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Men of Queensland: Representative of the Public, Professional, Ecclesiastical and Business Life of Queensland as Existant in the Year 1928 A.D.
AU$850 Read MoreAdd to cartWill. H. Millar
Brisbane: The Read Press, 1929.Printed and Published by The Read Press, Engravings by S. A. Best, Photographs by Poulsen Studios, Caricatures by Will. H. Millar. Chiefly caricatures by Will. H. Millar with accompanying biographical text of 211 notable men of early 20th century Queensland. This copy with the preliminary plate of John Oxley looking down over Brisbane printed in colour and with the armorial bookplate of Brian Leask to the front pastedown.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation [AND] Explanations: A Sequel to (2 Volumes)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Robert Chambers]
London: John Churchill, 1846-1860.Vestiges, published anonymously, had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin, first published in 1844 and here greatly enlarged. This edition (the second to be illustrated) was published just following the publication of Darwin’s Origin and is Chambers; final revision of the text. A twelfth edition, published in 1884 following Chambers’ death, reprints this text and acknowledges his authorship. // Chambers had planned to respond to criticisms of his work by publishing a series of letters to the ‘Times’ followed by a pamphlet of a hundred or so pages, however Churchill convinced the anonymous author (through his friend Alexander Ireland) that it should be issued in book form, printed and bound similarly to the original. Explanations was duly issued in 1845, and was followed by this slightly altered version in 1846. By then the fifth edition of ‘Vestiges’ was ready and the two works were often reviewed together, the publisher going so far as to suggest a combined volume, however his anonymous author pointed out that the arguments were already incorporated in the new edition.
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Photographs. Presentation from the People of Australia to H.M.S. Commonwealth
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSouth Australian Government Photolithographic Department
[Adelaide]: South Australian Government Photolithographic Department, No date.4 photographs mounted in a full leather presentation album showing a silver challenge shield and silver plate table piece of a model of Captain Cook’s ship, the Endeavour, which was gifted from The People of Australia to HMS Commonwealth, a King Edward VII-class battleship of the British Royal Navy at a naval review in 1911. The album contains the bookplate of lawyer, politician, and Federalist, Sir Josiah Henry Symon (1846-1934). Symon represented the Commonwealth Government at the review and made the presentation of the shield and table piece. Photographs by the S. A. Govt. Photolithographic Dept, A. Vaughan, Govt. Photolithographer. From the collection of J. B. Hawkins.
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Seeing & Being Seen
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.The deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist with a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 by William Yang, printed on Hahnemuhle Smooth Cotton Rag paper. The print is signed, titled, dated and editioned by the artist in ink, and mounted inside the upper board in a mylar sleeve housing. “William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen explores photographer and performer William Yang’s five decades of prolific art practice. This is the first major survey exhibition and publication on the artist by a state gallery. Featuring reproductions of over 200 photographs, it traces Yang’s career from his heady early days as a social photographer in the 1970s documenting Sydney’s queer scene through to some of his well-known series addressing family ties, sexual and cultural identity, and the Australian landscape. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the publication also examines the artist’s deep connections to Queensland, including his mid-career explorations of growing up in the far north of the state.” (publisher’s blurb)
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(not only) Blue (Complete Set, 67 Volumes)
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995-2007.A complete set of Australian gay men’s magazine, (not only) Blue, from issue 00 to 66 (67 total). Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, publishers of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and countless others.
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Cannabinoids as Therapeutic Agents
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1986.A summary of past and present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis sativa. Contributors include Paul Consroe, Stuart R. Snider, Martin W. Adler, Ellen B. Geller, Martin Levitt, Robert A. Archer, Paul Stark, Louis Lemberger, Mark Segal, M. Ross Johnson, Lawrence S. Melvin, and James D. P. Graham. Edited by Raphael Mechoulam (1930-), an Israeli chemist known for the first isolation and synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive in marijuana.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Second Edition of Viner’s monumental digest of English law, together with the six volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity. (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). The work is alphabetically arranged under subject headings, with extensive notes and references throughout. This edition comprises the twenty-four-volume second edition of the General Abridgment and the complete six-volume supplement, issued over a period of fifteen years. The English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted much of his life to the compilation of this vast legal encyclopaedia, an undertaking ultimately derived from Rolle’s Abridgment but greatly expanded in scope. Drawing upon reported cases, manuscript authorities, statutes, and earlier legal compilations, it became one of the principal reference works of the common law tradition. J. G. Marvin described it as “the most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law”, nothing that Viner had “translated, abridged, remodelled” and incorporated material from the older abridgments and reports. A substantial and influential legal reference work, forming one of the foundations of eighteenth-century English legal scholarship.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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Les Champignons Comestibles et les especes veneneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient etre confundus
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis Favre-Guillarmod
Paris: Librairie Agricole, [1869].Edible and poisonous mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The first complete edition with the 2 parts in 1 volume. The first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, Les champignons comestibles du canton de Neuchatel, the second with a new introduction and further invaluable information on the edibility of mushrooms VOLBRACHT 586. This copy with the mycological bookplate of Jacques and Helene Bon.
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Die Nutzlichen und Schadlichen Schwamme, nebst einem Anhange uber die islandische Flechte
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHarald Othmar Lenz
Gotha: Beckersche Buchhandlung, 1840.The useful and harmful mushrooms, with an appendix on the Icelandic lichen. The second edition enlarged with descriptions of German fungi. The elegantly coloured plates showing a total of 46 illustrations drawn by J. C. Ausfeld. VOLBRACHT 1165.2.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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Made in U.S.A. Catalog, 1975 and Made in U.S.A.-2 Scrapbook of America, 1976 (2 Volumes)
Read MoreYoshihisa Kinameri; Jiro Ishikawa
Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1975.Two catalogues of American fashion, culture, tools, and lifestyle products, an earlier project from the founders of Popeye magazine, who travelled the United States to put together these volumes which became a massive driver of American lifestyle and fashion influence in Japanese culture. Today, they remain a detailed catalogue of 1970s American culture. Both volumes include detailed shopping guides to numerous American cities. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii,
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux de la France et des pays Circonvoisins
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Richon; Ernest Roze
Paris: Octave Doin, 1888.Atlas of edible and poisonous mushrooms of France and surrounding countries containing 72 color plates or figures of 229 types of the main species of mushrooms sought for food, and similar suspect or dangerous species with which they are confused drawn from nature with their reproductive organs amplified by Charles Richon… Accompanied by a monograph of these 229 species and a general history of edible and poisonous mushrooms by Ernest Roze… Text illustrated with 62 photoengravings of primitive drawings by old authors and organographic figures by recent authors after reproductions made by Charles Rolet. Key late 19th century work of French mycology. VOLBRACHT 1753. BITTING pg. 398. This copy with the bookplate of French mycologist Raymond Bertault.
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Histoire Naturelle des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Sicard
Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1883.Natural History of Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms by Guilleaume Sicard. Rebound in plain cloth with the plates in a second volume. VOLBRACHT 1981.
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Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Gay Heart Throbs (3 Issues, Complete)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Fuller; Mike Kuchar
San Francisco: Fulhorne Productions, Larry Fuller Presents, and Inkwell, Inc., 1976-1981.A complete run of the intermittent and short-lived underground gay erotic comix anthology, the three issues published in 1976, 1979, and 1981. The title is thought to be a reference to the romance comic Heart Throbs. The stories are campy and pornographic. Featuring the work of Larry Fuller, Ray Horne, Mike Kuchar, and many others.
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Telegraph 3 A.M.: The Street People of Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Misrach
Berkeley: Cornucopia Press, 1974.First photobook of American photographer Richard Misrach (1949-), being street photography of the homeless residents of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.
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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
Read MoreF. C. V. Lane
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944.One of 375 numbered copies with 18 tipped in examples of the bookplate work of Australian artist Norman Lindsay, with checklist and bibliography.
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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartRon English
New York: English & Eichman, 1988.First published book by the American contemporary artist Ron English (1959-), being a collection of line drawings. The cover photograph by Charles D. Herold shows English painting a street mural. Introduction by Mark Kostabi. Only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at New York University.
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La Biblioteca Infernal
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLeopoldo Lugones; Santiago Caruso
Buenos Aires: Insula Editora, 2019.The Infernal Library by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lurgones (1874-1938) with an illustrated frontispiece by symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-). This is number 23 of the limited deluxe edition of 30 signed and numbered by the artist produced in plain wrappers with an original drawing on the cover together with a signed and numbered engraving and three facsimiles of vintage documents in a wax sealed folder. The text was first published in 1899 in the Tribuna newspaper, then as part of a collection, Las primeras letras de Leopoldo Lugones, in 1963, and here produced in book form in its own right for the first time. Neither the standard or deluxe edition recorded in OCLC.
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The Harlem Book of the Dead
Read MoreJames Van Der Zee; Owen Dodson; Camille Billops
Dobbs Ferry: Morgan & Morgan, 1978.Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City. Foreword by Toni Morrison.
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Oiran
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Scripta Minoa Volume I
Read MoreArthur J. Evans
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1909.The Written Documents of Minoan Crete with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. Volume I: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes with an account of the discovery of the pre-Phoenician scripts, their place in Minoan story and their Mediterranean relations. Volume I only, Volume II was not published until 1952.
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The Berlei Review Volume 15, 1936
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBerlei
Sydney: Berlei Ltd., 1936.A bound set of the complete volume 15 of The Berlie Review, being the company journal for Australian lingerie company Berlie for the year 1936. Volume 15 comprises 10 parts, with January/February and October/November being double issues. Founded by Fred R. Burley and first operating in Sydney from 1910 as Unique Corsets, before Frenchifying to Berlie in 1917, with the vision “To Design and Manufacture Corsets and Brassieres of such perfect Fit, Quality, and Workmanship, as will bring pleasure and profit to all concerned, while at the same time rendering such excellent service to our Clients and Consumers as will merit their permanent patronage.” Burlei Australia is still operating today.
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Cannabinoids as Therapeutics
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005.A new selection of research papers on the present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis. Contributors include Ethan Russo, Lumir O. Hanus and Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Mauro Maccarrone, Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Sara Gonzalez, Julian Romero, Jose Antonio Ramos, Stpehen A. Varvel, Aron H. Lichtman, Richard E. Musty, Susan M. Huang, J. Michael Walker, Luciano De Petrocellis, Maurizio Bifulco, Alessia Ligresti, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Linda A. Parker, Cheryl L. Limebeer, Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Itai A. Bab, Daniela Parolaro, Tiziana Rubino, Francis Barth, Murielle Rinaldi-Carmona, Geoffrey W. Guy, and Colin G. Stott. Edited by Raphael Mechoulam (1930-), an Israeli chemist known for the first isolation and synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive in marijuana.
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Bazaar Nr. 1 & Nr. 2
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBo Karlsson
Stockholm: Bazaar, 1967.Complete run of the short-lived Swedish counterculture magazine, inspired by Oz, The Village Voice, and similar publications. Contents include an essay on LSD in Stockholm, coverage of the Swedish contemporary art scene, an interview with Paul McCartney, free jazz, and more.
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Pretextes
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Margerit; Almery Lobel-Riche
: Aux depens d’un Groupe d’Amateurs, 1951.A posthumous tribute, organised by friends of the artist and published at their expense, with text by Robert Margerit and an avant-propos by Andre Billy and Pierre Mac Orlan. Copy A of 5 lettered copies on Japon Imperial reserved for friends of the artist, signed by Margerit and enriched with 5 original drawings by Lobel-Riche including a study for the first plate, a second suite of the plates in two states, with an additional plate also in two states, with remarques, as well as two of the original plates used to illustrate the work (the second and tenth plates).
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Sibylla TrygAndriana seu de Virginitate, Virginum statu & iure Tractatus Nouus & iucundus [WITH] Linea Amoris, sive Commentarius…
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartHeinrich Kornmann
Frankfurt: M. Becker for J. Fischer, 1610.First edition of two related works often bound together by the German jurist Heinrich Kornmann examining sexuality, chastity, and the regulation of relations between the sexes in early modern Europe. Sibylla TrygAndriana is a learned treatise on virginity, female chastity, and the legal status of unmarried women, enriched with discussions of astrology, superstition, folklore, and other strands of early modern learning, while Linea Amoris considers love, courtship, and adultery through the lens of civil and canon law, classical literature, and biblical authority.
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The Hidden Nude
AU$4,000 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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Bewitching Bitches
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter X
London: [Swish Publications], No date.“Are you prepared for another journey into the bizarre fantasy world of the fabulous Peter X?” The second of two collections of fetish drawings by the fantasist of dominant women and lady rubberists published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Both of Peter X’s works unrecorded in OCLC.
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Profile (Volume 1 No 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Handen
London: European Publications, 1973.British “bizarre” periodical, edited by Carl Handen with art direction by Hans Deiter. Each cover is illustrated by the American artist Eric Stanton, whose bondage and fetish comics also run throughout all four issues; the cover of number four is billed as “More from America’s leading bizarre illustrator – Stanton. Exclusive to Profile.” The same issue announces that Profile has “obtained the exclusive rights to the creative and erotic writing of John Cleve,” the principal pseudonym of the American writer Andrew J. Offutt, extensively used for erotic fiction between 1969 and the mid 1980s; the story “The Chain,” appearing in this number. Also included is a feature on the pseudonymous French novelist Alan Mac Clyde and the illustrator Carlo, both associated with the interwar French sadomasochistic novel genre. Further contributors across the four numbers include Audrey Kendell, Iago, Maud Cameron, Bernard Valonnes, Gee Kay, Earle Dexter, Mark Ralphs, Victor Rhodes, Julie Hamilton, and Sally Fleming. Number four states that a fifth issue was planned; it is not known whether publication continued. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not mentioned in Richar Perez Seves: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. A complete run (Nos. 1-4) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive, London.
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[Sex Slave]
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSuzan Pitt
New York: Suzan Pitt, 1984.Beginning in 1984, Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) painted a series of one-of-a-kind wearable artworks for The A. More Store, a project of the New York artists’ collective COLAB. Later that year they were sold through Patricia Field’s East 8th Street boutique alongside works by Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse. Pitt described the coats as unique artworks that could be either worn or hung on the wall, combining imagery drawn from popular culture, her animated films, and her watercolours into layered visual narratives of free association. Pitt is thought to have produced between fifty and one hundred painted coats during the 1980s before concentrating on the production of her animated film Joy Street. She returned to the format in 2016 in collaboration with House of Byfield. Sexuality was a persistent subject in Pitt’s work well before the coats. Her early film Crocus (1971) established a recurring association in her animation between sexuality and vegetal and floral forms, carried further in Asparagus (1979), a film noted on release for its frank sexual imagery and remembered for its pairing with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the midnight-movie circuit. The present coat, its title taken from the painted text across the upper back, extends this preoccupation into wearable form, setting sexually explicit illustrations and lettering against appropriated cartoon imagery of Mickey Mouse and Goofy. This example belongs to the original 1984 series and is signed and dated by the artist.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Andy Warhol Attentat Sound Performance [Who Shot Andy Warhol]
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartAl Hansen; Lisa Cieslik; S. Zierold; G. Stockinger; D. Hebben; P. Keinertz
Cologne: Hundertmark Editions, 1986.Recording of a live performance by Fluxus artist Al Hansen, recreating radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Hansen was a founding figure of the Happenings movement and a longstanding presence in Warhol’s circle: he was a frequent visitor to the Factory, and his daughter Bibbe Hansen was one of Warhol’s superstars, appearing in two of his 1965 films. Hansen arrived at the Factory on the day of the shooting and narrowly missed Solanas as she fled the building after shooting Warhol with a pistol. One of 80 numbered copies signed by Hansen and Cieslik with a photograph of the performance mounted to the lid and accompanied by three A3 and one A4 xeroxed sheets reproducing articles about the performance.
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Umeni Vtipu a Pohybu: Allegorie K Operam a Operetam
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSmall Pike [Jaroslav Stika]
: Soukromy Tisk, 1932.Portfolio of erotic plates with opera and theatrical themes attributed to Czech artist Jaroslav Stika, published privately under the pseudonym Small Pike. Printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Les Tres-Merveilleuses Victoires des Femmes du Nouveau-Monde, suivi de la Doctrine du Siecle Dore. Avec une notice biographique & bibliographique par M. Gustave Brunet.
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartGuillaume Postel
Turin: J. Gay et Fils, Editeurs, 1869.16th-century defence of women arguing that they ought to command the world and that Satan, who corrupted humanity through woman, can only finally be overthrown by woman. Postel cites Joan of Arc, whose victories he saw as divine power working through the female sex, and the Venetian visionary ‘Mother Jeanne’, whom he names the ‘New Eve’ and spiritual mother of a restored humanity. First published in Paris in 1553 in two editions and reprinted twice in the 18th century. This 1869 reissue by Jules Gay, publisher of erotica and curiosa, was limited to 100 numbered copies and appeared in his ‘Raretes’ series with a biographical and bibliographical notice by Gustave Brunet. Postel (1510-1581), Orientalist, Christian Kabbalist and religious universalist, was judged insane by the Venetian authorities over his teachings on Mother Jeanne. Provenance: Oval bookplate Bibliotheque du Docteur Laloy; bookplate MER & HWR, The Gift of Margery Wright, October 1933. KEARNEY, Gay 383.
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L’Effort
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond Haraucourt
Paris: Les Societaires de L’Academie des Beaux Livres Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1894.A high point of Art Nouveau illustrated books, directed by Octave Uzanne for the Academie des Beaux Livres of the Bibliophiles Contemporains, featuring four symbolist tales by Haraucourt, each illustrated by a different artist in a different technique: ‘La Madone’ with colour lithographs by Alexandre Lunois, ‘L’Antechrist’ with hand-coloured line illustrations by Eugene Courboin, ‘L’Immortalite’ with etchings and hand-coloured floral borders by Carlos Schwabe, and ‘La Fin du Monde’ with monochrome compositions by Alexandre Seon. The title and justification are by Leon Rudnicki. The text was printed on the hand presses of the former Maison Quantin, on paper designed by Uzanne and made at the Arches and Archettes mills of Mazure et Perrigot. One of an unstated number of numbered copies (generally given as 180), each printed for a named member of the society, this copy number 58, printed for Georges Beach de Forest, presumably the New York capitalist, bibliophile, and art collector George Beach de Forest Jr. (1848-1932).
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Portraits from a Land Without People (Limited Edition)
Read MoreJohn 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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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800 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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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350 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.