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Annual Report of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, 1901-1943
Read MoreQueensland Government
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan, Anthony James Cumming, Frederick Phillips, David Whyte, and A. H. Tucker, Government Printers, 1901-1943.A substantial run from the first annual report of 1901 following The Sugar Experiment Stations Act of 1900 to the forty-third in 1943. Lacking 1927, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1942.
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The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. W. Johnston
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.“The first work in English to treat the entire psychoactive plant kingdom.” (Phantastica, 114) Thorough chapters devoted to opium, cannabis, coca, betel nut, Amanita muscaria, as well as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and liquors.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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An Essay on Hasheesh
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Robinson
New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1930.“A minor classic, combining experimental reports with sophisticated wit: totally unlike every other book on the subject.” (Phantastica 244). Victor Robinson (1886-1947) was a Ukranian-American physician and medical historian. Stated Second Edition though technically the third after first appearing privately in 1912 and then in a trade edition in 1925.
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Tobacco and Alcohol
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Fiske
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869.I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. A defense of drinking and smoking. The first book of American philosophy and historian John Fiske (1842-1901). This copy with the bookplate of Daniel Edwards Kennedy.
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Shopping Around the World: The Key to the Shops Around the World
Read MoreNYK Line; Dan Sweeney
Tokyo: Dai-Nippon Printing Co., 1938.The Key to the Shops around the World by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Line. Outline of what can be bought in cities around the world: koa wooden bowls, tapa cloths, ukuleles, and hula skirts in Honolulu, kimonos and silks in Yokohama, cloisonnes, lacquer ware, swords, bronzes and silverware in Kyoto, brass and silver ware in Korea, silver, rugs and furs in Peking, silks, jades and ivories in Shanghai, shawls, teak and jade in Hong Kong, silver and batik in Singapore, brass and silver in Bangkok, shawls and furs in Calcutta, gems in Colombo, rugs in Cairo, bronzes in Naples, then Marseilles and London. Each locale is captured by a colourful full page illustration by American illustrator Daniel C. Sweeney (1880-1958), along with details of routes and fares for trips on the NYK liners. July 1938 issue.
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The Genie Story
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBituminous Coal Institute
Washington DC: Bituminous Coal Institute, 1953.Coal industry propaganda comic strip. A young boy dreams about ‘The Genie of Coal’ who takes him on a magical journey teaching him about the wonders of coal. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at the Hagley Museum & Library.
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Rally for China: Shrine AUD. Los Angeles Sunday Eve. Dec. 12, 1938
Read MoreMotion Picture Artists’ Committee and China Aid Council
Los Angeles: Motion Picture Artists’ Committee and China Aid Council, 1938.Program for a Rally for China held in Los Angeles during the Second Sino-Japanese War sponsored by the Motion Picture Artists’ Committee and China Aid Council held at the Shrine Auditorium December 12, 1938. Lists performances by the Mei Wah Girls’ Drums Corps, Burns and Allen, Clarence Muse, Lotte Goslar, Harpo Marx, and others. Features a poem, Gift to the Mikado, by Helen Fitzgerald, illustration by Stuyvesant Van Veen, several other cartoons, two of which deriding the Japanese, and advertisements for local businesses. Laid in at the rare is a promotional sheet for KG FK Radio Station. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Suicide: A Deadly Treatise in Black and White! An Index to Blood Scandal in Washington, D.C.
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMr. X; [Gerald L. K. Smith]
St. Louis: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1950.“This is the most sensational manuscript ever to appear in print dealing with Washington, D.C., its suicides, its assassins, treason, corruption, scandal, perversion, propaganda and revenge.” Conspiratorial religious and nationalist political booklet published by far-right, anti-communist, antisemitic organisation, The Christian Nationalist Crusade, under the direction of founder Gerald L. K. Smith.
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Centennial Expressions on Peter Kropotkin, 1842-1942 by Pertinent Thinkers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederick W. Roman; J. Scott Kelti; Frank Oppenheimer; et al.
Los Angeles: Rocker Publication Committee, 1942.Collection of short essays and musing on Kropotkin and political philosophy.
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The Naked Heroine: The Story of Lydia Lova [From the Folies to the Resistance]
Read MoreJohn Izbicki
London: Neville Spearman, 1963.The story of Polish countess and dancer turned French resistance fighter, showgirl of the Folies-Bergere, stripper of Soho, a naked spy and one of the most decorated women of wartime France. This copy inscribed by Lydia Lova in the year of publication.
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Ink Emma Ink Christmas Edition!
Read MoreAustralian Special Wireless Group
[Brisbane]: Australian Special Wireless Group, 1943.Wartime issue of the official newsletter of the Australian Special Wireless Group. The ASWG was responsible for monitoring and intercepting wireless transmissions. Ink Emma Ink (morse code for question mark) was first published by Maurice Biggs in 1942 when the Group was moved to Bonegilla in Victoria, later that year members of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) were recruited into the ASWG and became fervent contributors to the newsletter. In 1943 ASWG Headquarters were in Brisbane. Ink Emma Ink, was published throughout WWII and continued up until 2013. This early Christmas issue, lengthier than the usual 6-8 pages the newsletter was at the time, contains a history of the early days of the newsletter together with poems, stories, articles, and reports on the Groups sporting fixtures, which confirms the publishing location as Brisbane. Illustrations by George Nuanton.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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Fiona Hall
Read MoreJulie Ewington
Sydney: Piper Press, 2005.This copy signed by Fiona Hall.
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Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatharine Lumby
Sydney: Craftsman House, 2000. -
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVivien Johnson
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2003. -
The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVivien Johnson
Sydney: Craftsman House and Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1996.The second printing, signed by Clifford Possum to the title page.
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Devastation to Transformation
Read MoreFiona Dawn Hill; Monique Lisbon
Melbourne: Kaleidoscope Creations, 2015.Primarily illustrations of art therapy paintings around the trauma of death, rape, and cancer.