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The Bells and other Poems
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
Robert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
M. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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Wine and Wine Countries; A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers
Charles Tovey
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1862.On wine and related beverages around the world, including a section on the burgeoning Australian winemaking trade. This copy with the bookplate of Australian winemaker Max Lake.
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My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
Albert F. Calvert
London: William Heinemann, 1897.The first edition of Calvert’s fourth tour of Western Australia. An early travelogue with hundreds of illustrations by Walker Hodgson, from photographs, and with a folding colour map showing the gold field regions. FERGUSON 7823.
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The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times
Moses Angel
London: William Tegg & Co., 1858.Headmaster of the Jewish Free School, London, Moses Angel was a significant figure in 19th century Anglo-Jewish religious and secular education, ‘The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times’ aimed to promote better understanding between Jewish and Christian peoples. This copy with the bookplate of Australian rabbi Leib Aisack Falk, and the binder’s ticket of Westley’s & Co., London.
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The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
William Westbrooke Burton
London: J. Cross and Simpkin and Marshall, 1840.This copy from the collection of Melbourne bibliophile Rollo Hammet, with his label, and the ownership signature of W. Champion Hackett. FERGUSON 2943.
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Mushrooms, Moulds and Miracles: The Strange Realm of Fungi
Lucy Kavaler
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1967. -
Murder by Witchcraft
Donald McCormick
London: Arrow Books, 1969.A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders.
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Lost – But Not For Ever. My Personal Narrative of Starvation and Providence in the Australian Mountain Regions
R. W. Vanderkiste
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1863.The account of a reverend lost in the Dungog and Maitland districts while on a missionary tour.
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An Account of the Settlement at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip, 1803
William Pascoe Crook
London: The Colony Press, 1983.Limited to 185 numbered copies.
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
Mark Roseman
London: The Folio Society, 2012.A reconsideration, with a new foreword by the author. FORD-SMITH 1782.
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Manas Manna
Bob Venosa
London: Big O Publishing, 1978.Monograph of the visionary and fantastic realist painter Robert Venosa (1936-2011).
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The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver, 1400-1665
Charles Oman
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1968.In original Victoria and Albert Museum carton.
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Provincial Silversmiths of Moray and Their Marks
G. P. Moss
London: Quartet Books, 1994. -
A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals
Thomas H. Huxley
London: J. & A. Churchill, No date.Early reprint.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation [AND] Explanations: A Sequel to (2 Volumes)
[Robert Chambers]
London: John Churchill, 1846-1860.Vestiges, published anonymously, had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin, first published in 1844 and here greatly enlarged. This edition (the second to be illustrated) was published just following the publication of Darwin’s Origin and is Chambers; final revision of the text. A twelfth edition, published in 1884 following Chambers’ death, reprints this text and acknowledges his authorship. // Chambers had planned to respond to criticisms of his work by publishing a series of letters to the ‘Times’ followed by a pamphlet of a hundred or so pages, however Churchill convinced the anonymous author (through his friend Alexander Ireland) that it should be issued in book form, printed and bound similarly to the original. Explanations was duly issued in 1845, and was followed by this slightly altered version in 1846. By then the fifth edition of ‘Vestiges’ was ready and the two works were often reviewed together, the publisher going so far as to suggest a combined volume, however his anonymous author pointed out that the arguments were already incorporated in the new edition.
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Questions About the Breeding of Animals
Charles Darwin
London: Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1968. -
Darwinism and the Problems of Life
Conrad Guenther
London: A. Owen & Co., 1906.The First Edition in English translated from the Third Edition by Joseph McCabe.
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words,
A London Antiquary
London: John Camden Hotten, 1860.Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the University of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. Preceded by a History of Cant and Vulgar Language; with Glossaries of Two Secret Languages, Spoken by the Wandering Tribes of London, the Costermongers, and the Patterers. Includes a Cadger’s Map of a Begging District.