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City Architecture; or, designs for dwelling houses, stores, hotels, etc.
NY, Appleton 1854. Octavo blindstamped cloth (chips from the tips); 75pp and 20 plates. An old paper shelf label on the spine and foxing but quite a decent copy.
¶ Second printing, it first appeared in 1853. Field argues for the application of Italian forms and proportions to New York City. He begins with a general principles and aesthetics, goes on to a critical review of New York architecture (he had provided such a review some years earlier for Loudon's 'Architectural Magazine') and offers twenty suggestive designs which include banks, an ice-cream saloon, market, railroad terminus and school. He is cognisant of the increasing use of cast iron, though he thinks it has its limitations, and suggests that three of his designs are the type best suited for the material.
¶ Second printing, it first appeared in 1853. Field argues for the application of Italian forms and proportions to New York City. He begins with a general principles and aesthetics, goes on to a critical review of New York architecture (he had provided such a review some years earlier for Loudon's 'Architectural Magazine') and offers twenty suggestive designs which include banks, an ice-cream saloon, market, railroad terminus and school. He is cognisant of the increasing use of cast iron, though he thinks it has its limitations, and suggests that three of his designs are the type best suited for the material.
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Keywords: architecture design c19th America New York cities
An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c. With some proposals for remedying this growing evil ... the second edition.
London, Millar 1751. 12mo contemporary (or publisher's?) calf (rubbed and a bit crazed, small chip from the spine, hinges cracking but firm); xxii,203pp. A little browning at the very ends, a rather good, fresh copy. With the half title advertising the book at 3/- bound, 2/6 sewn; bookplate of diplomat and Pennsylvanian folklorist Henry W Shoemaker.
¶ A timely best-seller. This second edition followed the first edition (which had an uncommonly large print run of 1500 copies; this second edition was even larger, with 2000 copies) by about six weeks, with minor revisions and corrections. Fielding's social and magisterial conscience made him a strenuous pamphleteer and this was his most important and influential foray into social and legal reform. The gin craze and other pernicious 'luxuries' rampant among the lowest classes; the civic 'lethargy' of government; the incoherent and helpless systems of policing and prosecution all fall under Fielding's inspection. Credit has been given, and is in some measure due, to this work for the Gin Law of 1751 and the inception of the modern police force. It is also a vivid picture of the degredation of London's poor or 'commonalty'. The three page notice 'To the Public' at the end advertises the establishment of a registry of servants in order to obviate the scourge of rudeness and insolence of servants hired without any good character.
¶ A timely best-seller. This second edition followed the first edition (which had an uncommonly large print run of 1500 copies; this second edition was even larger, with 2000 copies) by about six weeks, with minor revisions and corrections. Fielding's social and magisterial conscience made him a strenuous pamphleteer and this was his most important and influential foray into social and legal reform. The gin craze and other pernicious 'luxuries' rampant among the lowest classes; the civic 'lethargy' of government; the incoherent and helpless systems of policing and prosecution all fall under Fielding's inspection. Credit has been given, and is in some measure due, to this work for the Gin Law of 1751 and the inception of the modern police force. It is also a vivid picture of the degredation of London's poor or 'commonalty'. The three page notice 'To the Public' at the end advertises the establishment of a registry of servants in order to obviate the scourge of rudeness and insolence of servants hired without any good character.
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Keywords: social sciences reform law government crime police alcohol gin drink progress
Joseph Andrews edited by Martin C. Battestin.
Wesleyan Univ Press 1984 [1967]. Octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 389pp.
¶ Wesleyan Edition.
¶ Wesleyan Edition.
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Keywords: literature fiction c18th England
The Letter-Writers: or, a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. A farce in three acts. As it is acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Scriblerus Secundus.
London, printed and sold by J. Roberts 1731. Diminutive slender quarto later blind panelled calf by Riviere (wear to spine, front hinge cracked); 48pp. Trimmed a bit close along the top touching "The" on the title but above the headlines throughout; some natural browning but a good, quite fresh copy that marks the heady days of the Fielding craze of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries when every good copy that could be found was banged into smart bindings by Riviere or Sangorski and flogged to millionaires.
¶ First edition and hard to find. Rushed through the press and published the day the play opened - the 24th of March - to little purpose. Modern critics have described The Letter-Writers as the best of 18th century farces and as dismal but Fielding's contemporaries don't seem to have had any disagreements. It lasted three days and wasn't reprinted for a long time.
¶ First edition and hard to find. Rushed through the press and published the day the play opened - the 24th of March - to little purpose. Modern critics have described The Letter-Writers as the best of 18th century farces and as dismal but Fielding's contemporaries don't seem to have had any disagreements. It lasted three days and wasn't reprinted for a long time.
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Keywords: literature drama c18th England
The Modern Husband. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
London, for J.Watts 1732. Octavo later gilt calf (spine darkened). Some browning, a good, fresh copy, complete with the publisher's list at the end. With the bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead which seems to cover a smaller plate - perhaps his own predating his elevation?
¶ First edition. A copy that marks the heady days of the Fielding craze of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries when every good copy that could be found was banged into smart bindings by Riviere or Sangorski and flogged to millionaires. This binding isn't signed but looks Riviere. The Modern Husband was so thoroughly modern that it took a brave company to perform it and they were hissed on the first night. That a man could sell his wife to pay his gambling debts and then sue his customer for not paying enough was no surprise to London audiences but many did not want to see it dissected on stage. Enough did though and it had a respectable run. Fielding "began to think it was a good play till the Grub-street Journal assur'd me it was not".
¶ First edition. A copy that marks the heady days of the Fielding craze of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries when every good copy that could be found was banged into smart bindings by Riviere or Sangorski and flogged to millionaires. This binding isn't signed but looks Riviere. The Modern Husband was so thoroughly modern that it took a brave company to perform it and they were hissed on the first night. That a man could sell his wife to pay his gambling debts and then sue his customer for not paying enough was no surprise to London audiences but many did not want to see it dissected on stage. Enough did though and it had a respectable run. Fielding "began to think it was a good play till the Grub-street Journal assur'd me it was not".
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Keywords: literature drama c18th England
Fireworks.
Tokyo-To Tourist Assn. [1948]. 18x11cm publisher's colour woodcut card wrapper, cord tied; 12pp with a few illustrations, eight pages of illustrated adverts and two mounted colour woodcuts (miniature Hiroshiges).
¶ Quite cute, issued for the 1948 Sumida fireworks contest on September 18 it includes a complete list of the 278 fireworks to be launched; the first 122 are daytime fireworks. According to received history this event didn't happen. Most accounts tell us the festival stopped before the war and didn't start again until 1978 but a first hand account by the daughter of an organiser says that fireworks were set off on August 1st 1948 and the festival continued until the early sixties when the river was deemed too polluted and foul. By the late seventies the river had been revived and the contest resumed in 1978. August 1st was apparently the day the national ban on fireworks was lifted which may be the reason for that date being remembered. So did the contest happen in September?
¶ Quite cute, issued for the 1948 Sumida fireworks contest on September 18 it includes a complete list of the 278 fireworks to be launched; the first 122 are daytime fireworks. According to received history this event didn't happen. Most accounts tell us the festival stopped before the war and didn't start again until 1978 but a first hand account by the daughter of an organiser says that fireworks were set off on August 1st 1948 and the festival continued until the early sixties when the river was deemed too polluted and foul. By the late seventies the river had been revived and the contest resumed in 1978. August 1st was apparently the day the national ban on fireworks was lifted which may be the reason for that date being remembered. So did the contest happen in September?
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Keywords: fireworks technology trades pyrotechnics c20th Japan Asia social history entertainment trades manufactures science meiji
![Fireworks., [Hanabi Shiyo Obeocho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Fireworks10805.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Hanabi Shiyo Obeocho].
n.p. 1763 (Horeki 12). Manuscript in ink 25x17cm; 18 leaves including covers. Quite savagely wormed but all but a few characters are legible.
¶ Fireworks specifications. There are almost no published manuals of Japanese fireworks before the 20th century. Risho published a small book in 1825 and that is properly rare. Such information was occult knowledge, circulated in manuscript and passed from master to apprentice. I can't claim any expertise but having now seen a few 18th and 19th century fireworks manuscripts I am yet to see a second copy of any. It makes sense that every maker had their own method and styles and most every manuscript was peculiar to that.
¶ Fireworks specifications. There are almost no published manuals of Japanese fireworks before the 20th century. Risho published a small book in 1825 and that is properly rare. Such information was occult knowledge, circulated in manuscript and passed from master to apprentice. I can't claim any expertise but having now seen a few 18th and 19th century fireworks manuscripts I am yet to see a second copy of any. It makes sense that every maker had their own method and styles and most every manuscript was peculiar to that.
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Keywords: fireworks technology trades pyrotechnics c18th Japan Asia manuals trades manufactures science
![Fireworks., [Keitai Hitsuyo].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Fireworks9615.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Keitai Hitsuyo].
n.p. 1887 (Meiji 20). Manuscript, 140x155mm, 100pp in ink on double folded leaves and some blanks, illustrations on four pages. On the back is the name Nakazawa.
¶ A pyrotechnist's working book on making fireworks. The first printed Japanese book on fireworks - by Risho - was published in 1825, though there are plenty of earlier prints, and little else was printed until the twentieth century. The secrets of fireworks, like most trades, were handed on in manuscript books like this.
¶ A pyrotechnist's working book on making fireworks. The first printed Japanese book on fireworks - by Risho - was published in 1825, though there are plenty of earlier prints, and little else was printed until the twentieth century. The secrets of fireworks, like most trades, were handed on in manuscript books like this.
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Keywords: fireworks technology trades pyrotechnics c19th Japan Asia manuals meiji
![Fireworks., [Oginoryu Tama Ageya Yagyocho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Fireworks9085.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Oginoryu Tama Ageya Yagyocho].
np. [later 18th century?]. Manuscript of 14 double folded leaves, string tied, 235x165mm, being 27 pages of text including the title (last page blank) in neat brush and ink. A few drawings and diagrams through the text.
¶ I'm at a bit of a loss here, being some distance from a Japanese translator, but confident in my experience of Japanese fireworks manuscripts - this is my second after all - I'll tell you what I know and what I guess. The Romaji transcription was given to me by the Japanese seller along with the date of c1750 and I find no reason to doubt either. The Ogin-ryu was a gunnery school - their fire arms get mentioned in antique gun circles - and that's all I can discover about it. This isn't a workman's manuscript recipe book, it is all too neat and laid out; it makes sense that it is a textbook, presumably more explosive than recreational - though there is a spiral diagram and a neat little fish (?) at the end. The first printed Japanese book on fireworks (by Risho) was not published until 1825. Though there are plenty of woodcut prints little else was printed until the twentieth century; the secrets of fireworks, like most trades, were handed on in manuscript books like this.
¶ I'm at a bit of a loss here, being some distance from a Japanese translator, but confident in my experience of Japanese fireworks manuscripts - this is my second after all - I'll tell you what I know and what I guess. The Romaji transcription was given to me by the Japanese seller along with the date of c1750 and I find no reason to doubt either. The Ogin-ryu was a gunnery school - their fire arms get mentioned in antique gun circles - and that's all I can discover about it. This isn't a workman's manuscript recipe book, it is all too neat and laid out; it makes sense that it is a textbook, presumably more explosive than recreational - though there is a spiral diagram and a neat little fish (?) at the end. The first printed Japanese book on fireworks (by Risho) was not published until 1825. Though there are plenty of woodcut prints little else was printed until the twentieth century; the secrets of fireworks, like most trades, were handed on in manuscript books like this.
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AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 398 US$ 427.37 | £UK 342.25 | JP¥ 66520]
Keywords: fireworks technology trades pyrotechny c18th Japan Asia military explosives
The Rival Millionaires.
London, Ward Lock 1904. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in blue, black and gilt; two plates by Florence Reason. Mild signs of use, a few spots; quite good.
¶ First edition of this uncommon thriller involving theft, fraud, impersonation, a fallen gentleman, and millionaires' daughters of course.
¶ First edition of this uncommon thriller involving theft, fraud, impersonation, a fallen gentleman, and millionaires' daughters of course.
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AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.5 US$ 131.5 | £UK 105.5 | JP¥ 20468]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c20th England detective mystery
![FLADER, Louis [ed]., Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letter Press Printing, 1927.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Flader8721.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letter Press Printing, 1927.
Chicago, American Photo-Engravers Association 1927. Thick quarto moulded mock leather; hundreds of plates in colour and black and white, some embossed, on a variety of papers. Signs of use but nothing drastic.
¶ American commercial printing and graphic art at its peak; a self composed hymn to photo-engraving, which gave birth to advertising art according to the prefatory note. And much like virgin mothers, photo-engraving was soon to be ancient history.
¶ American commercial printing and graphic art at its peak; a self composed hymn to photo-engraving, which gave birth to advertising art according to the prefatory note. And much like virgin mothers, photo-engraving was soon to be ancient history.
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AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 214.25 US$ 230.12 | £UK 184.25 | JP¥ 35818]
Keywords: graphic art advertising printing trades technology c20th America trade catalogues
Drawings of the Flags in Use at the Present Time by Various Nations. Admiralty.
London, HMSO 1916. Stout quarto later half morocco; 40pp, extra colour litho title, two unnumbered and 201 of 203(?) colour litho plates numbered to 200 with three bis. Two of the original plates have been removed but this has been extended with the insertion of another 145 colour litho plates of varying sizes and one handpainted plate. Signs of use of course but the flaws are negligible really.
¶ A splendid copy of a book scarce enough in any form - it was produced for the public service - this copy has been scrupulously kept up to date for a decade with the insertion of the additional plates as they were issued and numerous notes in manuscript, duplicated typescript and print recording official errata and updates. These date from 1916 to 1925. A note preserved at the front records that this belonged to L.E. Forsyth of E.H. Brett & Sons of Balmain East (in Sydney), "flag manufacturer - specializes in printing (in lieu of painting) of colonial & foreign badges on flags". Brett & Sons began as sailmakers and expanded into various canvas and textile related fields as the century went on.
¶ A splendid copy of a book scarce enough in any form - it was produced for the public service - this copy has been scrupulously kept up to date for a decade with the insertion of the additional plates as they were issued and numerous notes in manuscript, duplicated typescript and print recording official errata and updates. These date from 1916 to 1925. A note preserved at the front records that this belonged to L.E. Forsyth of E.H. Brett & Sons of Balmain East (in Sydney), "flag manufacturer - specializes in printing (in lieu of painting) of colonial & foreign badges on flags". Brett & Sons began as sailmakers and expanded into various canvas and textile related fields as the century went on.
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AUD 1650.00 [Appr.: EURO 1010 US$ 1084.87 | £UK 868.75 | JP¥ 168858]
Keywords: flags history graphic art c20th association
The North Shore Mystery.
Melbourne, George Robertson 1899. Octavo publisher's colour illustrated boards. Binding rubbed and scraped with some paper gone from the spine; paper browned. Not a bad copy.
¶ First edition of this rare Sydney thriller, a locked room mystery for anyone who believes in the innocence of the victim's wife supposedly sleeping next to him when he was stabbed. Despite damning it for modern readers as "almost as fascinating as Mystery of a Hansom Cab", the Adelaide Advertiser does "strongly recommend" it. The Melbourne Herald is more enthusiastic than the Sydney Morning Herald which stops just short of sneering. In Launceston (The Federalist) it is thought that those who like sensational tales of the seamy side of life will be fascinated while back in Adelaide (The Register), most worthy of remark is that the constable/detective of the novel who has a London University BA misquotes Shakespeare and has poor grammar. Returning to Sydney, the Sydney Mail first teases us with, "a strong flavouring of barmaids, bookmakers and murder" before dismissing it as "on the ordinary level of the sensational yellow-back."
¶ First edition of this rare Sydney thriller, a locked room mystery for anyone who believes in the innocence of the victim's wife supposedly sleeping next to him when he was stabbed. Despite damning it for modern readers as "almost as fascinating as Mystery of a Hansom Cab", the Adelaide Advertiser does "strongly recommend" it. The Melbourne Herald is more enthusiastic than the Sydney Morning Herald which stops just short of sneering. In Launceston (The Federalist) it is thought that those who like sensational tales of the seamy side of life will be fascinated while back in Adelaide (The Register), most worthy of remark is that the constable/detective of the novel who has a London University BA misquotes Shakespeare and has poor grammar. Returning to Sydney, the Sydney Mail first teases us with, "a strong flavouring of barmaids, bookmakers and murder" before dismissing it as "on the ordinary level of the sensational yellow-back."
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AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 459.25 US$ 493.12 | £UK 395 | JP¥ 76754]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective murder Sydney Australia c19th yellowbacks
![FOWLER, O.S. [Orson Squire] and Hashizume Kanichi., [Danjo Kogo Shinron].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Fowler10623.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Danjo Kogo Shinron].
Tokyo, Shunyodo 1888 (Meiji 21). 19x13cm publisher's illustrated cloth backed boards (mild red splodge across the top); 160pp. Natural browning of the paper. Most of the contents are loose. This was put together with an approach to cheap binding that was maybe too experimental: the pages were to be held together by two ribbons of paper punched through the inner margin. It looks like something went amiss and while the pages have been punched, the paper tape only got part of the way through or snapped immediately. It explains why the book vanished so thoroughly. So, I claim this as quite a good copy.
¶ Sixth edition of the sex part of Orson Fowler's 'Creative and Sexual Science' translated into Japanese. Hashizume, the translator, produced quantities of handy guides to English and useful translations. I guess he considered that learning about American phrenological approaches to sex would be interesting, and so it proved. The colophon tells us the book was registered in 1878 but I'm unable to find any copy earlier than 1887; worldcat finds one entry in Japan, none outside. I can tell you it reached the ninth edition by 1892.
¶ Sixth edition of the sex part of Orson Fowler's 'Creative and Sexual Science' translated into Japanese. Hashizume, the translator, produced quantities of handy guides to English and useful translations. I guess he considered that learning about American phrenological approaches to sex would be interesting, and so it proved. The colophon tells us the book was registered in 1878 but I'm unable to find any copy earlier than 1887; worldcat finds one entry in Japan, none outside. I can tell you it reached the ninth edition by 1892.
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AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 65.75 | £UK 52.75 | JP¥ 10234]
Keywords: social sciences c19th America Japan sex gender phrenology quackery medicine meiji
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings of the principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc., from drawings ...
Sydney, printed by D. Wall ... published by J. Fowles [1848-49]. Quarto contemporary half straight grain calf and marbled sides (much of the spine missing but still solid); 40 plates. Browning and offsetting - the street elevations are most affected - and some minor signs of use but a very decent copy. One of the minor signs of use in this copy can be counted as a bonus: someone has neatly annotated several plates in pencil, identifying and updating the names and owners of various buildings. These annotations look to be about forty years later.
¶ First edition and bound from parts; this was issued in twenty fortnightly parts and as a book on completion. The last time I checked there was one known complete set in parts. This copy is without the advertisement leaf which, in the incomplete set of parts in the Mitchell Library, came with part four. Fowles is celebrated for his pictorial record of a Sydney - a charming Georgian colonial town - not fictional but understandably positive; this is not social reform. But the book is also a surprisingly good read. He has an often breezy style and does not shy from expressing opinion. There is a laconic account of the burning of the old Royal Hotel and the providential arrival of officers straight from the governor's ball: "by levelling several tenements .. Lieut. Lugard, in all probability, saved the Victoria theatre". His description of Hughes' new Royal is equally amusing. Everyone called this a rare and invaluable book, from Ferguson to Wantrup, who in 1987 noted this as "a rare book [which] might, with patience, be obtained for about $4000" (Australian Rare Books). Even booksellers offering reprints without doing their homework call it rare and invaluable. If you've been patiently waiting since 1987 to prove Wantrup wrong now's your chance.
¶ First edition and bound from parts; this was issued in twenty fortnightly parts and as a book on completion. The last time I checked there was one known complete set in parts. This copy is without the advertisement leaf which, in the incomplete set of parts in the Mitchell Library, came with part four. Fowles is celebrated for his pictorial record of a Sydney - a charming Georgian colonial town - not fictional but understandably positive; this is not social reform. But the book is also a surprisingly good read. He has an often breezy style and does not shy from expressing opinion. There is a laconic account of the burning of the old Royal Hotel and the providential arrival of officers straight from the governor's ball: "by levelling several tenements .. Lieut. Lugard, in all probability, saved the Victoria theatre". His description of Hughes' new Royal is equally amusing. Everyone called this a rare and invaluable book, from Ferguson to Wantrup, who in 1987 noted this as "a rare book [which] might, with patience, be obtained for about $4000" (Australian Rare Books). Even booksellers offering reprints without doing their homework call it rare and invaluable. If you've been patiently waiting since 1987 to prove Wantrup wrong now's your chance.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8671
AUD 3000.00 [Appr.: EURO 1836.25 US$ 1972.48 | £UK 1579.5 | JP¥ 307015]
Keywords: architecture history Sydney Australia c19th topography
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