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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Tillett
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.Biography of Theosophist and occult author C. W. Leadbeater.
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Jinn Sorcery
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRain Al-Alim
[London]: Bibliotheque Rouge, Scarlet Imprint, 2018. -
Tailoring. How to Make it Pay.
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. H. Holding
London: T. H. Holding, No date.Late 19th century / early 20th century guide to running a successful tailoring business by British tailor and pioneer of modern camping Thomas Hiram Holding (1844-1930).
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Brierre de Boismont; Robert T. Hulme
London: Henry Renshaw, 1859.The first psychiatric survey of hallucinations by the French physician and psychiatrist Alexandre Jacques Francois Briere de Boismont (1797-1881), first published in English in 1853, on offer here is the first UK edition, translated from the French by Robert T. Hulme. Boismont considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man’s psychological history.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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Open Shutters Iraq
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugenie Dolberg
London: Trolley, 2010.“This book is a collection of individual photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul in 2006/7. These women were not photographers or writers, but were brought together by their need to tell their stories.” (from preface)
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Leros
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Majoli
London: Trolley, 2002.Debut photo book by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli documenting the psychiatric hospital on the Greek island of Leros.
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Cookery Made Easy: Being a Complete System of Domestic Management, uniting Elegance with Economy
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Willis
London: Orlando Hodgson, No date.To which are added, Instructions for Trussing & Carving, with several descriptive plates; Method of Curing & Drying Hams and Tongues; How to make Mushroom and Walnut Ketchups, Quin’s Sauce, Vinegars, &c. &c. With other necessary Information, the whole Being the Result of Actual Experience. By Michael Willis, Many Years Cook at the Thatched-House Tavern. Circa 1830. BITTING pp. 500.
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The Bike From Hell
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Truth About Incest
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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Splendora
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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The Liberty Lad
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Leitch
London: Panther, 1968.A coming of age-story in a Northern Ireland village. “Frank’s adventures last one year, but contain the experience of ten – Mona, the married woman who seems too keen … Terry, the homosexual who leads him fascinated into the local queer underworld … Bradley , the politician and man of power, whose habits aren’t all they might be…” YOUNG 2297.
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Christina’s Confessions
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBlakely St. James
London: Arrow Books, 1984. -
Sexual Preferences: How to Share Your Fantasies, The Kahn Report
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSandra Kahn; Jean Davis
London: Star, 1982. -
The Other Face of Love
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond de Becker
London: Sphere Books, 1971.A definitive study of homosexuality. Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland and Alan Daventry.
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The Autobiography of a Flea
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
London: Star, 1983.1980s pulp edition of the 1887 clandestine erotic tale.
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Between Eagles and Pioneers
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorg Baselitz
London: White Cube, 2011. -
Young London: Permissive Paradise
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Habicht; Heather Cremonesi; Robert Bruce
London: George G. Harrap, 1969.Classic street photography photobook of 1960s London youth.