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The Enchanted Stone.
NY, Dodd Mead 1899. Octavo publisher's cloth & colour illustrated boards. Outstanding in probably the original tissue wrapper.
¶ First American edition, which apparently differs from the English edition. I haven't found out what those differences are, I suspect few people have read both. A fantasy involving magic, mysterious orientals and suchlike. I think this is Hind's first book.
¶ First American edition, which apparently differs from the English edition. I haven't found out what those differences are, I suspect few people have read both. A fantasy involving magic, mysterious orientals and suchlike. I think this is Hind's first book.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 750
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.25 US$ 131.98 | £UK 104.25 | JP¥ 20731]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th England thrillers fantasy
To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, The humble Petition of the Labouring Poor of Great Britain, sheweth, ...
Exeter, printed by Featherstone 1827. Two integral foolscap leaves, 4pp with gap left for an address. Folded and addressed, with post marks, to Viscount Milton with the added notation, "Petition of the Labouring Poor from Exeter". A small hole from opening the wax seal.
¶ A radical, near utopian, demand for the Labouring Poor to have half what they pay in indirect taxes spent for their benefit. The first radical part is in the method of collecting the money: it is to come from what goes to the army and navy and by whacking taxes on the nobility, gentry and landed proprietors. Then we step up a notch. The ten million pounds raised would be handed over to associations of a thousand persons and eventually lead to universal property ownership, the abolition of Negro Slavery and a "revolution ... such as few ever contemplated ... which elevates the mind above all the previous actions of mankind". We finish with a scarely veiled threat about the madness of opposing the masses - "all power flows from them, they are now confident of that power". Milton, later Earl Fitzwilliam, was long time MP for Yorkshire having been thrust by his father into Parliament when still underage. By 1827 his reputation of obstinancy and impractibility was well established and he and his family were described by Creevey as "the ugliest and most dismal race I ever beheld". Unlocated in Copac and OCLC.
¶ A radical, near utopian, demand for the Labouring Poor to have half what they pay in indirect taxes spent for their benefit. The first radical part is in the method of collecting the money: it is to come from what goes to the army and navy and by whacking taxes on the nobility, gentry and landed proprietors. Then we step up a notch. The ten million pounds raised would be handed over to associations of a thousand persons and eventually lead to universal property ownership, the abolition of Negro Slavery and a "revolution ... such as few ever contemplated ... which elevates the mind above all the previous actions of mankind". We finish with a scarely veiled threat about the madness of opposing the masses - "all power flows from them, they are now confident of that power". Milton, later Earl Fitzwilliam, was long time MP for Yorkshire having been thrust by his father into Parliament when still underage. By 1827 his reputation of obstinancy and impractibility was well established and he and his family were described by Creevey as "the ugliest and most dismal race I ever beheld". Unlocated in Copac and OCLC.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9604
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 263.96 | £UK 208.25 | JP¥ 41462]
Keywords: social sciences history law government political economy economics c19th England reform progress utopia
![Mineda Hiroshi., [Sekai Shingata Norimono Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Mineda10433.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sekai Shingata Norimono Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Kodansha 1926 (Taisho 15). Colour broadside, 55x79. Mildly used, a short tear repaired and a nick in the bottom margin; pretty good.
¶ In this new year gift game the kids already have the glazed faces of over privileged world travellers. The only time they show excitement is when defying death by riding on top of an electric train.
¶ In this new year gift game the kids already have the glazed faces of over privileged world travellers. The only time they show excitement is when defying death by riding on top of an electric train.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10433
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 213.75 US$ 230.96 | £UK 182.25 | JP¥ 36280]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile manga illustration travel transport
![Takeda Hisa., [Saishin Majutsu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Takeda10841.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Saishin Majutsu Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shonen Sekai 1922 (Taisho 11). 55x80cm colour broadside. Some small holes in folds; with the playing pieces intact in the margin plus the new year issue of Shonen Sekai that this game came with (spine separating but all there and decent enough).
¶ This game of the latest in magic was the new year gift for 1922 readers.
¶ This game of the latest in magic was the new year gift for 1922 readers.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10841
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.25 US$ 197.97 | £UK 156.25 | JP¥ 31097]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile illustration magic conjuring
![Tanaka Hisara., [Joshi Supotsu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tanaka11024.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Joshi Supotsu Sugoroku].
Shufunotomo 1925 (Taisho 14). colour broadside 95x64cm. Small tears around the edges; pretty good.
¶ This extra large and stylish manga game was the new year gift from the magazine Shufunotomo - housewife's friend. There's something not often seen here: girls being strenuous and competitive to the point of sweating. Recurring through the game is a fierce battle between two girls, one in red stripes and one in blue. Along the way they shake hands. Those are patterned stockings, by the way, not a skin disease. Tanaka was a specialist in moga - modern girls - through the twenties.
¶ This extra large and stylish manga game was the new year gift from the magazine Shufunotomo - housewife's friend. There's something not often seen here: girls being strenuous and competitive to the point of sweating. Recurring through the game is a fierce battle between two girls, one in red stripes and one in blue. Along the way they shake hands. Those are patterned stockings, by the way, not a skin disease. Tanaka was a specialist in moga - modern girls - through the twenties.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11024
AUD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.5 US$ 214.47 | £UK 169.25 | JP¥ 33688]
Keywords: sugoroku paper games pastimes illustration cartoons manga c20th Japan modernism graphic art women feminism Asia sport
![Morita Hisashi., [Kensho Tsuki Shonen Yakyu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Morita10647.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kensho Tsuki Shonen Yakyu Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Sekai Shonen 1923 (Taisho 12). Colour broadside 55x79cm. Signs of use: a couple of small holes in folds and ink blotches.
¶ An early baseball game. Baseball made cameo appearances in earlier games devoted to sport but the earliest all baseball sugoroku I've so far seen was the 1921 new year sugoroku also produced by the boy's magazine Shonen Sekai. Clearly it was a hit - this was the new year gift only two years later. Morita was a busy illustrator and art director for the Takarazuka Revue through the twenties.
¶ An early baseball game. Baseball made cameo appearances in earlier games devoted to sport but the earliest all baseball sugoroku I've so far seen was the 1921 new year sugoroku also produced by the boy's magazine Shonen Sekai. Clearly it was a hit - this was the new year gift only two years later. Morita was a busy illustrator and art director for the Takarazuka Revue through the twenties.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10647
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 213.75 US$ 230.96 | £UK 182.25 | JP¥ 36280]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile sports baseball
![Morita Hisashi., [Sekai Yume Ryoko Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Morita10417.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sekai Yume Ryoko Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Sekai Shonen 1919 (Taisho 8). Colour broadside 79x54cm. Used with several tears in folds and an old repair.
¶ A good sugoroku but not a great copy, this dream adventure was the new year gift from the boys' magazine Sekai Shonen. Morita was a busy illustrator and art director for the Takarazuka Revue through the twenties.
¶ A good sugoroku but not a great copy, this dream adventure was the new year gift from the boys' magazine Sekai Shonen. Morita was a busy illustrator and art director for the Takarazuka Revue through the twenties.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10417
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 65.99 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10366]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile manga illustration
![Sugiura Hisui., [Shonen Sekai Kyoso Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sugiura10598.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shonen Sekai Kyoso Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shonen Sekai 1919 (Taisho 8). Colour broadside 54x78cm. A couple of small nicks in a margin; rather good with playing pieces intact in the left margin.
¶ Sports, sports and more sports in this game - the new year gift from the boys' magazine Shonen Sekai. If you look at portraits of the champion of modern design and fastidious dandy, Sugiura, it's hard to imagine anyone less inclined to jump and sweat. But maybe I misjudge him.
¶ Sports, sports and more sports in this game - the new year gift from the boys' magazine Shonen Sekai. If you look at portraits of the champion of modern design and fastidious dandy, Sugiura, it's hard to imagine anyone less inclined to jump and sweat. But maybe I misjudge him.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10598
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 263.96 | £UK 208.25 | JP¥ 41462]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games pastimes c20th Japan modernism children juvenile illustration sport
Original illustration of a rocket-like space ship.
n.p. 1975. Guoache and ink? on bristol board; 33x52cm with protective overlay sheet and mounted proof of the reduced published illustration in black and white. Signed, dated with an identification number by Ikematsu.
¶ An exquisite cutaway rendering of a large scale space ship that seems to powered by some fuel or force - maybe gathered in space through the nose? Though it looks more like reverse gear. Humans occupy four floors toward the tail, but why are they upside down if the tail is the tail and propels the ship? Ikematsu was a busy sci-fi and technical wizzbang artist and this was obviously for a magazine. It's a pity if the customers only got to see it at half scale in black and white.
¶ An exquisite cutaway rendering of a large scale space ship that seems to powered by some fuel or force - maybe gathered in space through the nose? Though it looks more like reverse gear. Humans occupy four floors toward the tail, but why are they upside down if the tail is the tail and propels the ship? Ikematsu was a busy sci-fi and technical wizzbang artist and this was obviously for a magazine. It's a pity if the customers only got to see it at half scale in black and white.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10807
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.75 US$ 296.95 | £UK 234.25 | JP¥ 46645]
Keywords: graphic art illustration sci-fi science fiction space flight c20th Japan rockets
The Submarine Torpedo Boat. Its characteristics and development.
NY, van Nostrand; London, Crosby Lockwood 1916. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth; xvi,211pp, three folding plans and profiles, 80 photo illustrations, plans and diagrams through the text.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7921
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107 US$ 115.48 | £UK 91.25 | JP¥ 18140]
Keywords: technology transport submarines maritime history ships sea c20th military nautical naval architecture
Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book.
Sydney, Hordern 1998. Quarto publisher's cloth and card slipcase; photo illustrations. Edition of 1000 copies. Unused.
¶ Essential within the world of early photographically illustrated books but I found I have three copies more than I need.
¶ Essential within the world of early photographically illustrated books but I found I have three copies more than I need.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11056
AUD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 23.1 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 3628]
Keywords: bibliography photography c19th Australia
![HOLDSWORTH, [Edward]., Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil; with some other classical observations; ... with several notes, and additional remarks, by Mr Spence.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Holdsworth5384.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil; with some other classical observations; ... with several notes, and additional remarks, by Mr Spence.
London, for Dodsley 1768. Quarto gilt calf (hinges cracked but firm enough); vi,620pp, 12 plates (four being folding maps or plans), a couple of other illustrations through the text. Some light browning and offsetting, a handsome copy.
¶ Holdsworth was of the modern school of classical scholarship, reading Virgil on the spot that it was written and was regarded as the leading Virgilian (Virgiliast?) of his age. After declining a fellowship at Oxford for political reasons he spent much of his life as a tutor for friends and their children - a grand tour guide - allowing him extended travels and studies in Italy; he contributed to James Russel's archaeological letters of a young painter (1748 & 50). These studies are published posthumously, he never recovered from a fever caught crawling in a drain made by Claudius and he died in 1746. Some plates and plans are of the amphitheatre and temple of Augustus at Pola.
¶ Holdsworth was of the modern school of classical scholarship, reading Virgil on the spot that it was written and was regarded as the leading Virgilian (Virgiliast?) of his age. After declining a fellowship at Oxford for political reasons he spent much of his life as a tutor for friends and their children - a grand tour guide - allowing him extended travels and studies in Italy; he contributed to James Russel's archaeological letters of a young painter (1748 & 50). These studies are published posthumously, he never recovered from a fever caught crawling in a drain made by Claudius and he died in 1746. Some plates and plans are of the amphitheatre and temple of Augustus at Pola.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 5384
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.75 US$ 296.95 | £UK 234.25 | JP¥ 46645]
Keywords: classical history literature poetry archaeology Italy
The Conservation of Pictures.
London, Dalton & Lucy 1870. Octavo later cloth (rather dusty); viii,84pp. Ex library with a blindstamp and a small hole at the very top of the title, some small splodges and flaws but a totally acceptable copy.
¶ Rare and pretty significant in the history of art conservation - this book is credited as the first use of the term 'conservation' in relation to art. Rather than following his father George into the family business - social troublemaking - Holyoake followed in the footsteps of the family lodger, picture restorer Henry Merritt.
¶ Rare and pretty significant in the history of art conservation - this book is credited as the first use of the term 'conservation' in relation to art. Rather than following his father George into the family business - social troublemaking - Holyoake followed in the footsteps of the family lodger, picture restorer Henry Merritt.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8445
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.25 US$ 131.98 | £UK 104.25 | JP¥ 20731]
Keywords: art history technique technology materials paint c19th England conservation
Homer and the Monuments.
London, Macmillan 1950. Octavo publisher's cloth; xxiv,552pp, numerous photo illustrations on 32 plates, illustrations through the text.
¶ 'The primary object of this book is to review the archaeological record ... to give as full an account as possible to those elements in it which find a place in the Homeric poems, and to relate this survey to that other record, shadowy, fragmentary, often enigmatic, which is preserved in the poems themselves.' (preface).
¶ 'The primary object of this book is to review the archaeological record ... to give as full an account as possible to those elements in it which find a place in the Homeric poems, and to relate this survey to that other record, shadowy, fragmentary, often enigmatic, which is preserved in the poems themselves.' (preface).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7763
AUD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 52 US$ 56.09 | £UK 44.25 | JP¥ 8811]
Keywords: classical history archaeology Greece Homer literature
The Medical Telephone: containing hints on the preservation of health. Notes on nursing ... Plain directions for treating diseases. Ambulance lectures ...
Hobart, The Homoeopathic Pharmacy 1883. Small octavo publisher's flushcut printed limp cloth (a hint of flecking); 116pp, a fair amount are advertisements. An excellent copy.
¶ A neat little book with a neat title. When I first came across a copy of this, many years ago, I wondered whether there were any telephones in Hobart in 1883 but now, with online research, I find that Tasmania embraced the telephone early and 1883 saw telephone exchanges opened in Hobart and Launceston. In fact, according to Tourism Tasmania, Australia's first phone call was a long distance call made in Tasmania two years before Bell got his telephone working. A remarkable bit of neglected history. This was a rare book for a long time; Ferguson missed it though it fitted his specifications for inclusion and Ford cited three copies, all in Tasmania. Then it became temporarily unscarce when a small cache of copies was discovered some years ago but now it's on its way back up the scarcity scale.
¶ A neat little book with a neat title. When I first came across a copy of this, many years ago, I wondered whether there were any telephones in Hobart in 1883 but now, with online research, I find that Tasmania embraced the telephone early and 1883 saw telephone exchanges opened in Hobart and Launceston. In fact, according to Tourism Tasmania, Australia's first phone call was a long distance call made in Tasmania two years before Bell got his telephone working. A remarkable bit of neglected history. This was a rare book for a long time; Ferguson missed it though it fitted his specifications for inclusion and Ford cited three copies, all in Tasmania. Then it became temporarily unscarce when a small cache of copies was discovered some years ago but now it's on its way back up the scarcity scale.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9808
AUD 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.75 US$ 108.88 | £UK 86 | JP¥ 17103]
Keywords: science popular medicine pharmaceutics homoeopathy homeopathy c19th Australia first aid tasmania
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