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Les Enfants De Jean Bart: Carnaval, Chansons et Parler Dunkerquois
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Denise
Dunkirk: Westhoeck-Editions, 1978.Musical score by composer Jean Denise. Includes introduction by Christian Bommel and contributions by Serge Blanckaert, Jean Chatroussat, Michal Heyden, Roch Vandromme, Jean Wispelaere, and David Riefenstahl.
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Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo de Poortere
Liege: Vaillant – Carmanne, 1985.Carlo de Poortere (1917 – 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manager of the family business, was a bibliophile and collector. His library included fine 17th and 18th century bindings, and other works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. He also collected manuscripts and memorabilia, and it is those that this book documents, by Emile Verhaeren (Belgian Symbolist author, 1855 – 1916, Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian poet and playwright, 1862 – 1949), and Georges Rodenbach (Belgian Symbolist writer and poet, 1855 – 1898). Produced in a limited edition of 350 copies, numbers 1 – 50 printed on Deluxe watermarked Ingres Van Gelder paper; this being one of the deluxe edition, being number 36.
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Cryptogamie Illustree ou Histoire des Familles Naturelles des Plantes Acotyledones d’Europe: Famille des Champignons
AU$480.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCasimir Roumeguere
Paris, London, Madrid & New York: J. -B. Baillere & Fils, F. Savy, H. Baillere, C. Bailly-Baillere, and Baillere-Brothers, 1870.Illustrated Cryptogamy or History of the Natural Families of the Acotyledonous Plants of Europe: Coordinated According to the Latest Classifications and Completed by the Most Recent Scientific Researches. Fungi Family. Containing 1,700 figures, representing, at its different ages, the plant in natural size and the anatomy of its organs of vegetation and reproduction, drawn under the microscope. 20 page Index Synonymqie de la famille des Champignons supplement dated 1873 bound in at rear.
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Les Associations Fongiques des Hauts-Marais Jurassiens et de Quelques Regions Voisines
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Favre
Liestal: Druck Ludin, 1960.The Fungal Associations of the Hauts-Marais Jurassiens and some neighboring regions. Volume X, Fasciule 3 of Materiaux pour la Flore Cryptogamique Suisse.
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Hit-Parade des Champignons: Champignons Sauvages, Champignons & Nature
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSerge Hureaux
Paris: Iris, 1974.French guide to wild mushrooms.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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Le Cycle Patibulaire (Premiere + Deuxieme, 2 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Eekhoud
Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1927.First 2 volume edition.
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Distillation et Rectification des Liquides Industriels
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Mariller
Paris: Dunod, 1925.Distillation and Rectification of Industrial Liquids including alcohols, benzols, oils, ethers, chemicals, air and liquid gases, recovery of solvents.
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La Serviette Noire
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean-Claude Gotting
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986. -
Monte-Carlo 1924 Programme Officiel de ‘lOpera et des Fetes
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaoul Gunsbourg
Paris: De Brunoff, 1924.Souvenir program for the Monte Carlo Opera. Contains period advertisements and portraits and biographies of the cast and makers.
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Les Narcotiques: suivi de Les Ames mal lavees
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. I. Witkiewicz
Lausanne: l’Age d’Homme, 1980.First French translation of drug writing by Polish artist, known for consuming and painting, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939).
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The Voice of the Delta: Charley Patton And The Mississippi Blues Traditions, Influences and Comparisons: An International Symposium
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Sacre
Liege: Presses Universitaires Liege, 1987.Charley Patton is widely considered to be the father of the Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, a genre of music that would go on to become world-famous through the work of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, John Lee Hooker and Blind Willie McTell. In 1987, a collection of the best musicians and scholars of Delta Blues commemorated the centenary of Patton’s birth in 1887 by holding a symposium. Collected here are the papers they presented at that symposium, along with photographs and illustrations befitting the richness of their subject. This copy signed and numbered by the editor, Robert Sacre. Errata slip laid in.