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Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse by Nicholas Rowe
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]; Nicholas Rowe
London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753.English translation of the Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan, on the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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The Barbarian Invasions of The Roman Empire (8 Volumes)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Hodgkin
London: The Folio Society, 2001-3.Complete set. Introductions by Peter Heather. Maps by Reginald Piggott. FORD-SMITH 1019, 1020, 1062, 1063, 1095, 1096, 1136 1137. Volumes 1-4 are second printings, 5-8 are first printings.
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Persuasion
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJane Austen
London: The Folio Society, 1997.Introduction by Richard Church, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. For this reprint pulls from the original wood-engravings were used to ‘re-originate’ the illustrations and improve the quality of their reproduction. FORD-SMITH 379.
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Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion & Rodrigues
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnthony Cheke; Julian Hume
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Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Lepsius
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.With extracts from the Chronology of the Egyptians, with reference to the exodus of the Israelites. Account of the 1842-45 expedition of Prussian Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. Translated by Leonora and Joanna B. Horner.
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Numerous Treasure: A Romantic Novel
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Keable
London: Constable & Co., 1925.Romance novel set in the Pacific after the author’s relocation to Tahiti. The final page provides a brief glossary of local terms, and the recipe for the absinthe based Numerous Treasure Cocktail.
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Kagawa San: The Christian Prophet of Japan
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Whitlow
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date.Short biography on the Japanese Evangelical and labour activist, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Part of the The Little Library of Biography, c. 1930s.
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Rodrigo Moynihan: Paintings and Works on Paper
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ashbery; Richard Shone
London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.Monograph of the English painter.
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Blue Angel Nights
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargarete von Falkensee
London: Guild Press, 1986.Erotic escapades in Germany of the 1920s. Translated from the German by Egon Haas.
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Floor Games
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. G. Wells
London: Frank Palmer, 1911.The author of The War of the Worlds makes the case that the best games for boys and girls to play demand a floor, and further describing imaginative play with toys: soldiers, castles, figures, city building, etc. Illustrations by J. R. Sinclair.
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The Gardeners of Eden
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. D. Graham
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973. -
They All Ran Wild: The Animals and Plants that Plague Australia
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric C. Rolls
London: Angus & Robertson, 1984.Pests and feral animals, both native and introduced. This copy with a newspaper clipping Rabbit Plan Slammed by Farmers mounted to half-title.
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Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, the Jewish Philosopher; including the Celebrated Correspondence, On the Christian Religion, with J. C. Lavater, Minister of Zurich
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Samuels
London: Sainsbury and Co., 1827.Memoirs of the German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. Provenance: From the Rabbi Leib A. Falk Memorial Ibrary, The Great Synagogue, Sydney with plate, and ex libris plate of The Rabbi F. L. Cohen Collection.
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The Expected Good End, in Three Parts
AU$12,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. M. Ish Yeminy
London: L. Alexander, 1800.Rare Anglo-Sephardi Judaica theological work linking Jewish messianic exegesis with Enlightenment-era cosmopolitanism. Part 1 (and the only published) of a planned three part work by the Sephardi rabbi and Freemason Solomon Mordecai Ximenes; Containing, The Birth of Jacob, his Dream of the Ladder, his Commandments, and his several prophetic Blessings to his Posterity; and various future Events promised by the Prophets. ROTH, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica p. 332 19a. Provenance: Signature and label of the Sydney lay preacher G. P. Beyfus, label of Mr. Pulver, library call number to spine matching others from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library, The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned with no other library markings).
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.
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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.
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge 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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A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, K. B. &c. &c. &c
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Moore
London: Joseph Johnson, 1809.The second edition with an engraved portrait frontispiece and a view of the British and French positions before Corunna, and two folding maps. This copy with an added plate of text, Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore, 1809, and with the appendix text bound before the main text, except for the final leaf which is still at the end.
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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. S. Lovell
London: Reeve & Co., 1867.The definitive work on the subject of edible snails, shellfish, oysters, mussels, etc. This copy with the Reeve & Co. 24 page 1867 catalogue of publications in Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Chemistry, Travels Antiquities, etc. at the rear.