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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). #27759 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

18 Pollard, Alfred W. FINE BOOKS. With a new Introduction by Michael Pearce. Super roy. 8vo, Facsimile Edition; pp. (x), xvi, 332, [4] (blank); 40 plates, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire); EP Publishing Limited; 1973. ***First published in 1912. #37880 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

19 Eckener, Dr. Hugo. THE FIRST AIRSHIP FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD. Dr. Hugo Eckener Tells of an Epochal Geographic Achievement upon the Occasion of the Bestowal of the National Geographic Society’s Special Gold Medal. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 653- 688; 37 illustrations; contained in the National Geographic Magazine, June, 1930; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1930. #21687 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

20 Berndt, Ronald M. and Berndt, Catherine H. THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS. Third Edition (revised & enlarged); pp. 152; map, 36 coloured & 8 b/w. plates containing 85 illustrations, a few text illustrations; notes, bibliography; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney; Ure Smith; (1974). #67818 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

21 Paul, Lorraine. FIR ST L ADY. The story of “HMS Lady Nelson”. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 112(last blank); 4 maps, several illustrations, references, 5 appendices; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Newtown, Vic.); Neptune Press; (1982). ***Signed by the Author. #15719 A$85.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

22 Borchgrevink, C. E.; Commander of the Expedition. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. First Edition; pp. xvi, 336(last 3 blank), 32(adv); 3 folding tinted maps, 19 full-page plates (including photogravure portrait frontispiece), 178 photos. in text, appendices, index; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board, with fine gilt illustration of the Author standing on the Antarctic on spine, and superb gilt and silver illustration on front board; top edge gilt, others uncut; (spine ends & joints a little worn); a very good, generally clean copy; very scarce. London; George Newnes, Limited; 1901. ***Spence 151; Renard 152; Rosove 45.A1. Inscribed on half-title to John Cumpston (Antarctic historian) from Carl Straubel, 1952. #11215 A$2200.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

23 Borchgrevink, C. E. FIRST ON THE ANTARCTIC CON­ TINENT: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. By C. E. Borchgrevink, F.R.G.S. Commander of the Expedition. With a new introduction by Tore Gjelsvik, Director, Norwegian Polar Institute. With Portraits, Maps and 186 Illustrations. Facsimile Edition; pp. xvi, viii(Introduction, last blank), 334(last blank); frontispiece, 3 folding maps & 1 text map, 197 illustrations (some full-page); appendices, index; original blue papered boards, lettered in gilt; (spine slightly faded); very good copy; scarce. London; C. Hurst & Company, , Australian National University Press; (1980). ***Renard 155; Rosove 45.B1. #4806 A$275.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

24 Herbert, S. THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF EVOLUTION. Second (Revised) Edition containing ninety illustrations and tables. Second Edition; pp. xii, 348; 90 figures including folding diag., 1 coloured & 2 b/w. plates, bibliography, glossary, index; original cloth; (a few light pencil marks); a very good copy. London; A. & C. Black, Ltd.; 1915. ***First published in 1913, this edition includes additional material which was published too late to be included in the first edition. #66763 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

25 Tindale, Norman B. and Lindsay, H. A. THE FIRST WALKABOUT. Illustrated by Madeleine Boyce. First Edition, Second Impression; pp. xii, 132(last 2 blank); a few illustrations, “Little Dictionary”; original papered boards; a very good copy in defective dustwrapper. Melbourne; Longmans, Green & Co; (1956). ***Winner of the Best Australian Children’s Book of the Year (1955). #67642 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

26 Boys, Robert Douglass. FIRST YEARS AT PORT PHILLIP. Preceded by a Summary of Historical Events from 1768. Small roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 160; index; original cloth (fore- margin darkened & a little bubbled; lacking front endpaper); scarce. Melbourne; Robertson & Mullens Ltd.; 1935. ***With the bookplate of Fred C. Smith, with Aboriginal motifs and artefacts. #25935 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

27 Mellersh, H. E. L. FITZROY OF THE BEAGLE. First U.S. Edition; pp. 308, [2](blank); 2 full-page maps, portrait frontispiece & 8 plates, appendix, bibliographical note, index; original cloth; a nice copy in faded & slightly worn dustwrapper. (U.S.A.); Mason & Lipscomb Publishers; (1968). #15772 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

28 Hough, Richard. THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE. First Edition; pp. 208(last blank); 4 maps, 11 plates, bibliography; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. London; Hamish Hamilton; (1958). ***The Russian fleet in the Russo-Japanese war. #46590 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

29 Meynell, Francis and Simon, Herbert. FLEURON ANTH­ OLOGY. Chosen and with a Retrospectus by Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon. 4to, First Edition; pp. xvi, 360; numerous illustrations (many coloured).; original buckram; a fine copy in laminated dustwrapper; scarce. London; Ernest Benn [and] University of Toronto Press; (1973). #60870 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

30 Byrd, Richard Evelyn. FLIEGER UBER DEM SECHSTEN ERDTEIL. Meine Sudpolexpedition 1928/30. Mit 75 Abbildungen und 2 Karten. First Edition in German; pp. 280; 2 maps (1 double- page), 47 plates, index; original cloth; a very good copy. Leipzig; F. A. Brockhaus; 1931. ***German edition of “Little America”. #8921 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

31 Jackson, Carmault B. [America’s First Manned Venture Into Space]. THE FLIGHT OF FREEDOM 7. [and] THE PILOT’S STORY: A PERSONAL REPORT by Alan B. Shepard. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 416-431, 432-444; numerous coloured illustrations; contained in The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1961; original wrappers. Washington; National Geographic Society; 1961. #16002 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

32 Tunbridge, Dorothy. FLINDERS RANGES DREAMING. 4to, First Edition; pp. xlvi, 178(last blank); numerous maps, & coloured illustrations, notes, sources, index of places & stories and site index; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a nice copy; scarce. Canberra; Aboriginal Studies Press; 1988. #67769 A$120.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

33 Kerner, Dr. A. FLOWERS AND THEIR UNBIDDEN GUESTS. With a Prefatory Letter by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.s. The Translation Revised and Edited by W. Ogle, M.A., M.D. With Illustrations. First Edition; pp. xvi, 164, 32(inserted adv.); 3 tinted litho. plates, 118 illustrations, index; original cloth, gilt, (spine a little worn); a very good copy; scarce. London; C. Kegan Paul & Co.; 1878. ***Freeman 1318. #66299 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

34 Miller, Hugh. FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR or The Asterolepis of Stromness. With Memoir by Louis Agassiz. Eleventh Edition. Cr. 8vo, Eleventh Edition; pp. lxxii, 352, [24](adv.); 67 woodcut illustrations in text; original cloth, gilt; uncut & largely unopened; (a small blank portion torn from head of pp. iii/iv; several small stamps of former owner, but a nice bright copy); scarce. Edinburgh; William P. Nimmo; 1869. ***With prefatory remarks by Mrs. Miller as well as the Memoir of the Author by Agassiz. #65592 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

35 McPherson, John G. FOOTPRINTS ON A FROZEN CONTINENT. 4to, First Edition, U.K. issue; pp. 152; numerous colour & b/w. maps, photographs and other illustrations, index; original white cloth-grained papered boards, lettered in blue on spine and front board; (some soiling); a very good copy in slightly torn dustwrapper. London; Methuen [Sydney & Wellington, Hicks Smith & Sons Ltd.; 1975]. ***Numerous fine illustrations with some emphasis on geological aspects of the Antarctic continent. #48097 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

36 Buchner, Prof. Ludwig. FORCE AND MATTER. Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon. A Popular Exposition. Translated from the Fifteenth German Edition, enlarged and revised by the Author. Reprinted from the fourth English edition. First U.S. Edition; pp. [ii], xiv, 400, [2](adv.), [2](blank); appendix; original cloth, leather title-label on spine; a very good copy. New York; Peter Eckler, Publisher; 1891. ***Including speculations on intelligence, consciousness, etc. #65697 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

37 Smith, Sydney. FORENSIC MEDICINE. A Text-Book for Students and Practitioners. With an introduction by Prof. Harvey Littlejohn. Eighth Edition. 179 illustrations. Eighth Edition, Second Impression; pp. xii, 660; 179 figures (including 2 plates), 4 appendices, index; original cloth; a very good copy. London; J. & A. Churchill; 1945. ***First published in 1925. #65315 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

38 Glass, Bentley; [and others]. FORERUNNERS OF DARWIN: 1745-1859. Edited by Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, William L. Straus, Jr. under the auspices of The Johns Hopkins History of Ideas Club. First Paperback (=Second) Edition; pp. xxii, 472(last blank); 5 plates, 2 figures, index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. Baltimore; The Johns Hopkins Press; 1968. ***First published 1959, this edition contains an additional Preface and Bibliographic Note. #65422 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

39 Brewer, Stella. THE FOREST DWELLERS. Preface by Jane Goodall. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 254, [2](blank); endpaper map, 16 plates, a few illustrations, index; a nice copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Collins; 1978. ***Chimpanzees. #19284 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

40 Maiden, J. H. THE FOREST FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Part LXI. Med. 4to, pp. [ii], 40(last blank); 3 photographic plates and 4 fine delicately drawn and lithographed plates by Margaret Flockton; a very good copy in original wrappers. Sydney; Forest Department of New South Wales; 1917. #67798 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

41 Wilson, John G. THE FORGOTTEN NATURALIST. In Search of Alfred Russel Wallace. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xvi, 264(last blank); 4 coloured maps, 4 coloured & 8 b/w. plates, bibliography, index; original stiff wrappers; a very good copy. (Kew, Victoria); Arcadia (Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd; 2000). ***Signed by the Author. #49237 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

42 Darwin, Charles. THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition, First Issue; pp. [ii], viii, 326, [2](adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth (spine ends slightly worn); uncut; a nice copy; rare. London; John Murray; 1881. ***Freeman 1357. #66839 A$2200.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

43 Darwin, Charles. THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. Thirteenth Thousand. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo, Thirteenth Thousand; pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2] (blank); 15 text illustrations, index; uncut in the original cloth (flecked & a little marked; a few tears neatly repaired); a very good copy; scarce. London; John Murray; 1897. ***Freeman 1381. #66845 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

44 Darwin, Charles. THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOULD through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. By Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. Thirteenth Thousand. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 298, [2](adv., verso blank); 15 illustrations on 10 plates, index; original cloth (slightly marked; some foxing); spine and front board lettered in black; a nice copy in slightly defective dustwrapper. London; John Murray; 1904. ***Freeman 1389. The reference on title-page to Thirteenth Thousand is clearly incorrect unless the earlier issue of 1897 was of fewer than 1000 copies. This edition is entirely reset, with the text figures transferred to separate plates and was issued in at least two binding styles, one with spine lettered in gilt, the other in black, as here. The dustwrapper is very rarely seen. #66849 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

45 Ucko, Peter J.; Edited by. FORM IN INDIGENOUS ART. Schematisation in the art of Aboriginal Australia and prehistoric Europe. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], 486, [2](blank); maps, numerous plates & other illustrations (many coloured); references, name index, place index, subject index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. Canberra; Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1977. ***A work of major importance. #5790 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

46 Early Printing: FORMULARIUM TERMINORUM SEU REGISTRORUM SECUNDUM STILUM ROM. CUR. Cum Bullis Facultatum R.P.D. Rotae, & Camerae Apostolicae Auditorum. Nec non Additionibus. D. Antonij Sacromori in Ro. Cur. Causarum procuratoris & aliorum. Nunc recens mendis quam plurimis purgatum, & summa diligentia impressum. Cum Licentia Superiorum. Romae, Ex Officina Accoltiana. M. D. LXXXI. 8vo; pp. [xiv], 224(last colophon); attractive woodcut illust. on title-page (repeated on colophon), printed marginal notes throughout; disbound, but sewing intact, but for first section; some minor worming of inner margin of first few leaves neatly restored at an early date; some mild marginal staining and the occasional spot; a very good generally clean copy. Rome; Officina Accoltiana; 1581. #24650 A$110.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

47 Whitehead, P. J. P. FORTY DRAWINGS OF FISHES made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voyages to the Pacific, 1768-71, 1771-75, 1776-80, some being used by Authors in the Description of New Species. Text by P. J. P. Whitehead. Demy folio, First Edition; pp. xxviii(Introductory text, references, etc.), [72], xxix-xxxii(index of scientific names); frontispiece of 7 portraits (Cook, Banks, Solander, Sydney Parkinson, J. R. & Georg Forster and John Webber), facsimiles of signatures, etc., 27 coloured & 9 b/w. plates illustrating 40 drawings, index of scientific names; original buckram, gilt; a fine copy in worn & soiled dustwrapper; scarce. London; The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History); 1968. ***Only 750 copies were printed. A few of the drawings are by FORSTER, BUCHAN and SPORING, but the great bulk of them are by SYDNEY PARKINSON, the draughtsman who died at Batavia on the return of the “Endeavour” (First) Voyage. A most attractive publication, finely printed, with striking typography to complement the fine illustrations. [Beddie 553]. #5985 A$500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

48 Dawson, J. W. FOSSIL MEN AND THEIR MODERN REPRESENTATIVES. An Attempt to Illustrate the Characters and Condition of Pre-Historic Men in Europe, by those of the American Races. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo, Third Edition; pp. [iv], viii, 354, [2](adv.); frontispiece, 43 figures, appendix, index; original cloth (flecked); uncut; (a couple of stamps on half-title only); a very good copy; scarce. London; Hodder and Stoughton; MDCCCLXXXVIII [1888]. #65909 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

49 Stirling, E. C. and Zietz, A. H. C. FOSSIL REMAINS OF LAKE CALLABONNA. Part II. 1. Genyornis newtoni. A New Genus and Species of Fossil Struthious Bird [By Stirling and Zietz]. 2. The Physical Features of Lake Callabonna [by Stirling]. Part III. Description of the Vertebrae of Genyornis newtoni [by Stirling and Zietz]. Part IV. 1. Description of Some Further Remains of Genyornis newtoni, Stirling and Zietz. 2. On the Identity of Phascolomys (Phascolonus) gigas, Owen, and Sceparnodon ramsayi, Owen; with a Description of Some of its Remains [by Stirling]. 3 Parts, 4to, First Editions; Part II, pp. [iv], [41]-80, XVI(last blank); 7 plates (3 folding) each with facing leaf of descriptive text; (title-page creased); Part III, pp. [ii], [81]- 110; 11 plates each with facing leaf of descriptive text; (front wrapper torn); Part IV, pp. [vi], [111]-178; 23 plates each with facing leaf of descriptive text; original wrappers; but for the slight imperfections noted above, fine copies; very scarce. Adelaide; W. C. Rigby; 1900- 1905-1913. ***Memoirs of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. I, Parts II, III and IV. #62582 A$250.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

50 Tattersall, Ian. THE FOSSIL TRAIL. How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 276; endpaper chart, numerous illustrations, bibliography, index; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Oxford University Press; 1995. #47202 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

51 Darwin, Charles. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Edited by his son Francis Darwin, Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909. First Edition; pp. [ii], xxx, 264(last blank); portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, 1 plate, index; original buckram with bevelled boards (lightly rubbed; spine a little darkened with slight wear to ends); top edge gilt, others uncut (a little foxing of edges); a nice copy; very rare. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1909. ***Freeman 1556. With 19-page introduction by Francis Darwin. An attractively produced, and very important book, the first publication of the two essays, the first of which was only discovered in manuscript in 1896: these form the first detailed expression of Darwin’s ideas on evolution. #66500 A$4500.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

52 Morison, Stanley. FOUR CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTING. Two Hundred and Seventy-two Examples of the Work of Presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. 8vo, Second (revised) Edition; pp. 342, [2](blank); 272 plates (included in pagination), index; original cloth (a little marked); a very good copy; scarce. London; Ernest Benn Limited; (1949). ***First published in a limited folio edition of 400 copies in 1924. #37648 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

53 Edwards, Captain Kenneth; Anderson, Roderick; Cookson, Richard. Anatomy of the Ship. THE FOUR-MASTED BARQUE LAWHILL. Oblong 4to, First Edition; pp. 128; very numerous photos. & detailed drawings, extensive appendices, select bibliography; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (London); Conway Maritime Press; (1996). ***“A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs and drawings, accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and modelmakers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered”. #23990 A$75.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

54 Mackaness, George; Editor. FOURTEEN JOURNEYS OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1813- 1841. Med. 8vo, First Collected Edition; pp. [xii], 276(last 3 blank); 8 plates, 4 text illustrations, notes and references to each chapter, index; original cloth; a nice copy in slightly marked dustwrapper. Sydney; Horwitz-Grahame; 1965. ***Originally published separately in a series of limited edition monographs. One of the accounts is that of Charles Darwin’s crossing when he visited Australia on the “Beagle” voyage; and accounts of the early explorers, Blaxland, Evans, Macquarie, Barron Field and several others are included. #14875 A$75.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

55 Tyndall, John. FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews. U.S. Edition; pp. xxxii, [7]-422, [6](adv.); several figs.; original cloth (spine ends a little worn; front endpaper stuck down); [with] IBID, A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. Vol. II. Authorized Edition; pp. [viii], 452, [10](adv.); original cloth; a nice copy. [with] NEW FRAGMENTS. Authorized Edition; pp. [viii], 500, [6](adv.); original cloth (a little worn). Together, 3 vols. New York; D Appleton & Co.; 1873-92-92. ***Essays on a variety of topics including the physical sciences, biology, religion, sociology and philosophy. ‘From America the impulse came which induced me to gather these “Fragments” together, and to my friends in the United States I dedicate them.’ - from the Preface. #65703 A$175.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

56 Marchant, Leslie R. FRANCE AUSTRALE. A study of French explorations and attempts to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 384; 8 coloured plates, 72 illusts & maps, 30 appendices, footnotes, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. (Perth; Artlook Books; 1982). #5188 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

57 Ray, Indrani. THE FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE TRADE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. A Collection of Essays by Indrani Ray. Edited with an Introduction by Lakshami Subramanian. First Edition; pp. [ii], xxviii, 256, [2](blank); notes, bibliography; a nice copy in dustwrapper. (New Delhi); Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; (1999). #37478 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

58 Dunmore, John. FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC. I. The Eighteenth Century. Vol. I only (of 2), First Edition; pp. [viii], 356; 13 maps, 2 plates (reproductions of Bougainville’s Charts of his Passage through the Tuamotus and through the Society Islands), bibliography, index; original cloth; (name on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper; scarce. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press; 1965. ***This first volume, complete in itself, contains the great early voyages of the French to the Pacific region, including: Bougainville, De Surville, Marion du Fresne, Kerguelen, La Perouse, D’Entrecasteaux and Marchand. The second volume, on the nineteenth century, was published in 1969. #66164 A$175.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

59 Brown, D[avid] S. FRESHWATER SNAILS OF AFRICA AND THEIR MEDICAL IMPORTANCE. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 488(last blank); 152 figures & maps, references, appendix, taxonomic index, subject index; original papered boards; a nice copy in dustwrapper; scarce. London; Taylor & Francis Ltd; 1980. #26484 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

60 McKellar, N. L. FROM DERBY ROUND TO BURKETOWN. The A.U.S.N. Story. Super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. x, 682; numerous illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index of Ships’ Names & general index; original papered boards; a very good copy in very worn dustwrapper. (St. Lucia, ); University of Queensland Press; (1977). ***The Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. #52176 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

61 [Terr y, Michael]. FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS NOR­ TH­ERN AUSTRALIA. Read at the Meeting of the Society, 5 May 1924 [drop title]. Pp. 21-43, with full-page map & 4 plates (with 12 illustrations), contained in the complete Volume LXIV of The Geographical Journal, July to December 1924; med. 8vo; pp. viii, 520; 6 folding & several full-page maps, 78 plates; original cloth, gilt; a fine copy. London; The Royal Geographical Society; 1924. ***Containing also several other notable papers, including: Dr. Lauge Koch on the North of Greenland, with map & 8 plates; Peking to Lhasa, by Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira, with map & 6 plates; Central Spitsbergen and North- East Land, by R. A. Fraser and E. R. Relf, with 2 maps & 6 plates; The Snow Mountains of Yunnan, by F. Kingdon Ward, with map & 2 plates; Through Kufra to Darfur by A. M. Hassanein Bey with map & 16 plates; Through Bhutan and Southern Tibet, by Major F. M. Bailey, with 4 plates & map; The First Crossing of Fiji by Basset Thurston (9 pp.) and The Mount Everest Expedition of 1924 by several authors, with 16 fine plates and folding map. #64886 A$350.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

62 Bridges, Roy. FROM SILVER TO STEEL. The Romance of the Broken Hill Proprietary. Thick cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. 312; 3 folding panoramas & 65 full-page plates, including the unlisted plate of administrative staff in 1920 facing p. 232; original cloth; a very good copy. Melbourne; Geo. Robertson; 1920. #485 A$150.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

63 Darwin, Charles: FROM SO SIMPLE A BEGINNING. The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin. Edited, with Introductions by Edward O. Wilson. Thick med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 432(‘Beagle Voyage’); [433]-760(‘Origin’); [761]-1248(‘Descent’); [1249]- 1478(last blank, ‘Emotions’), [1479-1484](last blank, Afterword), [1484]-1706(footnotes & indices to the four works), [6](blank); several illustrations, index to each work, plus general (modern) index linking to modern biological concepts; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper in original slipcase. New York; W. W. Norton & Company; (2006). ***Comprising The Voyage of the ‘Beagle’ (from the edition of 1845), On the Origin of Species (from the first edition), The Descent of Man (from the first edition), and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (from the first edition). This volume is rather better illustrated and annotated than the generally similar volume edited by James D. Watson and published the previous year, and in addition it is fully indexed. #66552 A$95.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

64 Keain, Maurice B. FROM WHERE THE BROUGHTON FLOWS. A History of the Spalding District. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 214, [2](blank); several maps, numerous illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Spalding and Mount Summit; Published at the request of the District Council of Spalding by Keain Publications; (1976). ***Signed by the author. #38899 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 285 2019

65 Zuckerman, S. FUNCTIONAL AFFINITIES OF MAN, MONKEYS, AND APES. A Study of the Bearings of Physiology and Behaviour on the Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Lemurs, Monkeys, Apes and Man. First Edition; pp. [ii], xviii, 204(last blank); 24 illustrations on 12 plates, 11 tables (1 double-page), bibliography, subject index and index to bibliography; original cloth; (some foxing); a very good copy; scarce. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.; 1933. ***One of the great classics on the subject and an interesting contribution to the problems of establishing phyletic relationships between humans and other primates. Solly Zuckerman went on to study the idiocies of nuclear war. #22789 A$75.00 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, www.GastonRenard.com Website: www.GastonRenard.com.au Victoria, 3079, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS:

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