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Antique Bookshop ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 289 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior CATALOGUE 289 sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, and regarded as one of the most Payment is due on receipt of books. influential wrtiers of the 20th century, was born in India in 1903 but was No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. taken to England by his mother the following year, never to return. At the age of 19 he joined the Imperial Police Force, choosing to go to Burma as Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. his maternal grandmother had lived there. His experiences there gave him a strong dislike of Colonialism and the injustices it meted out to those under its control. He left Burma abruptly CONTENTS after five years to become a writer. BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 25 His first novel “Burmese Days” was based on his experiences in Burma AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 26 - 262 though he is now better known for “Animal Farm” and his dystopian novel AVIATION 263 - 317 “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. I’ve been reading “Finding George Orwell in Burma” by Emma Larkin. ORNITHOLOGY 318 - 357 Larkin visits Burma to find the various places Orwell lived and worked, as MISCELLANEOUS 358 - 574 well as to attempt to find anyone who may have known him or his family. She is mostly unsuccessful in the latter but paints a grim picture of life in Burma under the generals. She finds that the general conditions of life in Front cover items: “Nineteen Eighty-Four” have parallels in Burma at the present time. In fact 177, 11, 8/ one old man she met referred to Orwell as “..the prophet”. 330, 15, 475, 542, 553, 231 Various regimes have banned “Nineteen Eighty-Four” as it too closely re- Back cover items: sembles life in their own countries, and they are concerned that like Winston Bird Books / 558, 17, 479/ Smith, their people might be encouraged to protest. 267, 204, 519, 119, 499, 1, 294 The book has become a popular symbol of protest in Thailand since the military coup there in May, and demonstrators have been arrested for read- September 2014 ing it. Screenings of the film have been cancelled. Philippine Airlines are currently advising tourists not to bring this novel to Thailand as the military regime may see it as critical of the coup. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH 7 DARWIN, Charles. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By 1 ADES, Dawn et al. ART AND POWER. Europe under the Means of Natural Selection, or the Dictators, 1930-45. Lond. Thames & Hudson. 1995. 4to. Col.ill.bds. preservation of favoured races in Dustjacket. 360pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very the struggle for life. Sixth edition good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Published on the occasion of the eponymous with additions and corrections. exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London. $85 Lond. John Murray. 1892. (forty- 2 ARCHER, Sir Geoffrey; third thousand) Or. gilt & blind GODMAN, Eva M. THE BIRDS stamped cl. xxi,432pp. Folding OF BRITISH SOMALILAND AND table. Endpapers foxed & the THE GULF OF ADEN. Vols. 1-4. cloth sl.rubbed else a very good Lond. Gurney Jackson / Oliver copy of a 19th century edition Boyd. 1937/1961. Or.bds. (corners of Darwin’s most important, scuffed) Dustjackets. (Vols. 1-2 and at the time startling work. sl.chipped & marked) 1570pp. in The first edition sold out almost total. Pages uncut. Vols. 1-2 t.e.g. immediately and many issues Fold-out maps. Col.plates. Some followed, each with various foxing, else Very Good copies. 1st changes as Darwin made modifications. $150 eds. Vols. 1-2 published in 1937, Vols. 8 DUPAIN, Max. TO ORANGE WITH LOVE. Orange. Orange 3-4 not published until 1961 due to City Council. 1988. Ill.wrapps. unpag. (52pp.) Profusely illustrated in WW2. All first editions. $695 b/w. Fine copy. Scarce. A collection of b&w photos of the town of Orange. 3 ARNOLD, John. THE FANFROLICO Exhibition catalogue for the Orange Regional Gallery. $120 PRESS. Satyrs, Fauns and Fine Books. 9 FORSHAW, Joseph & COOPER, William (Illustrator). Middlesex. Private Libraries Assoc. 2009. PARROTS OF THE WORLD. Melb. 1973. Large Folio. Or.cl. d.w. 584pp. Or.dec.cl. 328pp. b/w ills. Fine copy. The history 500 superb & splendidly detailed Col. plates of the Fanfrolico Press. $90 of parrots by William Cooper. B/w ills., maps 4 BRODY, Anne Marie. UTOPIA: A PICTURE and associated text with each species. Fine. STORY. 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes The Scarce 1st ed. A monumental work on the a’Court Collection. Perth. Heytesbury Holdings. species. $350 1990. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 243pp. Profusely 10 HAMILTON, David. DAVID HAMILTON. illustrated in colour & b/w. Very Good copy. TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF AN ARTIST. 1st ed. $65 Lond. Aurum Press. 1993. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. 5 COATES, Brian J. & BISHOP, K.David. Dustjacket. 315pp. Profusely illustrated with A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF WALLACIA. photographs of Hamilton’s work over 25 years. Sulawesi, The Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Very good copy. 1st British ed. Scarce. $85 Islands, Indonesia. Illustrated by Dana Gardner. 11 HOKUSAI, Katsushika. THIRTY-SIX Alderley (Qld) Dove Publications. 1997. Or.bds. VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI. Tokyo. Kyodo Dustjacket. 535pp. 64 colour plates illustrating News Service. n.d. (c1960) Oblong Folio. 698 species. Sl.creasing to the edge of a few pages 46 mounted colour plates, in the centre of the volume else a very good copy. each 36x24cm. contained in 1st ed. Scarce. The first ornithological field guide a buckram folding case with to a most remarkable group of tropical islands explanatory booklet (67pp.) named after Alfred Russell Wallace andsituated in Japanese & English. Very between the Oriental & Australasian regions. Good copy. Scarce. Originally $335 created from 1826 to 1833, 6 CRASTER, Sir Edmund. HISTORY OF the 36 prints in the original THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, 1845-1945. Lond. publication were so popular Oxford Univ. Press. 1952. Or.bds. (sl. marked) that Hokusai created another 372pp. uncut. b/w plates. Fine copy. 1st ed. 10. The woodblock prints of History of the library by its librarian, 1931-45. $75 this set represent one of the highest achievements of the art of ukiyo-e. $375 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 12 JOYCE, James GIACOMO JOYCE. With an Introduction and 18 SANCHEZ-JAUREGUI, Maria Notes by Richard Ellmann. N.Y. The Viking Press. 1968. Or.qt.cl. & grey D. & WILCOX, Scott (Eds.) THE ENGLISH boards. 16,xxviipp. Four full-scale facsimile pages from the manuscript PRIZE. The Capture of the Westmorland, An and reduced reproductions of the other pages. Fine in the slip-case. Episode of the Grand Tour. Yale University Scarce. $120 Press. 2012. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 378pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & 13 KERR, Joan. (Ed.) THE DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN white. Fine. 1st ed. Inspired by an exhibition ARTISTS. Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. of the same name at the Ashmolean Museum. Melb. OUP. 1992. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. All the items displayed were on the British (spine sl. faded) 889pp. Sl. foxing else ship Westmorland, with many crates the fruits Fine copy. 1st ed. A comprehensive of collecting of British visitors while on tour dictionary of Australian artists. $295 in Europe. The ship was seized by two French 14 MACKANESS, vessels and the contents sold on in Spain. George. ADMIRAL ARTHUR PHILLIP. $85 Founder of New South Wales, 1738-1814. 19 SCHUTZ, Albert J. THE FIJIAN Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1937. Or.bds. LANGUAGE. Honolulu. Univ. of Hawaii (spine faded) 536pp. b/w plates. Two Press. 1985. 4to. Or.dec.bds. 688pp. Sl. foxing else Fine copy. 1st ed. A small inscriptions on ffe. A little foxing comprehensive study of the Fijian language. $60 else Very Good copy. 1st ed. A biography of the British explorer. $250 20 SCOTT, Ernest. THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS. Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1914. Or.bds. (sl. rubbed) 492pp. b/w plates. Small 15 MAXWELL, Sir Herbert. SIXTY inscription on ffe. Heavy foxing, else Very Good copy. 1st ed. With YEARS A QUEEN. The Story of Her portraits, maps and facsimiles. $135 Majesty’s Reign. Illustrated Chiefly from the Royal Collections. Lond. Harmsworth 21 SHOLL, R.J. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION FROM Bros. n.d. (c.1900) Folio. Or.dec.cl. (sl. THE GOVERNMENT CAMP, CAMDEN HARBOUR, TO THE moisture marking at tail of spine on rear) SOUTHWARD OF THE GLENELG RIVER xii,240pp. Col.frontis & many b/w ills. IN NORTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA. a.e.g. Name on ffe & tape-marking to Extracted from the Journal of the Royal endpapers, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Geographical Society of London. Vol.36. Lond. Scarce. An interesting overview of Queen 1866. Bound in qt.morocco & papered bds. Victoria’s reign. A lovely volume. $75 pp.203-227. Fine. Very Scarce. Bound with HOWARD, Mr.F. MARINE SURVEY OF 16 PEARSALL SMITH, Logan. TRIVIA THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF SOUTH & MORE TRIVIA. Two volumes. Lond. AUSTRALIA. pp.227-244 of the same journal.
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