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False Colours
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
London: The Bodley Head, 1963.Regency romance. In the Australian issue jacket.
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The Tela Quadrivium: Conjunctio, Coagula, Solve, Distillatio (4 Volumes)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2008-15.A complete set of the occult art and text series Tela Quadrivium by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule published between 2008 and 2015. A dark and meditative series of ‘graphic grimmoires’, an exploration of esoteric philosophy, an alchemical puzzle where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Sex, union, birth, death, destruction, decomposition, new growth, magic, are the author’s inspirations, and the illustrations live up to the source material. Each book is individually numbered in an edition of 640 copies.
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The Poison of Asps
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Orton Prowse
London: Methuen, 1893.The first novel of Richard Orton Prowse (1862-1949). A Victorian novel of life in a small country town.
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The Factory and Shop Acts of the British Dominions. A Handbook
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartViolet R. Markham; H. J. Tennant
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1908].Compiled by Miss Violet R. Markham. Together with a General View of the English Law; and a Preface by Mrs. H. J. Tennant. Issued by the Industrial Sub-Committee of the Victoria League. Covers Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Cape of Good Hope.
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Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph A. Lambeth
London: Virtue and Company, 1937. -
The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeza Roheim
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1934.Psychoanalytic anthropology by Hungarian Geza Roheim (1891-1953). Roheim and his wife lived on and around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in central Australia for nine months in 1929. The 9 pages of illustrations in this work being photographs from this time showing Aboriginal ceremony.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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Cigars & The Man
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Graves
London: Martins, No date.Who are the men who smoke cigars? Successful men according to this promotional piece by Martins Cigar Shippers of Picadilly. More than mere promotional puff, Graves provides tips to the new smoker, and outlines histories and traditions of the practice. A lengthy Q&A section is followed by a colour supplementary of Martins cigars according to Graves’ seven classifications. Order form with envelope laid in, together with an autographed typescript letter dated 2nd December, 1938 from the firm’s sales manager on Martins letterhead.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, 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. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.
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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLondon: Reeve and Co., 1853.
With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. The rare first edition written from Wallace’s notes of his first fieldwork expedition to the Amazon, 1848-1852, his specimens and most of his work having been lost in a cargo fire on the return voyage.
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The Mimiambs of Herondas
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerondas; Jack Lindsay
London: The Fanfrolico Press, [1929].Mimes by Herondas translated by Jack Lindsay with 19 drawings by Alan Odle and a foreword by Brian Penton. Limited to 375 numbered copies, of which this is number 2. ARNOLD 35. This copy with the bookplate of David D. Levine.
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Nicholas Nickleby
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Dickens
London: The Folio Society, 2005.With the original illustrations by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne], introduction by Simon Callow. FORD-SMITH 1275.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Twain
London: The Folio Society, 2013.Introduced by Frank Kaplan, illustrated by David Hughes. FORD-SMITH 1834.
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Michelangelo
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Hibbard
London: The Folio Society, 2007.Introduced by Michael Levy. FORD-SMITH 1388.
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Walden; or, Life in the Woods
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry D. Thoreau
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Walden, or life in the woods, by Henry David Thoreau, introduced by John Updike, with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. FORD-SMITH 1556.
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From Dawn to Decadence (2 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Barzun
London: The Folio Society, 2015.1500 to the present, 500 years of Western cultural life. Introduction by Peter Conrad. FORD-SMITH 1955.
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The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Leeson
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Edited and with an introduction by Edward Leeson, drawings by Nick Hardcastle. FORD-SMITH 1250.
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The Best After-Dinner Stories
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Heald
London: The Folio Society, 2008.Introduction by Craig Brown. Illustrations by Paul Cox. FORD-SMITH 1140.
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Hobhouse
London: The Folio Society, 2007.On Quinine, Sugar, Tea, Cotton, Potato, and Coca. FORD-SMITH 1357.
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Ten Days That Shook the World
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed
London: The Folio Society, 2006.Preface by John Simpson. Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. Foreword by V. I. Lenin. Maps by Neil Gower. FORD-SMITH 1324.