ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 339 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 These days it seems that our dealings with other entities, government sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. or private, are increasingly transacted on-line. Payment is due on receipt of books. For ordering products, renewing insurance policies or car registration, No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. sending data to government bodies, submitting an application to at- tend an event or undertake a course, booking a restaurant or for many Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. other things, the preferred method will be on-line. You may eventually get to talk to someone if you have a problem but they’re always reluctant to do so and you may have a long wait to be CONTENTS connected, and once connected you may then be talking to someone in a call centre whose grasp of English is less than perfect or whose BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 30 accent makes them difficult to understand. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 31 - 60 We are constantly inundated with emails trying to lure us into AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 61 - 211 clicking on links that will introduce some kind of malware in to our MISCELLANEOUS 212 - 393 computers. I receive many during a typical week, but most are not difficult to spot. Just this morning I received an email, purportedly from my bank, which addressed me as “Dear Customer Peter”. There is no way my bank would use such a greeting so I had no need to read Front cover items: further before deleting the email. 4(2V), 7, 5, 8, 16, 161/ It’s not just emails either. Your devices could be hacked silently with- 367, 30, 25, 3, -, 352, 252 out your knowing if your connection is compromised. All this on-line activity means we need to be sure that our internet connections are October 2019 secure and protected against malware. This will become increasingly important, particularly when all sorts Follow us on Instagram @theantiquebookshop of office and household devices become connected and join the so-called ISSN 2209-850x Internet Of Things. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH corners else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. $195 1 ATTREE, H.R. ATTREE’S TOPOGRAPHY OF BRIGHTON: 7 BULL, Rene (Illustrator) RUBAIYAT OF And Picture of the Roads, from thence to the Metropolis. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rendered into English Brighton. H.R.Atree. 1809. Or.cloth-backed boards. verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated in viii,80,96,1pp. uncut. Two engraved plates, one large colour and line by Rene Bull. Lond. Hodder folding plan of Brighton and a smaller coloured folding & Stoughton. n.d. (1913) Folio. Original map showing the roads to London. The boards worn and decorated pictorial cloth. unpag. 10 tipped-in some foxing else a good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $195 colour plates, 18 paste-down colour plates and 2 BERAN, Harry. & CRAIG, Barry. (Ed). SHIELDS many b/w ills. Sl. foxing else a very good copy. OF MELANESIA. Photography: Cameron Bloom. 1st ed. thus. Scarce. $395 Drawings: Doug Field. Syd. Oceanic Art Society. 2005. 8 CARY, John. CARY’S NEW AND 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 287pp. Profusely illustrated CORRECT ENGLISH ATLAS: Being a New in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys. Shields of Melanesia is the first comprehensive book to Lond. Printed for John Cary, 1787. Folio. illustrate the more than 100 types of shields used from Quarter leather, rebacked in buckram with all cultural areas of Melanesia, & why fighting marbled paper sides. Brass clasps. Engraved shields were only confined to Melanesia. $175 title, engraved dedication and 46 engraved 3 BEWICK, Thomas & John. SELECT maps on 47 sheets, all dated Sept 1st 1787 and FABLES: With cuts, designed and engraved with partial hand colouring. Descriptive text by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, opposite each map. The first edition of the previous to the Year 1784. Together with a earliest atlas produced by Cary, who may be Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the ranked with Saxton and Ogilby. Sir George Works of Messrs. Bewick. Newcastle. Printed Fordham claimed him to be the founder of by S.Hodgson. 1820. Quarter calf & marbled the modern English school of cartography. boards. xl.332pp. Profusely illustrated with With the list of subscribers and the 17pp. list portraits and numerous woodcuts. Very good of Principal Ports &c. $2,450 copy. 1st ed. $390 9 CHENEVIERE, Antoine. RUSSIAN 4 BOLTON, Arthur T. THE ARCHITECTURE FURNITURE. The Golden Age 1780 - 1840. OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM. 1758 - 1794. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1988. Folio. Suffolk. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1984. (rep) 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 312pp. Profusely illustrated Or.cl. Dustjacket. 344pp., 361pp. + 92pp. appendix. (sl in colour and black & white. Very good copy. foxing) to top & foredge. Dustjacket lightly faded at Soon after her arrival in Russia in 1744, the spine. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good future Catherine the Great lamented the set. Robert & James Adam were Scottish neoclassical scarcity of furniture in the imperial palaces. architects, interior designers & furniture designer, the Thus began a period of furnishing the palaces of Russia. $85 sons of William Adam, who was Scotland’s foremost 10 HAMPTON, Blanche. THE HISTORY OF THE UNSW SCHOOL architect of the time. A look at their work. $195 OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 1949 - 2009. Syd. University of NSW. 5 BORLASE, James Skipp. BLUE CAP THE 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 311pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black BUSHRANGER. Or the Australian Dick Turpin. & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The University Illustrated. Lond. Hogarth House. n.d. (c.1885) Bound of NSW was established in 1949, & chemical in cloth with the original colour-illustrated wrappers engineering was one of the founding disciplines. preserved. 104pp. b/w woodcut ills. Sl.chipping to cloth else a very good Led by Professor Philip Baxter, it recruited staff copy. Very Scarce. $395 from the industry for hands on experience. $80 6 BRMEISTER, Hermann. THE ORGANIZATION OF 11 HEATH ROBINSON, W. RAILWAY TRILOBITES, Deduced from the living affinities. With a Systematic RIBALDRY. Lond. Great Western Railway. Review of the Species hitherto described. Edited from the German by 1935. 4to. Or.wrapps. with Heath Robinson Professor Bell, F.R.S. and Professor E.Forbes, F.R.S. Lond. Printed for the Illustration. Filled with humorous b/w cartoons Ray Society. 1846. Large folio. Or.cloth-backed boards. xi,136pp. plus 6 and illustrations in the inimitable Heath engraved plates. (sl foxing) The boards bumped and a little worn on the Robinson style. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $195 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 12 HEERY, Gary. SELECTED WORKS 1976-2013. Foreword by 17 KER, Annie. PAPUAN FAIRY TALES. Lond. Macmillan & Edmund Capon. Syd. Gary Heery. n.d. (2013?) Large folio. Or.cl. 336pp. Co. 1910. Or.cl. xi,149pp. 13 b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Profusely illustrated with many of Heery’s colour and black & white $150 photographs. Very good copy. 1st ed. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies 18 LEECH, John. TOPSY-TURVY Or Our Antipodes. Lond. signed by the photographer. $90 c.1860’s Hand-coloured engraving 13 HINDER, Frank. LITHOGRAPHS. With an Introduction of a comical scene on the Australian by John Henshaw. Researched and Edited goldfields. 25x17cm. Mounted. by Lin Bloomfield. With Frank Hinder Overall dimensions 37x31cm. $225 Ephemera. North Sydney. Odana Editions 19 MULLINS, Patricia. THE Ltd. 1978. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 156pp. ROCKING HORSE. A history of Marks to cloth at top edge. Dustjacket moving toy horses. Including An with cellophane coming loose at top edge. International Survey of Rocking Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very Horse Manufacture by Marguerite good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist. Frank Fawdry. Lond. New Cavendish Hinder was seconded into the Camouflage Books. 1992. Oblong folio. Or.bds. Wing of the Royal Australian Engineers Dustjacket. 376pp., 48pp. (sl foxing) during WWII, designing camouflage to Profusely illustrated in colour and outwit enemy aircraft. After the war he black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. taught art at the East Sydney Tech. $120 In the slip-case. The Rocking Horse 14 HOCHSTETTER, Dr.Ferdinand von. it was thought was an educational NEW ZEALAND. Its Physical Geography, toy, used to teach children to ride, Geology and Natural History with special which may have been so until the reference to the results of Government 19th century, when it became just Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland another toy animal. A rocking horse and Nelson. Stuttgart. J.G.Cotta. 1867. history. $125 Folio. Or.dec.cl. with gilt scene on front 20 NICHOLSON, William board. xvi,515pp. 7 coloured engravings, 10 (Illustrator) AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE woodcuts and many wood engravings in the SPORTS. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Lond. text. Two large folding maps. Some of the Heinemann. 1898. Folio. Original cloth- colour plates are a little browned. The cloth backed illustrated boards. Twelve colour is worn at the extremities else a good copy. plates by William Nicholson, each with 1st ed.