ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 290 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 290 sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. I read the following report in The West Australian only an hour before I sat Payment is due on receipt of books. down to write this foreword: No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. “One of the international art world’s most intriguing mysteries ended last night when Kerry Stokes outed himself as the mystery buyer of one of the Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. most expensive books ever sold. The fate of the legendary Rothschild Prayerbook - sold at Christie’s in New York eight months ago for $15.5 million - has baffled art collectors. CONTENTS The 500-year-old book of prayers is the most expensive illuminated BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 27 manuscript in history and considered one of the most important books in BLIGH & THE BOUNTY 28 - 45 existence. AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 46 - 317 Its purchase by an anonymous bidder in a tense auction in New York in January made international headlines. AVIATION 318 - 352 While most believed the book had been snapped up by a European collector, ORNITHOLOGY 353 - 372 it was secretly bought by Mr Stokes and shipped to Perth.” MISCELLANEOUS 373 - 595 What a splendid example Kerry Stokes sets for other wealthy Australians! He regards it as the most important piece in his private art collection and he Front cover items: will share it with the Australian people by exhibiting it in various cultural 41, 39, 40, 38, 29/ venues throughout Australia. 4(2v), 26, 369 / 3, 27, 7 Former National Gallery of Victoria director Gerard Vaughan said the Prayer Book was possibly the most important piece of art to come to Australia. Back cover items: Let us hope that other well-heeled Australians follow Stokes’s example. 469, 14, 17, 201, 496, 493, 349 / 156, 332, 498, 356(3v), 168/ In another record, Action Comics #1 – the comic book that introduced the 387, 529, 230, 462, 147, 285 / 567, 565, 63, 57, 275, 71 world to Superman sold for US$3.2m on eBay. It is the most expensive comic ever sold and surely October 2014 the most expensive item ever sold on eBay. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH 8 GRAEME-EVANS, Alex; WILSON, Peter. BUILT TO LAST. The Story of the Shipwrights of Port Cygnet, 1 BAIL, Murray. EUCALYPTUS: A NOVEL. N.Y. Farrar, Straus Tasmania, and their Boats 1863-1997. & Giroux. 1998. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 255pp. Sl. foxing else Fine copy. Woodbridge. Tasbook Publishers. 1996. Inscribed by author on title page. 1st US ed. A sweeping novel set against (2nd ed.) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 131pp. b/w a backdrop of Eucalyptus trees. $75 ills. Fine copy. Scarce. Studies an important 2 THE BOOK OF FAMILY CRESTS. Comprising nearly every part of the wooden boatbuilding heritage of family bearing properly blazoned and explained, Tasmania. $90 accompanied with 4,000 engravings, illustrative 9 HAESE, Richard. REBELS & of the crests of a hundred thousand families of PRECURSORS. The Revolutionary Years of England, Wales, Scotland, the Colonies.. with Australian Art. Melb. Allen Lane. 1982. (2nd the surnames of the Bearers alphabetically imp) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 324pp. Many arranged. 2 vols. Lond. Henry Washbourne. col. & b/w. ills. Fine. Signed by Richard 1838. Sm.8vo. Or.cl. blind stamped and with Haese, Barrett Reid and Max Harris. $85 gilt stamped spines and front boards. Vol.1. viii,516,ivpp. Vol.2. 64pp. plus 107 engraved 10 THE HOME. ANZAC NUMBER. Vol.9. plates each showing many crests. Some repair to No.4. Syd. Art in Australia. April 2, 1928. the bindings and a little foxing else a Good set. Oblong Folio. Or.wrapps. with colour ill. from a painting by Georger 1st ed. Volume 2 contains, as well as the crests, W.Lambert. 96pp. col & b/w ills. Spine sl.chipped & small piece torn an essay on the origin of crests and some useful from corner of back wrapper else a Very good copy. Scarce. $90 indexes. Scarce. $350 11 JURGEN, Dan. (et al.) THE DEATH AND RETURN OF 3 COE, John J. IN THE LEFT-HAND SEAT. A Sporting Biography SUPERMAN OMNIBUS. N.Y. DC Comics. 2013. Thick 8vo. Col.ill. of The Hon. John Dawson-Damer. Syd. Turton & Armstrong. c.2002. bds. Dustjacket. 1040pp. Profusely illustrated Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 148pp. b/w ills. Fine copy. Very Scarce. in colour. Fine copy. A collection of Superman Inscribed by Ashley Dawson-Damer, John's wife. The pictorial biography comics dealing with his death and return in the of the former champion Australian rally navigator. $175 DC universe. $65 4 DEBRETT, John. THE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED 12 KRECZMANSKI, Janusz B. & KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. In two volumes. The BIRNBERG, Margo. ABORIGINAL ARTISTS. fourteenth edition, considerably improved. Lond. Printed by G.Woodfall. DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHIES. Western 1822. 12mo. Full tree calf (rebacked) 644,828pp. A good set. Scarce. Desert, Central Desert and Kimberley Region. $295 Marleston (SA) JB Publishing. 2004. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 446pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. 5 DICKERSON, Jennifer. ROBERT DICKERSON: AGAINST An important reference. $65 THE TIDE. Bris. Pandanus Press. 1994. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 168pp. col & b/w ills. Fine copy. The work of artist Robert 13 KUNKEL, Paul. APPLEDESIGN. The Dickerson, as compiled by his wife. $90 Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group. Photographs by Rick English. N.Y. Graphis 6 EDWARDS, Lionel & WALLACE, Inc. 1997. Folio. Or.dec.wrapps. 288pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in Harold Frank. HUNTING & STALKING colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Particularly Scarce. Many splendid colour THE DEER. The Pursuit of Red, Fallow & photographs illustrating the evolution of the Apple personal computer. Rope Deer in England & Scotland. Lond. Examines the role the creative team has played in the rise of Apple from Longmans. 1930. (rep) 4to. Or.dec.cl. (small a Silicon Valley garage to A billion-dollar corporation. $275 tear at head of spine repaired) 274pp. Col.& b/w plates. uncut. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good 14 MACKANESS, George. BIBLIOMANIA. An Australian Book copy. Very Scarce. A lavish volume on deer Collector's Essays. Syd. A & R. 1965. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 199pp. b/w plates. hunting. $175 Name on verso of ffe & sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Useful and interesting essays on book collecting. $115 7 GOULD, John. A SYNOPSIS OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA & THE ADJACENT ISLANDS. Melb. 15 MONTANA, Andrew. FANTASY MODERN. Loudon Queensberry Hill Press. 1979. 4to. Bound in hf.gilt-decorated green leather Sainthill's Theatre of Art & Life. Syd. NewSouth Publishing. 2013. 8vo. with raised bands on spine. unpag. Profusely illustrated with 73 plates 650pp. b/w ills. Col.plates. Fine copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. A sumptuously of Gould's stunning bird illustrations in full colour. t.e.g. Fine copy. Very illustrated biography of one of Australia's most celebrated international Scarce. Limited edition of 387 copies, of which this is no.360. $495 artists. $90 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] vols are complete in themselves for the States they cover. The pair 16 MORRISON, Sally. AFTER FIRE. A BIOGRAPHY OF $150 CLIFTON PUGH. Melb. Hardie Grant Books. 2009. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 592pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. 23 SINCLAIR, Lister & POLLOCK, Jack. THE ART OF NORVAL Scarce. Brings to life the art of Clifton Pugh, MORRISSEAU. Toronto. Methuen. 1979. Oblong Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. once one of Australia's most prominent and (sl. torn) 200pp. Profusely ill. in b/w and controversial painters. $95 colour. Sl. foxing, else Fine copy. 1st ed. The work of the Canadian artist. Signed 17 MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA. by Jack Pollock on title page. $85 COLOURED PRINTED PORTRAIT OF EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA 24 STUART, John McDouall. MOUNTED WITH HIS SIGNATURE. The FOURTH EXPEDITION JOURNAL signature is handwritten "Mountbatten of MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1860. Adel. Burma" on Supreme Allied Command South Sullivan's Cove. 1983. Bound in full East Asia notepaper. Inset in the mount green morocco. 92pp. uncut. Very Good below the portrait. The whole in a frame copy. Very Scarce. One of 10 specially measuring 51x36cm. With a certificate of bound copies of a limited edition of 220, of which this is no.5. The first authenticity from the original seller. $295 unabridged publication of Stuart's journal, direct from the manuscript. $395 18 McCORMICK, Tim. FIRST VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA 1788-1825. A History 25 STUDD, Will. CHALK AND CHEESE. Melb. Purple Egg. of Early Sydney. Syd. 1987 4to. Or.cl. d.w. 1999. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. Profusely 340pp. Many col & b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Restricted edition of 2000 illustrated in colour. Fine copy. A comprehensive copies. An important volume which brings together all the known guide to exploring the traditions, stories, and topographic views of Sydney & Parramatta made between the beginnings flavours of cheese in Australia. $75 of settlement and the end of the Governorship of Lachlan Macquarie. 26 WALSH, Grahame L.