, map. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. With maps & diagrams. Very good copy. 1st ed. political chaos reigning in the 1930s, & the Kenneth McIntyre discovered whilst studying founding of the People's Republic of China in ancient maps, that the Portuguese explorer, 1949, Shanghai's industrialists sought out a safer Henry the Navigator had actually ventured as location for their cotton mills & looked to Hong far as Timor in the mid 16th century & may have Kong. $100 found Australia. $80 30 STEWART, W. K. BROWN'S SIGNALLING. 25 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. How to Learn the International Code of Visual and A LONG RUN OF BOUND ISSUES. 38 bound Sound Signals. Based o Information contained in vols covering the period Jan-June 1929 (Vol.55) Vol. I. of the 1931 International Code of Signals. to July-Dec 1947. (Vol.92) All in very good Glasgow. Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. 1939. Col. condition. The collection. (Please be aware that ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. 220pp. col plates & b/w ills. these occupy a lot of space and are heavy so that postage, if required, Very good copy. 1939 edition. The International would not be inexpensive) $750 Code of Signals for 1939 is designed to meet the normal peace-time requirements of merchant THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]

vessels, & provides the standard means Joseph Banks Account of New Holland is a summary of his discoveries of communication between ship, shore & & observations during the Endeavour's three month voyage along the aircraft. $55 east coast of Australia in the year 1770. $20 31 TEOH, Eng Soon. THE LOTUS 36 BANKS, Sir Joseph. THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF IN THE BUDDHIST ART OF INDIA. JOSEPH BANKS. The Australian Journey. Singapore. The Author. 2003. Folio. Or.cl. Ed. by Paul Brunton. Pymble. Harper Dustjacket. 292pp. Profusely illustrated Collins. 1998. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 114pp. in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. Joseph Very Scarce. Signed by the author. The Banks was 25 years old when he joined lotus flower is a Buddhist symbol that the crew of the Endeavour on its voyage represents the primordial purity of body, to record the transit of Venus. Banks speech, & mind, floating above the muddy contributed 10,000 pounds for his own waters of attachment & desire & resources for his scientific voyage. $24 began to appear some 1,400 year 37 BARNETT, David. JOHN ago, $145 HOWARD - PRIME MINISTER. With Pru 32 WEEDON, Geoff. & WARD, Goward. Ringwood. Viking. 1997. Or.bds. Richard. FAIRGROUND ART. Dustjacket. 806pp. b/w plates. Very good The Art Forms of Travelling Fairs, copy. 1st ed. John Winston Howard served Carousels and Carnival Midways. as Australia's 25th Prime Minister from N.Y. Artabras. 1994. 4to. Or.bds. 1996 to 2007. Howard studied law at Sydney University before entering Dustjacket. 312pp. Profusely politics & was elected in the Division of Bennelong in 1974. $30 illustrated in colour and black 38 BESANT, Walter. CAPTAIN COOK. English Men of Action. & white. Very good copy. 1st Lond. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1917. (rep) Or.cl. 191pp. Cloth soiled & with Artabras ed. The imaginative, some bubbling. Spine faded. b/w frontispiece. Fair copy. 1st ed. James often bizarre decorations that Cook was born in the little village of Marton, in that part of Yorkshire enliven fairgrounds, amusement parks, & carnivals have a never ending known as Cleveland. The village of Marton presents few points of appeal to the popular imagination. A fascinating history of this unique interest, a fact which may have led Cook towards the sea. $20 art form. $120 39 BRANAGAN, David. T.W.EDGEWORTH DAVID. A Life. AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC Geologist, adventurer, soldier and 'Knight in the old brown hat'. Canberra. National Library 33 ADAMS, Mark. & THOMAS, Nicholas. COOK'S SITES. of Aust. 2005.4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 648pp. b/w Revisiting History. Dunedin, (NZ). Uni of ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the Otago Press. 1999. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 196pp. author. Sir Tannant William Edgeworth Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very David was born in Wales & took up a post good copy. 1st ed. Photographer Mark Adams & as Assistant Geological Surveyor in NSW author Nicholas Thomas revisit the sights that in 1884. He discovered the Hunter Valley Captain James Cook visited in New Zealand's coalfields, & explored the South Magnetic South Island, a journey when he made contact Pole. $35 with the Maori peoples. $45 40 BRENNAN, John. BRENNO. The Life and 34 AUSTRALIAN GALLERY Times of a Media Godfather. Chatswood. New DIRECTORS COUNCIL. ART NOUVEAU Holland Publishers. 2014. Or.bds. Dustjacket. IN AUSTRALIA. Syd. Australian Gallery 320pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st Directors. n.d. (1980?) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 87pp. ed. Radio broadcaster John Brennan helped introduce talk radio into Ex-library copy. Binding loose at front cover. Profusely illustrated in black Australia, & created stars such as Mike Walsh, Mike Gibson, Alan Jones, & white. Good copy. A catalogue of an art nouveau exhibition held at Ray Hadley, & many more. He recounts the highs & lows of radio. Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. $25 $28 35 BANKS, Joseph. SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF 41 BROPHY, Fred. THE LAST SHOWMAN. The life and times NEW HOLLAND NOW CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES. Edited, with of an Outback tent-boxing legend. With Sue Williams. Melb. Penguin an Introduction by John Currey. Malvern. The Colony Press. 2004. Col. Group. 2014. Col.Ill.wrapps. 310pp. col & b/w plates. Wrapps sl.rubbed Ill.wrapps. 64pp. col frontispiece & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. else a very good copy. 1st ed. Fred Brophy was born in Perth, but grew up in Queensland & as the fourth generation of sideshow operators, it was THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]

yellowing to pages. Very good copy. Between 1768 and 1779 Captain only natural that he took his love of boxing in touring tent tournaments Cook made three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific region countrywide. $27 accurately charting vast areas of the South Pacific & Arctic regions, 42 BRUNNER, Bernd. BIRDMANIA. A Remarkable Passion for America & Russia. $20 Birds. Foreword by Pete Dunne. Translation 48 COOK, James. ENDEAVOUR: CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL, by Jane Billinghurst. Crows Nest. Allen 1768-71. Booklet & CD-ROM produced by the National Library of Australia & Unwin. 2017. Col.Ill.wrapps. 292pp. & Australian National Maritime Museum. Canberra. National Library of Profusely illustrated in colour and black Aust. 1999. 8vo. Col.ill.board DVD Case. 16pp. booklet with col & b/w & white. Very good copy. German writer ills. CD-ROM. Very good copy. A CD-ROM facsimile version of the full Bernd Brunner explores the often obsessive text of James Cook's Endeavour journal, which is accompanied by J. C. world of the birdwatcher, including the Beaglehole's complete, indexed transcript. Includes video footage & a story of George Lupton, who took eggs from virtual Endeavour tour $25 the same Guillemot's nest every year for over twenty years. $45 49 COOK, James. THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK IN THE PACIFIC. As told by selections of his own journals, 1768 43 BUNTING, Don. NEW - 1779. Edited by A. Grenfell-Price. Illustrated ZEALAND HOME RENOVATION. Your by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Melb. Georgina House. Home. Auckland. Doubleday New Zealand. 1958. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 292pp. Dustjacket 1994. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 178pp. Name covered in plastic with some wear to edges. on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very col frontispiece & b/w ills. Very good copy. good copy. 1st ed. A complete guide to do 1st ed. Cook worked on a Yorkshire farm in his it yourself home renovation, additions & alterations, decor & interior youth before winning an apprenticeship with design. $25 a merchant sailing company at the age of 17, 44 CALDER, Alex. LAMB, Jonathan. & ORR, Bridget. (Ed) cutting his teeth as a mariner in the cold & wild VOYAGES AND BEACHES. Pacific Encounters, 1769 - 1840. Honolulu. North & Baltic Seas. $75 Uni of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 50 COOK, James. HUNT FOR THE 344pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In SOUTHERN CONTINENT. The Journals 1993 at the University of Auckland, the David of Captain Cook. Edited by Philip Edwards. Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, seventeen Penguin Great Journeys No. 7. Lond. Penguin historians presented talks on what actually Books. 2007. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 115pp. happened as European & Pacific peoples Bookplate on half-title page. Some yellowing discovered each other. $50 to pages. Very good copy. This is a brief excerpt 45 CAMERON, Hector Charles. SIR from The Journals of Captain Cook published JOSEPH BANKS. Syd. Angus and Robertson. in Penguin Classics in 1999, focuses on Cooks 1966. (rep) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 341pp. Dustjacket journey around New Zealand from November covered in removable plastic. Bottom portion 1773 to December 1774. $15 of dj at spine missing. b/w plates. Good 51 COOK, James. JOURNAL OF This is an account of the work & copy. PROCEEDINGS AT ENDEAVOUR RIVER, 11 sponsorship of Joseph Banks in exploration, JUNE - 14 AUGUST 1770. Transcribed by Captain natural history, the settlement at Botany Bay, & the Australian wool W. J. L. Wharton, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. industry. $30 Edited, with an Introduction by John Currey. 46 COOK, Captain James. THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN Malvern. The Colony Press. 2005. (rep) Col.Ill. COOK. Prepared from the original manuscripts by J. C. Beaglehole for wrapps. 63pp. col frontispiece & b/w ills, fold-out ills & a fold-out map. the Hakluyt Society, 1955-67. Selected and edited by Philip Edwards. Very good copy. In June 1770 Captain Cook's Endeavour bark was nearing Lond. Penguin Books. 1999. Col.Ill.wrapps. 646pp. b/w maps. Very good the end of its long northward course along the east coast of Australia, copy. Captain Cook's vivid firsthand account of his three extraordinary when it hit a reef & running repairs became necessary to the ship's hull. expeditions in which he charted the entire coast of New Zealand & the $20 east coast of Australia, & recorded detailed accounts of Tahiti. $20 52 COOK, James. THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COOK. 47 COOK, Captain James. THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN Prepared from the original manuscripts by J. C. Beaglehole for the Hakluyt COOK. Edited by Ernest Rhys. With an Introduction by Simon Marshall. Society, 1955 - 67. Selected and Edited by Philip Edwards. Lond. Penguin Hertfordshire. Wordsworth Editions. 1999. Col.Ill.wrapps. 470pp. Some Books. 2003. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 649pp. Some creasing to wrapps at corners. b/w maps. Good copy. These journals record the historic meeting THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] between two worlds as Europe's greatest navigator made the first contact recounts his 43 year career working for the NSW Government Railways. with many of the peoples of the Pacific. $15 Starting out as a Probationary Junior Porter, he returned to the rails in 1995 when he took the 3801 to Alice Springs. $35 53 COULSON, Peter. AUSTRALIAN FLY PATTERNS. Fly Patterns for Saltwater, Trout & Australian Native Fish. Melb. Australian 59 ESTENSEN, Miriam. DISCOVERY. The Quest for the Great Fishing Network. 2004. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 249pp. Profusely illustrated South Land. St. Leonard. Allen & Unwin. 1998. in colour. Dj sl.torn else very good copy. 1st ed. "Australia's most up- Or.bds. Dustjacket. 286pp. col & b/w plates. to-date & comprehensive fly-pattern book." $33 Very good copy. 1st ed. Miriam Estensen charts the rise of a myth of a great south 54 CRISP, Leslie Finlay. GEORGE RICHARD DIBBS 1834 - 1904. land in Ancient Greece, to the quest by brave Premier of New South Wales. Prophet of Unification. Canberra. ANU Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, & English Press. 1980. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 114pp. Very good copy. George Dibbs explorers who's search for Terra Incognita obtained the position as a Sydney wine merchant as a young man, & found Australia $28 entered politics in 1874. He served as the 10th Premier of NSW in 1885. $35 60 EVATT, H. V. RUM REBELLION. A study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh 55 CURREY, C. H. THE BROTHERS BENT. Judge-Advocate Ellis by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Bent & Judge Jeffrey Hart Bent. Syd. Sydney Corps. Including the John Murtagh Macrossan University Press. 1968. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University 176pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Ellis Bent of Queensland, June 1937. Syd. Angus and was called to the bar in 1805, & arrived in Robertson Ltd. 1944. (4th ed.) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 285pp. Name on ffe. Colour Sydney in 1809, & became the Judge-Advocate frontispiece. Dj sl.rubbed else a very good copy. On 26th of January 1808, in the Colony. Governor Macquarie urged officers & men of the NSW Corps marched to Government House in Sydney his brother Jeffrey to take up a post in the in an act of rebellion against Governor William Bligh. $35 Supreme Court. $33 61 FAITH, Nicholas. LIQUID GOLD. The story of Australian wine 56 DENNIS, Don. THE GUNS OF and its makers. Lond. Macmillan. 2002 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 438pp. col & MUSCHU. Eight men went in... Only one b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. $30 returned. Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2006. Col.Ill.wrapps (sl.rubbed) 255pp. Very good 62 FEARNSIDE, Geoffrey. Harry. ALL STATIONS WEST. The copy. 1st ed. Eight Australian Z Special story of the Sydney - Perth standard gauge commandos were sent to Maschu Island off railway. Syd. Haldane Publishing Co. 1970. the coast of New Guinea on the 11th of Or.bds. Dustjacket. 167pp. Dustjacket with April 1945, to locate two concealed naval some tears & creasing to top edge. b/w plates. guns. The story of the only survivor of Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. that mission $25 Geoffrey Fearnside recounts the history of the standard gauge railway line built between 57 DUPAIN, Max. CAZNEAUX. Sydney & Perth. A concise history that follows Photographs by Harold Cazneaux 1878 the monumental work that was undertaken to - 1953. Selected and with an appreciation make this happen. $36 by Max Dupain. Canberra. National Library of Aust. 1978. Folio. Or.cl. 63 FLINT, David. THE TWILIGHT OF Dustjacket. 88pp. Inscription on ffe. THE ELITES. Foreword by Tony Abbott. Nth Marks to cloth & tape on inside of dj. Melb. 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65 FRESTA, Phillip. PIPER, DREAMER, November 1966, Philip Houghton & crew sailed out of Auckland harbour SOLDIER, TEACHER. Jim McConnell, An aboard the Murikiku to retrace Captain James Cook's cartographical Ordinary Man - An Extraordinary Life. This journey around New Zealand some 200 years later. $33 is his true life story, Inspiring, Enlightening, 71 HUME, William Hamilton. JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY TO Humorous. Mackay. Boolarong Press. 1997. PORT PHILLIP, NEW SOUTH WALES. By Messrs. W. H. Hovell, and Col.Ill.wrapps. 241pp. Very good copy. Hamilton Hume in 1824 and 1825. Adelaide. Libraries Board of SA. 1965. Copy no. 89 initialled by the author. James Or.bds. 87pp. Bookplate on ffe. Very good copy. Facsimile Edition. The McConnell was born into a poor working Hume & Hovell expedition of 1824 was one of the most important journeys class Scottish family in 1922. During the of exploration undertaken in eastern Australia. Their commissioned task war he tangled with a German Tiger Tank, was to trace the NSW river systems to their source. $45 & ended up being appointed The Australian 72 HURLEY, Frank. AUSTRALIA. A camera study by Frank High Commissioner to Clan Donald $40 Hurley. Syd. Angus and Robertson. 1956. (2nd imp) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 66 GEDDES, Margaret. BLOOD, SWEAT 208pp. Dustjacket sl.worn at spine edges & some tears to top corner. AND TEARS. Australia's WWII remembered Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. by the men and women who lived it. Camberwell. Viking. 2004. Or.bds. Australia: A Camera Study was Frank Hurley's most successful book Dustjacket. 503pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australians took being reprinted three times. After cutting his teeth as an Antarctic & War part in every arena of the war, & these moving accounts include memories photographer, he was happy to settle into more sedate work. $45 of the campaigns in Europe & Africa, the battles for the Kokoda Trail in 73 HURLEY, Frank. THE HOLY CITY. A Camera Study of the New Guinea, Burma & Thailand. $33 Holy City and its Borderlands. Syd. 67 GILLARD, Julia. MY STORY. North Sydney. Knopf. 2014. Angus and Robertson. 1949. 4to. Or.cl. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 504pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Dustjacket. 184pp. Inscription on verso Julia Gillard was Australia's 27th Prime Minister for three years & three of ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and days. A turbulent period that she recounts with candour & hindsight. A black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. chronicle of ideals, mistakes, misjudgements & successes. $33 Frank Hurley was sent to the Middle East 68 GUNTON, Eric. GRACIOUS HOMES OF COLONIAL as an official photographer for the British ADELAIDE. Jubilee Edition. Adelaide. Eric Gunton. 1983. Col.ill.bds. Ministry of Information. He took his 152pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. camera into the old sections of Jerusalem Signed by the author. Eric Gunton was commissioned to research some to capture the Holy City. $40 of Adelaide's most historic homes for the magazine South Australian 74 HURLEY, Frank. VICTORIA. A Homes & Gardens. Gathered together here are seventy three of those Camera Study. Syd. John Sands Pty Ltd. historic houses. $45 1956. Oblong 8vo. Or.cl. 105pp. v.sl.flecking 69 HART, Deborah. FRED WILLIAMS. Infinite Horizons. to cloth. Profusely illustrated in colour Editor, Laura Murray Cree. Canberra. and black & white. Very good copy. 1st National Gallery of Aust. 2011. ed. Frank Hurley's photographic career began in Folio. Col.ill.bds. 240pp. Profusely 1902 when he bought a Kodak Box Brownie for illustrated in colour and black & 15 shillings. After his Antarctic adventures, he white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Fred found commercial success with tourist booklets Williams was apprenticed to a firm & postcards. $35 of Melbourne shopfitters & box 75 IRVING, Terry. & CAHILL, Rowan. makers, studying art part-time at RADICAL SYDNEY. Places, portraits and night at the National Gallery School unruly episodes. Syd. UNSW Press. 2010. Col. & travelled to London to study at the Ill.wrapps. 368pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st Chelsea School of Art $45 ed. Tracing the development of radicalism from 70 HOUGHTON, Philip. The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of LAND FROM THE MASTHEAD. A the 1980s. From the anti-conscription movement, Circumnavigation of New Zealand resident action movements, Glebe anarchists & in the Wake of Captain Cook. Lond. Redfern's Block. $33 Hodder and Stoughton. 1968. Or.bds. 76 JACKMAN, S. W. TASMANIA. The Islands Series. Melb. Wren Dustjacket. 223pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Dustjacket with pealing to spine Publishing Pty Ltd. 1974. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 200pp. b/w plates. Very good edges. Name on half title page. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In copy. 1st ed. Originally named Van Diemen's Land by Able Tasman in 1642, THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]

Tasmania was known as 'this other England' & 'the Garden Island'. With 82 LAWRENCE, Joan. & SHARPE, Alan. (Ed). EASTERN its temperate climate it is one of the most mountainous islands. $30 SUBURBS. Pictorial History. Crows Nest. Kingsclear Books. 1999. (rep) Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 137pp. Profusely illustrated in black & 77 KAEPPLER, Adrienne (Curator). JAMES COOK AND white. Very good copy. Although the Eastern Suburbs as a region is not THE EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC. Lond. Thames & Hudson. accurately defined, it typically includes the Municipalities of Woollahra, 2009. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. Waverley, & Randwick. This pictorial history covers the beaches & 276pp. Bookplate on front end papers. suburbs. $27 Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st 83 LE GUAY, Laurence (Ed.) AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY ed. Published on the occasion of 1976. Syd. Globe Publishing Co. the exhibition James Cook and the 1976. 4to. Or.bds. 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A named by Walter Burley Griffin & his wife Marion after a towering HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Port crag of rock overlooking Middle Harbour, known locally as Edinburgh Melb. Cambridge Uni Press. 2006. Col.Ill. Castle. Many early homes were made from local stone. $25 wrapps. 299pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A concise chronicle of the convict colony 86 LEWIS, David. FROM MAUI TO COOK. The Discovery at Port Jackson that documents the wealth and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by derived from its immense natural resources, Walter Stackpool. Syd. Doubleday. 1977. the growth of an amazing diverse population 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 212pp. Dj with wear & its international status. $40 to edges. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Sailing adventurer David Lewis explores the story 81 KINGSTON, Daphne. THE CHANGING HAWKESBURY. A of Pacific exploration from prehistoric Selection of Sixty Drawings of Nineteenth Century Houses and Barns in times, when the Polynesian god Maui is the Hawkesbury area recorded during the 1970s. Syd. Eureka Research. said to have fished New Zealand out of the 1979. Oblong 4to. Or.faux leather Dustjacket. 84pp. Dustjacket lightly sea, to Cook's exploration. $40 soiled. B/w ills. Very good copy. No 246 of 500 Signed & Numbered editions. Daphne Kingston spent a decade recording in drawing the 87 LEWIS, David. original architecture of the Hawkesbury District. She recorded the oldest WE, THE NAVIGATORS. The Ancient Art remaining domestic & farm buildings between Windsor & Richmond in of Landfinding in the Pacific. Canberra. NSW. $45 ANU Press. 1972. Or.dec.cloth. 345pp. Cloth faded at spine. Bookplate & card on ffe. b/w plates, ills & maps. Good copy. 1st ed. For many centuries the peoples THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] of the Pacific have voyaged over vast stretches of empty ocean that lie 93 MORECROFT, Richard. 20 YEARS FROM THE WAIST UP. between island groups. David Lewis examines how they managed to Tales of a TV News Anchor. Syd. Harper Collins. 2002. Col.Ill.wrapps. navigate these trackless seas. $40 285pp. Name on ffe. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Richard Morecroft. Richard Morecroft was the face of ABC television 88 LINCOLN, Margarette. (Ed). SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION news for almost two decades. He reveals what life was like behind & IN THE PACIFIC. European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the 18th under the news desk, & revels his passion for wildlife & educational Century. Suffolk. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. programs. $38 2001. Col.Ill.wrapps. 228pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Captain James 94 MUNDLE, Rob. COOK. From Sailor to Legend. Syd. Harper Cook's exploration of the Pacific in the 18th Collins. 2013. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 469pp. Bookplate on front end century hold an enduring fascination for papers. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. both specialists & the wider public due to Captain James Cook stands as one of the greatest maritime explorers their exciting elements of danger & scientific of all time. Only the acclaimed 15th century explorers, Christopher endeavour. $40 Columbus & Vasco da Gama had similar remarkable sea voyages. $35 89 LYTE, Charles. SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 18TH Century Explorer: Botanist 95 NEWTON, Dennis. CLASH OF EAGLES. Australian Airmen and Entrepreneur. Syd. A. H. & A. W. Reed. from World War 1 to Vietnam. Kenthurst. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. Sl foxing to Kangaroo Press. 1996. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. top edge. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 148pp. Profusely illustrated in black & 1st ed. Sir Joseph Banks made his name as white. Very good copy. Formed a few years a botanist in 1766 as part of an expedition prior to 1914, the Australian Flying Corps to Newfoundland & Labrador, & took part sent aircraft to assist in Egypt, Palestine in James Cook's first great voyage, visiting & the Western Front, then again in WWII, Brazil, Tahiti & New Zealand. $33 & the Vietnam war. Dennis Newton looks at its history. $40 90 MARTYN, John. SYDNEY'S NATURAL WORLD. Water, Light, Life, Form, Colour. 96 NORRIE, Dr Philip. LEO Turramurra. STEP Inc. 2007. BURING: AUSTRALIA'S FIRST WINE Oblong Folio. Col.ill.bds. AUTHORITY. The History of Leo Buring 217pp. Profusely illustrated in & Leo Buring Wines. Syd. Apollo Books. colour. Very good copy. John 1996. Ill.wrapps. 79pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st Martyn brings an artist's eye ed. $40 to Sydney's unique bushland, 97 NORRIE, Dr Philip. LINDEMAN. Australia's Classic as well as scientific accuracy Winemaker. Mosman. Apollo Books. 1993. Ill.wrapps. 96pp. b/w ills. to detail. Capturing the beauty Very good copy. 1st ed. The history of Dr.H.J.Lindeman and Lindeman's of the bush through colour, Wines. $36 light, form & photography. 98 NORRIE, Dr Philip. PENFOLD: TIME HONOURED. $30 The History of Dr C.R. Penfold & Penfolds 91 MITCHELL, Alex. COME TO THE REVOLUTION. A Wines. Syd. Apollo. 1994. Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Memoir. Syd. NewSouth Publishing. 2011. Col.Ill.wrapps. 536pp. b/w b/w ills. Very Good copy. 1st ed. In 1844, plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Many know Alex Mitchell as a political Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold founded journalist. Few know that he was also a revolutionary. This revealing what became Australia's largest wine group, memoir is a rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspaperman, unionists accounting for nearly one-third of Australia's & revolutionaries. $30 wine production. $45 92 MOOREHEAD, Alan. A LATE EDUCATION. Episodes in a 99 NORTH, Ian. (Ed). THE ART OF Life. N.Y. Harper & Row Publishers. 1970. Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 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100 OLSEN, Penny. A BRUSH WITH BIRDS. Australian bird A. W. Reed. 1969. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 192pp., 262pp. b/w plates & ills + art from the National Library of Australia. Introduced by Penny Olsen. fold-out maps. Very good set. Australia volume is the 1st ed. New Zealand Canberra. National Library of Aust. 2008. (rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. volume is the 2nd edition. In the slip-case. A collection of excerpts & Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. How relevant passages from Captain Cook's three voyages describing his images of Australian birds have changed over time is set out in Penny account of Australia, New Zealand, & on his third voyage, descriptions Olsen's overview of their depiction over the decades. From John Hunter's of Van Diemen's Land. $75 early renderings, to William Cooper's scientific art. $40 107 ROBERTS, Claire. (Ed). EVOLUTION & REVOLUTION. 101 O'LEARY, Dennis. THE BATTLE FOR AUSTRALIA. The Chinese Dress 1700s - 1990s. Syd. Defence of Australia and the Pacific. Wagga Wagga. Dennis O'Leary. 2009. Powerhouse Publishing. 1997. 4to. Col. Col.Ill.wrapps. 55pp. Slight wear to corners. Inscription on title page. Col Ill.wrapps. 111pp. Profusely illustrated in maps & b/w ills. Very good copy. Signed by the author. Published by the colour and black & white. Very good copy. author as an educational resource for students, this research study covers Through the medium of Chinese dress, this the involvement of military forces from Australia, New Zealand & the exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum US in the Pacific theatres of war. $22 explored the dramatic cultural, social, economic & political changes which have 102 PARKINSON, Sydney. ACCOUND OF THE COUNTRY, occurred in China & Hong Kong over 300 NATIVES & NATURAL PRODUCE OF NEW HOLLAND. Edited, with years $40 an Introduction by John Currey. Malvern. The Colony Press. 2003. Col.Ill. wrapps. 51pp. col frontispiece & b/w ills & a map. Very good copy. 1st 108 ROBERTS, Gregory David. ed. In 1768 Scottish botanical illustrator, Sydney Parkinson sailed from THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW. Syd. England with Joseph Banks aboard the Endeavour to explore the South Pan Macmillan Australia. 2015. Or.bds. Seas. He was the first to record the flora & fauna of Australia. $20 Dustjacket. 873pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. In his long awaited sequel to Shantaram, 103 PYBUS, Cassandra. SEDUCTION AND CONSENT. A Case of Australian fugitive Lin making his way to Bombay where he falls in Gross Moral Turpitude. New Edition. Port Melb. Mandarin. 1994. (rep) with the local mafia dons, he is sent on a smuggling trip to a place he Col.Ill.wrapps. 254pp. Very good copy. When Professor Sydney Sparkes falls in love with. $40 Orr was dismissed from the University of Tasmania in 1952 for sexual misconduct with one of his student, his trial raised questions about 109 ROBERTSON E. Graeme. VICTORIAN HERITAGE. consent, seduction & harassment. $24 Ornamental Cast Iron in Architecture. Syd. Ure Smith. 1974. (rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 229pp. Small mark to front wrapps. Profusely illustrated 104 RAMAGE, S. P. KOKODA SECRET. Ian Hutchison, Australian in black & white. Very good copy. The architecture of early Melbourne Hero. Wahroonga. Eora Press. 2014. 4to. featured ornamentation by cast iron, often in a highly distinctive Or.bds. Dustjacket. 354pp. Numbers written style. Influenced by Georgian & Regency styles, it had its own unique on back end-papers. col & b/w ills & maps. properties. $27 Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. As Commanding Officer of the 2/3 110 ROBSON, John. CAPTAIN COOK'S WAR & PEACE. The Royal Australian Infantry Battalion in the Battle Navy Years 1755 - 1768. Barnsley. Seaforth of Eora Creek on the Kokoda Trail, he was Publishing. 2009. Or.bds. 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112 SCHOFIELD, Leo. THE rejected he travelled to Britain where he GARDEN AT BRONTE. Photography joined the RAF joining No. 94 Squadron by Simon Griffiths. Camberwell. Viking. earning a Military Cross $65 2002. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 178pp. 118 THORNE, Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good Les. G. NORTH SHORE SYDNEY. From copy. 1st ed. As a boy Leo Schofield often 1788 to today. Second Edition. Revised passed by Bronte house & wondered what and Enlarged. Edited by Leslie Jillett. Syd. lay beyond the tall fence. 50 years later Angus & Robertson. 1970. (rep) 4to. Or.cl. he took on the lease, & his passion for Dustjacket. 222pp. Slight wear to cloth at this colonial estate was channelled into top edge. Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated a book. $47 in black & white. Very good copy. One 113 SIMONS, Margaret. KERRY April day in 1788, Governor Phillip led STOKES. Self-Made Man. The full, an expedition from Manly Cove through intriguing story of Australia's most the North Shore hinterland, declaring it a enigmatic tycoon. Melb. Viking. 2013. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 342pp. b/w good source of timber from which to build plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. John Alford was adopted by Matthew & the fledgling colony. $30 Irene Stokes in 1940, & raised as Kerry Matthew Stokes. Raised in the 119 TINGLE, Laura. QUARTERLEY ESSAY. Follow The Leader - slums of post-Depression Melbourne, he began by selling rabbit meat Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman. Issue 1, 2018. Carlton. Black he had caught & skinned. $45 Inc. 2018. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 139pp. Very good copy. In this wise & timely 114 SOTHEBY'S. THE FLORILEGIUM. Cook - Banks - Parkinson, essay penned after Malcolm Turnbull's fate, political journalist Laura 1768-1771. Melb. Sotheby's. 1988. 4to. Col. 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COLONIAL CRAFTS OF VICTORIA. slightly yellowed. col & b/w plates. Good Early Settlement to 1921. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 1978. 4to. Col. copy. Inscribed by Tracey Wickham. Tracey Ill.wrapps. 167pp. Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black Wickham is an Australian former middle & white. Wrappers a little rubbed & soiled else a good copy. The gold distance swimmer who was World Champion rushes brought thousands of skilled artisans & tradesmen to Victoria, of the 400m & 800m freestyle in 1978 & 1982. & as tools were expensive, they made their own, along with many other Despite her success in the pool, she has battled things, as this exhibition catalogue demonstrates. $33 great hardship. $35 128 WARD, John Manning. THE STATE AND THE PEOPLE. 134 WILLIAMS, Fred. WRITTEN IN SAND. Australian Federation and Nation-Making 1870 - 1901. Leichhardt. A History of Fraser Island. Milton, (QLD). The Federation Press. 2001. Col.Ill.wrapps. 150pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 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148 BARBER, Stephen. & REED, Jeremy. CALIGULA. Divine Nicolson. 1995. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in Carnage. Atrocities of the Roman Emperors. Powder Springs, (GA). colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. $27 Creation. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. Very good copy. A look at Caligula, 155 BIERCE, Ambrose. THE REALM OF THE UNREAL. the most notorious of the Roman Emperors. $27 And Other Stories. Introduction by Will Self. 149 BARRAULT, Michele. REGARDS DHOFAR. Translated by Illustrations by Nathan Sissons. Lond. The Folio Nadia Fairbrother. Editions Michel Hetier. France. Imprimeur. 1999. Society. 2009. Or.dec.cloth. 534pp. Bookplate on 4to. Or.dec.silk. 111pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. front paste-down. B/w ills. Very good copy. 1st The Dhofar Governorate is the largest of the eleven Governorates in ed. In the slip-case. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce the Sultanate of Oman. Published by the Ministry of Information, this was an American short story writer, journalist, book highlights the economic exports of the region. $15 poet, & Civil War veteran. A prolific & versatile 150 BARROW, Andrew. THE FLESH IS WEAK. An intimate writer, he disappeared in 1913 after travelling to History of the Church of England. Lond. join the Mexican Revolution. $40 Hamish Hamilton. 1980. 4to. Or.bds. 156 BOWLES, Paul. IN TOUCH. The Letters Dustjacket. 254pp. Dustjacket slightly of Paul Bowles. Edited by Jeffrey Miller. Lond. worn at edges with some light soiling. Harper Collins. 1994. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 604pp. Name on ffe. b/w ills. Very good copy. Top corners slightly bumped else a very good 1st ed. A history of the Church of England copy. 1st UK ed. American expatriate composer from the Reformation to now, with an & author Paul Bowles had studied music with examination of the complexities of its Aaron Copland in New York, but in 1947 moved humanist theological outlook, & its parade to Tangier, where he led a reclusive life as an of saints, sinners, bigots & bores. $35 indefatigable correspondent. $45 151 BAZIN, Rene. BALTUS LE 157 BRADFORD, David. DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS. Photographs LORRAIN. Paris. Descleee De Brouwer et by a New York Taxi Driver. Text by Gerhard Cie. 1928. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 229pp. Some Waldherr. Koln. Konemann. 2000. Or.cl. foxing to wrapps. b/w ills. Good copy. Dustjacket. 496pp. Dustjacket lightly faded French text. French novelist Rene Bazin at spine with slight wear to edges. Profusely originally studied law in Paris, before he illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. began submitting stories to Parisian journals. In 1904 he was admitted Day & night, through rain & snow, his canary to the Academie Francaise & cemented his writing reputation. $45 yellow taxi rolls on through the city that never 152 BENSIMON, Kelly Killoren. AMERICAN STYLE. sleeps. Through the eye of his camera David Introduction by Harold Koda. N.Y. Assouline Publishing Inc. 2004. Folio. Bradford observes people from all corners of Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & New York. $45 white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at some 200 American style icons 158 BROOKS, C. P. WEAVING from the 19th century to the 21st century. From trashy pop culture street CALCULATIONS. A guide to calculations wear to stylish classic looks, to the flamboyant & outrageous. $35 relating to cotton yarn and cloth and 153 BERNARD, Gilles. & LACHAUX, Gerard. WATERLOO those regarding all processes of cotton RELICS. Translated from the French by weaving. Lond. E. & F. N. Spon. 1889. Or.cl., Alan McKay. Spain. Histoire & Collections. rebacked. 147pp. Some marks to cloth. 2005. Folio. Or.bds. 128pp. Profusely First four pages slightly loose. b/w ills & illustrated in colour and black & white. diagrams. Good copy. C.P.Brooks was a Very good copy. 1st ed. The Battle of senior lecturer on cotton manufacturing, Waterloo was fought on Sunday the 18th cotton spinning, weaving, & designing at of June near Waterloo in Belgium with the Blackburn Technical Institutions. He the loss of 65,000 lives. Many relics were shows how to calculate materials required collected by Sergeant Cotton who started for manufacturing. $20 a museum in 1826. $40 159 BROWN, Jane. THE ENGLISH 154 BEST, Nicholas. HISTORIC GARDEN. Through the 20th Century. BRITAIN FROM THE AIR. Photography Woodbridge. Antique Collectors Club 1999. by Jason Hawkes. Lond. Weidenfeld & 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 287pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Revised edition. First published in 1986, Jane Brown's English Gardens was the first book to describe the influence on THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]

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171 CLABBURN, Pamela. THE NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF on photographic techniques. He wrote extensively on the faking of war FURNISHING TEXTILES. Harmondsworth. Penguin Books. 1989. Col. time photos for propaganda purposes. $24 Ill.wrapps. 272pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 178 DALRYMPLE, William. NINE LIVES. In Search of the Sacred 1st Penguin ed. Pamela Clabburn was one of the National Trust's most in Modern India. Lond. Bloomsbury. 2009. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 284pp. experienced textile conservators, & here provides a masterly account of Very good copy. 1st ed. Travel writer William Dalrymple explores the the history of the furnishing textiles from the Middle Ages to modern religious life in South Asia. A distillation of 25 years travel through times. $27 India, he presents the lives of nine people, leading nine different lives. 172 CLARK, Kenneth. THE NUDE. A Study of Ideal Art. Lond. $33 John Murray. 1957. (2nd imp) 4to. 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Pauline preponderance of counterfeit coinage in Cockrill has a very important job. She is in charge of all the teddy bears circulation. $60 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. A bear asked her to write 180 DALZIEL, Nigel. THE PENGUIN this book so that people know more about bears. $27 HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE BRITISH 174 COOK, Theodore Andrea. THE CURVES OF LIFE. N.Y. EMPIRE. Introduction by John Mackenzie. Dover Publications. 1979. Col.Ill.wrapps. Lond. Penguin Books. 2006. 4to. Col.Ill. 479pp. b/w ills. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a wrapps. 144pp. col & b/w ills & maps. Very very good copy. The spiral & its curves occur good copy. The Penguin Historical Atlas of repeatedly in the productions of humans from the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans & from the British Isles, through to its ascendency in Victorian times, to Gothic architects used the properties of the its ultimate collapse. $25 spiral. 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Very good copy. fading to spine. b/w ills & fold-out maps. Very good copy. Hong Kong English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer & spy, Daniel Defoe has grown from a British naval settlement built after the Convention of published his Journal of The Plague Year of 1665 in 1722. Although a 1841 with successive governors of Hong Kong commenting on its unique work of fiction, it was taken as an actual account of events. $60 situation so close to an unsympathetic Empire. $38 185 DEIGHTON, Len. THE IPCRESS FILE. Pennsylvania. The 192 ENDACOTT, G. B. HONG KONG ECLIPSE. Edited and with Franklin Library. 1988. (rep) Or.dec.cl. with paste-on colour plate. 279pp. additional material by Alan Birch. Oxford in a.e.g. B/w ill. Very good copy. Len Deighton wrote his first spy novel Asia paperbacks. Hong Kong. Oxford Uni after hearing his mother tell a story of the night she witnessed British Press. 1978. Col.Ill.wrapps. 428pp. Tail of MI5 agents come to arrest Anna Wolkoff, a White Russian émigré who spine sl.rubbed. b/w plates & maps. Very was a cipher clerk. $30 good copy. A comprehensive study of Hong 186 DOWNES, Bruce. & FENNER, Frank E. (Ed). PHOTOGRAPHY Kong during the Second World War, which ANNUAL 1952 EDITION. Popular Photography. A Selection of the was a catastrophic & crucial period in the World's Greatest Photographs. Chicago. Colony's history. The central theme is the Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. 1952. 4to. Col. Japanese conquest & occupation of 1941- Ill.wrapps. 282pp. Some slight wear to 1945. $30 spine. Profusely illustrated in colour and 193 ENGLAND, Vaudine. THE QUEST black & white. Good copy. $24 OF NOEL CROUCHER. Hong Kong's Quiet 187 DRONSFIELD BROTHERS Philanthropist. Foreword by Dr Elizabeth LTD. CARD GRINDING IN THEORY Sinn. Hong Kong. Hong Kong Uni Press. AND PRACTICE. A Treatise upon 1998. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 381pp. b/w the various methods of grinding card plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Noel Croucher was clothing used by spinners of cotton, wool, a quiet philanthropist who struggled from modest beginnings to become silk, and other textile fibres. Treatise No. Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. His story is part of a larger 14. Oldham. Dronsfield Brothers. n.d. tapestry that wove Hong Kong's past. $50 (1920s) Or.cl. 140pp. Slight flecking to 194 ERASMUS, Desiderius. PRAISE OF FOLLY. Erasmus of cloth. b/w ills. Very good copy. Published Rotterdam. Translated with an Introduction and notes by Betty Radice. by the Dronsfield Brothers Limited in Lond. The Folio Society. 1974. Or.dec.cloth. 115pp. col plates. Very good Lancashire, makers of the cylindrical grinding machines used in the copy. 1st Folio Society ed. In the slip-case. The Dutch Christina humanist manufacture of cotton, wool, & silk fabrics. 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196 FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE de l'ART 202 FREY, Verena. (Ed). 75 JAHRE LEICA FOTOGRAFIE = 75 PHOTOGRAPHIQUE. FIAP 1958. The International Federation of YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY = 75 ANS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE Photographic Art Yearbook 1958. Lucerne. C. J. Bucher S.A. 1958. 4to. LEICA. Solms. Leica Camera Group. 1990. 4to. Or.cl. Clear plastic Or.cl. Dustjacket. 179pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white with illustrated dj. 340pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. some colour. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. The 1958 FIAP (Federation Very good copy. 1st ed. The Leica camera company was founded in 1914 International de l'Art Photographique) Biennial was held in Cologne by Ernst Leitz who took the first three letters from his surname, & the in 1958, with the best photographs chosen & exhibited & reproduced in first two letters of the word camera to create Leica. 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Lond. 198 FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL de l'ART Profile Books. 2010. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 352pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. PHOTOGRAPHIQUE. FIAP 1962. Les photos de la Fiap 1962. Lucerne. 1st ed. It seems that everyone has a favourite & preferred font. Simon C. J. Bucher S.A. 1962. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated Garfield explored the fascinating world of the font, from those who design in black & white & some colour. Very good copy. Text in French, English them, to those who chose them to achieve maximum impact. $35 & German. This is the FIAP Annual for 1962. Every other year the 205 GENTILI, Alberico. DE LEGATIONIBUS LIBRI TRES. The International Federation of Photographic Art hold a Biennial Exhibition translation by Gordon J. Laing. N.Y. The Legal Classics Library. 1997. known as the World Photographic Cup, offering the best photos (rep) 4to. Or.dec.leather. 208pp. a.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Very good copy. worldwide. $22 Alberico Gentili (1552 - 1608), was an Italian lawyer, jurist, & a standing 199 FERNEYHOUGH, F.; CLIFFORD, A.V.; DEAN, F.E. et al. THE advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London for 21 years. He sought to COMPLETE BOOK OF MOTOR-CARS, RAILWAYS, SHIPS AND split secularism from canon law & the church in 1587. $45 AEROPLANES. The fully illustrated story 206 GIEBELHAUSEN, Joachim. PHOTOGRAPHY IN INDUSTRY. of power and speed in modern transport. Munich. Nikolaus Karpf. 1967. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth.250pp. Profusely Lond. Odhams Press Ltd. 1949. Or.bds. illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. The application Dustjacket. 383pp. Profusely illustrated of photography in industry has allowed a third eye to get in closer than in black & white. Very good copy. 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Former Vice President Al travels to Paris in 1583 allowed him to collect information on Spanish Gore exposes the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the & French voyages into unknown realms. $35 destruction of our planet & the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. $23 218 HALL, Richard. LOVERS ON THE NILE. An Idyll of African Exploration. Research Associate Professor James A. Casada. Lond. 212 GREENE, Graham & Hugh. (Ed). THE SPY'S BEDSIDE Collins. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 254pp. Dustjacket slightly faded at BOOK. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene spine. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sir Samuel Baker fell in love & Hugh Greene. Introduced by Stella Rimington. with a white slave girl in Bucharest, & ran away with her to get married. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Lond. The Folio Florence Baker then accompanied husband Samuel on his exploration Society. 2006. Or.dec.cloth. 261pp. Bookplate tour of central Africa in 1861. $27 on front end-papers. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. The modern spy story 219 HALPERIN, Charles J. RUSSIA AND THE GOLDEN originates in the disturbed state of European HORDE. The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. Bloomington. politics after the 1878 congress of Berlin & up Indiana Uni Press. 1987. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 180pp. b/w map. Very good until the First World War. This anthology is a copy. Charles Halperin looks at the impact & influence of the Mongol how to guide to fictional spies. $40 conquest & rule of Russia from the 13th century to the 15th century, & Mongol influence on medieval Russian political history. $22 213 GREGORY, Dick. NIGGER. An Autobiography, with Robert Lipsyte. Lond. 220 HAMILTON-EDWARDS, Gerald. IN SEARCH OF ARMY George Allen & Unwin. 1965. Or.bds. Dustjacket. ANCESTRY. Lond. Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 224pp. b/w plates. Fine in fine dj. 1st Eng.ed. 1977. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 106pp. Very good "The story of Dick Gregory, welfare case, star copy. 1st ed. Gerald Hamilton-Edwards athlete, hit comedian, front-line participant in provides much valuable background the American battle for Civil Rights." $30 information for those who are seeking to discover their family members who 214 GRENIER, Catherine. (Ed). MULTIPLE MODERNITIES, 1905 may have been British soldiers in past - 1970. From the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art. Paris. generations. $30 Centre Pompidou. 2014. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 255pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. The exhibition catalogue 221 HARMON, Katharine. for the 2014 retrospective of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris YOU ARE HERE. Personal geographies that gathered together ground breaking works of avant-gardes art that and other maps of the imagination. N.Y. influenced the course of modern art $40 Princeton Architectural Press. 2004. 4to. Col. 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Professor of Law into disrepair, & many were lost during the course of two world wars. at Oxford, Herbert Hart examines what differentiates laws form orders $36 backed by threats, & what justice is & how it differs from the rest of 229 HONEY, William Bowyer. THE ART OF THE POTTER. A morality. $30 book for the collector and connoisseur. Lond. Faber 223 HEINBERG, Richard. MEMORIES AN VISIONS OF and Faber. 1946. (4th imp) Or.cl. 111pp. Cloth slightly PARADISE. Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age. rubbed at spine. Name on inside cover. b/w plates. Foreword by Roger Williams Wescott. Wheaton, (Ill). Quest Books. 1995. Very good copy. William Honey was the Keeper of (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 308pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Nearly every culture the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and had been nourished by tales of a lost Golden Age in which people lived in Albert Museum in London, & introduces the art of peaceful harmony with nature & the cosmos. Richard Heinberg examines collecting pottery & porcelain from his experience this myth of a Paradise lost. $25 over the years. $45 224 HERRIOT, James. JAMES HERRIOT'S YORKSHIRE. With 230 HOOPER, Luther. HAND-LOOM WEAVING. photographs By Derry Brabbs. Lond. Michael Joseph. 1979. 4to. Or.bds. Plain & Ornamental. With line drawings by the Dustjacket. 223pp. Some foxing to top edge. Profusely illustrated in author & Noel Rooke. Arts Crafts Series of Technical colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. James Alfred Wight who wrote under Handbooks. Lond. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1947. the pen name of James Herriot was a British veterinary surgeon who's Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. 341pp. (some foxing) Slight wear to real life adventures as a country vet in Yorkshire became a successful spine at head. col & b/w plates & ills. Good copy. The TV series. $25 craft of weaving dates back to the Palaeolithic era, 225 HEYLIN, Clinton. REVOLUTION IN THE AIR. 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British merchant banker, author, philosopher & art collector. He penned 546pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Very good this guide to Regency furniture & decoration in 1807 whilst decorating copy. 1st ed. In 2009 musician Bob Dylan his London home. $40 announced that he was not a playwright, 232 HUGO, Victor. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME. & that the people in his songs were all him. Translated by Walter J. Cobb, with an Introduction & Illustrations by Renowned Dylanologist Clinton Heylin, Quentin Blake. Lond. The Folio Society. 1998. Or.dec.cloth. 442pp. Marks unpacks Dylan's song catalogue from 1974 to foredge. col & b/w ills. Good copy. In the slip-case. 1st Folio Society to 2008. $38 ed. Esmeralda the gypsy street dancer, captures the hearts of many men, 227 but when Quasimodo the hunchback kidnaps her for Archdeacon Frollo, HINCKLEY, James GHOST TOWNS OF who must have her love, things do not bode well in the Cathedral. ROUTE 66. Photography by Kerrick James. $25 Minneapolis. 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triumphant events in that time, photographing a Royal one day & a Jane Lahr from the works of D. H. Lawrence, Anais Nin, Erica Jong, & riot the next. $40 Margaret Atwood. $35 249 KNOPP, Guido. HITLER'S CHILDREN. Translated by Angus 255 LANCMAN, Eli. CHINESE PORTRAITURE. Tokyo. Charles McGeoch. Stroud. Sutton Publishing. 2004. Col.Ill.wrapps. 291pp. b/w E. Tuttle Company. 1966. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 188pp. Dustjacket with plates. Very good copy. Hitler's Third Reich was responsible for the some chipping to top of spine. col & b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Chinese betrayal & exploitation of an entire generation. Even today, some former portrait art differs from Western portraiture in that the Chinese artist is members of the Nazi youth organisations are unable to come to terms attempting to capture in paint the subject's soul rather than the merely with this fact. $20 physical features. $38 250 KOOLHAAS, Rem. MAU, Bruce. SMALL, MEDIUM, 256 LANE, Margaret. THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER. A LARGE, EXTRA-LARGE. Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Edited by Biography. Lond. Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. 1952. (rep) Or.cl. 175pp. Jennifer Sigler. Photography by Hans Werlemann. N.Y. Monacelli Press. (sl foxing) to some pages. b/w plates. Very good copy. The life of Helen 1998. Thick 4to. Col.ill.bds. 1344pp. Spine creased with some wear to Beatrix Potter was typical of women of her generation, although she edges. Piece torn from bottom portion of title page Profusely illustrated broke the mould when she self-published her Peter Rabbit story in 1902 in colour and black & white. Good copy. 2nd edition. Dutch architect, to great success, with many tales to follow. $40 & architectural theorist Remment Lucas Koolhaas is widely regarded as one of the most important architectural thinkers & urbanists of his 257 LARGO, Michael. GENIUS AND HEROIN. The Illustrated generation. This is a novel on architecture. $75 Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages. N.Y. Harper. 2008. Col.Ill.wrapps. 343pp. Profusely illustrated 251 KOTOV, Vitaly. & TAKTASHOVA, Larisa. (Ed). PALEKH. The in black & white. Very good copy. Michael Largo has been collecting State Museum of Palekh Art. Translated from the Russian by Nadezhda statistics & information on the American way of dying for over a decade, Burova. Moscow. Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo. 1981. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. & attempts to answer the question of why so many creative people are 319pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st English also self-destructive. $22 ed. Palekh is a Russian fold handicraft done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mache. It has a long history in Russian 258 LAURITZEN, Peter. VENICE PRESERVED. Introduction iconography, often appearing in homes, churches & villages. $40 by John Julius Norwich. Photographs by Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus. 252 KUBISCH, Natascha. ORNAMENTS. Patterns for Lond. Michael Joseph. 1986. 4to. Or.bds. interior decoration based on the practical Dustjacket. 176pp. Name on half title page. decorator and ornamentist by George Profusely illustrated in colour and black Ashdown and Maurice Ashdown Audsley. & white. Very good copy. A look at the Berlin. Konemann. 2001. Folio. Or.bds. ongoing conservation work on Venetian Dustjacket. 300pp. Profusely illustrated buildings of historical importance. $35 in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Since the 1990s there has been a revival of 259 LAWRENCE, David Herbert. THE interest in historical ornamentation. The RAINBOW. Introduction by Richard Practical Decorator & Ornametist was Hoggart. Illustrations by Charles Raymond. first published in 1892, & was the best Lond. The Folio Society. 1981. 4to. Or.dec. known collection of ornamentation. cloth. 430pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. $60 1st Folio Society ed. 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Col.Ill.wrapps. 208pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and shares his how-to secrets in this do-it-yourself guide to home painting, black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. 200 posters & graphics created decoupage, gilding, & choosing the right wallpapers. $27 in opposition to the war in Iraq of 2003, with protest art from over 20 263 LILJEFORS, Bruno Andreas. BRUNO LILJEFORS - THE countries that were produced for free copy & distribution in a not for PEERLESS EYE. Text by Martha Hill. Kingston upon Hull. Allen Pub. profit manner. $36 1987. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 174pp. Dustjacket slightly rubbed at edges. 269 MANTLE, Jonathan. COMPANIES THAT CHANGED THE Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Swedish artist WORLD. From the East India Company to Google Inc. Lond. Quercus. Bruno Andreas Liljefors is best known for his nature & animal motifs, 2008. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 208pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. The & was one of the most influential Swedish wildlife painter of the late fascinating story of 50 joint-stock companies that have exerted a critical 19th & early 20th century. $47 influence on the social & economic history of the past 400 years. Tracing 264 LITTLE, William; FOWLER, H. W. & COULSON, Jessie. THE their growth & gradual decline & dissolution. $28 SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ON HISTORICAL 270 MEINHARDT, Anee & Olaf. THE TRANS-SIBERIAN PRINCIPLES. Revised and Edited by RAILWAY. From Moscow to the Pacific Ocean. Munich. C. J. Bucher C. T. Onions. Third Edition completely Publishing. 2008. Large Folio. Or.bds. reset with etymologies revised by G. W. S. Dustjacket. 191pp. Profusely illustrated in Friedrichsen, and with Revised Addenda. colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. For over 70 Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1978. 4to. Or.bds. years Soviet rule made a journey on the Dustjacket. 1280pp. & 1392pp. A very Trans-Siberian Railway in impossibility. good set. 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Paint finishes & effects are now who reigned as world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, & was established as an essential component of every decorator's range of skills. considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. $22 A look at the history of popular surface treatments from the 17th to the 266 LUCRETIUS. ON THE NATURE OF THINGS. Translated by 20th century. $38 Sir Ronald Melville. Introduction and Notes by Don and Peta Fowler. 272 MONTGOMERY, Andrew. A POCKET GUIDE TO CARS. Preface by A. C. Grayling. Frontispiece engraved by Simon Brett. Lond. A complete guide to the ultimate performance cars. Bath. Parragon The Folio Society. 2003. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.leather. 342pp. b/w ills Publishing. 2006. Col.Ill.wrapps. 255pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. frontispiece. Very good copy. 2nd Folio Society edition. In the slip-case. Very good copy. Car enthusiast Andrew Montgomery gives you a Roman poet & philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus penned didactic complete guide to the exciting performance cars ever produced in the post- poems about the tenets of Epicurianism, a materialistic philosophy that war era. This handy pocket sized guide is also ideal for car spotters. believed in atoms & scoffed at superstition & divine intervention. $30 $50 273 MOORE, N. Hudson. THE OLD FURNITURE BOOK. With a 267 MACKSEY, Kenneth. TECHNOLOGY IN WAR. The impact sketch of past days and ways. 2nd Edition. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton. of science on weapon development and modern battle. Lond. Arms and 1937. Or.cl. 254pp. b/w plates. Good copy. Fourth printing of the 2nd THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] edition. Hudson Moore explores the world of old furniture & its history. 222pp. Col & b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 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Profusely illustrated in black fastest of sailing ship still in service. $25 & white. Very good copy. In 1870 a young 282 NG, Peter Y. L. NEW PEACE COUNTRY. A Chinese Gazetteer American entrepreneur named Charles of the Hong Kong Region. Prepared for press and with additional material Mosemann persuaded his brother Edgar by Hugh D. R. Baker. Hong Kong. Hong Kong Uni Press. 1983. 4to. Or.faux to open a saddlery & harness business in leather. 151pp. b/w ills & a fold-out map in back end-papers pouch. Dj New York. They would become the most sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. In 1573 the Guangdong Province successful firms of their kind. $45 county of Dongguan was divided into two parts, one of which was named 275 MUDDIMAN, J. G. TRIALS OF Xin'an Xian, meaning New Peace Country. Part of these New Territories KING CHARLES THE FIRST. Notable were what became Hong Kong. $40 British Trials. With a foreword by the Earl 283 NICOLSON, Ian. SMALL STEEL CRAFT. 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He was also a goldsmith, illustrated in colour and black & white. draftsman, soldier, musician & penned Very good copy. 1st ed. Recent years his own autobiography. $60 have witnessed a startling revival of 296 POPULAR MACHANICS interest in tapestry work. Once a popular MAGAZINE. POPULAR MECHANICS medieval pastime, this decorative art MOTORIST'S HANDBOOK. 535 has had a resurgence with many creating Helpful Hints for safer, more economical, glorious needlework. $38 and happier service from your car... Chicago. Popular Mechanics Press. 290 PATTON, Phil. BUG. The strange 1948. Roy.8vo. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 156pp. Dj partly stuck to cloth. col & mutations of the world's most famous b/w ills. Corners bumped else a good copy. The Popular Mechanics automobile. N.Y. Simon & Schuster. 2002. Motorist's Handbook from 1948 features how-to-do-it articles & tips on Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. b/w plates. the proper care of your car. Includes an article on how to build a double Very good copy. In the 1960s the Coke bed in your car for long journeys. $25 bottle, & the VW Beetle were the two best known shapes in the world. 297 POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND. Lond. From its birth in 1938 during the Third Reich's labour union funding, this Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. 1913. Small 8vo. 93pp. Sl.wear to boards & bug-like car became an icon. $33 pencil marks to back cover. Some colouring in on page 11. Corners lightly 291 PETROPOULOS, Jonathan. THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN. The bumped. col plates & b/w ills. Good copy. Lost on his way into town, Art World in Nazi Germany. Lond. Penguin Books. 2001. (rep) Col.Ill. Pigling Bland is taken in by a farmer who has already stolen another wrapps. 395pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. While the Nazis were in power, pig for food. Oh dear, it doesn't look good for Pigling Bland. 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Alfred Rowse is a leading authority on the Elizabethan Age, & his in a travelling theatrical company until signing up to MGM in 1925 & historical research has unearthed much information on the life & work changing her name to Joan Crawford, where she courted much fame & of William Shakespeare, throwing new light on his plays. $22 some controversy. $30 309 RUMI, Jalauddin. MASNAVI I MA'NAVI. The Spiritual 302 RAY, Isaac. A TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Couplets. Translated and Abridged by E. H. Whinfield. Lond. The OF INSANITY. NJ. Gryphon Eds. 1987. Full gilt decorated leather. Octagon Press. 1973. Col.Ill.wrapps. 330pp. Slight creasing to spine. xv,480pp. a.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Bound-in marker ribbon. Pristine Very good copy. 1st impression in this edition. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad copy. Privately printed edition for members of the Legal Classics Library. Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet, & Sufi mystic, whose influence Facsimile ed, first published in 1748 & 1752. With 21pp booklet of notes transcends national borders, ethnic divisions & time. He is also the best by the editors. $60 selling poet in the United States. $24 303 RETTELBUSCH, Ernst. HANDBOOK OF HISTORIC 310 RUSSELL, Bertrand. THE BASIC WRITINGS OF ORNAMENT. From Ancient Times to BERTRAND RUSSELL. 1903 - 1959. Edited by Robert E. Egner and Lester Biedermeier. N.Y. Dover Publications. E. Denonn. N.Y. Simon and Schuster. 1961. 4to. 1996. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 254pp. Many Or.cl. Dustjacket. 736pp. Dustjacket covered black & white illustrations. Very good copy. in removable plastic. Very good copy. 1st First Dover Publications edition. Ernst American ed. Born into an aristocratic family, Rettelbusch was a lifelong connoisseur Bertrand Russell led the British revolt against of architecture, interior design, furniture idealism with his analytic philosophy. As a design & ornamentation & decorative logician, social critic & activist he advocated design. This is a republication of his 1937 for world government. $45 book on Historic Ornamentation. $33 311 RUSSELL, Bertrand. NEW HOPES 304 RICHARDSON, Brian W. FOR A CHANGING WORLD. Lond. George LONGITUDE AND EMPIRE. How Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1951. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Captain Cook's Voyages Changed 218pp. Portions of text underlined in pencil. the World. Vancouver. Uni of British Dustjacket covered in removable plastic. Very Columbia. 2005. Col.Ill.wrapps. 240pp. good copy. 1st ed. Based upon the broadcast Bookplate on verso of cover. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Longitude lectures entitled 'Living in the atomic age', Bertrand Russell sets out his and empire offers a significant rereading of Cook's three expeditions arguments against the tyranny of fear & the affirmation of faith in the in light of the political philosophy of his day & our modern political life of reason. $33 philosophy, & the shifts these voyages created. $35 312 SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. SAINT JOAN OF ARC. 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