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Saturnalia in Room 23 – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1927

Published by Fisher Unwin a first edition 1927. Red cloth covered boards, 288 pages, some marks and ageing but a rare copy from a most unusual writer.

The beauty Camilla causes a few problems on the Riviera. Saturnalia the ancient Roman Festival in honour of the God Saturn is honoured from 17th to the 23rd of December. The author was many things and nothing but controversial … in this novel he challenged the Church’s attitude to marriage which he regarded as rather primitive.

Rare first edition from controversial Weigall

Arthur Weigall (1880-1934) was a distinguished Egyptologist and author of biographies of Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Alexander the Great, Nero and Sappho. He studied hieroglyphics at Oxford: by age 24, he was appointed Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt and supervised excavations in the Valley of the Kings. During his career, Weigall made several important discoveries, mostly about the reign, life and death of Akhnaton. Later in life he wrote novels, stage plays, poems and was rather successful

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The Way of the East – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1924

Published by Fisher Unwin, London a first edition 1924. Blue cloth covered boards, 318 pages, the odd spot mark but on the whole a very good copy of a scarce and interesting book.

An unusual romance involving the an English Colonel Romance in Egypt. The setting and circumstances demand an explanation by the author for which he apologises. He need not as it is all quite dapper and intriguing.

Rare first edition from literary Egyptologist

Arthur Weigall (1880-1934) was a distinguished Egyptologist and author of biographies of Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Alexander the Great, Nero and Sappho. He studied hieroglyphics at Oxford: by age 24, he was appointed Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt and supervised excavations in the Valley of the Kings. During his career, Weigall made several important discoveries, mostly about the reign, life and death of Akhnaton. Later in life he wrote novels, stage plays, poems and was rather successful at it – viz this work.

$80.00

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Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

A first edition published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney in 1914. Royal octavo, 496 pages with illustrations and foldout facsimile documents. Some edge foxing but overall a very good copy in a nice firm binding with coloured frontispiece.

This comprehensive record is based on papers by the authors father James Macarthur. She dedicated the book to her father and mother (Emily) and her uncle Sir William Macarthur.

This is a family that stood up to its adopted motto “Fide et Opera” – “Faith and Work”

$120.00

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Tasmania Island of Tranquillity – Owen Hughes

Self published by the photographer in 2004. Lanscape format in very good condition bar some ageing marks to half title all other pages very clean. Solid binding and very good dust jacket. Carries bookplate of legal eagle Naughton.

Photographer Owen Hughes was born in St Mary’s Tasmania. This is his best work on the island. Many striking images some covering both landscape pages to dramatic effect.

Sought after Tasmania sought after images

$40.00

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Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

Published in Tasmania by the Government Printer 1973.

A reprint of paper published in the late 19th century by Tasmanian historian supreme James Backhouse Walker. The French, the “founding”, Collins expedition, Port Dalrymple, then back to Tasman, Norfolk Islanders, aborigines and the cartography of Australia as a whole.

James Backhouse Walker new his stuff

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Secret Servant – My Life with the KGB and the Soviet Elite – Ilya Dzhirkvelov

Published by Collins, London in 1987. 397 pages all in very good condition … a substantial book and a very good read.

Illya Dzhirkvelvov joined the Soviet intelligence services in 1943 as a teenager. He was a guard to Stalin at the Yalta conference. A distinguished career in the KGB followed and then he became a journalist of disinformation , or “fake news” as the “Donald” would say. In 1980 he defected and lived in Britain.

Detailed KJB and fake news

$40.00

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Saturnalia in Room 23 – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1927

The Way of the East – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1924

Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

Tasmania Island of Tranquillity – Owen Hughes

Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

Secret Servant – My Life with the KGB and the Soviet Elite – Ilya Dzhirkvelov

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