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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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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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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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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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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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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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Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions: ..
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn 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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Images & Oracles of Austin Osman Spare
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKenneth Grant
London: Fulgur, 2003.The Deluxe Edition of 93 numbered copies signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant. BOGDAN A4d(iii).
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Borough Satyr: The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare
Read MoreAustin Osman Spare
London: Fulgur, 2005.One of 65 numbered copies in full black cloth for private distribution, signed by Robert Ansell (who authored the introduction). Additional texts by Kenneth Grant, Steffi Grant, Ithell Colquhoun, Hadyn Mackay, Philip Paul, John Smith, Clifford Bax, Hannen Swaffer, Grace Rogers, and Ralph Straus. BOGDAN G3c(ii).
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Open Love: A Romance of Greenwich Village
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGustav Bowhan
New York: Mecca Publishing Co., 1920.A play of life and free love amongst a club of bohemian artists in New York. Recorded as performed on Broadway in 1932.
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The Bishop Collection
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert K. Bishop
Los Angeles: House of Milan Corp., 1979.Monograph of the erotic bondage art of Robert K. Bishop. Published by House of Milan, where Bishop was working as editor-in-chief, this is the largest single volume collection of his work.