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CATALOGUE 354 the Antique Bookshop & Curios ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 354 The Antique Bookshop & Curios 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 All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. I recently inspected Australia’s oldest extant headstone as part of a valuation project. It was the headstone of George Graves, a Bosun’s Mate who sailed in Payment is due on receipt of books. the Sirius with the First Fleet in 1788 and died the same year. Buried in The No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. Rocks area in a long-gone burial site, the 1788 stone miraculously survived. In researching this I did some reading about The Rocks area of Sydney. There was an outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney in the early 1900’s, and to quote Troy Douglas from a 2010 article “When an outbreak of the bubonic CONTENTS plague hit in the early 1900s it became a “catalyst for a program of urban renewal PROFESSOR R.IAN JACK LIBRARY 1 - 94 in The Rocks and Millers Point area”. The Government at the time used fear to BOOKS OF THE MONTH 95 - 111 confirm long-held perceptions that The Rocks was dirty and overcrowded. Despite BOOKS WITH SIGNATURES 112 - 148 only three of the 103 plague-related deaths traced to the area, more than 3800 houses, AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS 149 - 196 buildings and wharves were subsequently inspected and hundreds demolished over ABORIGINAL ART & CULTURE 197 - 217 the next decade.” AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 218 - 338 Sound familiar? Whole state borders have been shut down, destroying MISCELLANEOUS 339 - 416 thousands of businesses and livelihoods, on the basis of a handful of COVID cases because of fear created by their governments. Whole populations fearing that they’ll drop dead if they don’t succumb to their government’s Front cover items: heavy-handed controls. And their citizens approve? Is this a case of the Stockholm Syndrome at work as a lawyer client of mine suggested? 103, 104 (9 VOLS ), 109 / Lionel Lindsay made drawings and etchings of old buildings in The Rocks 168, 232, 111, 197, 102, 180 area as a record before they were demolished, but even the greatest of artists couldn’t record the recent depredations. All credit to “our Glad” who has handled the COVID situation with remark- March 2021 able perception and aplomb, to the benefit of NSW. ISSN 2209-850x THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS FROM THE IAN JACK COLLECTION 10 BLAIR, Margaret. FROM BULLOCKS TO BYPASS. A local history of the NSW south coast 1 ADAMS, Jan & NEALE, Marg. CHRISTMAS ISLAND. THE village of Tomerong. Tomerong. The Author. EARLY YEARS. Historic photographs with man untold tales from the 2000. Ill.wrapps. 224pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. early years of Christmas Island - an isolated island in the Indian Ocean. $40 Chapman, ACT. Bruce Neale. 1993. Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 11 BOLDREWOOD, Rolf. S.W. Silver & Co’s 1st ed. $22 AUSTRALIAN GRAZIER’S GUIDE. I. Sheep & 2 ALEXANDER, G. & WILLIAMS, O.B. (Eds.) THE PASTORAL II. Cattle. Ed. by J.S.Ryan. Armidale. UNE. 1994. INDUSTRIES OF AUSTRALIA. Practice and Technology of Sheep (reprint) Ill.wrapps. 278pp. A few b/w ills. Very and Cattle Production. Sydney University Press. 1979. (reprint with good copy. Signed by the Editor. $30 corrections) Ill.wrapps. 567pp. b/w ills. Good copy. $30 12 BOWEN, Lionel Frost. EARLY COOGEE 3 ANDREWS, Dr.Arthur. THE HISTORY OF ALBURY 1824- AND RANDWICK. Evidence from the St Jude’s 1895. Reprint edition. Albury District Historical Case 1861-1862. Randwick & District Historical Soc. 1998. Foolscap Folio. Soc. 1988. Ill.wrapps. 94pp. b/w ills. Fine. First wrapps. 58pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Much of Randwick historical published in 1912, this reprint edition is limited interest revealed in a legal dispute concerning the construction of to 1,000 numbered copies. $45 St.Jude’s Church. $30 4 ANTILL, R.G. SETTLEMENT IN THE 13 BRENNAN, R.M. ACROSS THE BLACK SOIL PLAINS. SOUTH. A record of the discovery, exploration A History of Warren and District. Warren. Warren Shire Council. 1975. and settlement of the Shoalhaven River Basin, Roy.8vo. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 176pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st 1803-1982. Kiama. The Author. 1982. 4to. Or.bds. ed. $45 Dustjacket. 374pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st 14 BRIGGS-SMITH, Noeline. MOREE MOB. VOLUME ed. $35 TWO. BURRUL WALLAAY (BIG CAMP). 5 ASHTON, Paul et al. PAINTING THE Moree. North Region Lib & Info.Serv 2003. ROCKS. The Loss of Old Sydney. Introduction by Foolscap folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 368pp. Profusely Grace Karskens. Syd. HHT. 2010. 4to. Col.ill.bds. illustrated with b/w photographic ills. Fine. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & 1st ed. Scarce. Aboriginal people were largely white. Fine. 1st ed. $80 excluded from the community in Moree. The 6 AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL author’s main focus in the book is to document ARCHAEOLOGY. MASTER SET OF THE the restrictions placed on Aboriginal people in NEWSLETTERS. From the Introductory Issue the community of Moree and the Aboriginal November 1970 to Vol.7. No.2. 1977. Syd. The Reserve. $150 Society 1970-1977. Foolscap folio & 4to. Each issue 15 BROWN, Andrew. THE DIARY 1838-1894. roneoed & stapled. Some with b/w ills. A good set. Typescript manuscript. Four vols. n.p. n.d. 4to. Scarce. The collection $150 Plain wrappers. 199,unpag,161,147pp. (Vol.2. 7 BAYLEY, William A. DOWN THE LACHLAN unpaginated) Carbon typescript, at times a little blurred. Unique as it YEARS AGO. History of Condobolin, New South appears to have been unpublished. Ms note by Ian Jack on the verso of Wales. Syd. Condobolin Municipal Council. 1965. the front wrapper. Brown was born in Perthshire in 1797, arriving in Or.cl. Dustjacket. 166pp. b/w plates. Stamp on ffe, Australia in October 1823. He acted as Station Manager for the late else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. $30 James Walker of Wallerawang. He commenced as a grazier after receiving a grant of 200 acres from the Government in 1824, though he still acted 8 BAYLEY, William A. RICH EARTH. History as Manager for Mr.Walker. $200 of Young and the Shire of Burrangong, New South Wales. Young. Young Municipal Council. 16 BROWN, Jill. THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. Postcards 1956. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 186pp. Dj a little rubbed 1899-1955 and Photographs. Syd. The Author. 2015. Folio. Or,Col.ill.bds. & chipped. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Home to the National 141pp. Profusely illustrated. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed to Ian Jack by the Cherry Festival, Young is named after Sir John Young, the governor of compiler. $45 NSW from 1861 to 1867. James White was the first European settler, 17 BURKE, Keast. GOLD AND SILVER. An Album of Hill establishing Burangong Station in 1826. $30 End & Gulgong Photographs from the Holtermann Collection. Melb. 9 BIRMINGHAM, Judy LISTON, Carol. OLD SYDNEY Heinemann. 1973. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 265pp. Numerous b/w BURIAL GROUND 1974. Syd. Studies in Hist Archaeology. 1976. Ill. photographic plates & ills. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. wrapps. 40pp. plus plates & illustrations. Very good copy. 1st ed. $30 The story of an extraordinary photographic archive. $65 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 18 BUTTREY, Ron. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF a very good copy. 1st ed. The de-luxe edition with silk endpapers and gilt GREGORY BLAXLAND. Eastwood. Brush Farm Hist Society. 2006. 4to. dentelles. Very Scarce. Inserted is a handwritten note from information Col.Ill.wrapps. 72pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. It was Gregory by C.H.Bertie saying that this copy was specially prepared by G.Cox Blaxland’s friend Joseph Banks who influenced his decision to take free MLC, for his wife Henrietta Jane Cox. $300 passage to Australia in 1806. Blaxland initiated & co-lead the first 26 CRAWFORD, J.G. et al. WARTIME AGRICULTURE IN successful crossing of the Blue Mountains. $28 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 1939-50. Stanford (CA) Stanford 19 CAMPBELL, T. W. GEORGE RICHARD DIBBS. Politician, Uni Press. 1954. Or.cl. xiii,354pp. b/w ills. A very good ex-library copy Premier, Patriot, Paradox. The life and times of with a few cancelled stamps. 1st ed. Scarce. $35 Sir George Richard Dibbs. Three times Premier of 27 CRITTENDEN, Victor. THE ATLAS. INDEX. Sydney Weekly New South Wales in the years before federation. Journal of Politics, Commerce and Literature. Canberra. Mulini Press. Braddon. T. W. Campbell. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 2006. Foolscap folio. wrapps. 389pp. 1st ed. A most useful reference. 355pp. Sl.rubbing to corners. Very good copy. $60 1st ed. George Richard Dibbs was three times 28 CRUNDWELL, Robert, et al. FROM PARCHMENTS TO the Premier of NSW from 1885 to 1894, he was PASSWORDS. A History of the Land Titles Office of New South Wales. opposed to Australian Federation, & led the Anti- Syd. Hale & Iremonger. 1995. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 147pp. b/w ills. Federation movement during the late 1890s. $45 Stamp on ffe else Fine. 1st ed. Land titles in NSW ultimately derive from 20 (CAPE YORK HARBOUR WORKS) Governor Phillips’s formal appropriation of eastern Australia in 1788, REPORT TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF with the disposal & division of Crown land moving from free grants to EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE PROPOSED land sales.
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