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Yachts by Herreshoff.
The company [193-?]. Quarto publisher's printed boards; [2],54pp, numerous photo illustrations, eight colour plates, 7 leaves on semi-transparent paper. Some browning, marks and signs of use but a pretty decent copy.
¶ A company puff cum catalogue of their wares in the golden age. Hereshoff make much of their America's Cup winners but it's the cruising yachts, even the dinghys, of this period that bring a look of bliss or longing to a yachtsman's face.
¶ A company puff cum catalogue of their wares in the golden age. Hereshoff make much of their America's Cup winners but it's the cruising yachts, even the dinghys, of this period that bring a look of bliss or longing to a yachtsman's face.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8594
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.25 US$ 130.66 | £UK 104.75 | JP¥ 20673]
Keywords: trade catalogues boats nautical maritime yachts manufactures naval architecture c20th America
Aerial Navigation. The Best Method.
[Privately printed] Toledo, 1895. Octavo publisher's cloth (a bit rubbed and worn at tips); 90pp, frontispiece portrait and seven plates. Caulkin's address stamp on the front endpaper, probably added to all copies.
¶ "A concise description of a new air-ship which the author believes will be the finally accepted plan of successful aerial navigation" and a tantalising foretaste of a promised "large atlas, illustrative of all the parts of the flying ship, and kindred subjects" (preface). That's the book I want. This machine was powered by an electro-magnetic motor that Caulkins, a Toledo MD, had invented in 1865 and had waited some thirty years for the world to be ready for the next step. The mid-nineties seemed the right time, airships were in the air, so to speak. Apparently, in 1896 and 1897, there was a rash of airship sightings similar to the flying saucer boom of the fifties. This flying machine was no bit of frippery, it was massive. "The best constructed air-ships will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some of them millions. They will be immense palaces with wings". Close inspection of the perspective view will reveal figures on the upper deck to the right of the flagpole. I must say, whether or not it got off the ground, as a bit of architecture it was a century ahead of its time. Caulkins wanted the US to own the patents but at the end comes a diaphanous threat that he would go to foreign governments. He lived another ten years after this book but further developments either evaporated or, like Keely's flying machine, were sequestered and quashed by the military.
¶ "A concise description of a new air-ship which the author believes will be the finally accepted plan of successful aerial navigation" and a tantalising foretaste of a promised "large atlas, illustrative of all the parts of the flying ship, and kindred subjects" (preface). That's the book I want. This machine was powered by an electro-magnetic motor that Caulkins, a Toledo MD, had invented in 1865 and had waited some thirty years for the world to be ready for the next step. The mid-nineties seemed the right time, airships were in the air, so to speak. Apparently, in 1896 and 1897, there was a rash of airship sightings similar to the flying saucer boom of the fifties. This flying machine was no bit of frippery, it was massive. "The best constructed air-ships will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some of them millions. They will be immense palaces with wings". Close inspection of the perspective view will reveal figures on the upper deck to the right of the flagpole. I must say, whether or not it got off the ground, as a bit of architecture it was a century ahead of its time. Caulkins wanted the US to own the patents but at the end comes a diaphanous threat that he would go to foreign governments. He lived another ten years after this book but further developments either evaporated or, like Keely's flying machine, were sequestered and quashed by the military.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8757
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 261.32 | £UK 209.25 | JP¥ 41345]
Keywords: science technology aviation aeronautics c19th America aeronautics association
The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture.
London, Chapman & Hall 1931. Small quarto, rather good in publisher's cloth; lx,l68pp and 292 photo plates.
¶ First and best edition of this entertaining and still standard cautionary study.
¶ First and best edition of this entertaining and still standard cautionary study.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8616
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5 US$ 81.66 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12920]
Keywords: applied arts furniture interiors trades c20th England fakes
Les Voleurs d'Or.
Paris, Levy 1857. Octavo contemporary cloth backed mottled boards. Expected browning and spotting, a pretty good copy.
¶ First edition, and rare, of this pioneer thriller of the Australian gold fields by the former prostitute, dancer and toast of Paris, now wife of the French Consul in Melbourne. Like who knows how many women writers of the 19th century, Celeste took to novels and plays, starting with this, to climb out of a poverty pit dug by a malevolent or feckless husband. In her case, her blacksheep noble husband - the comte de Chabrillan - was feckless, careless enough to die in Melbourne in 1858.
¶ First edition, and rare, of this pioneer thriller of the Australian gold fields by the former prostitute, dancer and toast of Paris, now wife of the French Consul in Melbourne. Like who knows how many women writers of the 19th century, Celeste took to novels and plays, starting with this, to climb out of a poverty pit dug by a malevolent or feckless husband. In her case, her blacksheep noble husband - the comte de Chabrillan - was feckless, careless enough to die in Melbourne in 1858.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10104
AUD 1750.00 [Appr.: EURO 1068 US$ 1143.27 | £UK 915.25 | JP¥ 180885]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers crime c19th Australia France
The Maids of Paradise. A novel.
NY, Harpers 1903. Octavo publisher's red cloth blocked in white and green; eight plates. A remarkably bright copy.
¶ First edition. A spy thriller set during the Franco-Prussian war involving socialists and German spies. There is also a circus thrown in with a bit of lion taming gone wrong.
¶ First edition. A spy thriller set during the Franco-Prussian war involving socialists and German spies. There is also a circus thrown in with a bit of lion taming gone wrong.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8701
AUD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 42.46 | £UK 34 | JP¥ 6719]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th America thrillers mystery
Roadtown.
NY, Roadtown Press [1910]. Octavo publisher's cloth blocked in white with an onlaid colour illustration; [6],172pp. A little flaking of the white blocking, an excellent copy.
¶ The deluxe issue: for an extra ten cents ($1.35 against $1.25 for plain) you could buy this with the cover illustration hand coloured. Now one of the more arcane and elusive utopian schemes for a new kind of city, leading to a new society. Roadtown is a ribbon, the extreme lineal city. At the bottom, underground, is the railway - noiseless and smokeless - above come housing, work and communal areas - each home with its own plot of land - and at the top is a promenade. In short the perfect blend of the virtues of city and country. What surprises from this distance is how much apparently sensible support Chambless garnered. Construction was to be prefabricated concrete and Edison donated his patents; transport was by monorail and Boyes donated his patents; there was a pretty impressive list of people lending their efforts, both practical and rhetorical. Ten mile stretches of experimental or exhibition Roadtown seemed likely, even imminent, for years but Chambless beavered away at Roadtown for almost forty years, until his death in 1936, to wind up virtually forgotten.
¶ The deluxe issue: for an extra ten cents ($1.35 against $1.25 for plain) you could buy this with the cover illustration hand coloured. Now one of the more arcane and elusive utopian schemes for a new kind of city, leading to a new society. Roadtown is a ribbon, the extreme lineal city. At the bottom, underground, is the railway - noiseless and smokeless - above come housing, work and communal areas - each home with its own plot of land - and at the top is a promenade. In short the perfect blend of the virtues of city and country. What surprises from this distance is how much apparently sensible support Chambless garnered. Construction was to be prefabricated concrete and Edison donated his patents; transport was by monorail and Boyes donated his patents; there was a pretty impressive list of people lending their efforts, both practical and rhetorical. Ten mile stretches of experimental or exhibition Roadtown seemed likely, even imminent, for years but Chambless beavered away at Roadtown for almost forty years, until his death in 1936, to wind up virtually forgotten.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8439
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 457.75 US$ 489.97 | £UK 392.25 | JP¥ 77522]
Keywords: town planning architecture utopia cities reform social sciences c20th America progress
The Shipwrecked Mariners; a poem.
London, In Aid of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society [1843]. Octavo printed wrapper (chipped and detached); [20]pp, wood engraved illustrations throughout. Stained; a somewhat shipwrecked copy but complete and worth saving. With the inscription of Capt. F. Stephens of 226 Cumberland Street, Sydney.
¶ Rare and captivating. Both lachrymose and thunderous, the dramatic verse illustrates the perils and tragedies of the sea, with some explanatory notes about specific wrecks, and exhorts British hearts - those hearts be praised - to subscribe a trifling annual sum to the Benevolent Society. The wood engravings are particularly apposite.
¶ Rare and captivating. Both lachrymose and thunderous, the dramatic verse illustrates the perils and tragedies of the sea, with some explanatory notes about specific wrecks, and exhorts British hearts - those hearts be praised - to subscribe a trifling annual sum to the Benevolent Society. The wood engravings are particularly apposite.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7543
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 US$ 39.2 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6202]
Keywords: literature poetry c19th social history nautical shipwrecks charity reform progress
Chiarini's Circus and Menagerie. Complete Congress of Wonders and Marvels.
n.p. 1887 (Meiji 20). Lithograph(?) kawaraban style poster or handbill 27x35cm. Rather good. I find it hard to tell the difference between a woodcut and lithograph when they are unevenly inked and printed.
¶ Chiarini's circus spent months in Japan in 1886 and 1887 and the Emperor saw his first circus. And being true royalty he was generous in his appreciation, not like a certain modern bunch who will reward with a handshake and have their accountant bill the nation for new gloves. Chiarini's was the circus for much of India, south east and east Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin and South America. They were indefatigable travellers. I gather it was the scale of the spectacle, the horse riders and the animals that enraptured the Japanese; they already had plenty of great acrobats. I read somewhere that the first Japanese given official permission to leave the country were acrobats snapped up by the canny Richard Risley whose circus had been allowed into Japan in 1864 but no further than Yokohama. In this poster the stars are hard at work and are identified.
¶ Chiarini's circus spent months in Japan in 1886 and 1887 and the Emperor saw his first circus. And being true royalty he was generous in his appreciation, not like a certain modern bunch who will reward with a handshake and have their accountant bill the nation for new gloves. Chiarini's was the circus for much of India, south east and east Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin and South America. They were indefatigable travellers. I gather it was the scale of the spectacle, the horse riders and the animals that enraptured the Japanese; they already had plenty of great acrobats. I read somewhere that the first Japanese given official permission to leave the country were acrobats snapped up by the canny Richard Risley whose circus had been allowed into Japan in 1864 but no further than Yokohama. In this poster the stars are hard at work and are identified.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11023
AUD 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 335.75 US$ 359.31 | £UK 287.75 | JP¥ 56850]
Keywords: graphic art performing arts circus Asia Japan c19th advertising progress reform
All Aboard ABC.
London, Dean & Son [c1905]. Folio (37x26cm), covers and ten colour pages by Frank M. Barton mounted on card and bound as a concertina. Someone has taken Dean's declaration "untearable" as a challenge and managed to put a two inch tear into the top of one card, without loss; in all rather good.
¶ A delightfully large celebration of transport and movement with a bas relief front cover. Only a couple of letters display some clutching at straws - Q is for quickness and Z is for zebra cart. No book is ever debased by the presence of zebras.
¶ A delightfully large celebration of transport and movement with a bas relief front cover. Only a couple of letters display some clutching at straws - Q is for quickness and Z is for zebra cart. No book is ever debased by the presence of zebras.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9264
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.25 US$ 195.99 | £UK 157 | JP¥ 31009]
Keywords: childrens juvenile alphabet abecedaire c20th England illustrated
![Cholera., A gathering of five Italian pamphlets on Cholera dating from 1849 to 1884: Intorno al Colera-Morbus Prima Istruzione Popolare ... [and] Regolamento Sovranamenve Approvato per Guarentire le Provincie del Regno dalla Diffusione del Colera Asiatico qualore vi penetrasse ... [and] Pratiche per l'Espurgo dei Luoghi e Degli Oggetti che Hanno Servito a Colerosi [and] Nota ed Avertenze Pratiche del Consiglio Superiore di Sanita ... sulla Colera [and] Istruzioni Pratiche del Consiglio Superiore di Sanita sul Colera.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Cholera10154.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A gathering of five Italian pamphlets on Cholera dating from 1849 to 1884: Intorno al Colera-Morbus Prima Istruzione Popolare ... [and] Regolamento Sovranamenve Approvato per Guarentire le Provincie del Regno dalla Diffusione del Colera Asiatico qualore vi penetrasse ... [and] Pratiche per l'Espurgo dei Luoghi e Degli Oggetti che Hanno Servito a Colerosi [and] Nota ed Avertenze Pratiche del Consiglio Superiore di Sanita ... sulla Colera [and] Istruzioni Pratiche del Consiglio Superiore di Sanita sul Colera.
Avellino 1849; Avellino 1854; Firenze 1865; Firenze 1865; Rome 1884. Five items octavo and large octavo original plain or printed wrappers. Rather good copies of all.
¶ Instructions for dealing with cholera through four outbreaks in Italy that each killed by the tens or hundreds of thousands. These should record remarkable developments in the handling and treatment of cholera as the century moved on. In 1854 Italian scientist Filippo Pacini announced his discovery of the cholera bug and was soundly and roundly ignored by everyone. Snow's 1854 discovery of the transmission of cholera though contaminated water should have been noted by the Italian authorities by 1865 and by 1884 Koch's rediscovery of the bug was known and it's infectious nature was known. The authorities went with the miasma reactionaries of earlier generations. What they did learn was hugely important for governments everywhere: come the 1911 outbreak the whole thing was covered up.
¶ Instructions for dealing with cholera through four outbreaks in Italy that each killed by the tens or hundreds of thousands. These should record remarkable developments in the handling and treatment of cholera as the century moved on. In 1854 Italian scientist Filippo Pacini announced his discovery of the cholera bug and was soundly and roundly ignored by everyone. Snow's 1854 discovery of the transmission of cholera though contaminated water should have been noted by the Italian authorities by 1865 and by 1884 Koch's rediscovery of the bug was known and it's infectious nature was known. The authorities went with the miasma reactionaries of earlier generations. What they did learn was hugely important for governments everywhere: come the 1911 outbreak the whole thing was covered up.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10154
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 261.32 | £UK 209.25 | JP¥ 41345]
Keywords: science medicine disease cholera Italy c19th government public health sanitation
![Asai Chu., [Tosei Fuzoku Gojuban Utaawase].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Asai10656.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Tosei Fuzoku Gojuban Utaawase].
Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanschichi 1907 (Meiji 40). Two volumes 25x18cm publisher's wrapper with title labels; 52 full page colour woodcuts by Asai. A couple of bits of stitching broken, still an outstanding pair: fresh, crisp, beautifully printed.
¶ First edition of this captivating collection of portraits of couples, if only momentarily. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition. Asai, elder and teacher of the school of western painting, fortunately never abandoned the tradition of satirical illustration - though there is more good natured but pointed humour here than harsh satire. This was published just before his death.
¶ First edition of this captivating collection of portraits of couples, if only momentarily. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition. Asai, elder and teacher of the school of western painting, fortunately never abandoned the tradition of satirical illustration - though there is more good natured but pointed humour here than harsh satire. This was published just before his death.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10656
AUD 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 518.75 US$ 555.3 | £UK 444.5 | JP¥ 87858]
Keywords: graphic art illustration humour c20th Japan modernism literature poetry meiji
[Tosei Fuzoku Gojuban Utaawase].
Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanschichi 1907 (Meiji 40). Two volumes 25x18cm publisher's wrapper with title labels; 52 full page colour woodcuts by Asai. An outstanding pair.
¶ Such a fresh and crisp copy of the original edition that I can't bring myself to flatten these out enough to photograph the interior. So the illustrations here, apart from the covers, are from another copy, almost as good, to give an idea of the charm and humour of Asai's observations of the modern Japanese seen in pairs but not necessarily couples. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition. Asai, elder and teacher of the school of western painting, fortunately never abandoned the tradition of satirical illustration. This was published just before his death. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition.
¶ Such a fresh and crisp copy of the original edition that I can't bring myself to flatten these out enough to photograph the interior. So the illustrations here, apart from the covers, are from another copy, almost as good, to give an idea of the charm and humour of Asai's observations of the modern Japanese seen in pairs but not necessarily couples. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition. Asai, elder and teacher of the school of western painting, fortunately never abandoned the tradition of satirical illustration. This was published just before his death. Each of these illustrations accompanies a poem on modern customs; the book's title calls this a poetry competition.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10119
AUD 1500.00 [Appr.: EURO 915.5 US$ 979.95 | £UK 784.5 | JP¥ 155044]
Keywords: graphic art illustration humour c20th Japan modernism meiji
![Mitsukuri Genpo & Morishima Churyo., [Kaisei Zoho : Bangosen].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Genpo11133.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kaisei Zoho : Bangosen].
Edo (Tokyo)? Kenjuku Kanko 1848 (Kaei 1). Two volumes 19x12cm, publisher's wrappers with title labels. Covers a bit blotchy, a nice set.
¶ A revised and much improved version by master linguist and translator, Genpo, of Churyo's 'Bangosen' (barbarian words) published in 1798, when serious Dutch-Japanese dictionaries were still manuscript fragments or, like the 'Edo Haruma' of 1796, printed and hand written in an edition of 30 copies. Dutch was, of course, Japan's best way to connect with and learn about all things western until Perry's gunboat diplomacy. Anything produced by Mitsukuri carried a lot of weight. A physician by early training he was a scholar of the west and pioneered the introduction of western science, medicine and technology (like the first description of a steam engine) into Japan, usually via the Dutch or Chinese, and served as translator for the Perry mission in 1853.
¶ A revised and much improved version by master linguist and translator, Genpo, of Churyo's 'Bangosen' (barbarian words) published in 1798, when serious Dutch-Japanese dictionaries were still manuscript fragments or, like the 'Edo Haruma' of 1796, printed and hand written in an edition of 30 copies. Dutch was, of course, Japan's best way to connect with and learn about all things western until Perry's gunboat diplomacy. Anything produced by Mitsukuri carried a lot of weight. A physician by early training he was a scholar of the west and pioneered the introduction of western science, medicine and technology (like the first description of a steam engine) into Japan, usually via the Dutch or Chinese, and served as translator for the Perry mission in 1853.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11133
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 261.32 | £UK 209.25 | JP¥ 41345]
Keywords: social sciences education language linguistics vocabulary Japan c19th Holland Dutch dictionary dutch studies
![CIPRIANI, Gio. Batt. [Giovanni Battista]., Scelta di Ornati Antichi e Moderni. Disegnati ed incisi ..](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Cipriani6024.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Scelta di Ornati Antichi e Moderni. Disegnati ed incisi ..
Rome, con permesso 1801. Quarto half vellum (spine label missing, apparently recased at some time); etched title and 61 etched plates with numerous designs. Some spotting or browning but nothing too serious.
¶ Immediately attractive and subtly so - partly because this just looks like a rare book. It is a fairly rare book and it is an attractive book of ornamental details for walls and ceilings; most are friezes, there are four urns and a few larger designs. This is not the Cipriani who came to London in 1755 and did the architectural details - just the sort of thing illustrated here - for a number of public and private buildings. This is the younger architect and engraver who worked in Rome from the 1790s until about 1830.
¶ Immediately attractive and subtly so - partly because this just looks like a rare book. It is a fairly rare book and it is an attractive book of ornamental details for walls and ceilings; most are friezes, there are four urns and a few larger designs. This is not the Cipriani who came to London in 1755 and did the architectural details - just the sort of thing illustrated here - for a number of public and private buildings. This is the younger architect and engraver who worked in Rome from the 1790s until about 1830.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6024
AUD 800.00 [Appr.: EURO 488.25 US$ 522.64 | £UK 418.5 | JP¥ 82690]
Keywords: architecture interiors design ornament decoration c18th Italy
![Kinoshita Circus., [Kinoshita Dai Sakasu Dan].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kinoshita10540.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kinoshita Dai Sakasu Dan].
n.p. [194-?]. Colour lithograph poster 76x52cm.
¶ The advertising tax stamp - lower right - dates this between 1942 and 1946; so I'm told. As does the replacement of lions and elephants with a goat. The Kinoshita circus started with the 20th century and is now one of the world's biggest.
¶ The advertising tax stamp - lower right - dates this between 1942 and 1946; so I'm told. As does the replacement of lions and elephants with a goat. The Kinoshita circus started with the 20th century and is now one of the world's biggest.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10540
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.25 US$ 195.99 | £UK 157 | JP¥ 31009]
Keywords: graphic art advertising posters performing arts circus c20th Japan modernism
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