DARWIN, Charles. THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S.BEAGLE.
and ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
and THE DESCENT OF MAN
and THE EXPRESSION ON THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS with THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Four volumes in beautifully gilt decorated pictorial cloth bindings.
Lond. Folio Society. 2006-2008.
All Or.dec.cl. Various pagination. 518pp.
Illustrated with colour and black & white plates.
Pristine copies.
Lovely editions of four of Darwin's most important works.
The four volumes AUD$295
RAYNER, Robert J.
THE ARMY & THE DEFENCE OF DARWIN FORTRESS.
Exploding the Myths of the Critical Phase, 'til September 1942.
Plumpton, NSW. Rudder Press. 1995.
Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 403pp. b/w plates.
Fine. 1st ed.
Examines the early thinking for Darwin's defence & the political & military climate in which the Darwin fortress was built upon, up to & beyond the outbreak of the Pacific War.
AUD$85
(ROME OLYMPICS 1960)
RAPPORTO UFFICIALE DEL COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE....
Two volumes. Rome. The Committee. 1962.
Or.cl. 893,1054pp. Profusely illustrated. Text in Italian.
A very good set. Very Scarce. The complete Official Report.
Volume 2 contains the official results. Australia did well in the swimming with gold medals won by John Konrads (1,500m freestyle), Murray Rose (400m Freestyle), John Devitt (100m Freestyle), David Thiele (100m Backstroke) & Dawn Fraser (100m Freestyle). There is a photograph of Konrads & Rose in vol.2.
AUD$895
ATHENAEUS. THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS.
With an English translation by Charles Burton Gulick, Ph.D.
7 vols. Loeb Classical Library.
Greek text with English translation on facing page.
Cambridge (Mass) Harvard Uni Press. 1963-1970.
(Various editions of each volume)
All Sm.8vo. Or.cl. Various pagination. A very good set.
The title roughly translates into English as "The Gastronomers". Food and wine, luxury, music, sexual mores, literary gossip & philology are among the topics discussed. It is an important source of Ancient Greek cookery recipes. It has one recipe from a lost cookbook by Mithaecus, the oldest in Greek and the oldest recipe by a named author in any language.
AUD$175