Prices in AUD. Free Australian delivery for orders over $400. Free international delivery for orders over $800. Read full terms.
Showing 161–180 of 1148 resultsSorted by latest
-
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSwami Vivekananda
Calcutta: Avaita Ashrama, 1972-9.The collected works of the great Indian monk and thinker. This edition complete in 8 volumes.
-
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture: A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the People it Has Tried to Destroy
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartArthur Evans
: Feral Death Coven Clandestinity, 2013.“In the context of a renewed interest in the history of the Witch-hunts and the rise of Christian civilization, this book offers a significant contribution. In recent years, anti-capitalists and pagans alike have explored a radical analysis of these histories and have worked to understand the conditions by which patriarchy and capitalism have developed together as two heads of the same monstrosity. This line of inquiry is perhaps best illustrated by the relatively widespread reading and discussion of Silvia Federicis Caliban and the Witch and also the renewed excitement about Fredy Perlmans Against His-story, Against Leviathan! This book tells a congruent story, but from a unique position. While engaging with the same history as Federici, Arthur Evans departs from her in some marked ways. He subtitled his book “a radical view of western civilization, and some of the people it has tried to destroy,” and in doing so he attempts to hear and to share the perspective of those people annihilated in the Witch-hunts…” (publisher’s blurb)
-
Hopousia or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D. Unwin
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940.Unwin’s unfinished sequel to Sex and Culture (1934), published posthumously. “..a non-narrative Utopia where Sex is described as being made available through two forms of marriage: the monogamous alpha form entitles its adherents to accept responsibility for running the world; the polygamous beta form welcomes free love. Citizens can change from one marriage formula to the other. The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state, where energy flows where needed, and returns. From this balance and restraint, Unwin argues, equity will flow, but his death before the book was finished abruptly truncated any summary argument. In his long introduction, Aldous Huxley recognizes this deficit while recognizing the importance of Unwin’s “formulation of the sexual and economic conditions of social energy.”” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) BROMER B59.1.
-
The Callipyges: The Whole Philosophy and Secret Mystery of Female Flagellation now for the first time fully exposed
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFour English Ladies
London: Privately Printed for Private Subscribers Only, 1903.With Experiments and detailed Instructions as to the Proper Conduct of this noble Pastime. Sidelights on English Society. “This book, which is perfectly new, we venture to predict, be one day recognised as, in a sense, the Bible of Flagellation.” (from Carrington’s prospectus). Printed for Charles Carrington by Veuve Guy. First appearing in 1901, though possibly only the first volume, which was then reprinted for the two volume set as here. “… a translation of the French original: ‘Les Callipyges, ou Les Delices de la Verge, Par E.D… Paris, Chez la Petite Lolotte… 1889 (Brancart, Amsterdam).” (Peter Mendes: Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930) MENDES 137-B.
-
Beef Cattle Australia
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Reed
Brisbane: Acacia Press, 2009.An industry account of Australian cattle farming.
-
Homestead & Habitat: Central and Northern Australia
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016.A privately published survey of the historic heritage of central and northern Australia, structured by the river systems and landforms of the regions in which Howard Pearce worked for over forty years as a heritage adviser to federal, state and Territory governments. The work combines photography, architectural drawing, historical archaeology and regional history. Volume I covers Lake Eyre, the Centre and the Top End; Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York. The publication states that over 600 places are described across thirty chapters, with some 2000 colour photographs, site histories, archaeological notes and architectural descriptions, most based on primary research. Historical photographs from the author’s own collection are included, together with his measured drawings of significant places. Pearce published a third supplementary volume of measured architectural drawings in 2020. Physical copies unrecorded in Trove and OCLC; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.
-
Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.One of 150 numbered copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 212). A new edition of the first significant natural history book on Australia published after the First Fleet, with the text reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The 65 plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and others, comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original, the cancelled leaf Hh4 carries variant text for the Wattled Bee-Eater (the female in the cancelled state, the male in the uncancelled), both reproduced here, with bibliographical and publishing notes appended.
-
The Loan of a Lover; or, Vera’s Flirtation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Jean Libbey
London: Milner and Company, No date.English cloth reprint (c. 1900) of a romance from Brooklyn “working-girl” novelist Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924). Libbey was among the most widely reprinted American writers of dime novel fiction in her day, this work however scarce, with no copies of any edition currently in the trade, and only 5 holdings in OCLC.
-
Another Man’s Wife
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha M. Clay
London: Robert Hayes, No date.“Fate’s cruellest irony that on the day–when to save an impoverished father–Beryl marries the elderly Lord Medford, title and riches come to the man she loves. But Fate sometimes relents.” (from jacket) Classic Victorian romance published under the prolific pseudonym of Bertha M. Clay, first used by Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884) before being penned by a number of hands, here quite possibly the hand of John Russell Coryell, first appearing as a serial in the New York Weekly in 1887 before hitting the stands as a dime novel published by Street & Smith, to which Coryell had family connection. Here published under the Robert Hayes imprint in the early 1920s half-crown Sandringham Library series, this copy with the original illustrated jacket, signed Ryder.
-
Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo S. Rappoport; J. H. Amshewitz
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1928.A collection of Jewish legend and Judaica compiled by Rappoport from biblical, Talmudic and midrashic sources, with colour plates by the painter J. H. Amshewitz.
-
The Ancient Na-Khi Kingdom of Southwest China
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph F. Rock
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series Vol. 8 & 9. Rock’s principal work on the Na-khi, drawing on indigenous manuscript sources and Chinese histories alongside his own fieldwork in north-west Yunnan. Provenance: Alexander Brown Griswold (1907-1991), foremost Western scholar-collector of Thai art and adjunct professor in Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program, with his bookplate; thence Property of the Breezewood Foundation (Griswold’s research foundation, est. 1957), with plate; Presented to Cornell University, with presentation plate. No formal library markings; released from the collection, confirmed with Cornell that the volumes are not recorded as missing.
-
Complete Set of the Oceanic Press Erotica from the Collection of Gershon Legman
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Delarue]
Paris: Oceanic Press, 1958-60.A complete run of Oceanic Press (twelve numbered and nine unnumbered volumes, two carrying a second work apiece for 23 in all) from the library of erotologist and folklorist Gershon Legman (1917-1999), four of the unnumbered volumes numbered to the spine in his had, and several with his brief bibliographic notes to the front flyleaf. Oceanic, produced by Pierre Delarue, was one of the Paris fly-by-night imprints thrown up in the late 1950s in the wake of Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press, with Delarue shamelessly copying the size, format and pseudonymous manner of the Traveller’s Companion books; most of hte authors remain unidentified. Legman names Jack Olley, author ‘Love Together’, as a Black writer. The prize is No. 6, ‘A Diary of the Senses’: the first edition in English of an early work of trans erotica, its narrative of surgical sex-change apparently prompted by the Christine Jorgensen case. Issued here under the name Helen Tucker, it is generally attributed to the artist Isidore Isou (1925-2007), having first appeared in French as ‘La Confidence Sensuelle’ (Eric Losfeld, c. 1955) under the pseudonym Andre Suffren.
-
Songs of the Pintupi: Musical Life in a Central Australian Society
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard M. Moyle
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979.Musical score throughout.
-
Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.“In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb) Privately published in a very limited number by the author based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit. Unrecorded in Trove and OCLC.
-
An Individual View
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Thake
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1982.Photobook of the Australian artist. Thake had carried a camera alongside his sketchbook from the 1950s, and the book records the photographic side of an artist otherwise known almost wholly for his printmaking, here presenting 28 plates. Produced in the year of Thake’s death in an edition of 250 numbered copies, this an out of sequence proof copy. Text by Elizabeth Summons, preface by Patrick McCaughey.
-
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGrahame L. Walsh
Brisbane: Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, 2000.The magnum opus of Australian rock art researcher, Grahame L. Walsh (1944-2007), being his detailed study of the rock paintings of the Kimberley region of North-Western Australia.
-
The Photograph as Symbol
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWynn Bullock
Mountain View: Artichoke Press, 1976.One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the printer Jonathan Clark and with Wynn Bullock’s autographed initials mounted on the limitation page. Bullock’s final work: six short prose passages on the symbol in photography, each paired with a plate, the text settled by June 1975 and issued, at his wish, as a limited edition shortly after his death.
-
Winfield and Australia: Together Since 1972 / Brand Manual …anyhow*
Read MoreJackie Blackledge
[Sydney]: British American Tobacco Australia, 2011.Privately produced brand manual chronicling the marketing of Winfield cigarettes in Australia, featuring Paul Hogan’s iconic advertising campaigns. Created by the Sydney office of global marketing agency G2 and issued privately for BATA employees in a very limited run. “Winfield was the first brand to say to Australians that it was okay to be Australian, that , in fact, it was preferable. As a result, Aussies loved it, they quickly drove Winfield to an 8.4% share in the first year; a never-before-seen result in an industry where getting a 0.5% share was an excellent achievement for a new brand.” (from page 24) The same page also featuring a 1983 photograph by Rennie Ellis, Two Couples.
-
Chemical Psychoses: LSD and Related Drugs
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLeo E. Hollister
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1968.Hollister was among the leading psychopharmacologists of his generation, conducting controlled studies of LSD and related compounds at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto. Published in 1968, the year federal restrictions on LSD were significantly tightened in the United States, Chemical Psychoses provides one of the most comprehensive contemporary clinical surveys of hallucinogenic drugs. Appearing at the close of the first era of psychedelic research, it documents a field whose clinical investigation would soon be greatly diminished for decades. The work surveys lysergic acid derivatives, mescaline and other phenethylamines, indolealkylamines, piperidyl benzilate esters, phencyclidine-related compounds, and other hallucinogenic agents, while critically assessing claims for their therapeutic use in alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders.
-
A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.