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Short List No. 285 an F-List Miscellany 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, Website: www.GastonRenard.com.au Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 285 - 2019. An F List (a miscellany for the New Year). Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 1 Fadiman, Clifton; General Editor. THE FABER BOOK OF ANECDOTES. Roy. 8vo, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xxii, 754(last 3 blank); source list, bibliography, index of names, index of subjects; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. London; Faber and Faber; (1985). #65047 ***A treasure-trove of stories about notable personages. A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 2 Young, Sir George. FACSIMILE OF A PROPOSAL FOR A SETTLEMENT ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES, by Sir George Young, 1785. From a Copy in the possession of the Publishers. Folio, Facsimile Edition; pp. [4](last blank); original stiff wrappers; (some foxing, but a very good copy); scarce. Sydney; Angus & Robertson; 1888. ***This was one of the first publications of Angus and Robertson, published in their first year of operation as a publisher (prior to this they had sold secondhand books only). Ferguson 18988. Geoffrey Ingleton’s copy, with bookplate. #67540 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 3 Muller, Fritz. FACTS AND ARGUMENTS FOR DARWIN. With additions by the author. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., Assistant Secretary to the Geological Society of London. With illustrations. Facsimile Edition; pp. [viii], 144; 67 figures, index; original cloth; a fine copy. (Westmead, Farnborough, Hants.; Gregg Press Limited; 1968). ***First published by John Murray in 1869. #66698 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 4 Fairbairn, James: FAIRBAIRN’S BOOK OF CRESTS OF THE FAMILIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. A New Edition revised and brought down to the present date by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. 2 vols., 4to, Artificer’s Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], vi, 492(last blank), [4], 144(last 2 blank); list of mottoes, key to plates & dictionary of terms; Vol. II, pp. [vi], 229 fine plates (plus 3 blanks, as issued); original buckram (marked, spines worn); a very good, sound set; scarce. Edinburgh; T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works; 1892. #21401 A$550.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 5 Fairbairn, James. FAIRBAIRN’S CRESTS OF THE FAMILIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Compiled from the best Authorities by James Fairbairn and Revised by Laurence Butters, Seal Engraver in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland. 2 vols. in 1, med. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. x, 600(last blank); abbreviations, list of mottoes, glossary, index; Vol. II, 148 plates (numbered 1-144 & 126a-d) plus pp. [601]-644; original cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Rutland, Vermont; Charles E. Tuttle Co.: Publishers; 1968. ***First published at Edinburgh by Thomas C. Jack c. 1890. #15737 A$125.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 6 Jackson, Catherine Charlotte Lady. FAIR LUSITANIA. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 408; 20 fine engraved plates, appendix; original cloth (neatly rebacked, with original backstrip preserved; one plate & one text leaf misplaced, but quite complete); a nice copy; scarce. London; Richard Bentley and Son; 1874. ***Travels in Portugal, nicely illustrated. #12316 A$125.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 7 Lind, Lew. FAIR WINDS TO AUSTRALIA. 200 Years of Sail on the Australia Station. 4to, First Edition; pp. 208; 8 coloured plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Frenchs Forest); Reed; (1988). ***From the First Fleet onwards. #21696 A$40.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 8 Haywood, Ian. FAKING IT. Art and the Politics of Forgery. First Edition; pp. [vi], 154; bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Brighton, Sussex); The Harvester Press; (1987). ***Notwithstanding the title, the book mostly concerns literary forgery and its ramifications, but includes as well the archaeological forgery of the Piltdown affair and art forgery and its implications. An interesting and thought-provoking account of the various issues surrounding forgery and its definition and social milieu. #38621 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 9 Moorehead, Alan. THE FATAL IMPACT. An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840. First U.K. Edition; pp. xiv, 230; endpaper & 4 other maps, portrait frontispiece (of Capt. Cook) & 30 other plates, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Hamish Hamilton; (1966). ***Archibald Glenn’s copy with his name on half-title. #33906 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 10 Reynolds, Henry. FATE OF A FREE PEOPLE. [A Radical Re- Examination of the Tasmanian Wars]. First Edition; pp. xii, 258(last blank), [4](adv.), [2](blank); 8 plates, notes, references, index; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Ringwood); Penguin Books; (1995). #67804 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 11 Thomson, Donald F. FATHERHOOD IN THE WIK MONKAN TRIBE. Roy. 8vo; pp. [373]-394(last blank); 4 plates; original wrappers; scarce. No Place [Arlington]; Reprinted from American Anthropologist, Vol. 38, No. 3; July-September, 1936. #51738 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 12 Mudie, James. THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES: Being a Faithful Picture of the Real Romance of Life in Botany Bay, with Anecdotes of Botany Bay Society and a Plan of Sydney. Edited by Walter Stone. Pp. xiv, 218(last 3 blank); folding map, appendix, addenda; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Melbourne; Lansdowne Press; 1964. ***Here reprinted for the first time. In this edition the Editor has included the contemporary MS. marginal notes in a copy of the original edition of 1837 in his possession (see Ferguson 2312 for original edition). #229 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 13 Muller, Prof. Hermann. THE FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS. Translated and Edited by D’Arcy W. Thompson. With a Preface by Charles Darwin. With illustrations. First Edition; pp. xii, 670, [2](adv.); 186 figures, extensive bibliography with index, index to insects, index to plants; original cloth, gilt; a very nice, clean ex- library copy with label on front endpaper, pocket on rear endpaper, neat blind stamp on title-page and ink number on verso, but no other marks; scarce. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1883. ***Freeman 1432. #66726 A$225.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 14 Darwin, Charles. FERTILIZATION OF ORCHIDS BY INSECTS. New Foreword by Norris H. Williams. Cr. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. xii, vi, 372(last 7 blank); 34 illustrations (3 full- page), index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn dustwrapper; scarce. Stanfordville, New York; Earl M. Coleman, Publisher; 1979. ***Presumably Freeman 817a (in his limited circulation Additions and Corrections to Second Edition of 1977 [of his bibliographical handlist], but he gives a slightly different place of publication. A facsimile of the First Edition of 1862 of ‘ON THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, and on the good effects of intercrossing’ with the addition of the Foreword by Williams. #66714 A$75.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 ONE OF 25 SPECIAL PRESENTATION COPIES 15 Renard, Gaston; Compiler. F. G. COLES AUSTRALIANA COLLECTION. Catalogue. With Descriptive and Bibliographical Annotations. With Nine Plates and Supplementary Index. Melbourne, 28th-30th July, 1965. Med. 8vo; pp. [iv], viii, 200; portrait as frontispiece, 1287 lots, index; price list loosely inserted; original quarter cloth & thin printed boards; entirely uncut; (a little toning of paper); a fine copy. Melbourne; Gaston Renard; 1965. ***Universally recognised (and widely quoted) as the finest and most informative Catalogue of a book sale in Australia and a sought-after work of reference. The Catalogue was reviewed in several overseas journals incuding the “Times Literary Supplement” and “Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes”, Paris. This is one of 25 presentation copies printed on hand-made paper, in the original printer’s binding. It was intended for it to be numbered, signed and rebound in leather, but this never occurred for this copy which is in its original unaltered state, as issued. #22385 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 16 Archibald, E. H. H. THE FIGHTING SHIP IN THE ROYAL NAVY AD 897-1984. Illustrated by Ray Woodward. Roy. 4to, Revised Edition, Second Impression (with minor revisions); pp. [viii], 416; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, 8 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Poole, Dorset; Blandford Press; (1987). ***Originally published in two separate volumes in 1968 and 1971. #27724 A$60.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019 17 Dickie, Iain; Dougherty, Martin J.; Jestice, Phyllis J.; Jorgenson, Christer; Rice, Rob S. FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF NAVAL WARFARE 1190 BC - PRESENT. Strategy, Weapons, Commanders and Ships. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 256; numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations & maps, bibliography, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Amber; (2009).
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