For the 55th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair Jenkins presents another diverse offering including Baudelaire, Wilde, French literature, drug literature, fine bindings, hand-made erotic booklets, sexuality studies, occult works, cocktails, gastronomy, counterculture, books from the collection of the late Barry Humphries, and more. For more details on the fair visit: rarebookfair.com
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Les Fleurs du Mal
Read MoreCharles Baudelaire; Almery Lobel-Riche; Henri Blanchetiere
Paris: M. A. Blaizot, 1917.One of 12 on Japon Imperial from a deluxe edition of 24 numbered copies of The Flowers of Evil illustrated by Almery Lobel-Riche and published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Baudelaire’s death. This copy from the collection of actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate; bound in a fine binding signed H. Blanchetiere 1923, with illustrative inlays, the upper board depicting a branch of flowers with a reclining nude woman around which a snake slithers, the spine with a lyre motif, the lower board with a cat, and the inner boards decorated with inlaid leather floral patterns in an Art Nouveau style after Charles Meunier by Henri Blanchetiere. Illustrated throughout by Lobel-Riche with 43 etchings in multiple states: a frontispiece portrait of the author in 2 states, 40 etchings in 4 states, 1 etching in 6 states (Le Chat), and 1 etching in 3 states (a rejected plate for Les Yeux de Berthe), as well as an original signed drawing in pen, ink and crayon at the front (for La Geante), an original watercolour (for Chanson d’apres-midi), and 2 original sketches (for La Mort des amants and Priere d’un paien).
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Les Fleurs du Mal
AU$9,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; Armand Rassenfosse; Henri Noulhac
Paris: Les Cent Bibliophiles, 1899.One of 115 numbered copies of the first, and widely considered the best, illustrated edition of The Flowers of Evil, being the chef d’oeuvre of Belgian artist Armand Rassenfosse, with nearly every page of the text illustrated with Symbolist colour etchings and nude women. This copy from the collection of actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate; bound in a fine binding signed Noulhac 1918, with multi-rule borders and silk doublures framed with inlaid leather strips and flowers at the corners. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, throughout with hundreds of colour illustrations and tailpieces, as well as 6 plates and a page of text with tailpiece outside of the text. Bound at the rear is a Juin 1897 Specimen being the leaf of XX La Geante with an alternative tailpiece illustration and the chapter plate for Les Fleurs du Mal, an etched menu cover for a Les Cent Bibliophiles Dinner for Fleurs du Mal, 6 Mai 1901 by Rassenfosse, as well as 17 additional etchings by Evert van Muyden and other artists.
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Le Spleen de Paris
AU$1,400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; L. Lafnet
: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1940 [1941].One of 106 numbered copies reserved for members of the final illustrated book by Luc Lafnet, with 90 etchings each with tissue guard.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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Oeuvres Completes de Charles Baudelaire
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Louis Conard, 1923-1953.Complete set of the Complete Works of Charles Baudelaire in French published by Louis Conard between 1923 and 1953, edited and with notes by Jacques Crepet. Les Fluers du Mal with portrait frontispiece.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Read MoreThomas De Quincey
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822.First edition of the highly influential autobiographical account of De Quincey’s laudanum addiction. The establishing literary work in the artistic field of drug taking and creative expression. This copy with the half-title and without the advertisement leaf, in a fine signed 1911 Zaehnsdorf binding, with protective case.
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The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDr. Cantala
New York: Botwen Printing Co., 1924.Considered one of the scarcest books in all of psychoactive drug literature and one of the most important on opiate addiction, predicting the development of synthetic opioids by some 35 years. “Devoted to the medical and social uses of opiates, including sections on opium dens, needlemania, the psychology of the addict, the nature of opiate intoxication, love among addicts, etc. There are chapters on cocaine and hashish, and another on Dr. Cantala’s method of cure.” (William Dailey via Gertz: Dope Menace pp. 30). One of a small number bound in cloth with the original wrapper illustration mounted. 4 copies recorded in OCLC, all in the United States.
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Fumee D’Opium
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere
Paris: Libraire Olendorff, 1921.The first deluxe edition of Farrere’s Black Opium, semi-autobiographical tales of the history and use of opium. Preface by Pierre Louys. With 6 plates and numerous wood engravings by Georges Jauneau, engraved by G. Lemoine. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches Vellum (of a total edition of 322).
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Salome. Drame en un acte.
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
Paris and Londres: Librairie de L’Art Independant and Elkin Mathew et John Lane, 1893.First edition, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly, without the wrappers, with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design.
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Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
Read MoreOscar Wilde
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head and John Lane Company, 1907.Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. The first edition to include all 16 of Beardsley’s illustrations including the unadulterated hermaphroditic title page illustration, as well as the introduction by Robert Ross, and the two leaves with the Cast of the Performance of Salome, as presented in England for the first time by the New Stage Club on May 10 and 13, 1905, and the reproduction of the playbill of the first production of the Operatic Version by Richard Strauss at the Konigliches Operahaus, Dresden on December 9, 1905. Identical to MASON 355 except without the Wm. Clowes & Sons imprint at the foot of the last page of text.
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Vera; or, The Nihilists. A Drama in a Prologue, and Four Acts
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
: Privately Printed, 1902.One of 200 numbered copies of Wilde’s play first written in 1881, and now published for the first time from the author’s own copy, showing his corrections of and additions to the original text. MASON 624.
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Ballade de la Geole de Reading / The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Burins Originaux de Tavy Notton
Read MoreOscar Wilde; Tavy Notton
Paris: Editions de L’Odeon, 1951.Bilingual edition in French and English of Wilde’s poem with illustrations by Tavy Notton. One of 120 copies on Rives vellum (from an edition of 201). This copy with the additional suite of 16 plates with remarques including illustrated text from De Profundis normally accompanying copies 11 to 60.
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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Ampelographie Rhenane ou Description Caracteristique, Historique, Synonymique, Agronomique et Economique des Cepages les Plus Estimes
Read MoreM. J. L. Stoltz
Paris and Mulhouse: Dusacq and J. P. Risler, 1852.One of the foundational texts of European ampelography with 30 colour lithographs of grapes, grapevines and leaves. The standard work on Alsace and southern German grape varieties, wine, and viticultural history in the Rhine Valley.
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A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and use of Inebriating Liquors;
Read MoreSamuel Morewood
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, and William Carson, 1838.with the Present Practice of Distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the Consumption and Effects of Opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits. The greatly expanded second edition, including sections on distillation in the colony of New South Wales, and the use of opium and other drugs around the world.
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The Artistry of Mixing Drinks
Read MoreFrank Meier
Paris: Fryam Press, 1936.One of the classic cocktail books of the 1930s: a guide to the art by the chemist, physiologist, and psychologist of the first order (and later hero of the Resistance), the head bartender at the Ritz, Frank Meier An unnumbered and uncut copy of the 700 copies on cream vellum (from the total edition of 1,026).
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The Savoy Cocktail Book
Read MoreHarry Craddock
London: Constable & Company, 1930.First edition, second issue (with the Booth’s adverts), of the classic cocktail book. Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daises, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and vastly appreciated in this year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality. Illustrated by Gilbert Rumbold.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.