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Bacchus Wonder-wercken
AU$1,400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. 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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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. 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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Theatrum Pontificiale, oder Schau-Platz der Brucken und Brucken-Baues
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacob Leupold
Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel, 1726.First edition, first printing, of the first book printed in Germany on bridges and bridge-building. From the encyclopedic series of works on mechanical technology and engineering, Theatrum Machinarum, by German physicist, mathematician, and engineer Jacob Leupold (1674-1727). [A clear instruction on how one can not only cross ditches, streams and rivers in various ways, but also save one’s life in times of water with certain machines and special clothing. Furthermore, according to all circumstances and coincidences, convenient and durable bridges, both wooden ones with yokes or stone posts, and without them with rigging and blasting works, as well as entirely of stone, according to art, to build advantageously and permanently. Then also how many examples of sailing, flying, storm-field and similar bridges can be given. All with many examples and the most distinguished makers in and outside Germany, but especially with a complete description of their pontoons, presented and explained in 60 copper plates.] The first 4 plates show a variety of methods for crossing bodies of water including an array of unusual diving and floating devices, the rest devoted to the architecture and engineering of bridges.
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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane de Lauris
Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre [Jean Fort], 1932.Rare French lesbian erotica. The first edition with 16 illustrations and colour illustrated wrappers by P. Silex, and with the limitation statement of 6 numbered copies, numbered by the printer, of which this copy is numbered IV.
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Seduction: Jeunes Amours au Chateau, a la Pension
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierrot
: En Vente Partout et Nulle Part, 1910.The first clandestine printing with the limitation of 300 copies on the verso of the half-title by the Briffaut brothers following the original edition circa 1908 titled Une Seduction and expanded with four additional texts of poetry and plays after the first. This copy unnumbered on Alfa as often and with the bookplate of the Membre de la Guide du Livre. DUTEL 787. PERCEAU 274-2, PIA 1366.
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Les Delices Libertines
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacqueline de Lansay [Johannes Gros]
Moncontour: Au Bonheur des Dames, No date.French clandestine erotica printed by Maurice Duflou circa 1935 with 14 erotic plates depicting numerous lesbian and group scenes. The first issue of 400 numbered copies, of which this is number 84. DUTEL 1358, PIA 311.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers.
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World of Tatsumi Hijikata, the Originator of Butoh: A Collection of Dance Photographs
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTadao Nakatani
Tokyo: Shinsensha, 2003.Photographic record of Japanese dancer and co-founder of Butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi. Includes performances from the late 1960s to early 1970s as well as dancers from his Asbestos Studio.
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Champignons et Plantes Medicinales (Therapeutique par les Plantes): Petit Guide a l’usage des familles
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Riguet; G. D’Hommee
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1943.Mushrooms and Medicinal Plants (Plant Therapy): A Short Guide for Families.
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Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte: Toxikologische, Allgemein-verstandliche Untersuchungen der Historischen Quellen
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. 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
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. 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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Traite Pratique des Champignons Comestibles
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Lavalle
Paris and Dijon: J.-B Bailliere and Lamarche et Drouelle, 1852.Practical Treatise on Edible Mushrooms, including their organization, their botanical characteristics, their nutritional properties, their cultivation, the manner of preparing them, the means of distinguishing them from poisonous species and the care to be given to persons poisoned by the latter.
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Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. 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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Ungeniessbare Pilze
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Schneider
Dresden: Rudolph’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.Inedible Mushrooms: The most important and most common inedible and poisonous mushrooms as a warning for all mushroom hunters, presented in 48 color art prints with accompanying text. Scarce German mushroom guide book, 3 copies recorded in OCLC, none outside of Germany.
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Opium: Journal d’une Desintoxication
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1930.An unnumbered copy of the first edition on paper.
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Leurs Pantalons: Comment elles les portent
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Mauvain
Paris: Jean Fort, 1923.A volume devoted to women’s pants and how they wear them. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and a colour cover illustration by the French illustrator of La Vie Parisienne fame Cheri Herouard, showing risqué portraits of women in varying circumstances revealing their undergarments. Though the title page states this is a new edition completely revised and augmented with many interviews, this 1923 printing is the first recorded printing we are aware of, with two reprints following in 1924 and 1927.
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Mademoiselle Javotte, ouvrage peu moral, ecrit par elle-meme, et publie par une de ses amies
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Paul Baret]
[Paris]: A Bicetre, 1788.Mademoiselle Javotte, a work of little morality, written by herself, and published by one of her friends. An anonymous tale (often attributed to Paul Baret / Paul Barrett) in which the heroine engages in sex work to escape poverty. A racy reworking of a closely titled 1757 moral work, whereas this one has little. This copy illustrated with 2 erotic etchings.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a likely 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1769.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes: avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women: with Historical and Justificatory Notes]. First edition, second issue (with an updated title page removing reference to the Paris printer Delalain) of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits.