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The Truth About the Case ... edited by Albert Keyzer.
Philadelphia, Lippincott 1907. Octavo, excellent in publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in red and black; illustrations by Arthur G. Dove.
¶ First edition in English. Ostensibly taken from the diaries of the ex-Chief of the Paris Surete; there were a few of these memoirs published under his name in French - but read it only as detective fiction.
¶ First edition in English. Ostensibly taken from the diaries of the ex-Chief of the Paris Surete; there were a few of these memoirs published under his name in French - but read it only as detective fiction.
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AUD 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 73.5 US$ 80.04 | £UK 62.75 | JP¥ 12493]
Keywords: literature detective fiction thrillers c20th America c19th France police law mystery
A Straight Goer.
London, John Long [1906?]. Octavo publisher's green cloth. A rather good copy.
¶ Undoubtedly the first edition; the adverts at the end suggest that minor adjustments to Morris Miller's chronology are needed. I pity anyone who takes on a bibliography of Nat Gould; some books are advertised in boards at 2/- or cloth at 2/6; some are advertised in wrappers only. One of Gould's Australian romps, within the first few pages we are introduced to a far flung outback station, the owner's daughter with mysterious antecedents and an unjustly accused younger son of English plutocracy. I skipped to the end in fear that Gould would have this youngish gentleman end up with his arms about the girl, who is only twelve at the start, but rightly he ends up with the faithful young woman at home who always believed in his innocence (who seems to be his first cousin). In between there are bushrangers and horses and other thrills but having reached the end I don't want to give away the middle.
¶ Undoubtedly the first edition; the adverts at the end suggest that minor adjustments to Morris Miller's chronology are needed. I pity anyone who takes on a bibliography of Nat Gould; some books are advertised in boards at 2/- or cloth at 2/6; some are advertised in wrappers only. One of Gould's Australian romps, within the first few pages we are introduced to a far flung outback station, the owner's daughter with mysterious antecedents and an unjustly accused younger son of English plutocracy. I skipped to the end in fear that Gould would have this youngish gentleman end up with his arms about the girl, who is only twelve at the start, but rightly he ends up with the faithful young woman at home who always believed in his innocence (who seems to be his first cousin). In between there are bushrangers and horses and other thrills but having reached the end I don't want to give away the middle.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8450
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92 US$ 100.05 | £UK 78.25 | JP¥ 15616]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th Australia thrillers mystery
![GOWER, Richard Hall., A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Seamanship, together with a system of naval signals .. a useful compendium to the officer, to instruct him when young, and to remind him when old. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. [bound with] A Supplement to the Practical Seamanship ...](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Gower10930.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Seamanship, together with a system of naval signals .. a useful compendium to the officer, to instruct him when young, and to remind him when old. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. [bound with] A Supplement to the Practical Seamanship ...
London, for Wilkie & Robinson &c 1808; London for Mawman 1807. Octavo contemporary calf (rebacked, original lettering piece retained); xxviii,242,[2]pp; volvelle and ills and diagrams through the text; [4],208pp; seven plates - numbered to six with two fours - and illustrations through the text.
¶ Probably the last edition of the Treatise. The volvelle is particularly marvellous: a revolving ship in plan, on it a moveable jib (stayed with cotton), fore yard, main yard, C.J. yard and tiller/rudder; in a printed circle 120mm in diameter. The author's preface to this third edition reminds us why these books are so scarce: "the author having seen impressions of the former editions of this work, in the possession of young men on shipboard, many of which impressions had been deprived of their plates altogether, by rough sea-usage, and too intimate an aquaintance with the lee-scuppers - has, in part, prevented the evil in the present edition, by introducing the explanatory figures with the letter-press." His preface to the second edition is a list of complaints about Steel's "Rigging and Seamanship", not so much for his piracy from Gower as for the misrepresentation and obfuscation introduced in his attempt to disguise that piracy. The Supplement is Gower's continuing research, experiments, designs and inventions: his quite radical ship 'Transit', his new patent log, an eyeshade ... many of which were not much noticed but bore remarkable resemblances to improvements made later by others. Gower seems to have been an admirable man; clever, learned, always inspired by notions of progress, improvement and humanitarianism, and indefatigable in pursuit of acknowledgment and adoption of his work. I get the impression that the halls of power emptied at news that Gower was in the building. Burnley said, in his DNB entry for Gower, that a second edition of the Supplement appeared in 1810 but I am yet to find a copy. The Treatise is hard to find, the Supplement is rare.
¶ Probably the last edition of the Treatise. The volvelle is particularly marvellous: a revolving ship in plan, on it a moveable jib (stayed with cotton), fore yard, main yard, C.J. yard and tiller/rudder; in a printed circle 120mm in diameter. The author's preface to this third edition reminds us why these books are so scarce: "the author having seen impressions of the former editions of this work, in the possession of young men on shipboard, many of which impressions had been deprived of their plates altogether, by rough sea-usage, and too intimate an aquaintance with the lee-scuppers - has, in part, prevented the evil in the present edition, by introducing the explanatory figures with the letter-press." His preface to the second edition is a list of complaints about Steel's "Rigging and Seamanship", not so much for his piracy from Gower as for the misrepresentation and obfuscation introduced in his attempt to disguise that piracy. The Supplement is Gower's continuing research, experiments, designs and inventions: his quite radical ship 'Transit', his new patent log, an eyeshade ... many of which were not much noticed but bore remarkable resemblances to improvements made later by others. Gower seems to have been an admirable man; clever, learned, always inspired by notions of progress, improvement and humanitarianism, and indefatigable in pursuit of acknowledgment and adoption of his work. I get the impression that the halls of power emptied at news that Gower was in the building. Burnley said, in his DNB entry for Gower, that a second edition of the Supplement appeared in 1810 but I am yet to find a copy. The Treatise is hard to find, the Supplement is rare.
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AUD 1300.00 [Appr.: EURO 795.25 US$ 867.08 | £UK 677.5 | JP¥ 135336]
Keywords: technology trades sea maritime ships c19th nautical naval architecture
![GRAY, Francis C. [Calley]., Prison Discipline in America.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Gray6840.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Prison Discipline in America.
London, Murray 1848. Octavo half morocco; 203pp. Ex parliamentary library with their gilt crest on the front board and incorporated into the spine, old manuscript shelf ticket, no other markings; some spotting of outer few pages but quite a good copy.
¶ English edition using the Boston sheets with a new title inserted. One of the first handful of American prison reformers, Gray focussed on the instances of insanity, particularly caused by solitary confinement, based largely on two of the most progressive of American prisons - Philadelphia and Charlestown. He also canvassed European and English opinion, experience and reform. Gray was an example of the ideal Boston gentleman; lawyer by profession, humanitarian by leaning, he was also a pioneer photographer, art collector and member of just about every cultured and learned association there was.
¶ English edition using the Boston sheets with a new title inserted. One of the first handful of American prison reformers, Gray focussed on the instances of insanity, particularly caused by solitary confinement, based largely on two of the most progressive of American prisons - Philadelphia and Charlestown. He also canvassed European and English opinion, experience and reform. Gray was an example of the ideal Boston gentleman; lawyer by profession, humanitarian by leaning, he was also a pioneer photographer, art collector and member of just about every cultured and learned association there was.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6840
AUD 105.00 [Appr.: EURO 64.25 US$ 70.03 | £UK 54.75 | JP¥ 10931]
Keywords: social sciences law prisons convicts reform c19th America history progress
The Mayor's Wife.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill 1907. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth with onlaid colour illustration; seven plates by Alice Barber Stevens. A rather good, bright copy.
¶ First edition of a later, but by no means last, thriller by the early, but not first, woman writer of detective fiction.
¶ First edition of a later, but by no means last, thriller by the early, but not first, woman writer of detective fiction.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8544
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 66.7 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10410]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers America c20th detective mystery
The Millionaire Baby.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill 1905. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in red and gilt; six plates by Arthur Keller. A few signs of use but a rather good bright copy.
¶ First edition.
¶ First edition.
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AUD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 49 US$ 53.36 | £UK 41.75 | JP¥ 8328]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers America c20th detective mystery
A Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering.
Newcastle, Lambert; London, Spon 1870. Two volumes quarto modern half morocco preserving the original cloth sides & marbled endpapers (edges a little worn); [8],255pp, 64 colour litho plates (all but three double page). A few spots, occasional useful pencilling; a quite handsome set.
¶ Second edition, much revised, rewritten and reconstructed to encompass progress since the first (1855) edition. Determinedly practical, Greenwell registers his gratification for works already laid out following his advice and reiterates that the instructions here can be 'safely followed with proper working results.' It is also a very pretty book, if a mining book may be called that. The plates, even those of strata, are appealing. Strata, fossils, machinery - all these work as graphic designs, as do particularly some plans of coal workings.
¶ Second edition, much revised, rewritten and reconstructed to encompass progress since the first (1855) edition. Determinedly practical, Greenwell registers his gratification for works already laid out following his advice and reiterates that the instructions here can be 'safely followed with proper working results.' It is also a very pretty book, if a mining book may be called that. The plates, even those of strata, are appealing. Strata, fossils, machinery - all these work as graphic designs, as do particularly some plans of coal workings.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 4992
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 275.5 US$ 300.14 | £UK 234.5 | JP¥ 46847]
Keywords: technology mining c19th England machinery geology science engineering
Brothers of the Chain.
London, White 1900. Octavo publisher's grained cloth blocked in gilt and black. A rather good, bright copy of a book that usually hasn't aged gracefully.
¶ First edition, second issue with a cancel title; copies are known to exist with the title dated 1899, but not many. The colonial edition though is dated 1899. One of Griffith's baroque thrillers of particular interest to us in the Pacific. "In the triple-walled fastness of the Central Prison on Ile Nou, in New Caledonia there exists, so those who should know, say, the head centre of the most mysterious and the most terrible secret society in which men, or rather fiends in human form, ever bound themselves together." This is not from the novel but from Griffin's Pearson's Weekly article - Griffin building a buttress of supposed fact to support his fiction. The book itself leaps around the world, from Park Lane and Paris to the seas off north Australia and New Caledonia. Trove finds only one copy, in the Ron Graham collection at Sydney University. The non-fiction follow-up on the convicts of New Caledonia, In an Unknown Prison Land (1901), is well represented.
¶ First edition, second issue with a cancel title; copies are known to exist with the title dated 1899, but not many. The colonial edition though is dated 1899. One of Griffith's baroque thrillers of particular interest to us in the Pacific. "In the triple-walled fastness of the Central Prison on Ile Nou, in New Caledonia there exists, so those who should know, say, the head centre of the most mysterious and the most terrible secret society in which men, or rather fiends in human form, ever bound themselves together." This is not from the novel but from Griffin's Pearson's Weekly article - Griffin building a buttress of supposed fact to support his fiction. The book itself leaps around the world, from Park Lane and Paris to the seas off north Australia and New Caledonia. Trove finds only one copy, in the Ron Graham collection at Sydney University. The non-fiction follow-up on the convicts of New Caledonia, In an Unknown Prison Land (1901), is well represented.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8415
AUD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 199 US$ 216.77 | £UK 169.5 | JP¥ 33834]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th England Pacific Australia
Gambles With Destiny.
London, F.V. White 1899. Octavo publisher's cloth (tips a little worn). Endpapers spotted, a pretty good copy with Ronald E. Graham's Virgil Finlay bookplate.
¶ First edition of this collection of shorter things, mostly sci-fi or fantasy - one of which introduces the countdown: 10, 9, 8 ...; another involves a Faustian bargain made with haschisch.
¶ First edition of this collection of shorter things, mostly sci-fi or fantasy - one of which introduces the countdown: 10, 9, 8 ...; another involves a Faustian bargain made with haschisch.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9629
AUD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 113.25 US$ 123.39 | £UK 96.5 | JP¥ 19259]
Keywords: literature fiction science sci-fi fantasy thrillers c19th England
The Gold-Finder.
London F.V. White 1898. Octavo publisher's illustrated green cloth (a bit used, spine wrinkled); frontispiece. An ok copy.
¶ First edition of this thriller involving the Gold Magnet, high speed yachts, merciless modern piracy and tangled family secrets.
¶ First edition of this thriller involving the Gold Magnet, high speed yachts, merciless modern piracy and tangled family secrets.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9630
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 50.02 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7808]
Keywords: literature fiction science sci-fi fantasy thrillers c19th England
Un Journaliste Allemand Vous Parle. Par le Dr Friedrich.
Paris, Editions le Pont [1941]. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 64pp.
¶ Grimm was a despicable specimen of Nazi upper middle management. A lawyer who had a good career among the right wing nationalists and anti-labour industrialists before the first world war he had an even better career after the war working for the overturn of the Versailles treaty and defending the murders of republicans and traitors by right wing killers. The treaty of Versailles was of course engineered by a conspiracy of world Jewry - he and his friend and idol Hitler agreed on this - and, a virulent anti-Semite, he was a busy propagandist and legal aide for the Nazi party, rewarded with a plum position in occupied France. After the war he wormed his way out of any serious punishment and by 1949 was again practicing as a lawyer, working for amnesty for Nazis and defending several who were charged with war crimes. His writing continued at a more fringe level - he was an early champion of holocaust denial and founding member of various neo-Nazi groups. Perhaps he should be admired for his persistence? This particular bit of journalism is the first of an occasional series collecting talks made on French radio. Here they date between April and July 1941 and clear up misunderstandings of 'Mein Kampf', true and false socialism - represented by Germany and the USSR - and other difficulties in the way of entente.
¶ Grimm was a despicable specimen of Nazi upper middle management. A lawyer who had a good career among the right wing nationalists and anti-labour industrialists before the first world war he had an even better career after the war working for the overturn of the Versailles treaty and defending the murders of republicans and traitors by right wing killers. The treaty of Versailles was of course engineered by a conspiracy of world Jewry - he and his friend and idol Hitler agreed on this - and, a virulent anti-Semite, he was a busy propagandist and legal aide for the Nazi party, rewarded with a plum position in occupied France. After the war he wormed his way out of any serious punishment and by 1949 was again practicing as a lawyer, working for amnesty for Nazis and defending several who were charged with war crimes. His writing continued at a more fringe level - he was an early champion of holocaust denial and founding member of various neo-Nazi groups. Perhaps he should be admired for his persistence? This particular bit of journalism is the first of an occasional series collecting talks made on French radio. Here they date between April and July 1941 and clear up misunderstandings of 'Mein Kampf', true and false socialism - represented by Germany and the USSR - and other difficulties in the way of entente.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10546
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 50.02 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7808]
Keywords: social history sciences WWII France occupation Germany economics c20th political economy anti-semitism communism Nazis fascism propaganda
Trapped by Avarice.
London, Digby Long 1896. Octavo publisher's blue ribbed cloth. Edges foxed, still, a good bright copy.
¶ First edition of this most uncommon high society stew of murder, theft, fraudulent wills, gipsies and stolen children. I haven't read anything so marked by the absence of an editorial pencil and so in need of one since that model of publisher's inattention, Stoker's 'Lair of the White Worm'. Just how did the villain have a secret gipsy mother and brother yet have an admirable father and attend a good school? How did he have a mother apparently younger than him? How did the Stanhopes sail to America in a liner decades before it was built? Decades before any such liner was built. How did Stanhope's brother spell his name? They had to yacht around the Great Lakes so that Stella could be gored by a buffalo but why did we have to read the whole itinerary? Why did the Honourable Cecil, so determined to unravel the mystery of the theft of the diamond necklace, forget to return next day to the jewellers for fifteen years? How could Stella and Ethel write regularly for fifteen years and each not wonder why they never had a reply? How did even a falsely accused village peasant get away with three months hard labour for the theft of the priceless necklace? And why did no-one wonder what happened to it? I have many more questions but that's enough for now. There is supposedly a copy of a third edition of this at Newcastle (UK) but I doubt it. Helena Grimshawe - who has apparently used family records for the American parts - seems a one book author, as does Henry Grimshawe, also published by Digby Long in the same year.
¶ First edition of this most uncommon high society stew of murder, theft, fraudulent wills, gipsies and stolen children. I haven't read anything so marked by the absence of an editorial pencil and so in need of one since that model of publisher's inattention, Stoker's 'Lair of the White Worm'. Just how did the villain have a secret gipsy mother and brother yet have an admirable father and attend a good school? How did he have a mother apparently younger than him? How did the Stanhopes sail to America in a liner decades before it was built? Decades before any such liner was built. How did Stanhope's brother spell his name? They had to yacht around the Great Lakes so that Stella could be gored by a buffalo but why did we have to read the whole itinerary? Why did the Honourable Cecil, so determined to unravel the mystery of the theft of the diamond necklace, forget to return next day to the jewellers for fifteen years? How could Stella and Ethel write regularly for fifteen years and each not wonder why they never had a reply? How did even a falsely accused village peasant get away with three months hard labour for the theft of the priceless necklace? And why did no-one wonder what happened to it? I have many more questions but that's enough for now. There is supposedly a copy of a third edition of this at Newcastle (UK) but I doubt it. Helena Grimshawe - who has apparently used family records for the American parts - seems a one book author, as does Henry Grimshawe, also published by Digby Long in the same year.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9324
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.5 US$ 133.4 | £UK 104.25 | JP¥ 20821]
Keywords: literature thrillers detective c19th England
Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100 - 1700.
Oxford Univ Press 1953. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth; x,369pp, 16 plates.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7730
AUD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 40 US$ 43.35 | £UK 34 | JP¥ 6767]
Keywords: science history meideieval renaissance mathematics physics
Matthew Redmayne. A New Zealand Romance.
London, Melbourne &c, George Robertson 1892. Octavo publisher's red cloth (spine a touch faded or rubbed). Quite a good copy.
¶ Only edition. A thriller involving a woman falsely accused of murder, an insane sister, secret correspondence, bigamy and much more. "To give an outline of the plot would be difficult, owing to its complexity, devious windings, and numerous bypaths" writes The West Australian (14th July 1893) who gives it a good review and notes that the author is believed to be a young public servant resident in Perth. Growden published more fiction in The West Australian and the Western Mail but this seems to be his only book.
¶ Only edition. A thriller involving a woman falsely accused of murder, an insane sister, secret correspondence, bigamy and much more. "To give an outline of the plot would be difficult, owing to its complexity, devious windings, and numerous bypaths" writes The West Australian (14th July 1893) who gives it a good review and notes that the author is believed to be a young public servant resident in Perth. Growden published more fiction in The West Australian and the Western Mail but this seems to be his only book.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8479
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 214.25 US$ 233.45 | £UK 182.5 | JP¥ 36437]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th New Zealand Western Australia detective mystery
A History of Dentistry, from the most ancient times until the end of the eighteenth century.
Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger 1909. Large octavo, excellent in publisher's green cloth; 20 plates, 104 illustrations through the text.
¶ First and best edition. I notice that Guerini is still being quoted and occasionally argued with in recent papers on dental history.
¶ First and best edition. I notice that Guerini is still being quoted and occasionally argued with in recent papers on dental history.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7792
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.5 US$ 133.4 | £UK 104.25 | JP¥ 20821]
Keywords: science medicine dentistry history
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