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A Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Such Persons as Are under Homoeopathic Treatment.
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Wife of a Homoeopathic Physician
London: G. Borwon, 1846.A cookbook for the burgeoning devotees of homeopathy.
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
London: Knockabout Comics, 1992.Collection of music comics by underground comix legend Robert Crumb from Zap, Weirdo, et al. One of the limited hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
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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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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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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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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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Atlas of Fungi
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Kavina
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Jeffries
London: E. Lumley, No date.In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both; also the true method of manufacturing diamonds. First published in 1750, being “the first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut”. This edition, while stated as the Fourth Edition, is produced by the London bookseller Edward Lumley sometime in the 19th century, and differs from the fourth edition of 1871 “While resembling the 4th edition, it has been prepared by a different publisher and the contents are drastically re-arranged. The explanation of technical terms omitted in the previous edition (despite its claim to completeness!) is here restored.” SINKANKAS 3203. Though given the career of Lumley it is likely this edition was published prior to the 1871 fourth edition.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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An Essay on Average; and on Other Subjects Connected with the Contract of Marine Insurance
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Stevens, of Lloyd’s
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1822.Together with an Essay on Arbitration. Dedicated to the Committee for Manage the Affairs of Lloyd’s
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The Message of the Buddha
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. N. Jayatilleke
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.A posthumous work edited by Ninian Smart.
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After Sex
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdna Bonhomme; Alice Spawls
London: Silver Press, 2023.“The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women. Contributors include Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde and Sally Rooney. These essays, short stories and poems trace past understandings of reproductive freedom and consider what it might look like in future, making urgent connections between womens equality and access to contraception, healthcare and childcare. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dimensions of Values: A Unified Theory
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRadhakamal Mukerjee
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.Later economic sociology work of Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968).
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The Ice Palace
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan