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The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience: An Exploration of Person, Mind and Body in Sydney’s Club Culture
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Leneghan
Saarbrucken: LAPLambert Academic Publishing, 2010.Ethnographic study of ecstasy users in the raving and club scenes of Sydney, Australia.
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Souvenir Programme for Setting the Foundation Stone of the Mason Centre by M. W. Bro. V. C. N. Blight, C.B.E. Grand Master
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
Sydney: United Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, 1976. -
By-Laws of the Lodge of Australia, of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 3, on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLodge of Australia, No. 3
Sydney: Robert Bone, 1890.Revised 1890 By-Laws for one of Australia’s oldest freemasonry lodges.
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By-Laws of the Argyle Lodge of the Most Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 693
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArgyle Lodge, No. 693
Sydney: F. W. White, 1884.Very early by-laws booklet for the Argyle Lodge of Australian Freemasons, held at the Lodge Room, Fernmount, Bellinger River. Also includes a list of lodges in NSW.
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By-Laws of the United Service Lodge of New South Wales of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 24
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Service Lodge, No. 24
Sydney: Websdale, Shoosmith & Co., 1895.This copy with the Declaration of Allegiance in manuscript to the margin of the final page.
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Lodge Dobroyde Annual Ladies’ Night in School of Arts Haberfield on Monday, 29th August, 1921 at 8 P.M.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. A. Wiggins
Sydney: R. M. Baxter, 1921.Programme for a Sydney Freemasonry lodge ladies’ night, illustrated by Tasmanian artist William Arthur Wiggins (1881-1947), with much leaning into the Freemason humour of riding the goat.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Public Fitting
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Seven Walks: Cape Leeuwin to Bundeena
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom Carment; Michael Wee
Casino: Roc-Hin, 2014.Documents seven long distance walks in Australia: The Overland Track (Cradle Mountain, Tasmania). The Blue Gum Forest (New South Wales), Otford to Bundeena (New South Wales), Cape Leeuwin to Cape Naturaliste (Western Australia), The Heysen Trail (South Australia), The Snowy Mountains (New South Wales, and Wilsons Promontory (Victoria).
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A Survey of, and Report Upon, the Hotel Industry of New South Wales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAsher Joel Advertising
Sydney: The Langlea Printery, 1958.Submitted to the United Licensed Victuallers Association.
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The Language of Oysters
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Adamson; Juno Gemes
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997.Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes.
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of Australias most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.
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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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A Brief Account of the Colony of Port-Jackson,
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Bond; Julien Renard
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2005.in New South Wales; Its Native Inhabitants, Productions, &c. &c. By George Bond. First published by the Author at Southampton in 1803 and reprinted for Him at Oxford, London, Cork and Dublin in various Years to about 1810. Eighth Edition, faithfully reprinted from the first, incorporating the additions and corrections of the later editions. Edited, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard. Limited Edition of 100 copies within a total edition of 200 numbered copies, and now first published since about 1810. All the original editions are of great rarity. No copies of the 2nd or 3rd editions have been recorded and the first (Southampton, 1803) edition is extremely rare, while the 4th (Oxford, 1806), 5th (London, 1809), 5th (i.e. 6th, Cork, undated), and 6th (i.e. 7th, Dublin, also undated), editions are all very rare. The work is of considerable importance as one of the few accounts of Hunter’s period as Governor. Hunter was dissatisfied with Bond’s behaviour in the colony and complained of him in dispatches. Hunter was instructed to return him to England and Bond left the colony under a cloud in 1800, but his narrative was evidently very popular. He gives an account of the operation of the convict system and the economic corruption in the colony, and describes early efforts to encourage free settlers. He includes also comments on the Aborigines and on the natural history of the colony, including much from first-hand experience. See FERGUSON 480; WANTRUP, pp. 91-3.
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A Visitor’s Travel Index to Sydney and New South Wales
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBank of New South Wales
Sydney: Travel Department, Bank of New South Wales, 1938.1930s travel guide to New South Wales with the folding colour map tipped in front.
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Women of Parramatta
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJulia McConnochie
Sydney: Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust, 1977.This copy includes seventeen signatures of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust.
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New South Wales Forestry Handbook Part I: Forest Principles and Practice
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Dalrymple Hay
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1915. -
Jenolan Caves (N.S.W.) Nature’s Masterpiece
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartN.S.W. Government Tourist Bureau
Sydney: The Gregory Publishing Co., No date.A Complete Description of the Geology, Discovery, Development, and Features of the Jenolan Limestone System. 1940s tourist booklet.
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Souvenir Programme: Crowning Ceremony: Miss Sydney Competition, Anzac House Appeal
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReturned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens Imperial Australia League
Sydney: The Market Print, 1944.Programme for a beauty pageant at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Saturday, 9th September, 1944, organised by the RSL to raise funds for development of Anzac House, Sydney. Contains a brief pitch for the development, programme of events, and portraits of the competitors, most representing different government departments and ministries.