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The Breviary of the Mayer van den Bergh Museum at Antwerp.
Brussels, Weckesser; NY, Stechert 1932. Quarto, loose as issued in publishers' printed card portfolio; 82pp and 73 colour plates.
¶ Edition of 300 copies in English.
¶ Edition of 300 copies in English.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6955
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.5 US$ 66.23 | £UK 53 | JP¥ 10316]
Keywords: graphic art history medieval manuscripts illumination illustration painting bibliography
The Atomic Age Opens, prepared by the editors of Pocket Books.
NY, Pocket Books August 1945. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 256pp, photo illustrations and diagrams. A touch rubbed but a very good copy.
¶ First printing of the first book on the atomic bomb; the published edition of the Smyth Report did not appear until September. There was a hardcover edition of this but it didn't appear for another couple of months. Pocket Books have gathered every scrap of available information and canvassed opinion, rabid and reasonable both for and against, coming to the conclusion that the ownership of the bomb belongs to mankind and that the "only answer to this kind of world power is a new kind of world society".
¶ First printing of the first book on the atomic bomb; the published edition of the Smyth Report did not appear until September. There was a hardcover edition of this but it didn't appear for another couple of months. Pocket Books have gathered every scrap of available information and canvassed opinion, rabid and reasonable both for and against, coming to the conclusion that the ownership of the bomb belongs to mankind and that the "only answer to this kind of world power is a new kind of world society".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9046
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 37 US$ 39.74 | £UK 31.75 | JP¥ 6190]
Keywords: science physics nuclear energy c20th America atom bomb social sciences progress reform
![Otsuki Genkan., [Seion Hatsubi].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Otsuki9661.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Seion Hatsubi].
n.p. [182-?] 26x18cm original wrapper; 3;31;7 double folded leaves (ie 82pp). Some worming, only of moment on a couple of leaves where a couple of characters are obliterated. In a modern chitsu.
¶ An extraordinarily exact manuscript copy of this pioneering study of western pronunciation by one of the more eminent scholars of Dutch studies. The Seion Hatsubi was published somewhere around 1826 and this is obviously contemporary. Our copyist has skipped the publisher's advertisements at the ends but has otherwise done a job that needs more than a cursory glance to discern from the printed book, even to the extent of reproducing the seals at the beginning and end of the preface. There is a fine tradition of manuscript copies of rare or supressed books in Japan but this is the most exact facsimile I've seen. There is an inscription and small seal inside the back cover that may well identify the transcriber but I can't read it.
¶ An extraordinarily exact manuscript copy of this pioneering study of western pronunciation by one of the more eminent scholars of Dutch studies. The Seion Hatsubi was published somewhere around 1826 and this is obviously contemporary. Our copyist has skipped the publisher's advertisements at the ends but has otherwise done a job that needs more than a cursory glance to discern from the printed book, even to the extent of reproducing the seals at the beginning and end of the preface. There is a fine tradition of manuscript copies of rare or supressed books in Japan but this is the most exact facsimile I've seen. There is an inscription and small seal inside the back cover that may well identify the transcriber but I can't read it.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9661
AUD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 169 US$ 182.13 | £UK 145.5 | JP¥ 28369]
Keywords: language linguistics alphabet writing pronunciation c19th Japan Asia progress education reform
![[BRIDGMAN, Elijah Coleman.] Mitsukuri Genpo., [Renpo Shiryaku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Renpo10530c.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Renpo Shiryaku].
Tokyo, Rokyukan 1864 (Genji 1). Two volumes 26x18cm publisher's embossed yellow wrappers with printed labels (front cover of the first volume marked or dusty, the label incomplete); 56 & 48 leaves (ie 208pp in all); five full page maps with colour and a fair quantity of small maps, some with colours; woodcut illustrations. A rather good copy, quite fresh inside.
¶ First edition of the adaptation by Mitsukuri Genpo of the American missionary Bridgman's Da Mei lian bang zhi lue published in Shanghai in 1861 or 62; this was reprinted in 1871. The Shanghai version has been wrongly claimed as the first account of the United States in Chinese - but it's sort of true as it is a revision of Meilige heshengguo zhilue published by Bridgman in Singapore in 1838. For the Japanese this is their first thorough and ostensibly trustworthy account, written as it is by an actual American. I should make it clear that this is an account of the United States, not of the Americas. The first volume is general, covering history, government, education, culture ... and the second volume zooms in on individual states illustrated by a number of small local maps. It is the first account of American democratic government for the Japanese. I can't tell you how Mitsukuri dealt with Bridgman's reformist proselytising but 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.
¶ First edition of the adaptation by Mitsukuri Genpo of the American missionary Bridgman's Da Mei lian bang zhi lue published in Shanghai in 1861 or 62; this was reprinted in 1871. The Shanghai version has been wrongly claimed as the first account of the United States in Chinese - but it's sort of true as it is a revision of Meilige heshengguo zhilue published by Bridgman in Singapore in 1838. For the Japanese this is their first thorough and ostensibly trustworthy account, written as it is by an actual American. I should make it clear that this is an account of the United States, not of the Americas. The first volume is general, covering history, government, education, culture ... and the second volume zooms in on individual states illustrated by a number of small local maps. It is the first account of American democratic government for the Japanese. I can't tell you how Mitsukuri dealt with Bridgman's reformist proselytising but 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: 10530
AUD 1500.00 [Appr.: EURO 922 US$ 993.42 | £UK 793.25 | JP¥ 154740]
Keywords: history geography America Japan China c19th politics geography travel missionaries political economy atlas maps
The Gods of Northern Buddhism. Their history, iconography and progressive evolution through the northern Buddhist countries.
Oxford University Press 1914. Quarto, very good in publisher's gilt cloth; lii,196pp, 65 plates (nine colour, with printed tissue guards) and a colour diagram.
¶ First edition and an elegant book. A field still in its 'infancy' though Getty anticipates at "any moment, however, a flood of light" when Mr Ekai Kawaguchi, who spent years disguised as a Chinese monk, translates the 'valuable manuscripts which he succeeded in carrying out of Tibet'. It was well received. Coomaraswamy spent no more than a couple of thousand words setting the record straight and correcting errors before finishing with a most handsome commendation: ''Miss Getty's work has been compiled with the utmost care, and is of quite remarkable accuracy. It is a work of true scholarship'' (Burlington Magazine; v27n148; 1915). Her last effort was a contribution to a festschrift for Coomaraswamy she completed two days before her death in 1946.
¶ First edition and an elegant book. A field still in its 'infancy' though Getty anticipates at "any moment, however, a flood of light" when Mr Ekai Kawaguchi, who spent years disguised as a Chinese monk, translates the 'valuable manuscripts which he succeeded in carrying out of Tibet'. It was well received. Coomaraswamy spent no more than a couple of thousand words setting the record straight and correcting errors before finishing with a most handsome commendation: ''Miss Getty's work has been compiled with the utmost care, and is of quite remarkable accuracy. It is a work of true scholarship'' (Burlington Magazine; v27n148; 1915). Her last effort was a contribution to a festschrift for Coomaraswamy she completed two days before her death in 1946.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7954
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 307.5 US$ 331.14 | £UK 264.5 | JP¥ 51580]
Keywords: ethnology ethnography religion buddhism art sculpture iconography south asia India Japan China Tibet history
![Masuda Giheee., [Shinkoku Gagaku Jogi Zukai].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Masuda11147b.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shinkoku Gagaku Jogi Zukai].
Tokyo, Masuda Gihee 1893 (Meiji 26). 23x17cm publisher's wrapper with printed title label; illustrated throughout.
¶ A slender but spiffy drawing manual which starts with an easy to make mannequin - a ruled diagram shows correct proportions for each part. A range of named dynamic warriors model turmoil in just about every period, some still women, through to a thoroughly western gentleman who might believe he is carrying a gladstone bag but is holding a woman's purse. But, as he is a gentleman he's likely holding it for a lady.
¶ A slender but spiffy drawing manual which starts with an easy to make mannequin - a ruled diagram shows correct proportions for each part. A range of named dynamic warriors model turmoil in just about every period, some still women, through to a thoroughly western gentleman who might believe he is carrying a gladstone bag but is holding a woman's purse. But, as he is a gentleman he's likely holding it for a lady.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11147
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 184.5 US$ 198.68 | £UK 158.75 | JP¥ 30948]
Keywords: art technique drawing manual
The Voice of the People.
NY, Doubleday 1900. Octavo publisher's decorated tan cloth blocked in green. The front fly has a crease; a remarkably bright copy.
¶ First edition. Class conflict in the south.
¶ First edition. Class conflict in the south.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8840
AUD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 52.25 US$ 56.29 | £UK 45 | JP¥ 8769]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th c20th America
Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art.
Phaidon 1963. Large octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper (this chipped); 183pp, 135 illustrations.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7199
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 49.67 | £UK 39.75 | JP¥ 7737]
Keywords: art theory history criticism
New Light on Old Masters. Studies in the art of the renaissance IV.
Phaidon 1986. Large octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 191pp,163 illustrations (6 colour).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 4633
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 49.67 | £UK 39.75 | JP¥ 7737]
Keywords: art history renaissance criticism essays Italy painting theory
Norm and Form. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance.
London, Phaidon 1966. Large octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 167pp & 186 illustrations. Endpaper a little browned.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7198
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 49.67 | £UK 39.75 | JP¥ 7737]
Keywords: art history renaissance criticism essays
![Death. Naosuke Gonda., [Sogishiki Fuzu].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Death9579.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sogishiki Fuzu].
Tokyo, Furukawa Yutakaho 1887(?). 225x150mm original wrapper with title label; 38 double folded leaves (ie 76pp) with numerous woodblock illustrations. An excellent copy.
¶ A well illustrated guide to Shinto funeral ceremonies and burial. A rare book; a moderately thorough search finds only the NDL entry.
¶ A well illustrated guide to Shinto funeral ceremonies and burial. A rare book; a moderately thorough search finds only the NDL entry.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9579
AUD 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 101.5 US$ 109.28 | £UK 87.5 | JP¥ 17021]
Keywords: social science religion death burial funerals c19th Japan Asia cemeteries gravestones graves
Raven Rockstrow: or, the Pedlar's Dream. A romance of Melbourne.
Melbourne, Caxton Repository 1864. Octavo later (earlyish-mid c20th) morocco; [8],7-258pp, (wood?) engraved frontispiece by Calvert after a drawing by John Fallon. Name and a couple of extraneous squirls on the title, some browning; a pretty good copy with the bookplate of Harry Austin Brentnall, medico and bookmaker whose books used to be ubiquitous in the Sydney trade.
¶ Only edition of this quite rare sensation thriller, dubbed the first Melbourne novel proper. Certainly it's a grim metropolitan book set in the slums where life revolves around the pawn shop. From two brief paragraphs I picked out these descriptions of Goodrich's Melbourne: dreary, isolation, misery, oppressive, ghostly waste, and forlorn. Blackmail, murder, a story within a story; it's all here. This has one of the most captivating illustrations I've seen in a thriller. The frontispiece, on pink paper, is a dark, dark engraving that demands close inspection; maybe the best depiction of what mysterious deeds in the dark of night really look like. The binding is neat and workmanlike more than inspired. Most of the twentieth century was not a good period for Australian binding.
¶ Only edition of this quite rare sensation thriller, dubbed the first Melbourne novel proper. Certainly it's a grim metropolitan book set in the slums where life revolves around the pawn shop. From two brief paragraphs I picked out these descriptions of Goodrich's Melbourne: dreary, isolation, misery, oppressive, ghostly waste, and forlorn. Blackmail, murder, a story within a story; it's all here. This has one of the most captivating illustrations I've seen in a thriller. The frontispiece, on pink paper, is a dark, dark engraving that demands close inspection; maybe the best depiction of what mysterious deeds in the dark of night really look like. The binding is neat and workmanlike more than inspired. Most of the twentieth century was not a good period for Australian binding.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9561
AUD 1150.00 [Appr.: EURO 706.75 US$ 761.62 | £UK 608.25 | JP¥ 118634]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th Australia thrillers crime mystery
![Motomatsu Goro., [Manga Kokoku Sosakushu].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Motomatsu10993.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Manga Kokoku Sosakushu].
Tokyo, Seishindo 1928 (Showa 3). 27x20cm publisher's cloth decorated in pink & gilt, printed card slipcase (marked); [2],204pp, profusely illustrated in black & white plus seven colour plates. A little offsetting; a nice copy of a book that invites continual thumbing.
¶ Manga in advertising. A delight.
¶ Manga in advertising. A delight.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10993
AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 399.5 US$ 430.48 | £UK 343.75 | JP¥ 67054]
Keywords: graphic art manga advertising commercial art comics c20th Japan modernism meiji
The Truth About the Case ... edited by Albert Keyzer.
Philadelphia, Lippincott 1907. Octavo, excellent in publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in red and black; illustrations by Arthur G. Dove.
¶ First edition in English. Ostensibly taken from the diaries of the ex-Chief of the Paris Surete; there were a few of these memoirs published under his name in French - but read it only as detective fiction.
¶ First edition in English. Ostensibly taken from the diaries of the ex-Chief of the Paris Surete; there were a few of these memoirs published under his name in French - but read it only as detective fiction.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7968
AUD 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 73.75 US$ 79.47 | £UK 63.5 | JP¥ 12379]
Keywords: literature detective fiction thrillers c20th America c19th France police law mystery
A Straight Goer.
London, John Long [1906?]. Octavo publisher's green cloth. A rather good copy.
¶ Undoubtedly the first edition; the adverts at the end suggest that minor adjustments to Morris Miller's chronology are needed. I pity anyone who takes on a bibliography of Nat Gould; some books are advertised in boards at 2/- or cloth at 2/6; some are advertised in wrappers only. One of Gould's Australian romps, within the first few pages we are introduced to a far flung outback station, the owner's daughter with mysterious antecedents and an unjustly accused younger son of English plutocracy. I skipped to the end in fear that Gould would have this youngish gentleman end up with his arms about the girl, who is only twelve at the start, but rightly he ends up with the faithful young woman at home who always believed in his innocence (who seems to be his first cousin). In between there are bushrangers and horses and other thrills but having reached the end I don't want to give away the middle.
¶ Undoubtedly the first edition; the adverts at the end suggest that minor adjustments to Morris Miller's chronology are needed. I pity anyone who takes on a bibliography of Nat Gould; some books are advertised in boards at 2/- or cloth at 2/6; some are advertised in wrappers only. One of Gould's Australian romps, within the first few pages we are introduced to a far flung outback station, the owner's daughter with mysterious antecedents and an unjustly accused younger son of English plutocracy. I skipped to the end in fear that Gould would have this youngish gentleman end up with his arms about the girl, who is only twelve at the start, but rightly he ends up with the faithful young woman at home who always believed in his innocence (who seems to be his first cousin). In between there are bushrangers and horses and other thrills but having reached the end I don't want to give away the middle.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8450
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 92.25 US$ 99.34 | £UK 79.5 | JP¥ 15474]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th Australia thrillers mystery
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