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L’Amour et la Folie: Poemes Satiriques d’Alexis Piron (1689-1773)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexis Piron [Franz Blei]; Venu de Bonestoc [Franz von Bayros]
Paris [Vienna]: No publisher, 1910.First French-language edition of ‘Fleurettens Purpurschnecke’ (Vienna, 1905), the collection of eighteenth-century erotic verse illustrated by Franz von Bayros. Here the title page gives the verse as the work of Alexis Piron and credits the drawings to Venu de Bonestoc, a Bayros pseudonym. Privately printed under a false Paris imprint and not for public sale, with decorative borders to every page of text. One of 500 numbered copies on paper made for the edition, from a total of 530 (the first 30 on Japan paper). This copy rebound in a fine binding signed Wallis, with Bayros’ double-page illustration bound as the endpapers and a duplicate of text leaf 5 bound in. MONOD 1196.
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Cennik
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartEmil Engelmuller
Prague: Emil Engelmuller, No date.Circa 1910 catalogue of leatherwear: gloves, underwear, coats, riding breeches, suspenders, and more, by Czech firm Emil Engelmuller.
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Le Journal de Marinette
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartUne Femme Curieuse; Gerda Wegener
Paris: L’Edition, 1918.Anonymous novel of a young lady’s adventures in Paris attributed to the same pseudonymous author as ‘L’Art de Seduire les Hommes suivi de l’Amour et les Poisons’, and published by the same curiosa imprint of Robert and Georges Briffaut. Whether Une Femme Curieuse here is Maurice Magre as suggested for ‘L’Art de Seduire’ is unknown. This new edition, reset with a denser line count, bringing the work from 308 pages to 242. Cover illustration by Danish illustrator Gerda Wegener, known for her distinctive lesbian erotica works. Her husband was one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery in 1930. In the 1910s, her husband was regularly crossdressing and was Gerda’s primary model.
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Rhythmographik (Tanznotenschrift) als Grundlage zum Selbststudium des Tanzes
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOlga Desmond; Fritz Bohme
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1919.Desmond’s method of choreographic transcription intended as a basis for the self-study of dance, edited by Fritz Bohme. Desmond began performing as a living statue in 1906 and went on to broadly promote performing nude on stage, progressing from posed representations of classical figures to dance. Her early career attracted considerable controversy and debate, though she always defended her performances as high art. This dedication to the form remained evident throughout her later career as a dance teacher in Berlin, and the present work is an early example of her methods. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by Desmond at the end of the preface, with nude photographic portrait frontispiece, and 8 plates of dance notation in a rear pocket.
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Dix Sujets aimables dans le gout antique
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartChevalier Remy [Andre Lambert]
Se trouve a Cyhere: et ne se vend nulle part, 1917 [1920].A detailed collection of hand-coloured erotic plates with a pseudonymous preface by the artist under his Chevalier Remy moniker. The second edition published around 1920 by the artist with the plate L’Amour Astronome replaced by Hesitation aux Portes du Temple. One of 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 110), the title, colophon, and illustrations each numbered and signed ‘Remigius Eques’. DUTEL 1411, PIA 349, PERCEAU 321.
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Nymphes Dansant avec Des Satyres
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Boylesve
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, Dorbon-Aine, 1913.With illustrated ornaments by Pierre Hepp. One of 25 numbered copies on Japon, this copy with wide margins, enriched with the suite of 9 engraved colour plates by Sergei Solomko intended for the 1920 Calmann-Levy edition.
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A Study of the Century: Sweet Seventeen: The True Story of a Daughter’s Awful Whipping and its Delightful if Direful Consequences
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Jean de Villiot]; Martin van Maele
Paris: Issued for the Subscribers Only, 1910.English translation of Hugues Rebell’s 1905 work, ‘Dix-sept ans. Etude sociale’ authored under his Jean de Villiot pseudonym, including the copper-plate etchings by Martin van Maele. A limitation statement of 250 numbered copies, this copy out of sequence. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Ashanti Proverbs (The Primitive Ethics of a Savage People)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Sutherland Rattray
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1916.Translated from the Original with Grammatical and Anthropological Notes by R. Sutherland Rattray. With a Preface by Sir Hugh Clifford. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
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In Her Own Right
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed Scott
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911.Romance novel with 3 colour illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.
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Dead Man’s Love
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTom Gallon
London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.Romance mystery adventure of a prison escapee. The first printing with frontispiece illustration by Howard Somerville.
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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMorris Llewellyn Cooke
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.On city management based on the author’s time as Director of Public Works for the City of Philadelphia.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartF. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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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.
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Subconscious Phenomena
AU$125 Read MoreAdd to cartHugo Munsterberg; Theodore Ribot; Joseph Jastrow; Pierre Janet; Bernard Hart; Morton Prince
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1910.Collective effort by a number of psychologists and physicians to come to a consensus on the psychological definition of subconscious phenomena.
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Viavi Hygiene: Explaining the Natural Principles upon which the Viavi System of Treatment for Men, Women and Children is Based.
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cart[Hartland Law]; [Herbert E. Law]; Almah Lawson
San Francisco: The Viavi Company, 1914.Health guide published by the San Francisco based Law brothers, Hartland and Herbert, who throughout the late 19th century established a line of Viavi medicines growing to an international company with offices around the world, in the process making them two of San Francisco’s most wealthly citizens. This copy with the stamps of the NSW Viavi office and their office address at 350 George St, Sydney in manuscript. Also mounted in at the front endpaper is a 4 page booklet of the New South Wales Viavi Co., with an introductory pitch by branch manager Almah Lawson.
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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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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Autoerotic Phenomena in Adolescence: An Analytical Study of Psychology and Psychopathology of Onanism
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Menzies
London: H. K. Lewis, 1919.Early 20th century psychoanalytical study of masturbation written for a lay audience. With a foreword by Dr. Ernest Jones. An important text in helping to normalise healthy self-pleasure and provide a balanced approach to unhealthy behaviours in the early 20th century.
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New South Wales Forestry Handbook Part I: Forest Principles and Practice
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Dalrymple Hay
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1915. -
Pietro
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha Lincoln Heustis
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1915.The story of a young Italian man who travels to New York to find a better life. This copy signed by Heustis to the wrappers.
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Pre-WWI German Real Photo Postcard
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cart[Military Theatre]
[Germany]: No publisher, 1911.Depicting a group of young soldiers posing in a private apartment as though for a theatrical play. They wear long shirts but no trousers, a few carry weapons – rifles and a sword – and most have a hat. One wears a spiked helmet, another what looks like a tin helmet. Posted in Rustersiel to Herr Hegemann in Aachen and postmarked 1911, it identifies them as members of the third sea battalion. The letter is mostly everyday notes, references going to China after Christmas.
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Christmas Carols
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartChaplain H. L. Winter
Oahu: Schofield Barracks, 1917.Christmas Carols arranged by Chaplain H. L. Winter, 1st Infantry: Christmas 1917, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Hints on Service in France: Containing Lists of What to Take and How to Take it with Other Valuable Information for Officers and Men
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Davis
Kansas City: Union Bank Note Co., 1918.Tips for an officer. Label on the wrappers: With the compliments of Brooks Brothers; with a 14 page fold out catalogue for Brooks Brothers Clothing pasted in the back. ” This list includes a representative selection of merchandise in our stock for the outfitting of Officers in the various branches of the Army and Navy” (from page 1 of the catalogue.)
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Letters from Orange and Lemon Growers in the Tulare County Citrus Belt
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartCalifornia Grove Planting Company
Los Angeles: California Grove Planting Company, 1914.Eight letters from citrus growers in the Tulare County area that verify the output and recommend the purchase of citrus orchards in the district. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartReddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartAircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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A Census of New South Wales Plants
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Ernst Betche
Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916.A talented and enthusiastic botanist Joseph Henry Maiden established the colonys first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydneys first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus (75 Parts in 8 Volumes)
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Margaret Flockton
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers, 1903-1931.A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are in colour, and 4 of which are maps, of Joseph Henry Maidens masterpiece in the field of botanical research, and his major taxonomical work alongside his Forest Flora of New South Wales. The set is illustrated chiefly with lithographs by Margaret Flockton, together with several by Matilda Smith, a facsimile of L’Heritier, and 4 maps, as well as a photographic illustration by L. C. Webster, and a photographic portrait of Maiden in one of the posthumous volumes therein also published an obituary by Richard Hind Cambage. The project, which took 28 years to be published, the final parts prepared by Maiden before his death in 1925 and published posthumously edited by Cambage and William Blakely, was an extension of the work started by Ferdinand von Mueller and George Bentham in Flora Australiensis and continued by Mueller in his Eucalyptographia, devising classifications based on the characteristics of the stamens, and remained an important reference for many years. Maidens study of eucalyptus was completed alongside his duties as Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, which he commenced in 1896. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden established the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydneys first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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Beitrage zur Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Neisser
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1911.Contributions to the Pathology and Therapy of Syphilis edited by German physician Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855-1916). Neisser was a pioneer in sexually transmitted infections who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. He was also a part of leading work on leprosy and syphilis. This book collects research on syphilis in primates which Neisser and a number of colleagues conducted in Java in the early 20th century.