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Der Fliegende Mensch: Gymnastische Sprungubungen
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Glucker
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1926.Authored by German gymnastics teacher August Glucker (1895-1975) the text provides instruction to reach new heights in frolicking. 26 beautiful examples of fine jumping and exquisite aerial repose are contained at the rear. A brilliant example of athleticism for the gymnast, dancer, or anyone interested in the human form.
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Benedicta
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSantiago Caruso
Argentina: Santiago Caruso, 2001.An early original artwork by Argentine symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-). This work was later published as one of Caruso’s illustrations for a Spanish translation of The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce, ‘El Monje: Y La Hija Del Verduo’ (Barcelona: Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2011, p. 38).
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A Queenly Colony: Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[William Henry Traill]
Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1901.Photographs of early Queensland collected from various government departments depicting the state in the late 19th century with accompanying descriptive text by William Henry Traill. Depicts farming, industry, Brisbane, regional townships and farmlands, and notable individuals. An excellent copy in the original cloth.
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Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Queensland: Its Resources and Institutions
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPrice Fletcher
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1886.Essays; prepared by the authority of the executive commissioners in Queensland for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1866, being 1. Queensland: An Introductory Essay by A. J. Boyd; 2. Education in Queensland by the Rev. William Poole; 3. The Commerce and Industries of Queensland by Horace Earle; 4. The Mineral Industries of Queensland by K. T. Staiger; 5. Agriculture in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 6. The Sugar Industry in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 7. The Pastoral Industry by P. R. Gordon; 8. Horticulture by Theodore Wright; 9. Hints to Immigrants: A Practical Essay upon Bush Life in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 10. The Flora of Queensland by Fredk. Manson Bailey; 11. The Geology of Queensland by Robert L. Jack; 12. A Contribution to Pharmacy from Queensland by Joseph Bancroft; 13. A Popular Sketch of the Natural History of Queensland by Price Fletcher; 14. Emigration to Queensland: or, How to Get to that Colony; 15. How to Settle on the Land in the Colony of Queensland. Edited by Price Fletcher, with a frontispiece map of Queensland. This copy bearing the bookplate of the John M. Chapman Collection and with Compliments card of Sir James Garick, Executive Commissioner for Queensland, tipped in, and Royal Society of Edinburgh stamps.
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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus (75 Parts in 8 Volumes)
AU$4,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Margaret Flockton
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers, 1903-1931.A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are in colour, and 4 of which are maps, of Joseph Henry MaidenÂ’s masterpiece in the field of botanical research, and his major taxonomical work alongside his Forest Flora of New South Wales. The set is illustrated chiefly with lithographs by Margaret Flockton, together with several by Matilda Smith, a facsimile of L’Heritier, and 4 maps, as well as a photographic illustration by L. C. Webster, and a photographic portrait of Maiden in one of the posthumous volumes therein also published an obituary by Richard Hind Cambage. The project, which took 28 years to be published, the final parts prepared by Maiden before his death in 1925 and published posthumously edited by Cambage and William Blakely, was an extension of the work started by Ferdinand von Mueller and George Bentham in Flora Australiensis and continued by Mueller in his Eucalyptographia, devising classifications based on the characteristics of the stamens, and remained an important reference for many years. MaidenÂ’s study of eucalyptus was completed alongside his duties as Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, which he commenced in 1896. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden established the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of SydneyÂ’s first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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The Temple Dances in Bali
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936.Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there. The Temple Dances in Bali includes short text on the Legong, Chalon Arong, and Joghed dances, costume, and music, with illustrations in the text, complimented by numerous captioned plates by Kleen. First published in Swedish in a limited edition of 300 copies as Tempeldanser och musikinstrument pa Bali, and here translated into English for the first time. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm (Statens Etnografiska Museum) New Series, Publication No. 2.
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John Cage: A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cage; Lois Long; Alexander H. Smith
Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2020.“Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage’s mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage are interwoven throughout the first volume within a central essay examining Cage’s enduring relationship with mycology. Also included is a transcript of Cage’s 1983 performance, MUSHROOMS et Variationes. The second volume is the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroom Book, authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith. Readers are thus drawn through the landscape of Cage’s mycologically centred oeuvre and interests, discovering assorted works, images, compositions, philosophies and ephemera, as one might encounter assorted fungi and flora while foraging.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Australian Style Issue #1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea Horwood
Perth: Australian Style, 1993.First issue of Australian 1990s fashion magazine Australian Style featuring Kylie Minogue on the cover. This issue features a series of portraits of Minogue by Tony Notarberardino smoking, but with the cigarette edited out, though one image remains with stick in hand. Also features Greta Scacchi, Andrew Ettinghausen, Graeme Murphy, rodeo sports, Stompem Ground ’92, Hunters and Collector’s Mark Seymor, and more.
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De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.
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Outlines of an Industrial Science
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Syme
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876.The first of a number of publications authored by the Victorian colony’s most powerful newspaperman, David Syme (1827-1908), publisher of The Age newspaper. Syme was influential in 18th century Australian politics and shaped government policy especially with regard to trade protection. Outlines of an Industrial Science was “Written in support of protection and extension of the activities of the State. Contains Australian references on economic conditions, etc.” FERGUSON 16623.
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The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNicolas Chorier
Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1890.(Aloisiae Sigeae Satyra Sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris) The first English translation from the original 1660 Latin of French lawyer Nicolas Chorier (1612-1692). One of the noted works of early western erotic fiction. This unique copy with 27 finely executed original erotic colour pencil and ink drawings throughout the text (3 full page).
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15 Femdom Paintings with Short Stories
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. Rossera
: L. Rossera, No date.Portfolio of 15 original erotic mixed media paintings. Dominatrix/femdom scenes featuring large women with bright make up and bulging breasts dominating men: Facesitting, whipping, spanking, pegging, slavery. Each painting signed LR (1 marked over) and housed in a folder lettered L. Rossera, possibly Dutch artist Linda Rossera, produced in the 1960s. 14 are mounted in a thin board folder, 12 with an accompanying short femdom story, ‘His Wife’s Seat’, ‘The Web of Ruthless Betty’, ‘Charwomen in Action’, ‘Prisoner of Vixen’, etc.
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Nexus Erotica
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Dregg
[Noosa Heads]: R. Lees, 1992.Queensland sculptor Edward Dregg and six models retire to a bush castle atelier to explore psyche and desire, and create erotic life size sculptures. The resulting works are captured in this two part volume, the first, being the stories and sculptures of each model, five women and one transgender, and the artist. The second part being a series of black and white photographs of the team at work and play. Signed and numbered edition of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 172.
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Wines of America
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFruit Industries Ltd
[United States]: Fruit Industries Ltd, 1934.A listing of the wines available in America – what they are, what to serve them with, and how to serve them.
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[Murat] New Temple Ceremonial
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn E. Milnor
Indianapolis: Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 1922.in Murat’s Jama Masjif on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month Rabih Ul Akhir, 1343 which is to say Friday, December 15, 1922. An invitation to the opening celebrations of the extensions to the Murat Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the Oasis of Indianapolis, Desert of Indiana. A great ballroom, it was decorated with an Egyptian theme to match the Arabic concept of the Shrine, with hieroglyphics and drawings found in ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes. Shriners membership form laid in, and housed in an original unmarked posting envelope. Unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2022.
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A Translation of the Corrected Edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Published in July 1815. with Notes
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA London Physician
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and S. Highley and Son, 1815.Translation from Latin into English of the Royal College of Physicians’ Pharmacopoeia, providing a list of plants and their parts for use in medicines and other preparations, and recipes for mixing and compounding. The unnamed translator makes an appeal to Lord Stanhope to look into the Royal College of Physicians, which he accuses of quackery, and bring it before the Legislature for ‘reformation and redress’.
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Anacreonti Quae Tribuuntur Carminum Paraphrasis Elegiaca
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Hoeufft
Dordraci: Peter van Braam, 1795.Poems by Anaccreon (ca. 575-495 BC), a Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect here translated into Latin by J.H. Hoeufft. His works were meant to be sung or recited to lyre music, and included hymns as well as less virtuous drinking and love songs.
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Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk
Kyoto and London: The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company, 1940.Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America.
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Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVincent Wing
London: Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, 1664.The first edition of this practical land surveying handbook intended to be of use to architects, engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, and other craftsmen by English surveyor Vincent Wing (1619-1668). “..probably the first work on surveying to be written for use as a handbook” (Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, pg. 122) Provides a comprehensive manual of the principles and practice of land and quantity surveying, using some of Vincent Wing’s own commissions as case studies. “Surveyed and laid out in a more Accurate, Plain and Expeditious Plat, then hath hitherto been performed.” WING W2991. This copy with various owner names of the Chorley family, one Alexander Chorley dated 1773, also John and Sarah, as well as James McDonald, and with their marginalia throughout.
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Palya
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStewart Roper
Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2013.Palya is a word used frequently in Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara, and it can have a variety of meanings, essentially translating to ‘good’. This volume depicts images and recollections from two decades on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in north western South Australia.