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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 344 The Antique Bookshop & Curios 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 All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD We seem to be a community in fear at the moment. Real fear of con- sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. tracting Covid 19 but irrational fear of running out of paper products, Payment is due on receipt of books. namely toilet paper, paper towels and boxes of tissues. To say nothing No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. or pasta and rice. I’ve managed to purchase enough of these products, buying just what Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. I needed each time. There is no real shortage; as the paper products are made in Australia. Perhaps having a large reserve of toilet paper reduces the fear of Covid 19 for the irrational amongst us. CONTENTS There are alternatives to toilet paper. I remember being in the bush as BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 30 a lad and the dunny in the back yard usually had the local newspaper nailed to the back of the door for this purpose. AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 31 - 226 A leading antiquarian bookdealer (sorry, no names) visiting my MISCELLANEOUS 227 - 369 premises many years ago, and finding we had run out of loo paper used the pages of an derelict old dictionary from one of the boxes of books stacked in the bath in the bathroom. He was apologetic but my Front cover items: embarrassment exceeded his. The Antique Bookshop is still open during our usual hours at the mo- 24, 30, 18, 14, 41/ ment but this might change due to government regulations. We have a 16, 8(2v), 25, 209, 23 large shop and few physical visitors, so physical distancing here is no problem & hand sanitiser is available. April 2020 I am able to report that there has not been a run on our books, the paper product we provide, though sales so far have been ok. Follow us on Instagram @theantiquebookshop We have plenty of books available for purchase and you can buy on- ISSN 2209-850x line if you are worried about calling in. Just visit www.antiquebookshop.com.au and click on the search button. Take care. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] 1 ARCHER, Sir Geoffrey; GODMAN, Eva M. THE BIRDS decoration & appear as if to have some other purpose. Europe has a OF BRITISH SOMALILAND AND THE GULF OF ADEN. Vols. 1-4. superb legacy of this idiosyncratic, often experimental architecture. Lond. Gurney Jackson / Oliver Boyd. 1937/1961. Or.bds. Dustjackets. $75 (Vols. 1-2 v. chipped and marked) 1570pp. in total. Pages uncut. Vols. 1-2 6 BEETON, Mrs. Isabella Mary. MRS. BEETON'S HOUSEHOLD t.e.g. Fold-out maps. Col.plates. Some foxing, else Very Good copies. 1st MANAGEMENT. A Complete Cookery Book. Lond. Ward, Lock & Co., eds. Vols. 1-2 published in 1937, Vols. 3-4 not published until 1961 due Limited. n.d. (c1948) Thick 8vo. Or.cl. 1680pp. (some to WW2. All first editions. The set $395 foxing) 16 col plates and nearly 350 b/w ills. Good copy. 2 ARIOSTO, Ludovico. ORLANDO FURIOSO. Con Note e Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was first Dilucidazione Grammaticali da Romualdo published in monthly instalments between 1861 to 1865 Zotti. 4 vols. Lond. Presso Romualdo Zotti. & was a major publishing event of the 19th century. 1822. Sm.8vo. Bound in half calf with raised This edition is updated for modern times. $95 bands & gilt decorated spine panels. Marbled 7 DAELE, Patrick van. & LUMBY, Roy. A SPIRIT OF sides. Various pag. A very good set in a fine PROGRESS. Art Deco Architecture in Australia. North binding. Italian text. $240 Ryde. Craftsman House. 1997. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 3 BAILLIERE, F. F. BAILLIERE'S NEW 228pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & SOUTH WALES GAZETTEER AND ROAD white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australia's Art Deco GUIDE 1866. Containing the most recent and architecture of the 1920s & 30s was until fairly recently accurate information as to every place in the scorned & ignored. Photographer Patrick Colony. Compiled by Robert P. Whitworth. Van Daele has captured what remains Syd. F. F. Bailliere. 1866. Or.wrapps rebound in of this vanished world set between the marbled boards & quarter green calf. 664pp. wars. $225 Some foxing to top & foredge. Good copy. 8 FALLEY, Margaret Dickson. IRISH Lacks map which should be in the prelims but AND SCOTCH-IRISH ANCESTRAL includes a Plan of Sydney Suburbs, not noted RESEARCH. A Guide to the Genealogical by Fergsuon. A geographical dictionary of Records, Methods and Sources in Ireland. the Australian Colonies as they were in 1866. 2 vols. Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing. Designed to be used in conjunction with a 1984. (2nd printing) Or.cl. 813,354pp. Sl. map, it contains the various social, physical foxing on foredge else a Very good set. & geographical stats. $120 Scarce. The most usual & immediate 4 BANKS, Sir Joseph. THE ENDEAVOUR problem of an American who wishes to JOURNAL OF JOSEPH BANKS 1768-1771. begin Irish ancestral research is that he Edited by J.C.Beaglehole. 2 vols. Syd. Public does not know the parentage of his forbears who emigrated. This set Library of NSW. 1962. Both Or.cl. Dustjackets was designed to help. $145 (edges torn & rubbed) 476,406pp. + 80 b/w 9 FORSTER, Georg. COOK, THE DISCOVERER. A new plates & a folding map of the voyage of translation accompanying a facsimile of "Cook, de Entdecker, Verush the Endeavour. Col.plates. Some foxing & eines Denkmals" being a memoir of Captain Cook written by Georg name on ffe, else a good set. 1st ed. Scarce. Forster, first published in Berlin in 1787. Foreword by Martin Lutz. Syd. Banks sailed as natural historian on Hordern House. 2007. Bound in qt.tan kangaroo the Endeavour with Cook. This is the with speckled papered sides. 276pp. b/w ills. first full printing from the original Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Trade edition limited to 1000 manuscript of his candid and dramatic copies. $195 journal. $125 10 GILL, G. Hermon. ROYAL 5 BARLOW, Nicholas. & AUSTRALIAN NAVY. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF HOLMES, Caroline. FOLLIES OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-45. Series EUROPE. Architectural Extravaganzas. 2 (Navy) Complete set of 2 volumes. Canb. Aust Introduction by Tim Knox. Text by War Memorial. 1957, 1968. Or.cl. Dustjackets. Caroline Holmes. Suffolk. Garden Art 686,743pp. b/w plates. Fine. Both 1st ed. A scarce Press. 2008. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. first edition set. The first volume covers the period 256pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. 1939-1942, the second covers 1942-1945. $195 Very good copy. 1st ed. Follies are buildings constructed primarily for THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 11 GREY, Zane. TALES OF SWORDFISH AND TUNA. Lond. 17 KRAUSE, Cheseter L. & MISHLER, Hodder & Stoughton. 1927. 4to. Or.dec.bds. (a little marked and rubbed) Clifford. STANDARD CATALOGUE OF 203pp. b/w ills & plates. Some foxing and browning of pages else very WORLD GOLD COINS. Platinum and good copy. 1st Eng ed. With ninety illustrations from photographs taken Palladium issues included. Fourth Edition. by the author as well as drawings by Frank E. Phares. $190 Wisconsin. Krause Publications. 2000. 4to. 12 GROVE, Sir George. Ed. Stanley Sadie. THE NEW GROVE Col.ill.bds. 1101pp. Small mark on foredge. DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Ed. by Stanley Sadie. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very 20 volumes. Lond. Macmillan. 1995. All or.cl. various pagination. Many good copy. A catalogue for collectors of gold illustrations and musical examples. A Fine set. An encyclopaedic reference coins from 1601 to 2000 with detailed date on music and musicians, this set is regarded as the most authoritative & mint listings together with current values reference source on the subject in the English language. First published as of the year 2000. $90 in four volumes in 1878 and edited by Sir George Grove, this new 18 MACHIAVELLI, Nicolo. TUTTE LE edition under the editorship of Stanley Sadie has raised the work to new OPERE DI NICOLO MACHIAVELLI heights. $195 Cittadino et Secretario Fiorentino. 13 HAWKE, Bob. THE HAWKE MEMOIRS. Port Melb. William Divise in V. Parti et di nuovo con Heinemann. 1994. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 618pp. somma accuratezza ristampe. Five b/w plates. Dj sl.rubbed else a very good parts in one volume. Dated earlier copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Bob Hawke. Bob than the actual printing to avoid the Hawke reflects on his years as leader of the Papal proscription. Geneva. Presso ACTU & leader of the Australian Labor Party. Pietro Auberr. 1550. Though printed After leaving Parliament, Hawke entered the c.1610-1639. Sm.4to. Full maroon business world to deliberately distance himself morocco with elaborately gilt spine from politics. $150 between 5 raised bands. Decorative gilt borders on front and back boards. 14 HOWITT, Mary. SKETCHES OF Various pag. a.e.g. In "Art of War NATURAL HISTORY. Third Thousand. Lond. "section the forms of battle have been Effingham Wilson. 1834. Sm.8vo. Or.blind illustrated typographically. Double- stamped cloth with gilt lettering to cover & page woodcut showing the form of gilt illustration on spine. 162pp. Inscription on a fort. Front hinge sl.rubbed else a ffe.