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The Ethics of Service
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.
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Electronic Revolution, 1970-71
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Burroughs
Cambridge: For Henri Chopin .. at the Blackmoor Head Press, 1971.One of the standard edition of 450 numbered copies (of a total edition of 500) with drawings by Brion Gysin. “Bilingual French and English text of a two-part 52-page essay on media and manipulation, about equal parts paranoia and genius, as much of Burroughs’ work tended to be.” SHOAF 23. MAYNARD & MILES A21
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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Victorian Butterflies And How To Collect Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Anderson; Frank Palmer Spry
Melbourne: H. Hearne & Co., 1893.Early work on Australian butterflies. FERGUSON 5965. Issued without the 4 pages of advertisements cited in Ferguson. This copy with the ownership signature of Australian cartoonist Vane Lindesay.
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The Shulgin Index Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Tania Manning; Paul F. Daley
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2011.The first and only volume (to date) of The Shulgin Index: a comprehensive survey of all known psychedelic phenethylamines and related compounds. Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014) is considered one of the greatest figures of the psychedelic movement and is known for introducing MDMA to American psychologists and first synthesising many of the psychedelic phenethylamines.
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Die Wirkstoffe der dritten aztekischen Zauberdroge oder Die Losung des Ololiuqui-Ratsels
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann; A. Cerletti
Stuttgart: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1961.Reissue from Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr. 18, pp. 885-888. Paper by the Swiss chemist and psychedelic icon who first synthesised and ingested LSD and his colleague at Sandoz Aurelio Cerletti on the “third aztec magical drug”, Ololiuqui (Ipomoea corymbosa), a species of morning glory.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Pearson
Sydney: Vale & Pearson, 1933.Biography of Joseph Pearson (1849-1939), draper, one of Australia’s early cyclists, and map publisher. First published in 1925, Pearson published this revised edition in 1933. “When Pearson toured Britain and the Continent in 1893, he rode some 3500 miles (5633 km). He bought road maps and, inspired by them, vowed to persuade his fellow cyclists ‘to take an occasional tour in the country … to get into our wide spaces’. In 1896 he published the Cyclists’ Touring Guide of New South Wales, which contained many practical hints. He agitated for the erection of road signs and that year helped to found the New South Wales Cyclists’ Touring Union, serving on the executive board. His early road and touring material provided the basis for the union’s two-volume Handbook, and Guide to the Roads of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898), the most detailed guide ever published in Australia.” (ADB) This copy signed on the wrappers upper panel, as usual.
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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Read MoreLarry Mitchell
New York: Calamus Books, 1977.First edition, first printing. 1970s queer communal living fantasy classic. “The queens luxuriate in variety. They often make fun of the men’s fashions. The queens display infinite weirdnesses to the world. For them, style is the path into the unique self and so to transcendence. They long for everyone to reveal themselves wherever they are.” (page 63). Illustrations by Ned Asta. YOUNG 2736*.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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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$850.00 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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The Tela Quadrivium: Conjunctio, Coagula, Solve, Distillatio (4 Volumes)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2008-15.A complete set of the occult art and text series Tela Quadrivium by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule published between 2008 and 2015. A dark and meditative series of ‘graphic grimmoires’, an exploration of esoteric philosophy, an alchemical puzzle where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Sex, union, birth, death, destruction, decomposition, new growth, magic, are the author’s inspirations, and the illustrations live up to the source material. Each book is individually numbered in an edition of 640 copies.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600.00 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$2,000.00 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$1,000.00 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$600.00 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$2,200.00 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$500.00 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$5,500.00 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.Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References to the Whole. The Second Edition in 24 volumes with a considerably enlarged index, and with the 6 volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity .. By Several Gentlemen in the respective branches of the law (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted most of his life to the compilation of this work, being an extensive compendium of legal lore descended from Rolle’s Abridgment. “[T]he most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law. Whatever is to be found in the old Abridgments, or in all printed and several MS. Reports anterior to Geo. III., Mr. Viner has translated, abridged, remodelled, and introduced or referred to in his work.” (J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography, or a thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch law books: together with some continental treatises)