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Further Correspondence Respecting the Deportation of South Sea Islanders.
London, House of Commons 1871. Foolscap, modern quarter calf; vi,212pp.
¶ A compendium of outrage, murder, slavery and kidnapping according to the index. Bully Hayes is arrested for kidnapping on page 141 and escaped by p.143.
¶ A compendium of outrage, murder, slavery and kidnapping according to the index. Bully Hayes is arrested for kidnapping on page 141 and escaped by p.143.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9344
AUD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 228 US$ 244.09 | £UK 195.75 | JP¥ 38001]
Keywords: social sciences travel history Pacific New Guinea Australia Queensland c19th blackbirding slavery race maritime nautical economics government England racism
Polynesian Immigration. (Despatches relative to alleged abuses, etc ...).
Sydney, Govt Printer 1869. Foolscap folio modern plain wrapper; drop title, 24pp.
¶ For the most part this details the murders on the blackbirding ship 'Young Australian' with some information on the seizure of the 'Daphne' by Palmer in the Rosario in Fiji. The captain and supercargo of the 'Young Australian' were sentenced to death and released after a couple of years in prison. Palmer was forced to pay reparations to the owner of the Daphne.
¶ For the most part this details the murders on the blackbirding ship 'Young Australian' with some information on the seizure of the 'Daphne' by Palmer in the Rosario in Fiji. The captain and supercargo of the 'Young Australian' were sentenced to death and released after a couple of years in prison. Palmer was forced to pay reparations to the owner of the Daphne.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10675
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 121.75 US$ 130.18 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20267]
Keywords: social sciences travel history Pacific New Guinea Australia c19th blackbirding slavery race maritime nautical economics law racism
In Satan's Realm.
Chicago, Rand McNally 1899. Octavo publisher's illustrated red cloth blocked in green, black and white. A read copy but still quite a good copy. Inscribed by the author to a friend.
¶ First edition. The story of a too successful journalist who begins rather than ends his greatest adventure by being eaten by a cannibal. He goes first to heaven but his 'reportorial instincts' had him quickly banished to hell.
¶ First edition. The story of a too successful journalist who begins rather than ends his greatest adventure by being eaten by a cannibal. He goes first to heaven but his 'reportorial instincts' had him quickly banished to hell.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8605
AUD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.5 US$ 120.42 | £UK 96.75 | JP¥ 18747]
Keywords: literature fiction fantasy c19th thrillers America association
Boer-en Rooinekspel.
Amsterdam, Koster [190-?]. 56x79cm colour lithograph. Creasing and a couple of short tears repaired in the margin.
¶ A bright and cheery racing game.
¶ A bright and cheery racing game.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10678
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.25 US$ 97.64 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15200]
Keywords: paper games pastimes advertising c20th travel Netherlands South Africa Boer war children military graphic art
La Bomba Atomica e l'Aviazione.
Rome, Associazione Culturale Aeronautica 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper (used with some fraying); 40pp, five illustrations.
¶ Rather scarce. OCLC finds only two copies, both in the US and I couldn't find it in the Italian national library catalogues.
¶ Rather scarce. OCLC finds only two copies, both in the US and I couldn't find it in the Italian national library catalogues.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9734
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.25 US$ 97.64 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15200]
Keywords: science atom atomic bomb c20th italy physics
The inventor's collection of papers and reports relating to his 'Boock Break of Gauge Device'.
v.p. 1921 &c. Included are: Report of the Royal Commission on the Matter of Uniform Rail Gauge. 1921. Uniform Rail Gauge - Statement .. by the Secretary to the Royal Commission.1921. Patent of Boock's 'Improvement in Rail Car Undercarriage ..' accepted March 1936. Manuscript and typescript provisional specifications. Deed of Assignment of Patent. Aust. Official Journal of Patents .. 9th April 1936. Report From the Select Committee on the Advisableness of Constructing Three Railway Trucks to Demonstrate the Practicability of the Boock Railway Break-of-Gauge Device Together with Proceedings .. Minutes of Evidence and Appendices. May 1939. (2 copies and some separate sections which are proofs, all annotated). Proof of the N.S.W. Parliamentary Debates .. Thursday, 1 June 1939, with debate on the device. A couple of leaflets, photo of Boock & one of his wooden model; a quantity of clippings and various correspondence.
¶ The Boock device, with concerted backing by Joseph Hamlet and, judging by the clippings, a fair amount of public support (Sir George Julius is quoted as giving it the nod) was seriously considered by the government, as the substantial report makes obvious, but amidst much heat and accusations of political subterfuge the committee recommended against it. As usual the story is not so simple. There is a 1927 draft agreement to assign most of the rights to someone in exchange for backing and formal agreements made with Joseph Hamlet in 1936 signing over four fifths of the invention in exchange for backing. There is also a shaky and bitter 1941 letter to a Mr Elland in which Boock says that he never received a penny from Hamlet and that Hamlet without his consent or knowledge was selling shares in the invention. Boock died soon after this but his heirs seem to have doggedly pursued various governments for some years. A few letters indicate some foreign interest (or uninterest) but there is no evidence of further development.
¶ The Boock device, with concerted backing by Joseph Hamlet and, judging by the clippings, a fair amount of public support (Sir George Julius is quoted as giving it the nod) was seriously considered by the government, as the substantial report makes obvious, but amidst much heat and accusations of political subterfuge the committee recommended against it. As usual the story is not so simple. There is a 1927 draft agreement to assign most of the rights to someone in exchange for backing and formal agreements made with Joseph Hamlet in 1936 signing over four fifths of the invention in exchange for backing. There is also a shaky and bitter 1941 letter to a Mr Elland in which Boock says that he never received a penny from Hamlet and that Hamlet without his consent or knowledge was selling shares in the invention. Boock died soon after this but his heirs seem to have doggedly pursued various governments for some years. A few letters indicate some foreign interest (or uninterest) but there is no evidence of further development.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8393
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 273.5 US$ 292.91 | £UK 235 | JP¥ 45601]
Keywords: science technology railways c20th Australia history engineering association
The Hearty Old Boy Who Looked Always the Same.
London, Dean & Son [c1865-70]. 25x17cm colour illustrated boards; advertisement front endpapers and eight leaves, the last mounted inside the back cover, each with a handcoloured wood engraving and verse. A head made of some composition with tiny glass eyes is mounted inside the back board and a hole cut through all pages and the front cover. Inner lining and stitching somewhat loose but holding well enough. Quite a good copy.
¶ This grotesque bit of gimmickry must have been less disturbing when new. Maybe. Two companion titles are listed on the front cover but I don't know that these things took off in any big way. In any case all are rare. I've found a couple of images of one title and they don't look any less worrying than this. I've found no images of another copy of this or the third title. This charts the progress of ploughman Jackey Hodge to Sir John Hodge, mayor of the town. Why he started life a Hearty Old Boy is beyond me.
¶ This grotesque bit of gimmickry must have been less disturbing when new. Maybe. Two companion titles are listed on the front cover but I don't know that these things took off in any big way. In any case all are rare. I've found a couple of images of one title and they don't look any less worrying than this. I've found no images of another copy of this or the third title. This charts the progress of ploughman Jackey Hodge to Sir John Hodge, mayor of the town. Why he started life a Hearty Old Boy is beyond me.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10245
AUD 1200.00 [Appr.: EURO 729.25 US$ 781.1 | £UK 626.25 | JP¥ 121604]
Keywords: literature fiction poetry childrens books juvenile toy books c19th England illustration
![Hikifuda specimen book., [Hikifuda Mihon Jo].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hikifuda10791.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Hikifuda Mihon Jo].
Osaka c1902. 25x37cm original string tied wrappers, title label; 60 colour lithographs. Some minor signs of use, stains and blotches; a remarkably good copy.
¶ Now this is rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can find. I knew they once existed because I've had a few individuals, each time noting the stab holes in the margin with some indignant grief. This is complete as issued. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. The colophons that have survived the trimmer in this book date between 1899 and 1902. Each hikifuda is numbered on the back but not in any sequence. I haven't deciphered a printer's name in the colophons but I'm sure someone literate can. From what I can see, if you wanted fine, delicate printing you went to Kyoto; if you wanted commercial publishing on a huge scale you went to Tokyo; and if you wanted brash, vivid to the point of lurid, advertising you went to Osaka. I hope other printer's albums of Osaka advertising art have and will survive the breakers but I won't be holding my breath for the next one. The splendidly flamboyant and assertive modern young woman in stripes toward the end of the album is unlike any other I've seen from this period. A special copy (on heavier paper) of that was my first hikifuda purchase and is still my favourite. And since this album has just doubled the number I've handled, that's saying something. Another shows a hardworking young couple with the main caption 'Shiobara Tasuke' - who was a rags to riches merchant of the 18th and early 19th century. This makes sense but doesn't explain why the cheerful young woman is about to blithely put a cleaver through her kimono and/or arm while the falcon and the naval artist does explain why Japan has such a tradition of impossible bird's-eye views. There's stuff to learn here.
¶ Now this is rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can find. I knew they once existed because I've had a few individuals, each time noting the stab holes in the margin with some indignant grief. This is complete as issued. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. The colophons that have survived the trimmer in this book date between 1899 and 1902. Each hikifuda is numbered on the back but not in any sequence. I haven't deciphered a printer's name in the colophons but I'm sure someone literate can. From what I can see, if you wanted fine, delicate printing you went to Kyoto; if you wanted commercial publishing on a huge scale you went to Tokyo; and if you wanted brash, vivid to the point of lurid, advertising you went to Osaka. I hope other printer's albums of Osaka advertising art have and will survive the breakers but I won't be holding my breath for the next one. The splendidly flamboyant and assertive modern young woman in stripes toward the end of the album is unlike any other I've seen from this period. A special copy (on heavier paper) of that was my first hikifuda purchase and is still my favourite. And since this album has just doubled the number I've handled, that's saying something. Another shows a hardworking young couple with the main caption 'Shiobara Tasuke' - who was a rags to riches merchant of the 18th and early 19th century. This makes sense but doesn't explain why the cheerful young woman is about to blithely put a cleaver through her kimono and/or arm while the falcon and the naval artist does explain why Japan has such a tradition of impossible bird's-eye views. There's stuff to learn here.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10791
AUD 5100.00 [Appr.: EURO 3099.25 US$ 3319.69 | £UK 2661.25 | JP¥ 516816]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising c19th Japan hikifuda trade catalogues modernism printing
![Writing book., [Moji Ban].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Moji11099.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Moji Ban].
Tokyo, Ogasawara Seisakusho [191-?]. 26x19cm, two hinged heavy boards with a colour illustrated title on the front, useful tables on the back and white cards in the centre with deeply embossed characters: the hiragana characters and a few common kanji characters.
¶ A most delightful educational gimmick for learning to write hiragana. Naturally I can't find a record of another copy anywhere.
¶ A most delightful educational gimmick for learning to write hiragana. Naturally I can't find a record of another copy anywhere.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11099
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 243.25 US$ 260.37 | £UK 208.75 | JP¥ 40535]
Keywords: social sciences education children juvenile writing books handwriting alphabets language linguistics
A publisher's sample book of specimen hikifuda.
n.p. (Osaka?) 190-? 26x39cm; later makeshift card binding that appears to be from a printer; 76 colour lithographs. Definite signs of use, occasional tears but nothing too serious.
¶ These are rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can find. Here series and numbers are stamped on the back but are not consistent; still I found only three places where offsetting shows that a sample is missing, including the first plate. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. From what I can see, if you wanted fine, delicate printing you went to Kyoto; if you wanted commercial publishing on a huge scale you went to Tokyo; and if you wanted brash, vivid to the point of lurid, advertising you went to Osaka. This particular set is marked by the bold and busy colours, strongly marked borders, ornate design and occasional extra embossing. More expensive series than standard? I would have guessed most to be earlier but I found two dates: 1911 and 1915, and the aeroplanes are a give away.
¶ These are rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can find. Here series and numbers are stamped on the back but are not consistent; still I found only three places where offsetting shows that a sample is missing, including the first plate. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. From what I can see, if you wanted fine, delicate printing you went to Kyoto; if you wanted commercial publishing on a huge scale you went to Tokyo; and if you wanted brash, vivid to the point of lurid, advertising you went to Osaka. This particular set is marked by the bold and busy colours, strongly marked borders, ornate design and occasional extra embossing. More expensive series than standard? I would have guessed most to be earlier but I found two dates: 1911 and 1915, and the aeroplanes are a give away.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10966
AUD 2750.00 [Appr.: EURO 1671.25 US$ 1790.03 | £UK 1435 | JP¥ 278675]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising c19th Japan hikifuda trade catalogues modernism printing meiji
![Textile sample book., [Sawa Shirushi - Kyozome Gofuku Oroshisho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Textile10704.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sawa Shirushi - Kyozome Gofuku Oroshisho].
Kyoto, Sawada Shoten [190-?]. 23x16cm publisher's cloth (discoloured) with bone clasp; 100 silk samples in accordian folding heavy printed card mounts. With another defective sample book with 30 of 32 samples of dyed cottons.
¶ Finely grained, creped and patterned silks for kimonos. The name Sawada is still connected with kimonos in Kyoto but I can't trace any relationship. The current Sawada Shoten in Kyoto sells work clothes and was founded in 1968.
¶ Finely grained, creped and patterned silks for kimonos. The name Sawada is still connected with kimonos in Kyoto but I can't trace any relationship. The current Sawada Shoten in Kyoto sells work clothes and was founded in 1968.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10704
AUD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 136.75 US$ 146.46 | £UK 117.5 | JP¥ 22801]
Keywords: applied arts textiles design sample books trades Japan c19th costume silk manufactures trade catalogues
![Advertising fan sample books., [Yubi Uchiwa Mihon Jo] + [Yubi Uchiwa Shin Gacho] + six actual advertising uchiwa - fans.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Uchiwa11063.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Yubi Uchiwa Mihon Jo] + [Yubi Uchiwa Shin Gacho] + six actual advertising uchiwa - fans.
n.p. c1930. The first: 23x25cm publisher's colour illustrated wrappers, ribbon tied; title leaf, 81 leaves (four of these form two designs with one of each being a layer with cutouts over the other). Covers ragged, a few leaves with closed tears near the beginning; the album has been damp at some time and colours drifted to nearby leaves in places but all acceptable enough. The second: 25x25cm colour printed wrapper; ribbon tied; 42 leaves. Used and well thumbed but solid and decent enough. The fans each about 40cm top to tail.
¶ Two (but not a pair) of these rare sample books of elegant (yubi translates as elegant) uchiwa - non folding fans - used for advertising; messages were on the back. Now, pattern books of properly elegant fan designs have a long history and are a dime, well, a few thousand dollars, a dozen. It would be hard to get together a dozen of these crass commercial sample books, for much the same reasons as their sister hikifuda books: any that did survive are usually dismembered and sold page by page. The accompanying fans do not actually appear in either book but that is a matter of variation on a theme. The family likeness is unmistakable. As is the likeness to hikifuda (large handbills or small posters) of the period: the artwork, printing and colours come from the same people. The designs range from revolting to most smart. Luckily few are truly revolting.
¶ Two (but not a pair) of these rare sample books of elegant (yubi translates as elegant) uchiwa - non folding fans - used for advertising; messages were on the back. Now, pattern books of properly elegant fan designs have a long history and are a dime, well, a few thousand dollars, a dozen. It would be hard to get together a dozen of these crass commercial sample books, for much the same reasons as their sister hikifuda books: any that did survive are usually dismembered and sold page by page. The accompanying fans do not actually appear in either book but that is a matter of variation on a theme. The family likeness is unmistakable. As is the likeness to hikifuda (large handbills or small posters) of the period: the artwork, printing and colours come from the same people. The designs range from revolting to most smart. Luckily few are truly revolting.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11063
AUD 2100.00 [Appr.: EURO 1276.25 US$ 1366.93 | £UK 1096 | JP¥ 212807]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising fans colour printing sample trade catalogues books modernism c20th Japan
Love Made Manifest.
London, Ward Lock [1899]. Octavo publisher's decorated blue cloth blocked in gilt. Endpapers a bit browned as usual, a pleasing bright copy.
¶ First edition. From Apia to Sydney to Belgrave Square our hero wins his way to fame and fortune only to find a peril worse than any of Boothby's opium addled Asiatic fiends lying in wait for him.
¶ First edition. From Apia to Sydney to Belgrave Square our hero wins his way to fame and fortune only to find a peril worse than any of Boothby's opium addled Asiatic fiends lying in wait for him.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9221
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76 US$ 81.36 | £UK 65.25 | JP¥ 12667]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th England Australia Pacific
Pharos the Egyptian.
London, Ward Lock 1899. Octavo publisher's gilt decorated navy cloth; 12 plates by John H. Bacon. Endpapers browned as usual; a rather nice bright copy.
¶ First edition of this exotic, fast moving and cosmopolitan thriller which begins in London: "Drawing my hand across my forehead, which was clammy with the sweat of real fear, I looked again at the river ... and by the light of a lantern on board I could make out the body of a man ... such was my first meeting with the man whom I afterwards came to know as Pharos the Egyptian." From here we leap around Europe to Egypt and back, with horror at every step.
¶ First edition of this exotic, fast moving and cosmopolitan thriller which begins in London: "Drawing my hand across my forehead, which was clammy with the sweat of real fear, I looked again at the river ... and by the light of a lantern on board I could make out the body of a man ... such was my first meeting with the man whom I afterwards came to know as Pharos the Egyptian." From here we leap around Europe to Egypt and back, with horror at every step.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9041
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 121.75 US$ 130.18 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20267]
Keywords: literature thrillers c19th England Australia mystery fantasy detective
Nephele.
NY, New Amsterdam 1896. Octavo publisher's decorated gilt cloth. A touch browned around the edges but a very good copy.
¶ First American edition, contemporaneous with the English edition. Not quite a haunted violin thriller as suggested by the cover illustration but a haunted piece of music - and a violin does play a part.
¶ First American edition, contemporaneous with the English edition. Not quite a haunted violin thriller as suggested by the cover illustration but a haunted piece of music - and a violin does play a part.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8495
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 65.09 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10134]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers occult c19th England haunted music violin fantasy
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