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Translations from the Philosophical Writings, edited by Peter Geach and Max Black.
Oxford, Blackwell 1952. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth and torn dustwrapper (a large piece from the front panel).
¶ First edition, philosopher John Passmore's copy, with his bookplate. A prospective customer just backed away from this because of the dustwrapper even after I explained my conviction that Passmore absent mindedly tore off that piece and used it to clean his pipe while pondering some abstruse principle. Now I'm sure that Passmore excitedly tore off that piece and scribbled down an axiom that annihilated everything done in mathematics and philosophy from Russell and Whitehead thru Wittgenstein and united philosophy and science. Then he absent mindedly used that scrap to clean his pipe and the greatest breakthrough in modern history was lost.
¶ First edition, philosopher John Passmore's copy, with his bookplate. A prospective customer just backed away from this because of the dustwrapper even after I explained my conviction that Passmore absent mindedly tore off that piece and used it to clean his pipe while pondering some abstruse principle. Now I'm sure that Passmore excitedly tore off that piece and scribbled down an axiom that annihilated everything done in mathematics and philosophy from Russell and Whitehead thru Wittgenstein and united philosophy and science. Then he absent mindedly used that scrap to clean his pipe and the greatest breakthrough in modern history was lost.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7843
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 49.83 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7841]
Keywords: philosophy logic mathematics c19th c20th social sciences
The Sack of Monte Carlo. An adventure of today.
Bristol, Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin Marshall 1897. Octavo publisher's maroon cloth blocked in gilt and red. The spine appears to have been retouched but still a rather good copy. Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series, no. XXIX.
¶ First edition. Is this the first caper novel? The modern caper novel - parent to the caper film - I mean, forget Robin Hood and suchlike. Our young English gentleman narrator tells us how he, stymied in love for the while and unhappy and restless, comes up with the idea of looting the casino at Monte Carlo and sets out to enlist some chums - first among his sister's friends for some inexplicable reason, then among his own old school friends and members of his club - and rustle up a fast steam yacht for their getaway. His sister does sign up for the job. Gentleman, and lady, burglars were thick on the ground within a few years, they must have been elbowing each other in Mayfair salons, country house ballrooms and the gaming rooms of Monte Carlo but I can't think of an earlier book having such fun with the planning, execution and scrapes of the big heist.
¶ First edition. Is this the first caper novel? The modern caper novel - parent to the caper film - I mean, forget Robin Hood and suchlike. Our young English gentleman narrator tells us how he, stymied in love for the while and unhappy and restless, comes up with the idea of looting the casino at Monte Carlo and sets out to enlist some chums - first among his sister's friends for some inexplicable reason, then among his own old school friends and members of his club - and rustle up a fast steam yacht for their getaway. His sister does sign up for the job. Gentleman, and lady, burglars were thick on the ground within a few years, they must have been elbowing each other in Mayfair salons, country house ballrooms and the gaming rooms of Monte Carlo but I can't think of an earlier book having such fun with the planning, execution and scrapes of the big heist.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9338
AUD 285.00 [Appr.: EURO 174.5 US$ 189.36 | £UK 148.75 | JP¥ 29797]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers crime detective c19th England caper
Magician's Handbook ... catalogue of "Green Frog" magical conjuring stage and pocket tricks.
n.p. [Sydney?] 1939. Single sheet folded to form four pages largish octavo by size, outer pages with red and green illustrations, inside printed in black.
¶ A flyer to promote Green Frog tricks and their catalogue, a sample page inside and some hints and tips. Naturally this is better printed on better paper than the actual catalogue.
¶ A flyer to promote Green Frog tricks and their catalogue, a sample page inside and some hints and tips. Naturally this is better printed on better paper than the actual catalogue.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10997
AUD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 23.25 | £UK 18.5 | JP¥ 3659]
Keywords: trade catalogues c20th Australia magic conjuring performing arts theatre
The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artifacts.
NY, Praeger 1971. Quarto publisher's cloth; 360pp, hundreds of photo illustrations. Loosely inserted is an article on the ethnographic forger and thief James Little. The dedication copy inscribed by Roland Force to "Estelle Fuller with enduring gratitude". Fuller's collection went to the Field Museum in 1958 and by the time this book appeared Fuller himself was a decade dead.
¶ I suppose Estelle Cleverly knew what she was getting herself into when Alfred Fuller "proposed to his wife beside his favorite object in the British Museum". But you wonder how she felt when he "cut their honeymoon short to attend an ethnographic auction" and then "every day from noon until three o’clock in the morning, Fuller arranged and rearranged his items" (from notes about Fuller on the Field Museum site). Was he so anxious to find a permanent home for his collection to save it from the well known 'widow's revenge' that often sees a husband's first love go into the bonfire?
¶ I suppose Estelle Cleverly knew what she was getting herself into when Alfred Fuller "proposed to his wife beside his favorite object in the British Museum". But you wonder how she felt when he "cut their honeymoon short to attend an ethnographic auction" and then "every day from noon until three o’clock in the morning, Fuller arranged and rearranged his items" (from notes about Fuller on the Field Museum site). Was he so anxious to find a permanent home for his collection to save it from the well known 'widow's revenge' that often sees a husband's first love go into the bonfire?
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8896
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 99.66 | £UK 78.25 | JP¥ 15683]
Keywords: art anthropology Pacific collection catalogue material culture Australia association ethnology ethnography
Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience, and Mosaic .. history, materials, manufacture and use of ornamental flooring tiles, .. recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glaze and art-tile enamels.
Staffordshire, the author 1904. Large thick octavo publisher's cloth with inset illustration; xxiv,852pp; 37 plates (18 colour), numerous illustrations. Mild signs of use but an uncommonly good copy.
¶ Probably the definitive work on 19th century tile manufacture, this is an enormous compendium on the history and manufacture of decorative tiles. And, more importantly perhaps, this contains the results of years of research into ridding the industry of lead-poisoning. Furnival notes that almost 600 women and girls working in the manufacture of earthernware and china had died of lead poisoning between 1895 and 1898. With added contributions on tiles in China (by Bushell), in India (by Clarke and Marshall), and on designing (by Ambrose Wood).
¶ Probably the definitive work on 19th century tile manufacture, this is an enormous compendium on the history and manufacture of decorative tiles. And, more importantly perhaps, this contains the results of years of research into ridding the industry of lead-poisoning. Furnival notes that almost 600 women and girls working in the manufacture of earthernware and china had died of lead poisoning between 1895 and 1898. With added contributions on tiles in China (by Bushell), in India (by Clarke and Marshall), and on designing (by Ambrose Wood).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8125
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 275.5 US$ 298.99 | £UK 234.75 | JP¥ 47048]
Keywords: architecture materials c20th England building trades applied arts ceramic ornament technology tiles reform progress
![Hirai Fusando?, [Nori no tomo - sen'i no horumon].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Poster10264.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Nori no tomo - sen'i no horumon].
n.p. [193-?]. Colour poster 54x19cm.
¶ A cheery shop poster advertising ... I'm not sure what. I can't figure out whether you swallow this stuff or use it with your laundry. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's laundry but the mention of hormones was confusing. I'm pretty definite this is by the cartoonist and illustrator Hirai Fuzando, it's definitely his character - the housewife who knows everything.
¶ A cheery shop poster advertising ... I'm not sure what. I can't figure out whether you swallow this stuff or use it with your laundry. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's laundry but the mention of hormones was confusing. I'm pretty definite this is by the cartoonist and illustrator Hirai Fuzando, it's definitely his character - the housewife who knows everything.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10264
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 66.44 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10455]
Keywords: graphic commerical art advertising posters c20th Japan modernism
![Nakamura Fusetsu., [Sekai Isshu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sugoroku10001.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sekai Isshu Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun 1910 (Meiji 47). Colour printed broadside 55x78cm. Folded as issued, mild browning and signs of use. With the playing pieces intact in the margin.
¶ An elegant sugoroku - racing game - issued by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun to celebrate the 1910 Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London. Nakamura was a star of the generation that studied western painting and went on to forge a new style of Japanese painting, enlivening magazine work and book illustration.
¶ An elegant sugoroku - racing game - issued by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun to celebrate the 1910 Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London. Nakamura was a star of the generation that studied western painting and went on to forge a new style of Japanese painting, enlivening magazine work and book illustration.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10001
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 275.5 US$ 298.99 | £UK 234.75 | JP¥ 47048]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art travel maps Asia meiji
The Land of the Living Dead A narration of the perilous sojourn therein of George Cowper, mariner, in the year 1835.
London, Drane [1897]. Octavo publisher's illustrated pale green cloth blocked in black (spine a bit browned); eight plates by E.A. Holloway. A rather good copy of a book that resents handling and aging; inscribed and signed by Fyne.
¶ First edition; a South Seas lost race thriller and hardly utopian. A ruthless godlike figure holds the power of life and death over his subjects, exploiting a decent bit of scientific investigation by someone at sometime in a sinister and lethal Wizard of Oz (or perhaps certain churches?) bit of imposture. A couple of experts have conjectured that Neal Fyne is a pseudonym since no other books appear under that name. But a pamphlet, I suspect poem, 'In the Middle Watch' by Neal Fyne appeared in 1891 and Drane advertised, in 1897, that ''The Fulfilment of the Prophecy and Other Stories by Neal Fyne, Author of "The Coffin Shop," "Land of the Living Dead," etc. etc.'' was in the press. This is not necessarily a lie; the press could well be the cupboard in the corner where dubious manuscripts were kept. Neither does it prove the pseudonym notion either way. The inscription here doesn't help: it shows only that Fyne was not giving anything away if that wasn't his name. By the way, if you type the phrase "land of the living dead" into Trove's newspaper search you will find a 1945 letter describing Sydney suburb Artarmon as the land of the living dead.
¶ First edition; a South Seas lost race thriller and hardly utopian. A ruthless godlike figure holds the power of life and death over his subjects, exploiting a decent bit of scientific investigation by someone at sometime in a sinister and lethal Wizard of Oz (or perhaps certain churches?) bit of imposture. A couple of experts have conjectured that Neal Fyne is a pseudonym since no other books appear under that name. But a pamphlet, I suspect poem, 'In the Middle Watch' by Neal Fyne appeared in 1891 and Drane advertised, in 1897, that ''The Fulfilment of the Prophecy and Other Stories by Neal Fyne, Author of "The Coffin Shop," "Land of the Living Dead," etc. etc.'' was in the press. This is not necessarily a lie; the press could well be the cupboard in the corner where dubious manuscripts were kept. Neither does it prove the pseudonym notion either way. The inscription here doesn't help: it shows only that Fyne was not giving anything away if that wasn't his name. By the way, if you type the phrase "land of the living dead" into Trove's newspaper search you will find a 1945 letter describing Sydney suburb Artarmon as the land of the living dead.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11016
AUD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 765.5 US$ 830.52 | £UK 652 | JP¥ 130690]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers fantasy lost race c19th Pacific England
![Miyatake Gaikotsu., [Kiso Tenrai].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Miyatake11030.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kiso Tenrai].
Osaka, Gazokubunko 1910 (Meiji 43). 26x19cm publisher's wrapper with printed label; [2],30pp on double folded leaves, 16 pages in colour woodcuts, 14 in b/w. Minor signs of use, rather good.
¶ Charming, delightful, if you like being taken aback every now and then, baffled often, and can overlook the occasional tortured pun. This is very much in the spirit of Miyatake's series of sometimes bewildering and surreal series of postcards issued as extras to his humourous newspaper, Kokkei Shimbun, in 1907. Miyatake wasn't the artist as far as I know, he was writer and publisher and directed his stable of artists to produce the sort of images he enjoyed. The kind of humour he enjoyed apparently earned him four prison sentences. The text may solve the mysteries of several images; it may explain the point of the book, if there is one. I leave that to you. Worldcat finds no copies outside Japan.
¶ Charming, delightful, if you like being taken aback every now and then, baffled often, and can overlook the occasional tortured pun. This is very much in the spirit of Miyatake's series of sometimes bewildering and surreal series of postcards issued as extras to his humourous newspaper, Kokkei Shimbun, in 1907. Miyatake wasn't the artist as far as I know, he was writer and publisher and directed his stable of artists to produce the sort of images he enjoyed. The kind of humour he enjoyed apparently earned him four prison sentences. The text may solve the mysteries of several images; it may explain the point of the book, if there is one. I leave that to you. Worldcat finds no copies outside Japan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11030
AUD 900.00 [Appr.: EURO 551 US$ 597.98 | £UK 469.5 | JP¥ 94097]
Keywords: graphic art humour satire illustration Japan c20th modernism woodcuts manga
![Gall etc. COMBE, George and Dr. A, [Andrew]., On the Functions of the Cerebellum, by Drs Gall, Vimont, and Broussais, translated ... by George Combe; Also Answers to the Objections Urged Against Phrenology by Drs Roget, Rudolphi, Prichard, and Tiedemann, by George Combe and Dr. A. Combe.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Combe8751.jpg "Click to enlarge")
On the Functions of the Cerebellum, by Drs Gall, Vimont, and Broussais, translated ... by George Combe; Also Answers to the Objections Urged Against Phrenology by Drs Roget, Rudolphi, Prichard, and Tiedemann, by George Combe and Dr. A. Combe.
Edinburgh, MacLachlan & Stewart 1838. Octavo publisher's patterned cloth with paper spine label (a bit marked); xliv,339pp, a few illustrations. A mild tidemark on the endpapers but no further in. An appealing copy even without the inscription 'To Dr. A. Brigham with best regards from Geo.Combe 12 November 1838'.
¶ First edition and a pretty fabulous association. Amariah Brigham was a founder of American psychiatry and, like many well-meaning reformers and progressives in the field, held to phrenological principles. Combe was in America in November 1838, it was early in his American lecture tour - a stay of two years - and had met Brigham on his arrival in New York. Brigham was more or less in charge of arranging the lecture tour. The date of this inscription is puzzling: Combe's entry for November 12 in 'Notes on the United States of America' (1841) recounts a visit to Salem but nothing more. So why this day? The book itself is one of the central pillars of Combe's, all the early phrenologists, attempt to establish a sound scientific and reasoned basis for phrenology in the face of ridicule and attacks from more respectable and respected scientists.
¶ First edition and a pretty fabulous association. Amariah Brigham was a founder of American psychiatry and, like many well-meaning reformers and progressives in the field, held to phrenological principles. Combe was in America in November 1838, it was early in his American lecture tour - a stay of two years - and had met Brigham on his arrival in New York. Brigham was more or less in charge of arranging the lecture tour. The date of this inscription is puzzling: Combe's entry for November 12 in 'Notes on the United States of America' (1841) recounts a visit to Salem but nothing more. So why this day? The book itself is one of the central pillars of Combe's, all the early phrenologists, attempt to establish a sound scientific and reasoned basis for phrenology in the face of ridicule and attacks from more respectable and respected scientists.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8751
AUD 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 520.5 US$ 564.76 | £UK 443.5 | JP¥ 88869]
Keywords: science medicine psychiatry psychology c19th phrenology association
Het Apenspel.
n.p. [188-?]. 61x46cm colour litho game on paper. Edges a bit ragged and some repaired clean tears.
¶ A Dutch racing game for devotees of monkeys - and who isn't? It seems counter intuitive these days but the object is to get into the zoo.
¶ A Dutch racing game for devotees of monkeys - and who isn't? It seems counter intuitive these days but the object is to get into the zoo.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9671
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 99.66 | £UK 78.25 | JP¥ 15683]
Keywords: paper games pastimes c19th Netherlands Holland children apes monkeys graphic art
Helder's Vlieg-Spel.
Zwolle, Helder's Biscuits [1909?]. 44x64cm colour litho game on paper. Folded and a touch rumpled; rather good. With a list of the biscuit range down the right side.
¶ A splendid race game featuring plenty of bumps, crashes and engine failures and the earliest forms of the monoplane. Did the monoplane in the centre panel exist? 1909 was the big year for air shows and game makers weren't slow so 1909 is a sensible date to put on this. I can find only one record of another copy of this - in the Seville collection - and this, he said humbly, is a much better copy.
¶ A splendid race game featuring plenty of bumps, crashes and engine failures and the earliest forms of the monoplane. Did the monoplane in the centre panel exist? 1909 was the big year for air shows and game makers weren't slow so 1909 is a sensible date to put on this. I can find only one record of another copy of this - in the Seville collection - and this, he said humbly, is a much better copy.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9663
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 275.5 US$ 298.99 | £UK 234.75 | JP¥ 47048]
Keywords: paper games pastimes aviation advertising c20th travel Netherlands Holland children transport food graphic art
Nieuw Stoombootspel.
Rotterdam, T.J. Wijnhoven Hendriksen [c1835]. Woodcut broadside (41x33cm). A horizontal fold, an outstanding copy.
¶ Racing games like this often celebrate the new, the noteworthy, the latest craze. The steamboat might have been around for a few years but it hadn't lost its gloss judging by the games that re-appeared through the 1830s. This game, signed P. Emans, seems to have been printed at least four or five times through the twenties and thirties judging by the various colophons. All but one I've found are Hendriksen's; the exception is a Delft printing dated 1832 which, if this printing is from around 1835 as the experts say, indicates that the block was lent or rented. Buijnsters and Buijnsters-Smets (Papertoys p272-3 - illustrating this copy) suggest this boat may be the 'Dutchman', built in 1823.
¶ Racing games like this often celebrate the new, the noteworthy, the latest craze. The steamboat might have been around for a few years but it hadn't lost its gloss judging by the games that re-appeared through the 1830s. This game, signed P. Emans, seems to have been printed at least four or five times through the twenties and thirties judging by the various colophons. All but one I've found are Hendriksen's; the exception is a Delft printing dated 1832 which, if this printing is from around 1835 as the experts say, indicates that the block was lent or rented. Buijnsters and Buijnsters-Smets (Papertoys p272-3 - illustrating this copy) suggest this boat may be the 'Dutchman', built in 1823.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9862
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 459.25 US$ 498.31 | £UK 391.25 | JP¥ 78414]
Keywords: paper games toys graphic art c19th Holland travel transport steam maritime nautical
![Aviation paper game., Paris - Madagascar [Les Deux Raids Magnifique de l'Avion "Alsa" on the back].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Alsa10800.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Paris - Madagascar [Les Deux Raids Magnifique de l'Avion "Alsa" on the back].
n.p. Alsa [c1931]. Colour lithograph 36x27cm. text on the back in red and blue. Old folds, pretty good.
¶ Two heroic record breaking flights - Paris-Tokyo and back and Paris-Madagascar and back, both in 1931 - were made to honour Alsa biscuits, cakes and baking powder.
¶ Two heroic record breaking flights - Paris-Tokyo and back and Paris-Madagascar and back, both in 1931 - were made to honour Alsa biscuits, cakes and baking powder.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10800
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 99.66 | £UK 78.25 | JP¥ 15683]
Keywords: paper games graphic advertising art c20th travel aviation flight food biscuits
Tramway Spel.
Amsterdam, J. Viegler [c1880]. 435x575mm colour litho game on paper. A rather good copy.
¶ A Dutch racing game presumably co-produced with the cocoa maker van Houten. Amsterdam's trams began running in 1875 and you can be sure the game makers were at work within minutes. There is a version of this without the advertisements on the trams - which are obvious additions when you compare them - published by Ellerman Harms; doubtless Viegler got the rights and made a deal with van Houten. It wasn't long before writers were complaining about the disfiguring surfeit of advertising on trams all round the world.
¶ A Dutch racing game presumably co-produced with the cocoa maker van Houten. Amsterdam's trams began running in 1875 and you can be sure the game makers were at work within minutes. There is a version of this without the advertisements on the trams - which are obvious additions when you compare them - published by Ellerman Harms; doubtless Viegler got the rights and made a deal with van Houten. It wasn't long before writers were complaining about the disfiguring surfeit of advertising on trams all round the world.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9669
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.5 US$ 132.88 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20910]
Keywords: paper games pastimes advertising c19th travel Netherlands Holland children trams transport graphic art
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