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De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.
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A Collection of Sketches: The Wool Trade
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. Pearce
Brisbane: The Carter-Watson Co., No date.Cartoon portraits of buyers and others connected with the Australian wool industry, mostly from Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, though also featuring a bevy of English characters. ANB 34155 dates [191-?], though a Barcaldine newspaper, The Western Champion Saturday Morning, March 22, 1924, ran a short story on the publication’s issue: “An event of some local interest has been the issue during the week of a collection of sketches by an old and very popular member of the wool trade, Mr. E- Pearce. The book consists of about 100 cartoons of people prominent in the wool trade. Mr. Pearce, whose skill as a cartoonist had hitherto been known only to a select circle of friends, has been prevailed on to publish in book form a series of sketches which had previously only a private circulation amongst friends. As a combination of technical skill and delightful humor the publication is unique.”
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A Census of New South Wales Plants
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Ernst Betche
Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916.A talented and enthusiastic botanist Joseph Henry Maiden established the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydney’s first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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Snapshot Photograph of Watsons Bay, Sydney
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
[Sydney]: No publisher, No date.Early 20th century view of Watsons Bay, Sydney.
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Snapshot Photograph of Rocks, Botany Bay
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
[Sydney]: No publisher, No date.Early 20th century view of a man standing on the rocks at Botany Bay, Sydney.
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Additional Notes on the Palaeontology of Queensland (Part 2)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Etheridge
Brisbane: Warwick and Sapsford, 1886.Queensland. Department of Mines. Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 13 by R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney.
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Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Investigation Under The Land and Water Resources Development Acts, 1943 to 1946 (for the Year 1947)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. R. Kemp
Brisbane: A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, 1948.Results of surveys and investigations of land and water resources in Queensland. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.
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Notes on Fossil Plants from Duaringa, Ipswich, Dawson River, and Stanwell and on Fossil Woods from the Ipswich Beds, Boggo Road, Brisbane
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirley
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan, Government Printer, 1902.Queensland Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin No. 18.
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12 Snapshot Photographs of a Holiday Trip to South Australia
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
[Australia]: No publisher, 1965.Lot of twelve snapshot photographs taken on a 1965 road trip to South Australia. Photographs are captioned on the verso and views include the Murray River near Murray Bridge, Adelaide War Memorial, Bonython Fountain on Opening Day, Lake Meningie, and Carpenter’s Rock.
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Tohoku Japan, 10-15 June, 1999
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Great Nippon Travel Agent]
[Tokyo]: Great Nippon Travel Agent, 1999.Photo album for a Sydney family’s trip to Northern Japan together with a 10 leaf itinerary (printed recto only). Of particular note is the signed introductory letter, which even accounting for rough translation offers a concerning glimpse into the tour: “We hope that you behave reasonably well in front of our chief tour conductor,.. not insisting so much with your traditional habit back home. You are encouraged to consume as much alcohol as you wish while traveling by car, unless you are taking your turn on the wheel, otherwise you as well as your tour conductors will be in trouble with the local police. Your chief conductor,.. already has enough remarkable records with the police without your additional helps to make it even more memorable from the police’s point of view.”
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Top Fellas: The Story of Melbourne’s Sharpie Cult
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTadhg Taylor
: Surefire Productions, 2013.“Gang Wars! Rock n Roll! Fine Knits! Step into the world of the sharpies, Australia’s answer to mods and skinheads. A world of custom-made clothing and blood n’ guts street brawls. Packed with first-hand accounts from sharpie veterans and rock n’ rollers like Lobby Loyde and Angry Anderson, illustrated with over fifty photos of teenagers in cardigans, Top Fellas is smart as a pair of Acropolis shoes and lively as a Q-Club punch up.” (publisher’s blurb) “…a fast-paced, slang-laced, laddish style – plenty of first hand recollections… loaded with photos… highly enjoyable” Mike Stax, Ugly Things
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The Sixties
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Baigent; Les Cleveland; Peter Turner
Wellington: Peter McLeavey Gallery, 1998.A book made to mark an exhibition “The Sixties”, held at Peter McLeavey Gallery, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington, from 7th of February 1998 to 28th of February 1998. One hundred copies made. Contains text by Peter Turner and an original photograph by both Gary Baigent and Les Cleveland.
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Extracts from Report of Director of the Botanic Gardens, Government Domains, Garden Palace Grounds, Centennial Park, and Cambelltown State Nursery for 1920
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden
Sydney: Donald Campbell, Government Printer, 1922.NSW Government Report by Joseph Henry Maiden. Appointed Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens in 1896 and from that date produced voluminous reports most years throughout his tenure. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden immediately set to work establishing the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. He was also responsible for the construction of Sydney’s first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians. His reports provide detailed insight into such endeavours, as well as the year on year goings on of the gardens in the late 19th and early 20th century, with its developments and challenges, from the growth and maintenance of the grounds, to projects, staff, botanical samples and seed exchanges, botanical and library acquisitions, and more. This extract provides a glimpse into the gardens in 1920 and includes 8 large photographs of trees.
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Oversea Marketing of Certain Primary Products of New South Wales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartB. S. B. Stevens
Sydney: David Harold Paisley, Government Printer, 1937.NSW Government Report by Bertram Stevens, at the time Premier of New South Wales, Embodying his Observations and Conclusions regarding the Marketing Overseas, and particular in the United Kingdom, of Primary Products of New South Wales. That being largely dairy products, butter, eggs, citrus fruits, mutton, lamb, beef, pork, and bacon. Includes tables of port dues, storage and handling charges, and railway freights in various UK cities.
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Capturing Brisbane: The City’s First Photographers, 1855 to 1901
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian G. Rough
Brisbane: Brian Rough, 2022.“Photographers have made a significant contribution towards our understanding and interpretation of the CityÂ’s past by recording the people and places around them. Capturing Brisbane provides the stories of 158 commercial photographers and 54 photographic studios operating in the City between 1855 and 1901. By accurately identifying the people who created the images, and from when and where they were operating, it provides a very useful tool to assist in dating Brisbane photographs.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Die Graeber- und Textilfunde von Achmim-Panopolis
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Forrer
Strassburg: Emil Birkhauser, Basel, 1891.The burial and textile finds from Akhmim-Panopolis. With 16 plates and 250 illustrations.
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The Rock Photography
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Sky Walker’s Sightseeing
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasuda Yoshiro; Uchibori Hidetaka
[Osaka]: Masuda Yoshiro and Uchibori Hidetaka, 2003.Artist photography book, largely architectural photographs and photographs taken from high vantage points. A collaboration between Japanese photography Masuda Yoshiro and designer Uchibori Hidetaka. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Temple Dances in Bali
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936.Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there. The Temple Dances in Bali includes short text on the Legong, Chalon Arong, and Joghed dances, costume, and music, with illustrations in the text, complimented by numerous captioned plates by Kleen. First published in Swedish in a limited edition of 300 copies as Tempeldanser och musikinstrument pa Bali, and here translated into English for the first time. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm (Statens Etnografiska Museum) New Series, Publication No. 2.
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Mie Kimono Shiryokan Zuroku
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUeda Mie
Tokyo: Mie Kimono Shiryokan, 1983.Catalogue of kimono designs.