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Glacieres or Freezing Caverns.
Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott 1900. Octavo publisher's cloth; [8],337pp, 31 illustrations - photo plates and diagrams in the text. A sparkling copy.
¶ First edition. Undoubtedly the essential book on glacieres - not be confused with caves that freeze and thaw according to season. The true glaciere is always frozen - some have been used as ice mines - and, as displayed in the illustrations, can contain spectacular displays of ice forms. Balch became aware of and quickly enamoured with subterranean ice in 1877 and spent quite a bit of time hiking and climbing around Europe and America exploring every ice cave he could find. He provides a list of every glaciere that he knew of around the world, investigates the science, and finishes with an impressive bibliography.
¶ First edition. Undoubtedly the essential book on glacieres - not be confused with caves that freeze and thaw according to season. The true glaciere is always frozen - some have been used as ice mines - and, as displayed in the illustrations, can contain spectacular displays of ice forms. Balch became aware of and quickly enamoured with subterranean ice in 1877 and spent quite a bit of time hiking and climbing around Europe and America exploring every ice cave he could find. He provides a list of every glaciere that he knew of around the world, investigates the science, and finishes with an impressive bibliography.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8696
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 213.75 US$ 228.66 | £UK 183.25 | JP¥ 36186]
Keywords: travel caves caving speliology mountaineering geology science c19th
Del Modo di Misurare le Distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secundo le vere regole d'Euclid, & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori.
Venice, Francesco Sanese 1589. Small quarto 18th(?) century half vellum; 145,[3] leaves, elaborate woodcut title, medallion portrait of Bartoli, numerous woodcut illustrations, diagrams, 2 folding plates, tables. Occasional spots, a very good copy.
¶ Second edition of this handy book on surveying, measuring, and perspective demonstrating the quadrant, astrolabe and compass, particularly relative to architecture. Kemp (in The Science of Art) points out that the methods of triangulation and instruments described here are still in 'essentially their mediaeval form' though the instruments were 'mediaeval instruments of considerable elaboration and precision'. First published in 1564 this edition uses the same wood blocks and the famous woodcut title which Sanese used for Alberti, Vitruvius and other architectural books. Bartoli's reliance on Alberti is natural enough as he was the translator of several of his books but he hasn't neglected many sources, classical or modern. Best known now as a preceptor of Alberti's theory, Bartoli himself is deserving of more attention. He crops up everywhere in Florentine history, as academician, linguist, music historian (and as an instrument maker in one reference I found), provost of the baptistery, and as architect of the now 'four star accomodation' of Hotel Palazzo Ricasoli. Whether Bartoli would be pleased that his building has survived at all is hard to guess and you will understand why if you look at the images of the Palazzo which are easily found on the internet.
¶ Second edition of this handy book on surveying, measuring, and perspective demonstrating the quadrant, astrolabe and compass, particularly relative to architecture. Kemp (in The Science of Art) points out that the methods of triangulation and instruments described here are still in 'essentially their mediaeval form' though the instruments were 'mediaeval instruments of considerable elaboration and precision'. First published in 1564 this edition uses the same wood blocks and the famous woodcut title which Sanese used for Alberti, Vitruvius and other architectural books. Bartoli's reliance on Alberti is natural enough as he was the translator of several of his books but he hasn't neglected many sources, classical or modern. Best known now as a preceptor of Alberti's theory, Bartoli himself is deserving of more attention. He crops up everywhere in Florentine history, as academician, linguist, music historian (and as an instrument maker in one reference I found), provost of the baptistery, and as architect of the now 'four star accomodation' of Hotel Palazzo Ricasoli. Whether Bartoli would be pleased that his building has survived at all is hard to guess and you will understand why if you look at the images of the Palazzo which are easily found on the internet.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 2895
AUD 2850.00 [Appr.: EURO 1739.25 US$ 1861.94 | £UK 1491.25 | JP¥ 294657]
Keywords: science architecture renaissance Italy mathematics technology surveying measurement perspective
Harmonies of Political Economy, translated ... with a notice of the life and writings of the author, by Patrick James Stirling.
London, Murray 1860. Octavo contemporary half calf (a little rubbed). A few pale and inoffensive small stamps of the Beechworth Library but quite a good copy.
¶ First edition in English, it first appeared in 1850 - the year of Bastiat's death.
¶ First edition in English, it first appeared in 1850 - the year of Bastiat's death.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8490
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 213.75 US$ 228.66 | £UK 183.25 | JP¥ 36186]
Keywords: political economy economics c19th France
Aus Wundersamen Garten. Zehn Radierungen.
Verlegt von Hilmar Kalliefe in der Graphik-Mappe [c1920?]. 350x275mm portfolio of publisher's cloth backed patterned boards titled in gilt; ten etchings (image size 93x70mm), loose as issued; each etching signed, numbered '1' and titled in pencil. A 1922 Christmas gift inscription from (?) Roubauer inside the front cover.
¶ Was more than one copy of this printed? I can't find a record of it anywhere - which seems inexplicable given the charm and proficiency of these fantasias of miniscule life. Baum is credited as the illustrator of a couple of books published in Berlin in the mid twenties but all else remains unknown to me.
¶ Was more than one copy of this printed? I can't find a record of it anywhere - which seems inexplicable given the charm and proficiency of these fantasias of miniscule life. Baum is credited as the illustrator of a couple of books published in Berlin in the mid twenties but all else remains unknown to me.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9270
AUD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 579.75 US$ 620.65 | £UK 497.25 | JP¥ 98219]
Keywords: graphic art illustration c20th Germany etching
Bush Studies.
London, Duckworth 1902. Octavo publisher's green cloth blocked in black. Endpapers a little browned, a very good copy.
¶ First edition. Jessica Anderson's copy, with her signature; a happy conjunction.
¶ First edition. Jessica Anderson's copy, with her signature; a happy conjunction.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 2452
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 457.75 US$ 489.98 | £UK 392.5 | JP¥ 77541]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th Australia c19th
Life Theories: their influence upon religious thought.
London, Churchill 1871. Octavo publisher's brown cloth; xii,97,[2]pp and six coloured plates. Spotting of the endpapers but a nice, bright copy.
¶ A good example of the weight of authority arrayed against wrong-headed fashion. Beale was no lightweight in the medical establishment and Churchill were authoritive publishers of medical books. Beale stood firm against the germ theory and here he stands firm against physical theories of nature. The coloured plates are from microscope studies - which Beale is possibly now best known for - evidence that this is no mere theological argument.
¶ A good example of the weight of authority arrayed against wrong-headed fashion. Beale was no lightweight in the medical establishment and Churchill were authoritive publishers of medical books. Beale stood firm against the germ theory and here he stands firm against physical theories of nature. The coloured plates are from microscope studies - which Beale is possibly now best known for - evidence that this is no mere theological argument.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8235
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 49 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7754]
Keywords: science medicine c19th progress reform religion England
Rossetti and His Circle.
London, Heinemann 1922. Quarto, very good in publisher's cloth; 22 mounted colour illustrations with captioned tissue guards.
¶ Pretty much a complete account of the pre-Raphaelites, their followers and friends is encompassed in these drawings. If after digesting these you feel the need to learn any more about these people you can have no better grounding.
¶ Pretty much a complete account of the pre-Raphaelites, their followers and friends is encompassed in these drawings. If after digesting these you feel the need to learn any more about these people you can have no better grounding.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8819
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 US$ 39.2 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6203]
Keywords: graphic art illustration humour c19th c20th England pre-Raphaelites
Sheaves.
Leipzig, Tauchnitz 1908. Two volumes octavo publisher's printed wrappers. Excellent fresh copies.
¶ Late but fairly outstanding examples of Tauchnitz editions.
¶ Late but fairly outstanding examples of Tauchnitz editions.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8820
AUD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.75 US$ 32.67 | £UK 26.25 | JP¥ 5169]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th England Tauchnitz
Economic Writings. Critical edition based on his printed works and unprinted manuscripts by W. Stark.
London, Allen & Unwin for the Royal Economic Soc. 1952-54. Three volumes octavo publisher's cloth and slightly marked dustwrappers. A rather good set.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7180
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5 US$ 81.66 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12924]
Keywords: economics political economy philosophy c19th c18th social sciences
![De BERENGER, Lt. Col. Baron [Charles Random]., Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. With instructions in rifle and pistol shooting. &c.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Berenger8140.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. With instructions in rifle and pistol shooting. &c.
London, for the Proprietor by Hurst 1835. Octavo publisher's green grained cloth (rebacked with the original spine preserved); viii,286,[2]pp, two folding lithograph views, eight etched plates by George or Robert Cruikshank, wood engravings through the text. A leaf torn without loss, a little browning of the lithographs, the rebacking perhaps a bit thorough but a rather good copy in a modern cloth slipcase.
¶ How not to leave a bank; how to deal with footpads, whether on foot or in a carriage; and countless other useful tips on how to survive in London, on the highway and in the country (''eject out of a room, how to, anyone with certainty'' surely works in town or country). The last 30 some pages, which includes the etchings and lithographs, is an advertisement for de Berenger's Stadium, or British National Arena which covered 24 acres of Chelsea. The Baron de Berenger, or Charles Random, who has been described variously as an inventor, sharpshooter, print colourer and stockmarket fraud, set up his Stadium in 1831 and held modern Olympics there in 1832 and 1838. He certainly had no claim to the rank of Lt. Colonel but there is some uncertainty about his claim to his title; it may have some validity. The Cruikshank brothers seem to have had a closer relationship with Berenger than mere hired illustrators: Arthur G. Credland, in an article on Berenger in 'Arms & Armour' (2006), speculates that through their keen interest in archery and shooting that one, or both of them, taught at the Stadium and he recounts a less than illustrious heritage for Berenger transmitted via the Cruikshanks.
¶ How not to leave a bank; how to deal with footpads, whether on foot or in a carriage; and countless other useful tips on how to survive in London, on the highway and in the country (''eject out of a room, how to, anyone with certainty'' surely works in town or country). The last 30 some pages, which includes the etchings and lithographs, is an advertisement for de Berenger's Stadium, or British National Arena which covered 24 acres of Chelsea. The Baron de Berenger, or Charles Random, who has been described variously as an inventor, sharpshooter, print colourer and stockmarket fraud, set up his Stadium in 1831 and held modern Olympics there in 1832 and 1838. He certainly had no claim to the rank of Lt. Colonel but there is some uncertainty about his claim to his title; it may have some validity. The Cruikshank brothers seem to have had a closer relationship with Berenger than mere hired illustrators: Arthur G. Credland, in an article on Berenger in 'Arms & Armour' (2006), speculates that through their keen interest in archery and shooting that one, or both of them, taught at the Stadium and he recounts a less than illustrious heritage for Berenger transmitted via the Cruikshanks.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8140
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 274.75 US$ 293.99 | £UK 235.5 | JP¥ 46525]
Keywords: social history sports games c19th England archery handbooks self help advertising graphic art
Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works .. Venetian School.
Phaidon 1957. Two volumes quarto, very good in slightly marked and frayed dustwrappers, worn card case; 1333 illustrations.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7585
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46 US$ 49 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7754]
Keywords: art history renaissance painting Italy
Where the Tides Meet.
Boston, Arena Publishing 1893. Octavo publisher's cloth; a most misleading nautical extra illustrated title. A rather good copy.
¶ First (only?) edition? A New York thriller that isn't in Hubin and should be. Mostly set in the grimmer parts of New York and featuring a wealthy young do-gooder - fitting the Arena imprint - we have a murder, a detective, a scheming lawyer, a pickpocket with a monkey accomplice ... what else do we need? A gunfight? a crushed and bloody corpse? a river of blood? Can do. Being published by Arena may not have guaranteed your novel would die in dark and perpetual obscurity but it got you well on the way.
¶ First (only?) edition? A New York thriller that isn't in Hubin and should be. Mostly set in the grimmer parts of New York and featuring a wealthy young do-gooder - fitting the Arena imprint - we have a murder, a detective, a scheming lawyer, a pickpocket with a monkey accomplice ... what else do we need? A gunfight? a crushed and bloody corpse? a river of blood? Can do. Being published by Arena may not have guaranteed your novel would die in dark and perpetual obscurity but it got you well on the way.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8760
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 261.32 | £UK 209.5 | JP¥ 41355]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th America thrillers mystery detective New York gx7
The Maori Canoe. An acount of various types of vessels used by the Maori of New Zealand in former times, with some description of those of the isles of the Pacific ...
Wellington, Govt Printer 1925. Quarto contemporary cloth (lightly flecked) with the original printed wrapper mounted on the front board; vi,312pp, map, some 170 photo illustrations, line drawings and diagrams. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.7.
¶ The definitive work, it isn't superceded by Haddon's 'Canoes of Oceania' but forms a good companion. Best covers everything from tree felling to decoration and investigates the history of Polynesian migration.
¶ The definitive work, it isn't superceded by Haddon's 'Canoes of Oceania' but forms a good companion. Best covers everything from tree felling to decoration and investigates the history of Polynesian migration.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8994
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.25 US$ 130.66 | £UK 104.75 | JP¥ 20678]
Keywords: technology naval architecture New Zealand design boats maritime canoes Pacific nautical ethnology
![BILLET, [Felix]., Traite d'Optique Physique.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Billet7728.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Traite d'Optique Physique.
Paris, Mallet-Bachelier 1858-59. Two volumes octavo half gilt morocco (corners a touch worn); 14 folding plates. A crisp, handsome set.
¶ Celebrated - perhaps that's too strong a word - for his bilentilles de Billet, or split lens, Billet's work on polarisation, refraction and interference is of the kind often described as magisterial. This usually means solid, well regarded and free of lunatic theories. More engaging perhaps was his apparatus that made visible multiple rainbows.
¶ Celebrated - perhaps that's too strong a word - for his bilentilles de Billet, or split lens, Billet's work on polarisation, refraction and interference is of the kind often described as magisterial. This usually means solid, well regarded and free of lunatic theories. More engaging perhaps was his apparatus that made visible multiple rainbows.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7728
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 152.75 US$ 163.33 | £UK 131 | JP¥ 25847]
Keywords: science optics physics light colour c19th France
Esquisses Decoratives.
Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts [c1905]. Folio, loose as issued in four fascicules in illustrated wrappers, all in publisher's portfolio of cloth backed illustrated boards; [2],14pp and 60 plates, 13 pochoir and a few others with a second colour added, b/w illustrations through the text. A rather good copy.
¶ Binet, like many architects and designers, followed Haeckel into the microscopic world for grotesque and fantastic inspiration but married such modernity with historicism in a singular way. Durant (in 'Ornament') calls Binet 'in many respects the typical French Art Nouveau designer' which, apart from being too dismissive, is just not right. Many of his designs, particularly the coloured graphics, are ultra modern high art nouveau but much of his work has an oddly arcane, recherche effect - in which something as modern as an electric light switch modelled on the forms of diatomes or radiolaria and treated with Beaux Arts tradition becomes a mysterious if not menacing almost gothic artifact. Without claiming anything of the same stature, or even similar results, for Binet he could probably be more usefully likened to Gaudi. This is an exposition of ideas for every school of design that Binet could encompass - from architectural detail to pochoir graphics; shop fronts to tapestry; stained glass to gardens; jewellery to mosaics.
¶ Binet, like many architects and designers, followed Haeckel into the microscopic world for grotesque and fantastic inspiration but married such modernity with historicism in a singular way. Durant (in 'Ornament') calls Binet 'in many respects the typical French Art Nouveau designer' which, apart from being too dismissive, is just not right. Many of his designs, particularly the coloured graphics, are ultra modern high art nouveau but much of his work has an oddly arcane, recherche effect - in which something as modern as an electric light switch modelled on the forms of diatomes or radiolaria and treated with Beaux Arts tradition becomes a mysterious if not menacing almost gothic artifact. Without claiming anything of the same stature, or even similar results, for Binet he could probably be more usefully likened to Gaudi. This is an exposition of ideas for every school of design that Binet could encompass - from architectural detail to pochoir graphics; shop fronts to tapestry; stained glass to gardens; jewellery to mosaics.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6640
AUD 2000.00 [Appr.: EURO 1220.5 US$ 1306.62 | £UK 1046.5 | JP¥ 206777]
Keywords: art architecture applied graphic arts design art nouveau France modernism
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