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GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Established 1945 Postal Address: (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 76 - 2013. Miscellany, Selection, Grouping, Mixture, Collection, or just plain old HODGE-PODGE. Items on a Variety of Subjects. Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 1 Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line: SUEZ CANAL AND PORT SAID. Oblong 8vo; pp. 16; double-page plan of the Suez Canal, 3 full-page illustrations; original wrappers; a very good copy. [London]; Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line; [1950]. #26912 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 2 Adam-Smith, Patsy. THERE WAS A SHIP. Cr. 4to, First Edition (in this form); pp. viii, 240(last blank); 3 maps (2 full-page), numerous illustrations (some full-page); original papered boards; a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Melbourne); Nelson; (1983). ***Combined edition of “Moonbird People” and “There was a Ship”, published in 1965 and 1967 respectively. #15879 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 3 Archbold, Richard & Rand, A. L. NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION. Fly River Area, 1936-1937. With photographs by The Authors and L. J. Brass, G. H. H. Tate, M. J. Healy and L. A. Willis. 4to, First Edition; pp. xviii, [ii](blank), 208(last 2 blank); coloured endpaper maps, coloured folding map (a slight crease to fore-margin), 4 full- page maps & 3 text maps, 13 full-page & 109 half-page photographs, index; original buckram; a nice copy in slightly defective dustwrapper containing interesting biographical information not otherwise contained in the book; very scarce, especially with the dustwrapper. New York; Robert M. McBride and Company; (1940). #32979 A$550.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 4 Ashley, Clifford. W. THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS. Demy 4to, First U.K. Edition, Ninth Impression; pp. x, [ii], 620; 8 plates, glossary, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. London; Faber and Faber Limited; (1981). ***7000 drawings representing over 3900 knots. This book, first published in the U.S. in 1944, is said to have inspired E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Shipping News”. #22171 A$145.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 5 Barron, Roderick. DECORATIVE MAPS. Demy folio, First Edition; pp. 8; 40 coloured map plates, each with descriptive text on verso; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. London; Bracken Books; (1989). #64381 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 6 Barrow, John D. PI IN THE SKY. Counting, thinking and being. Cr. 8vo, First Paperback Edition; pp. xii, 318(last blank), [6](adv.); several figures, bibliography, index; original wrappers. (London); Penguin Books; (1993). ***Mathematical aspects of reality. First published in 1992 by Oxford University Press. #64352 A$15.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 7 Bay Books: HOME DOCTOR. The Complete Home Medical Guide for You and Your Family. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 384, 128(First Aid), [2](blank); very numerous coloured illustrations, index to first section and index to First Aid; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Sydney and London; Bay Books; N.D. [c. 1985]. ***The First Aid section is by Dr James Witchall. #26353 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 8 Beauty Competition: THE INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY COMPETITION to elect Miss Europe 1935 at Torquay the Riviera of Devon, England, 1st to 6th July, 1935 [cover title]. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [32]; several illustrations including portraits of the beauties; original wrappers (some mild soiling; a couple of corners slightly worn); a very good copy. Torquay; Torquay Corporation; 1935. #26911 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 9 Bible: THE DEVOTIONAL ALPHABETICALLY INDEXED FAMILY BIBLE. Containing the old and new testaments (Authorized or King James Version). Self-Pronouncing. In which all the Proper Names are Divided, Accented, and marked with the Vowel Sounds, Showing how they should be Pronounced. Red Letter Edition (Words Spoken by Christ Printed in Red). > at the beginning of a verse refers to prophecies of Christ. Dictionary-Concordance and many other important and useful aids to the studies of the Holy Scriptures. All written to increase the interest and simplify the study of the word of God. A Bible of outstanding help-inspiration-strength. Beautifully illustrated with colored paintings. Med. 4to; pp. [vi], 272, 704, [18], 705-1088, 32(Atlas); New Testament in red & black, 4 double-page coloured plates, 74 pages of coloured plates, chronology, illustrated dictionary of the Bible, concordance, index to maps and Atlas of the Bible Lands; original vinyl, gilt; watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt, marker ribbon; a fine copy. Wichita, Kansas; De Vore & Sons, Inc.; (1982). #26837 A$100.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 10 Bower, the late John A. HOW TO MAKE COMMON THINGS. For Boys. With Illustrations. Seventh Edition. Cr. 8vo, Seventh Edition; pp. 240; 150 figures, glossary, index; original illustrated cloth; a nice copy. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 1915. ***Including much useful information on carpentry, metalwork and other handicrafts. #16164 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 11 Boxer, C. R. THE PORTUGUESE SEABORNE EMPIRE 1415-1825. First Edition; pp. xxvi, 426; title-page in red & black, 1 folding, 2 double-page & 4 full-page maps, 16 plates, 6 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original buckram (slightly marked); a very good copy in dustwrapper; very scarce. London; Hutchinson of London; (1969). ***The History of Human Society series, General Editor: J. H. Plumb. #10262 A$175.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 12 Burns, Robert: POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS. A completely new edition, including over 60 poems appearing for the first time in a collected edition, of which some have never before been published. Edited and Introduced by James Barke. Cr. 8vo; pp. 736; 16 coloured plates, chronology, glossary, index; original vinyl, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Fontana / Collins; (1984). ***This collection first published 1955. #20688 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 13 [Cano, Pilar & Serrats, Marta; Edited by]. TYPOSPHERE. New Fonts to Make You Think. Cr. 4to, First Edition in English; pp. 192(last blank); numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (New York); Collins Design, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; (2007). ***First published in Spanish in the same year at Barcelona. #14500 A$40.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 14 Chambers: ANGLING. Roy. 8vo; pp. 513-528; 6 illustrations; printed in double column; disbound. [Edinburgh]; W. & R. Chambers; [1842]. ***Chambers’s Information for the People, Number 83. Includes nets, lines, hooks, baits, artificial flies, fish ponds, etc. #64589 A$18.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 15 [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]. MARK TWAIN’S AUTO- BIOGR APHY. With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2 vols., roy. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xvi, 370(last 2 blank); Vol. II, [viii], 370(last 3 blank); frontispiece & index to each vol.; top edges gilt, others uncut; in the original navy-blue cloth, with gilt facsimile signature on both front covers; a nice set. New York; Harper & Brothers; MCMXXIV [1924]. ***Dictated by Clemens over several years with the stipulation that it not be published until after his death (he originally said until he had been dead “at least a hundred years”!). “As might be expected of anything which Mark Twain wrote, this autobiography is unlike any other ever written—as unconventional and unorthodox as its great author. Always, when the time came for him to go on with the dictation, he chose as his subject whatever was most interesting to him at the moment, regardless of chronological order. For he believed that a man’s thoughts, not his outward acts are his true history, which alone reveal him completely. The resulting book is a stream of table- talk: anecdotes, humorous and serious; reminiscences of his mother, his daughter Susy, his boyhood days in Missouri; chronicles of his friendships with all manner of men, from General Grant and President Cleveland to his Irish coachman and the unfamed intimates of his vagabond youth; bold expressions of opinion on every sort of topic—all are here, full of the vigor and the humanity of their author, and forming an inexhaustible mine of entertainment, amusement, and delight.” —publisher’s blurb. #18963 A$295.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 16 Collingridge, W. H. TRICKS OF SELF-DEFENCE. Revised by Percy Longhurst. Cr. 8vo; pp. 48; 40 illustrations; original wrappers; a nice copy. London; Thorsons Publishers Ltd.; (1958). #22564 A$20.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 76 2013. 17 Commons, Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society: FOUR BOOKLETS issued by the Society, comprising: A Guide to the Law of Commons, by Ian Campbell (80 pp.), A Guide to Definitive Maps of Public Places, by Mary McArevey (36 pp.), A Practical Guide to the Law of Footpaths, by Ian Campbell (64 pp.), and Decisions of the Commons Commissioners (84 pp.); original wrappers; fine copies.