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An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery are Produced or Prevented, by Our Present System of Prison Discipline. Illustrated by descriptions ... sixth edition.
London, for John & Arthur Arch &c. 1818. 12mo, uncut in original boards (spine chipped); viii,184pp, 4pp publisher's adverts. A little browning, a few spots; quite a good copy with the bookplate of Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, administrator, politician, statesman &c who gave his name to several spots around the world including two in Australia.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818, this being the last of course. Much of its power comes from the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand - dates and names are specified - and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into European languages over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: this is his first book and his last (1839) is on slavery.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818, this being the last of course. Much of its power comes from the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand - dates and names are specified - and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into European languages over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: this is his first book and his last (1839) is on slavery.
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Keywords: social sciences reform prisons history c19th England crime progress association
Essays in Political Economy. Theoretical and applied.
London, Macmillan 1873. Octavo half morocco. Ex parliamentary library with their gilt crest on the front board and incorporated into the spine, no other markings; a scattering of spots but a rather good and handsome copy.
¶ First edition. The practical essays focus on the problems caused by the gold discoveries in California and Australia; the theoretical on political economy and laissez-faire; with two critical essays on Comte and Bastiat.
¶ First edition. The practical essays focus on the problems caused by the gold discoveries in California and Australia; the theoretical on political economy and laissez-faire; with two critical essays on Comte and Bastiat.
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AUD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 168 US$ 179.66 | £UK 144 | JP¥ 28432]
Keywords: political economy economics theory gold Australia America c19th social sciences
Evenings at Haddon Hall ... with illustrations from designs by George Cattermole.
London, Colburn 1846. Largish octavo later half blue crushed morocco by Root; 24 handcoloured plates. An excellent, handsome, quite remarkable copy.
¶ First edition. Haddon Hall hasn't been admitted into the Gothic canon and this is almost unfair. A melange of tales - one by Ainsworth - most have more than enough blood, murder, turmoil, torment, torture and revenge to qualify. This was immensely popular through the 19th century, perhaps due to Cattermole, but I think it now has been wrongly relegated with the simpering Victorian books down the pretty end of the shelf. I couldn't find a publisher's advertisement for coloured copies so it presumably wasn't offered for sale coloured; I did find a record of a copy, also bound by Root, with the plates in two states - what these states were wasn't explained.
¶ First edition. Haddon Hall hasn't been admitted into the Gothic canon and this is almost unfair. A melange of tales - one by Ainsworth - most have more than enough blood, murder, turmoil, torment, torture and revenge to qualify. This was immensely popular through the 19th century, perhaps due to Cattermole, but I think it now has been wrongly relegated with the simpering Victorian books down the pretty end of the shelf. I couldn't find a publisher's advertisement for coloured copies so it presumably wasn't offered for sale coloured; I did find a record of a copy, also bound by Root, with the plates in two states - what these states were wasn't explained.
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Keywords: literature fiction thrillers England c19th illustrated coloured plates
A Candid Disquisition of the Principles and Practices of the Most Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons; ...
[Boston] London; Printed: Reprinted and sold by Brother William M'Alpine, Boston 1772. Octavo sheep (publisher's? - the endpapers seem to be on identical paper to the text stock; a little scuffed); [4],xiv,[2],256pp. Generally foxed but still a very good, quite crisp copy; absolutely original. An inscription erased from inside the front board but handsomely inscribed on the second blank: 'Stephen Meeds's Book 1774'.
¶ ''A veritable gem for English Masonic collectors to look out for (it may be for years, it may be forever), as it is excessively rare''. (Sale catalogue of Charles W. Frederickson, sold in New York by Bangs in 1897). Maybe a little hyperbolic as I have found three copies sold in auction in the 20th century; the last one (1994, miscatalogued as London 1772) was cheap ($250) but seemed a pretty horrible copy. Calcott's book was first published in London in 1769 and it both superseded the first authoritive text, Anderson's 'Constitutions' (1723 and revised in 1738), and did much to heal the schism between Ancient and Modern Freemasonry that lasted into the early 19th century. Calcott himself remains obscure, he seems to have been something of a mendicant scholar, of whom Mackey said: ''It is a romantic fact ... that words written down in 1750 or 1760 by this only half-known, gentle, much wandering man, two or three times described in Lodge Minutes as 'in unfortunate circumstances,' should afterwards be on the tongues of millions of men who have never so much as heard his name!'' Mackey says that he was known to be in America twice, in the Carolinas, and it is possible that he visited New York and Boston. The Frederickson catalogue goes on to claim this as perhaps the first 'purely' American Masonic book of any importance. Now this is disingenuous; it doesn't seem likely that neither Frederickson nor Bangs' cataloguer didn't know of Benjamin Franklin's 1734 printing of Anderson's 'Constitutions'. So the claim then hinges on the American content of the two books. In between all I can find are Joseph Green's satirical squibs printed in Boston and a Masonic songbook briefly believed to be printed in Quebec in 1765 but actually printed in Scotland. We have a list of 405 subscribers in the Provinces of Massachusetts, New York, and Nova Scotia, the Colony of Connecticut; as well as the details of the three Boston Lodges. And we have nine songs not included in the London edition. By the way, the American Antiquarian Society notes that the only oratorio libretto that they can find printed in America before 1815 is 'Solomon's Temple' printed here, just before the extra nine songs. Stephen Meeds is listed as a private in the Westford company of minutemen who turned out for the first battle of the revolution on April 19th 1775 (Joseph Warren was, by the way again, a Grand Master and subscribed for six copies, and Paul Revere and fellow rider John Pulling are among the subscribers to this book). He reappears here and there among revolutionary documents: he signed the Association Test in Portsmouth in 1776 and he is listed as a Lieutenant of Marines on the Portsmouth privateer 'Raleigh' in 1777.
¶ ''A veritable gem for English Masonic collectors to look out for (it may be for years, it may be forever), as it is excessively rare''. (Sale catalogue of Charles W. Frederickson, sold in New York by Bangs in 1897). Maybe a little hyperbolic as I have found three copies sold in auction in the 20th century; the last one (1994, miscatalogued as London 1772) was cheap ($250) but seemed a pretty horrible copy. Calcott's book was first published in London in 1769 and it both superseded the first authoritive text, Anderson's 'Constitutions' (1723 and revised in 1738), and did much to heal the schism between Ancient and Modern Freemasonry that lasted into the early 19th century. Calcott himself remains obscure, he seems to have been something of a mendicant scholar, of whom Mackey said: ''It is a romantic fact ... that words written down in 1750 or 1760 by this only half-known, gentle, much wandering man, two or three times described in Lodge Minutes as 'in unfortunate circumstances,' should afterwards be on the tongues of millions of men who have never so much as heard his name!'' Mackey says that he was known to be in America twice, in the Carolinas, and it is possible that he visited New York and Boston. The Frederickson catalogue goes on to claim this as perhaps the first 'purely' American Masonic book of any importance. Now this is disingenuous; it doesn't seem likely that neither Frederickson nor Bangs' cataloguer didn't know of Benjamin Franklin's 1734 printing of Anderson's 'Constitutions'. So the claim then hinges on the American content of the two books. In between all I can find are Joseph Green's satirical squibs printed in Boston and a Masonic songbook briefly believed to be printed in Quebec in 1765 but actually printed in Scotland. We have a list of 405 subscribers in the Provinces of Massachusetts, New York, and Nova Scotia, the Colony of Connecticut; as well as the details of the three Boston Lodges. And we have nine songs not included in the London edition. By the way, the American Antiquarian Society notes that the only oratorio libretto that they can find printed in America before 1815 is 'Solomon's Temple' printed here, just before the extra nine songs. Stephen Meeds is listed as a private in the Westford company of minutemen who turned out for the first battle of the revolution on April 19th 1775 (Joseph Warren was, by the way again, a Grand Master and subscribed for six copies, and Paul Revere and fellow rider John Pulling are among the subscribers to this book). He reappears here and there among revolutionary documents: he signed the Association Test in Portsmouth in 1776 and he is listed as a Lieutenant of Marines on the Portsmouth privateer 'Raleigh' in 1777.
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Keywords: social history freemasonry c18th England America American revolution association
Physics, the Elements.
Cambridge Univ Press 1920. Large octavo, very good in publisher's cloth; 565pp.
¶ First edition. Despite the title this is not a text book - Campbell himself spells this out in the first sentence of his preface - and has nothing to do with the periodic table. It was later reprinted with a new title: 'Foundations of Science; the philosophy of theory and experiment' which may make the intent of the book more clear. A long time in the planning and delayed for many reasons, including the war, Campbell finished it without any recourse to his references. He deals with this flaw with equanimity though - complete references would have doubled the size of the book and made it unreadable. The only source that he does acknowledge by name is 'The King's English'; there cannot be too many philosophers or scientists who make such an acknowledgment. Likewise he was pleased not to have written part III at the time that Einstein's theory of relativity was attracting the most condemnation: 'doubtless ... I should have made the blunders or worse blunders myself'.
¶ First edition. Despite the title this is not a text book - Campbell himself spells this out in the first sentence of his preface - and has nothing to do with the periodic table. It was later reprinted with a new title: 'Foundations of Science; the philosophy of theory and experiment' which may make the intent of the book more clear. A long time in the planning and delayed for many reasons, including the war, Campbell finished it without any recourse to his references. He deals with this flaw with equanimity though - complete references would have doubled the size of the book and made it unreadable. The only source that he does acknowledge by name is 'The King's English'; there cannot be too many philosophers or scientists who make such an acknowledgment. Likewise he was pleased not to have written part III at the time that Einstein's theory of relativity was attracting the most condemnation: 'doubtless ... I should have made the blunders or worse blunders myself'.
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AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 65.33 | £UK 52.5 | JP¥ 10339]
Keywords: science physics philosophy c20th England
![CAPEK, Karel & Suzuki Zentaro., [R.U.R Robotto].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Capek11139.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[R.U.R Robotto].
Tokyo, Kinseido 1924 (Taishi 13). 18x12cm publisher's illustrated wrapper; title page with Simonson's poster design for the New York production in red and black, photo frontispiece. A nice copy.
¶ The introduction of 'robot' to the Japanese language and they've gone mad with it ever since. It isn't, however, the first published Japanese translation or adaptation of Capek's play: in 1923 that appeared titled Jinzo Ningen - artificial human - by Uga Itsuo. He seems to have been a haiku and theatre enthusiast who was working for a Japanese company in New York when the Theater Guild did their production. He has pretty much vanished from history except as a translator of RUR. And he deserves it, discarding what might be the most evocative word of our times. I presumed Suzuki, a writer of greater consequence, produced his version as a reaction but it seems more a matter of zeitgeist. Suzuki went on a cultural world tour in 1920 and came back armed with Capek, Molnar, Eugene O'Neill, and who knows what other stage weapons. He wrote a long article on the play in 1923 and this translation predates the first production of Uga's version. It seems neither of them knew of the other's work. Worldcat finds no copies of this outside Japan.
¶ The introduction of 'robot' to the Japanese language and they've gone mad with it ever since. It isn't, however, the first published Japanese translation or adaptation of Capek's play: in 1923 that appeared titled Jinzo Ningen - artificial human - by Uga Itsuo. He seems to have been a haiku and theatre enthusiast who was working for a Japanese company in New York when the Theater Guild did their production. He has pretty much vanished from history except as a translator of RUR. And he deserves it, discarding what might be the most evocative word of our times. I presumed Suzuki, a writer of greater consequence, produced his version as a reaction but it seems more a matter of zeitgeist. Suzuki went on a cultural world tour in 1920 and came back armed with Capek, Molnar, Eugene O'Neill, and who knows what other stage weapons. He wrote a long article on the play in 1923 and this translation predates the first production of Uga's version. It seems neither of them knew of the other's work. Worldcat finds no copies of this outside Japan.
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AUD 800.00 [Appr.: EURO 488.25 US$ 522.65 | £UK 418.75 | JP¥ 82711]
Keywords: literature science fiction robots androids theatre c20th Japan modernism
![CAPES, B.E.J. [Bernard]., The Mill of Silence.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Capes10676.jpg "Click to enlarge")
The Mill of Silence.
Chicago, Rand McNally 1897. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in gilt and green. A bit used, a few spots, a large owner's name on the front fly; still a most acceptable copy.
¶ First edition of this long neglected thriller, a murder mystery soaked in horror and the uncanny, missed by bibliographers for a century. Doubtless the innocuous title and sylvan binding is partly to blame. An American book but an English story by an English writer, it was well enough described by the Star reviewer in Christchurch, New Zealand: "The author ... dearly loves the handling of the grim, the uncanny, and the morbid; he is a master in the painting of suffering humanity, suffering as a shuttle tossed by the hand of Fate." (Star, 1903, review of the later London edition). Not just humanity, our narrator can't even walk home through the woods without stumbling over a bunny "with glazing eyes and the stab of the ferret tooth behind her ear." Secret after secret is unveiled in paroxysms of terror and hatred but babbling madness usually raises more questions than it answers. Does anyone survive the book? I'm still wondering.
¶ First edition of this long neglected thriller, a murder mystery soaked in horror and the uncanny, missed by bibliographers for a century. Doubtless the innocuous title and sylvan binding is partly to blame. An American book but an English story by an English writer, it was well enough described by the Star reviewer in Christchurch, New Zealand: "The author ... dearly loves the handling of the grim, the uncanny, and the morbid; he is a master in the painting of suffering humanity, suffering as a shuttle tossed by the hand of Fate." (Star, 1903, review of the later London edition). Not just humanity, our narrator can't even walk home through the woods without stumbling over a bunny "with glazing eyes and the stab of the ferret tooth behind her ear." Secret after secret is unveiled in paroxysms of terror and hatred but babbling madness usually raises more questions than it answers. Does anyone survive the book? I'm still wondering.
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AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 305.25 US$ 326.66 | £UK 261.75 | JP¥ 51694]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers mystery fantasy c19th England America occult ghosts
Guerra Entre Planetas - Battle in Outer Space.
n.p. [1959/60]. Colour poster 26x37cm. A small hole, a rather good copy.
¶ Spanish language lobby card for the Japanese sci-fi thriller Uchu Daisenso released in English as Battle in Outer Space. This was no low budget shocker. This was a high budget, special effects extravaganza shocker with an international cast - at least three or four American nonentities were in it. This is my favourite of the various posters and lobby cards I've seen - the Japanese and American versions tried too hard to make the movie big budget serious.
¶ Spanish language lobby card for the Japanese sci-fi thriller Uchu Daisenso released in English as Battle in Outer Space. This was no low budget shocker. This was a high budget, special effects extravaganza shocker with an international cast - at least three or four American nonentities were in it. This is my favourite of the various posters and lobby cards I've seen - the Japanese and American versions tried too hard to make the movie big budget serious.
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AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: graphic art film performing arts c20th Japan science fiction sci-fi posters
The Viking's Skull.
Boston, Little Brown 1904. Octavo publisher's illustrated green cloth printed in colours; four plates. An excellent, bright copy.
¶ First edition of this convoluted, unfair, mildly occult thriller. "An ingeniously constructed plot, which tells how Idris Marville, true Earl of Ormsby recovered a treasure hidden by one of his progenitors - a Viking of the Ninth Century - and how he cleared the memory of his father, who had been wrongfully convicted of murder" - publisher's advertisement - which is both a spoiler and mostly untrue. All the detective work was done by the two beautiful women who love him. And since the spoiler is already in I can tell you that of course it's not a viking's skull. To this we add, "Yet even amidst her fear it did not escape her notice that the hand which held the weapon was small, white, and decorated with a diamond ring" (p33). Sometimes a black silk vizard is just not disguise enough. But is it a useful clue? No.
¶ First edition of this convoluted, unfair, mildly occult thriller. "An ingeniously constructed plot, which tells how Idris Marville, true Earl of Ormsby recovered a treasure hidden by one of his progenitors - a Viking of the Ninth Century - and how he cleared the memory of his father, who had been wrongfully convicted of murder" - publisher's advertisement - which is both a spoiler and mostly untrue. All the detective work was done by the two beautiful women who love him. And since the spoiler is already in I can tell you that of course it's not a viking's skull. To this we add, "Yet even amidst her fear it did not escape her notice that the hand which held the weapon was small, white, and decorated with a diamond ring" (p33). Sometimes a black silk vizard is just not disguise enough. But is it a useful clue? No.
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AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 65.33 | £UK 52.5 | JP¥ 10339]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th America thrillers fantasy mystery women detectives
The Weird Picture.
Boston, Little Brown 1905. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth; four plates by Cyrus Cuneo. A very good copy.
¶ First American edition, contemporaneous with the English. Not, definitely not, to be judged by its cover, this is a spendid conglomeration of mystery, neo-gothic horror, madness, murder and art.
¶ First American edition, contemporaneous with the English. Not, definitely not, to be judged by its cover, this is a spendid conglomeration of mystery, neo-gothic horror, madness, murder and art.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8569
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers fantasy c20th England
The Theory of Relativity.
NY, Wiley 1920. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth; 112pp. Mathematical Monographs No. 12.
¶ Second edition, first published in 1913 it is here updated with a substantial new chapter on the general theory. Carmichael is celebrated by having his own numbers (Carmichael numbers of course). These are numbers which either relate or don't relate to Fermat's little theorem (I haven't quite grasped the finer details yet); and while once there were thought to be be very few Carmichael numbers it has been recently shown there are an infinite number of them. Very satisfying to have an infinite amount of your own numbers I would think.
¶ Second edition, first published in 1913 it is here updated with a substantial new chapter on the general theory. Carmichael is celebrated by having his own numbers (Carmichael numbers of course). These are numbers which either relate or don't relate to Fermat's little theorem (I haven't quite grasped the finer details yet); and while once there were thought to be be very few Carmichael numbers it has been recently shown there are an infinite number of them. Very satisfying to have an infinite amount of your own numbers I would think.
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AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5 US$ 81.66 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12924]
Keywords: science physics mathematics relativity Einstein c20th America
The River Syndicate and Other Stories.
New York, Harper 1899. Octavo, very good in publisher's green illustrated cloth blocked in gilt and colours; four plates.
¶ First edition; detective fiction and lesser thrillers. Known for his childrens' books and poetry this is apparently Carryl's only entry into the genre.
¶ First edition; detective fiction and lesser thrillers. Known for his childrens' books and poetry this is apparently Carryl's only entry into the genre.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8608
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5 US$ 81.66 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12924]
Keywords: literature detective fiction thrillers c20th America mystery
Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem.
Oxford Univ Press 1972. Two volumes quarto publisher's cloth and dustwrappers; photo plates (some colour), plans and illustrations through the text. I. The Pictorial Tiles & Other Vessels Including a Catalogue of Inscribed and Dated Armenian Pottery ... and an edition of the Armenian Texts with a Translation and Notes. II. A Historical Survey of the Kutahya Industry and A Catalogue of the Decorative Tiles.
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AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: architecture art history c18th ceramics middle east
New Julfa. The Armenian Churches and Other Buildings.
Oxford Univ Press 1968. Quarto publisher's cloth and mildly frayed and chipped dustwrapper; eight colour plates, numerous photo illustrations on 96 plates, plans and illustrations through the text.
¶ The architecture, art and decoration of the thirteen Armenian churches built in New Julfa, on the outskirts of Isfahan in the early 17th century; contemporary accounts of the resettled community, etc.
¶ The architecture, art and decoration of the thirteen Armenian churches built in New Julfa, on the outskirts of Isfahan in the early 17th century; contemporary accounts of the resettled community, etc.
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AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 49 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7754]
Keywords: architecture art history c17th Persia Armenia middle east
Beggs Wagon Co. Manufacturers of Circus Wagons, Band Wagons, Ticket Wagons, Cages, Calliopes, Racing Chariots ...
Kansas City, Mo [c1910]. 14x20cm publisher's illustrated wrapper; 16pp, illustrated throughout. Insignificant signs of use. Signed on the back by J.W. Begg.
¶ Fabulous and rare. I didn't know there was such a thing as a circus wagon catalogue until I saw this. There was a reprint of this done in the seventies but I can't find another copy of the original anywhere. Beggs started in the wagon business in 1875, expanded into show business around the time of this catalogue then turned to automobiles which took them into the twenties but no further.
¶ Fabulous and rare. I didn't know there was such a thing as a circus wagon catalogue until I saw this. There was a reprint of this done in the seventies but I can't find another copy of the original anywhere. Beggs started in the wagon business in 1875, expanded into show business around the time of this catalogue then turned to automobiles which took them into the twenties but no further.
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AUD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 366.25 US$ 391.99 | £UK 314 | JP¥ 62033]
Keywords: trade catalogues technology manufactures transport performing arts circus c20th America coaches coach building trades
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