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Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria
Read MoreArthur Adams
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. -
Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published 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. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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Groups of Fruit, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, with Full Directions for the Young Artist: Designed as a Companion to the Treatises on Flowers and Birds.
Read MoreGeorge Brookshaw
London: For William Stockdale by Augustus Applegath and Henry Mitton, 1817.The rare first edition of the second part of the three part treatise on natural history painting by the English artist and author of Pomono Britannica, George Brookshaw (c.1751-1823). Each plate: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Currants, Pears, Plums; is presented in two states, un-coloured and with hand-colouring, and each is accompanied by 1 or 2 pages of instructive text. This copy complete, but with the plates bound in alphabetical order, rather than the order of the instructive text.
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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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A Series Of Progressive Lessons, Intended to Elucidate the Art of Landscape Painting in Water Colours
Read More[David Cox]
London: T. Clay, 1816. -
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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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
Read MoreDepartment of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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Margo St. James Presents the 5th Annual Hooker’s Masquerade Ball
Read MoreRobert Gotsch
San Francisco: Tea Lautrec, 1978.Original poster for Margo St. James’ annual fundraiser for COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an American sex workers’ rights organization founded by James in 1973.
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Mon Dieu, Quelle Chose Enorme!
Read MoreBernard Montorgueil
: Bernard Montorgueil, No date.Original femdom drawing by mysterious fetish artist Bernard Montorgueil. Montorgueil produced a number of French erotic works in the 1920s and 1930s which became very popular with the BDSM community through the latter half of the 20th century with a number of reprints of Montorgueil’s manuscripts published. This is an original drawing in pencil with colour highlights showing two women dominating a sissified male in a bathroom, with an additional glory hole tease. With mounted typescript captions: Mon Dieu, Quelle Chose Enorme! Regarde ce que j’ai pour ta jeune mariee / [My God, What a Huge Thing! Look what I have for your bride!] and signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.
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Oeuvres Libres
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine
Segovie: Pablo de Herlagnez, 1868 [c. 1930].Clandestine 20th century anthology of Verlaine’s Amies, Femmes, Hombres (except the last 4 quatrains of Balanide I), and Sonnet du trou du cul [Sonnet to an Asshole] by Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. With erotic chapter initials and accompanied by 6 erotic etchings by an anonymous artist. Edition of 400 copies, though often found without the suite of plates, here the plates are on thick Holland laid paper and not vellum as described in PIA 1440, DUTEL 2092.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Read MoreGrillot de Givry; J. Courtenay Locke
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931.A collection of the iconography of occultism, presenting with full explanations a large number of pictures selected from the most curious, characteristic, and rare illustrations to works on sorcery, magic, astrology, cheiromancy, cartomancy, alchemy, etc. including works in manuscript and incunabula form. Translated from the French of Emile-Jules Grillot de Givry by J. Courtenay Locke.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
Read MoreD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Salvinorin: The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum
Read MoreD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1996.Rare psychedelic study of Salvia divinorum and the active compound Salvinorin A. Includes first-hand accounts by the author.
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Homonopolis: The Most Gayotic Game
Read MoreStef de Knegt; Alexander M. Kroner
Amsterdam: Studio Fab / Identity Games International, 1994.Dutch Gay Monopoloy adaptation. Differing form the American Gay Monopoly published in 1983 (and much better rated according to Board Game Geek). In Homonopolis players travel around a triangular board cruising the gay bars and venues of Amsterdam. Instead of building houses and hotels players purchase barkeepers and backrooms. Jail is replaced with an SM Cellar where instead of Just Visiting you are Just Peeping Through the Glory Holes. Everything you might expect . The rulebook and the board are bilingual in Dutch and English. At 138 pages the book goes well beyond explaining the game, delving into the gay history of the Netherlands as well as an extensive directory of services, illustrated throughout by photographs of gay Amsterdam in the 1990s and with advertisements for a colourful assortment of local gay businesses that sponsored the production of the game.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.