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Flore Medicale, Decrite par F. O.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. P. Chaumeton
Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1814-1820.Monumental early nineteenth-century French work on medicinal and edible plants, authored by Francois Pierre Chaumeton, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Jean-Baptitse-Joseph-Anne-Cesar Turbas de Chamberet. The first six volumes, beginning with Absinthe comprise 360 hand-coloured stipple engravings by Ernestine Panckoucke (the publisher’s wife) and Pierre-Jean-Francois Turpin, produced at the height of the French stipple engraving tradition pioneered by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, a fantastic example of early nineteenth-century botanical art publishing. The final two volumes complete the work with extensive text on pharmacological uses and additional plates, including two large engraved folding tables, forming a comprehensive encyclopaedia of materia medica as understood at the end of the Napoleonic era. NISSEN BBI 349. This copy with the additional corrected description of plate XXI. From the collection of English horticulturalist, Maria Theresa Earle, with her bookplate in each volume, also the plate, name and address of American Rhododendron collector Dr. Paul Jay Bowman. This edition unrecorded in Australian collections, with only one institutional holding of any edition located, the 6-volume second edition (1828-1833) at the University of Melbourne.
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Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions: ..
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Evelyn; A. Hunter
York: Thomas Wilson and Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812.As it was Delivered in The Royal Society, on the 15th of October, 1662, Upon occasion of certain Queries propounded to the Illustrious Assembly, by the Hon. the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. .. To Which is Added, The Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth. The Fourth Edition, with the Editor’s Last Corrections, and a Short Memoir of Him. One of the most influential works on forestry ever published in which Evelyn implores landowners to plant trees. This, the 1812 edition, being the fourth edition edited by Scottish physician Alexander Hunter and with illustrations by German engraver and botanist John Miller and with the the portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi. This edition also contains Evelyn’s Terra.
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Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F. R. S.
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Evelyn; William Bray
London: Henry Colburn, 1818.Author of the “Sylva,” &c. &c. Comprising His Diary, From the Year 1641 to 1705-6, and a Selection of His Familiar Letters. To Which is Subjoined, The Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. and His Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, Whilst His Majesty Was in Scotland, 1641, and at Other Times During the Civil War; Also Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the Time of King Charles I. and the Usurpation. The Whole Now First Published, From the Original Mss. in Two Volumes. Edited by William Bray. First Edition of John Evelyn’s Diary, published for the first time posthumously over 100 years after his death.
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The Malay Archipelago
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred Russel Wallace
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869.First US edition of the English naturalist’s scientific exploration of 1854-1862.
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The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Color in Typographic Printing
Read MoreJohn F. Earhart
Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892.A detailed manual on the use of colour in typography printing, demonstrating how to achieve over 1,000 colours and tints from just 12 inks. The plates illustrate practical applications of colour mixing and showcase examples typographic colour effects. Widely regarded in printing history, typography, and colour theory. The first and only edition, with the signed leaf.
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Public Fitting
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Old Women
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrantisek Halas; Ivan Ruzicka; Robert E. Marx
New York: Vestal, 1966.Old Women by Frantisek Halas, written in Czech, was first published in 1935, and here translated into English by Ivan Rizicka with etchings by Robert Marx. One of 25 signed and numbered copies printed in colour (a further 20 numbered copies in black and white also produced).
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The Colt Album
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington; Rip Colt [Jim French]
London: John S. Barrington, No date.Early monograph on American illustrator and publisher Jim French AKA Rip Colt, edited and with a short introduction by English physique photographer John S. Barrington. This issue without a date in the imprint, other copies seen are printed 1973. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Camus
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955.A finely bound first English Edition of Camus’ classic 1942 philosophical essay.
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The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings & Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First.
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Fox [John Foxe]; M. Madan [Martin Madan]
London: H. Trapp, 1776.18th-century folio edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, here edited by the English barrister and clergyman Martin Madan, better known for his 1780 work advocating polygamy, Thelyphthora, or A Treatise on Female Ruin. This copy with 30 plates, as called for, however some of the plates bound in a different order and the plate of The Burning of Rose Allin replaced with the plate of The Body and Bones of Wickliff Taken Up and Burned from the separately issued The Lives of the Primitive Martyrs.
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The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, Written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius.
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMeredith Hanmer
London: Richard Field, 1619.Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7. bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6. bookes. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and ends of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70. Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer Doctor of Diuinitie. Last of all, herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies.
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Die Funktion des Orgasmus: Zur Psychopathologie und zur Soziologie des Geschlechtslebens
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Reich
Leipzig, Wien, Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1927.First Edition of Reich’s psychoanalytical study of orgasm and neurosis. His first full monograph on the subject of orgastic potency arguing that neurotic illness arises form the inability to achieve complete orgastic release. A foundational Reichian work which he dedicated to Freud.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.The first UK edition published prior to the US edition with the first issue advertisements dated October 1884. BAL 3414.
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Carlo Mollino: Un Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura
Read MoreCarlo Mollino; Gerald A. Matt
Nurnberg: Kunsthalle, 2011.“Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) was possessed of both tremendous energy and incredibly diverse abilities: famed as an architect and furniture designer, he was also a writer, photographer, race-car driver and downhill skier. His private life was no less intense. Mollino had a closely guarded obsession with erotic portraiture, and would regularly invite prostitutes from the streets of Turin to come to his home and pose for him. The scenes were carefully prepared: the models would dress (or partially undress) in costumes, accessories and wigs that Mollino had acquired on trips to France or Southeast Asia, and pose before backdrops of drapery, screens and sculptural furniture. Despite the furtive circumstances of their production, these portraits express the aesthetics of Mollino’s more public photographs, as the models appear more statuesque than pornographic. Likewise, the opulent interiors and opulent furnishings of Mollino’s private homes in Turin, the Villa Zaira and what is now known as Casa Mollino serve as crucial components of the compositions. In 1962, Mollino began to employ Polaroid film for these shoots, eventually making some 1,300 exposures before his death in 1973. Neither these nor the silver gelatin works that preceded them were published in his lifetime, and this is the first publication of these Polaroids.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hustlers
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilip-Lorca diCorcia
Gottingen: Steidl, 2013.Oversize photo book by American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-) documenting male prostitutes. “I took the Hustler photographs following a period of repressive stomping on the U.S. Constitution’s First Amemdment, “Freedom of Speech”. An appropriate personification of the moment would be Jesse Helms, a man deeply committed to his bigotry. He was responsible for a lot of the stomping. In 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts was attacked for supporting a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that was canceled as a result. In the same year, the money I received from the NEA had a proviso attached which required that I not transgress “American” values; at least that is how I remember it. I’ll be it was more onerous. Other artist recipients called for a boycott, or some kind of protest. I decided to beat Mr. Helms et al. at their own game, mendacity. I paid the “hustlers” in these photographs with the money awarded to me by the NEA. The price was meant to be the normal cost for the lowest common denominator of street sex. Of course it varies. Hustlers lie a lot too. I’ve included in the titles the name, age, hometown, and price paid of each one, as an emphatic declaration of the identity mutation and the taxonomy of the project implied. And, as a report to the government of its well-spent dollars. (from artist’s statement) A selection of 21 of the photographs were exhibited in diCorcia’s first museum show, Strangers, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1993. Here for the first time the complete series is published in it entirety.
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Human Negotiations
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKatharina Hesse; Lara Day
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2011.Photo book of Bangkok female and transsexual sex workers. Photography by Kathanrina Hesse with text based on interviews by Lara Day. This copy signed by Hesse.
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Ai Weiwei: New York 1983 – 1993
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAi Weiwei
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2010.The true first edition of Weiwei’s New York Photographs series produced when he was living the East Village from 1983 to 1993.
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New York, 1954.55
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Klein
Manchester: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1995.Revised edition of Klein’s landmark photo book first published as Life is Good & Good For You in New York (Paris, 1956).
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Balkan Pank
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoze Suhadolnik
: Akina Books, 2014.Photo book of the 1980s punk scene in former Yugoslavia. One of 50 unnumbered copies of the collector’s edition in a coptic binding with screenprinted cover (a softcover edition of 200 copies was also produced).