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![Catalogue - watches. Yoshida Watch Company., Fancy Smart ... Yoshida Watch Company [from the cover].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Yoshida10655.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Fancy Smart ... Yoshida Watch Company [from the cover].
[Tokyo? 193-?]. 15x22cm publisher's illustrated wrapper; 18pp, illustrated throughout. Pencil inscription on the front, staples disintegrated but rather good with a couple of special offer inserts and a four page illustrated clock leaflet dated 1929 inserted.
¶ There were two Yoshida watch companies in Tokyo at this time. One, founded in 1920, still exists as a high class salon in Shibuya, and the other, which began as a wholesaler in 1901 started manufacturing watches in the 1930s. They morphed over the decades into Orient watches, a subsidiary of Seiko. This seems the more likely if we have to choose between the two. One inserted slip offers a 50% wholesale discount. Quite smart, a lot of deco, mostly for men with a few women's watches at the end. A couple of these seem very expensive: 370 yen against a man's watch for less than 20 yen.
¶ There were two Yoshida watch companies in Tokyo at this time. One, founded in 1920, still exists as a high class salon in Shibuya, and the other, which began as a wholesaler in 1901 started manufacturing watches in the 1930s. They morphed over the decades into Orient watches, a subsidiary of Seiko. This seems the more likely if we have to choose between the two. One inserted slip offers a 50% wholesale discount. Quite smart, a lot of deco, mostly for men with a few women's watches at the end. A couple of these seem very expensive: 370 yen against a man's watch for less than 20 yen.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10655
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 98.63 | £UK 78.75 | JP¥ 15089]
Keywords: applied arts manufactures trade catalogues clocks watches time c20th Japan modernism fashion
Stereoscope card: Natives of New Guinea in their picturesque sailing craft.
Keystone [190-?]. Stereo images on printed card (89x178mm); printed description on the back. The card curved, in fine condition.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8834
AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 US$ 19.73 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3018]
Keywords: photography Australia New Guinea c20th stereoscope travel ephemera
![Sugoroku. Nomura Toy Company, [Yaji Kita Rokkei Ryoko Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sugoroku10215b.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Yaji Kita Rokkei Ryoko Sugoroku].
n.p. [c1930?]. Colour broadside 55x79cm; with the large original paper wrapper - 40x28cm - with mounted colour illustration. An excellent copy.
¶ The comic adventures along the Tokaido of those buffoons Yaji and Kita of Hizakurige - or Shank's Mare - fame, not so much updated as flung though wormholes in time. All is still Edo in period but for the airplane, those motorcars, cable car, parachutes. This is not a sugoroku produced as a new year gift by a newspaper or magazine - the usual form of these games first half of the 20th century. It was made by Nomura Toys, presumably for sale. Hence the extra large, lurid paper wrapper. Nomura Toys started in the early twenties and went into tin toys in a big way after the war.
¶ The comic adventures along the Tokaido of those buffoons Yaji and Kita of Hizakurige - or Shank's Mare - fame, not so much updated as flung though wormholes in time. All is still Edo in period but for the airplane, those motorcars, cable car, parachutes. This is not a sugoroku produced as a new year gift by a newspaper or magazine - the usual form of these games first half of the 20th century. It was made by Nomura Toys, presumably for sale. Hence the extra large, lurid paper wrapper. Nomura Toys started in the early twenties and went into tin toys in a big way after the war.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10215
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile manga illustration
A General View of Positivism. Translated ... by J.H. Bridges.
London, Trubner 1865. Octavo publisher's green cloth; xii,426,[2]pp. A bright, fresh copy with the signature of South Australian vigneron and manufacturer Joseph Crompton; an apposite association given that Crompton was a staunch Unitarian.
¶ First edition in English - from the second French edition of 1851.
¶ First edition in English - from the second French edition of 1851.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8266
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.75 US$ 82.19 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12574]
Keywords: philosophy social sciences political economy c19th France England association Australia sociology
![Confectionary., [Kashi Moyo - Ten]](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kashi10772.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kashi Moyo - Ten]
Kyoto, Fujisawa 1912 (Meiji 45). 18x25cm publisher's silk with printed label (silk faded); 25 accordian folded card leaves with numerous colour woodcuts on 40 pages (two full page), text on the rest. Some browning or spotting but most acceptable.
¶ Third edition? Three of these kashi albums were published in 1901 and 1902 covering heaven, earth and people, I think by the Kyoto sweetmakers association. Heaven is the theme for this offering of sweet designs. Books of kashi designs like this are known to date back to the late 17th century, there may have been earlier ones. They were produced by high class confectioners as catalogues for their high class customers. The text at the end apparently describes each treat. As you might expect their names are allusive and poetic: no 'custard tart' here, think rather of 'autumn wind'. Kashi albums or pattern books blossomed in the late Meiji through to the early Showa - from about 1900 to 1930 - and I'm not sure why. I wonder if it was a fad inspired by someone like the crown princess having a passion for these elaborate sweets. Worldcat finds one entry for this outside Japan and none of the others.
¶ Third edition? Three of these kashi albums were published in 1901 and 1902 covering heaven, earth and people, I think by the Kyoto sweetmakers association. Heaven is the theme for this offering of sweet designs. Books of kashi designs like this are known to date back to the late 17th century, there may have been earlier ones. They were produced by high class confectioners as catalogues for their high class customers. The text at the end apparently describes each treat. As you might expect their names are allusive and poetic: no 'custard tart' here, think rather of 'autumn wind'. Kashi albums or pattern books blossomed in the late Meiji through to the early Showa - from about 1900 to 1930 - and I'm not sure why. I wonder if it was a fad inspired by someone like the crown princess having a passion for these elaborate sweets. Worldcat finds one entry for this outside Japan and none of the others.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10772
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298]
Keywords: graphic art design food confectionary sweets c20th Japan pattern book kashi meiji
Suspense. A Napoleonic novel.
NY, Doubleday 1925. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper (this with some small chips).
¶ First edition.
¶ First edition.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8547
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.75 US$ 82.19 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12574]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th
The Curves of Life; being an account of spiral formations and their application to growth in nature, to science and to art; with special reference to the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci.
London, Constable 1914. Large octavo publisher's red gilt cloth and mildly frayed and rumpled dustwrapper; xxx,479pp, 11 plates and some 415 illustrations through the text.
¶ First edition of this ambitious attempt to formulate a mathematic model that could describe the phenomena of both life and art. Cook is of the optimistic school, with a belief that ''the new spirit at work upon constructive philosophy'' and new methods of communication are leading to thought that is clearer and more critical. He is, he says, in sympathy with Aristotle and Spinoza rather than Comte whose legacy was to reduce science to mere cataloguing. Cook's own legacy is more curiously obscure. While critical thought seems to have abandoned even laughing at the notion that aesthetics can be discerned let alone described, this book along with D'Arcy Thompson's 'On Growth and Form' will be found on every reading list of two groups that are beavering away in ostensibly opposite directions. The first is that of the lovers of occult numbers, the golden mean and the like. The second is laboratory and computer technotypes modelling such things as three dimensional bone structures. Both camps overlap in the realms of Fibonacci numbers and fractals but I am not suggesting that that has any particular meaning. Cook also carries on his argument here, first propounded a few years earlier, that the open spiral staircase at Blois was designed by Leonardo, an attribution that seems to have found general acceptance - at least among the various tourist agencies of the Loire. He is however derisory of the (now equally accepted) proposal that Leonardo also designed the double spiral staircase at nearby Chambord. Hard to find now in decent condition and, if not extinct, definitely endangered in dustwrapper.
¶ First edition of this ambitious attempt to formulate a mathematic model that could describe the phenomena of both life and art. Cook is of the optimistic school, with a belief that ''the new spirit at work upon constructive philosophy'' and new methods of communication are leading to thought that is clearer and more critical. He is, he says, in sympathy with Aristotle and Spinoza rather than Comte whose legacy was to reduce science to mere cataloguing. Cook's own legacy is more curiously obscure. While critical thought seems to have abandoned even laughing at the notion that aesthetics can be discerned let alone described, this book along with D'Arcy Thompson's 'On Growth and Form' will be found on every reading list of two groups that are beavering away in ostensibly opposite directions. The first is that of the lovers of occult numbers, the golden mean and the like. The second is laboratory and computer technotypes modelling such things as three dimensional bone structures. Both camps overlap in the realms of Fibonacci numbers and fractals but I am not suggesting that that has any particular meaning. Cook also carries on his argument here, first propounded a few years earlier, that the open spiral staircase at Blois was designed by Leonardo, an attribution that seems to have found general acceptance - at least among the various tourist agencies of the Loire. He is however derisory of the (now equally accepted) proposal that Leonardo also designed the double spiral staircase at nearby Chambord. Hard to find now in decent condition and, if not extinct, definitely endangered in dustwrapper.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11162
AUD 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 291 US$ 312.33 | £UK 249 | JP¥ 47783]
Keywords: science art theory biology mathematics geometry aesthetics c20th
![Corn. [CLAYE, Rev William]., A Supplementary Letter to the Right Honorable Lord William Bentinck. Corn Importation, &c.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Corn9603.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Supplementary Letter to the Right Honorable Lord William Bentinck. Corn Importation, &c.
Newark, printed by S. & J. Ridge 1826. Broadside 375x235mm, printed with manuscript notes. Folded with a manuscript docket title on the back: "Mr Claye's Letter to Ld. W. Bentinck - sent to me ^by him^ Nov 24 1826". The letter is dated in print Nov 4, 1826 from Westhorpe, Notts.
¶ The Rev William Claye of Westhorpe, Chaplain to the Duke of Grafton, is noted as being an owner of extensive tracts of land in Shilton's 1818 history of the area - which makes somewhat disingenuous his adding the clergy to the "humble classes of life," to whose lives the measure of May 1826 added "Distress and Misery". Unlocated in Copac and OCLC.
¶ The Rev William Claye of Westhorpe, Chaplain to the Duke of Grafton, is noted as being an owner of extensive tracts of land in Shilton's 1818 history of the area - which makes somewhat disingenuous his adding the clergy to the "humble classes of life," to whose lives the measure of May 1826 added "Distress and Misery". Unlocated in Copac and OCLC.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9603
AUD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.25 US$ 59.18 | £UK 47.25 | JP¥ 9054]
Keywords: social sciences history law government political economy economics c19th England reform corn food progress
![CORNELL, Sophia S., Cornell's Primary Geography for the Use of Schools. First Edition. [Chigaku Shoho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Cornell10004.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Cornell's Primary Geography for the Use of Schools. First Edition. [Chigaku Shoho].
Yedo. [Edo (ie Tokyo), Watanabe [1866?]. 18x12cm publisher's wrapper (insect blemished, title label missing); [72]pp on double folded leaves and seven folding colour maps, two colour maps and some illustrations in the text. A stain in the top corner; a thoroughly decent copy.
¶ I wonder what, if anything, a Japanese student made of Miss Cornell. After her nonsense about Japan, how could anything else she said be taken seriously? Miss Cornell's Primary Geography - one of a string of geographies she prepared for all stages of schooling - first appeared in New York in 1855. Here we are introduced to the concept and working parts of a map, then run through a brief introduction to the regions of the world. There seems to be two printings of this "First Edition"; one dated "the 2nd year of Kei-ou" (1866) on the title and apparently without a colophon; the other (our copy) not dated, with a colophon. In this undated copy the text is within borders, the other not. Waseda University also has a third, quite different printing but their copy is severely defective and has no title page or colophon. A Japanese translation was made in 1867. Worldcat finds only one copy of this outside Japan.
¶ I wonder what, if anything, a Japanese student made of Miss Cornell. After her nonsense about Japan, how could anything else she said be taken seriously? Miss Cornell's Primary Geography - one of a string of geographies she prepared for all stages of schooling - first appeared in New York in 1855. Here we are introduced to the concept and working parts of a map, then run through a brief introduction to the regions of the world. There seems to be two printings of this "First Edition"; one dated "the 2nd year of Kei-ou" (1866) on the title and apparently without a colophon; the other (our copy) not dated, with a colophon. In this undated copy the text is within borders, the other not. Waseda University also has a third, quite different printing but their copy is severely defective and has no title page or colophon. A Japanese translation was made in 1867. Worldcat finds only one copy of this outside Japan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10004
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298]
Keywords: social sciences education geography schools c19th Japan Asia America maps children juvenile
Ladies' Garments and How to Make Them. A practical treatise on the art of sewing, pressing & other details ... as employed by tailors ... by "Several Experts" ...
London, John Williamson [c1894]. Octavo publisher's gilt decorated red cloth; [8],80pp, several illustrations and diagrams. Minor signs of use, a rather good copy.
¶ A slender book maybe, but so packed with information that I wonder how Williamson thought they could justify all the other tailoring books and magazines they published. I can only find much later versions of this - and not many of those - in OCLC and Copac.
¶ A slender book maybe, but so packed with information that I wonder how Williamson thought they could justify all the other tailoring books and magazines they published. I can only find much later versions of this - and not many of those - in OCLC and Copac.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9804
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 98.63 | £UK 78.75 | JP¥ 15089]
Keywords: applied arts costume fashion textiles trades manufactures c19th England clothes sewing
The Practical American Millwright and Miller: ...
Philadelphia Baird 1874. Octavo publisher's cloth blocked in blind; x,17-432pp (but complete as issued) and publisher's list, wood engravings through the text and five folding plates. A couple of the plates rumpled or misfolded but a bright copy.
¶ This seems to be the middle of three printings (1870 and 1877 are the others); all appear to be identical.
¶ This seems to be the middle of three printings (1870 and 1877 are the others); all appear to be identical.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8270
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107.25 US$ 115.07 | £UK 91.75 | JP¥ 17604]
Keywords: science technology trades manufactures engineering c19th America
The Next Crusade.
London, Hutchinson 1896. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in red, yellow, blue, black, silver and gilt. Edges spotted but a rather good bright copy.
¶ First edition. A scarce sci-fi thriller describing the "coming struggle" between England and Russia by the writer who didn't live long enough to twice accuse H.G. Wells of plagiarism. He accused Wells of snaffling his space ship for 'First Men on the Moon' but died before Wells' use of an atom bomb in 1914.
¶ First edition. A scarce sci-fi thriller describing the "coming struggle" between England and Russia by the writer who didn't live long enough to twice accuse H.G. Wells of plagiarism. He accused Wells of snaffling his space ship for 'First Men on the Moon' but died before Wells' use of an atom bomb in 1914.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9009
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 153.25 US$ 164.39 | £UK 131 | JP¥ 25149]
Keywords: literature science fiction thrillers fantasy c19th England
Apparitions; An Essay, Explanatory of Old Facts and a New Theory. To which are added, sketches and adventures.
London, Trubner 1873. Octavo publisher's cloth (a little rubbed and flecked); [8],166,[2]pp.
¶ Uncommon; a crusade in the cause of Spiritualism, bellicose but not unfair according to the author: "If I have punished my adversaries, ... [I fight] with the spirit of the pugilist or fencer, and not with the feelings of an enemy". Crosland published a version of his essay in 1856 and has reworked it here, given the developments in Spiritualism - and opposition to Spiritualism - in the intervening years. Appended are three short pieces of fiction, the first, 'Hartsore Hall' is a ghost story. Crosland's career, in literary terms, is overshadowed by that of his wife - Mrs Newton Crosland oddly enough - but his works were not unambitious; they include his 'New Principia' (1884) in which he overturns Newtonian theories of the universe. He did publish an autobiography late in life (1898) but that has so far eluded me as effectively as his 'Principia'.
¶ Uncommon; a crusade in the cause of Spiritualism, bellicose but not unfair according to the author: "If I have punished my adversaries, ... [I fight] with the spirit of the pugilist or fencer, and not with the feelings of an enemy". Crosland published a version of his essay in 1856 and has reworked it here, given the developments in Spiritualism - and opposition to Spiritualism - in the intervening years. Appended are three short pieces of fiction, the first, 'Hartsore Hall' is a ghost story. Crosland's career, in literary terms, is overshadowed by that of his wife - Mrs Newton Crosland oddly enough - but his works were not unambitious; they include his 'New Principia' (1884) in which he overturns Newtonian theories of the universe. He did publish an autobiography late in life (1898) but that has so far eluded me as effectively as his 'Principia'.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7922
AUD 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 101.25 US$ 108.49 | £UK 86.5 | JP¥ 16598]
Keywords: philosophy spiritualism occult religion c19th reform progress
On a Surf-Bound Coast; or, Cable-Laying in the African Tropics.
London, Sampson Low 1887. Octavo publishers illustrated cloth; xii,338pp and publisher's list. An excellent, bright and unopened copy.
¶ The first of two books recording the cable-laying expedition in the ships Dacia, Silvertown and Buccaneer down the west coast of Africa in 1885; this describing the start from England and finishing with departure from Accra. The rest of the journey was covered in ‘Glimpses of Feverland' (1889). Crouch was a cable engineer and this seems to be his first literary effort, but once started he didn't stop and published a number of novels and miscellaneous pieces over the next forty years.
¶ The first of two books recording the cable-laying expedition in the ships Dacia, Silvertown and Buccaneer down the west coast of Africa in 1885; this describing the start from England and finishing with departure from Accra. The rest of the journey was covered in ‘Glimpses of Feverland' (1889). Crouch was a cable engineer and this seems to be his first literary effort, but once started he didn't stop and published a number of novels and miscellaneous pieces over the next forty years.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9095
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 184 US$ 197.26 | £UK 157.25 | JP¥ 30179]
Keywords: travel maritime west Africa c19th technology trades communication cable ships
The Night Side of Nature; or, ghosts & ghost seers.
London, Routledge 1852-53. Two volumes small octavo, together in contemporary half calf (scuffed, hinges split and repaired inside by a fairly neat amateur).
¶ Third edition; Crowe's preface suggests that additions have been made but it's not clear.
¶ Third edition; Crowe's preface suggests that additions have been made but it's not clear.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11142
AUD 290.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.75 US$ 190.69 | £UK 152 | JP¥ 29173]
Keywords: occult fiction thrillers ghosts c19th England
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