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![[JEBB, Joshua.], Report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons on the Construction, Ventilation and Details of Pentonville Prison, 1844.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Jebb10135.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons on the Construction, Ventilation and Details of Pentonville Prison, 1844.
London, HMSO 1844. Large octavo modern cloth backed boards; 30pp and 22 folding plans, elevations and views. Spots and signs of use - a couple of closed tears - to the plates, a rather good copy.
¶ A good account of the planning and construction of Jebb's prison, the model for modern prisons for the rest of the century. Pentonville was planned, built and run as an experimental model; six years later Jebb announced the experiment satisfactorily concluded. The plates range from a large and handsome isometric view of the prison through to details of the cell doors and windows, a hammock, the toilet, the prison's gong ... and a charming large tinted litho view of the main hall.
¶ A good account of the planning and construction of Jebb's prison, the model for modern prisons for the rest of the century. Pentonville was planned, built and run as an experimental model; six years later Jebb announced the experiment satisfactorily concluded. The plates range from a large and handsome isometric view of the prison through to details of the cell doors and windows, a hammock, the toilet, the prison's gong ... and a charming large tinted litho view of the main hall.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10135
AUD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 578.75 US$ 619.26 | £UK 497.25 | JP¥ 95913]
Keywords: social sciences architecture c19th law government prisons convicts history England
Report of the Executive Commissioner on the Melbourne International Exhibition 1880-81.
Sydney, Govt Printer 1881. Largish octavo publisher's morocco; six autotype photo plates and two folding plans. Some foxing, mostly at each end. A handsome copy with John Chapman's bookplate.
¶ An uncommon record from Melbourne's natural enemy but the NSW Commissioner is gracious, given that Sydney had held the first international exhibition the year before. Only in passing does he remark that it's a pity Melbourne is so flat they couldn't find an elevated spot to park their building. He doesn't mention that Melbourne is a follow up to Sydney more than three or four times a page. Included is the catalogue of New South Wales' exhibits and list of jury award winners.
¶ An uncommon record from Melbourne's natural enemy but the NSW Commissioner is gracious, given that Sydney had held the first international exhibition the year before. Only in passing does he remark that it's a pity Melbourne is so flat they couldn't find an elevated spot to park their building. He doesn't mention that Melbourne is a follow up to Sydney more than three or four times a page. Included is the catalogue of New South Wales' exhibits and list of jury award winners.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10852
AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 396 US$ 423.7 | £UK 340.25 | JP¥ 65625]
Keywords: international exhibitions catalogues c19th Australia trades technology material culture applied arts
Report of the Royal Commission for the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition of 1887.
London, HMSO 1888. Foolscap contemporary institutional half cloth and boards; 373pp, three photo plates, large folding plan, a coloured plan and two plain plans and a map.
¶ The report, prospectus, list of awards to British exhibitors (and a summary of the rest), history of the exhibition and much more. Issued in two formats, foolscap and octavo, with identical contents.
¶ The report, prospectus, list of awards to British exhibitors (and a summary of the rest), history of the exhibition and much more. Issued in two formats, foolscap and octavo, with identical contents.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8515
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 243.75 US$ 260.74 | £UK 209.5 | JP¥ 40385]
Keywords: international exhibitions England c19th South Australia catalogue technology material culture
Report of the Royal Commission for the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition of 1887.
London, HMSO 1888. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 373pp, three photo plates, large folding plan, a coloured plan and two plain plans and a map. An excellent copy.
¶ Issued in two formats, foolscap and octavo, with identical contents. The plates and plans in this are double page or folded. The report, prospectus, list of awards to British exhibitors (and a summary of the rest), history of the exhibition and much more.
¶ Issued in two formats, foolscap and octavo, with identical contents. The plates and plans in this are double page or folded. The report, prospectus, list of awards to British exhibitors (and a summary of the rest), history of the exhibition and much more.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8516
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.25 US$ 293.33 | £UK 235.5 | JP¥ 45433]
Keywords: international exhibitions England c19th South Australia catalogue technology material culture
Report of the Royal Commission for the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition of 1888.
London HMSO 1889. Foolscap modern wrapper with printed label; 124pp and large folding plan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8522
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 152.5 US$ 162.96 | £UK 131 | JP¥ 25240]
Keywords: international exhibitions Australia England c19th catalogue technology material culture applied arts
![, [Rikukaigun fukuseizu].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Rikukaigun10652.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Rikukaigun fukuseizu].
Tokyo, Kawai Genzo 1889 (Meiji 22). 18x13cm publisher's boards with title label; [32]pp accordian folded, with colour illustrations throughout. Covers grubby with an ink inscription on the back, some old repairs to folds, marks and smudges inside. A used copy, but.
¶ An appealing little illustrated guide to the uniforms and accoutrements of soldier and sailor. Worldcat finds an 1892 edition in the Diet library but nothing else.
¶ An appealing little illustrated guide to the uniforms and accoutrements of soldier and sailor. Worldcat finds an 1892 edition in the Diet library but nothing else.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10652
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 106.75 US$ 114.07 | £UK 91.75 | JP¥ 17668]
Keywords: applied arts costume fashion military uniforms c19th Japan modernity meiji
Rough Nights' Quarters. By one of the people who have roughed it.
Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas 1866. Octavo disbound; 32pp, title vignette. A mild darker stripe along the front edge where it must have been bound with something smaller.
¶ This is a spluttering response to an expose in the Pall Mall Gazette for which an undercover reporter spent 'A Night in a Workhouse'. There is more to it but I finished this pamphlet with the notion that the upright British homeless are a tougher breed than the milksop reporter and any that weren't just needed a decent public school education followed by a hunting expedition to toughen them up.
¶ This is a spluttering response to an expose in the Pall Mall Gazette for which an undercover reporter spent 'A Night in a Workhouse'. There is more to it but I finished this pamphlet with the notion that the upright British homeless are a tougher breed than the milksop reporter and any that weren't just needed a decent public school education followed by a hunting expedition to toughen them up.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8773
AUD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 42.37 | £UK 34.25 | JP¥ 6562]
Keywords: social sciences c19th England progress reform
![[BRICAIRE DE LA DIXMERIE, Nicolas]., Le Sauvage de Taiti aux Francais; Avec un Envoi au Philosophe Ami des Sauvages.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tahiti9857b.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Le Sauvage de Taiti aux Francais; Avec un Envoi au Philosophe Ami des Sauvages.
London [ie Paris], chez Le Jay 1770. Octavo, bound after two other works - both lightweight bits of French froth - in contemporary marbled calf with alternating green and red labels (a bit rubbed). A pleasing copy.
¶ First edition of this Tahitian incunabulum - the start of Europe's reverie - a series of letters by a Tahitian visitor to Paris. Which means of course that it is a scathing swipe at French society and politics. Paris had been given the once over by a few fictional Persians, Chinese and other exotics but now not only did they have a 'prince' from the just discovered New Eden but he was real: Aotourou, the Tahitian who accompanied Bouganville to Paris with news of paradise on earth. So how could he not pass judgment? Naturally he chose to do so anonymously and not having more than a few words of French relied on a distinguished man of letters to write them down and fill in the gaps. I must make it clear that Dixmerie uses none of the typical set dressing employed by authors of fictional authors; I'm doing that. He starts with an editor's account of Tahiti that draws from the only published account so far - that of the voyage's naturalist, Commercon, whose report had appeared in the journal Mercure de France in November 1769. Dixmerie was, by the way, a regular contributor to and editor of the Mercure. Dixmerie says that he could say much more about Tahiti but their Tahitian visitor wants his book to be read and has noticed that the French don't read big books. Dixmerie's Tahitian stops short of fermenting revolution but he is nonetheless a radical in the manner of many pre-revolutionary troublemakers. His views of women are contradictory, or perhaps confused, but still he advocates equality at all levels. The confusion is understandable. The pre-occupation of the philosophe with the idea of perfect man and that of the rebellious troublemaker with an ideal society not only intersected, they now had the address: Tahiti. The sales rep was in town. Those who met Aotourou, Dixmerie presumably among them, quickly realised he was no Arcadian but for the rest of France, of Europe, here was ideal man, that is: a man surrounded by amenable young women, nothing much else to do and plenty to eat. In other words the aristocracy. A fair minded egalitarian - a rarer breed than you might think - sees the obligation of including women in this equality business but it's hard when you risk losing that bounty of temporary maidens.
¶ First edition of this Tahitian incunabulum - the start of Europe's reverie - a series of letters by a Tahitian visitor to Paris. Which means of course that it is a scathing swipe at French society and politics. Paris had been given the once over by a few fictional Persians, Chinese and other exotics but now not only did they have a 'prince' from the just discovered New Eden but he was real: Aotourou, the Tahitian who accompanied Bouganville to Paris with news of paradise on earth. So how could he not pass judgment? Naturally he chose to do so anonymously and not having more than a few words of French relied on a distinguished man of letters to write them down and fill in the gaps. I must make it clear that Dixmerie uses none of the typical set dressing employed by authors of fictional authors; I'm doing that. He starts with an editor's account of Tahiti that draws from the only published account so far - that of the voyage's naturalist, Commercon, whose report had appeared in the journal Mercure de France in November 1769. Dixmerie was, by the way, a regular contributor to and editor of the Mercure. Dixmerie says that he could say much more about Tahiti but their Tahitian visitor wants his book to be read and has noticed that the French don't read big books. Dixmerie's Tahitian stops short of fermenting revolution but he is nonetheless a radical in the manner of many pre-revolutionary troublemakers. His views of women are contradictory, or perhaps confused, but still he advocates equality at all levels. The confusion is understandable. The pre-occupation of the philosophe with the idea of perfect man and that of the rebellious troublemaker with an ideal society not only intersected, they now had the address: Tahiti. The sales rep was in town. Those who met Aotourou, Dixmerie presumably among them, quickly realised he was no Arcadian but for the rest of France, of Europe, here was ideal man, that is: a man surrounded by amenable young women, nothing much else to do and plenty to eat. In other words the aristocracy. A fair minded egalitarian - a rarer breed than you might think - sees the obligation of including women in this equality business but it's hard when you risk losing that bounty of temporary maidens.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9857
AUD 2850.00 [Appr.: EURO 1735.75 US$ 1857.78 | £UK 1491.5 | JP¥ 287740]
Keywords: literature fiction utopia imaginary voyages travel c18th France Pacific Tahiti
![, [Sekai Hatsumei Hatsuken Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sugoroku10350.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sekai Hatsumei Hatsuken Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shogaku Shinensei Furoku 1929 (Showa 4). Colour broadsheet 54x78cm. A rather good copy.
¶ An inspirational, if odd, game celebrating great inventors. This was the new year gift from Shogaku Shinensei - a magazine for 4th graders. I'm not sure whether you get to be a god or hang out with a god, join his procession.
¶ An inspirational, if odd, game celebrating great inventors. This was the new year gift from Shogaku Shinensei - a magazine for 4th graders. I'm not sure whether you get to be a god or hang out with a god, join his procession.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10350
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 182.75 US$ 195.56 | £UK 157 | JP¥ 30288]
Keywords: sugoroku paper games pastimes illustration c20th Japan modernism graphic art Asia children science progress reform
![[STERNE, Laurence and John Hall STEVENSON]., A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. [and] Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued .. prefixed, some account of the life and writings of Mr Sterne.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sterne7257.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. [and] Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued .. prefixed, some account of the life and writings of Mr Sterne.
London, printed in the year 1769. Octavo contemporary calf (spine top a bit worn, hinge cracking but firm); portrait frontispiece. Some light browning and the odd spot but quite a good copy.
¶ Possibly the first edition of Stevenson's continuation; three editions of this appeared in 1769 and there is still argument about which was first. A Sentimental Journey appeared the previous year, shortly before Sterne's death, and his intimate friend Stevenson, to much critical condemnation, quickly fulfilled the undoubted obligation to complete the work having heard so much of it related to him. The biographical note is the first of any consequence but, according to Lee, Stevenson promised a full life to Sterne's daughter but "was too indolent .. to carry out the promise". Appended is Sterne's "A Political Romance", written in 1759 but suppressed.
¶ Possibly the first edition of Stevenson's continuation; three editions of this appeared in 1769 and there is still argument about which was first. A Sentimental Journey appeared the previous year, shortly before Sterne's death, and his intimate friend Stevenson, to much critical condemnation, quickly fulfilled the undoubted obligation to complete the work having heard so much of it related to him. The biographical note is the first of any consequence but, according to Lee, Stevenson promised a full life to Sterne's daughter but "was too indolent .. to carry out the promise". Appended is Sterne's "A Political Romance", written in 1759 but suppressed.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7257
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 152.5 US$ 162.96 | £UK 131 | JP¥ 25240]
Keywords: literature fiction c18th England
![, [Shinsen Shoka no Fukiyose].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Shoka10932.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shinsen Shoka no Fukiyose].
n.p. n.d. [c1880?] 18x12cm publisher's colour woodcut wrapper; 10 double leaves (20pp); b/w woodcut illustrations throughout. Rather good.
¶ A rare and charming songbook, apparently for children, which has a look of long tradition. But if these are proper shoka then it is a form of school song that began with Meiji reformation of education. The subjects are in any case thoroughly up to date: balloons, steamships and photographs. None of these songbooks are going to be common. I found an entry for what might be the same book in the Ryukyu University catalogue; nothing else.
¶ A rare and charming songbook, apparently for children, which has a look of long tradition. But if these are proper shoka then it is a form of school song that began with Meiji reformation of education. The subjects are in any case thoroughly up to date: balloons, steamships and photographs. None of these songbooks are going to be common. I found an entry for what might be the same book in the Ryukyu University catalogue; nothing else.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10932
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.25 US$ 81.48 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12620]
Keywords: literature music songbooks c19th Japan modernism meiji
Stories by an Archaeologist and His Friends.
London, Bell & Daldy 1856. Two volumes octavo bound together in original blue cloth decorated in blind (the sides a little rubbed). Bound without the first half title (the second is there) and an advertisement leaf. First title a bit browned by the endpaper and some stitching loose, still a rather good copy.
¶ Only edition; perhaps this one volume issue is a later binding but by no means is it a remainder binding in the usual sense. Publishers don't put remainders into heavy bevelled boards and elaborately decorate them. Perhaps a commercial prize binding? This is an early foray up what became a well trodden literary path - tales told in the club. Here the club is a group of savants in Naples, none of whom are terse. The first, the bibliophile's story, is a sort of thriller, or more a collector or scholar's horror story, with an acerbic interlude on the nature of scholars when presented with a colleague's discovery: they disagree on why Dubois is wrong about his supposed discovery of the lost books of Livy but they all agree he is wrong. Humphreys intent is made clear in the preface - archaeology is not only for dry old men presenting interminable papers on broken pottery to each other; young ladies should be aware that papers have been "positively lisped from beneath as faultless and magnificent a pair of moustachios as ever graced a parade, or did their resistless execution in a ball-room".
¶ Only edition; perhaps this one volume issue is a later binding but by no means is it a remainder binding in the usual sense. Publishers don't put remainders into heavy bevelled boards and elaborately decorate them. Perhaps a commercial prize binding? This is an early foray up what became a well trodden literary path - tales told in the club. Here the club is a group of savants in Naples, none of whom are terse. The first, the bibliophile's story, is a sort of thriller, or more a collector or scholar's horror story, with an acerbic interlude on the nature of scholars when presented with a colleague's discovery: they disagree on why Dubois is wrong about his supposed discovery of the lost books of Livy but they all agree he is wrong. Humphreys intent is made clear in the preface - archaeology is not only for dry old men presenting interminable papers on broken pottery to each other; young ladies should be aware that papers have been "positively lisped from beneath as faultless and magnificent a pair of moustachios as ever graced a parade, or did their resistless execution in a ball-room".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8767
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 152.5 US$ 162.96 | £UK 131 | JP¥ 25240]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th England
Supreme Court, Sydney, New South Wales ... Report of the Trial The Bank of Australasia v. Thomas Chaplin Breillat, Chairman of the Bank of Australia.
Sydney: printed by Kemp and Fairfax 1845. Largish octavo later (but old) cloth, original plain wrappers bound in; 96pp. Some spotting of the outer few pages. With the inscription of legal luminary W.J.V. Windeyer whose ancestor Richard Windeyer was head counsel for the defendant and won plaudits for his closing speech.
¶ A rare bit of Australian legal and banking history. The Bank of Australia got into trouble in 1843, due to the debt of Hughes and Hosking, and approached their fellow bank for a loan of some quarter of a million pounds to get them out of trouble - and incidentally pay an 8% dividend to their shareholders. They then decided not pay their debt on the basis that the borrowers had no authority to borrow on behalf of the bank. The result is too complicated for me to digest, it's enough to say that the conclusion of this report is modern in terms of narrative but doubtless standard in mercantile law.
¶ A rare bit of Australian legal and banking history. The Bank of Australia got into trouble in 1843, due to the debt of Hughes and Hosking, and approached their fellow bank for a loan of some quarter of a million pounds to get them out of trouble - and incidentally pay an 8% dividend to their shareholders. They then decided not pay their debt on the basis that the borrowers had no authority to borrow on behalf of the bank. The result is too complicated for me to digest, it's enough to say that the conclusion of this report is modern in terms of narrative but doubtless standard in mercantile law.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8358
AUD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 228.5 US$ 244.44 | £UK 196.25 | JP¥ 37861]
Keywords: law banking history c19th Australia economics social sciences association
Tasmanian Exhibition, Launceston, 1891-92. Official Catalogue of the Exhibits.
Launceston, printed by James Brickhill 1891. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper (chipped); xvi (adverts),181,xvii-xxiii (adverts)pp plus another four pages of adverts in the middle, folding plan. Used but most acceptable.
¶ I confess I knew nothing of Tasmania's first international exhibition until recently, which says more about my willful blindness and the scarcity of the official catalogue and record than the exhibition itself. It was pretty big, with exhibitors from Britain, a few European countries and North America, and something close to twice the population of Tasmania visited. This was one of Jules Joubert's successes. Joubert, who continually careered between triumph and disgrace, cut his exhibition teeth with the Sydney agricultural shows and moved on to international exhibitions in the mid seventies. After disgrace with the 1879 Sydney exhibition he became a travelling gun for hire, organising exhibitions in Perth, Calcutta, Melbourne, New Zealand and Tasmania - this one and the 1894 Hobart exhibition. I learnt from the back cover that Collard & Collard offered pianos, upright and grand, in Tasmanian woods of elegant finish and I wonder whether any made their way back here among the rosewoods and mahoganies. In any case, few experts think that Collard pianos are worth restoring except for sentimental purposes so it probably doesn't matter.
¶ I confess I knew nothing of Tasmania's first international exhibition until recently, which says more about my willful blindness and the scarcity of the official catalogue and record than the exhibition itself. It was pretty big, with exhibitors from Britain, a few European countries and North America, and something close to twice the population of Tasmania visited. This was one of Jules Joubert's successes. Joubert, who continually careered between triumph and disgrace, cut his exhibition teeth with the Sydney agricultural shows and moved on to international exhibitions in the mid seventies. After disgrace with the 1879 Sydney exhibition he became a travelling gun for hire, organising exhibitions in Perth, Calcutta, Melbourne, New Zealand and Tasmania - this one and the 1894 Hobart exhibition. I learnt from the back cover that Collard & Collard offered pianos, upright and grand, in Tasmanian woods of elegant finish and I wonder whether any made their way back here among the rosewoods and mahoganies. In any case, few experts think that Collard pianos are worth restoring except for sentimental purposes so it probably doesn't matter.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10856
AUD 900.00 [Appr.: EURO 548.25 US$ 586.67 | £UK 471 | JP¥ 90865]
Keywords: international exhibitions catalogues c19th Australia trades technology material culture applied arts Tasmania
![, [Tojimari Sen Kanagu : Bunka Kuroro].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tojimari10755.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Tojimari Sen Kanagu : Bunka Kuroro].
[192-?]. Colour lithograph poster 76x35cm. Short tears around the edges; pretty good.
¶ This shop poster is both an advertisement and a warning: these handsome door or window locks will not keep out mournful children.
¶ This shop poster is both an advertisement and a warning: these handsome door or window locks will not keep out mournful children.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10755
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 130.37 | £UK 104.75 | JP¥ 20192]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising posters architecture manufactures c20th Japan modernism
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