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BOOKS OF THE MONTH some parts a justification for his role in the war. Originally serialised in The Times $195 1 ABBOTT, Tony. BATTLELINES. Updated edition. Melb. 6 COKE, Sir Edward. THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTITUTES Melbourne University Press. 2010. (rep) 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 210pp. OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. In two Wrapps a little creased. Very good copy. Signed by the author. Liberal volumes. N.Y. Legal Classics Library. Party leader and parliamentary pugilist, Tony Abbot offers a frank 1985. Full gilt decorated leather. Vol. 1. analysis of the way forward for the Liberal Party. Offering his views 162pp. Vol. 2. 395pp. Marbled endpapers. on Malcolm Turnbull, Julia Gillard, & Kevin Rudd. $45 Bound in marker ribbon. Fine. First 2 BIRD, Dickie. WHITE CAP AND BAILS. Adventures of published in 1823. Privately Printed for a much travelled umpire. Dickie Bird with Members of the Legal Classics Library. Keith Lodge. Illustrations by Bill Gregory. $85 Lond. Hodder and Stoughton. 1999. 8vo. 7 DREW, Philip. TOUCH THIS Or.bds. Dustjacket. 470pp. col & b/w plates. EARTH LIGHTLY. Glen Murcutt in his Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. own words. Syd. Duffy & Snellgrove. In this sequel to his autobiography, celebrity 1999. Sm.oblong 4to. Col.ill.wrapps. test cricket umpire, Dickie Bird recounts 182pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. humorous tales from the county clubs & test Scarce. $85 match arenas he has umpired over his career. $45 8 DULAC, Edmund (Illustrator) SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY OF THE 3 BLACKSTONE, William. TEMPEST. With illustrations by Edmund COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF Dulac. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton. n.d. ENGLAND. In Four Volumes. New Jersey. (1908) Roy.8vo. Or.cl. 144pp. Insc on ffe. Legal Classics Library. 1983. 4to. Full gilt 40 lovely tipped-in colour plates. A little decorated leather with raised bands. Vol. 1. foxing and hinges worn else a good copy 473pp. Vol. 2. 520pp. Vol. 3. 455pp. 436pp. of the first trade edition. Scarce. $330 + 93pp. of commentary. a.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Bound in marker ribbon. Fine. 9 FEARNSIDE, G.H. & CLIFT, Ken. First published in 1765. Privately Printed for DOUGHERTY. A great man among men. Members of the Legal Classics Library. The A biography of Major General Sir Ivan set $295 Dougherty. Edited by A. W. Sheppard. Syd. Alpha Books. 1979. 8vo. Or.bds. 4 BROCK, Beverley. PETER BROCK - THE Dustjacket. 212pp. Some (sl foxing) & MAN. Celebrating the life of a legend through tearing to dj at top of spine. Tape marks his own possessions, and the photos, stories to end papers. b/w ills. Very good copy. and insights of his family, friends 1st ed. Inscribed by Sir Ivan Dougherty. and those who knew him best. Sth. Dougherty was born in Leadville in 1907, Melb. Affirm Press. 2012. 8vo. Col. joining the local militia while at school, he ill.bds. 224pp. Profusely illustrated was ready when war broke out to join the in colour and black & white. Very action. Rising to senior command, he was good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Peter Director of Civil Defence in NSW. $60 Brock. An unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter 10 HOWARD, John. LAZARUS Brock, on & off the race track. RISING. A personal and political Featuring his own personal photos, autobiography. Syd. Harper Collins. memorabilia, & reflections on a life 2010. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 711pp. col in racing. $75 & b/w plates. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the 5 CHURCHILL Winston S. author. John Howard reveals his personal THE WORLD CRISIS. In Five & political journey from his childhood in Volumes. Lond. The Folio Society. 2007. 8vo. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. the post-war era, school debating team, 464,453,474,383,311pp. Slight tear to slip-case. b/w plates. Fine set. In the legal career, to joining the Liberal Party, slip-case. 1st Folio Society ed. Often cited as his masterpiece, Churchill’s to 2nd longest serving Prime Minister. five volume account of the First World War is an analytical work, & in $125 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
11 JAY, Christopher. 15 MASON, Darielle A FUTURE MORE PROSPEROUS. The (Ed.) KANTHA. THE EMBROIDERED history of Newcastle steelworks. 1912 QUILTS OF BENGAL. From the - 1999. Newcastle. BHP Limited. 1999. Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 280pp. col & and the Stella Kramrisch Collection b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. When of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2010. Limited decided to build a steel plant at Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 290pp. Profusely Newcastle in 1912, it laid the foundations illustrated in colour. Very good copy. for large scale manufacturing industry in 1st ed. Scarce. The first book-length Australia. An illustrated history. $60 study of kanthas [published outside of South Asia, it focuses on two premier 12 LAMBERT, G.E. COMMANDO. collections of these Bengali quilts. FROM TIDAL RIVER TO TARAKAN. $220 The story of No.4 Aust.Independent Company, A.I.F., later known as 2/4th 16 MILNE, A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. With decorations by Australian Commando Squadron Ernest H. Shepard. Lond. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927. 8vo. Or.dec.cl. 158pp. A.I.F. 1941-45. Melb. 2/4th Commando Cloth with wear to corners, edges & spine. Slight flecking. A good copy Association. n.d. (1994?) Roy.8vo. Or.col. of the scarce 1st ed. First published in 1926 by English author Milne, ill.bds. 509pp. b/w ills. & maps. Insc on who based his stories on his son Christopher’s own bear. It seems that verso of half-title else a very good copy. Christopher’s other toys were also keen to join Pooh in his adventures Scarce. $150 as well. $300 13 LOGGAN, David. SPLENDID 17 McGRATH, Frank. THE FRAMERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ENGRAVING WITH TWO VIEWS OF CONSTITUTION. 1891 - 1897. Their Intentions. Riverwood. Ligare THE INTERIOR OF THE BODLEIAN Pty Ltd. 2003. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 314pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st LIBRARY AT OXFORD. The upper view paperback ed. Inscribed by the author. An examination of the speeches is from the Arts End of the library and & debates that took place at the Australasian Federation Conference the lower is the view from the Selden of 1890, 1891, & again in 1897 & 1898 to establish a framework for a End. Oxford. Sheldonian Theatre. 1675. Commonwealth Constitution. $75 46x33cm. Mounted and framed. Overall 18 PEPYS, Samuel. THE DIARY. A New and Complete frame dimensions 61x49cm. Very good Transcription edited by Robert Latham & condition. A splendid interior William Matthews. 11 vols. Vols 1-9 being view of the Library. Originally the diary covering the period 1660-1689, from Gdansk, Loggan came Vol.10. the Companion and Vol.11. the to England mid-17th century Index. Lond. Bell & Hyman. 1983. (rep) All and became engraver to Or.buckram. Dustjackets. A Fine set. The Oxford University, and late of definitive edition of the greatest diary in Cambridge, The plate is from the English language, this is the first time “Oxonia Illustrata” by Loggan, the complete text has appeared in full. A published in 1675, though scholarly commentary enriches the work. there was a 1710 reprint. This (Photo shows only vol.1.) 11 vols for $275 engraving may be from the 19 REES, Lloyd. CHRISTMAS CARD 1710 reprint. (See photograph FROM LLOYD REES, 1972. 26x21cm. With on front cover) $295 an etching entitled “Church at North Ryde” 14 LORING, John. on the front. Rees has handwritten inside TIFFANY DIAMONDS. N.Y. the card “And special good wishes for 1973 Harry N. Abrams Inc. 2005. 8vo. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 303pp. Profusely from Marjory and Lloyd Rees. (We leave on 14th for South Coast and illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A history then Tasmania returning about 5th March.” The image appears in “The of the glittering world of the Tiffany diamond. There were few diamonds Small Treasures of a Lifetime” as ‘Our Little Barbizon.’ There is an artist in America when Tiffany & Co. opened its doors in 1837, but within a at an easel painting the church, apparently Rees portrayal of himself. short time they became a ‘girl’s best friend’. $60 (See photograph on front cover) $150 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
20 REES, Lloyd. Handwritten two- of Trudeau’s landmark newspaper strip is the most comprehensive book page letter from Lloyd Rees from the on the subject imaginable. A cartoon chronicle of the arc of American Hotel du Cheval Blanc, Vezelay, France. society over the past four decades. $65 Dated 23rd Feb 1973. The first page on 24 TZAREVA, Elena. RUGS AND CARPETS FROM CENTRAL the verso of a postcard with a colour ASIA. The Russian Collections. Harmondsworth. Penguin Books. 1984. view of Chartres Cathedral on the recto. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 224pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Dj The second page on an octave-sized sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. $60 page. Addressed “Our warm greetings 25 WILLIAMS, R. M. THIS BELOVED LAND. A collection of to you both and your two boys”. He speaks of “rejoicing in this wonderful Australian poetry selected by R M Williams. environment”. “George Lawrence was Illustrated by Rosemary Woodford Ganf with us but was to have returned to with floral line illustrations by Tony England.. as soon as he saw the place Pyrzakowski. Bris. Outback Publishing. he cancelled his English plans and came 1992. Folio. Or.dec.leather. 162pp. col ills. Number 64 of 500 copies. Very good on here.” He writes of the history of the copy. Housed in a cloth bound case. town and the architecture. “I also worked Limited edition signed & numbered by R.M. at Chartres every day and (it) proved to be one of the most inspiring Williams & Rosemary Ganf. The collector’s experiences of my life.” “One of our greatest memories will be a tour edition of R. M. Williams selection of of Paris by night with all the glories floodlit.” “From here we go on to Australian verse, with illustrations by Italy and will return to London in time for opening of exhibition on 10th Rosemary Ganf. Featuring favourites by September.”... “Yours Sincerely Lloyd Rees.” A splendid example of Rees Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, & other expressing enthusiasm for France and how it shows through in his art. bush themed poems. $120 Very good condition. $300 21 RUSS, Richard T. JAGUAR V-12 E-TYPE. A GUIDE TO AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC AUTHENTICITY. Del City (OK) Spirit 26 ARMSTRONG, Lawrence. CANCER IS CURABLE. Perth. Press. 1991. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Robert Honey. 1939. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 69pp. Some marks to wrapps. Very 189pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in good copy. 1st paperback ed. A pamphlet published in 1939 by medical colour. Dj a little torn else a very good dietician & self proclaimed as ‘Australia’s foremost authority on health copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Written for the & nutrition, on how to cure cancer through diet. A somewhat radical idea collector to determine authenticity or for in the late 30s. $35 the craftsman to restore an E-Type to the way it was originally built. $250 27 AYRIS, Cyril. BUSSELTON JETTY. The “Cinderella” story. West Perth. PK Print Pty Ltd. 2004. 22 STRONG, Roy. ORNAMENT Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 48pp. IN THE SMALL GARDEN. Lond. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2001. 8vo. Or.bds. paperback ed. This is the “Cinderella” Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated story of one of the world’s great jetties. in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed Built at a time when mariners were by the author. Roy Strong’s guide guided to Busselton by a tub hanging to garden ornamentation. From from a pole, its recent renovation has traditional statues, urns, quirky cut- restored its glory. $22 out figures, brightly painted plant supports, to intriguing mosaics set 28 BAKER, Kevin. PAUL into garden paths. Many practical CULLEN. Citizen and Soldier. The life ideas. $40 and times of Major General Paul Cullen AC,CBE,DSO and Bar, ED, FCA. Dural. Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd 2005. Col.Ill.wrapps. 224pp. b/w 23 TRUDEAU, Garry. B. 40 - A plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Major General Cullen DOONESBURY RETROSPECTIVE. is one of Australia’s best performed, & most highly decorated infantry Kansas City. Andrew McMeel Pub. commanders. With his baptism of fire in Egypt & Libya, he went on to 2010. Thick Folio. Col.ill.bds. 695pp. Greece, the Kokoda Trail, & Sanananda. $33 Mark to foredge. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very 29 BARBER, Jack. THE WAR, THE WHORES AND THE good copy. 1st ed. In an illustrated AFRIKA KORPS. East Roseville. Kangaroo Press. 1997. . Col.Ill. slip-case. This monolithic overview wrapps. 144pp. b/w plates & a map. Very good copy. 1st paperback THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
35 BISHOP, Catherine. MINDING HER ed. Jack Barber joined the AIF when he OWN BUSINESS. Colonial businesswomen turned twenty. He spent most of 1941 in in Sydney. Syd. New South Publishing. the besieged city of Tobruk in North Africa. 2015. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 302pp. col & b/w This is an atmospheric account of the siege plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. as told from a foot-soldier’s view. $30 The fascinating story of the entrepreneurial 30 BASTIAN, Peter. & McDONALD, businesswomen who filled the streets of Tracey. CELEBRATION OF A CENTURY. colonial Sydney with great enterprise. RSL Lifecare - The first 100 years. Syd. From milliners, dressmakers, ironmongers, UNSW Press. 2011. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. booksellers, & ginger beer makers. $25 219pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st 36 BLAINEY, Geoffrey. SEA OF ed. First set up as a home for ageing & DANGERS. Captain Cook and his rivals. impoverished ex-soldiers of the British Camberwell,(Vic). Viking. 2008. Or.bds. Empire in 1911, RSL LifeCare is now one Dustjacket. 420pp. col & b/w plates. Very of the largest aged care services in the good copy. 1st ed. Historian Geoffrey Southern Hemisphere. $22 Blainey examines the story of two rival 31 BEASLEY, Margaret. (Ed). ship commanders, Jean de Surville & James Cook, who set out to search EVERYONE KNEW EVERYONE. for a missing continent. The story of an extraordinary journey. $30 Histories and memories of Green 37 BREEDEN, Stanley & Kaisa. & GRAY, Bruce. INTO THE Square. Syd. NSW Dept. Urban ORCHID HOUSE. In search of Affairs. 2001. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. beauty. Freemantle. Freemantle Press. 44pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 2016. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 1st paperback ed. As part of an 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. oral history project conducted in Very good copy. 1st ed. Orchid expert late 2000, 17 residents of Zetland, Bruce Gray built a glass house high on Alexandria, Beaconsfield & Rosebery the hills of the Atherton Tablelands (suburbs of the Green Square area) of far north Queensland, in which contributed their stories to this thrive orchids from South America, project. $28 the Himalayas, New Guinea & the 32 BECCALONI, Jan. ARACHNIDS. Collingwood. CSIRO Philippines $33 Publishing. 2009. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 320pp. Profusely illustrated 38 BROOKER, Ian. & KLEINIG, in colour. Very good copy. 1st Australian ed. A detailed guide to this David. EUCALYPTUS. An illustrated fascinatingly diverse & complex group of invertebrates. Arachnids also guide to identification. Port Melb. include ticks, mites, scorpions, palpigrades, schizmids, & harvestmen. Reed Books. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 230pp. Slight fading to spine. Corners $55 a little curled. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very 33 BEEVOR, Antony. ARDENNES 1944. Hitler’s last gamble. good copy. 1st paperback ed. Ian Brooker is one of Australia’s leading Nth Syd. Viking. 2015. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. authorities on eucalypts, with more than 30 years experience as a 451pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st botanist. This handy field guide covers 200 of the most common species, Australian ed. Signed by the author. With with distribution maps $30 the vengeful Red Army approaching from 39 BROWN, Andrew. & BUIRCHELL, Bevan. A FIELD GUIDE the east in December 1944, Hitler decided TO THE EREMOPHILAS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. York (WA). to send his troops across the snow covered Simon Nevill Pub. 2011. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 336pp. Profusely illustrated in Ardennes to split the British & Canadian colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. The Eremophila species abound troops apart & end the war. $28 on desolate rocky hills, open spinifex plains, sparse woodlands, barren 34 BILSON, Tony. CHEESES. THE dry watercourses & inland sand dunes. With over 300 species, they are AUSTRALIAN KITCHEN. Buying, the most abundant in WA. $36 Preparing and Cooking. Photographs by 40 BRUNTON, Paul. (Ed). THE DIARIES OF MILES FRANKLIN. Rodney Weidland. Paddington. Barbara Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2004. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 304pp. Stamp on Beckett Publ. 1995. Col.ill.bds. 591pp. Colour ffe. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Paul Brunton. photographic ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published here for the first time are the private diaries of Miles Franklin, $28 the author of My Brilliant Career, & founder of the most prestigious literary award in Australia. $35
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lanes off the east coast that had been censored by the government & 41 BUSH, B. MARYAN, B. BROWNE-COOPER, R. ROBINSON,D. military at the time. $40 A GUIDE TO THE REPTILES AND FROGS OF THE PERTH REGION. Nedlands. University of WA Press. 1995. Col.Ill.wrapps. 226pp. Profusely 47 CARTER’S PRICE GUIDE. PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUES illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Drawing on their IN AUSTRALASIA. Year 2000 edition. Syd. Carter’s. 2000. Folio. Col.ill. lifelong interest in reptiles & amphibians, a group of naturalists have bds. 736pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good brought together a wealth of information on the fascinating reptiles & copy. 1st ed. Carter’s extensive price guide to antique items available frogs of the Perth area. $28 in the first year of the new millennium. With 10,000 photos of items of Australiana to antique & collectible tools. $60 42 CAMERON, Matt. COCKATOOS. Australian Natural History Series. Collingwood. CSIRO Publishing. 2007. Col.Ill.wrapps. 220pp. col 48 CATER, Nick. (Ed). THE HOWARD FACTOR. A decade that plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Of the 21 recognised changed the nation. Carlton. Melb University Press. 2006. . Col.Ill.wrapps. species of Cockatoos, 14 occur in Australia. As a species of large, 349pp. col plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. John Howard’s victory intelligent & attractive birds, an increasing number face extinction due over Paul Keating in 1996 was the start of a quiet revolution that changed to habitat loss & illegal bird trading. $35 Australia forever. Howard introduced a decade of reform that reinvented conservative politics. $27 43 CAMPBELL, Jean. GEORGE LAWRENCE. An illustrated biography with text by Jean 49 CHARLTON, Rob. THE HISTORY OF KAPUNDA. Adelaide. Campbell. Syd. Australian Lutheran Pub House. 1990. (rep) . Col.ill.bds. Artist Editions. 1980. Oblong 170pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. The history 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 127pp. of Kapunda in South Australia began in 1836 Profusely illustrated in colour when the first rural settlers arrived. Soon and black & white. Very good copper was discovered, & the town grew with copy. 1st ed. George Lawrence the need & establishment of schools, churches was a member of the Society & shops. $33 of Artists, & was one of the 50 CODD, Peter. PAYNE, Bill. & foremost painters in the WOOLCOCK, Colin. THE PLANT LIFE OF impressionist style. Studying KOSCIUSZKO. East Roseville. Kangaroo under Julian Ashton, he later Press. 1998. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 192pp. col studied in London & Paris. $40 & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback 44 CAMPESE, David. ON ed. An introduction to the plants of the A WING & A PRAYER. The autobiography of David Campese. Lond. snowfields, from the winter snow line to Queen Anne Press. 1991. (rep) . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 175pp. b/w plates. the Kosciuszko alpine & subalpine tracts. Very good copy. Australia’s rugby genius David Campese, burst onto the With many plants illustrated for easy world scene on the 1982 Wallabies tour of New Zealand at the age of 18. identification in the field. $30 He started out playing rugby league for the Queanbeyan Blues Under 51 COLMAN, Mike. PAYNE VC. The story of Australia’s most 9s. $24 decorated soldier of the Vietnam War. Syd. ABC Books. 2009. . Col.Ill. 45 CARLISLE, L.J. AUSTRALIAN COMMEMORATIVE wrapps. 244pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. In May 1969 MEDALS & MEDALETS FROM 1788. Warrant Officer 2nd Class, Keith Payne & his company met a superior Syd. B & C Press. 1983. 4to. Or.cl. xvi,312pp. force of Nth Vietnamese soldiers. Although wounded, he managed to rescue Many b/w ills. including many photographs 40 soldiers to safety, for which he received a VC $33 of medals. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. 52 COOMBS, Roger. SHOALHAVEN DISTRICT. Pictorial Folding Supplementary Price-Guide History. Berry. Nowra. Kangaroo inserted. Edition of 160 numbered copies Valley. Jervis Bay. Sussex Inlet. signed by the author. $175 Milton. Ulladulla. Alexandria. 46 CARRUTHERS, Steven L. JAPANESE Kingsclear Books. 2014. Oblong SUBMARINE RAIDERS 1942. A maritime 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 151pp. mystery. Narrabeen. Casper Publications. Profusely illustrated in black 2006. (rep) . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. & white with old photographs. b/w ills. Very good copy. Inscribed by the Very good copy. 1st paperback author. Revealing many of the details of ed. The Shoalhaven is a vast the Japanese submarine raids on Sydney area, stretching some 160 Harbour, Newcastle, & in the shipping kilometres north to south. With
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Dustjacket. 452pp. 354pp. b/w ills. Very good house & garden. Photographs by Alen copy. 1st ed. The life of Peter Levi, poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel Macweeney. Rydalmere. Hodder & writer, academic, & prolific reviewer & critic. He left the priesthood to Stoughton. 1997. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. marry Cyril Connolly’s widow & Professor of Poetry at Oxford $25 152pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Charleston 183 ARTUSI, Pellegrino. THE ART OF EATING WELL. Pellegrino Farmhouse in the heart of the Sussex downs was home to Bloomsbury Artusi (1820 - 1911). Translated from the Italian by Kyle M. Phillips III. Group painters Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant from 1916 onward. N.Y. Random House. 1996. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 512pp. b/w ills. Very While there they set about decorating it in Bloomsbury style $40 good copy. 1st English ed. Pellegrino Artusi was a prosperous Florentine 190 BEN-DASAN, Isaiah. THE JAPANESE AND THE JEWS. silk merchant & passionate gastronome who collected over his long life Translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. N.Y. Weatherhill. 1972. the recipes of his favourite foods, publishing them as a book in 1891. (rep) Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 193pp. Very good copy. A double $30 portrait of two of the world’s most unique peoples. The Japanese are 184 AXE, John. KEWPIES - DOLLS & ART. Of Rose O’Neill & like carefree youths in their garden like villa, while the Jews have been Joseph L. Kallus. Maryland. Hobby House Press Inc. 1987. 4to. Or.bds. nomads in inhospitable lands, never secure. $38 Dustjacket. 184pp. Spine slightly faded. Profusely illustrated in colour 191 BERLE, Adolf A. & MEANS, Gardiner C. THE MODERN and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Rose O’Neill drew the first CORPORATION AND PRIVATE PROPERTY. Kewpie doll as an illustration for the Woman’s Home Companion in N.Y. Legal Classics Library. 1993. Full gilt decorated 1909. 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A look at the Elizabethan & Jacobean world in which Shakespeare ponds. Darwin chose not to mention the lived as an actor, poet, playwright, & theatre manager. $24 sexual promiscuity of female birds to 202 BUCKLEY, Chris. TIBETAN FURNITURE. Warren (CT) avoided scandal. A history of birds. $40 Floating World Editions 2005. Folio. 195 BLAKE, George. THE BEN LINE. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 227pp. Profusely The history of a Merchant Fleet 1825-1955. illustrated in colour. Dj sl.rubbed else a Lond. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 1956. . Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. The only Or.cl. Dustjacket. 222pp. Name on ffe. Dj comprehensive book on the subject. $65 sl.torn. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st 203 BULGAKOV, Mikhail. THE ed. William & Alexander Thompson began building up a fleet of ships MASTER AND MARGARITA. in Scotland for trade with Europe & the Far East in 1825. The Ben Line Translated from the Russian by Michael managed to survive two world wars, going on to thrive in trade. $30 Glenny. Lond. Vintage Books. 2004. (rep) 196 BORNOFF, Nicholas. PINK SAMURAI. The Pursuit and . Col.Ill.wrapps. 445pp. Very good copy. Politics of Sex in Japan. Lond. Grafton. 1991. When the devil appears in Moscow Or.col.ill.wrapps. 492pp. col & b/w plates. one spring, he reduces law & order to Very good copy. 1st Eng. softcover ed. A disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted history of sexual life in Japan. $30 to the truth, & Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil’s onslaught... $24 197 BOWMAN, Gerald. THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A NAVY. The story of the world’s 204 CALASSO, Roberto. K. Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey greatest salvage achievement at Scapa Flow. Brock. Lond. Jonathan Cape. 2005. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 328pp. Dustjacket Lond. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1965. sl. soiled. Very good copy. 1st UK ed. A fascinating interpretation of the (rep) . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 237pp. Dustjacket work of Franz Kafka that is also an exploration into the mystery of Kafka a little soiled & worn. b/w plates. Very good himself. Are Kafka’s stories dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Solutions are copy. Ernest Cox bought a sunken German suggested at here. $30 Navy fleet from the British Admiralty in 205 CHESNOFF, Richard Z. PACK OF THIEVES. How Hitler 1927, becoming the first private individual and Europe plundered the Jews and committed the greatest theft in to own his own navy. He sold his scrap metal history. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1999. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 325pp. business after a series of fatalities $40 Dustjacket covered in plastic. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. It was 198 BRAMSON, Alan. PURE LUCK. the largest organised robbery in history. The detailed & systematic The authorized biography of Sir Thomas looting of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis, that was then cloaked in a post- Sopwith, 1888-1989. Kent. Patrick Stephens war campaign to hide the lootings away. $33 Ltd. 1990. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. (sl 206 CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. THE GENTLEMAN & CABINET- foxing) to foredge. Name on ffe. b/w plates. MAKER’S DIRECTOR. Reprint of the third edition. With a biographical Very good copy. 1st ed. Sir Thomas Sopwith sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-Type furniture. was a contemporary of the Wright brothers, N.Y. Dover Publications Inc. 1966. (rep) Folio. Or.cl. 256pp. Name on who went on to become a highly successful ffe. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. Thomas aeroplane manufacturer. His Camel & Pup Chippendale was the most famous & skilled cabinet maker in England designs & later Hurricane & Lancaster helped in his day. In 1774 he published a catalogue of all his designs, which win wars. $40 would become the most influential catalogue on furniture $36 200 BRICKHILL, Paul. REACH FOR 207 COHEN, Eliot A. SUPREME COMMAND. Soldiers, THE SKY. The story of Douglas Bader - Hero statesmen, and leadership in wartime. N.Y. The Free Press. 2002. . Or.bds. of the Battle of Britain. Lond. Cassell Military Dustjacket. 288pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. The relationship between THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated synthetic metals, equipment & materials, techniques, designs, finishings, one, especially during times of war. When the chips are down, should couching, & decorating with jewels & beads. $35 politicians or generals run the show? $28 215 DISTEL, Barbara. (Ed). THE DACHAU CONCENTRATION 208 COLEMAN, Dorothy S.; Elizabeth E. & Evelyn J. THE CAMP, 1933 TO 1945. Text and photo documents from the exhibition, with COLLECTOR’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DOLLS. Volume One. Lond. CD. Dachau. Dachau Concentration Camp. 2005. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 228pp. Hale. n.d (1995?). 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 697pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Wrapps a little creased at corners. Marks CD missing. In 2003 a new documentary exhibition was put on display at to bottom edge. Profusely illustrated in Dachau Concentration Camp, which reflected the latest historical research colour and black & white. Very good copy. on the history of the Dachau camp after 60 years of its liberation. $33 This lavishly illustrated, & comprehensive 216 DODD, Christopher. THE OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE BOAT encyclopaedia helps the collector identify RACE. Lond. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. 1983. . Or.cl. Dustjacket. 405pp. b/w dolls through photographs, marks, labels, & plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. What first began in 1829 as a private boat materials used by doll manufacturers over the race by oars, has become a very public spectacle. In its 153 year history years. $60 the race has seen mutiny, bribery, farce, everlasting needling, & the odd 209 COLWELL, Stella. DICTIONARY OF tragedy. $33 GENEALOGICAL SOURCES. In the public 217 DYMOCK, Eric. POSTWAR SPORTS CARS. The moderns record office. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. classics. Lond. Ebury Press. 1981. 4to. Or.bds. 1992. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 206pp. Sl.foxing to Dustjacket. 188pp. Profusely illustrated in foredge. Very good copy. 1st ed. A guide to finding your way around the colour and black & white. Very good copy. Public Record Office in search of genealogical information. With millions 1st ed. Beginning with the story of the pre- of documents collected since the 11th century, it is a daunting place to war years breeding ground of the modern navigate. $38 sports car in Le Mans in the 1920s, to the 210 CORDINGLY, David. COCHRAN THE DAUNTLESS. The modern classics like Aston Martin, Frazer life and adventures of Thomas Cochrane. Lond. Bloomsbury Publishers. Nash, De Tomaso, Facel Vega, & Porsche. 2007. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 420pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st $37 ed. Thomas Cochrane was the epitome of the Romantic hero, envied by 218 ECCLES, Lord. ON COLLECTING. Lord Byron, the man whom Patrick O’Brian, C.S. Forester & Captain Lond. Longmans, Green & Co Ltd. 1969. 2nd Marryat based their literary heroes on. A brave & impulsive sailor. Ed. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 136pp. b/w plates. $25 Very good copy. Long time collector Lord 211 CORNWELL, Bernard. SHARPE’S TIGER. Richard Sharpe Eccles has written a guide for the amateur and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799. Lond. HarperCollins. 1997. Or.bds. collector on spotting an antique or objet d’art at markets, fairs & auction Dustjacket. 304pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. The first novel in the Sharpe houses. His guide to finding beautiful objects. $24 series. $40 219 EHRMAN, Edwina. THE WEDDING DRESS. 300 years of 212 DAVIES, Hunter. THE EDDIE STOBART STORY. Lond. bridal fashions. Lond. V&A Publishing. Harper Collins. 2001. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 282pp. col & b/w plates. 2011. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 208pp. Very good copy. 1st Eng.ed. The story of how Eddie Stobart started a Profusely illustrated in colour and black multimillion dollar business with a single lorry. Today he has over a & white. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very thousand lorries, & two thousand staff members. Not bad for a young good copy. 1st ed. From an exhibition lad from Carlisle. $27 showcasing 300 years of wedding dress 213 DAVIES, Norman. & MOORHOUSE, Roger. MICROCOSM. history, the wedding dress is seen as a Portrait of a Central European City. (Breslau) Lond. Jonathan Cape. 2002. symbol of love & commitment, it also . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 585pp. b/w plated & maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. reflects cultures & societies, & how these In May 1945, at the end of WWII, the great German city of Breslau lay have changed over time. $55 in ruins. Annexed by the Soviet Union, it became part of Poland & was 220 FAITH, Nicholas. THE WORLD THE known as Wroclaw after the war, but was once part of Bohemia. $33 RAILWAYS MADE. Lond. Pimlico. 1990. 214 DAWSON, Barbara. METAL THREAD EMBROIDERY. Col.Ill.wrapps. 360pp. b/w plates. Very N.Y. Watson-Guptil Publications. 1976. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp. good copy. 1st paperback ed. The modern Bookplate on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very world began with the coming of the railways, & the shock was both good copy. 1st ed. A look at metal thread embroidery using both pure & sudden & universal. The railways redefined & transformed the limits of the civilised world between 1830 & 1914. $35 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
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POLLOCK’S HISTORY OF of the ill fated voyage of the British Barque “Mertola” from Cardiff ENGLISH DOLLS & TOYS. Researched by Deborah Brown. Leicester. in Wales, to Durban in South Africa, with a trip up the Amazon, then Ernest Benn Ltd. 1993. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 214pp. Dustjacket almost homeward through a hurricane. $40 covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good 231 GUNNELL, John A. WEIRD CARS. Whacky wheels. Movie copy. Many years of research & collecting English dolls & toys by the star cars. Crazy critters. One-of-a-kind Pollocks’s Toy Museum in Leicester has produced this fascinating history wonder cars. 100s of funny photos. Iola. of children’s toys over the centuries. $38 Krause Publications. 1993. Folio. Col.Ill. 223 FENWICK, Kenneth. (Ed). SOUTHEY’S LIFE OF NELSON. wrapps. 304pp. Profusely illustrated in Lond. The Folio Society. 1960. (rep) . Col.dec.cloth. 303pp. b/w ills & black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. maps. Very good copy. Robert Southey’s ‘Life of Nelson’ remains one of Weird cars is your window on the world of the finest biographies on Nelson. Southey was best known as one of the way-out wheels. From cars that can float, Lake Poets, & came to write this biography by accident. $27 fly, stunt cars that can split in half, cars in the shape of animals, even a car that can 224 FORMAN, Bedrich. INDONESIAN BATIK AND IKAT. be driven by a horse. $30 Textile art-threads of continuity. Lond. Hamlyn. 1988. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 167pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. 232 HADFIELD, Charles. & SKEMPTON, Very good copy. 1st ed. $47 A. W. WILLIAM JESSOP, ENGINEER. With plates, maps and text illustrations. 225 FORSTER, Klaus. A PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF Vermont. David & Charles. 1979. . Or.bds. ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES. Including standard local and archaic Dustjacket. 315pp. Ex-library copy with stamps to title page & back end variants. Lond. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1982. (rep) . Or.bds. Dustjacket. papers. Name on ffe. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st US ed. William 268pp. Very good copy. A guide to the correct pronunciation of English Jessop was a key figure in the Industrial Revolution being made the names. Croydon for example is pronounced as ‘kroidan’, & Peggles principal engineer of the Grand Junction Canal Company in 1793. He Wright is pronounced as ‘peglz reit’. Pelham is of course pronounced as was responsible for building hundreds of miles of canal. $22 ‘pelam’. $27 233 HALSTEAD, Bruce W. DANGEROUS AQUATIC ANIMALS 226 FRASER, George MacDonald. FLASHMAN’S LADY. From OF THE WORLD: A Colour Atlas. With prevention, first aid, and the Flashman Papers 1842-45. Lond. Barrie & Jenkins. 1977. Or.bds. emergency treatment procedures. New Jersey. The Darwin Press Inc. Dustjacket. 328pp. A little foxing on foredge else a good copy. 1st ed. 1992. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Dustjacket missing portion $55 of back corner. Some wear to board edges. Profusely illustrated in colour 227 GARDINER, Robin. THE HISTORY OF THE WHITE STAR and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. This atlas of dangerous LINE. Surrey. Ian Allan Publishing Ltd. 2001. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 224pp. aquatic animals, is a guide to some of the most poisonous & deadly col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. The White Star animals. From sharks, rays, & sea snakes, Line is perhaps most famous for the loss of the Titanic. It’s pedigree in to deadly fish, jellyfish, & worms. With a commercial seafaring stretches back to the mid 19th century with the guide to injury treatment. $55 boom in transatlantic sailing. $30 234 HAMILTON, James. ARTHUR 228 GLEESON, Janet. THE ARCANUM. The extraordinary RACKHAM. A life with illustrations. Lond. true story of the invention of European Porcelain. Lond. Transworld Pavilion Books Limited. 2004. Folio. Col. Publishers Ltd. 1998. (rep) Small . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 273pp. Very good Ill.wrapps. 199pp. Name on ffe. Profusely copy. The story of the young alchemist Johann Bottger, who discovered illustrated in colour and black & white. that baking clay at higher temperatures produced a commercially viable Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Arthur form of porcelain, that at the time was worth more than gold. $30 Rackham was a gentle man, witty & good 229 GOUGEON, Meade. THE GOUGEON BROTHERS ON company. Brave in the face of hardship, but BOAT CONSTRUCTION. Wood and West System Materials. Michigan. enjoyed fame when it came at last. He left Pendell Printing Inc. 1980. 2nd edition. Folio. Or.cl. 316pp. Profusely more than 3,300 published images behind, with many more unpublished. $47 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
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The Emden herself was captured. $28 Series. Lond. Reaktion Books Ltd. 2013. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 245pp. col & 244 HOYT, Norris D. THE TWELVE METRE CHALLENGES b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at the desert as a geographical FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP. Paintings and drawings by Admiral Joseph feature, & a cultural entity. A look at the diverse peoples make the desert W. Golinkin. Lond. Angus and Robertson. 1977. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. their home, & the three great monotheistic religions that originated in Dustjacket. 252pp. Inscription on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour. the desert. $30 Very good copy. 1st ed. A pictorial look at the most famous 12 meter 237 HEARN, Chester G. TRACKS IN THE SEA. Mathew Fontaine yacht race in the world, The America’s Cup in 1977, the year that the Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans. Maine. McGraw Hill. 2002. . Australian-built yacht Gretel II beat the American yacht Intrepid by Or.bds. Dustjacket. 278pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st US ed. Matthew half a boat length. $30 Fontaine Maury was the father of modern navigation & ocean science. 245 HUFF, Toby E. THE RISE OF EARLY MODERN SCIENCE. Between 1842 & 1861 Maury set out to map the oceans, wind currents Islam, China, and the West. Cambridge. Cambridge Uni Press. 1995. . & systems, helping America become a great sea power. $40 Col.Ill.wrapps. 409pp. Slight fading to spine. b/w ills. Very good copy. 238 HELLER, Steven & FERNANDES, Teresa. MAGAZINES 1st paperback ed. An examination of the long standing question of why INSIDE AND OUT. N.Y. Library of Applied Design. 1996. 4to. Or.bds. modern science arose only in the West, & not in the civilizations of Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. The Islam & China, despite the fact that the East was more scientifically design of magazines. $30 advanced. $28 239 HENRY, Alan. FIFTY YEARS OF FERRARI. A grand prix 246 IGGULDEN, Conn & David. THE DANGEROUS BOOK OF and sports car racing history. Lond. 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The terraced hillsides & rocky capes with their through Havana with author Julio Perez secluded enclaves provide some of the most wonderful gardens on the Hernandez, a professor of Architecture in French Riviera. Louisa Jones explores some of these hidden garden on Havana, & lavish photographs by Gianni the Riviera. $30 Basso. A beautifully informative coffee- 248 JULLIAN, Marcel. HMS FIDELITY. The full story of the war’s table book. $45 most secret ship. Lond. Souvenir Press. 1957. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 204pp. 241 HICKS, David. & LAWSON, Dustjacket creased & chipped at edges. Inscription opposite title page. Andrew. COTSWOLD GARDENS. Lond. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The story of two French agents who George Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1995. 4to. were tasked with blowing up German shipping during WWII with a new Col.Ill.wrapps. 160pp. Profusely illustrated ‘plastic’ explosive. As France capitulated, they took their new explosive in colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback & sailed for Britain. $27 ed. A look at some of the finest & most beautifully stunning gardens 249 KAPLAN, Alice. THE COLLABORATOR. The trial and in the Cotswolds. With photographs by Andrew Lawson. An inspiring execution of Robert Brasillach. New Jersey. Legal Classics Library. 2006. collection of gardens, hedges, hedge mazes, & summer blooms. $27 Full gilt decorated leather. 308pp. a.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Bound 242 HILLIER, Mary. (Ed). POLLOCK’S DICTIONARY OF in marker ribbon. Fine. First published in 2000. Privately Printed for ENGLISH DOLLS. N.Y. Crown Publishers Inc. 1982. 4to. Or.bds. Members of the Legal Classics Library. $45 Dustjacket. 223pp. Dustjacket covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated 250 KEENAN, Brigid. DIOR IN VOGUE. Foreword by Margot in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A reference guide for the doll Fonteyn. Lond. Octopus Books Limited. 1981. Folio. Col.ill.bds. 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Profusely illustrated in colour and black English & Japanese. Published as part of & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. An illustrated history of an exhibition that was curated to travel medicine from Ancient Greece, to the present day. Compiled by a team throughout Japan in 1991, it brought of 20 distinguished medical historians, with a helpful glossary, & a together the female images used in the chronology of breakthroughs. $30 works of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein & 261 MACRAE, Stuart. WINSTON CHURCHILL’S TOYSHOP. Andy Warhol. $36 The Inside Story of Military Intelligence 253 KOREN, Leonard. NEW (Research). Stroud (Glos.) Amberley Publ. FASHION IN JAPAN. Tokyo. Kodansha 2010. (2nd printing) Roy.8vo. Or.bds. International. 1984. Folio. Or.dec.wrapps. Dustjacket. 192pp. b/w plates. Very good 176pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. copy. The author who helped found M.D.I. 1st ed. 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Stanley influence over the nations of the world. $25 Moss describes an operation in Crete during WWII to kidnap German 277 McCURRY, Steve. THE UNGUARDED MOMENT. Lond. general Heinrich Kreipe & bring him to Cairo in 1944. Moss returned to Phaidon Press Ltd. 2009. Folio. Crete for further operations. $30 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 156pp. 271 MOSTAFAVI, Mohsen. & LEATHERBARROW, David. ON Profusely illustrated in colour. WEATHERING. The life of buildings in time. Cambridge (MA). The Very good copy. 1st ed. A Mit Press. 1993. . Col.Ill.wrapps. 139pp. Profusely illustrated in black & collection of vivid portraits of white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Illustrating the complex nature the daily rituals & customs of of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking people from around the world technical problems of maintenance & decay with a consideration of their that were taken over a thirty ethical implications $40 year period by photographer 272 MURPHY, William Scanlan. FATHER OF THE SUBMARINE. Steve McCurry. $47 The life of the Reverend George Garrett Pasha. Lond. William Kimber 278 McFADDEN, Christine. & Co Ltd. 1987. . Or.bds. Dustjacket. 254pp. Name on ffe. b/w plates. & FRANCE, Christine. THE Very good copy. 1st ed. The Reverend George Garrett was the Curate ULTIMATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHOCOLATE. With over 200 recipes. of Moss Side near Manchester. He was also the inventor of the first Lond. Reed Editions. 1997. Folio. Col.ill.bds. 256pp. Boards slightly loose powered submergible boat. He went from his parish to a commission in at front cover. Profusely illustrated in colour. 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