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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 326 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 FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. Change is inevitable, however the changes we have seen in our society in the last few years have been remarkable. Payment is due on receipt of books. The institutions we have trusted for many decades have been shown No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. to have feet of clay. Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. In particular the churches and the banks are champions in the decline of morals and ethics. The churches, supposedly bastions of moral authority based on their high Christian ideals, have been shown to be wanting. The church hi- CONTENTS erarchy has been shown as being more committed to preserving their reputation than righting the wrongs of their aberrant clergy, who they BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 30 protected at almost any cost while also protecting their considerable AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 31 - 215 financial assets. MISCELLANEOUS 216 - 370 Their moral authority to pontificate over our behaviour has now evapo- rated. Regrettably their actions have also trashed the reputations of the mostly good men and women in their ranks. The banks also have been shown to be ethically wanting. Granting huge loans to people who “Blind Freddy” could have seen would never be Front cover items: able to repay them. And then seizing the assets used to guarantee the loans. All in the interests of profit. 18, 27, 19, 236(2V), 3 / They now deeply apologise but this doesn’t repair the damage done to 30, 10, 12, 8, 11 the many people emotionally or financially ruined by their behaviour. Both the churches and the banks had to be dragged screaming to public enquiries, declaring all the time that the problems were not systemic June 2018 and that they could sort out the problems internally. This was clearly a ruse to avoid the scrutiny that has manifestly revealed their misbehaviour. We live in interesting times! THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH ills. Wrappers sl.rubbed and with a few creases else a good copy. 1st p/b. ed. 1 ALDRICH, Richard J. THE HIDDEN HAND. Britain, America The Museum of Modern Art presented and Cold War Secret Intelligence. Lond. John Murray. 2001. Or.bds. an exhibition of books illustrated by Dustjacket. 733pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. After 1945 Western artists as an art form in itself. From intelligence communities grew to unprecedented size, as the threat of modern artist like Duchamp, Beuys, & future hostilities loomed. Examines the role of intelligence services in Malevich, to Gauguin, Picasso, Chagall influencing politics. $55 & Matisse. $60 2 AMUNDSEN, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE. An account 7 CLUNE, D. GREEN, A. & HOGAN, of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition D. THE ELECTORAL ATLAS OF NEW in the "Fram" 1910-1912. St. Lucia. Uni SOUTH WALES 1856 - 2006. Bathurst. of Queensland Press. 1976. (rep) Or.bds. NSW Dept of Lands. 2006. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 449pp. b/w plates. Very good Dustjacket. 181pp. Profusely illustrated copy. Roald Amundsen & the Norwegian with colour and black & white ills & South Pole expedition were the first to reach maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Bob Carr. A comprehensive the geographic South Pole in December 1911. compendium of 150 years of turbulent politics in NSW. Revealing the Their use of skis & sledge dogs ensured a political history of the state through maps & diagrams, with many trouble free journey. $125 redistribution changes over the decades. $60 3 BEIJING COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL 8 COUPER-SMARTT, John. & COURTNEY, Christine. PORT CHINESE MEDICINE. ESSENTIALS ADELAIDE. Tales from a "Commodious OF CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE. Beijing. Harbour". Port Adelaide. SA Maritime Foreign Languages Press. 1993. (2nd ed.) Museum. 2003. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 459pp. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Profusely illustrated in col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. colour and black & white. Very good copy. Scarce. Colonel Light was sent by the South Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine that was developed some Australian Colonisation Commission in 2,500 years ago. Founded on the discovery that the body's vital energy London to find a 'commodious harbour', & can be redirected to aid in healing the bodily organs. $75 when he sailed into Port Adelaide in 1836, 4 BOLAND, D. J. (et al). FOREST TREES OF AUSTRALIA. he knew he had found it. A Port history. Over 200 of Australia's most important $225 native trees described & illustrated. New 9 CUNNINGHAM, G. MULHAM, Edition. East Melb. Thomas Nelson. 1985. W. & MILTHORPE, P. (et al). PLANTS OF (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 685pp. Name WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES. Syd. on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very Soil Conservation Service NSW. 1981. Thick good copy. A description of the 223 species Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 766pp. (sl foxing) of forest trees that occur naturally in Inscription on half title. Many col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. This Australia. A standard reference book with book is the result of a ten year survey by officers of the Soil Conservation descriptive photographs & distribution Service of NSW. Featuring a breakdown of what plants can grow where, maps covering a diverse range of forests. & why they thrive in some areas, & not $85 others. $80 5 BROWN, A. J. MICHAEL KIRBY. 10 CURLEWIS, Adrian. HISTORY OF Paradoxes / Principles. Leichhardt. The BONDI SURF BATHERS' LIFE SAVING Federation Press. 2011. Or.bds. Dustjacket. CLUB. 1906 - 1956. Bondi. Surf Life Saving 484pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. Association 1956. Or.dec.cloth. 52pp. col 1st ed. Signed by the author. Australian jurist & academic Michael Kirby, & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very served as Justice of the High Court of Australia between 1996 & 2009. He Scarce. Bondi Surf Life Saving Club is now works reporting on human rights abuses for the United Nations. the oldest life saving club in the world. $55 Founded when a group of men got together 6 CASTLEMAN, Riva. A CENTURY OF ARTISTS BOOKS. informally in 1906 to ensure the safety N.Y. The Museum of Modern Art. 1994. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 263pp. Pen of swimmers. The surf reel appeared in mark on half-title & title page. Mark to inside of back cover. col & b/w 1907. $120 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 16 HYLTON, Jane. SOUTH 11 FAINGES, Marjory. CYCLOPS AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED. Colonial TOYS. Through the years. Australia's painting in the Land of Promise. Childhood Icon. Kenthurst. Kangaroo Adelaide. Art Gallery of SA. 2012. Press. 1997. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. Folio. Or.dec.bds. 275pp. a.e.g. Profusely 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and illustrated in colour. Very good copy. black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. 1st ed. A lavish catalogue published to Scarce. The first car produced in Australia accompany the Art Gallery of South wasn't a Holden car, but a Cyclops Australia's exhibition on Australian pedal car. With a staff of four, Cyclops Colonial painting. From the landscapes began making tricycles in Hay Street, of William Westall in the early 1800s to Leichhardt in 1913, & soon expanded their the late 1800s. $60 range. $150 17 JESSOP, John. (Ed). FLORA 12 FLEMING, Ian. CASINO ROYALE. OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. The Introduced by John Banville. Illustrated Australian Systematic Botany Society. by Fay Dalton. Lond. The Folio Society. Syd. Reed Books Pty Ltd. 1985. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 537pp. Col. 2015. Or.cl. 172pp. Col plates. Very good copy. In the slip-case. 1st Folio plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. A guide to the 2000 species of flora Society ed. Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel sees 007 pose as a rich that thrive & survive in the arid centre of Australia. Together with a Jamaican playboy to infiltrate the Russian spy agents of SMERSH in a history of the botanical exploration of the area, & the ecology of the casino in northern France, where he falls in love with a double agent. vast inland. $90 $60 18 JOHNSON, Keith A. & SAINTY, Malcolm R. SYDNEY 13 FRENCH, Alison. SEEING THE BURIAL GROUND 1819-1901. (Elizabeth CENTRE. The Art of Albert Namatjira and Devonshire Streets) and History of 1902 - 1959. Canberra. National Gallery Sydney's Early Cemeteries from 1788. of Aust. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 166pp. Syd. Library of Australian History. 2001. Profusely illustrated in colour and black Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 512pp. b/w & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Born & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. There raised at the Hermannsburg Lutheran was no official burial ground in Sydney Mission outside Alice Springs, Albert until January 1820, when The Sandhills Namatjira showed an early interest in Cemetery was consecrated for use. Many art, & under the tutelage or Rex Batterbee of the bodies were dug up & moved to began to paint seriously in 1932. $75 make way for Central Railway in 1901. 14 GLASS, Philip. WORDS $150 WITHOUT MUSIC. A Memoir. N.Y. 19 KAHNWEILER, Daniel Henry. Liveright Publishing Company. 2015. THE SCULPTURES OF PICASSO. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 416pp. b/w plates. Photographs by Brassai.