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Elements of Political Economy. Second edition, revised and corrected.
London, for Baldwin &c 1824. Octavo, untrimmed in original boards (spine quite chipped, remnants of printed label). A hint of browning, rather good. Neat contemporary inscription on front fly: Ditchling Library 679; and neat 1892 inscription of a Robert Turner on the title.
¶ Heaps of changes and improvements writes Mill: 'greater developement [sic] ... clearer proof ... more palpable ... rewritten ... more fully expounded ... cleared of some ambiguity ... a new section ...'. It would hardly be surprising, then, that readers would dump their slipshod first edition in the bin the moment they unwrapped this.
¶ Heaps of changes and improvements writes Mill: 'greater developement [sic] ... clearer proof ... more palpable ... rewritten ... more fully expounded ... cleared of some ambiguity ... a new section ...'. It would hardly be surprising, then, that readers would dump their slipshod first edition in the bin the moment they unwrapped this.
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Keywords: political economy social sciences economics philosophy c19th England
![Mill, John Stuart and Nakamura Masanao., [Jiyu no Ri or Jiyuno Kotowari depending on the transcriber]. On Liberty.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Mill10876.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Jiyu no Ri or Jiyuno Kotowari depending on the transcriber]. On Liberty.
Shizuoka, Kihira Ken'ichiro [1872]. Five volumes in six books 23x16cm, publisher's yellow wrappers with title labels. Preface in English signed EWC, this was Edward Warren Clark who taught science in Shizuoka and, later, Tokyo. Covers a bit marked, an excellent set with the original printed outer wrapper (fukuro).
¶ The first Japanese edition of Mill's On Liberty - a book that Douglas Howland (in Personal Liberty and Public Good) tells us was "reportedly read by the entire generation of educated Japanese who came of age during the restoration". I hoped to be able to nail down any issue points and clear up any confusion between the two forms this book takes: the five volumes bound as six books, as here, with volume two divided into two; or bound as five books. The confusion is heightened because many libraries and cataloguers use the 1871 date on the title, ignoring the preface dated January 1872. I thought that a sort of colophon for Dojinsha - Nakamura's school - pasted inside the last back cover might help, but that leaf appears in both versions. Only the cover labels seem to be different. I've found nothing in any language that examines the printing history and while the rule of thumb - everywhere in the world - is that the more costly version - in materials and time - usually came first, I've had to conclude that there isn't any discernible priority and the difference may well be where, rather than when, the books were bound. Nakamura's translation of Smile's 'Self Help' was also published by Kihira in Shizuoka and it seems that Kihira Ken'ichiro existed as a publisher only for Nakamura's translations of these two books which he made in Shizuoka - home of the deposed Tokugawa shogun - where he taught after his return from England in 1868 until 1872. In other words, Nakamura was really the publisher of both books. Worldcat finds five, maybe six, locations outside of Japan - one in Britain, the rest in the US - all but one are catalogued as 1871.
¶ The first Japanese edition of Mill's On Liberty - a book that Douglas Howland (in Personal Liberty and Public Good) tells us was "reportedly read by the entire generation of educated Japanese who came of age during the restoration". I hoped to be able to nail down any issue points and clear up any confusion between the two forms this book takes: the five volumes bound as six books, as here, with volume two divided into two; or bound as five books. The confusion is heightened because many libraries and cataloguers use the 1871 date on the title, ignoring the preface dated January 1872. I thought that a sort of colophon for Dojinsha - Nakamura's school - pasted inside the last back cover might help, but that leaf appears in both versions. Only the cover labels seem to be different. I've found nothing in any language that examines the printing history and while the rule of thumb - everywhere in the world - is that the more costly version - in materials and time - usually came first, I've had to conclude that there isn't any discernible priority and the difference may well be where, rather than when, the books were bound. Nakamura's translation of Smile's 'Self Help' was also published by Kihira in Shizuoka and it seems that Kihira Ken'ichiro existed as a publisher only for Nakamura's translations of these two books which he made in Shizuoka - home of the deposed Tokugawa shogun - where he taught after his return from England in 1868 until 1872. In other words, Nakamura was really the publisher of both books. Worldcat finds five, maybe six, locations outside of Japan - one in Britain, the rest in the US - all but one are catalogued as 1871.
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Keywords: social sciences political economy politics economics government reform progress 19th philosophy England Japan Asia utilitarianism meiji
![Mill, John Stuart and Nakamura Masanao., [Jiyu no Ri or Jiyuno Kotowari depending on the transcriber]. On Liberty.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Mill11011.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Jiyu no Ri or Jiyuno Kotowari depending on the transcriber]. On Liberty.
Shizuoka, Kihira Ken'ichiro [1872]. Five volumes in six books 23x16cm, publisher's yellow wrappers with title labels. Preface in English signed EWC, this was Edward Warren Clark who taught science in Shizuoka and, later, Tokyo. A square red stamp in the top corner of the first page of each volume with faint signs of characters, no other signs of ownership. A rather good set.
¶ The first Japanese edition of Mill's On Liberty - a book that Douglas Howland (in Personal Liberty and Public Good) tells us was "reportedly read by the entire generation of educated Japanese who came of age during the restoration". I hoped to be able to nail down any issue points and clear up any confusion between the two forms this book takes: the five volumes bound as six books, as here, with volume two divided into two; or bound as five books. The confusion is heightened because many libraries and cataloguers use the 1871 date on the title, ignoring the preface dated January 1872. I thought that a sort of colophon for Dojinsha - Nakamura's school - pasted inside the last back cover might help, but that leaf appears in both versions. Only the cover labels seem to be different. I've found nothing in any language that examines the printing history and while the rule of thumb - everywhere in the world - is that the more costly version - in materials and time - usually came first, I've had to conclude that there isn't any discernible priority and the difference may well be where, rather than when, the books were bound. Nakamura's translation of Smile's 'Self Help' was also published by Kihira in Shizuoka and it seems that Kihira Ken'ichiro existed as a publisher only for Nakamura's translations of these two books which he made in Shizuoka - home of the deposed Tokugawa shogun - where he taught after his return from England in 1868 until 1872. In other words, Nakamura was really the publisher of both books. Worldcat finds five, maybe six, locations outside of Japan - one in Britain, the rest in the US - all but one are catalogued as 1871.
¶ The first Japanese edition of Mill's On Liberty - a book that Douglas Howland (in Personal Liberty and Public Good) tells us was "reportedly read by the entire generation of educated Japanese who came of age during the restoration". I hoped to be able to nail down any issue points and clear up any confusion between the two forms this book takes: the five volumes bound as six books, as here, with volume two divided into two; or bound as five books. The confusion is heightened because many libraries and cataloguers use the 1871 date on the title, ignoring the preface dated January 1872. I thought that a sort of colophon for Dojinsha - Nakamura's school - pasted inside the last back cover might help, but that leaf appears in both versions. Only the cover labels seem to be different. I've found nothing in any language that examines the printing history and while the rule of thumb - everywhere in the world - is that the more costly version - in materials and time - usually came first, I've had to conclude that there isn't any discernible priority and the difference may well be where, rather than when, the books were bound. Nakamura's translation of Smile's 'Self Help' was also published by Kihira in Shizuoka and it seems that Kihira Ken'ichiro existed as a publisher only for Nakamura's translations of these two books which he made in Shizuoka - home of the deposed Tokugawa shogun - where he taught after his return from England in 1868 until 1872. In other words, Nakamura was really the publisher of both books. Worldcat finds five, maybe six, locations outside of Japan - one in Britain, the rest in the US - all but one are catalogued as 1871.
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Keywords: social sciences political economy politics economics government reform progress 19th philosophy England Japan Asia utilitarianism meiji
![Coal mine., [Tanko].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tanko11160.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Tanko].
Tokyo, 1940 (Showa 15) Colour poster 53x77cm. A little dusty and frayed around the edges.
¶ Mines sure came a long way from the hell for the choiceless, the bereft, and the suicidal that Soseki wrote about in 1908. That was a copper mine, I admit, but by 1940 underground workers in coal mines weren't just women and convicts. Unless of course you were forced labour from Manchuria, China, or Korea. Still, all that has nothing to do with the shining, automated, downright pretty, triumph of tidy technology we have here. The artist is K. Homma. This is from a series of educational posters for schools, Wakamoto Kyoiku Kakezono. This changed my preconceptions about life in a coal mine so I wonder what else they published in the series. I might have to change my mind about a lot of things. I've found no mention of any other posters in the series.
¶ Mines sure came a long way from the hell for the choiceless, the bereft, and the suicidal that Soseki wrote about in 1908. That was a copper mine, I admit, but by 1940 underground workers in coal mines weren't just women and convicts. Unless of course you were forced labour from Manchuria, China, or Korea. Still, all that has nothing to do with the shining, automated, downright pretty, triumph of tidy technology we have here. The artist is K. Homma. This is from a series of educational posters for schools, Wakamoto Kyoiku Kakezono. This changed my preconceptions about life in a coal mine so I wonder what else they published in the series. I might have to change my mind about a lot of things. I've found no mention of any other posters in the series.
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AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 109 US$ 116.63 | £UK 92.25 | JP¥ 18541]
Keywords: graphic art education schools technology mining coal c20th Japan modernism children juvenile trades posters
![Kosugi Misai., [Boken Soyu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kosugi11037.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Boken Soyu Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Hakubunkan 1908 (Meiji 41). 54x80cm colour printed broadside. Mild signs of use, rather good with the playing pieces in the top margin.
¶ This stylish adventure sugoroku was the new year gift from the magazine Boken Sekai (Adventure World). A thrill seeking family jaunt around the world meeting sea serpents, sirens and ghouls of some sort, killing all sorts of large beasts on the way. Only father and the older son get to kill things but mother does get to drive a car, radical enough. Kosugi Misai was another of those painters who started by studying western art and discovered Japanese art outside Japan; in his case in Paris in 1913.
¶ This stylish adventure sugoroku was the new year gift from the magazine Boken Sekai (Adventure World). A thrill seeking family jaunt around the world meeting sea serpents, sirens and ghouls of some sort, killing all sorts of large beasts on the way. Only father and the older son get to kill things but mother does get to drive a car, radical enough. Kosugi Misai was another of those painters who started by studying western art and discovered Japanese art outside Japan; in his case in Paris in 1913.
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AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 280 US$ 299.91 | £UK 236.75 | JP¥ 47677]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art travel Asia meiji
The Last American. A fragment from the journal of Khan-Li, Prince of Dimph-yoo-chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy.
NY, Stokes 1889. Octavo publisher's dark blue illustrated cloth blocked in black and gilt (tips rubbed); 78pp, illustrations. A couple of minor flaws and signs of use but a pretty good copy.
¶ First edition of this amusing (if pun spattered) account of a voyage of discovery to the ruins of Mehrika at the end of the 30th century; it is filled with anthropological and archaeological revelations. The street scene showing daily life in ancient Nhu-Yok is particularly good. The end is sad.
¶ First edition of this amusing (if pun spattered) account of a voyage of discovery to the ruins of Mehrika at the end of the 30th century; it is filled with anthropological and archaeological revelations. The street scene showing daily life in ancient Nhu-Yok is particularly good. The end is sad.
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AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 109 US$ 116.63 | £UK 92.25 | JP¥ 18541]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers fantasy c19th America imaginary voyages
The Paxton Plot.
London, John Long 1908. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in gilt, black and orange. Some foxing, a bright copy.
¶ First edition of this thriller of a socialist revolutionary plot masterminded by a woman. This is known, but is it the old Miss Delaval or her charming niece, the young Miss Delaval? Our hero is "half vagabond, half Bohemian" yet by instinct a rigid Tory.
¶ First edition of this thriller of a socialist revolutionary plot masterminded by a woman. This is known, but is it the old Miss Delaval or her charming niece, the young Miss Delaval? Our hero is "half vagabond, half Bohemian" yet by instinct a rigid Tory.
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AUD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 56 US$ 59.98 | £UK 47.5 | JP¥ 9535]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c20th England women feminism
Caravaggio and His Copyists.
New York Univ Press 1976. Quarto very good in publisher's cloth (issued without a dustwrapper I believe); 176pp, 126 illustrations.
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AUD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.25 US$ 33.32 | £UK 26.5 | JP¥ 5297]
Keywords: art monographs renaissance Italy painting
How Came He Dead?
NY, Lovell [1890?]. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in silver and gilt. Cover a touch marked, stitching a bit loose; quite good.
¶ First edition, it seems, of a now obscure and rare thriller that may well be among the most widely read novels in late colonial Australia. I don't say it was a best seller - I find no evidence that any copy of this book ever reached Australia - but it was serialised in newspapers in, at least, Brisbane and Gippsland and likely in provincial papers yet to be unearthed. It was also serialised in at least one New Zealand paper and in the US, which is presumably how Lovell got hold hold of it. This is an English tale of modern villainy populated by London society and ornamented with an Irish dungeon, mysterious Indian poisons and brazen coincidence. In all, satisfying verandah reading from Queensland to Victoria. Other Molloy syndicated serial thrillers did make it to book form in England but I can't discover that there was ever an English edition of this.
¶ First edition, it seems, of a now obscure and rare thriller that may well be among the most widely read novels in late colonial Australia. I don't say it was a best seller - I find no evidence that any copy of this book ever reached Australia - but it was serialised in newspapers in, at least, Brisbane and Gippsland and likely in provincial papers yet to be unearthed. It was also serialised in at least one New Zealand paper and in the US, which is presumably how Lovell got hold hold of it. This is an English tale of modern villainy populated by London society and ornamented with an Irish dungeon, mysterious Indian poisons and brazen coincidence. In all, satisfying verandah reading from Queensland to Victoria. Other Molloy syndicated serial thrillers did make it to book form in England but I can't discover that there was ever an English edition of this.
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AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.75 US$ 199.94 | £UK 158 | JP¥ 31785]
Keywords: literature thrillers fiction c19th England
An Original Hypothesis of the Origin of Life.
n.p. [Sydney 1917? - some copies are inscribed "Copyright by the Author 1917" ]. Octavo publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on the front cover. [4],202pp including 45 illustrations on 10 leaves numbered 192-201, 202 on verso. Printed from typescript with some ms corrections. Ex theological library - as was the last copy I found - but not offensively so.
¶ Mary Anne Moore-Bentley is perhaps best known as the author of A Woman of Mars, or Australia's Enfranchised Woman (Sydney 1901) which involved a visiting Martian feminist. The complexity of this work precludes me from offering a synopsis; it ranges from the supposition that 'organic life originated from photographic impression' to an investigation of the 'affect of faith upon skin pigment'. An unjustly neglected work? I don't know, but neglected certainly. Mary Ann Moore Bentley, or Mary Ling (her married name), stood for the senate in 1903 - the first year women in New South Wales could vote - and, while she didn't win a seat, she did pretty well for votes. She self published a number of pamphets and polemical books over the years; this is maybe the most ambitious and the oddest.
¶ Mary Anne Moore-Bentley is perhaps best known as the author of A Woman of Mars, or Australia's Enfranchised Woman (Sydney 1901) which involved a visiting Martian feminist. The complexity of this work precludes me from offering a synopsis; it ranges from the supposition that 'organic life originated from photographic impression' to an investigation of the 'affect of faith upon skin pigment'. An unjustly neglected work? I don't know, but neglected certainly. Mary Ann Moore Bentley, or Mary Ling (her married name), stood for the senate in 1903 - the first year women in New South Wales could vote - and, while she didn't win a seat, she did pretty well for votes. She self published a number of pamphets and polemical books over the years; this is maybe the most ambitious and the oddest.
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AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 109 US$ 116.63 | £UK 92.25 | JP¥ 18541]
Keywords: science natural history Australia c20th biology philosophy lunacy polemic feminism
![[Tiepolo]. MORASSI, Antonio., A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, including pictures by his pupils and followers wrongly attributed to him.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tiepolo6448.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, including pictures by his pupils and followers wrongly attributed to him.
Phaidon 1962. Quarto, very good in slightly marked and frayed dustwrapper; 239pp, 429 illustrations.
¶ Catalogue raisonne.
¶ Catalogue raisonne.
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AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.5 US$ 99.97 | £UK 79 | JP¥ 15892]
Keywords: art painting c18th Italy monographs
Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands. A cruise in Polynesia and visits to the pearl-shelling stations in Torres Straits ...
London, Murray 1876. Octavo modern (but not recent) blue crushed morocco; xviii,327pp and publisher's list, six plates, a folding map and a further map not called for in the list but necessary. A pleasing copy.
¶ In his appendix Moresby prints a long and detailed letter to the Athenaeum refuting many claims made in Lawson's fictional Wanderings in New Guinea.
¶ In his appendix Moresby prints a long and detailed letter to the Athenaeum refuting many claims made in Lawson's fictional Wanderings in New Guinea.
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AUD 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 528.75 US$ 566.5 | £UK 447.25 | JP¥ 90057]
Keywords: travel exploration maritime nautical Papua New Guinea Australia Pacific c19th
Television To-Day and To-Morrow with a foreword by John L. Baird.
London, Pitman 1930. Octavo publisher's cloth; 130pp & catal., numerous photo plates & illustrations. Some browning, only worth mentioning on endpapers and edges.
¶ The first of a few editions. Largely written by a prime mover in the Baird company and vetted, as he said later, by Baird, this is as close as we get to Baird's own account of his work. It is a strong defence of Baird and gives an extended account of the battle with the B.B.C. It is as Moseley says "a piquant history of television as I knew it at first hand, but the subject has grown out of hand".
¶ The first of a few editions. Largely written by a prime mover in the Baird company and vetted, as he said later, by Baird, this is as close as we get to Baird's own account of his work. It is a strong defence of Baird and gives an extended account of the battle with the B.B.C. It is as Moseley says "a piquant history of television as I knew it at first hand, but the subject has grown out of hand".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7512
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.25 US$ 66.65 | £UK 52.75 | JP¥ 10595]
Keywords: science television c20th England technology electronics communications Baird
![MOSER, Inspector Maurice ... late of Scotland Yard., The Modern Detective; or Shadows & Shadowland & the Crime Investigator. Vol. 1., No. 1. [all published?].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Moser10722.jpg "Click to enlarge")
The Modern Detective; or Shadows & Shadowland & the Crime Investigator. Vol. 1., No. 1. [all published?].
London, March 9, 1898. 31x25cm publisher's printed wrapper; 20pp; illustrations in half-tone and line. Minor signs of use; rather good.
¶ All published it seems and rare.Worldcat finds one entry for this one issue and I can't add to that. I would have thought the 1890s was a fine time to start a detective magazine but I suspect a deeper purse than The Modern Detective displays was necessary. Even prizes for a new design of handcuffs and for the solution to the theft of Lady Lackington's jewels could not spur sales enough to justify a second number. Not even the appearance of The Misadventures of Sheerluck Gnomes by a T.P. Stafford. Inspector Moser (late of Scotland Yard) published a book or two of ostensible real life stories from his time at the yard a few years earlier and an article on handcuffs in the Strand in 1894 but vanishes into the shadowland of literary hacks after this. He seems destined to be remembered as the unpleasant private detective who unwillingly gave his name to woman detective Antonia Moser after their rupture.
¶ All published it seems and rare.Worldcat finds one entry for this one issue and I can't add to that. I would have thought the 1890s was a fine time to start a detective magazine but I suspect a deeper purse than The Modern Detective displays was necessary. Even prizes for a new design of handcuffs and for the solution to the theft of Lady Lackington's jewels could not spur sales enough to justify a second number. Not even the appearance of The Misadventures of Sheerluck Gnomes by a T.P. Stafford. Inspector Moser (late of Scotland Yard) published a book or two of ostensible real life stories from his time at the yard a few years earlier and an article on handcuffs in the Strand in 1894 but vanishes into the shadowland of literary hacks after this. He seems destined to be remembered as the unpleasant private detective who unwillingly gave his name to woman detective Antonia Moser after their rupture.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10722
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.75 US$ 199.94 | £UK 158 | JP¥ 31785]
Keywords: literature thrillers c19th England crime detective periodicals sherlock holmes
![Kimoto Motoo., [Shin'an Meiji Fujin Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kimoto10870.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shin'an Meiji Fujin Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Fujin Sekai 1910 (Meiji 43). Colour lithograph 51x79cm. A couple of pinholes in folds, rather good.
¶ An aspirational record of the life of the modern Meiji woman. Women do work, as telephonists, as teachers, typesetters, maybe even as a doctor. All can be balanced with a satisfying family life. This was the new year gift from the magazine, Fujin Sekai: Woman's World.
¶ An aspirational record of the life of the modern Meiji woman. Women do work, as telephonists, as teachers, typesetters, maybe even as a doctor. All can be balanced with a satisfying family life. This was the new year gift from the magazine, Fujin Sekai: Woman's World.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10870
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.75 US$ 199.94 | £UK 158 | JP¥ 31785]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art progress women feminism meiji
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