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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
Charles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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How To Be Psychedelically Aware: The Essential Harm Reduction Guide to Psychedelic Use in Australia
Thurston Katt
[Sydney]: Psychedelically Aware, 2024.“How To Be Psychedelically Aware is your essential guide to navigating the world of psychedelics with mindfulness, responsibility, and deep self-awareness. Whether you’re a curious beginner or an experienced explorer, this book proves the tools to approach these powerful substances with clarity, intention, and respect.” (from cover blurb)
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Bacchus Wonder-wercken
D. P. Pers
T’Amstelredam: Dirck Pietersz, 1628.Waer in Het Recht Gebruyck en Misbruyck des Wijns, door verscheyden vermaeckelijcke eerlijcke en leerlijcke historien wort afgebeeld, ende lasteringe der Dronckenschap met levende verwen afgemaelt. Hier is by-gevoeght De Suyp-stad, of Dronckerts Leven: waer in alle hare gebouwen, manieren, aert, wetten &c. en alles wat by den Dronckaerts gebeurt, boertlijcker wyse word af-geschildert… /[Bacchus Wonder-works: Which in The Lawful Use and Misuse of Wine, by various entertaining honest and instructive history is depicted, and the blasphemies of Drunkenness are painted with living pains. Here is by-joined The Suyp-town, or Dronckert’s Life: where in all her buildings, manners, aert, laws &c. and everything that happens by the Dronckaerts is painted off …] Dutch work on wine by the bookseller Dirch Pieters Wittepers, illustrated with title vignette and 4 engravings by Gillis van Scheyndel in the text. Another work on The Hague, ‘s Graven-Hage, by Jacob vander Does (1668) without the title page or engravings bound before it.
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Tobacco and Alcohol
John Fiske
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869.I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. A defense of drinking and smoking. The first book of American philosophy and historian John Fiske (1842-1901). This copy with the bookplate of Daniel Edwards Kennedy.
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An Essay on Hasheesh
Victor Robinson
New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1930.“A minor classic, combining experimental reports with sophisticated wit: totally unlike every other book on the subject.” (Phantastica 244). Victor Robinson (1886-1947) was a Ukranian-American physician and medical historian. Stated Second Edition though technically the third after first appearing privately in 1912 and then in a trade edition in 1925.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
C. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)
James F. W. Johnston
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.“The first work in English to treat the entire psychoactive plant kingdom.” (Phantastica, 114) Thorough chapters devoted to opium, cannabis, coca, betel nut, Amanita muscaria, as well as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and liquors.
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Toadstools and Mushrooms and other Larger Fungi of South Australia (Parts I and II, 1934-1935)
John Burton Cleland
Adelaide: A. B. James, Government Printer, 1976.The photolitho reprint edition with the two parts in one with a new foreword and additional notes.
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All-in-Vue 84 Drink Recipes
Matthew J. Feeney
New York: Matthew J. Feeney, No date.Cocktail and bar guide mainly compiled from The Professional Bartenders guide and distributed in various wrappers as promotional material for bars and booze businesses. Here with the wrappers for Brooklyn wine importer Matthew J. Feeney. Includes quick sight tabs for cocktails, fizzes, rickeys, highballs, punches, and more. Also facts about wine, canapes, garnishes, etc.
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Atlas of Fungi
K. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
Sigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -
Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
A. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them
Nina Lane Faubion
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1938.Pocket mushroom hunting manual on edible varieties together with a chapter on poisonous amanitas.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
D. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte: Toxikologische, Allgemein-verstandliche Untersuchungen der Historischen Quellen
L. Lewin
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920.First edition of German pharmacologist Louis Lewin’s (1850-1929) important contribution to the history of medicine being a history of poisonings with innumerable citations from ancient and modern literature.
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Phantastica: Die Betaubenden und Erregenden Genussmittel
L. Lewin
Berlin: Georg Stilke, 1924.First edition of the psychedelic classic by German pharmacologist Louis Lewin (1850-1929). Set the standard for the classification of psychoactive drugs: Inebriantia (Inebriants such as alcohol or ether), Excitantia (Stimulants such as Khat or Amphetamine), Euphorica (Euphoriants and Narcotics such as Heroin), Hypnotica (Tranquilizers such as Kava), Phantastica (Hallucinogens or Entheogens such as Peyote or Ayahuasca). Later translated into French, Italian, and English, the 1931 English edition said to be Aldous Huxley’s introduction to drug literature.
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British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
M. C. Cooke
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891.With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
Charles 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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Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
M. Boudier
Paris: J. Mersch, 1887.Description of Two New Species of Ptychogaster and New Evidence for the Identity of This Genus with Polyporus. Extract from the Journal de Botanique 15 February, 1887. This copy inscribed by Boudier.
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A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
The New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976.