The April Miscellany brings you a varied selection of 162 new acquisitions. The list begins with a focus on photography including many limited editions containing C-Type prints. This is followed by Jenkins’ usual mix of art, architecture, chemistry, Australian sexpapers, natural history, cycling, cricket, surfing, occult, and more.
Some of the highlights include the first edition of Fredrick Accum’s Chemical Amusement, the first Hunter edition of John Evelyn’s Silva: one of the most important works on forestry ever published, the first German book on bridges from 1726, a rare Dutch work on wine from 1628, the occult works of Austin Osman Spare, and the bondage art of Robert K. Bishop.
Other treasures include the wartime Christmas edition of Ink Emma Ink from the Australian Special Wireless Group, an inscribed copy of the biography of wartime stripper hero Lydia Lova, the Australian sci-fi “Yellow Peril” novel Celestia, a rare programme for Jack Chegwyn’s touring cricket team, and a fantastic selection of the artist/architecture books of Made Wijaya.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Brierre de Boismont; Robert T. Hulme
London: Henry Renshaw, 1859.The first psychiatric survey of hallucinations by the French physician and psychiatrist Alexandre Jacques Francois Briere de Boismont (1797-1881), first published in English in 1853, on offer here is the first UK edition, translated from the French by Robert T. Hulme. Boismont considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man’s psychological history.
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Bacchus Wonder-wercken
AU$1,400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. P. Pers
T’Amstelredam: Dirck Pietersz, 1628.Waer in Het Recht Gebruyck en Misbruyck des Wijns, door verscheyden vermaeckelijcke eerlijcke en leerlijcke historien wort afgebeeld, ende lasteringe der Dronckenschap met levende verwen afgemaelt. Hier is by-gevoeght De Suyp-stad, of Dronckerts Leven: waer in alle hare gebouwen, manieren, aert, wetten &c. en alles wat by den Dronckaerts gebeurt, boertlijcker wyse word af-geschildert… /[Bacchus Wonder-works: Which in The Lawful Use and Misuse of Wine, by various entertaining honest and instructive history is depicted, and the blasphemies of Drunkenness are painted with living pains. Here is by-joined The Suyp-town, or Dronckert’s Life: where in all her buildings, manners, aert, laws &c. and everything that happens by the Dronckaerts is painted off …] Dutch work on wine by the bookseller Dirch Pieters Wittepers, illustrated with title vignette and 4 engravings by Gillis van Scheyndel in the text. Another work on The Hague, ‘s Graven-Hage, by Jacob vander Does (1668) without the title page or engravings bound before it.
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Cookery Made Easy: Being a Complete System of Domestic Management, uniting Elegance with Economy
Read MoreMichael Willis
London: Orlando Hodgson, No date.To which are added, Instructions for Trussing & Carving, with several descriptive plates; Method of Curing & Drying Hams and Tongues; How to make Mushroom and Walnut Ketchups, Quin’s Sauce, Vinegars, &c. &c. With other necessary Information, the whole Being the Result of Actual Experience. By Michael Willis, Many Years Cook at the Thatched-House Tavern. Circa 1830. BITTING pp. 500.
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Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions: ..
Read MoreJohn Evelyn; A. Hunter
York: A. Ward for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Robson, T. Durham, W. Crrech and J. Balfour, 1776.with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. One of the most influential works on forestry ever published in which Evelyn implores landowners to plant trees. This, the 1776 edition, being the First Edition edited by Scottish physician Alexander Hunter and with illustrations by German engraver and botanist John Miller. This copy with the portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi, 8 pages of subscribers including James Boswell, Joseph Banks, and Edward Gibbon (among many others), and the large folding explanatory table; also the armorial bookplate of William Moore and with neat marginalia to three leaves providing further commentary on remarkable oaks from the regions.
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Australian Cycling in the Golden Days
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. (“Curly”) Grivell
Adelaide: Courier Press, No date.History of Australian cycling from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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The Hidden Nude
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition of Lewis Morley’s I To Eye with a chromogenic photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex (40.6cm x 30.5 cm), being a portrait from Morley’s iconic 1963 series with model Christine Keeler, signed and numbered by the photographer in an edition of 150 copies. The print is housed in a custom made folder in turn housed in a custom made box with the book and a large format 8 page booklet/certificate with text by Morley.
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Portraits from a Land Without People (Limited Edition)
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2008.Limited Edition box set of 100 copies including a signed a numbered copy of the book, being a pictorial anthology of Indigenous Australia, 1847-2008, signed and numbered by Jimmy Little and signed by John Ogden, and 3 signed and numbered photographic prints housed in a custom folder: 1. Wik Elder, Gladys (2000) by Ricky Maynard; 2. Australienation, Central Australia, Northern Territory, (1984) by John Ogden; 3. Three Worora girls, photographer unknown. Supplied by Western Australian Museum (signed and numbered WAM).
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 1)
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 1 of the limited edition, being one of 150 copies with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 2)
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 2 of the limited edition, being 1 of 50 copies with 4 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt (Limited Edition)
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Rimmer
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2010.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 2 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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No Worries (Limited Edition 2)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Parr
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 1 pigment print signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and copy of the book, housed together in a custom papered box. The first major project of the British Magnum photographer in Australia, documenting three Western Australian port cities.
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Ducati: A Photographic Tribute (Limited Edition)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Aynsley
Sydney: ANP Press / GTI Media, 2009.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 100 copies with 3 silver gelatin photographs signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and signed and numbered copy of the book which is also signed by 3 time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss, housed together in a custom box. A pictorial tribute to the Ducati motorcycle by Australian photographer Phil Aynsley.
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Ducati: A Photographic Tribute Volume Two
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Aynsley
Sydney: Primer Books / GTI Media, 2016.Volume Two of Australian photographer Phil Aynsley’s pictorial tribute to the Ducati motorcycle. Foreword by Cook Neilson. Words by Ian Gowanloch.
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I to Eye
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Morley to the title page.
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I to Eye
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Atlas Monographs
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Pam.
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Atlas Monographs
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of Australias most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.
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10×100: 10 Australian Photographers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Ortega
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“Fujifilm Professional and T&G Publishing have selected 10 of Australias finest contemporary photographers for this unprecedented publication. They were invited to explore their creativity using Fujifilm’s recently developed, compact, new generation Finepix X100 digital camera, submitting 10 photographs each for publication. The photographers are Max Pam, Narelle Autio, Lee Grant, Heide Smith, Jack Picone, Louise Whelan, John Ogden, Marian Drew, Brad Rimmer and Tim Page.” (publisher’s blurb)