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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 298 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 298 sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. With the cold weather we have been having of late, the thought of not Payment is due on receipt of books. venrturing out, but staying warm at home with a good book at hand, seems No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. an attractive proposition. We have a wide selection on offer this month. Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. There are quite a few signed books with signatures by Australian artists including John Olsen, Sidney Nolan and Donald Friend. Other signatures CONTENTS include those of Peter carey, Manning Clark, Ruth Park, the vigneron Max Lake and Geoffrey Ingleton. Many other books also have author’s BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 27 inscriptions. AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 28 - 268 There are several antiquarian titles including a 1798 1st edition of Cary’s MISCELLANEOUS 269 - 482 “New Itinerary.. of the Great Roads throughout England and Wales.” There is much Australiana including the splendid “Deco Radio” by Peter Sheridan and a number of scarce local histories. The Holocaust and the Nazis are the subjects in quite a few of the volumes Front cover items: and there are also other militaria titles. 26, 6A, 6, 22/ Art and literature is well represented; there is a first UK edition of Henry 5, 21, 24, 219, 20 Miller’s “Tropic of Capricorn”. Back cover items: Also a number of volumes illustrated by Ronald Searle, including first edi- 9(4v), 335, 97, 143, 98 / 482, 315, 171, 90, 93/ tions of “Merry England” and “The Rake’s Progress”. Lastly there are a few volumes on oriental carpets, and of course much 203, 207, 311, 399 (3v)/ 183, 207, 317, 72, 454, 475 else. July 2015 Please enjoy. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH copy inscribed by the author. 1st ed. Very Scarce. 1 BRÉON, Emmanuel; PEPALL, Rosalind. (Eds.) RUHLMANN. Special Collectors Edition limited to 1600 copies. Genius of Art Deco. Montreal. Museum of Typewritten, signed letter from the author loosely Fine Arts. 2004. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 327pp. inserted. The author says in his letter that he has Many col & b/w ills. Fine. Catalogue for an attempted to “.. try and find as much as possible of exhibition of works by the famed Art Deco- the lost history of the Queensland opal industry.” era designer. $75 $395 2 CAREY, Peter. THE TAX INSPECTOR. 7 CUTLER, Carl C. GREYHOUNDS OF THE St. Lucia. UQP. 1991. Or.bds. Dustjacket. SEA. The Story of the American Clipper Ship. 279pp. Near Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed on the N.Y. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1930. 4to. Or.cl. 592pp. title page by Peter Carey. $150 pages uncut. b/w plates. Sl. foxing else Very good copy. 1st ed. With a foreword by Charles Francis 3 CARY, John. CARY’S NEW ITINERARY; Adams, Secretary of the Navy. $60 OR AN ACCURATE DELINIATION OF THE GREAT ROADS.. THROUGHOUT 8 DUYKER, Edward. OF THE STAR AND ENGLAND AND WALES. To which are THE KEY. Mauritius, Mauritians & Australia. added, at the end of each route, the Names Foreword by Manning Clark. Syd. Aust.Mauritian of those Inns that supply Post Horses and Research Group. 1988. Roy.8vo. Col.ill.bds. Carriages. With a most extensive selection of 129pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Limited edition of Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats. Lond. Printed 1200 copies, this copy inscribed by the author.. A for John Cary. 1798. 8vo. Old full leather, rubbed pioneering study of the Mauritians, whose links & worn on the corners. iv,{54},796(i.e.426),2pp. with Australia span several centuries. $75 The first 370 pages are numbered as 740 columns. 9 FEATHERSTONE, Donald Large folding map, engraved title page & F. WAR GAMES THROUGH dedication leaf. A very good copy of the scarce THE AGES. Four vols. Vol.1: 1st ed. French armorial bookplate on front paste- 3000BC to 1500 AD; Vol.2: 1420- down. $595 1783; Vol.3: 1792-1859; Vol.4: 4 CENSUS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1861-1945. Lond. Stanley Paul. NOVEMBER 1828. Edited by Malcolm R. Sainty 1974-76. Or.bds. Dustjackets. & Keith A. Johnson. Syd. LAH. 1980. Folio. Or.cl. (sl. chipped) Various pag. b/w (plastic-covered) 475pp. Fine. The scarce 1st ed. plates & ills. Very Good copies. An important reference as this is the Vol.1 2nd imp. other vols 1st first census taken in New South Wales ed. $195 and the only detailed census for NSW to 10 FOX, C.E. THE THRESHOLD survive in full to the present day. $195 OF THE PACIFIC. An account of 5 CLARK, C.M.H. A HISTORY the social organization, magic OF AUSTRALIA. C o m p l e t e & religion of the people of San Commemorative Edition in Slipcase. Cristoval in the Solomon Islands. Preface by Melb. MUP. 1985-1987. Or.dec.bds. G.Elliot Smith. Lond. Kegan Paul, Trench, in slipcase. Various pag. b/w plates. Trubner. 1924. Or.dec.cl. (edges sl.rubbed) 379pp. Bookplate in front of Vol. 1 signed by b/w plates. Some foxing, else a Good copy. 1st Manning Clark. Sl. foxing else Very good ed. Scarce. Signed by the author, with a long copies. #13 of a commemorative edition handwritten letter on Diocese of Melanesia limited to two hundred sets signed by letterhead to the Editor of Pacific Islands the author. A scarce signed set. $175 Monthly. $120 6 CORFIELD, Justin. THE NED KELLY ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 11 FOX, Gwen. (Ed.) PIONEERS OF THE Melb. Lothian. 2003. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 525pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. TAROOM AND WANDOAN DISTRICT. Scarce. Brings together more than 800 articles covering people, places & Taroom. (Qld) Shire Council. 1959. Or.bds. themes connected with Ned Kelly & the Kelly Outbreak of 1878-80. $65 Dustjacket. (sl. marked) 175pp. b/w ills. Near Fine. Very Scarce. Historical notes of the Shire of Taroom in Queensland. 6a CRAM. Len. A JOURNEY WITH COLOUR. A History of Includes an envelope enclosing four maps of the region. $125 Queensland Opal, 1869-1979. Volume 1. Lightninhg Ridge. Len Cram. 1998. Folio. Or.Col.ill.bds. 368pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 12 FRIEND, Donald. DONALD towns in Europe during the FRIEND IN BALI. Lond. Collins. 1972. 4to. Medieval era, volumes include Dustjacket. 107pp. col. plates & b/w. ills. Sl. Paris, Bruges, Oxford, Florence, foxing else Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed Venice, Edinburgh, Cambridge, by Donald Friend on ffe, dated 1975. Various and Brussels. $95 newspaper clippings and ephemera collected 18 MILLER, Henry. by previous owner included at back. $125 TROPIC OF CAPRICORN. 13 GROTIUS, Hugo. THE TRUTH Lond. John Calder. 1964. Or.bds. OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. In six Dustjacket. (sl. chipped, plastic- books. Corrected and illustrated with notes covered) 316pp. Some foxing by Mr.Le Clerc. Translated by John Clarke, else Very good copy. 1st UK ed. Henry Miller’s D.D., Dean of Sarum. Glasgow. Printed for follow-up to Tropic of Cancer. $75 Robert Urie. 1769. (7th ed.) 8vo. Old full 19 NOLAN, Sidney & LYNN, Elwyn. roan, rubbed & worn on the corners. xii,308pp. SIDNEY NOLAN - AUSTRALIA. Syd. Internally Very good copy. Grotius was a famed Bay Books. 1979. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Dutch philosopher, theologian and Christian (sl. rubbed) 226pp. col & b/w ills. 1st ed. apologist of the 17th century. This work, compiled Some foxing else Very Good copy. Inscribed while he was in prison provides a systematic by Sidney Nolan on title page, dated 1st argument for the truth of Christianity. $295 November, 1983. $250 14 INGLETON, G.C. TRUE PATRIOTS 20 OKUMIYA, Masatake & HORIKOSHI, ALL. Or news from early Australia as told in Jiro. ZERO. The story of the Japanese Navy a collection of broadsides with decorations by Air Force, 1937-1945. N.Y. E.P Dutton & Co. Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton. Rutland. Charles 1956. Or.cl. Dustjacket. (sl. rubbed, plastic- E. Tuttle. 1988. 4to. Nicely bound in quarter covered) 424pp. Name and stamp on ffe, old morocco. Or.cl. xvi,280pp. t.e.g. col.front. & b/w adhesive tape marks on endpapers, some ills. Fine. Number XV of the limited edition of 25 foxing else Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. A presentation copies of this facsimile edition, top Japanese flying officer and the engineer signed by Geoffrey Ingleton and the publisher. who developed the Zero tell the inside story A very scarce edition. $150 of the naval air war in the Pacific. $65 15 JACKES, Betsy R. PLANTS OF 21 OLSEN, John. SALUTE TO FIVE MAGNETIC ISLAND. Townsville. James BELLS. John Olsen’s Opera House Journal. Cook University. 1987. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. Syd. A & R. 1973. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 141pp. Many b/w ills. Some foxing, particularly (torn, pieces missing, recently plastic- to page edges, else Very good copy. Scarce. A covered) unpag. Numerous col.plates, comprehensive study of native vegetation on including one large fold-out of Olsen’s Magnetic Island. Includes many photocopied painting now in the Opera House.