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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 306 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Thursday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. Item 6 in our catalogue this month is a book on knots, ties and splices, one Payment is due on receipt of books. of many that have been published over the years, often with seafarers in No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. mind. However this is a copy that belonged to C.H.Lightoller that has his signature on the front pastedown. Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. Charles Lightoller rose to prominence as he was the second office on R.M.S.Titanic and the most senior officer to survive the Titanic disaster. CONTENTS As an officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats, Lightoller not only enforced with utmost strictness the “women and children first” protocol; BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 27 he also effectively extended it to mean “women and children only”. He had AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 28 - 146 a handgun and threatened to shoot any man who tried to board a lifeboat. MISCELLANEOUS 147 - 424 Lightoller stayed until the last, was sucked against a grate and held until he was under water, but then was blown from the grate from a rush of warm air as a boiler exploded. He clung to a capsized collapsible boat with 30 others until their rescue. His testimony was invaluable in the later enquiry. Front cover items: There is a Sydney connection. Lightoller came to Sydney in 1900 on board a 5, 389, Folio Society group, 25/ vessel taking Australian soldiers to the Boer War. With two other shipmates 9, 248, 17, 26, 27 (4v) he rowed a boat out to Fort Denison, hoisted a makeshift Boer flag on the Back cover items: tower, charged the cannon with gunpowder, lit a long fuse and left. The 323, 251, 7, 409, 335 / 126, 424, 52, 6, 51/ cannon discharged at 1am much to the shock of Sydneysiders who imagined 422, 59, 423, 186, 314/ 376, 292, 325, 351, 363 that it was a Boer attack. Lightoller later offered his resignation to the Superintendent of the White Star Line, who tore May 2016 it up, as he considered the prank to be a huge joke. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH his own personal copy, and almost certainly signed 1 ABBOTT, P.E. & TAMPLIN, J.M.A. BRITISH GALLANTRY long before the Titanic AWARDS. Lond. Nimrod Dix. 1981. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 316pp. disaster. $395 col.front. & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. An invaluable reference. 7 DUYKER, $85 Edward. A DICTIONARY 2 ALEXANDER STEPHEN & SONS OF SEA QUOTATIONS. From Ancient Egypt to the Present. Melb. The LIMITED. A SHIPBUILDING HISTORY. Miegunyah Press. 2007. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 439pp. b/w ills. 1750 - 1932. Lond. Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. Very good copy. 1st ed. Surveys nearly four millennia of literature to 1932. 4to. Or.cl. embossed with company logo show the extraordinary diversity of the human & lettering in gold. 212pp. b/w plates. 40pp. of experience of the sea. $75 adds at front & 38pp. of adds at back of book. 8 GIBSON, Charles R. THE ROMANCE Spine very faded, some marking to cloth else OF MODERN ELECTRICITY. Describing a good copy. A record of the business founded in non-technical language what is known in 1750 by Alexander Stephen at Burghead, about electricity and many of its interesting and subsequently carried on at Aberdeen, applications. Lond. Seeley & Co. 1907. Beautifully Arbroath, Dundee and Glasgow. $75 bound in gilt & coloured pictorial cloth showing 3 APPLETON, Jean. A LIFETIME WITH an old electrically-driven vehicle on the front ART. Syd. Caroline Simpson. 1998. 4to. board and transmission towers on the spine. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. With col & b/w ills. 347,16pp. 34 b/w plates & 11 diagrams. Sl.foxing Owners inscription on ffe. Very good copy. 1st else a Very good copy. 1st ed. The external cloth ed. Signed by Jean Appleton. Born in Sydney is in fine crisp condition. Very Scarce in this in 1911, Australian artist Jean Appleton's condition. $125 career began when she became a full time 9 GOBLE, Warwick (Illustrator) GREEN student at East Sydney Technical College in WILLOW & OTHER JAPANESE FAIRY the late 1920's. $75 TALES. By Grace James. With 16 Illustrations by 4 BACON, Admiral Sir R.H. THE LIFE Warwick Goble. Lond. Macmillan. 1910. Or.gilt OF LORD FISHER OF KILVERSTONE. pictorial cloth. viii,281pp. 40 tipped-in Colour Admiral of the Fleet. 2 vols. Lond. Hodder & plates. Sl.foxing, mostly on the endpapers else a Stoughton. 1929. Or.cl. 312,328pp. b/w frontis very good copy of a handsome production with plates & folding maps. Name on ffes. else a splendid illustrations. The scarce 1st ed. $795 very good set. Both vols 1st ed. A scarce set. 10 HARDIE, Daniel. FORGOTTEN FLEETS. The pair $125 Boats of Sydney in the Days of Sail and Oar. 5 BRASSEY, Lady. IN THE TRADES, THE Camperdown. The Author. 1990. Foolscap folio. TROPICS AND THE ROARING FORTIES. Wrappers spiral bound. Colour photograph on N.Y. Henry Holt & Co. 1885. (Author's front wrapper. 84pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Edition) Bound in beautifully gilt decorated 1st ed. No.40 of 100 copies signed by the author. pictorial cloth. xiv,531pp. Many b/w ills. & Scarce. $75 9 coloured maps of which 2 are folding. A 11 KARAS, Chris. FROM FRASER TO very good copy, the cloth externally being in FARAH. History of Balmain Junior League, splendid condition. Scarce. $395 1908-2008. Balmain. Balmain Leagues Club. 6 BURGESS, J. Tom. KNOTS TIES 2008. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 256pp. AND SPLICES. A Handbook for Seafarers, Some colour and many b/w ills. Name on Travellers & all who use cordage. With ffe else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. historical, heraldic and practical notes. Lond. George Routledge and $120 Sons. n.d. Small 8vo. Or.dec.cl. 101pp. With b/w ills. Cloth chipped at 12 KEANE, Martin J. CLASSIC RODS head and tail of spine & rubbed. A handbook to knots, ties and splices AND RODMAKERS. N.Y. Winchester with illustrations C.H. Lightoller's copy, signed by him on the front Press. 1976. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. (sl. pastedown.. Charles Lightoller was the only senior surviving officer of the torn) 246pp. b/w ills. Sl. foxing else Very RMS Titanic and believed to be the last to leave the ship. It is believed to be THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. How to judge a classic rod by its structure, 18 (PICASSO, Pablo). PICASSO: HIS glue, winding, ferrules & reelseats. $95 RECENT DRAWINGS 1966-1968. By Charles Feld. N.Y. Harry N. Abrams. 1969. Folio. Or.cl. 13 LYNTON, Norbert. & McDONALD, John. SEARCHING (sl. marked) Transparent plastic Dustjacket. (sl. FOR GAIA. The Art of Guy Warren. South wrinkled) 254pp. Profusely ill. in col & b/w. Yarra. Macmillan Art. 2003. Folio. Or.bds. Some foxing & browning of pages else Very Dustjacket. 192pp. with col & b/w ills. good copy. 1st ed. With a preface by Rene Dustjacket. wrapped in protective plastic. Char. $75 Good copy. 1st ed. Guy Warren is an artist of integrity who has been prepared to take 19 POYNTER, John. THE AUDACIOUS risks and who has followed his ever deepening ADVENTURES OF DR LOUIS LAWRENCE vision over some six decades of work. With SMITH. 1830 - 1910. Nth Melbourne. an autobiographical account by the artist. Australian Scholarly 2014. 4to. Or.dec.bds. 2 $75 Vols in a decorated slipcase. Vol. 1, 365pp. Vol. 2, 694pp. Both vols with col & b/w plates. Very 14 MILL, John Stuart. ESSAYS ON good copy. 1st ed. L.L. Smith, medico, writer, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY. Collected publisher, politician, litigant, showman, Works Volumes 4 & 5. Toronto. Uni of Toronto spectator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder Press. 1967. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 404,443pp. and rider of racehorses, a prominent figure in (sl foxing) Dustjacket plastic-protected. Very good copy. 1st ed. These are Colonial Victoria's golden age. $90 volumes 4 & 5 of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, published by the University of Toronto. Edited by J.M Robson. Contains essays on 20 RICARDO, Sir Harry. MEMORIES AND economics and society. The pair $70 MACHINES: THE PATTERN OF MY LIFE. Lond. Constable. 1968. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 15 (MURCUTT, Glenn.) FARRELLY, E.M. GLENN MURCUTT. 264pp. b/w plates. Name on ffe else a very THREE HOUSES. Architecture in Detail. Lond. Phaidon. 2002. (New ed) good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Ricardo was one of Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. (60pp.) 148pp. col. & b/w.ills. Fine. the foremost engine designers and researchers Details of three houses designed in New South Wales between 1974 and in the early years of the development of the 1984. $60 internal combustion engine. $95 16 NOSSITER, Harold. SOUTHWARD HO! Being the log of the 21 ROUTLEDGE, Mrs.Scoresby. 35 ton schooner yacht Sirius from England to Australia. Lond. H.F. & THE MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND.